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the brain rot is real | 6.2 spoilers @fadamniel.bsky.social · Nov 15

a lot of people are following me, so just to go over things:
- this is a SFW space and i aim to keep it that way!
- i like zenos + fandaniel and talk a lot about them, so if you really hate their characters, you shouldn't follow me
- please don't repost my stuff
- thank u 🙇‍♀️

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Wack @wackflounder.bsky.social · 4d

More Fortemps cause I miss them

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the brain rot is real | 6.2 spoilers @fadamniel.bsky.social · 6d

honestly it makes me laugh when people insist that zenos had anything close to sharing any ideals of the garlean empire when he literally was the main man pouring gasoline on the thing in the hopes it would burn faster

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the brain rot is real | 6.2 spoilers @fadamniel.bsky.social · 6d

wol: that's shinryu, right
zenos: the very one
wol: shinryu, the embodiment of hatred of the garlean empire
zenos: yep
wol: and you're the garlean crown prince
zenos: that's me
wol: and you just said you're going to kin this thing
zenos: i'm going to kin it so hard

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DaPanda @destiny-islanders @dapandabanda.bsky.social · 9d

this is all saint's wake #ffxiv #finalfantasyxiv

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the brain rot is real | 6.2 spoilers @fadamniel.bsky.social · 11d

you see, i'm not like OTHER sprouts. i memorize every mechanic for every dungeon and when i get in on on roulette duty and do a dungeon i've only done once before i proceed to forget every single mechanic in the span of 0.1 seconds because i saw a giant crab and i got scared

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the brain rot is real | 6.2 spoilers @fadamniel.bsky.social · 23d

really wish that emet had realized the Fandaniel Problem early if only because it would be like
fandaniel: life! doesn't matter! hoo hoo!
emet-selch: haha! oh what fun! so true, fellow ascian! (bending over to elidibus and whispering) we have to kill this clown right fucking now

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nat @jofy892.bsky.social · 29d

nonagon infinity opens the door!

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the brain rot is real | 6.2 spoilers @fadamniel.bsky.social · 28d

shout out to me and the 2.5 foulques fans out there. people who are not foulques fans keep playing ffxiv for like 10 thousand more hours and then you will understand the majesty of our man of the mist

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the brain rot is real | 6.2 spoilers @fadamniel.bsky.social · 28d

person who played 10 hours of ffxiv: you gotta get into foulques from the lancer quests
person who played 500 hours of ffxiv: you gotta get into emet-selch
person who played 20000 hours of ffxiv: you gotta get into foulques from the lancer quests

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LVL100 Paladin Kei @saintnurse.bsky.social · 29d

(old) hermes :)

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eden's anamorphosis @anamorphosis.etheirys.social · Sep 10

Shout out to how much of a marriage proposal Zenos's fakeout truce offer is originally, good lord

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the brain rot is real | 6.2 spoilers @fadamniel.bsky.social · Sep 11

FINALLY. REAL FANART IS BACK

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Athenaeum @athenaether.bsky.social · Sep 11

I told you I'd turn Zenos (bonus Shinryu) into Hollow Knight Bugg

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the brain rot is real | 6.2 spoilers @fadamniel.bsky.social · Aug 27

i don't believe that it was a true parallel or anything, but the way the lykaones are described and how hermes talks to the one dying, and then fandaniel, despite everything he is, beelining to zenos in all his viciousness. me connecting the red line between the two. thinking

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the brain rot is real | 6.2 spoilers @fadamniel.bsky.social · Aug 27

#FFXIV #FFXIVart #EndwalkerSpoilers a lingering sympathy for vicious beasts

A drawn Hermes from FFXIV is seen from the back, cradling a dying lykaon's head gently.

A drawn Fandaniel is seen from the back, gesturing in front of an unamused Zenos Viator Galvus. The pose is meant to parallel with the first picture.

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the brain rot is real | 6.2 spoilers @fadamniel.bsky.social · Aug 25

anyways. thank u for sticking with me through this thread!!!!🙇‍♀️...we all know what happens next after this (teenager roasting a adult man for being a selfish asshat). i love this scene so much, man. zenos one of the characters of All Time

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the brain rot is real | 6.2 spoilers @fadamniel.bsky.social · Aug 25

in the end, the quote is not just supposed meta commentary but a warning in how we should not define our lives strictly through the perspective or opinions of others. we should not be so hasty as to wave off what others do if we just assume they had a "good reason" to do it

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the brain rot is real | 6.2 spoilers @fadamniel.bsky.social · Aug 25

and this is where zenos states his philosophy clearly - you do not need others to give you answers. nobody - a person, an empire, a leader - can tell YOU what YOUR life means. if you want "good reasons" don't let anyone else give them to you. find them on your own

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the brain rot is real | 6.2 spoilers @fadamniel.bsky.social · Aug 25

however, zenos takes a turn and lays off of jullus, saying that in the end, its only human for everyone to give their own explanations to why they do what they do. this is not wrong, and its not right, either. in the end, everyone wants to justify their own actions

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the brain rot is real | 6.2 spoilers @fadamniel.bsky.social · Aug 25

zenos isn't saying this to denounce garlemald. he doesn't care about the empire and its people regardless. but in saying jullus would wear a "beast's skin" if he accepted a "good reason" for another's actions, he shows that he knows how blinded the garleans are to themselves

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the brain rot is real | 6.2 spoilers @fadamniel.bsky.social · Aug 25

"if my motives met with your approval, would you no longer resent the outcome" is a callout of jullus's hypocrisy. he questions zenos as to "why" he did the horrific things he did while also giving a pass to the garlean empire for doing things for the "good" of the country

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the brain rot is real | 6.2 spoilers @fadamniel.bsky.social · Aug 25

so zenos understands war and the power of garlemald's propaganda in ways jullus never will. he confirms as much when he continues, asking if jullus surely saw how his leaders used power and "good reasons" in their self-righteousness to justify their actions

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the brain rot is real | 6.2 spoilers @fadamniel.bsky.social · Aug 25

so, zenos delivers his rebuttal. "would you be "happier" if i had a "good reason"?" is a direct skewer to jullus. zenos has never met jullus before, but he understands he is garlean and is certainly a soldier. zenos himself was no figurehead, but an active military leader as well

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the brain rot is real | 6.2 spoilers @fadamniel.bsky.social · Aug 25

so when zenos utters that the fall of garlemald was just "wasted effort" - seeing it as a way to get the wol's attention which failed - jullus sees red. how could something so core to his beliefs, the power of the empire and the wellbeing of its people, be so useless to zenos?

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the brain rot is real | 6.2 spoilers @fadamniel.bsky.social · Aug 25

but what makes zenos such a paradox is that despite being raised in such an environment with no outside influence that could sway him, zenos has absolutely no loyalty for garlemald. he could care less for furthering its ambitions unless they coincide with his own

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