i wanted to doodle lhei for @estrogeneva.bsky.social 🥰

Aoibheann has been doing a lot of fucking lately, but i think he needs to GET fucked. you know? he's very versatile, it's good for the ecosystem

as a general rule, in software-adjacent spaces like XIV plugins, do not ever say "well, this one thing used AI? i'm gonna go use another thing". in amateur/hobbyist code spaces, AI is everywhere. smaller games' modding spaces are overrun with it. i don't even look at nexus anymore.

i mostly talk about OC stuff and not the game itself because i am unfortunately used to XIV players getting really really mad that i don't view certain arcs - or the game itself - the way they do lmao.

i've warmed up to Werlyt over the years but i don't think i can ever like it because like... it does that annoying thing so many arcs in similar stories do where it has to kick aside other characters to get to The Point and in doing so stumbles over itself.

not to dredge up an ANCIENT discourse but it's really indicative of the way XIV fans engage with their game that people were earnestly saying "oh yeah, endwalker is catholic" about The Buddhist Expansion

also if you're wondering how i make Gomi look so old, it's a combination of C+ edits (making the nose wider, shrinking the head, lowering the brow/eyelid) and Aging Gracefully, which is a wonderful mod for making aged characters heliosphere.app/mod/yv5mmx2t...

i said this in DMs to oomf, but my personal explanation for why you never see Old Keeper/Seeker Women is that they retreat from the public eye and cease their wandering tendencies to become either matriarchs, spiritual guides, or some other form of leader that benefits from being sedentary.

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OC character development is weird. if you describe Aoibheann as he exists in the (in-universe) present he sounds like a textual Mary Sue™️ because that description neglects that he had to go through hell and a brief stint as The Bad Guy Of This Arc to get there

it's a testament to how much Aoibheann has internalized the monk mentality that, when he finally holds Shum Davar The Evilass Sword That Cuts Everything Ever, he immediately goes "nuh uh. i am not fucking with an evil-ass sword" and destroys it.

she looks like this now. she's old :D

a market pretty in/famous for enforcing a "be able to make progress in 10-15 minutes or die" is a pretty bad idea for a pocket MMO with strong time commitments, huh

Doing some deliveries with Eorzea's best postboy! thank you @sphenewife.bsky.social for letting me borrow Aoibheann :> #hamsweetposes #selpose #selcollab

separate from Nichego (her attendant), an idea i had for a Gomi-orbiting character is like. her Head Maid. the one that wrangles all the Fashonti Manor servants and was probably around even when that building was called Haukke Manor. one of the only people that can backtalk her.

for Old Yotsuyu i wanted her to have a sword that looked like a wooden training sword but was Very Real, and i figured that'd never happen. yeah anyway it already happened, it's the Ruthenium Blade.

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she looks like this now. she's old :D

god. the first ever pictures of Gomi. 5 years prior.

god my screenshot archive is so old that i have a picture of my original free trial character from uh. when the trial LAUNCHED

Ishgard in ARR being established as pretty heavily misogynistic only for HW to turn around and go "oh silly WoL, we don't hate Ysayle because she's a woman we hate her because she's a terrorist" has always been one of my minor nitpicks that grows in intensity with each year

Aoibheann eats all of them; he's somewhat neurotic about having a balanced diet and frequently nags people in his life to stop eating like shit. including his mother. especially his mother, actually.

feel like i should bump this here, where it's actually much more relevant lol

Gomi thinks she's evil for having so many manor servants, unaware that all of them like being maids (regardless of gender) because the workload is paltry and she feeds them better than she feeds her business associates

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in hindsight, the Gomilija playlist being 99% breakup songs was foreshadowing

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also like. a pretty huge part of this is that Gomi is used to being the one to sacrifice bits of herself so others can grow or move on. it completely destroys the status quo for Aoibheann to step in and 'sacrifice' someone else so *she* can be happy and move on with her life.

when Lilija gets murked, Gomi doesn't feel bad. rather, she feels bad about *not* feeling bad; she's like "ohhhhh fuck that was my wife for 20+ years that's my daughter's other mother and the co-founder of my entire life i should feel something" but she just feels... relief? freedom? both scary

well anyway. what if a femroe was a horse, kinda. her name is Justine #MargOC

replaying XIV a few years back was weird. i think what stuck out to me the most is how much ARR is in your face about how much Eorzea fucking sucks from top to bottom. it's just buried in a lot of text that people who're about to gun 13 years of MMO story naturally miss during onboarding

Erenville is so fucking lucky that All That happened with Meat Sphene after 7.0. he gets to avoid probing questions from Aoibheann like "did you have sex with my aunt" "why is your jacket on my aunt's inn bed" "why do you vaguely smell of the wine she likes" and others.

i like XIV even though a lot of it sucks and if you wonder why then, well, hehe points to my "i think you need at least one game to be irrationally insane about to stop you being like this towards everything else" shirt that has a sweet chilli sauce stain on it

Yotsuyu is my fav XIV character which is. really awkward because i have a lot of very real reasons to hate her entire arc and what her character represents both in a storytelling context and an IRL one. but oohhhhhhhhhhh god that's my sweetiepie.

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i like to imagine ambitious up-and-comers showing up to the Rhansath estate while Ubi is still alive, hoping to defeat the previous WoL as a way to cement their legacy and then she just whoops them all using a wooden pole. if it breaks, she gets another.

man. Dawntrail does not feel like it was two years ago.

the actual purpose of this account is because some of the feeds my main uses are just "[things you've interacted with] x 100 x rabbits" and i'm actually trying to minimize how much XIV i see despite liking the game

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Aoibheann has amblyopia (a lazy eye, which you can see on the rightmost eye - his left) which was a consequence of his aethre allergy affecting his ability to see in very early childhood; it used to be a source of shame, but now he's fine with it, and has refused offers to have it corrected

Aoibheann worshipped them when he was younger and as he's aged this has cooled into a nuanced but deep respect. getting older meant finding out about their history; the uncensored one that you don't really hear about during the hero worship. this includes Ubi's worst WoL moments and Yotsuyu's-

i don't really consider Aoibheann murdering Lilija to be "crossing a line", in part bc despite committing to it and building towards it, he gives her multiple chances in EC to prove that she's NOT a terrible person and she CAN change despite being static for the 22 years he's known her.

Evercold is essentially gonna be the end of Arc 2 of Hamverse and it's very fitting that Lilija is functionally the """final boss""" of it. Aoibheann looks ahead in his mind, sees another 20 years of her dragging everyone down, and goes "Nope. murder."

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when Ysayle died (which, in Hamverse, is an explicit act of spite against Ubi), Ubi had the very normal reaction of spending like... weeks pinballing between the numerous brothels in Ishgard/Coerthas while only going for women that had pale skin and white hair. you don't need me to explain this one.

i do wish people would stop saying shit like "well in the LOCALIZATION they RUINED [character/moment]" when the EN and JP scripts are basically working with different characterizations entirely and have been doing so since ARR. they're domino chains that never intersect.