#im playing ffxvi

[willowbird]

just gonna leave that here @cryysis

[bakuraryxu]

Dominants and Bearers? baby girl this is omegaverse

[furiwokaaan]

oh look, it's the We Love Clive club!!!!!!(also known as clive protection squad)

[bluecaeriart]

this game was literally made for me in every single way

[andrakeflare]

*rattling the bars of my cage*

CLIVEEEEE. CLIVE ROSFIELDDDD

ahem. anyway im so normal about him.

definitely normal about how despite 13 years of living as a slave and forced into being an assassin/killer for the empire that played such a big role in destroying his life. totally normal about how before that he likely had to deal with his mother and her abusive behaviours towards him. MOST CERTAINLY NORMAL, about how he still cares for others and is still willing to lend a hand (see: the first sidequests you can access in game. literally just helping out the hideaway residents with mundane tasks like helping carrying wood and bringing people meals) despite the abuses and oppression and judgment he's suffered from so many people throughout his life. (i think its mentioned in game how at the start of his shield training he was mostly seen as just being indulged by his father. and that if we weren't any good at it people would have just thought he was a spoiled lordling or smth like that)(also, as the duchess, annabella likely greatly affected how clive was viewed by the people of rosaria. she treated him as a firstborn failure, and there were no doubt people who followed that example either because they believed her rhetoric or wanted to try and get/stay in her good graces. this would have affected everyone from the nobility, to the common people, to the servants of the household, at least to some degree) Every achievement clive did has been fought for through pain, and still he has come out as an empathetic and honest person (who cant lie lol. which is ironic because he was an assassin???? im guessing that means he just stayed silent most the time and slapped his scowl in his face as a defence idk)

just. ugh. i love him and the themes of resilience throughout his character arc go soooo well with the game and its emphasis on human will and freedom - even if that freedom involves evil being present in the world, as there will always be good people present too.

[saviourkingslut]

final fantasy xvi will have you play for 7 hours straight and spend about 3 of those doing the video game equivalent of chores and then 1 hour fighting the most epic battle you've ever played in your life. and then 3 hours are spent on the cutscenes

[landofeikons]

who wants to talk about cidolfus telamon because i got a lot to say

[mmmairon]

HES CRYING. YOURE LAUGHING AND HES CRYING

[misslazarus]

15 minute review of ffxvi

sure are some genders in here

smoking is good and cool when you’re hot

being horny in a game is always morally correct but it was so surprising in this media landscape I was shocked into silence. i hope there’s more of it forever

[cryoriku]

caregiver/dad Cidolfus Telamon

⚡️ 💜 🗡 ⚡️ 💜 🗡 ⚡️ 💜 🗡

headcanons:

he is REALLY good at playing pretend! he will get rlly in to character and come up with these wild stories to play out with you!

he thinks its important you can be a kid but also that your learning always. he shows you how to forage, to write, to use magic, to defend yourself, and so on!

you help him take care of torgal >w< and also bother the chickens in the hideaway while your at it!!! hehe

he always has stories to tell! your not sure which ones r real and which he made up, but they are so intersting to listen too!

he is kinda not a good influence but he is fun! he swears and makes snarky jokes a lot, and lets you play in dirt and draw all over the hideaway and would be the kind to let you eat sweets before dinner xD

but still he gives good advice and is always trying to help guide you and make you feel better. its ok to make mistakes or need help with him!

[levinbolts]

in the airport to go home and i don't even feel sad just empty

[abrahamvanhelsings]

im almost done with ffxvi which means i have to pick which game i'll start next who wants to help me pick

[dayasan]

📷 Chapel + Attic, Church, Sanctuary Way, Sector 5 Slums

[artisanalpeanutbutter]

Pros to ffxvi:

-gay party member

-pretty game

-combat is brilliant

-apparently the thesis of the game is about different kinds of love, which is an idea I really like bc I love love

Cons to ffxvi:

-my friend said he skipped over half the cutscenes in the demo bc it felt like the kind of fantasy novel that feels vaguely racist but you can't quite pin down why, and he didn't even know about the shit yoship said about not having black people in the game for "historical accuracy"

-same friend (who is straight) said it's excruciatingly heterosexual & very vanilla with its approach to writing both the romance & the plot

-i personally think the character designs are a HUGE step back from the often costume & musical performance-inspired characters of literally every other ff game except maybe 12, 11, and 14. (Yes im including 1-5. Look at the art for them. They're super glam rock (not quite as glam rock as 6 but still) and even the designs that aren't have a certain flair and grace to them!!!) And those games still have like, queer vibes & at the very least dont feel basic as fuck

-my mother (who loves hallmark) says the characters look and feel like a bunch of hallmark actors (this was an insult, she was clear about that)

-the shit that yoship said about "historical accuracy" and the pervasive whiteness of everything I've seen in the game

-no turn based elements at all ;_; but that's a super personal criticism

-no lesbians :( (though this was expected and also an extremely personal criticism)

-potentially no chocobos?!?!??!?!?!?!?!??!?!?!?!?

[volos-wish]

Thinking about... Locke and Joshua meeting...

[bcdwclves]

also ive been drinking, so pls excuse the extra sloppiness from me. i just don’t rightly care very much at how sloppy my posts look.