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I Lalafell and I Can't Get Up ✨ @bexplaysffxiv.bsky.social · 2h

One of my friends kindly offered to print some last-min WoL stickers for trades at MCM next week, so I very quickly threw these two goobers together ✨ Gonna try and take a picture of them at the XIV stand (and get that free hat hehe)

My two main FFXIV characters in a silly chibi style: Roscoe, a grey-haired lalafell in a long black coat, grinning and posing with his hand under his chin; and Saran, an Au Ra with pink-and-blue hair and pale blue skin, wearing black armour and holding a scythe, looking like a rabbit caught in headlights.

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I Lalafell and I Can't Get Up ✨ @bexplaysffxiv.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Hello and welcome to my FFXIV account! ✨ Here you'll find gposes and assorted rambling about my XIV blorbos! I share a co-WoL canon with @strixthings.bsky.social for Roscoe's story 💜 🔸 Roscoe: my main! Lalafell GNB/MCH. Tag: #Brambleverse 🔸 Saran: my alt! Au Ra (voidsent) DRK/RPR. Tag: #SaranAU

My two main FFXIV characters in two separate images aligned side by side: Roscoe, a masc lalafell with grey hair, goggles and whiskers, grinning and posing, and Saran, a female Au Ra with blue-and-pink hair, dark fin-like horns and black armour with a fur collar, smiling confidently.

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I Lalafell and I Can't Get Up ✨ @bexplaysffxiv.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Please perceive this Saran that @safrb.bsky.social made as an emoji for our FC server 💜 My silly lizard

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I Lalafell and I Can't Get Up ✨ @bexplaysffxiv.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Took our first-timer pal through the Alexander raids last night and Brute Justice REALLY had it in for her

Quick sketchy comic showing Brute Justice, a giant robot, with a cast bar above its head saying 'Super Jump'. Rydni, a pink hrothgar summoner, is standing in front it looking terrified in a redraw of a frightened cat meme, while Chandra, a viera, shouts "Rydni! Look out!"

In the next panel, Rydni screams while Brute Justice lands on top of her in a massive explosion.

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I Lalafell and I Can't Get Up ✨ @bexplaysffxiv.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

For anyone who may be curious to see the full portrait from my last post: the OG Saran and her current form. Given her long time in the void, she has limited memories of her life before, and is slowly piecing things together as time goes on #SaranAU

Saran's original form on the Thirteenth: a Hyuran woman with light skin and long pink hair, wearing full armour. She is portrayed in a portrait with a serious and focused expression.

Saran's current form on the Source as a voidsent in a host body: she is an Au Ra with pale blue skin, long pink-and-blue hair, and dark fin-like horns, wearing dark glasses and black armour with a fur collar. She is smiling confidently.

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I Lalafell and I Can't Get Up ✨ @bexplaysffxiv.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

EW replay update: Roscoe, overhearing Alisaie invite Yuyuka to the Last Stand for a coffee, decides that in order to ensure everything goes smoothly the most obvious solution is to run to the markets to buy a cap that will flawlessly hide his identity, and hide behind a flowerpot #Brambleverse

Roscoe kneeling behind a large flowerpot, wearing a black cap but making no other effort to conceal his identity, complete with his greatsword on his back. Not far away, Yuyuka and Alisaie stand beside one another.

A close-up of Roscoe looking quizzically towards the girls. Behind him, two Sharlayan residents chat, oblivious.

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I Lalafell and I Can't Get Up ✨ @bexplaysffxiv.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

That's a wrap on base HW for the sprout gang! Didn't take any good screenshots, so have a totally normal woman instead :) #SaranAU

Saran in the cutscene where Thordan asks "Who - what are you?" She is silhouetted with a backlight indicating her outline and her face in shadow.

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I Lalafell and I Can't Get Up ✨ @bexplaysffxiv.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Noticed this very interestingly Elpis-looking building in Azys Lla while wrapping up HW tonight. I wonder if this was always there, or added later 🤔

A floating structure in Azys Lla with curving shapes reminiscent of those in Elpis or Amaurot.

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I Lalafell and I Can't Get Up ✨ @bexplaysffxiv.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I picked up PLD as her first tank and I DO love the sword and shield I picked for her (this is how I ended up deciding her voidsent form looks something like a scorpion, thanks to a friend's suggestion). But perhaps a part of that was clinging onto what she remembered of her old life #SaranAU

Saran as a paladin with her sword, which has a purple blade, and a shield with a pink-and-purple border and a scorpion on the front.

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I Lalafell and I Can't Get Up ✨ @bexplaysffxiv.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Particularly enjoying Vahra's dramatic anime poster look

Vahra, a female miqo'te, looking dramatically out from behind the top of the Whisper-Go mount.

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I Lalafell and I Can't Get Up ✨ @bexplaysffxiv.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Many years ago when I first started playing XIV one of my friends was flying around in this mount and I wanted it so bad because it looked so stupid, but I didn't understand how to do the Yo-kai event. Finally, the dream is fulfilled

Three characters - Roscoe alongside a miqo'te and hrothgar - in the Whisper-Go mount in ascending size order.

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I Lalafell and I Can't Get Up ✨ @bexplaysffxiv.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

"Wow! Boy oh boy. What a terrible thought, all those awful voidsent getting through. Really, uh, sets my scales a-shiver. Y-yep."

Noctis: It's...a kind of monster.
Kipih Jakkya: From your world, I assume. And it somehow came to be here, in Eorzea...
Kipih Jakkya: I'm no naturalist, but I imagine it being similar to a voidsent.
Kipih Jakkya: And if even a monster such as that could find its way to our world, then surely─surely you can find your way back too!

Saran's face is set in an uncomfortable false smile as she attempts to be nonchalant about the fact that she is secretly a voidsent.

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I Lalafell and I Can't Get Up ✨ @bexplaysffxiv.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Unlocked chocobo racing on Saran. Couldn't think of a name, so I hit random. Excellent result

FFXIV screenshot with my character Saran riding a racing chocobo called Duvet XIV.

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I Lalafell and I Can't Get Up ✨ @bexplaysffxiv.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Noted this line in HW last night - do we ever learn what she's referencing? I don't remember it

Yugiri says "'You had killed the one you served...' Ah, pray excuse my mutterings - I was reminded of a line from an old poem."

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I Lalafell and I Can't Get Up ✨ @bexplaysffxiv.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

RAAHHH DRK 50 QUEST I LOVE YOU "The Warrior of Light, our Weapon of Light" you will always be famous

Saran's Esteem, a mirrored version of her wearing spiked dark knight armour. Her eyes are glowing red.

Saran's Esteem kneels on the ground and says "Convince yourselves that she can be controlled..."

Saran's Esteem kneels on the ground and says "The Warrior of Light. Our Weapon of Light!"

Saran and her Esteem stand back-to-back against a black backdrop, Esteem surrounded by a red light.

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I Lalafell and I Can't Get Up ✨ @bexplaysffxiv.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

FFXIV truly did a dangerous thing, giving me the opportunity not to make simply One Blorbo, but Many Blorbos. Potentially Infinite Blorbos, in fact This is a WIP, but Saran is the most fleshed-out of Roscoe's shards: Memoriate turned voidsent turned avatar, returned to her world to help restore it

Euphony, Roscoe's Azem, shown with four of their shards: Roscoe, Warrior of Darkness on the Source, an unnamed Knight of Alexandria on the Ninth, Ardbert on the First, and Saran on the Thirteenth.

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I Lalafell and I Can't Get Up ✨ @bexplaysffxiv.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I just completed the level 45 DRK quest on Saran and had to recreate this shot from way back in 2021, when I was both new to DRK and gposing. It holds a lot of nostalgia for me - so maybe one day I'll remake it with Roscoe too!

Screenshot of Roscoe, a lalafell with black clothing, a greatsword and a black stripe across his eyes, standing in front of Fray, a figure in full armour. Behind them, the scenery is bleached into monochrome.

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I Lalafell and I Can't Get Up ✨ @bexplaysffxiv.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

A chorus of voices cries out for a hero, and she comes. She smiles. She nods. And she remains silent. But she too has a voice... #SaranAU

Saran, a female Au Ra with long blue and pink hair and dark scales, wearing black armour with a fur collar, stands in front of the shadowed figure of Fray, a person in full armour with only their eyes visible. Both have eyes glowing a faint pink in the gloom. Saran's expression is cold and distant.

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I Lalafell and I Can't Get Up ✨ @bexplaysffxiv.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Love that my first encounter with beastmaster involved me teleporting in just to say "why is there a crab in Mor Dhona"

FFXIV screenshot of Roscoe standing by the aetheryte in Mor Dhona looking at a large crab.

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I Lalafell and I Can't Get Up ✨ @bexplaysffxiv.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I forgot that when you have your meeting with Thordan they take your headgear off. Just imagining the guards at the door holding out a hand and going "glasses," to Saran before she walked in. She was just squinting for this entire scene #SaranAU

Saran in a Heavensward cutscene meeting Thordan, notably missing her dark glasses.

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I Lalafell and I Can't Get Up ✨ @bexplaysffxiv.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Every now and then I forget our co-WoL canon isn't game canon and wonder why Yuyuka isn't in my cutscenes. Love when a dungeon intro gives us the opportunity for them to actually appear together

Screenshot from the intro to the Matoya's Relict dungeon. Roscoe and Yuyuka stand next to Matoya, who is saying, "Right. To begin with, I need you to gather a few ingredients."

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I Lalafell and I Can't Get Up ✨ @bexplaysffxiv.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Also something I've seen before but never grabbed a screenshot: Y'shtola cushion

Screenshot of a cushion in the Matoya's Relict dungeon that looks a lot like Y'shtola.

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I Lalafell and I Can't Get Up ✨ @bexplaysffxiv.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Something I've literally never noticed until we ran Matoya's Relict unsynced for our MSQ replay: there are FF1 sprites carved into the bookshelves

Screenshot of the Matoya's Relict dungeon with FF1 character sprites engraved into the bookshelves.

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I Lalafell and I Can't Get Up ✨ @bexplaysffxiv.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Quick snap of the sprout gang before they headed into the banquet the other night ✨ They all scrubbed up so well

Four female characters standing in a row: an Au Ra with pale blue skin, blue hair with white highlights and a yellow flower, and a white coat with a long white skirt; a pink Hrothgar wearing a black waistcoat over a white shirt, black trousers and tall boots; a Viera with light purple skin and long pink hair, wearing a blue dress with a brown corset; and an Au Ra with light blue skin and pink and blue hair, wearing a long purple dress with minimal armour. They are posing together and smiling against a backdrop of Ul'dah's royal promenade.

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I Lalafell and I Can't Get Up ✨ @bexplaysffxiv.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Alternate view - but I liked their faces better. Depth of field wasn't playing nicely with this one since Roscoe was closer to the camera so I had to manually do some edits!

A view from behind of Roscoe and Yuyuka looking at the Allagan node, a yellow-and-silver mechanical ball. Roscoe is shrugging while Yuyuka is threatening it with her staff.

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I Lalafell and I Can't Get Up ✨ @bexplaysffxiv.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Roscoe had known Yuyuka didn't like machines, but he severely underestimated the level of ire that the nodes of Azys Lla would bring out in her... #Brambleverse

Yuyuka and Roscoe looking up at something out of sight. Yuyuka has an enraged expression and is building up to a punch. Roscoe is shrugging with a baffled expression.

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I Lalafell and I Can't Get Up ✨ @bexplaysffxiv.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Time in the void was meaningless, measured only by how distant the stars became in her memory 🌌

Saran, a female Au Ra with dark scales and long blue hair with pink highlights, stands in the ocean under a star-strewn sky. She is naked with her back to the viewer, trailing her hand in the water.

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I Lalafell and I Can't Get Up ✨ @bexplaysffxiv.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

You can also pose your friends being flung out of a cannon as well, if you are so inclined

Yuyuka flying out of a cannon at Moonfire Faire.

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I Lalafell and I Can't Get Up ✨ @bexplaysffxiv.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Beloved daughter enjoying the festivities 🏖️

Yuyuka, a blonde-haired lalafell wearing a green sleeveless top and shorts with flowery sunglasses, flies off the end off a large waterslide with a smile.

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I Lalafell and I Can't Get Up ✨ @bexplaysffxiv.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

So whenever I change job I get this spammed in the chat for every single gear piece, and none of my friends get it but even after all these years I have no idea how to turn it off? Does anyone know?

FFXIV screenshot showing each individual gear piece being glamoured when I change to gunbreaker.

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I Lalafell and I Can't Get Up ✨ @bexplaysffxiv.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Yep - Roscoe is Ala Mhigan, so he has that Yorkshire accent. His voice claim is Sean Bean (old outdated video but the voice is accurate - audio from Civilisations VI and LOTR!)

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I Lalafell and I Can't Get Up ✨ @bexplaysffxiv.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

The subtleties in the twins' expressions have looked SO good in the ShB patches post-graphics update, and Alisaie's face after learning the Exarch is willing to sacrifice himself to get them all home breaks my heart

Alisaie, standing in the Crystarium courtyard with her arms folded, looks crestfallen.

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I Lalafell and I Can't Get Up ✨ @bexplaysffxiv.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

So uhh anyone know how to fix this? I don't know what it's trying to tell me to do and it persisted even on the login screen so I just had to disable it

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I Lalafell and I Can't Get Up ✨ @bexplaysffxiv.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

In Game vs Art ✨ (Note both of these were drawn before I removed his horns and added whiskers, he is long overdue new art) I tend to exaggerate the head/body size ratio for lalafells, as well as giving Roscoe more detailed facial features, scars, buck teeth, and a lot of body hair!

Turnaround gpose of Roscoe in his black machinist coat, with his weapons, the Manatrigger of the First Light and the Fae King's Handgonne.

Artwork of Roscoe from the Dawntrail release, wearing his machinist coat in brown and holding up a gun. The smoke from the gun reads '3, 2, 1, Dawntrail!'

Artwork of Roscoe from the shoulders up, wearing a purple shirt and smiling.

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I Lalafell and I Can't Get Up ✨ @bexplaysffxiv.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Roscoe - canon WoL (or Warrior of Darkness, technically) Khali'ra - Roscoe's husband, ex-Immortal Flames, baker Saran - Roscoe's Thirteenth shard and ex-reaper avatar Mimiru - Roscoe's mum, ex-Resistance member, now Ironworks Hari (not pictured) - Roscoe's papa, retired Euphony - Roscoe's Azem

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I Lalafell and I Can't Get Up ✨ @bexplaysffxiv.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

I chat to these two at every chance I get in ARR and it's always an experience

Papalymo says to Yda: "In which event we must guide them to Little Ala Mhigo, else we condemn them to certain death... Yda, what did I just tell you?"

Yda says "Hm hm. Condemn refugees to death... Wait a minute, that's not right."

Papalymo says to Yda, "We cannot send this to Gridania! The figures are all wrong! And for the love of the Twelve, you misspelled the Elder Seedseer's name!"

Yda says, "If you're going to be such a stickler for details, why not write it yourself!?"

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I Lalafell and I Can't Get Up ✨ @bexplaysffxiv.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Old man hangout (they are in their 20s and 30s)

Thancred says to Roscoe: "May as well have a seat. We wouldn't want our elderly knees to give out."

Roscoe, Thancred and Urianger sitting around a table at the docks.

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I Lalafell and I Can't Get Up ✨ @bexplaysffxiv.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Roscoe, slowly and nebulously becoming a father figure to Yuyuka, learning that when your daughter gives you puppy eyes You Godsdamn Listen to Her

Thancred, out of frame, saying to Roscoe "Just go quietly, Roscoe. Trust me." Alisaie and Alphinaud look on in the background.

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