they should've been brown

Finally posted it 🙏

exactly. with destiny there was Your Guardian and then there was the Default Young Wolf who most people consider to be their own character. so the ocs people would make were basically npcs also. they existed in the setting but it didn't revolve around them. ykwim never seen a fandom like xiv before

it's kinda shocking to me how little npc/npc stuff there is out there even with like thancred and urianger. i come from the destiny community originally and its really not pc based over there so it's been a strange experience for me seeing ocs have the dominant voice in character spaces

for real 😭 biggest complaint i have is how all* of them downplay aymeric and estinien's canon friendship so their wol can be More Important or something. idk. reeks of either homophobia or insecurity. or both

*exaggerating here but it is a common thread ive noticed

there's been a Lot of people straight up posting about how "trite" or "boring" or (can't forget this banger) "toxic" e/stimeric is w/o censoring it for the past few months. notably by a lot m/f w*lshippers unfortunately

i think the ginormous amount of nuclear family heteronormative w**meric out there should be studied in a lab.