#let alone the WoL

[flamebunnyy]

The lulls between Scion work aren't really relaxing for poor Rook, it just means she comes back to even more paperwork on her desk at the Arcanist's guild.

#rook #oc lore #elezen #ffxiv #wol posting #Rook never asked for any of this and doesn't really even consider herself an adventurer #let alone the WoL #declan #Also a friend's bnuuy WoL Declan #Trying out a new style as well to make sketches go faster

[fatedroses]

He laid at the brink of death once more, staring at the face of despair. He remembered the path that led him to this purgatory, and with a smile could only ask:

"Shall we be friends?"

#ffxiv #digital art #concept #zenos yae galvus #endsinger #endwalker spoilers #adventurer zenos #eurydice #is just the tag im going to use for the post endwalker endsinger stuff I'll draw #alisaie lives in zenos' head rent free- #but for a man with no fear i find the potential idea of him reaching out to a weakened endsinger both sweet and kinda funny #“oh hey she was right- im not alone here- lets see if I can actually do better” <- the beginning of adventurer zenos #part of Adventurer!Zenos motivation is finding examples of happiness he sees and finds himself to tell her whenever he visits the ultimatum #the eternal question: did he adopt the bird or did the bird adopt him #Also thus begins Zenos having to dig through his own recollection on how to help people- i.e emulating the WoL lol #and endsinger having to deal with reading his mind only to probably get very random thoughts/static and only occasionally something helpful #she very quickly learns that nihility bounces off this man like a ball #he is simply immune

[trans-estinien]

#i know my bad for going on twitter #i dont have enough braincells to write a character essay about how all these hermes haters miss the point but. god #also this person is being wrong about how theyre hating him #CAUSE LIKE. #WHO CARES IF HE WAS ULTIMATELY THE ONE RESPONSIBLE. IT DIDN'T MATTER. SHIT WAS GOING TO BE FUCKED #REGARDLESS OF IF THE WOL WENT BACK IN TIME OR NOT. IT ALWAYS WOULD'VE ENDED THAT WAY #the only variable that wouldve changed that is if he created meteion or not #AND THE REASON THE QUESTION WAS FLAWED AND HIS EXPERIMENTS WERE FLAWED WAS BECAUSE HE DIDNT TRUST OTHER ANCIENTS #CAUSE THEY KEPT PUSHING ASIDE HIS CONCERNS ALL THE TIME. RIGHT. SO WHY WOULDNT THEY PUSH ASIDE OR OUTRIGHT REFUSE TO LET HIM AS HIS QUESTION #HE THOUGHT HE WAS ALONE!!!!!!! #AAAAAAAUGH. #'i cant stand that hes treated sympathetically' you are dense. and you probably have never hit a point in your life where you dont reach out #cause you feel like the only one who feels that way. #anyways anyone who hates him like this person is an idiot and yes im being mean

[warlordfelwinter]

love the ways that fiver looks at gaius. he is So Uncomfortable about being in the same room as this man

#gaius was like the starting gun for all of fiver's wol trauma #in my mind fiver ended up facing ultima alone and fully almost died if it hadn't been for hydaelyn #nevermind lahabrea #fel's ffxiv #shadowbringers lb #oc: fiver #also i've just learned from looking something up that all the like msq arr trials are duty support now #i don't know when that happened but i like it #keep doing that square #make all the msq trials duty support #and then add trust levelling roulettes #i wouldn't mind the game going in a 'more mmo' direction or whatever yoshi-p said #if there were also nice avenues for anxious hermits like me #who just want to play the msq alone #as long as both options are there no one could complain cause both kinds of players get what they want #they could add more trials if they feel like they need to #which evidently they do feel like it based on the insane amount of them in the endwalker patches like jesus christ why were there so many #but just let me do them with my npc friends #it's all i ask #that and a radz-at-han res district

[thecosmicsleep]

it's amazing how quickly i went from "alphinaud, if you don't shut up–" to "if someone so much as breathes in my little brother's direction wrong, i will break all of their bones"

#every time someone has said something even slightly mean to him so far in hw #i've been like 'leave the child alone. he's trying his best.' #estinien teasing him about being worried about wol when they went to fight lord ravana 🥺 #like let me hug him please he needs a hug 🥺 #sage plays ffxiv #alphinaud leveilleur #but also this is peak sibling behavior i am well aware

[ooeygooeyghoul]

21. Are there any raid storylines (Ivalice, Coil of Bahamut, Werlyt, etc.) you consider to be canon for your WoL? Which ones don't you consider canon? 

I will be completely honest, I haven't done most of the raid storylines yet ahahaha! I was speedrunning through the MSQ and didn't even know the optional raids had extra story in them until like a month ago. I may have lost my sprout but obviously, I still have a lot to learn about this game.

I only know the story for the Bahamut and Eden raids, but I definitely do consider those two to be canon to Shiun's and my headcanon's storyline. As my first and main WoL, Shiun's story doesn't differ tooooo much from ffxiv's canon story in general. There probably are certain raids that I would say aren't canon, but I just don't know enough to say yet. When I get there I'll probably talk about it and how they relate to Shiun a lot!

From this list of Questions!

#ffxiv #rambling #wol questions #doesn't help that my crippling anxiety wont let me do them alone with strangers #Im in the process of pestering my friends to level up enough to do them with me tho #for the moment tho youtube videos are my friend and teacher lol #primordial flame: shiun kazumasa

[bough-waker]

H A I L D E S T R O Y E R

#im sorry but this is gonna end up multi oc #bc i can barely look after 1 tumblr let alone 2 or 3 #so hands u my oc that can also be used as my WoL hc's #aisling lorimer #ff14 #ffxiv #ffxiv balmung #ffxiv crystal #ffxiv oc #balmung server #my screenshots #she is trouble #midlander #hyur #ffxiv hyur

[fooltofancy]

still can't believe estinien just dumped his dumb unconscious ass face-first on the ground like that

#not the hero we need but the hero we deserve etc #he's so fucking funny #i am actually so so emotional about the stormblood patches they are so important to me and so like. intrinsic to ilya as a character #alisaie fucking begging the wol not to leave her alone #when she fuckin FALLS and he DOESN'T CATCH HER??? #can't tell me he didn't just fucking scoop her into his arms and hold her like hien is actually gonna have to do something #about getting him to let her go because shit is Still Happening and you can't just hold her you can't #don't think he ever really forgives g'raha for that actually like it's a very good thing that their first interaction exarchwise was. #whatever that was. because genuinely the only thing that stops ilya from going for his throat on the first is time. #eating drywall again im sorry not just chewing it full-on ingesting the walls #baby mode blogging

[adina--astra]

A series of events.

#ffxiv #ffxiv gpose #xaela wol #urianger augurelt #thancred waters #wol x urianger x thancred #she’s having fun okay #leave her alone #let her live #this is so stupid #cackling the whole time

[umbralaether]

I dont think I sent you one back so "apologizing when you call them and hear their deep, sleepy voice answer."

(Pls ignore if I did send one already lol.)

With the Final Days upon them, she was asked to assess the state of the world back home - namely, the blasphemies that had been sighted in the other city states. G'raha was hesitant to let her go alone, fearing what she may have to face without the help of himself and the other Scions, yet he knew he had no choice. He could not have her stay behind for his own benefit.

He focuses instead on the efforts in Thavnair in her absence, securing the townspeople, hunting down rumors of other blasphemies, and worst of all -- waiting. When there was nothing else left to do but rest and wait for her return, he could not quiet his thoughts. She was capable, he knew this to be the undeniable truth, but still he worried. She had promised to send word when she could, but when night came and went once again he was left with another day full of unanswered questions swirling through his mind.

"She'll be okay, G'raha. She most likely doesn't want to worry you with what she's discovered," Alisaie tries to comfort him, yet her reply still leaves him anxious.

They have always asked so much of her, sending her to her death again and again. It’s a miracle each time she comes back, battered and bruised but alive by all meanings of the word. Though he admires her willingness to dive headfirst into danger, he loathes that she even has to - that the world seems content to place all their burdens on her. If she had not been the Warrior of Light, however, they would not have met. This love he has for her would cease to exist and he thinks that must be the greater crime in the end.

Another day of silence and when night falls, he cannot take it any longer. The pacing, the anxiety, the sleeplessness - he needs to hear her voice. Even if only for a moment.

The linkpearl connects on the third attempt, "Mmmh… Raha?" Her voice is heavy, laced with sleep.

"Eisha… I- I didn't mean to wake you…" He sighs, trying to hide the relief in his voice. He all but sinks into the bed behind him.

"'Tis okay. What's going on? Are you alright?"

He suddenly feels foolish, "I… simply needed to hear your voice, is all."

"Oh. Oh. I made you worry, didn't I? I said I'd call sooner… just been a lot going on here. I'm sorry."

"There is no need for apologies, Eisha, not from you. I-" He runs a hand through his hair, trying to keep his voice steady, "I should let you sleep."

"Raha?"

"Yes, my love?"

"I miss you too."

#when will they rest and have peace? never i say! #poor g'raha maybe one day you wont suffer in my hands #but i imagine he hated letting her go anywhere alone after 'in from the cold' because talk about trauma #okay rambling too much now thanks for the ask!! <3 #ffxiv #endwalker #my writing #wolgraha #eisha pantera #wol x graha #wol x g'raha #ffxiv writing

[arcenergy]

also during the cutscene where one of ur companions talks to u around bedtime i think alisaie’s is the most heartwarming/heartwrenching 

#misc #ff #IF NO ONE GOT ME I KNOW ALISAIE GOT ME CAN I GET AN AMEN #me and this child i adopted from her stupid shitty dad going on world changing adventures together #alphinaud looks up the most to estinien but i think alisaie looks up the most to the wol. it's very sweet #she talks a lot in the wols defense explicitly as like . them as a person and not as a figure. 'we've done everything we can it's not fair #to lie to them anymore about not letting them try to go out and find a cure for their corruption on their own' in shadowbringers and #in endwalker where shes like 'after everything you've done for people you dont deserve to be alone and im sorry im doing this to you'

[softbunarts]

My WoL has no brain cells, Alphinaud has it. If neither of them have it, Alisae does

Another one for the WIP hell that probably won’t leave the rough sketch phase

#art #my art #sketch #doodle #oc #my oc #traditional art #ffxiv wol #ffxiv #alphinaud leveilleur #alisae leveilleur #I hope I start this one day #let alone finish it

[ethereal-jule]

@primalvessel​ asked:

❔

Send me ❔ and my muse will admit one thing that genuinely confuses them about yours

“Do not take this as a negative, nor a complaint- for i do not mean it to be either.” Julian starts, thoughtfully rubbing at his cheek with one finger. “It confuses me at times that he has remained so.. largely cheerful, energetic and unabashedly himself after everything he’s been put through. When he regales me with grand tales of adventure, many of which are extremely dangerous, or when he opens about about the more dark sides of said adventures, i-” He shakes his head slightly. “I find myself utterly unable to imagine remaining myself, let alone be anything other then wholly depressed. i’ve been through far less trying things then he, and i still came out about as tired and jaded as one could be..” The viera smiles softly, though its a bit saddened. “Of course, i am truly glad he is able to do so- but if even half of it is not a mere act to seem better off then he is, that is quite confusing indeed. Where on earth does he draw such seemingly boundless strength and energy from..”

#((Jules vc: he's the love of my life but how does he do what he does?? i'd literally go mad-)) #((Jules is not cut out to be the WOL- he'd be a wreck by mid HW let alone SB/SHB/EW)) #Julian Salvez #ask #primalvessel #(One life pretending to be the cat who got the cream. People like to tell you what you're gonna be; Maru) #(you made me feel as though I was enough when we danced the night away.. I played it cool. I was scared of letting go; Maru/Julian)

[noxtivagus]

we won't be afraid to forge ahead fr

#🌙.rambles #[ ffxiv. ] #endwalker means so much to me.. #'youre not alone' #:<< n then hope & despair n #that scene w hermes means the world to me. #yk the way he. hdkfjalsd everything about it!!!! the way they told the story n the actions they put rlly just. oh my god #the way he opens up. the changes in facial expression. the way his vas say his lines in both english & jpn (just the ones i've listened to) #hermes is such a lonely character ! i like him so much ! #'but now i know i'm not alone. not the only one for whom the flowers weep' #knowing that he's not alone.. comforts him so much. makes the burden of his doubts lighter. giving him hope. #even if it was just for that night in msq ! the way he looks up at the stars.. looking forward to gaining more knowledge in the future #n he thanks the wol so tenderly. he's really so kind at heart #:c hermes speaking of acceptance. if we be different from the rest of the world then so be it. at least i have you; you'll always have me #i'm sorry i swear i'm not delusional i'm not rlly writing directly to hermes rn no i'm not Too delusional w fictional charas #these words just have.. a nice sort of feeling. fuck if they're cheesy let me just dream n say them for a bit #ok but back to hermes :<< 'to know that you too have experienced suffering...is a comfort' & #'it's just...the fact that you are still here in spite of your suffering gives me heart' & #'to so willingly lend an ear to ease my burden... you are a strange one' #his voice is so soft n gentle wtf. the flowers make me so sad omg n then meteion n the stars n. his voice his eyes his smile oh no #the way his vas deliver these lines r just. oh my god that's unfair really #yk.. in the tales from the dawn. 'a question of life'. the way he recounts back on the wol. & w meteion. those nights c: #one thing that gives me comfort is that even though it's been nearly a year since i personally have finished endwalker #i'm still. here. i'm still me. i've gone much further than i ever thought n surely i'll reach even further in time #not alone huh :c ffxiv has a lot on that n on hope n tomorrows n it rlly serves as a. reminder to me #i'll watch the other cutscenes sometime. didn't realize how fast time just passed by rn #i'll write to myself i think before i sleep. i'll try to actually sleep before 2 am this time instead of 4 >< 🥹🤍 #n i can do more tmrrw instead. or even the day after that. i'll try to get as much ffxiv related stuff done tho so we can push w the fc c: #one last wait T_T 'a sentimental gift' quest name n. description; 'you needn't be an entelechy to feel the weight bearing down on hermes' #searching for flowers w meteion.. hehe what bittersweet precious memories of mine.

[haunted-xander]

Sometimes I think about Urianger's role in and feelings on the Thancred-Ryne dynamic and I think watching it kills him a bit inside. For several reasons.

Like, to begin with there's the guilt he's been carrying with him since he ushered Minfilia to the first, how he effectively killed the person Thancred cared about the most in the world and who's "death" ended up causing Ryne's entire Situation. He looks at what's happening between them and can only think "I caused this" even though that's not really true. No one person is responsible for this outcome, it's a culmination of several circumstances and the consequences of them. Logically, Urianger knows this. But it doesn't matter, because his guilt is overpowering his logic.

And also, like. What Thancred is doing here, the way he's knowingly letting Ryne be and stay hurt because he literally cannot bring himself to tell her his feelings, is the exact same mistake Urianger made with Moenbryda. Of course, the circumstances are vastly different, and the potential consequences to Thancred telling Ryne the wrong things or her misinterperating it is far greater (being a matter of literal life or death), it's still the same sort of paralysis they are trapped in.

And he knows it. He sees it. But he can't say or do anything about it, he doesn't have the right to. He acknowledges the mistake, but he hasn't really improved upon it yet. He still doesn't voice his thoughts and feelings as he should. He's also non-confrontational by nature, he doesn't argue or try to change peoples minds, he probably doesn't think he has any place to.

So, he tries to help in what little ways he can. Because he doesn't want it to become Monebryda again, he doesn't want to know he stole not one but two people from Thancred. So he does what he can. He tells Ryne little tidbits about Thancred, things that help her understand him but are safe to share. Nothing too deep, nothing too personal. Just small things, things that are purely factual, because he can't afford to give her a false image of who Thancred is. He teacher her fun and interesting things, because Thancred isn't in the mindset to provide her with non-essential skills.

I like to think Urianger has brought it up with Thancred at least once, during one of his stays. But nothing would've come of it. Not really. Unlike Y'shtola, Urianger isn't pushy, he'll bring it up once or twice and when he sees this won't go anywhere, he gives up. He wants to help, but he knows that persistance only does do much, and he is not the person who has the resiliance needed to push and push until Thancred finally budges (because he won't budge, it won't help anything but to sour things further by adding aditional stress to an already strained dynamic).

And like. Urianger gets it. He gets it because he's been the same way- not saying what he should to someone he loves more than anything else because she was meant to figure her life out herself, and 'steering' her in any direction by telling her his feelings (regardless of if the 'steering' is intention or not) will go against that. He gets it. He gets it and it's all the more painful for it. He knows it can't just be fixed by acknowledging it or with encouragement, something needs to happen to break the stasis.

I think this is probably why he stayed behind while they went off to Nabaath Areng. This is the very last chance they have to say what they want to, and he can't afford to be the anchor anymore. This is about them, not him, he can't let their resolution be buffed by his presence, so he stays behind. Which was probably for the best. Ryne got nervous when Urianger said he's staying behind, probably not too excited about being alone with Thancred (well, not alone, but WoL doesn't count) so soon after she had ran away crying. But she needs to be nervous. For anything positive to come out of this Thancred and Ryne both can't afford to be too relaxed. As sad as it is, the stress is necessary for anything to happen. He knows it. Does he like it? Absolutely not, but nor does he like his other plots. At least no one dies this time if it goes right.

#urianger had an integral part in the thancred-ryne situation and i think its very important to remember that #like i think he served as a very important buffer that prevented the dynamic from becoming even more strained than it already was #but also like. ryne NEEDED to have at least someone she can be comfortable around without the stress of her circumstances souring it #urianger is uniquely suited to play that role. even with his guilt regarding minfilia he never showed anything but genuine kindness for her #it helps that she didnt know about his hand in the situation existing to begin with (as shes surprised when he tells her in ahm areang) #THATS ALSO IMPORTANT BTW. like this man had a DIRECT hand in making this happen (even if it isnt fully his fault. minfilia made her choice) #AND LIKE. the parallels between uri-moen and thancred-ryne. they both love these girls so so much but cant bring themselves to say anything #urianger has been through the pain before. he knows. but he hasnt improved much himself. what right does he have to scold thancred? #silent support is all he can give. pushing thancred would make him a hypocrite and risk making it worse. hes not suited for confrontation #y'shtola and uriangers approaches to helping both have their merits but it needs a balance #too much pushing and the dynamic just gets worse but too forgiving and nothing will ever change #and yes i know im just repeating myself but ITS IMPORTANT OK #GOD #urianger augurelt #thancred waters #ryne waters #final fantasy #final fantasy 14 #final fantasy xiv #ff14 #ffxiv #xander rambles #xander being insane about ryne #urianger actually this time but. its related to ryne so. it gets the tag

[picaroroboto]

For the past couple days, I've been unfortunately cursed with thinking about Zenos yae Galvus. I don't even particularly like him - not that I dislike him either, Zenosfuckers you can put your scythes down - but it seems to me like a lot of the fandom either greatly misunderstands him, or doesn't even care to try to understand him, which from an objective standpoint as someone who cares deeply about writing in video games kind of pisses me off. But I'm more pissed about the fact that I'm apparently going to keep thinking about this issue until I actually write a character analysis of him.

Q: "But, what even is there to analyze with him? Isn't he all about wanting to fight the WoL and nothing else?"

Well, you wouldn't be wrong with saying that. That motivation is at the forefront of his character, and even if you look closer, everything about him comes back to either "violence" or "lack of understanding of others". But there are more meaningful sides to his deceptively simple character. That question of meaning is what I really want to look into - what does his character mean, what symbolic or thematic role does he play in this story?

Q: "Better question: why are you posting this on your art blog/Fate meta sideblog?"

Good question, with a stupid answer: I have all of 6 followers on my FF14 sideblog, and around 150 here. Let's go under the cut so they don't have to read a wall of text, unless they want to.

When you look at and compare FF14's villains, you can see a very clear change, no doubts thanks to the change in main writers. ARR Gaius and Thordan are more or less two-bit villains - Gaius's memeable iconic Praetorium speech gives us insight into how fascists try to justify themselves but little into Gaius's actual personality, while all Thordan gets as far as depth of character is an NPC in a sidequest remarking that he wasn't always a bad person and was probably doing what he thought best for his nation. Nidhogg is a little more understandable, since revenge is a relatable motivation to anyone who's been hurt by others. In Stormblood, Zenos and Yotsuyu are both presented as deserving of pity even as they do terrible things. Come Shadowbringers and Endwalker though, the story takes a greater interest on why villains like Emet-Selch and Elidibus do the things they do, and the player is allowed more options to try to understand them and see how similar they are to the WoL. Hell, Hermes and the Endsinger are barely "villains" at all, with the level of sympathy the story shows them.

What I'm getting to here is that Zenos, with half his arc in Stormblood and the rest in Endwalker, is sort of caught in the middle of this shift. He played the role of the rival character in Stormblood really well, but come Endwalker, he's standing on a stage full of heroes and villains with grand causes and deep motivations, as the guy whose sole motivation is fighting for pleasure.

It seems he's not unaware of this contrast himself - when Jullus confronts him for ruining Garlemald for no good reason, he retorts with "Would you be happier had I a good reason?" Zenos makes no attempt to justify his own actions and doesn't care that his reason seems incomprehensible and unforgivable to others. Yet in that same cutscene Alisaie hits him with the fact that if he keeps living solely for pleasure, he'll die alone. When next we see Zenos, he's alone at the Royal Menagerie waxing philosophical about what he really sought in the battle with the WoL.

See, what really motivates Zenos isn't just the thrill of battle - this guy has gotten Battle High and the joy of human connection confused. Really.

Even before he gets so perturbed by the idea of dying alone, there's other suggestions, like his proposal of friendship to the WoL when they fought in Stormblood, and then later his dying words in which he explains that he never understood others - at his core, he's just lonely. I know there's an official side story that tells it, but you don't need to know the exact details to glean that he had some sort of tragic backstory. Sad, but not a surprise, considering he's the prince of the Garlean Empire, raised to take the throne and continue the Empire's legacy of violence.

At his core, he's a very lonely person, but also a thing of violence, raised using violent methods for the purpose of causing more violence. Violence is how he lives and breathes - the only way he gets any sort of connection with others in a world of hurting and being hurt is the brief connection warriors dueling as equals can sometimes find. Don't deny that this sort of connection exists - FF14 is great at making fights that are both fun and tell a story. Hence, why he goes crazy for the WoL, but also refers to them as "friend". In their fights, he senses (or thinks he senses) similarity between him and them. Beneath all the madness is a pure, genuine joy in seeing the self reflected in the other...but he also instantly gets on the train to projection-town, population Zenos, and assumes the WoL is exactly like him, ignoring or failing to notice that they also fight for deeper meanings. The worst part is, he doesn't even notice that what he's actually seeking in fighting them is connection until Alisaie's aforementioned callout.

So he goes and angsts for a while, then turns into a dragon again and flies across the universe to help us kick the Endsinger's tail feathers, then issues his challenge for that duel he'd been longing for. But what's changed is that he starts with a question - "Such pleasures you sought for their own sake, and for no other reason, is that not so?". Dying after the duel, he's full of questions too: "Was your life a gift or a burden? Did you find fulfillment?" Alisaie's suggestion that he'd die alone actually spurred him to realize what he actually sought in the WoL, and now he's asking all these questions in an attempt to, for the first time in his life, genuinely connect with another human being.

The questions aren't important just because they're a sign of how Zenos has changed in Endwalker - they're actually the thematic heart of Endwalker! ARR may have had "Answers" as it's theme, but EW is the expac of questions. Namely the biggest question of all: What is the meaning of life? Different characters have different answers to that, leading to the grand-scale symbolic conflict being the Endsinger's despair - her belief that there is no meaning in life - versus whatever reasons the WoL chooses to live for, left, as always, up to player interpretation.

When you look deeper, Zenos isn't actually as out-of-place in the symbolic conflict as he first seems. His depressed worldview - that metaphor about drowning in a swamp again - seems to align with the Endsinger's view about life being meaningless. But he aids the WoL in defeating her. In that way he serves as part of the answer to her question about the meaning of life. He may have resented life at times, but he still found meaning in chasing pleasure. Not the strongest or most beautiful reason to deny oblivion, perhaps, but it did enable him to help the WoL triumph. I think of Zenos's philosophy as being connected to the concept of "Amor Fati"...largely because this quote explaining it sounds like something he'd say, or at least agree with on some level:

"and if our soul has trembled with happiness and sounded like a harp string just once, all eternity was needed to produce this one event—and in this single moment of affirmation all eternity was called good, redeemed, justified, and affirmed."

So he does have a meaningful role in Endwalker, as the "Amor Fati" against the Endsinger's "Memento Mori". I think that in this the story shows that his reason for living, while somewhat shallow, is not necessarily a morally wrong thing in and of itself (setting aside for a second all the people he hurt in his pursuit of that). It's just that, since it is a lonely pursuit that denies everything except for his target, it still feels empty. The core of the counterargument against the Endsinger's despair is that both pleasure and fulfillment are necessary to live a meaningful life in a meaningless universe, and that's why Zenos is here in Endwalker. Why he even exists in the story in the first place.

Even if you're one of the people who deeply hates Zenos...well, you probably wouldn't have read this whole thing if you did, but I still think it's important to read into characters you dislike, because every character in a story is written for a reason. Plus, trying to understand even their worst enemies is one of the WoL's key traits as of ShB and EW. With his last breaths, Zenos was trying to understand the WoL too - carrying this understanding of him with you as we move into our next adventures is the least you can do for your "friend".

#ff14 #ffxiv #zenos yae galvus #zenos viator galvus #endwalker #ffxiv meta #endwalker spoilers #meta posting on my art blog #god why did i spend my afternoon on this all this proves is that I need to be put in an English class again purely for enrichment purposes