#yshtola mention

[windup-nuriha]

world's tiniest shtola for fanfest...

[haunted-xander]

XBC3 au pt.2!!!

Rip Y'shtolas tail 😔 unfortunately Gormotti are tail-less catgirls

[noxtivagus]

I LOVE THE ENDWALKER TRAILER SO MUCH !!!!

[notazem]

i started doing trusts again to level my alt classes and omg i forgot how hilarious and chaotic they are

[zeledonia]

OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH? (but also curious now what she says if you pick the third option without having rpr unlocked)

[plounce]

i need to iron out the timeline + details of the sharlayan exodus from dravania because most of the information about it is in the hvw patches which are less immediate in most people's minds (including mine). some thoughts and questions from my brain, many of which could probably be answering via googling/the wiki:

iirc the twins were born there, but the exodus happened when they were very young. do they remember the colony at all? are their earliest memories the big move?

yshtola spent most of her youth with matoya in her cave (seemingly as a primary caregiver), and then left with the exodus when she was a teenager. who made that decision? herself, her family (how traditional is the y tribe?), matoya? is her family from eorzea or sharlayan? how much did she lose when she moved to old sharlayan? is this move when she became louisoix's student instead of matoya's?

did louisoix yoink thancred from limsa before or after the exodus? how soon before or after? i have to assume fourchenault was strongly in favor of retreating from eorzea, and loiusoix was probably against - what did fourchenault think of the timing of thancred?

were thancred and yshtola struggling to settle into the foreign motherland at the same time?

where did moenbryda & urianger grow up? when did they become louisoix's students? they both studied at the studium, unlike yshtola & thancred. it's easier to guess when they met thancred, but when how long have they known yshtola?

did yda & lyse spend any time in the colony, or did they go directly to the mainland? i don't remember a lot of the details of this tbh. when did the other scions meet yda's little sister?

we know papalymo is from a sharlayan family (his dad is mentioned in the recent short story as a friend of louisoix's) - how did he meet the hexts? through louisoix? at what age for both of them did papalymo become louisoix's pupil?

krile states that she and minfilia are friends (when she's grilling thancred on the nature of their relationship). when did minfilia visit sharlayan? or did krile visit ul'dah? galuf baldesion and his students seem focused on international travel - how much has krile traveled throughout her life? she's a handful of years older than the twins - what age was she when she was adopted?

every day of my life i make up backstory headcanons based on my swiss cheese memory of earlier scions lore.

[mmediocreman]

About Y'shtola (up to 6.2 spoilers) (i guess this is a rant lol)

(no of days) since we talked about y'shtola has become a meme in my group chat of friends (that we mostly talk abt ffxiv)

in conclusion to the myriad of discussions we had, we came to a conclusion that Y'shtola is a missed opportunity, a lot of missed opportunity. When she turned blind it was said that to see she consumes more aether than usual, dying at a faster rate, but her eyes now are just another super power, remember how they were still trying to understand dynamis and aether? she had the upperhand at that. and she had put herself in danger, in death's way twice, after the shb self-sacrifice-false-death-thanks-to-emet, the endwalker bit where one by one the scion dissipate stops feeling dire when it happens to her and she said something along the lines of they'll return or something. by the end of endwalker everyone had arcs, everyone had character moments that gave them growth, everyone except yshtola, ok maybe the story line with runar but thats abt it. thats why, the talk before the big night, when we get to choose who is at our door, yshtola's scene was the weakest to me.

to me, she just feels like someone you work with, unlike the others who i feel has a more personal connection or fleshed out personality. she's dependable but a bit flat, like i said previously, missed opportunity on giving her actual consequences for her actions to give her arc/growth. but then my mind changed a bit after a scene in 6.2

varshan made a deal with zero to give her his aether as payment and was supposed to do so after fighting barbariccia, but before he could do so she collapsed. they took her to her room, she isnt waking up, i think varshan mentioned how maybe he should give the aether now, but they all decided its best to bring her to the source bc theres ambient aether. they arrived at the source and varshan mentioned again abt giving his aether - which was part of the deal - and y'shtola said, no need, just give her food when she wakes up... mind you this deal was between varshan and zero, and even zero made a comment about "thats not what we agreed upon on" but later adds "oh well, aether is aether" as she eats from the apples provided. this seems something small, insignificant even, but if i made a deal with someone and they changed what they should be providing after i delivered my end of it i would be pissed. they want zero to heal trough the ambient aether and food form source? sure, but varshan and zero still made that deal, i would assume the void is a place where the contracts they made matter, and well in my exp the exact words chosen in contracts matters, a lot. this bit made me think of yshtola from, a somewhat OP character that had missed moments of character growth to, she's kinda a mary sue isnt she. i know im overthinking this, but its like she could never be wrong and even if its someone else's deal she gets to say the right thing to do :/

i know im overhtinking this but that bit on top of everything is just different

i dont hate her but im mildly starting to see her as annoying bc of this

[popcherrypop]

Im playing with my ALT character in FFXIV, finishing HW questline (Finally!). For people that had played the game, Im just talking about Y'shtola when visiting Master Matoya and being scolded.

Now, as my reblogs has sugested, I have been playing BG3 lately and this just popped my mind yesterday.

What if this Tav have done something reckless like Y'shtola did back final ARR (you know, banquet CS :x). But instead of going to the lifestream, Tav did invoke flow magic, and they traversed the weave. They lost the light in their eyes and barely got snatched from the raging tempest that pure magic is.

So, when the tadfools (I read this in another tumblr and loved it) meet them, there was something uncanny about their eyes but being able to navigate as a normal person.

(TLDR, Yshtola can navigate using her magic, but the cost is her own lifeforce).

In an idle conversation with Gale, whom more or less can tell what they are doing, they confess what they did in the past and he is scandalized.

But then the tieflings (Zevlov, Dammon, Rolan) would overhear the other tadfools talking about it:

Zevlor:

In the beginning, he doesnt truly understands the implications of using this magic.

Magician things, he thinks.

But Tav eventually starts to involve themselves with the tiefling party, more and more, helping them constantly and even mediating with Kagha (and resolving the conflict, to at least give them some more time to prepare).

Is just then when Tav is reviewing Zevlor maps for a tactical meeting with the tadfools, that he asks.

Well, not ask, but more like in idle chat he mentions what is this potent magic they used before. Flow, was it?

They pause a second, frowning so subtle but still pondering his question.

“Well… I have to admit, this kind of magic is forbidden for a reason.”

And against better judgement, well, we all know Tav doesn’t have the best judgement. But sharing this kind of information is too sensitive.

But we are talking about Zevlor. Just because they know Zevlor won’t fail them, that they tell him the whole story.

And we know how Zevlor is.

His high regards for this person make his heart to ache. He curses himself for asking such topic, of course this was sensitive.

But what truly unsettles him is not the usage of prohibited enchantments. But the usage of their own life source to navigate as a normal person.

From that day on, he would always be pendant of Tav.

He knows they don’t need him to survive, hells, as the ex-general of the hellraiders he has show more weakness than this adventurer has ever show in their short fellowship.

But still he worries.

He worries they are exhausting themselves and it could be actually avoided if he was there.

So, from that day he would always extend his arm to Tav when he knows they needn't to godspeed to whom knows where.

He would delegate more of the menial task to his brothers, the ones he usually would ask Tav to take care.

Tav would realize what he is trying to do, and it made them feel all warm and fussy inside, but they assure the gentleman this isn’t necessary and they won’t be dying on him any time soon.

This spooks Zevlor a little, but he won’t stop anyway.

“You already have done so much for us, to tax you with more errands is wrong from me. Rest assured, if needed, I will reach you to find a solution to any problem we can actually not solve ourselves”.

He still will offer his arm to help Tav to rest their magical senses, and in a gesture of goodwill, Tav will rest their eyes in his presence, trusting this man to be their eyes from time to time.

This is honestly only an excuse to hang of Zevlor's arm. Not that he does mind. On the contrary, he actually enjoys the clinginess.

Rolan:

His jaw, for what Lia confess in the future, she never had seen Rolan’s jaw drop as bad as the day he heard from the same person what reckless thing they did.

Cal said they didn’t really think much about it back then, but once Rolan wouldn’t drop the topic they would start worrying. Worrying about this savior, worrying about their brother sanity.

He is mad, believe it or not.

When the topic drops for first time, he didn’t say much because he wouldn’t believe this random person could actually invoke so powerful magic AND survive it.

But as he watches this person navigate themselves in the groove, he actually starts to believe it. Many of this person quirks could be explained by the usage of mana to actually see.

Fool. He thinks. This fool wants to get themselves kill by the same hand that feeds them, by the hand of their mistress.

Its just when Tav comes backs from the Goblin attack that it actually sinks.

Uneasiness sinks.

He can tell even breathing is a colossal task, they barely can walk straight. Their hands shaking for overexertion.

And they do, they collapse as they are walking by Halsin side in their way to admonish Kagha.

Everyone reacts fast enough to stop their fall, but is Rolan whom offers succor.

“Let me help, all of you”. And he would start channeling their own mana to this person.

How could he not? Twice they risked their life for him. Well, not only him. Nevertheless, he felt indebted to this… newfold ally.

He offers the party to leave Tav with him until their business with Kagha is resolved, he would share a little of his mana to them so they *should* be fine once everything was discussed.

Or that he hopes.

From that day, he would always check on Tav every time they show themselves in the groove.

He would frown and scold them as kids for using their lifeforce in the groove.

Tav would look at him puzzled at first and with an exaggerated sigh (“Do I have to explain everything?), he would just take their hands and give them a little mana.

After that, he would boss around his little brothers to help Tav in their errands.

Cal and Lia would roll their eyes, and Tav would just hide a chuckle behind their hand, indicating them to follow, but they wouldn’t ask the brothers to do anything at all.

Barely to stand close the first times they were tasked with this “oh so huge errand”.

Then, they would free the siblings and send them directly to Rolan, making an excuse for them to say.

Probably about having to fight something not so dreadful, but hard enough to excuse the siblings.

Given, without the goblins and nothing stopping the Tiefling party, this wouldn’t last for long. But at least for a little while, he wanted to help.

Tav would low-key love how warm his hands feel and would make some couple of extra stops because they know Rolan will extend his hand as he is reading, his eyes not leaving his book. It is nice. They could grow used to this if this was actually safe (which is not, let me tell you. But they would indulge from time to time).

Dammon:

Just as Zevlor, he doesn’t really understand the implications of this.

But he does know Karlach has something in her mind.

Tav isn’t there actually, they are talking with another person in the Groove before the Goblin assault.

“Is everything alright?” he would ask in hopes to help his fellow tiefling friend.

And Karlach would sigh, how uncharacteristic of her. But the rambling after that sigh is very characteristic.

He understands little. But he knows this is serious enough for anybody with some decency to worry about Tav.

Tav in the other hand doesn't show any signs of discomfort or sign of tiredness, he supposes they have been doing this for a long time already.

He would, instead, work in something to help them. He might not be able to give mana like Rolan, nor would escort them in the groove since Zevlor already does that.

Instead, he would do what he knows better. Craft something to help Tav.

The question is what.

So, he studies the proprieties of different types of metals, which would be better suited to syphon magic from the ambient so they wouldn’t have to resort to use their own magic force to compensate for their blindness.

He does finds something and even when goldsmithing isn’t his forte, he is capable of making a necklace for them. It’s a little rudimentary, and he is bashful at first.

But Tav’s expression changes everything.

They cannot see the trinket, but they are holding it tight. He admires the way they’re *seeing* with their hands, taking care of examinate the gift.

He exhales the breath he was holding, smiling at them with fondness.

“I promise you, once I have my forge back, I will do something better for you.”

Tav fusses about it, giving him an embarrassed look. “You have done a lot for me already Dammon, I cannot repay you for something like this”.

He takes their hand between his and look at them tenderly.

“You have done way too much for us, refugees, there is no way we can repay *you* for something as unusual as your kindness."

They stay a minute like this, they might not be able to see his smile (and he comments it) but they are grateful still.

Let me self-indulge: After saying that, lamenting Tav cannot see him for they know he is honestly grateful, Tav would ask him if it was alright to touch his face, to feel what he is saying. Even if it takes him aback a little, he takes their hand and place it over his cheek, only for them to cup his face with their hands (before proceeding to map his face with such tenderness in their touches).

[smallest-turtle]

I've seen you mention it before in some of your Deidre posts (which are all excellent, by the way). But what is your headcannon for the experiments Solus did on Zenos? I've actually not been able to find where their mentioned in game/side stories, so as a concept, it was pretty new to me. But I've seen other people bring it up as well.

Other people have ideas that SOMETHING was done to him based off of like. One line that Elidibus says in one of the throne rooms scenes, I think right when Zenos shows up to get his body back or around then in time, but I don't know the quote off the top of my head.

So I know canonically Zenos' echo is like. Artificial because it's the resonance but because he's had the dreams of the calamity since he was a child I feel like that's not the whole story. I think (and am writing) that he always had the echo, same as anyone else, and it's just atypical because of how garleans can't control aether, and the resonance just amplified it. So basically he's always been able to see people's souls (why he KNOWS Deidre is the ONLY person he's ever found reborn from his dreams of the calamity at Rhalgr's, which are Janus's memories of the event).

What is COMPLETELY homebrew that you're actually asking about is that Emet wanted to figure out if he could essentially commit a rejoining TO SOMEONE SPECIFICALLY. So what he did was he took the soul pieces of Janus from each remaining shard and forced them together. But it's like finding pieces of sea glass that all came from the same bottle and trying to glue them back together after they've been irrevocably changed. Even with 'proper' influxes of insane aetheric power they never actually mesh the way a true shard-wide calamity would make them.

So basically his soul looks like one of those density experiments you do as a child with all the different substances that can't mix except they're all the same color. It freaks Yshtola out whenever she looks at him too long because it's so deeply wrong. And an effect of this is that he does not have memories of this being done to him as a child and he does not have memories from before it was done either. I haven't decided what age it is exactly yet. Maybe 6 or 7. An age that your typical adult WOULD HAVE MEMORIES FROM but he doesn't even know that's weird because he doesn't have friends until shadowbringers.

Another side effect of this is through engaging with the sundered of people that Janus was close with (Azem's entire. Crew basically. So Deidre [azem], Haurchefant/Granson, Caelen, Ryne/Aymeric) he slowly gets snippets of events that Janus's soul remembers, which is why he knows Haurchefant and Deidre are exactly how they should be (siblings) and that Deidre and himself will NOT BE (lovers. Ew? Yucky!).

This will all be mostly pieced together by characters through the last weeks of 5.0 between witnessed family spats with Zenos and Emet (rip Alphinaud he was just trying to draw the cityscape) and the fact that Y'shtola can literally See the fuck up. But here's the author explanation

Thanks for the interest! It's really fun to gush about this sort of thing.

[abimee]

Sorry I saw your post abt blind yshtola and I have genuinely been so mad about how that was handled for months. She’s blind but she’s not, she can’t see but she reads all the time, it shortens her lifespan to do so but it’s mentioned *once* and then never again so there aren’t any like. Real consequences. Idk I know it wasn’t the point of the post but ffxiv giving Y’shtola a disability and then refusing to acknowledge that she even *has* one bothers me. Idk it’s late and I have emotions but fewer thoughts and wanted to hand them to you. Anyways more disabled rep would be cool even with the disabled characters we get in game. ALSO SIDE NOTE ARENVALDS WHEELCHAIR. WHAT IN THE MEDIEVAL TORTURE DEVICES IS THAT. IT LOOKS SO UNCOMFORTABLE. Okay now im done.

drives me insane that occassionally the game will remind you yshtola is blind like cant make out details or anything besides light and shadows and used it for stuff like "urianger tell me what the stars look like" or that bit where everyone see zenos approach in your body and everyone else can see its you visually but yshtola is like "WTF are you sure?". OR THAT SHE CANT EVEN TELL ITS YOU IN SHB WHEN YOURE STANDING DIRECTLY IN FRONT OF HER meaning she CANNOT make out anything even closely yet this game then 180s and goes "oh but she can read cause aether ink. oh she can still differenciate strangers physical traits ause aether. dont ecen get me started on them using her aetherical stuff as reason shes lighter now they fucked her UP

[spiribia]

ARR star saw herself as a really cool and standoffish person, and yashtoler thought she was kind of gruff and mildly cute in a ‘we’re never actually going to meet again’ way. if the shtoler ever mentioned this later star would be like (a little desperate) NO im uncool now but i was REALLY cool back then. and yshtolas like OK Sure. and stars like NO. oh and right image is more of her sin eater form

[windup-nuriha]

you think you won't fall in love with the silly catwoman and suddenly you're 422 hours into the game and she's all you think about

[mooncovesnight]

oHmygod i just remembered i had an hc- about yuechiya in rak'tika 😳

after defeating the lightwarden, and just as they arrive in slitherbough, that one guy approaches yuechiya asking for help on how to propose to his beau... specifically mentioning that they seem so happy and in love and completely married so he thought they could help him best cjxjjs

ichiya surprisingly takes it well- doesnt deny it but y'uemi does notice the little smile and the way his cheeks flush a little, and it makes her smile too,,,

and in the end the guy tells them about the custom of exchanging real names..

i think, sometime maybe before or after yshtola tells them (or ichiya) about the light tainting them (him), y'uemi takes ichiya to that one secret place that one vii took them to for relaxing.. maybe as an effort to cheer themselves up

they swim around and soak a bit, and then y'uemi calls ichiya by his real name.. and not just "faust"... but "faustmarch" and then she kisses him.. i think ichiya ends up whispering "uemi" back, but in a daze, after they pull apart,,,

they leave quietly but with the unspoken understanding that they're engaged after that, but the actual confession isnt a thing yet (theyre just both convinced they know what they are at this point, and ichiya starts regularly kissing her knuckles whenever he thinks no ones looking and being distinctly more attentive towards her bc he feels he has the right to do those now and most especially holds her closer and initiates it now when they sleep)

ichiya crafts them both their rings and formally proposes sometime soon that ill think abt when ive played enough to decide

[kaedeichinose]

i mentioned ff14's surprising lack of merch but it struck me last night how few play/bring arts there are? literally only yshtola shb ver and estinien which came out two years apart. and liek for perspective thats the exact same amount of arts figures vagrant story has. of all things.

[yukiotacon]

I forgot if I sent this to you or not but how would the scions treat the wol's little sister joining them? She's a white mage who is slightly younger than alphanauid if that helps.

WoL's little sister hc

Tataru

You bet your ass she is gonna make a scion outfit for her

Loves interacting with your little sister

Tataru often asks them if their interested in helping her with her new projects

Krile

Finds your sister's mannerisms endearing

If she needs someone to teach about academics , she would volunteer

Always does afternoon tea with them

Yshtola

She is your sister's conjuration teacher

Let's just say some of Master Matoya's teacher methods may have rubbed of in her

I would say good luck to her

Y'shtola is very reluctant to put her out on the field

Urianger

It will take your sister a good while to get used to Urianger's eloquent speak patttern

He can always be depended on when she needs info on primals

Urianger has the most difficulty lying to her ( We all know what part I am taking about)

Thancred

Keeps her at arms length for safety reasons

Does joke with her from time to time

Though it changes after Hw for known reasons

Thancred does lighten up towards her after returning from the source

Alphinaud

Acts like the responsible older brother

He really wants to be someone your little sis can look up to

Unfortunate target of witty banter between Alisae and Your sister

Alisae

She gets along well with your sister

You can say they are the perfect pair for sparing

Your sister knows about Alisae's feelings for you ,but she doesn't tell

Still teases Alisae about it constantly

Estinien

Treats her the way he treats Alphinaud

Does keep an eye on her for your sake

Estinien does talk much to her ( Estinien being Estinien)

G'raha Tia

Say hello to your Goofy older brother amongst the scions

Happily shows her a few pointers on magic

Tells her your exploits from the firts

Your sister makes him blush by mentioning his infatuation with you

She does this every day

[myrfing]

big 6.1 reaction thread that I will update since that is more smoove

it's ok gourd didn't get adventurer headways by making conversation he just overhears shit. you cant help it when your ear bones are that big

NO ESTINIEN EVERYONE WAS RIGHT YOU'RE GETTING CONNED AGAIN NO AOGDJSIGDSG NO

ESTINIENNNNNNNNNNN HELPPPP GOURD YOU'RE JUST GONNANWATCH YEAH HE IS ACTUALLY THAT'S KIND OF IN CHARACTER ACTUALLY

ooh do ppl still comment stuff like "i didnt recognize you" "dressed for adventure" if you're not wearing tataru prada

ohhh I see estinien I doubted your intelligence for a second. or fifty. or as long as I've known you. i owe you one compliment

bro you cna just give the child money directly. LMOFAOOOAOOAOAO

gourd you're making estinien look shrunkenhead here for some reason

did my choice actually matter or did we all get shoed into graha krill (shrimp duo) heaven because graha fans are always cheating and we always win

GRAHA'S VOICE TRAILING OFF LIKE THAT? YOU STUPID CATBOYYY

*gourd writing in his notes app* umm Estinien. His whole family died

YSHTOLAAA LMFAOOO SHE'S SO CUTE hi. uhh. they gave you ear wigle

GREATEST OF ALL TIME...UNDER WADDER

fell asleep woke up to do this dungeon immediately and also yes I wiped us to the spin even with tank privilege because I was giggling and clapping and dancing

ohh it really is void time. also dont worry moldy little dragon I put my hands over these all the time in world of darkness raid

FUNNIEST DIALOGUE OPTION AND YOUR WOL LOOKS SO SERIOUS WHEN SAYING IT. DUNCE

THE FACT WE'RE ALL THE GROWNASS SCIONS AND WE CANT BLUFF THROUGH THGHTGHTGTHR. scions reconvene only to um destroy personal property but like why do you sit on a gold hoard anyway vrtra

oh okay. we were actually going to steal it and use it to buy ps5s vrtra

THIS IS SO TRADITIONAL FANTASY that knight looks meatious

bury the orphans beneath the stage like dogs is what ive learned. or yes taxes

gourd standing there not mentioning the void ark shit nor cylva & unu LMFAOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

aw yshtola. i finally get to do something for you after all these years. limsa starters winning

the little remix in the archives. also this is far less books than I expected. tiny ass archive

NO I PICKED UP THE VOLUME FIRST GO AND NOW I DIDNT GET TO READ THE OTHER BOOKS?

nidhana..yes we want YOU beloved elephance

I love how there's no music at the font of maya. place of tranquility for real

ESTINIEN WHAHGHGHT?? WHY

you know I have a feeling yshtola might um unleash tha void and that's totally fine but given the fanbase's recent weird uptick of virulent hate for her well.

oh a drippy? is she going to make a drippy...

HELP DID SHE MAKE BEING A MAGICAL GIRL A PART OF THE INCANTATION

THE ... OPTIONNNNN

im laughinign so hard you're sending them into HELL like that

NIDHANA DOING A LITTLE JIG IN THE BG SHE'S SO CUTE

also was...estinien there when we met matoya? how does he know anything about her. forgetting bits of heavensward moments

YES THERE IS. I KNOW ONE. CYLVA CYLVA YSHTOLA HER NAME IS CYLVA YOU HAVE TO BRING HER INTO THE MSQ

nabdeen's brit accent is so funny why do you talk like that here

bald man summer

ok. i really liked it cute patch yshtola time. all I can ask for