

lily!
[FFXIV] the very first hour i'm back in this game and i spend literally an hour futzing around with the adventurer plate


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yep...

i stay silly :3
I mean why wouldn't you the adventurer plate is the single best thing added to the game

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oh! okay! i'm going to beat you to a pulp now!


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as i'm thinking of how tai would react to this and knocking the rust off her voice

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i'm realizing that in a lot of ways sevka is an older, more tired tai with a lot more self-control

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still that simmering anger but it's tainted more by bitterness and "why is it always ME" even moreso than tai

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wait how much leveling have you been doing that you're at level 77

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just fucking around with roulettes

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and also like

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not really doing anything with any classes other than drk

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it is my Forever Main

oh i'm scary
if you do leveling roulette every day on one job while plugging through MSQ it's very easy to get a full expansion ahead on levels

oh i'm scary
I did most of Heavensward in Stormblood glams

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ewrhui i gave up and leveled an alt class like halfway thru shb

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yeah and i wasn't super dedicated to roulettes anyways

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most of these came for getting expac-current tomestone gear

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i admit i am not fond of people going "well think about how HE feels" when jifuya went "lol sure" AT YOTSUYU'S DAD SELLING HER INTO A BROTHEL???

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LIKE

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yotsuyu has done some AWFUL things but framing it like he's the one who's Hurt By Her is ticking me off

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i made my adventurer plate look like a fuckin, garlean info docket on the eikon-slayer, all magitech and it looks cool

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This dude suuuuucks.

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: oh that's fucking rad

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But that demonstrates the deeply rooted flaw with Doman culture. He immediately saw Yotsuyu was dead inside and didn't belong in such a place, but did it anyway because "she'd sell." He admits it all and yet, to them, what the man did isn't "reprehensible."

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and yeah tai is absolutely thinking "what if i beat him up. what if i just roughed him up a little bit when no one looked. cracked his ribs" during this entire conversation

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a big thematic thing for her in stormblood in particular is that

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being a dark knight means a lot to tai

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Yotsuyu held every Doman as guilty by association and... She kind of had a point. Even if what she ended up doing was horrible.

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and her having this deep, deep well of anger and bitterness that could really blow up into something nasty if she didn't control it and channel it through her darkside and found some hope in some things

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i'll screencap mine after dungeon

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and like. i'm NOT going to start the zenos argument here okay. this is just what she thinks. but she was able to understand zenos on some level because she did feel a little bit alienated herself because it was always on her shoulders and she was the only one who could do it

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so seeing someone who was also "the only one who could do it," even though he turned "could" into a lot of things that he did that he DEFINITELY SHOULDN'T HAVE, kinda hit her

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so she absolutely accepted him but at the same time prepared to fight him

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with no hesitation

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tai's whole THING in stormblood was looking at these villains and feeling the weight of their darkness and shouldering it on herself because not a lot of other people would make that attempt

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and then doing what had to be done anyways

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even as she remembered the people they COULD'VE been

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yotsuyu especially is like

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with yotsuyu tai felt the same exact hate in her eyes that she felt on the night of the bloody banquet when she thought to herself "i could kill everyone here without a thought. the syndicate. the bystanders. the braves. everybody who let this happen"

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which is sort of a bitterness that she struggled with for a long time

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and then seeing that but a THOUSAND times more intense in yotsuyu

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once again tai took it on herself to shoulder that burden

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even as she knew what had to be done and had no hesitation in doing it

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afterwards i think she held like

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a small, private funeral ceremony for both yotsuyu and zenos

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because as despicable as they both were nobody else would mourn them

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nobody else would understand them

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and in tai's view as much as it's a dark knight's job to punish those who think themselves above justice, it's also their job to understand people who commit grave injustices because of darkness that was inflicted on their hearts

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anyways i'm going to grab dinner now lmao

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still go that tai brainjuice

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oh i love her