#jote

[mysteriousbean5]

Sooo I don’t own a PS5, had to settle for watching a play through but I couldn’t NOT give these goobers a turn😊

[asha-mage]

I think one of the most fascinating aspects of Joshua's character is that he was raised by a cult that worships him and it shows.

The game is very unsubtle in depicting the Undying as a cult, if a benign one whose goals are largely aligned with Clive's: the way it recruits from the disenfranchised dredges of society, the way it isolates it's members from the outside world, and associates devotion to their deity with worth as a person, even glorifying self sacrifice even past the point of reason- something Clive and Cyril butt heads on repeatedly.

And you can see the way that both being raised by them and being their messiah has impacted Joshua: the way Joshua feels that he can and should be able to do everything on his own (rebuffing Jote's efforts to help him even with small matters, avoiding Clive in order to 'protect' him), the way he's feels a right to order the lives of others around his own wishes (his meddling in the politics of each Kingdom, especially Sanbreque), even the subtle hint that he's given up on trying to persuade the Undying not to sacrifice their lives for his gain (and the even more subtle implication that he's maybe accepted that self sacrifice is a good thing, given his own self-sacrificial tendencies for Clive).

Their's this big gap after the reveal Joshua is alive where you wonder: how did he get from where he was Phoenix Gate (the shy innocent boy who wanted to do his duty more to make his brother proud then for it's own sake) to where he is at Drake's Spine (confident, mysterious, cold blooded in his pursuit of his goals), and the game answers that so effectively in the introduction of the Undying. This is where he learned it, this is what shaped him after everything fell apart and he went into hiding: a cult that all at once was trying to parent and worship and aid a 10 year old messiah whose only real desire was to save his brother from the monster that tore them apart.

[moonilit]

FFXVI serving some of the best dynamics

[slackertherubycat]

I did something 🔪

Because of this tweet on Twitter , u know knife lamp outfit color 🥺 makes me love Jote even more knowing she related to a deadly cutie in FF

[eiichiro]

— where are you...?

FINAL FANTASY XVI (2023) dev. square enix

[mothonice0]

Clive: ‘It is plain she cares for you very deeply…’

Joshua: ‘And I her. Which is why I had to let her go.’

This scene made me ship Jote and Joshua so hard. The way he looks at her with so much affection, ugh. Though, I’m not sure what their name could be 🥹 JoJo, YoShua (as Jote’s name is pronounced Yote), JoY(e)?

[kingofreddragons]

The Undying if they were cooler

[demynom]

Her tonberry swag

[aethersflood]

-- "It's plain she cares for you very deeply." -- "And I her. Which is why I had to let her go."

[ffxiii-et-al]

You guys, I can't.... Final Fantasy 16 added 'The Inner Voice' in the Grand Cast tab under the State of the Realm and it is too amazing.

On the one hand, you have Jill meeting Jote and thinking "I know how you feel". Goddamn these Rosfields do not know how to love their ladies.

And then you have Joshua promising Cid that his sacrifice won't be in vain. That he always knew Dion would come through for him. Wondering if Jote likes her new home. Apologizing to Jill that Clive took her Eikon.

Jote thinking that she's uncomfortable around dogs and Torgal sensing it and thinking that he'd never hurt her. Jote admiring Mid for being so bright and being jealous of Crow's childhood.

Dion missing Terence, being annoyed by Obolus' singing, and being afraid to face Harpocrates.

Clive's stages of grief when he thinks about Joshua and then him asking Torgal if he saw him at Drake's Head. His reaction to Cid's death.

And then you have Torgal wondering where everyone went after Phoenix gate and wondering where Cid went.

Oh my God, it's just so awesome and heartbreaking.

[kyrienne]

Jote and Joshua studies from last year

[comeonlight]

I think of them often.

[hienle99]

18 years.

[moonilit]

Modern AU Doodles

[johanirae]

FFXVI | I mean he might SUCK your Eikon OFF of you what else do I call it???

[bizboxxx]

WIP - FFXVI x Barbie

The colors are not coloring for this one, so here's the cleaned sketch :')

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