well, fuck

you can't survive on mercy forever, idiot.

the convocation of fourteen (fears)

Unfriendly reminder, but Azys Lla with the context of Endwalker, is now clearly Amon and his peers attempts to recreate Elpis but is twisted by the Allagan Empire need for conquest and capturing of primals and the noble's need to create twisted experiments for their own enjoyment. Just another society Hermes serves in with a different kind of apathy.

I'm gonna add that, aside from the floating chunks of land and the free roam experiments, the building designs are even remnisciant of the unsundered world.

Theres probably other design elements I'm missing, but the quarantine block stuck out to me when I saw it shortly after finishing endwalker for this reason.

#THIS MAKES ME SOOOOO INSANE#FANDANIEL WILL BE LIKE: lol im not hermes i never felt connected to those memories#BUT HE FUCKING TRIED TO RECREATE ELPIS.#HE REACHED OUT TO THE STARS FOR HOPE. LIKE HERMES.#JUST.... FANDANIEL CANNOT HELP BUT GO AROUND AND AROUND IN HIS HAMSTER WHEEL OF LIFE#RECREATING HIS OLD LIFE BASED OFF THOSE DAYS IN ELPIS SEARED INTO HIS MIND#its about cycles#its about self fulfilling prophecies#its about doing the same thing over and over and hoping maybe someone will drag you out of it this time#fandaniel can say he's not amon and he's not hermes but he's lying. to himself most of all#he has never left elpis. he has never left ktisis hyperboreia.#fandaniel only really makes sense as a character if he is viewed as the endpoint of hermes#he cannot be divorced from hermes#it HAS to be hermes -> amon -> fandaniel. its one very long arc. one very long trail of memories#and god. the reason amon is the version of hermes that finally broke is because like#the allagan empire sucked so bad. it was so antithetical to who hermes was and just. of COURSE he broke! of course he did!#god and like. xande was him looking for hope. looking to be proven wrong.#like he pulls someone back from death and is like 'but there's meaning#right? there's meaning in living?'#and xande was like. no. lol.#he just reaffirmed his worst fears#god this rant got out of hand#anyways i love hermes and fandaniel and amon i think about them. normally. as a normal person would#<- lying#ffxiv

thank you @cogentsummoner i have to preserve this analysis for eternity.

The days of our years gone,

Our souls soaked in sin.

The days of our years gone,

Our souls soaked in sin.

your grandsire was a brute.

WHY ARE YOU BOOING ME? I'M RIGHT

Slowly moving some of my memes over to Tumblr

On second thought no one ever let me do the first thing that comes to mind ever again.

[You'll be screaming out my name

Cursing me for getting oh so close]

my own worst enemy

Oh my god.

finally I can make the only poll that matters

Why are you keeping these in the tags OP!!!?

the results are in and fandaniel has lost the great ascian bake off

next up emet selch will debut his fruit tarts

jaunty lil wine walk

“To return to the star whence we came is a privilege afforded to we who have so loved and nurtured it. A choice embraced by those who have lived their lives to the fullest, in service to our world. And when they depart upon this journey, it is beautiful. Always.”

You asked, Fandaniel. You asked.

Even Fandaniel is like "wtf is wrong with this dude"

the three most dramatic hoes you will meet on your travels

You asked, Fandaniel. You asked.

zenos really is the most, huh