Crazy Personal Headcanons

When Heavensward was in swing, back when tanks had their own unique defensive cooldowns, some better than others, and other just exact copies of Rampart; the buff Shadowskin on Dark Knight made me imagine that when a Tank uses a mitigation cooldown their body/skin physically changes in appearance.

Like Shadowskin's icon was this deep dark reddish purple that kinda looked like a really gruesome version of protect in the tooltip icon. There were a few short stories I wrote on other websites that I sorta garbage balled later or didn't every really flesh out where I had this Dark Knight character's armor get rended through, and the skin underneath and his face being all glowy, dark gem like with the blade or claw breaking on it. This idea was also how I justified there being so aetherially mesh rippled like physical attacks used to do when you were struck while under the effect of protect.

Not my headcanon, but I adopted it: The Twelve deities of Eorzea are based on the twelve Amaurotians who summoned Hydaelyn.

Alphinaud is crushing on Estinien, hard. Or is that canon at this point?
I find Alphinaud frustrating at best, and I have only recently begun to like Estinien in, like, any capacity so nooo
This is not some slash shipping fantasy

I think I stated one of my major headcanons before, probably in another thread, but I keep thinking that Shinryu looks so much like Midgardsormr not just because it's convenient for the whole Omega plotline, but also because Ilberd kept wanting "a Calamity greater than Bahamut", and as Captain of the Crystal Braves, he was likely stationed in Revenant's Toll, staring day after day at the giant draconic remains of Midgardsormr wrapped around the Agrius.

My headcanon is that if the Wol were to ever die Aymeric would be the swiftest to go nab our bodies and just loudly proclaim over the other city state leaders debating who got the right to our funeral that he already nabbed us and that Ishguard would give us the best send off because they have the biggest space that could also accompany dragons. I also feel that Edmont has the best of spies as he almost always seems to just happen to to be just in the area and just happen to have known we were in town. Like he's all hey I'm just an old man and yeah I'm not your dad, but I totally just happened to be in the same part of town and needed to come and see how you were doing and remind you that you can always stop by the manor for a meal.

Gerolt actually wants to be in debt with Rowena.

Since he knows that if an Adventurer ever finds a lost tome about or an actual old legendary weapon, they'll invariably end up talking to Rowena about it. Thus, while being in debt with her means he'll ALWAYS be the first person she goes to when it comes to recreating an incredibly powerful weapon.

Which is better than being left alone where he'll struggle to get inspiration for amazing projects (As somewhat noted by Grenoldt).

Oh another wild shipping theory I have is that somehow Yugiri and Aymeric dated. Any scene they're both in and she's trying to hide he'll go hey shadowalker I see you so why don't you come over and join the conversation. Even when she's already part of the conversation and he joins it she ends up being flustered around him.

Hydaelyn is a crazy, out of control AI. She lost it aeons ago and now is just stuck in a loop of Must ... Kill ... Darkness. She even sounds like it, she never has a conversation with anyone, she just drones at people in a scripted fashion. Presumably Zodiark is an equally crazy, possibly even more out of control AI. Not sure how Venat and Elidibus fit into my headcanon but I'll squoosh them in somehow!

Beq Lugg is Matoya's First soul fragment.

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Originally Posted by Elladie

Hydaelyn is a crazy, out of control AI. She lost it aeons ago and now is just stuck in a loop of Must ... Kill ... Darkness. She even sounds like it, she never has a conversation with anyone, she just drones at people in a scripted fashion. Presumably Zodiark is an equally crazy, possibly even more out of control AI. Not sure how Venat and Elidibus fit into my headcanon but I'll squoosh them in somehow!

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Zodiark is Harbinger, the Unsundered Ascians are the Reapers, primals are the Collectors, their tempered thralls are husks, and Zenos is going for a Renegade Control ending.