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[eriyu]

I posted this on my main blog but I'm transporting it to my sideblog bc I'm having a crappy day and I'm sure this has been done before but I need serotonin this weekend

What's the thing you like most about prev's wol? Can be looks, story, personality, vibes, fashion, anything! Let's spread some positivity 🌞🌤

#it makes me happy to know of another miqo'te from meracydia so i love seeing anything big or small from ahki's childhood! #ffxiv

[eriyu]

I posted this on my main blog but I'm transporting it to my sideblog bc I'm having a crappy day and I'm sure this has been done before but I need serotonin this weekend

What's the thing you like most about prev's wol? Can be looks, story, personality, vibes, fashion, anything! Let's spread some positivity 🌞🌤

#i really really adore her backstory with the south sea isles and all #ffxiv

[eriyu]

I posted this on my main blog but I'm transporting it to my sideblog bc I'm having a crappy day and I'm sure this has been done before but I need serotonin this weekend

What's the thing you like most about prev's wol? Can be looks, story, personality, vibes, fashion, anything! Let's spread some positivity 🌞🌤

#i'm lowkey obsessed with her relationship with erenville #ffxiv

[eriyu]

I posted this on my main blog but I'm transporting it to my sideblog bc I'm having a crappy day and I'm sure this has been done before but I need serotonin this weekend

What's the thing you like most about prev's wol? Can be looks, story, personality, vibes, fashion, anything! Let's spread some positivity 🌞🌤

#she's so pretty 😭💖 #i'm very in love with the dark blue skin + white/light details combo #ffxiv

[eriyu]

A cherry blossom dragon to celebrate the coming of spring!

#art #dragons #colors #q

[eriyu]

I posted this on my main blog but I'm transporting it to my sideblog bc I'm having a crappy day and I'm sure this has been done before but I need serotonin this weekend

What's the thing you like most about prev's wol? Can be looks, story, personality, vibes, fashion, anything! Let's spread some positivity 🌞🌤

#i've only just followed you so i don't know your WoLs very well but!!! #i adore hyperion's backstory and also gender #ffxiv

[eriyu]

I'm built different. like incorrectly i think

[eriyu]

Anyway, it's worth remembering that a lot of things people cling to as Canonical Evidence of their Totally True and Objective Viewpoints on the characters in FFXIV is a lot of times based entirely on incidental side dialogue, often a single line and the possible readings or implications one puts upon it.

This isn't a bad thing, mind; we all do it, and in some ways it's necessary, to comb through dialogue and quest text and side content to get scraps of characterization, lore, etc to base our roleplay, fanfiction, fanart, and analyses on.

It's why I'm often insistent on finding and having context and backing evidence for things, particularly lore analysis. And there are multiple interpretations in a lot of cases--and especially depending on which localization is being used, or if removed content is being considered or not, and so on.

There've been times I think an interpretation is really off (and sometimes if feeling spicy have argued it) given other evidences--or I have missed evidence and context others are going by!

And sometimes people will read the same lines entirely differently, for uncountable possible reasons based on our myriad lived experiences. Things I've had to remember/be reminded of a few times, and so now try to caveat with "I feel" or "I think" or "in my opinion" when giving my own take or rebuttal, if I do.

#yes yes #and same; i try really hard to always preface things with “i think” or similar when something's not super solid #ff #ffxiv

[eriyu]

#STUNNING #ff #ffxiv #ew #q

[eriyu]

✨Abyssal Celebrant ✨ man this Lahabrea took me forever this time 😭

#ff #ffxiv #ew #q

[eriyu]

There's no way I can explain this sudden urge to draw my chocobo.

#ff #ffxiv #q

[eriyu]

surprise it's yuri!!!in 2024

#yuri on ice #yoi #idr what my tag is #q

[eriyu]

thinking about that moment late Shadowbringers where Y'shtola expresses that she kind of wishes she too had been granted the gift of the Echo, that she might be able to peer into the WoL's heart, and juxtaposing it with this other moment before one of the dungeons that she's looking forward to being able to drop the air of absolute self-control that she's presented to the Night's Blessed and really cut loose and unleash her powers for a change, and it's like... both of these are more or less incidental dialogue, stray almost throwaway lines, and yet...

For as much as she found a place amongst the Night's Blessed, and for how content and comfortable she was with them, she still never really let them see who she is under the surface. She never felt so comfortable as to drop her tightly controlled presentation, to let the mask drop and show her heart in full. For as much as she identifies with, and misses them, she still never let them truly know her - not the way that Y'mhitra, or the real Master Matoya, or even the WoL does.

It makes me wonder if part of what she's wishing she had isn't necessarily so much the Echo itself as it is the ability to share her heart openly, to be able to just drop all the carefully constructed walls for a spell and bare her innermost thoughts and feelings without fear of being dismissed or judged for it.

#ohhhhh ;_; #ff #ffxiv #shb #q

[eriyu]

i hate when i send someone a meme in another language and they're like "uhm... translate? 😒" fucker i sent you a meme where 90% of the words have an english cognate and/or you don't need to know what they're saying to find it funny. can you at least TRY

#ok but alternatively when someone reblogs a meme where 90% of the words have an english cognate and says it “transcends language” #no it doesn't you just happen to speak a language that has 90% cognates with the source material

[eriyu]

for the record i am not sending any "How Intimidating Am I?" asks because i am intimidated by everybody 👉😎👉

#therefore i don't want anybody to take it personally lol #eriyu has an irl

[eriyu]

#quickly edit the next chapter's A/N #“hey you with the floral skirt and green backpack reading this in mcdonalds right now. thanks for reading and also i love your hair” #polls

[eriyu]

Reblogging would be a great help, but don’t feel pressured to

#vote for 1! #polls