not much brainworms lately, between playing other games, doing a thing for my sister, important irl matters and general laziness

they're so deimos x harrow to me

maekars beard is a harrow beard.

idk if harrow x deimos can still happen, i'm concerned with timeline and logistics now that harrows endgame ship is more established. it may unfortunately need to be demoted to an AU...

the new event outfit makes me angry. will this game take itself seriously again!!

in my heart he is a québécois but i like to imagine him with an irish accent (as like a "localisation") esp now that i have a new blorbo in ser dunk... i go back and forth

harrow being drawn to elidibus while having another slowburn romance cooking in the background is like ellen being drawn to orlok while being married to thomas

i noticed some ppl in the static had hydaelyn crafted weapons, idk when they released but i'm still hoping for WoL weapons... or maybe they'll be the ultimate weapons lol... in any case that made me think about elidibus again

the way they jump and open their arms wide is so funny and adorable 😭

this was on skyrim subreddit and i don't understand the caption but its harrow now

i think... i'm not super into anime protagonist white hair anymore for harrow... it should be dirty grey

harrow is a cis man and his azem, deimos, is a he/they hippie witch who would probably describe his gender as "a lover of the star". deimos looks "traditionally masc" with a beard by default but they can shapeshift parts at will and present more fem sometimes!

dunk is such a great visual reference for harrow it's unbelievable. the way he kept getting beaten and stabbed and smashed and wouldn't fkn die

now when i put down harrows basic info on some website i have to think about whether i wanna commit to the theory that he has hrothgar ancestry. it's such an inconsequential meta-only detail that i wonder if it's even worth deciding one way or another

death by lahabrea solo duty. that's when harrow accepted hydaelyn's existence as a deity on his side, separate from halone... and i HC that he died post ultima thule and was brought back to life with the power of friendship. he def feels like he got a second chance he didn't need or deserve...

i'll be honest when i learned that "thou" was typically used in familiar, informal or even hostile contexts, and not as a sign of politeness and solemnity, it kind of ruined urianger a little bit

ok next topic to research is feudalism. i know the bigger scope involving lords and vassals, reciprocal obligations, taxes etc. now i'm curious what the economy within the fief looked like. people had money right? or was it all just an exchange of labour and produce for survival?

i'm still fond of the blursed idea of harrow hooking up with most of the scions in a completely non committed, platonic way at various points... it's not really "shipping" anyway when it's just the horny creator wanting to make the barbie dolls kiss, is it haha

armour nerding out yes yes yes. you can see the aketon underneath, then the hauberk, then a tabard on top, and gorget plus helm combo. he should have more plate for a joust but he couldn't afford it!

heresy is another religion concept whose precise meaning i didn't know until recently. it is a set of beliefs that clashes with the norm. it's funny to read about different christian sects and how they might differ in such small ways and still get the harsh label of heresy

reading about the "autos da fé" practiced by the spanish and portuguese inquisitions. interesting stuff. taking notes

the dunk and egg audiobooks are narrated by harry lloyd?? aka former voice claim of hawo?? am i gonna have to finally get into audiobook??

in the latest episode the characters say many times that knights swear an oath to protect the innocent, and afaik that was also part of the chivalric code, but i'm now thinking that that wasn't harrow's original ethos at all. what a shit knight he was haha

when i look at paladins in different game systems, and how they usually follow either an "oath" motif or a "light"/"holy" motif, i feel more at ease with my decision to have harrow NOT be a paladin.

i can't believe warframe made a character based on their harrow who is an almost exact replica of my harrow who is based on warframe harrow. the line about kneeling at your altar is genuinely something i could have written for my character

hawo is a hopeless romantic

harrow could never be a machinist but now i have the amusing mental image of harrow with a gun. musket with a bayonet.

on the subject of jobs, i have to wonder how magically capable he is. i mean, he did learn black magic and it is his less talked about secondary job. but i think he worked hard for that. i don't see harrow as a magic prodigy in any way

i'm not gonna look for a list of removed actions right now but yes, i HC harrow has access to the full gamut of skills his jobs have had. so his DRK has the full kit it had at launch + whatever we have now, and his BLM is at its core ShB and EW + flare star too bc why not

my partner and in laws always bring up a time they were at a supermarket in nouveau brunswick and had a hard time understanding their accent acadien, i'd like to hear it for myself one day haha much love to all french canadians

oh hell yes rt. i really should read all the short stories. i've only read a handful of them but they seem like a good source of extra lore sometimes

HAURCHEFANT I WAS UNFAMILIAR WITH YOUR GAME

(post-canon) he never expected to grow old... a part of him feels guilty for outliving his WoL glory days, but every day he finds new purpose in life by doing his job, helping his community and loving his lady.

i truly could not care less about arcadion, i haven't watched or read the story and there is no way it would be canon for harrow anyway, but if i had to choose a beast for his boss form it would of course be the drk panther. someone's already made art of their wol with a panther form though.

he's so harrow to me.... if only he had a beard

i learned an archaic expression in portuguese/spanish that translates to "what is your grace?" and means "what is your name?". i kind of love it. idk if i've ever encountered it in literature but it rings a tiny bell. i wish french had a similar expression, it sounds like something harrow should say

when i created deimos, i was inspired by the german rap song "freie liebe" (free love). this is very embarrassing, but i made a twofold mistake in interpreting it. first, i knew "free love" was a hippie phrase and because of the lyrics of the song, i thought it literally meant

the colour configuration of harrow's beard may not be 100% realistic but honestly it's my favourite part of his design so it doesn't matter. i hope it makes him instantly recognisable as a character

harrow beard shape vibes... more unruly on the sides but i like the pointy chin

wondering if harrow had a chocobo of his own growing up. one of the defining features of a knight was riding a horse after all. if he (and the House in general) did, what happened to them... because i consider the grand company issued chocobo canon, so surely he didn't have one before

was a rotting in bed all day kind of day... grocery shopping put me in a bad mood

recently partner seemed sad that i wasn't using the art supplies i got for christmas so i drew some hawos on paper

being sponsored by one of the high houses was almost a pyrrhic victory for harrow bc he got what he always wanted (recognition and admittance into ishgard) but only after the mess that was the banquet - losing companions he'd actually grown to care about. but to answer the initial question,

ok another idea for coerthan folklore based on francophone legends: loup-garou/rougarou. halone's associated animal is a wolf. is this anything

given that the timber industry was prominent in coerthas before the calamity and that there were some rivers and lakes in the larger region, i am proposing a folk legend in the vein of la chasse-galerie.

really recommend becoming a nerd about one or two specific topics and doing research for the purpose of 1. flexing the brain and 2. flesh out OC to depths of which the writers of mid videogame could never have conceived

there is a difference in how harrow was brought up vs how typical knights were. he lived and was educated in his own family's estate, instead of being sent to another castle's court. and it was probably hardly even a castle. the house can't have been wealthy or prestigious enough for that.

i don't know why i assumed that knights = nobles = they don't do the dirty job of hunting and cutting up animals for food, but the book is saying that was part of a young knight's training, so i was completely right in having harrow learn that set of skills too

young harrow dressed like this

like he's just deimos. if u can imagine him as a mage instead of a lord and knight.