#can be best counted on to liberate it. the nerve. the audacity. no people suffering from occupation would say that

[meowww-ffxiv]

Sometimes I remember the part in I think 3.1 or 3.2 where you went with Nanamo to try and find a way to help newly liberated Ala Mhigo get its feet back from under them and we had a very strange conversation with Hildibrand's dad where he was like You Gotta Put 'Em To Work Your Grace and something about how it couldn't be a wholesale charity thing, Ul'dah had to stand to gain something from the arrangement or the Monetarists would riot.

I know what they were going for. It's a really really pessimistic view of edgy politics, same in trend as some of the :/ bits of Stormblood. Which just really goes back to the main reason I'd rather move on from Stormblood even though I don't think it's bad, lol. It used a lot of its screen time to show the horrors of war and that's fine. But where is the humanity in the face of the horrors of war?

Especially in a story like FFXIV where you can say hope and perseverance and humanity versus those things are prevalent. It was the whole plot of ShB. Strangers or acquaintances you weren't necessarily close to going out of their way in a bleak future to save you, who died long ago. The Crystarium, the shining spire of hope that was once built by an inhumane, terrible empire. Everyone's resolve on the First. The way the Crystarium rallied around the one good thing that had happened -- the glimpse of the night sky -- when pressured with violence and bloodshed to give up hoping by Vauthry.

Endwalker followed the same trend even. And we went back and did SO MUCH for Heavensward's characters and locations. Then Stormblood was just like aight we pushed the Garleans out, now let's discuss how we can profit from it lol.

Like I get where they came from. Nanamo had to have the character growth where she balanced shrewdness of a ruler with the fact that her country was ruled by selfish, ruthless capitalists. She'd tried to revolt against them and failed once. But the whole shit is just upsetting to hear lol.

Oh well. It's their product and SE can do whatever they want with it.

#its out there its established and its critical to the story 🤷 #so i will take it. AND its free to play now. #this was supposed to be about how MY homemade blorbo reacted to that convo but apparently i still have bones to chew on for this #not to mention the words they put into brown girl m'naago's mouth about how gaius the OG invader of werlyt #can be best counted on to liberate it. the nerve. the audacity. no people suffering from occupation would say that #if m'naago was written by someone who wasnt raised in an imperialist rooted culture she'd have nailed gaius to a tree and shot him #but once again. SE reserves the right to whatever they wanna do with their product. #im just going to rewrite that bit to my experience which is M'naago Didn't Say That