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ffxiv characters as bdg quotes

the WoL using a phial of phantasia: I’m not your friend, and you have no say over what I do with my body

Alphinaud: the gods have cursed my for my hubris, and my work is never finished

ascians (or Zenos tbh): you do have to fail once, uh, in order to succeed later as a villain

WoL when exposition is happening: I don’t give, two sh/ts, about a king, who lost a war, 700 years ago! *snoring noises* *big kick* get outta here!

all of the scions: “and when you love what you do, you never work a day in your life.” But that’s chocobo sh/t. Look, I love what I do, and let me tell you... I’ve worked some days

WoL diving into every dangerous situation: I couldn’t give a sh/t about death

playing through each expansion: and then there’s another existential crisis, but this is my favorite one

Yda/Lyse: a major himbo with a “nice jock” energy

WoL: you can tell it’s a new season expansion because i’ve grown a mustache and cut my hair

the scions going off to do research between patches: and if you’ll excuse me, I have to go do my dark bidding on these spreadsheets also: who has the time to read all those books? I DO. APPARENTLY.

WoL when they get to make decisions: I don’t feel qualified to discuss the philosophical implications of that. *nods nervously*

Alphinaud in ARR: Hi, I’m Alphinaud Leveilleur, Safety Fan and Bureaucratic Wunderkind. Please address me as such.

looking at all the lore behind everything:  "My first reaction was, 'wow.' To write 300,000 words that could essentially be skipped over while still having the full Skyrim FFXIV experience, it's amazing...My second reaction to this, was WHAT THE FUCK. HEY TODD, WHAT THE FUCK?"

ok so hc that the scions have board game nights like, tataru will be like "y'all need to rest" and stuff and the scions want to spend time together bc found family and all that but they really shouldn't take a full-blown day off because the world could start imploding at literally any second, and also they're all giant nerds so like once or twice a moon they'll have a board game night they'd probably mostly play hidden role games or trivia i think, because they're giant nerds (and estinien just likes lying and fucking with them). anything where some people have some information and some people don't. basically almost anything that polygon has played on overboard.

~more under the cut (character specifics)~

ALPHINAUD obviously would be super strategic about everything and probably be fairly competent, but in games where you have to try to read other people and their motives he can kinda fall into galaxy-brain traps where it's not as complicated as he thinks. In games with a "bad guy" role (like in mafia) it's pretty easy to tell when he's one of the "bad guys" because it doesn't seem like he's as eager for information as normal. lil bit to competitive but it’s all in good fun ALISAE stumbles ass-first into gaslight alley (where alphinaud and esitinien are waiting for her). she generally doesn't want to think that hard about stuff because she already has to think under normal circumstances (well, what's normal for them) and this is supposed to be her break. it's not exactly difficult for her, she just doesn't feel like it. accidentally says stuff that makes her seem guilty when she's innocent, and the inverse is also true. will go for the most batshit strategies just to see if they work. it's called "science," alphinaud G’RAHA will get accused by doing literally nothing. just, sitting there. we all know he's bad at lying unless he's been perfecting his deception for literal decades, and even then it's only okay to good. it won't even be anything specific when he's the "bad guy," sometimes he seems too bummed out and someties he's too gleefully malicious, but it's painfully obvious and very poorly excecuted. over time he gets harder to read because he begins perfecting always just being "like that." probably figures out who the murderer is in Clue right as alphinaud's about to open the envelope. THE WARRIOR OF LIGHT is obviously going to be vaguer/varried, but i think that in general they would have an excellent poker face when they want to (*glances at ARR*). gives nobody any information at any point ever about anything, quietly puts together as many pieces as they can. switches wildly between not talking at all and talking a lot (yet still not give any info??) with no correlation between that and whose side they're on. in performative/roleplaying games they can deadpan almost anything URIANGER is just there for the drama. about to win? he will purposefully temporarily screw over his team just because. overly dramatic about everything. perfect for roleplaying games. actually really good at most games but almost never wins because he gets greedy trying to see how long he can lead them on with his bullshit, and someone (usually aphinaud) figures everything out and steals the win out from under him. THANCRED isn't typically a suspect for anything. nobody 100% trusts him, but no one outright thinks he's the imposter or whatever. he'll make some jokes and generally be fairly chill about the whole thing, and overall there's a 50/50 chance that anyone will call him out on his bluffs. will occassionaly go for the most batshit strategies that somehow always work when he tries them. has threatened to quit the scions when he feels betrayed. will start singing if it's even slightly appropriate Y’SHTOLA is too competent for all this. she has fun and will sometimes get involved, but she's mostly an observer. there's a solid 10% chance that someone will figure out she's the traitor/imposter/werewolf/etc. pretty good at bluffing and somehow simultaneously seems to never be on the bad guy team and also always be on the bad guy team. a true neutral ESTINIEN is pretty easy to read if you know what to look for. he seems to be smiling (smirking) more when he's the bad guy. it's because he knows that he'll win by screwing over everyone else, and that's fun. mostly observes (or seems to be observing) regardless of what role he has in a game, though if someone says something slightly stupid or suspicious he'll point it out very quickly without drawing too much attention to himself. KRILE joins when she can but isn't usually there or is usually happy to just watch, though she always makes a point to see how much she can mess with alphinaud specifically. she doesn't care about winning (although it's always nice), she just wants alphinaud to lose. TATARU mostly watches on the sidelines but also joins sometimes, and becomes actively malicious for the duration or the game. absolutely brutal. she won't win, but she sure as hell will betray each and every one of them at least once, and each in a slightly different way. honestly kinda impressive they would also sometimes play board games back on the First! RYNE is an actual deathtrap. "look, she's so sweet and innocent, she hasn't done anything to inflict suspicion upon herself <3" NO. she has, you just all ignored it. don't trust her. what are you doing. no stop. she's lying. oh god, they're all dead now. what did i tell you. she won't win most of the time, but she'll manage to royally screw over at least half of the crew. they all know this, yet keep falling for it. thancred's always the first victim. he never learns (might add more later)

the scions @ sharlayan

This guy (zenos and fandaniel) being the president biggest current threat, it’s like there’s a horse loose in the hospital. I think eventually everything’s going to be okay, but I have no idea what happens next. And neither do any of you, and neither do your parents, because there’s a horse loose in the hospital.

The Scions of the Seventh Dawn are a great group of characters because they’re canonically a bunch of weird postdocs, the two kids they adopted, an admin assistant with probable mafia connections, and an angry himbo, and they all freeload off of their only employable friend (you)

✧･ﾟ:*The Heroic Scions of the Seventh Dawn*:･ﾟ✧

I like to call these: Cetara, are you certain you haven’t joined a blonde cult?