I've taken some time to process everything that's happened, and really these are just my final thoughts. I hope you all stay well and safe, and please keep creating the things you love
GUYS
THERE’S CULTURAL CONTEXT TO WHY DIMITRI’S PSYCHOSIS GETS SO BAD & WHY HE EXHAUSTS ALL MEANS TO SAVE THOSE WHO DIED AT DUSCUR
Faerghus legends say that those who have regret go to the Underworld. Basically HELL
DIMITRI IS TRYING TO FREE HIS FAMILY/LOVED ONES FROM H E L L
Just recently found out that none of the gods in 5e commune with vampires or vampire spawn because they’re deemed unholy creatures so Astarion was praying during those 200 years desperate for someone to help and they just ignored him on purpose. Leave me alone I’m broken 🫠
I love how if you put real world countries over the map of FFXIV you’d have France in Ishgard, Japan in Kugane, China in Yanxia, India in Thavnair, etc…
And then the World of Darkness is just fcuking Italy.
this is the face of a woman who had a bunch of her characters killed off in the story which is the reason she took a larger role in writing MSQ in ShB and Endwalker and NOW HER BOY (G'RAHA) IS WINNING LIKE I'M REALLY SO HAPPY FOR HER
people think g'raha was "retconned" or whatever but to me it is BLISSFUL to see g'raha excited abt eating good food & going to new places with someone he loves after 100 years of deep despair thinking he had no future. for people with depression that rep of a happy future is HUGE
Byleth: the one all the lords want, the one all the students want to dance with, the most popular professor, their companion, their trusted confidant, the one who helps them survive even the deadliest of battles, can overcome any challenge
also byleth:
Guys... ever notice that Byleth is always on Dimitri’s right side?
what if she always likes to stand there because she knows he has a pretty big blind spot with the loss of his eye, and way, she can protect him if anything comes at him from a direction he can’t see
REMEMBER WHEN A COUPLE VALENTIONE DAYS AGO THE CRYSTAL EXARCH CRIED BECAUSE THE DELIVERY MOOGLES KEPT TRYING TO GET GIFTS TO G’RAHA IN THE TOWER BUT COULDNT FIND A WAY IN
Alois: I came here to buy an owl
Byleth: I don’t sell owls
Alois: someone told me that you did
Byleth: who
Alois:
Byleth:
Alois: i just heard one 🤪
Dimitri: BURSTING INTO LAUGHTER FROM AFAR
Still forever in love with how they drastically changed his appearance for every expansion but stopped after Shadowbringers and kept him the same for Endwalker. It’s like they went, “STOP!!!! HES REACHED MAXIMUM DADDYLANDER. HES PERFECT.”
I’m playing a game that isn’t out yet, where a boss fight made my PS5 overheat so much that it just turned off completely at the end of the fight. So if you guys plan on buying any new games in the near future for a day 1 PS5 make sure you clean it out thoroughly. 😂
SPOILER BAN LIFTED, SO HERE WE HAVE IT
ONE OF THE TOP TEN HOTTEST G'RAHA TIA MOMENTS OF ENDWALKER
G'raha is LITERALLY the hero he has always wanted to become. TO THE LETTER
If you have friends that are acting strange after coming back from Fanfest, be careful!!! They may not have turned away from Assimilation on their way out of Vegas!
we talk a lot about the Warrior's godlike strength but what I cannot stop thinking about how G'raha, a 5'2.7 man is quite literally SO STRONG that he shield bashed a Blasphemy unconscious with no momentum???????? JUST RAW DETERMINATION???
If you see a post about a character you don't like and the person making the post is talking about how they really like them can we normalize not commenting how much you hate that character and absolutely stomping on that person's fun. Make your own post.
[G'raha voice] my dearest friend, I am in the... *coughs* aisle to fetch what you require. What size is your... I mean— that is to say, what size do you... *clears throat*
Twelve Forfend. Would you be so kind as to tell me what size, my dear?
CAN YOU BELIEVE ANYONE WOULD WAKE THIS SWEET BABY UP FROM HIS SLEEP AND FORCE HIM TO RUN AROUND A FVCKING MOUNTAIN ALL NIGHT IN HEAVY ARMOR JUST BC HE’S PHYSICALLY CAPABLE OF IT DUE TO HIS CREST
GILBERT IS A NUT CASE
sometimes i wonder what ishikawa's reaction is to so many people pairing their own ocs with her ocs like did you know that 54899 dudes are kissing your catboy g'raha tia as we speak? including mine? is that okay with you
I love how the selling point for Astarion is hot cocky vampire but what you actually get is man with deep sadness and a lot of realistically written trauma who is also still a hot cocky vampire. Everyone wins
Still absolutely SO MAD about how G’raha ultimately sacrificed 300 whole years of his life to get the Warrior onto the First, had to link his body to the Tower which consumed him, & failed 5 whole times before he finally managed it
and this MF GETS THERE BY HEEHEEHOHO CHANCE 😭
All I have to say about “FFXIV best gaming community” is “we have very real issues with racism/homophobia/other hate that we should absolutely criticize” & “this community has many kind people who look out for each other” are conversations that can & should exist at the same time
Jonathan Bailey as G’raha Tia. René Zagger as Emet-Selch. No one else in the world could have done these roles better. The casting was literally perfect.
this is a niche tweet but if your WoL as Azem was the lover of Hades, when both the Exarch and Emet-Selch are petitioning the WoL to see things their way and fight for their cause, Shadowbringers literally just becomes Phantom of the Opera
this is so funny to me like imagine your most hated enemy is sitting there on a froggy chair leisurely fishing in front of your salad and you are unable to attack him
does it fvck anyone else up that despite EVERYTHING—his psychosis, not wanting to be around anyone, believing Byleth was dead, and knowing that it was going to be swarming with Imperial soldiers, how he’s probably starving—
DIMITRI STILL RETURNS TO GARREG MACH AS HE PROMISED.
can we talk about how Dimitri is literally more surprised (HIS EYES ARE MUCH WIDER) finding out that Byleth actually loves him back than finding out that THEY WERE EVEN ALIVE IMMEDIATELY AFTER TIMESKIP???????
What does that say about his sense of self-worth??????? IM HURTING
I’ll never stop thinking about how G’raha was a social outcast in his own tribe bc of his eye only to flee to Sharlayan as a refugee & devote himself so fully to the pursuit of his lineage’s history so he could find a place to belong in doing the ONE thing Sharlayan was known for