considering the general conceit of this vague AU wanted to frame it as if it were a cutscene with a Big Damn Hug between the mc and heroine like in some of the normal mainline final fantasy endings...

thancred: haha hasn't everyone thought about horrifically killing themself and everyone around them once in a while
the rest of the scions:

the amount of yelling about DT that's still just people saying with their whole chest that the problem with it is that it didn't make them personally feel powerful and important enough lol

and in a lot of ways i think XIV *itself* is still trying to have more of a story than a power fantasy and reward things other than feeling like the Coolest Most Powerful Guy Ever, but whenever they try to do that even a little bit so many people get mad lmao

INTERESTING... it's weird because even with games where i'm playing as the character i really don't enjoy projecting myself or my own desires into stories at all, so i like silent protagonists best when there's still an interesting framework to tease out of the text about who they are

it's always interesting for me playing rpgs because i don't really play them as a power fantasy at all, i just want to see an interesting story (one of my favorite things about 2.X is that it ends with taking a massive L) and sometimes it seems like the median MMO player considers this illegal

it sucks that it feels like there's no room anymore for them to like... try something and not do perfectly on the first shot but iterate on it in the future, either

tragic how often that's a relevant response to "they should do (thing that would obviously be good narrative and/or game design)"

thank you for making an enrichment corner it's scary out there

BABYGIRL...