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Plants and ThanUri🌿

a morning cat

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#the esteem being her twin... hey. horrible au where alphinaud got killed by the crystal braves or by nidstinien#and we meet alisaie after that as a drk.#i know that's not what youre going for op im just captured by the concept this made me think of @plounce

Do you think we'd be friends in another universe?

Us in another universe:

For what do you live?

look i've read/watched/played a lot of fantastical stories and i love creative displays of how mind-boggingly alien different cultures can possibly get.

but there is something just. so viscerally frightening to me about ishgard and their communal table salt lick and i can't stop thinking about it. ishgard is already framed as a foreign place to the warrior of light/the player so everyone in-story is patiently explaining the importance of the church of halone and ishgard's history because everyone knows the big stuff has to be explained to an outsider. but something small the ishgardians think is normal would slip right past.

i'm ready to laugh myself sick any time of day at the idea of the warrior sitting down to eat at fortemps manor for the first time, emotionally drained and scared. and one of these finicky nobles you have to trust your life with just picks up a pale rock you thought was a centerpiece with a curiously smooth, maybe even already damp worn surface, opens their mouth, sticks out their tongue, and SCHLURPS

i would feel such visceral horror. briefly wonder if i had fallen in faerie-land/the dark world/the upside-down. it would only increase as i look left and right and everyone else continues eating calmly. only maybe if haurchefant were there would someone realize how weird that would seem to outsiders and laugh at my expression.

it's like in the simpsons when homer time travels, sits back down to dinner, and discovers the butterfly effect gave everyone lizard tongues. it's so close to a normal dinner time interaction and yet incredibly far. you think ishgard must have a weird supersition about it to explain. "what, is - is it bad luck to break up a salt lump?" you ask

"no" haurchefant says. "it's just always been done this way"

and so often in any society there is no better explanation than just that but this is so fuckkng weird it would briefly make you question all normal human instincts if ishgard thinks this is okay. that is such silly, terrifying, and superfluous world bulding. it's great.

hi aetherdrol im so sorry but yeah

perhaps just as funny is ishgardians abroad being the only ones licking the rock while everyone else 🙃

Return of the night sky

some guys

wolcred anyone

Hello handsome, doomed by the narrative all on your own?

repetition

for the people of my blood, my soul.

Happy Birthday!

Eva Funderburgh

(id in alt)

DARKNESS!