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Call me Anne. Writer, gamer, old enough to know better. Not spoiler-free or SFW. 🔞

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Anne ☕ @anneapocalypse.bsky.social · Apr 7

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Morgan Aleghieri Art @morganaleghieri.bsky.social · 1d

Year of the OTP - October - Shibari
(Cessalie x Artoirel)

At your mercy 👀💦

#yotp25 #artoirel #artoilie #ffxiv #woltoirel

Final fantasy 14 fan art. Artoirel de fortemps is nude on a bed, and tied up with rope, shibari style. The artist's character Cessalie sits next to him, her hand on his stomach. He looks to her with heavy lidded eyes.

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Bianca @jellyfishflan.bsky.social · Jun 5

favorite AST #ffxiv #ffxivart

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Rystic, ultimate legend btw edition (7.3 spoilers) @transcatffxiv.bsky.social · Oct 18

minfilia forming the scions of the seventh dawn

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✨🌺 Kimberly L 🌺✨ @ Comms OPEN @kimikoyuki.bsky.social · 2d

✨Crystal Exarch

oh yea i managed to finish a drawing despite life kicking my butt lol hoping to turn it into a foil print :3c #ffxiv #graha #art #fanart

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Local Laloafell 🍞 @pinen.etheirys.social · 6d

Updated Pinen's arts and drafts corner u3u (pls don't expect her to draw well except when it comes to bread) #ppose

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Anne ☕ @anneapocalypse.bsky.social · 6d

I love the brush, it's so pretty!

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Hali ✨❄️ @starrysnowdrop.bsky.social · 6d

Finally got the aether pool step of the phantom weapons done and Hali has her glowy paint brush now!! Next I will be getting the star globe for AST and both of Hali’s canon jobs will have new glowy weapons!! 💚🩷

#ffxiv #gpose #glamour #lalafell #pictomancer #HaliAloke

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Anne ☕ @anneapocalypse.bsky.social · 6d

Love to see a woman be Complicated and Plot-Relevant.

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Anne ☕ @anneapocalypse.bsky.social · 6d

They're both very likable but with some thorny stuff just under the surface when you apply pressure to their characterization. Both well-intentioned parents who didn't do everything right. Both dedicated to leadership and a cause that at times might chafe against their familial relationships.

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Anne ☕ @anneapocalypse.bsky.social · 6d

Cahciua gets to be significant in the way that Gulool Ja Ja is significant. Parenthood is significant to who they are, but there's also a lot going on in their lives and histories that doesn't center around parenthood.

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Anne ☕ @anneapocalypse.bsky.social · 6d

Erenville's arc in DT is VERY centered around his relationship with his mother, while at the same time Cahciua has a whole story of her own that does NOT center exclusively around her motherhood. She's a complex and multilayered character who really feels like a PERSON, not just Tragic Dead Mom.

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Anne ☕ @anneapocalypse.bsky.social · 6d

This actually makes Cahciua a pretty significant departure I think, in a good way! While you could technically still put her in the "tragic figure" category I think that would be a huge disservice to significant role she plays in the story (as opposed to, say, Haurchefant's dead mom).

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Anne ☕ @anneapocalypse.bsky.social · 6d

FFXIV's default assumption is absolutely that characters have a mother and a father--followed by the default assumption that significant familial relationships are with fathers, while mothers are either invisible or tragic figures.

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Anne ☕ @anneapocalypse.bsky.social · 6d

And I'm not saying oh, every character needs to have a heterosexual nuclear family, and if there were a conscious departure from that it WOULD be interesting but let's be real, that is not what's happening here.

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Anne ☕ @anneapocalypse.bsky.social · 6d

See also: Minfilia's birth mom, the Countess de Fortemps, Haurchefant's mother, Aymeric's birth mother, Hien's mother, Ryne's mother, Wuk Lamat's mother, Zoraal Ja's mother...

In a few cases they're very briefly mentioned so we know they're dead, and in more cases they basically don't exist.

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Anne ☕ @anneapocalypse.bsky.social · 6d

Coming back to FFXIV, I'm realizing this is maybe even more of a pattern than I initially thought.

Mothers exist when they're story-relevant (F'lhaminn, Cahciua, Ameliance eventually) but it's MUCH more common to focus on fathers, in which case a mother is usually presumed dead or absent.

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Anne ☕ @anneapocalypse.bsky.social · 6d

Her mother also never appears onscreen in that season.

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Anne ☕ @anneapocalypse.bsky.social · 6d

Weiss Schnee's conflict is primarily with her father, with a focus on him to the extent that a lot of fans assumed her mother was dead.

It was kind of a shock when, several seasons in, Weiss finally goes home and there's a mention of her mother "drinking in the garden" or something like that.

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Anne ☕ @anneapocalypse.bsky.social · 6d

Oddly enough it reminds me a lot of the Schnee family in RWBY! (Who, incidentally, also all have white hair.)

(Spoilers follow, if anyone cares.)

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Anne ☕ @anneapocalypse.bsky.social · 6d

... which feels wildly out of characters for the Ameliance we meet in EW!

Feels very much like "We forgot that the twins might have a mother until the plot required her to exist," which... tracks, with this game, the way it often handles women and specifically mothers.

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Anne ☕ @anneapocalypse.bsky.social · 6d

I'm writing up a thing about "In Lousioix's Wake," the short story about the twins, but one thing that really sticks out is that their mother isn't mentioned at all, only their father and his conflict with their grandfather. In this story he sees them off to sea alone...

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Anne ☕ @anneapocalypse.bsky.social · 6d

And thinking about how having experienced all that shapes the Urianger we meet in ARR.

Anne ☕ @anneapocalypse.bsky.social · 6d

Idk it's something about seeing Urianger walking alongside this man he had such reverence for... watching prophecy come true before his eyes... waiting to see what comes of all their hopes and all their efforts... praying that it'll be enough.

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Anne ☕ @anneapocalypse.bsky.social · 6d

Watching Urianger and Louisoix walking up to the Mark of Thaliak together I'm just like "EEEEE" everytime.

"The light of hope waxeth ever more bright" gives me chills.

I know 1.0 was a bomb but there are Moments.

Anne ☕ @anneapocalypse.bsky.social · 6d

youtu.be/rVXD-9QkTXo?...

Living on a Prayer - FFXIV 1.0 Main Scenario Cutscenes

YouTube video by Ro-Play

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Anne ☕ @anneapocalypse.bsky.social · 6d

FF16 I don't know, but he's Teagan in the Dragon Age games!