Thread by @crazelivetweets

5.4 time babey

so for some reason my FPS is Trash tonight so I'm only gonna be doing a little bit of game unless that improves soon

"tis a strange feeling to be possessed of my young body again. even a counting for the crystalization, I do not recall ever being so light and spry."

god I have so many Thoughts about this #cltffxiv

oh his soul being denser makes sense since he's two souls overlaid, but also isn't that what elidibus said when he vibechecked him? which never really got.... followed up on. hm

#cltffxiv

"though I but theorize, perhaps your strong shared desire [for aelfgar and ardbert to merge their souls] made it possible."

ahhh hhhhhhhh #cltffxiv

oh okay so he's like "weird, my soul shouldnt be denser."

but the thing is it was already denser

20 bucks says this is actually a plot point #cltffxiv

:( has my cat boy not suffered enough. can he please simply take a backseat in endwalker and Just Vibe. #cltffxiv

oh the implication is. it's because he survived a rejoining

yikes............. #cltffxiv

"g'raha tia's is an outfit suited for traveling, while his weapon uses a piece of the crystal tower as a focus." ahhhh.... he can still take a piece of himself with him & use it for his magics..... tataru I'm love u

also giving him explicitly traveling clothes... <3 #cltffxiv

alisaie hot girl lean... yess #cltffxiv

"IF POSSIBLE I SHOULD LIKE TO THANK ESTINIEN IN PURPOSE FOR THE HELP HE LENT US WHILE WE WERE AWAY," ahhhhh!!! HE WANTS TO SEE HIS BOYFRIEND.... IT'S BEEN OVER A YEAR!! #CLTFFXIV

"until such time as we meet again, I shall ever pray for his well-being." alphinaud the fucking. army wife vibes of that sentence. ur killing me #cltffxiv

"in my capacity as [g'raha's] senior, I'm obligated to train him as well, heh heh heh..."

alisaie ahdjshdkshsal NO HAZING THE CATBOY #cltffxiv

"they're smitten with the newcomer, the both of them! but I won't let him come between us! hmmm, if he were to join us, on the other hand..." HEY. THATS /MY/ CAT. #cltffxiv

if aenor proportioned him, ta'rhiki would just be happy raha's making friends shdhskshak

aelfgar, on the other hand, who did not care about this whole love rectangle situation before now, is like. very suddenly Eminating Vibes. #cltffxiv

AHHH ISILDAURE WENT TO GO SEE HIS BOYFRIEND.... "I DON'T THINK I'VE EVER SEEN ISILDAURE SO ALIVE AS WHEN HE SET OUT" 😭😭

I LOVE... THE ELDER GAYS.... #CLTFFXIV

alright last but NOT least... Son Boy

"your victory is an event to be rejoiced, as are all victories over the ascians. yet if truth be told, I find my heart is torn. for as much suffering as he has caused, elidibus saw fit to save my life..."

aww sweetie...... #cltffxiv

sometimes a guy is evil but he's also ur dad & u are absolutely allowed to feel conflicting emotions!!! #cltffxiv

oh I just thought about aelfgar's neice coming in & bugging unukalhai all the time to cheer him up & also go on adventures while calling him cousin.... cute!!! #cltffxiv

unukalhai & aelfgar's niece having their next gen adventures with their friends muffled in the distance #cltffxiv

I watched yashahime tonight, can u tell fhskdhalajalahfks #cltffxiv

well i can't fucking level trusts with 20 fps so uuhhhh I guess let's see how far I can go in msq before I hit a solo duty #cltffxiv

"thou requirest another to imbue thine ammunition, dost thou not?"

ahhh...... :(

#cltffxiv

LYSE!!!!! #CLTFFXIV

AGDJFFHLAHDLA G'RAHA LIKE WOW.... LYSE HEXT.... JUST LIKE IN MY HISTORY BOOKS!!

god this NERD i LOVE HIM #cltffxiv

lyse like whomst... the fuck #cltffxiv

oh right he's specifically an archon, he has the tattoos and everything. aufhskduak. I thought he was just a son of saint coinacht?? HOW DID NONE OF THEM? RECOGNIZE HIM??? #cltffxiv

also I love that krile still considers lyse an archon even tho technically yda was the archon. but she held the job for years!! #cltffxiv

he's gonna be like that about every important npc we meet huh. I wanna see him meet like, raubahn, and faint.

OR.

GOD.

ANYWAY FROM ISHGARD EHFKSHDKAGSKASHALA.

HIS FAVORITE BOOK..... #CLTFFXIV

aw alphinaud hyping g'raha.... my boys!!! #cltffxiv

AW HIS LITTLE NERVOUS FLUSTER WHEN ALPHINAUD PRAISES HIM........ WOW........ #cltffxiv

"I'd be lying if I said I understood half of it"

i can't rly make a lyse no braincells joke bc TO BE FAIR.

YEAH.

#cltffxiv

URIANGER BEING THE ONE WHO RESPONSE WHEN LYSE ASKS FOR CLARIFICATION. AJFHFKSHSLA. URIANGER. U BINCH.

lyse: ...I'll take that as a yes.

sjfhskshal YEAH MOOD #CLTFFXIV

y'shtola I love u but are ur seriously going to mention how we have to kill zodiark bc he's a primal.... and ONLY zodiark...

i know krile & I are tempered but what's YOUR excuse #cltffxiv

oh aelfgar looking off to the side and remembering hydaelyn & zodiark in harmony...

wow. I can't believe they made "the scions say shit that Aelfgar Firmly Doesn't Agree With But He Tactfully Says Nothing" canon #cltffxiv

especially since it's his hardest to integrate character trait most of the time fhskdhslshal #cltffxiv

(so many of Aelfgar's dialogue choices is him saying his internal monologue and I have to mentally be like. OBVIOUSLY, HE WOULD NOT SAY THIS OUT LOUD.) #cltffxiv

"I want to find a way to cure the tempered" ahdhdksshak YEAH THAT

WOULD BE A GOOD IDEA

GIVEN THAT. YKNOW. [GESTURES AT THE WOL] Bitches Be Tempered #cltffxiv

I think it's super sweet alisaie specifically wants to cure the tempered to help ga bu #cltffxiv

like. are we, the warrior of light also tempered? yes. but alisaie is like. Babies First

and u know what

she's right

#cltffxiv

alisaie: aelfgar do u wanna come or do u wanna go to a stuffy politics meeting

aelfgar: what meeting

alisaie: lmao. that's what I thought

#cltffxiv

GRAHA INVITING HIMSELF ALONG. AHHH. g'raha just sticking himself to the wol and peaking out nervously at everyone else. like when u go to a party with a friend and u don't rly know anyone else there. #cltffxiv

oh the shot of both alisaie & aelfgar staring at g'raha in shock with the whole. Shoujo Flowers Vibes Of It All.

"PRAY ENJOY YOUR TIME TOGETHER WITH YOUR HERO"

Y'SHTOLA DON'T CALL HIM OUT LIKE THIS.

#CLTFFXIV

God. I love his LITTLE FLUSTERED STUTTER.... he's so good. he's so good!!!

fuck!!!!! #cltffxiv

"when y'shtola is about, one cannot afford even the slightest slip..." ahfhdjsAHDHSKDHALA

g'raha like "I cannot hide ANYTHING from her"

i cannot believe. he rly is just tagging along bc he adores u so much. AND THEY TEASE HIM. ABOUT IT. #cltffxiv

I think it's 100% possible to play ffxiv and not date g'raha, but the narrative is still 100% that HE'S in love with YOU. i genuinely don't know how you'd read it otherwise. #cltffxiv

like, yes, hero worship or Literal Diety Worship, but that doesn't explain.... so many of his line delivery choices. or also. yknow. [gestures at most of 5.3] #cltffxiv

oh I just noticed his littol barrettes.... why is this cat SO cute #cltffxiv

hey tataru do u have a fuckin airship now. it would not surprise me #cltffxiv

TATARU HAS AN AIRSHIP NOW

"it's the scions airship"

yeah and tataru runs the scions, ergo,

#cltffxiv

"I built her as a company project"

YOU BUILT HER?? YOU BUILT HER? TATARU????

#CLTFFXIV

wow. does wedge know about this. has he proposed yet. I'm dying please.

if ffxiv gave us one (1) exception to the romance rule I would literally beg for wedge/tataru

everyone else is doing perfectly fine in their offscreen kissing but wedge needs to CONFESS!!!! #cltffxiv

tataru is such a best girl tho so. unfortunately. rip to wedge. #cltffxiv

THE ANNALS DID NOT EXAGGERATE THE MANY TALENTS OF THE SCIONS FSBLED COINKEEPER... OH..... TATARU ALSO WENT DOWN IN HISTORY. I'M GENUINELY CRYING. #CLTFFXIV

when exactly did history diverge do u think b/c I think it would be funny if g'raha just said "oh! tataru! leader of the scions!" and we all went "what" bc we never technically voted that one time #cltffxiv

rolls up to ala mhigo all "oh wow it's raubahn!!! the famous leader, general, and uldahan consort" #cltffxiv

tataru like "I built an entire ship while u were gone. sorry I didn't get my pilots license tho :/" like tataru pls

tatatu omnicrafter is so powerful #cltffxiv

oh g'raha loves to fly.... "there is nothing so exhilarating as feeling the wind on ur face as the horizon unfolds before you..."

trapping him in that tower was so Awful I'm so glad he's out shdishdksdgakpa #cltffxiv

the great ancient allegan.... Owen #cltffxiv

"I forgot--you already have a suitable means of transport, don't you."

okay so canonically then

aelfgar flies them over in his car sjdhsksjakshal

he's showing off #cltffxiv

"very well! it would be my honor to come third!" g'raha... ilu #cltffxiv

also, oh hey, he stands like a miqo'te male again, with his hands and everything. so. I guess it was literally a deliberate learned behavior he did specifically to throw me off in that one scene #cltffxiv

THAT SCENE WITH G'RAHAS HAND DID MORE TO CONFUSE ME & TORPEDO MY DOES CRYSTAL EXARCH IS G'RAHA TIA THEORY THAN ANYTHING ELSE IN SHADOWBRINGERS FHDJKAKAHSKA #CLTFFXIV

"ugh, you remember that?"

g'raha, you just repeated yourself word for word

i feel like the better question is, "YOU remember that??"

that was over 100 years ago for u

#cltffxiv

God. [fondly] he's so obsessed with you #cltffxiv

"why are u so great at finding things?" quest markers babey #cltffxiv

oh right technically g'raha is a prince

so much Stuff has happened I almost forgot that bit ahdjshakaklaahal #cltffxiv

I like that they're like. "get out at the first sign of trouble" like this isn't the bitch that UNMADE TIME and YOINKED US ACROSS A RIFT and can play any role in trusts dhsjksldhksal

but, I suppose, notably, that was The Crystal Exarch.

#cltffxiv

ahh... alisaie scene!!! reminding us that she did indeed graduate college at 16 & she is, technically, a genius #cltffxiv

"my [senior thesis] about the combat applications of aether" alisaie ilu

i love that everything about rdm alisaie Makes Sense #cltffxiv

oh oof Alphinaud's thesis being about how sharlayan has a duty to help others...God i love him. he truly said "fuck u all I'm out" #cltffxiv

"for what it's worth, MY thesis concerned the allagan civilization as depicted in folklore" oh my God. of course g'raha's a history major, that makes so much sense dhfjdkfhslshdlgskala

#cltffxiv

I probably already knew that but I remember very little about crytow. we're all lucky I remembered his little opening speech bit earlier #cltffxiv

"a thesis was required to earn my archons mark. my peers at the students of baldesion convinced me to write one with the promise of unfettered access to forbidden tomes!"

oh okay so u can get an archons mark by writing a thesis. so the twins rly SHOULD have them #cltffxiv

(tbf I'm getting vibe that perhaps they gave g'raha an archons mark back in crytow without realizing it was a thing for specifically the louisoux squad, and thus this is them trying to fix that plot hole.

I'm still right tho.) #cltffxiv

"good gods, an archon's thesis... i shutter to imagine the work involved."

OH??? OKAY NVM MAYBE ITS JUST. THE MARK OF SPECIFICALLY GETTING UR PHD #cltffxiv

the near-windows sound on start up.... #cltffxiv

"GUEST IDENTIFIED AS: MEMBER OF THE ROYAL FAMILY. I AM AT YOUR LOST HUMBLE SERVICE, YOUR HIGHNESS." nice NICE nice nice #cltffxiv

I just think it's just fun to collar a cat and also half-jokingly call him ur highness in bed. congrats to aelfgar #cltffxiv

oh... the crytow music........ #cltffxiv

oh are his eyes gonna go back to normal at some point? huh. #cltffxiv

why are they gesturing dramatically while--ALISAIE.

P L E A S E

#CLTFFXIV

alisaie I'm begging u please tell me ur password to things isn't password

#cltffxiv

KNOW UR PLACE, HANDMAIDEN.

wow. alisaie is gonna murder g'raha huh. #cltffxiv

they try 3 passwords and alisaie just goes "okay. time to hit it with a sword" aifjsjskshdka I love her

5 seconds ago she was like "here's the thesis I did to graduate college at 16" & now she's like "the password is either password or punching". she HAS the range #cltffxiv

Cid & G'raha reunion....

I'm getting emotional thinking about how it was cid's legacy that eventually brought him out of the tower & sent him back... God....... #cltffxiv

the twinning is Good #cltffxiv

"we've made the respite cozier than ever. you're going to love it!"

oh yeah?? DID YOU TURN ON THE LIGHTS? MAYBE??? #CLTFFXIV

genuinely I have to wonder if my game glitched again and the lighting didn't load in properly bc that scene was SO creepy for no reason #cltffxiv

if that was indeed a lighting glitch, I need u guys to know it was PITCH BLACK and we just HAD A CONVO IN THE DARK with our friends bodies dimly illuminated. like a fuckin morgue at night. mcjesus. #cltffxiv

I love that krile just calls him raha. krile's "everyone's auntie" energy is once again off the charts #cltffxiv

awww. g'raha & cid reunion 🥲 #cltffxiv

"I was under the impression you'd be slumbering awhile longer."

"oh, I would've been--had you not fulfilled your promise."

AHHHHHHHH. TWINNING GOOD. #CLTFFXIV

I love how Cid learns his post apocalypse self learns how time travel works and he's like "wild. well, that means I don't have to do it then" ajdhskdbAJABDKAHSAK

#cltffxiv

finding out u have the potential to make groundbreaking discoveries and just going "... anyway" iconic. visionary. a lesson in how just bc we have the ability to do something "impressive", that does not mean we should be required to do it

#cltffxiv

also something something the knowledge that that Cid only figured that out via desperation & grief & the world literally ending so like perhaps that's not the sort of crunch pressure Cid wants to put himself in fhskssblaal #cltffxiv

"would you care to do the honors, your highness?"

"I would, milady."

listen. g'raha & alisaie (and g'raha/alisaie). is so cute.

#cltffxiv

oh ye old allagan Owen was cute. huh. #cltffxiv

"heightened affinity with earth aspected magics, as well as preturnatural levels of endurance."

so ours is.... heightened affinited with light aspected magics (like say the ability to hold 4 lightwardens in ur body) & The Echo Boost after u wipe a trial? #cltffxiv

"one cannot help but wonder what motivated lor amon's decision"

because he was a huge dick doing unethical moon dragon experiments. g'raha. u were there for that

#cltffxiv

craze write even a SINGLE tweet without a typo challenge #cltffxiv

rereading these threads is so embarrassing lmao. i knwo I'm dyslexic but yikes yknow #cltffxiv

I love how every single time u talk to anyone even tangentially relevant to estinien they're like "have u seen him? he never returns my calls. :(" ajfhskshsla ESTINIEN PICK UP UR PHONE & CHECK UR VOICE MAIL I STG

#cltffxiv

aww aelfgar looks so Excited about the cute for tempering plan.... we don't get happy/excited aelfgar shots in cutscenes that often. He Deserves This #cltffxiv

for once, explaining something to someone doesnt necessitate the Grim Serious Face... #cltffxiv

aelfgar & aymeric must be how every person who doesn't do the more egregious wolnpc relationships must feel.

aelfgar, carefully peeling himself away from the conversation: haha. yeah. see u around. #cltffxiv

"I should've just done what you did and asked for help" the alisaie leveilleur story

I love her but she is such a lone wolf whrjskshakahal. alphinaud scrambling after her to make sure she's Okay #cltffxiv

except of course the one time she had to save HIS ass--hey did they change cid's VA?? what???? #cltffxiv

oh okay I looked it up and it's the same guy he just sounds like he needs 5 throat lozenges. :((((

ffxiv do Not contribute to the horrible working conditions for VAs challenge... hopefully it's just COVID mic issues or s/t

#cltffxiv

THERE HE IS

NEROOOOOO #CLTFFXIV

"you seem surprised to see me!"

oh because omega was optional so if u just did msq this might be the first time since.... fuck, was it crytow?

& even that didn't become required until after 5.3 appaz

anyway get rammbroes in here & the gang will TRULY be back together #cltffxiv

"I AM RELIABLY INFORMED THAT GARLOND AND I ARE DESTINED TO UNRAVEL THE SECRETS OF TRAVEL NOT ONLY ACROSS DIMESIONS, BUT THROUGH TIME."

HERES
HOW
CIDNERO
AUTOMATON
SON
COULD
STILL
WIN

#CLTFFXIV

God. they're so married. UNBEARABLE. poor one out for every single ironworks employee.

except Jesse who absolutely did this on purpose and is living for it

#cltffxiv

Jesse out here purposefully capitalizing on homoerotic rivalry (bc they're both more productive & liable to stay on task if it involves Beating Each Other.) truly every member of the ironworks is an innovator in their field. #cltffxiv

speaking of cidnero at work

this is them

https://mobile.twitter.com/exaltiora/status/1459640904952823815?t=A4DseI6bXFyG_TgMacknPQ&s=19

I love when final fantasy reminds us its a scifi but especially when it involves "waiting for the super computer to process data" #cltffxiv

WHFHSKDHAL WHAT

HE MEMORIZED IT BY LOOKING AT IT FOR 5 SECONDS????

WHDHDHDGSJSGSKAHSKAJA???#CLTFFXIV

... does g'raha. have an eidetic memory. and that just... never came up #cltffxiv

... well I guess "read thousands of history books & then learned to unwrite history" was a clue

also got a PhD at 24

#cltffxiv

"I can't help but feel for my counterpart in the ironworks"

the absolute sheer power if tataru & jesse ever meet... Unstoppable

#cltffxiv

ohhhh coultenet is like "hoary wants to fight g'raha like he did u that one time. I fear history is about to repeat itself."

honestly

the idea of sitting from the sidelines sharing a drink with coultenet while my boyfriend beats up his boyfriend is SUCH a lovely image #cltffxiv

hey if this doesn't work I'm gonna cry real tears

alisaie cares So Much about ga bu!!! /i/ care so much about ga bu!!!

#cltffxiv

I'm not positive and DON'T quote me on this but I think they did legit make g'raha's hair longer in the back to showcase like... the passage of time. he was asleep for Awhile! he hasn't had a haircut in years!

that's why he's gotta wear hairclips now fhskfhska

#cltffxiv

is g'raha aware master matoya is a real person who exists & is alive in this world

wait yes he must be he's a sharlayan and she's like Famous dhdhsksjal

he's just teasing y'shtola. wow. a brave man #cltffxiv

"however much we bicker, I have the greatest respect for my sister." 🥺#cltffxiv

1) g'raha, why didn't u like. help alisaie walk out. Jesus that was terrifying to watch

2) GA BU 😭😭😭😭😭😭

#cltffxiv

my phone keeps autocorrecting ga bu to ga by. he is indeed a ga baby it's true #cltffxiv

oh... the reason he didn't get fully tempered is bc he summoned him accidentally, out of love for his parents, so he was frozen in time with love for his PARENTS rather than for titan #cltffxiv

sometimes I doubt my theory that we're tempered bc the scions keep acting blissfully unaware that we're not and I'm like. well, I'M not a brain genius with a degree in magic school, so maybe idk what I'm talking about

but maybe that's giving them too much credit #cltffxiv

imposters syndrome at my fake job in a video game #cltffxiv

"SHE'S STUBBORN, HAUGHTY, ECCENTRIC, IRASCIBLE, LACONIC, ANNOYING--AND HER NAME IS MASTER MATOYA"

AHSBSHSJSHSKAABKA Y'SHTOLA

#cltffxiv

g'raha like "WOW MASTER MATOYA SHE'S SO FAMOUS.... she's absolutely gonna yell at me about the summoning thing huh" sjdhdlshskajaka

I love how terrifying that whole experience was and how dramatic and suspicious and it's just. g'raha's shitty aim. #cltffxiv

"I would not have minded extending my stay by a handful of years." y'shtola..... 💔 #cltffxiv

ALPHINAUD. WHY DID YOU EXPOSE Y'SHTOLA LIKE THAT. ABDHDJSKDHSLSHALAJAL #CLTFFXIV

g'raha: are u mad at me :(

matoya: I literally could not care less

g'raha: ...:DDD

#cltffxiv

have they always spelled magic as magick and I'm just tired, or are they using magick to signify this special allagan magick (& in which case, how are they doing that with their mouths, the pronunciation is exactly the same) #cltffxiv

ngl I think I might just be tired #cltffxiv

wow is Angelo gonna become a mom #cltffxiv

once again I stop msq 10 feet from a dungeon. my talents..... #cltffxiv

the fact that it's the twins giving g'raha the aether.... cute!!! I love them

#cltffxiv

in ta'rhiki's timeline it's ta tribe :')

(bc they're the ones who came on the clear. ta'rhiki missed doing dungeons with his family 😭😭😭) #cltffxiv

"craze that's 5 people not even including the twins" AND WHAT OF IT.

#cltffxiv

the twins are [results pending] on the ta tribe question btw. let's go to sharlayan and see exactly how much ta'rhiki fights their dad about it. #cltffxiv

"a mere drop in the ocean for the great sorceress matoya, I daresay."

goddddd

I love how much they both love each other and show it thru CONSTANT RIBBING...
matoya love her granddaughter SO MUCH. she's so PROUD & TOUCHED & if she said that out loud she'd probably Die #cltffxiv

"if I said yes, would it persuade you to treat me like an adult?"

"HAH!"

i love them!!! #cltffxiv

master matoya, famously reticent & reclusive, hates everyone, but the second her granddaughter is like [slams the door open] GRANDMA I NEED HELP she's like "ugh well I guess you've forced my hand...."

#cltffxiv

more accurately it's every time her granddaughter is in trouble lmao. she's just like. calmly yanks her out of it.

nothing has changed since she was a kitten crawling up the cupboards & getting into the dangerous potions

(and thus: HAH.)

#cltffxiv

"master matoya has returned to her cage with y'shtola. hm hm! they are as peas in a pod, are they not?"

1) alphinaud I love u
2) this dialogue not being voiced is killing me. I WANNA HEAR HIM MAKE THAT HM HM NOISE, WHATEVER THE FUCK THAT IS

#CLTFFXIV

"I heartily look forward to making the aquaintance of the rest, not least the Azure Dragoon!"

oh boy

oh... boy.

(also. [aelfgar voice] wow the azure dragoon huh. wonder what he's like.)

(aelfgar is the azure dragoon. to be clear. afbskaksha. ESTINIEN QUIT.)

#cltffxiv

[sorry quick inventory management break U KNOW HOW IT IS]

[returns 2 days later] inventory management be like that

anyway

"though summoning and tempered may serve to fuel the conflict, they are but symptoms of it."

HOLY SHIT. MERLWYB REDEMPTION ARK?? #cltffxiv

god. merlwyb is such a good character.

#cltffxiv

wait why is this scene not voiced. is it supposed to be voiced? I can hear music but not. words. #cltffxiv

oh hey I know about this stuff from rogue quests abfhdksjsla #cltffxiv

oh okay it's not voiced. thank God it wasn't a computer issue again. #cltffxiv

"as I went about making my inquiries, I chanced upon a shop that boasted a rather enticing selection of sweetmeats. perhaps we could take ga bu and g'raha there one day?"

i-

okay, alisaie???

#cltffxiv

I'm just. ga bu & g'raha specifically??? what is the implication there. are we going on a FAMILY OUTING???? alphinaud is standing RIGHT next to you, why isn't he invited. if it's a date why are we bringing the baby. I'm. what.

#cltffxiv

is g'raha implied to be MY baby??? in this scenario????? #cltffxiv

this game is deffo angling for some very cute alisaie/g'raha stuff but it's so fucking funny that g'raha very firmly has two hands and aelfgar Will get dragged along on any date.

#cltffxiv

alisaie like "alphinaud ur too much of a prissy fancie boy to pretend to be a black market dealer" sjdhdhjsks #cltffxiv

GOT BUSINESS WITH ME, CATBOY??

#CLTFFXIV

I am so glad g'raha canonically gets called a catboy to his face. God bless us EVERY one #cltffxiv

akdjfbdkdhsk HES SO BAD AT THIS??? G'RAHA. U SPENT 100 YEARS AS A LEADER OF A WHOLE CITY. GOD. you're SUCH a MESS. i adore him

he literally thinks of the exarch as A Role he played and has no idea how to be cool & confident as himself. ahdhskaha. babey.

#cltffxiv

HIS LITTLE WINKY THUMBS UP. shfuishdidhska. I love. miqo'te #cltffxiv

"GIVEN HOW LONG HE SPENT PLAYING THE CRYSTAL EXARCH, YOU'D THINK G'RAHA WOULD BE A BETTER ACTOR"

THATS WHAT IM SAYING ALISAIE!!!YOU GET IT!! #CLTFFXIV

it's bc he's nervous Performing in front of the WoL. he had 100 years to perfect the crystal exarch and he ABSOLUTELY scripted most of our conversations in his head beforehand. but now he's doing IMPROV and he's HORRIBLE whdhdjjska #cltffxiv

oh excellent. sicard hot #cltffxiv

holy shit are we FINALLY going to have CONSEQUENCES for our ACTIONS re: titan?????????

#cltffxiv

sicard's little smirk
fantastic.

#cltffxiv

they're literally doing the 10 paces & shoot duel at high noon. holy shit. #cltffxiv

their bullets hit each other. incredible. #cltffxiv

"if we ain't pirates, then what are we?"

"you're bloody idiots, is what you are."

ajdhdksjakajla

#cltffxiv

merlwyb, idly, "twould have been a shame to kill the boy" sndhjsshsdhs

she would've, absolutely, is the thing. I love merlwyb.

#cltffxiv

I like when eynzahr talks about mistbeard in the third person like I haven't don't multiple dungeons and quests where he is Blatantly Mistbeard

#cltffxiv

"ERE WE PROCEED, THERE IS SOMETHING YOU SHOULD KNOW."

OH?? ARE WE GONNA ADMIT TO OUR FAULTS TODAY? 40 LEVELS LATER?? #CLTFFXIV

"im happy to take that risk. besides, it's what tesleen would do." GOD. THEY WERE SO IN LOVE. ALISAIE... MY HEART...... #CLTFFXIV

ahdhsksjal. God. why do I always know the ta'rhiki response but there's never a good aelfgar response.

like

alisaie: I'm going to cure that priest or die trying
[ta'rhiki voice] I believe in you, alisaie!

#cltffxiv

alphinaud healer to protect his glass canon dps sister.... i love them SO much #cltffxiv

"if alisaie tries to sacrifice herself I AM going to call her a hypocrite to her face" wfjskshak God. g'raha & alisaie are so good. #cltffxiv

"I come before you to offer my sincerest apologies for the many wrongs committed by my people against you and yours."

i know this is part of a trap but also, God. the ways this game has come since arr.... #cltffxiv

za da's genuine horror at his actions while tempered..... sacrificing lives for his God.....

the anguish in his "why would I do such a thing"

stares at the ascians. I'm gonna. cry maybe.

#cltffxiv

ga bu........!

"for a long time, his voice filled my mind. it told me to do terrible things. awful, unspeakable, terrible things."

BIG! OOF! #cltffxiv

"what choice had we but to call upon the divine to rid ourselves of your tyranny?"

"none. and I do not blame you for it."

lies down. wow. if only 6 months ago craze could be here now. #cltffxiv

"THE FAULT LIKES WHOLLY WITH US."

MERWYB.

REDEMPTION.

ARC.

#CLTFFXIV

idk if I can like... fully articulate my feelings here

but basically this patch just... it's holding out a hand to me and going "yes. you were right. you had a right to be angry and we acknowledge that." #cltffxiv

anyway I love that since hw they really have been breaking down that black & white morality, standard fantasy fare perspective

and now it's all rly coming to a head. beautiful. #cltffxiv

"THERE WILL BE NO MORE MAN AND BEASTMAN. JUST THE CREW OF THE GRAT SHIP THAT IS VYLBRAND."

YES! YES!! !! YE S!!

#CLTFFXIV

aelfgar is literally just staring at merlwyb and going "oh. huh."

#cltffxiv

I like that the last two patches have involved a lot of aelfgar letting go of his anger & grief.

he.... he really isn't gonna be a drk main for much longer, narratively speaking, huh. #cltffxiv

well shit. the only other classes I have to 80 are dnc, gnb, & drg. none of those are narratively satisfying, aelfgar! the inconvenience of it all fhshdhsldhka #cltffxiv

dnc main aelfgar is very funny tho #cltffxiv

alright back to the cutscene

holy shit merlwyb

#cltffxiv

alright that was some Good Shit

now I gotta go put a pizza in the oven. o7

#cltffxiv

pizza: ovened

now that we've done some amends, let's get this endwalker plot kicked off, shall we

#cltffxiv

alright ala mhigo is a sanctuary so I'm gonna log off and eat dinner when my pizza finishes. BRB #cltffxiv

I love that fandaniel just. doesn't wear a mask sbdhdkshakhsak

#cltffxiv

again, why does he have Offbrand Ascian Clothing shfhjdkagsjsahdls. is he the ascian ugly duckling. please say yes #cltffxiv

YES. YES. YES. I'M RIGHT SHDHDKSHSKAAK #CLTFFXIV

oh my God he's just a suicidal maniac.

AHDGAHDHSKSHALDJAODHOA.

"I'M DIFFERENT, YOU SEE."

#CLTFFXIV

he's completely off the wall. I love it. it's SUCH a funny heel turn after all this talk of complicated morals & the genuine grief of the ascians

i hope he has layers but it would be SUPEREMLY funny if he didn't. #cltffxiv

asahi (bass boosted) as one of the main villains of endwalker.... god bless #cltffxiv

I'm so glad it's the same voice bc they're like. yeah. Asahi Again. but even worse. ahdhskshskahaoa #cltffxiv

"a certain, hmm, transcendant moment with you"

i cannot handle characters outright pointing out the homoerotic tension here. fhdjksshal fandaniel please

#cltffxiv

lunar bahamut.....

are we gonna fight asahi (ascian ver.) on the moon??? IS THAT WHY WE'RE GOING TO THE MOON????

#cltffxiv

[fandaniel voice] I'm weird. I'm a weirdo #cltffxiv

"though my new... or rather old... by which I mean young... Ahem. though this body has a good deal more stamina than the one I wore out in the First,"

there's. so much. going on. in that sentence. & it's not even over #cltffxiv

1) g'raha's genuine disconnect from. both his bodies ("the one I wore". Jesus)

2) I absolutely wanna talk about his stamina 👀

#cltffxiv

& also like. I genuinely think being half tower & tapping into his Ascian Powers™ fundamentally changed him in ways he wasn't even aware of. did he wake up and suddenly his sense of smell/hearing/etc was back to miqo'te levels and he was SO DISORIENTED for DAYS? #cltffxiv

this pertains more to ta'rhiki but I have to assume either g'raha never says ta'rhiki's name once or his voice has changed due to whatever crystal bullshit so he can't do the miqo'te silent hissing h thing which would immediately mark him as a miqo'te to ta'rhiki #cltffxiv

(the miqo'te silent hissing h thing) #cltffxiv

anyway sorry I just wanna talk about g'raha tia body dysmorphia at all times. apologies ahdjsldjal #cltffxiv

"ah, how good it feels to come home to the rising stones. it's here my heart feels lost at peace, and my mind the clearest." 😭😭 alphinaud.... #cltffxiv

krile: so, since it's kind of a dragon, I say we call on an expert

tataru: estinien!!

alphinaud, sweating: ESTINIEN?? do u guys know where he is??? haha NO REASON

#CLTFFXIV

I love krile & tataru, estinien wrangling squad #cltffxiv

I feel a little bad for the people who don't wanna date g'raha bc it's rly hard to excuse anything he says as.... they're not dating ahfjshdls #cltffxiv

but on the other hand I deserve this. suffer in explicit bisexual protagonist, cishet guys #cltffxiv

fandaniel's whole. skipping thing. it's so good. God. I do love a good cheerfully buckwild villain #cltffxiv

emet selch (low cal knockoff version) #cltffxiv

after going to all the effort to like. being zenos back and put him in his own body even after he tried to commit suicide I just think it would be narratively unsatisfying if he dies in endwalker. :/

#cltffxiv

ideally, since they establish he doesn't actually have any political motivations or aspirations & fandaniel is the one essentially running the empire rn, it's a simple matter of like. having the wol bribe him with fights so he'll destroy our enemies so His Friend lives #cltffxiv

or something. idk all I'm saying is zenos is actually very easy to domesticate & I think we should try that one first

#cltffxiv

"though I admit, I singed him a little in the process."

"and why do you tell me this? are you in such a hurry to die?"

SEE????????? POINT PROVEN #CLTFFXIV

WHY DOES FANDANIEL MOVE LIKE THAT. ITS SO FUNNY. I LOVE HIM??? #CLTFFXIV

fandaniel looked at how every single character in this game stands there and delivers their lines perfectly still before sometimes making a emote and went "nah. I will act like this is an early era silent film" #cltffxiv

and thank God for that #cltffxiv

zenos: friendship ended with samurai. now reaper is my new class in which to beat up my best friend #cltffxiv

aand that's a wrap on 5.4! #cltffxiv

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