Character Flaws Meme

shoshopu:

Tagged by @skyesadventures !! Sorry it took me a while to get to it

Shoshopu Shopu

Aggressive | Callous | Cannibal | Careless | Compulsive | Cowardly | Domineering | Envious | Greedy | Hypocritical | Impatient | Impolite | Kidnapper | Lazy | Liar | Lustful | Materialistic | Murderer | Obsessive | Overcritical | Overemotional | Patronizing | Psychotic | Sarcastic | Self-Indulgent | Serial-killer | Torturer | Touchy | Unclean | Unpredictable | Untidy | Vain | Vengeful

I feel kind of bad that a lot of these don’t really apply to Shoshopu 😡 Eaubront, on the other hand…

Eaubront Shopont

Aggressive | Callous | Cannibal | Careless | Compulsive | Cowardly | Domineering | Envious | Greedy | Hypocritical | Impatient | Impolite | Kidnapper | Lazy | Liar | Lustful | Materialistic | Murderer | Obsessive | Overcritical | Overemotional | Patronizing | Psychotic | Sarcastic | Self-Indulgent | Serial-killer | Torturer | Touchy | Unclean | Unpredictable | Untidy | Vain | Vengeful

Eaubront is typically easy to get along with and pretty good-natured, but a lot of these apply to him at his worst. The italicized ones in particular are flaws that are pretty constant with him, however.

Imma tag… sorry if some of you that I’ve tagged have done this already and I missed it! @black-omen-born @noxtisffxiv @lutroxical @spikewerks @fallen-of-amdapor @absolutelyterrified

did not notice you tagged Rin in this D: D: D: 

Aggressive | Callous | Cannibal | Careless | Compulsive | Cowardly | Domineering | Envious | Greedy | Hypocritical | Impatient | Impolite | Kidnapper | Lazy | Liar | Lustful | Materialistic | Murderer | Obsessive | Overcritical | Overemotional | Patronizing | Psychotic | Sarcastic | Self-Indulgent | Serial-killer | Torturer | Touchy | Unclean | Unpredictable | Untidy | Vain | Vengeful

following Shopu’s example im italicizing the ones that apply reasonably consistently. The others apply to Rin at his worst.

…does “unclean” mean like, physically unsanitary or like, corrupted by the powers of hell, because that’s sort of an important distinction. Marked by monstrous forces: yes definitely. But only dirty in the “absent-minded scholar falls asleep on his work, gets ink marks on face” kind of way, and also in the “grew up in a fungal death swamp so his favorite foods are stuff that most rational people would never consider eating” kind of way.

Random Headcanon

“Jongleur’s X” is the name of a famous mathematical paradox that has circulated for centuries among the learned folk of Eorzea, in various forms. Its name comes from the fact that the most widely-cited description of the paradox was originally found in an anonymous dancing manual dating back to one of the earlier Ul’dahn dynastic courts, where it was proposed as an impossible juggling routine in which fifteen jongleurs of varying skill would juggle harmless scarves and deadly knives. The inclusion of Jongleur’s X in the manual is thought by most scholars to be an erudite joke and is popularly attributed to Lalamu Lamu, a poet-philosopher of the time whose sense of humor is well known. 

The demon Ferdiad’s favorite trick, when toying with mortals, is an aether-warping glyph that disrupts a person’s sense of balance and direction so suddenly and violently that the victim is overwhelmed by nausea and panic, often causing themselves injury before the effect vanishes as swiftly as it came on. Any learned individual subjected to this spell, in the unlikely event they could recall what it looked like, would recognize it as a solved form of Jongleur’s X. 

The resemblance between the demon’s magic and the complex geometric formulae used by arcanists raises many troubling questions.

3liza:

In the Bog Kingdom, there is an old saying: “scrape your boots with the spine of your knife”

It refers to the bog problem of long distance foot travel over marshy ground, and the fact that every step pulls up more mud to add to the pile on your soles.  It happens gradually; you don’t notice it until your feet have effectively doubled in size and weight, and you’re dragging ten pounds of caked-on slime below the knee.  Every step is torture, every motion is a burden, it gets so bad when you’re tired and not paying attention and watching for crocodiles that you just don’t notice how heavy you are until you can’t take another step.

Then you scrape your boots off, and you start over.

Marshes are liminal places.  The portal between land and sea, water giving way to dirt giving way to more water.  Humans learn to float, houses walk on stilts.  Matter is digested, dirt and rain are purified, new life swarms from the mire.  You never arrive in the swamp, you only pass through.

But it sticks to you.  All of this sticks to you.  It all has to be scraped away, but for fuck’s sake, kid–don’t cut your foot off while you’re doing it.

your angle…or yuor devil

OK since I was asked: a brief summary of “angels” in FFXIV and headcanons thereof

Outside of Ishgard’s high-fantasy-Catholic deal (and Sephirot and Sophia, but that’s a different post probably) there isn’t a lot of dipping into Judeo-Christian belief and aesthetic in Eorzea. However, we do get “angels” occasionally, and I thought the specific places they appeared was kind of…interesting

(DISCLAIMER: obviously #opinion and not canon, i may have overlooked things, i’m probably overthinking it, etc)

Historically speaking, angels have been thought to look like all kinds of things, usually really WEIRD things – I mean, there’s a reason the first line spoken by most angels in the Bible is often “be not afraid”. however, when you say ‘angel’, there’s one look that usually springs to mind first – a beautiful human being with wings, the classic “angel” look as it were that you can see in everything from christmas cards to renaissance frescoes

there are only a couple of places that the classic “angel” crops up in FFXIV: Lost City of Amdapor (Hard Mode), and…Void Ark

The final boss of Lost City HM is Kuribu, an animated statue created by the Amdapori in the form of an armored woman with wings. Interestingly, she also calls on “putti” adds – putti being a sort of baby-with-wings kind of decorative angel, the kind of thing people often erroneously call a cherub. The putti monsters that show up in the Kuribu fight are definitely NOT babies with wings, though – they’re VOIDSENT. Vodoriga to be precise. statues of these beings can be seen all through the interior of Lost City HM. Vodoriga, along with gargoyles, are voidsent associated with dreams and dreaming – and of course, the central structure of Lost City NM is the “Sanctum of Dreams”, where the Diabolos, the Lord of Nightmares, lies imprisoned

The other place you see classically angelic beings is in a trash encounter in Void Ark – where armored, winged demons are summoned by none other than Diabolos himself. The Bloodguard adds are masculine but otherwise bear a distinct resemblence to Kuribu, albeit a lot more evil

Mhach apparently summoned Diabolos to destroy Amdapor, but obviously Mhach had command of a great many powerful voidsent (plus whatever the fuck Ozma is) Why Diabolos? Well, given that Amdapor is covered in statues of vodoriga, has a major building called the Sanctum of Dreams, and carves guardian statues in the image of the Lord of Nightmares’s footsoldiers…

my theory is that the Amdapori were already in contact with the void, without realizing it. maybe their white mages had dream visions – and maybe even spent days in sacred trances inside their holy sanctum. Maybe they encountered luminous, winged beings in their visions and carved their enchanted statues in their likeness. Because they must be sacred creatures, of course – why else would they appear to the holiest people of all?

Mhach might have sent Diabolos to Amdapor, but the Amdapori themselves had already flung the door wide open, far too convinced of their own purity to ever realize it lead directly into the abyss

giffingsharks:

The Chimaera, known informally as the “ghost shark” or “rat fish”, is a deep sea cartilaginous fish in the order Chimaeriformes. Living at over 8,000 ft below the surface, the Chimaera is well adapted to the deep, dark sea. The dots on its nose are sensory organs that detect electrical fields in the water – helping the Chimera find its prey. While little is known about the Chimaera’s diet, it’s speculated that it feeds on molluscs and crustaceans that it crushes open with the grinding plates in its mouth. The spines on the top of its body are loaded with venom; the Chimaera uses these spines to defend itself.