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grug

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Honestly if there's serious roegadyn players out there I kind of want to see them :0 like not in a sarcastic way but like so many people tend to play them as joke characters so I wonder how many are out there really getting into the world and the game as a roe

trying extreme trials next month and it's going to be wild entirely because even in lvl100 raids and trials i lowk miss the floor indicators sometimes because my au ra's phat ass is blockin g shit ๐Ÿ’€

anywayssss i figured out that brio thing entirely and ig i can use it for height reference or whatever but part of me's like gposing seems a little tedious and i never understood MMD either i think i'd rather just write or (dare i say, even) draw

i think it depends on priorities or w/e like a bunch of my friends play pale raens and their palettes work really nicely, it's just that i really like au ra scales and i like being able to see them clearly (my xaela was pale back then)

i feel like i did something similar when i was on a miqo'te and yeah i feel whitewashing that character felt really janky too . like the eye-whites just felt really uncanny without the darker skin etc like it really is just a thing people dont seem to account for when they go "pale = good" or w/e

yknow while i understand it i kind of hate that so much whitewashing discourse is "it's immoral" because yes that's true but people dont always respond to appeals to morality when like. the logical explanation is "skintone is a part of palette/value so making a design pale throws it off"

in the case of my current wol suudei (ignore the crimes. ignore the crimes) his darker skin IS something i took into account and it plays off raen's white pale scales and the glam's white accents making his skin pale completely throws it out of wack? the scales vanish the brown is off, etc etc

i genuinely dont understand whitewashers dude most of my wols have been tanned to dark skinned and just out of curiousity i pop glamourer to see what they'd look like pale and the answer is, quite unilaterally every time, objectively hideous

honestly it's not really lost on me that like. most roe players tend to either play them as joke characters or wear helmets that completely obfuscate the face (bara people seen to be hroths ig ๐Ÿ˜ญ) like idr the last time i saw a sincere roe player

kinda a bummer that roes feel a little chopped and undersupported because i could see a world where that'd be an alt of mine but pbfbfbttbtbfbtbtt nah

like in a world where shounen/boy protagonists are the norm i think playing the hero as an absolute unit is kind of novel tbh i feel xiv kind of doesnt gaf that much about roes culturally outside like a few tiny bits of sea wolf stuff and i dont like the faces enough to bother. mAu Ra are fine ig

ysayle is an interesting case to me because from what i've seen whenever a character dies they're like. VEEEEEERY in your face about Yep They Died Unambiguously but Ysayle just kind of Fell???? and i think one of the times we didn't see a body was with gosetsu and yotsuyu at doma castle

ok now that ffxiv spoilers embargo is over until EC i think my unhinged conspiracy theory is like. while i'd be happy to see #Her fragment in that reflection ummm. did we ever actually see the body ๐Ÿค”

i'm conspiracy braining because ok so. i know we see shiva in the aitascope or whatever it's called BUT it's interesting Because It's Shiva and not actually Ysayle like ok I will admit I do hope she actually kicked it because I think characters that die should stay dead ๐Ÿ˜ญ๐Ÿ˜ญ๐Ÿ˜ญ BBBUT it would be #cool

i think seme graha is kind of slept on like ionno theres something so #awesome about doing a moe seme that's two sauces tall

ok update it turns out it's weirdly simple (even if it doesnt look that way) because aside from the face and etc it's the exact same shape every time???