Critically-acclaimed adventures of Silas the Red Mage

[erikavonkaiser]

and also Aymeric is VERY GAY for the WoL I realize I'm not a very reliable or objective source when it comes to these things but you have to trust me

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Kicking and screaming as security drags me out: OKAY BUT LET ME MAKE MY CASE --

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He literally asks you out for a drink, and obviously this can be interpreted however you/your WoL wants to interpret it, but they deliberately had him be nervous and a little awkward about it -- he loudly goes OH AND ONE MORE THING and then realizes he was loud and backpedals into going ummmmm sooooo you wanna get a drink?????

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okay so I fully acknowledge Aymeric doing a protecc is just, how he be, but COME ON THAT'S CUTE

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Even Thancred notices it! This is after you agree to fight for Ishgard in the grand melee. I didn't get a screencap of it but before this Thancred says something about Aymeric loving you -- he doesn't mean it romantically, or at least not straight-forwardly so, but he's definitely in general waxing about how Aymeric is doing an emotion.

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My genuine take is that I do think Aymeric is written deliberately shippy -- it's a Final Fantasy game and they want your player character to be immersed into the world, which involves romance options. It's not a game that has romance options the way a game like, say, Mass Effect does, but it definitely encourages you to make your own story. Aymeric can be read as a closed-off man who becomes emotionally close to the WoL, or as a closed-off man who becomes, you know, emotionally close to the WoL. It's also just as easy to read him as being shippy with Lucia, his second-in-command, so it really is dealer's choice,

but,

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...................................................gay

[erikavonkaiser]

Grand melee!

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I enjoyed this a lot, it was a nice break in the action and worked a lot better for me than the other times this game has tried to have a breather in-between heavy stuff. The hard part of having plotlines involving war and the fate of the universe is when it tries to give you a break it's like um. should we. really be having a wacky side adventure rn????? But this worked, it was dynamic and fun and you got to see some character cameos, plus epic fire 1v1!!!

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[erikavonkaiser]

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[erikavonkaiser]

Okay some shotgun blast thoughts:

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I liked this idiot! He's a character type I'm partial to, but I thought they did a good job showing him as someone who does care but just, doesn't know how to do the thing.

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This isn't further evidence he's gay for the WoL I just thought it was a cool shot

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ugly cries

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I beat up a big time robot!!

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Fancy Stephen I would die for you

[erikavonkaiser]

I've got some more backlog still but that gets me closer to caught up. I'm having a fun time with it! I also recently made Leon as a FF14 character and will make a post of that (and maybe introducing my retainers in general) once he is wearing less ridiculous clothing.

[erikavonkaiser]

I wish the quest rewards had been a little better but I actually loved the Sahagin questline! It was very sweet and an unexpectedly genuine little story about what being a father means, and how love is more important than hate. I literally only pursued finishing it because I like fish monsters and wanted to be their friends (I have no intention of bothering with the other ARR tribes and unless there's a reward I see that knocks my socks off, will likely skip the HW ones as well).

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[erikavonkaiser]

This entire dungeon/story beat was gorgeous btw:

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Probably one of my favorite bits of HW, it just felt very Final Fantasy in the best sort of way.

[erikavonkaiser]

I made a FF14 Twitter if anyone wants to follow it!

https://twitter.com/silasvonkaiser

I'll probably go ahead and retire this space since it's easier for me to use Twitter and to talk in Dax's server.