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Respheal

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Hi. I don't know what I'm doing. Mostly FFXIV and Zelda. She/Her. WoL: @forgedinfury.etheirys.social linktr.ee/Respheal

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Respheal @respheal.bsky.social · 15h
Me when I could take out the enemy leader to end the battle in Fire Emblem but there are still other enemies on the map
Bakugo at the final arc of My Hero Academia, proclaiming, "Nah, nothing less than absolute victory...FOR ME!!"
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Respheal @respheal.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Hot take probably but as excited as I am for the OoT remake, the youngins who accused TotK's Hyrule of imperialism aren't ready for the sins of Hyrule's Ocarina era.
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Respheal @respheal.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Fire Emblem and Persona had a tryst in Tokyo Mirage Sessions and Fortune's Weave is the lovechild
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Respheal @respheal.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
PLD/WAR picking up Beastmaster: do I throw my axe or my shield as a ranged attack.......eh, screw it *throws entire self*
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tharannas @tharannas.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
what do you mean this hot silver fox is actually barely older than me [ #ffxiv | #ff14 | #cidnangarlond | #macymcnugget ]
A two-frame comic page. The first frame shows Macy (WoL), a pink miqo'te in dark armor, hugging Cid. She says: "Thank you for always being there for us, Cid. You're like a father to me". The second frame shows Cid quickly showing Macy away while still holding her by the shoulders, face concerned. [1/2]A two-frame comic page. The first frame shows Cid crouching to get on Macy's level to look her directly in the eyes. He says: "Macy. My friend. It is important to me that you know: I'm 34".
The second frame shows Macy being so flabbergasted she's drawn by non-dominant hand, contrasting with normally drawn Cid. [2/2]
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Trung Le Nguyen @trungles.com · 31/01/2026
It always feels like all the wrong people die, but I think it’s because there are far more beloved people than there are bastards.
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robin j.l. ✴︎ @wyrmregards.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
diluvia 🌊 #witchhatatelier ✧ #art
An illustration of Qifrey from Witch Hat Atelier, casting his signature water dragon spell. He is a pale-skinned witch with fluffy white hair, wearing small round glasses, a tall pointed white witch hat, and flowing grey robes. He is drawing a glowing golden sigil above his head, from which a huge dragon made of water is emerging, winding around his body.
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Helikasei @helikasei.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
the wind blows
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🐍姐姐殺我🐍🔜 GatewayFate 200 @lycheesnake.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
To see a brighter tomorrow.
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Respheal @respheal.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Finally, he can get what's comin'
A poorly edited stock image of a football player about to kick the everloving shit out of the Calyx plushie
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Respheal @respheal.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Comic Fury is a godsend and a bastion of the old guard. Everyone say Thank You, Kyo
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Respheal @respheal.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Finally, the REAL Zelda timeline
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GuriTia @guri-tia.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
没这么画过,记录一下
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✄肉丸 @rouwan.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
The Bloody Banquet #ffxiv
painting of FFXIV questline Bloody Banquet. Nanamo lies upside down while lalafell Hjalmarr reaches out in the goblets reflection. Raubahn and Pipin stand in battle behind Nanamo's crown.
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shilin / commission waitlist open! @shilin.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
close in the distance wanna paint another big xiv piece again but all i can think about is my catboy 🖼️
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Eggroller 🍳🌱 @eggroller.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
Occult Crescent solo players #FFXIV #FF14
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saba sabaton @ gateway fate 501 @sabato-n.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
OUR UNENDING JOURNEY volumes 1 through 5 are now available for preorder on Fanhouse! Promotion on the price for the first 30 hours💥 Global shipping available!! Thank you all so much for your support! www.fanhouse2017.net/products/%E3...
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월 @mondayday.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
#FF14 #FFXIV
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Max58 @max58.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Dormin #ShadowOfTheColossus
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YMR // 🎮 7.56 evercold waiting room @ymr18.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
it was my first time ever drawing on a tablet with a screen so i decided to not draw anything difficult. that being said, here's my daughter Meteion [ #ff14 #ffxiv #ff14art #ffxivart #meteion ]
colored sketch of Meteion from ff14. she is looking to the side and smiling
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HATA八塔 @hatakaede.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
#FF14イラスト #FF14 暁月の頃の絵です、花畑を描き終えた時点で力尽きました
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Respheal @respheal.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
I've been making little web apps to help with niche bits of FFXIV's gameplay so here's the latest one I made for gardening (harvesting, watering, fertilizing timers): respheal.github.io/ffxiv-garden...
respheal.github.io
FFXIV Garden Timers
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Respheal @respheal.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
We've *got* to get Blitzball in this game
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chidorinnn @chidorinnn.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
FOUND IT
You know, one thing I don’t think I’ve seen almost anyone talk about is Fordola’s narrative role as the representation of Ala Mhigo’s stolen and indoctrinated youth. 

This isn’t really a dissertation, or a hard thesis with cited sources, more just … some musings. Garlemald is a near-textbook fascist nation (by design) that constantly expands itself via colonization and occupation. Expansionist fascist nations need more soldiers to do this, so they indoctrinate the youth of the nation to serve their own ends and dismantle the rebellion before it even really starts. Youth are promised the world if only they’ll believe everything they’re told, and fight for the overlords when needed and pulled away from their roots. Garlemald is, like most fascist nations, enthralling and able to pull people in and keep them in. There’s a strong sense of purpose, a chance to feel as though conscripts are making “a real difference”, and a charismatic leader at it’s head. 

The most overt of this is the Crania Lupi, made by van Balesar – a regimen filled with Ala Mhigan youth who are bitter and resentful that they’re still seen as “savages” and are willing to do anything to get the respect of the Garleans. They’re used as enforcers and rebellion-quellers, often by beating up their own kinsmen, who then ostracize them for their actions. It’s the perfect set up to drive a wedge between the younger and elder generations, and weaken any sort of uprising that might be brewing. Fordola, being the commander of this unit, is more the symbol of what Gaius was trying to achieve than anyone else. She’s given enough power to feel important, but knows it comes with a cost, and dire consequences if she fails, much like her peers. She keeps digging herself (and the Lupi) deeper and deeper in a way to try and meet the moving goalposts, and hates herself and what she’s doing every step of the way. She knows that she’s betraying her people, her heritage, but she doesn’t see any other way out because she’s so thoroughly been pulled into this whirlpool of fascist ideology. Even her name is so overt about this – it’s a Garlean last name: Lupis. 

In terms of her character, she’s extremely unlikable. She’s angry, she’s brash, she pushes people away and tries to goad them into hating her, much like how she hates herself. She hates the world for putting her in the position she’s in, but also she hates the powers that left her where she is, and has no frame of reference to move past it beyond simply following Garlemald’s orders. She isn’t nice. At all. She’s marginalized and oppressed, but given just enough power (with very specific rules on who she can use that power on) to leave her unwilling to completely leave the place she’s built up. 

The most recent short story highlights how she doesn’t feel Ala Mhigan or  Garlean, and also how she knows she’ll have to sign up as a Garlean  soldier in order to allay suspicion on her friends or her family. She’s  being looked down upon by her elders for going along with the Garleans,  but then also looked down on by the Garleans for being “barely better  than a savage”. She’s desperate for a place to call her own, to be  accepted, wanted, relied upon, like so many of her peers. She’s only nineteen, and has been coerced and reeled in by the people above her into this horrible meat-grinder of a system. Of course she won’t be easily likable or understood, or even a good person. There is so much that she, and by extension her generation, have to unlearn and relearn. At the end of the day, yes, she’s responsible for her own choices and the places that she’s landed herself in. I’m not denying that. But the level of which she, and by extension her generation, have been taught to follow Garlemald’s footsteps is … staggering.  In a way, we never really need to see who her friends are, because she  so thoroughly represents her entire generation of Ala Mhigan youth that  never had the chance to leave, like Arenvald.     

I’m not saying you have to like her. There’s plenty of reasons why not to do so. But… I dunno. It draws a little too close to home for me to just write her off as irredeemable or a complete failure of a person, because that’s essentially condemning an entire generation to doom and robbing Ala Mhigo of their future. The whole point of the Crania Lupi arc is that the kids that were supposed to be the future were stolen and pitted against their own people, and that means that they’re going to come out traumatized and ugly in how they react to things, which Fordola isn’t shy about showing.
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surfaçage @surfacage.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
wait what #ffxiv
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Nova Crystallis @novacrystallis.com · 06/05/2026
Are you a disabled/trans/GNC/woman streamer or content creator that plays Final Fantasy XIV? Long-time player or just start? Drop a reply with a link to your channel and whatever you'd like to share about yourself!
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どっこいしょ @dokkoidokkoi-hc.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
オンリー参加用にアカウント作りました!ひろラハとかひろ公とか
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Agui!🌻 @aguichart.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
She's ready #ffxivart
Asteria with a bunch of bisexual flags bigger than her
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Respheal @respheal.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Hey #FFXIV folks, if you're looking for a charity to contribute to this Pride Month, Jonathan Bailey, voice actor for G'raha Tia, founded a LGBTQ+ charity fund: theshamelessfund.org
theshamelessfund.org
The Shameless Fund | Raising Cash. Erasing Shame.
Foundation founded by Jonathan Bailey to use brand collaborations to raise money to support LGBTQ+ rights and organisations.
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Azanny @azanny.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
#endwalkerspoilers
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Respheal @respheal.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Biromantic polyamorous asexual ✌️ I write, I draw, I dabble with gpose, and I love my also-bisexual femWoL very much
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Respheal @respheal.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Nobody: Hunt marks when the train rolls in:
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Respheal @respheal.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Hold fast to what you must, and meet your fate without fear. Go forth. Discover. Unite the stars unto one. Let none bar your path. ⋆₊⁺⋆ 🜚 ⋆⁺₊⋆ #ffxiv #dawntrail #evercold #spoilers #patch7.5
Fanart of FFXIV. A Warrior of Light is walking away from the viewer on a fiery bridge, starkly backlit against the portal created by Ethos. She carries Hydaelyn's sword and wears cold-weather fending gear with the Fortemps Kite Shield on her back. Behind and above the portal, Azem offers Ethos to the viewer as if imparting a secret. Azem's summoning sigil glows in the background like a halo behind Azem.
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Bimbogami★ @kyonshii.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
OUJ is so good i shill it to my friends that don't play xiv. saba is an AMAZING storyteller with such a unique art style and they deserve so much more recognition for all the hard work they put into this comic. genuinely one of my favorite comics of all time i look forward to updates like christmas
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Jaque’s Art @jaquesart.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
"Go forth. Discover. Unite the stars unto one. Let none bar your path." #Azem #FinalFantasyXIV
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Respheal @respheal.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
I noticed a key term in the #FFXIV 8.0 Evolved Mode showcase that may indeed give our capstone abilities some incredible weight: one-time action. I think moves like Sky High might be once per battle, which would be very cool. Effectively a single person LB (and SH does have the LB icon).
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Respheal @respheal.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
The Light Warden glams are going to pop off
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Zack Davisson @zackdavisson.com · 14/04/2026
The most bad-ass rebuttal from Tite Kubo, the author of Bleach.
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saba sabaton @ gateway fate 501 @sabato-n.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
i think people should read ouj because there is drama and gay people. and existential crises. and the crushing weight of familial expectations. and the shadows you haven't quite left behind. and the darkness inside that scares you. and nuclearly bad situationship crashout rebounds OF COURSE
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FINAL FANTASY XIV @en.finalfantasyxiv.com · 18/03/2026
Check out the Square Enix Publisher Sale, featuring special guests and one critically acclaimed MMORPG with a free trial... www.youtube.com/watch?v=joDX...
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Matt Mercer (& Ben Starr?) on What RPG You Should Play Next | Square Enix Publisher Sale 2026
YouTube video by Square Enix
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saba sabaton @ gateway fate 501 @sabato-n.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
yo yo, i've been talking recently with the folks at namicomi and i'd like to let u guys know that they just posted a guide to licensing your webcomic/webtoon work under fair terms! there are plenty of predatory contracts out there so i highly recommend taking a look. namicomi.com/en/fair
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Respheal @respheal.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
I like how, despite there being tons of undead and plenty of opportunity, there's never really been an outright Zombie Apocalypse in FFXIV (in modern history). That is the one genre we'll never really dip into. If there ever was a zombie outbreak, we'll just throw Hildibrand at the situation.
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JoCat 🔜 Spokane Ren Faire @jocat.net · 13/03/2026
I'm gonna be collecting figures of all my friends WoLs on a shelf like they're anime figures
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nekh @ ascian battery pack @nekh.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
he plays ffxiv
panel of olruggio from witch hat atelier saying "a real witch is always casting"
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TeoPyon @teopyon.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
Fierce Deity Link as a guitarist... 🖤🖤🌙 #zelda #tloz #fiercedeity #thelegendofzelda #ゼルダの伝説
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Respheal @respheal.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
Zelda's real good at clearing rooms. Haven't really settled on a good boss-smasher. Calamo really clicked when I needed a lot of elemental effects (Hero of Fruit?)
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Zelda Universe @zeldauniverse.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
I think he's my favorite.
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Respheal @respheal.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
Anyway I think I should play Spirit Tracks again
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Respheal @respheal.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
I remembered this site exists because sometimes I want to say one (1) thing and that doesn't feel like it warrants a whole post on Tumblr
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Respheal @respheal.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
The new Rainbow Road track makes me cry every time and I'm mad about it
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