Crazy Personal Headcanons

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Originally Posted by Brightamethyst

I like to imagine that somewhere out there is a roegadyn named Independent Merchant, founder of the Independent Trading Company, and he makes all members adopt the name when they join.

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Like the building company in Breath of the Wild where any new higher needs to have their first name end in Son?

I just thought of a somewhat disturbing idea. What if the reason why Elidibus didn't nope the heck out of Zenos's body when confronted by him wasn't that he knew he'd lose so easily, but that he feared Zenos would somehow figure out that he was a primal. That in finding that out would make Zenos want to possess Elidibus. If just due to curiosity.

Azem was the original Blue Mage, allowing them to defeat any threat by being able to copy, learn, and use any abilities their opponents possessed. All BLU job crystals are empty and have to be filled because Azem wouldn't want those with the art to already have the moves in advance, they'd want the users to explore the world and see new things, just as Azem did.

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Originally Posted by RyuDragnier

Azem was the original Blue Mage, allowing them to defeat any threat by being able to copy, learn, and use any abilities their opponents possessed. All BLU job crystals are empty and have to be filled because Azem wouldn't want those with the art to already have the moves in advance, they'd want the users to explore the world and see new things, just as Azem did.

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Same. I agree. All my Like are belong to you. <3

I feel Fourchenault's expression when he sees that the WoL is entwined as to why or how Pandaemonium suddenly appears in the Aetherial Sea isn't just a "By the twelve why is it always you" look. It's also a "Not again" look as far as we know Pandaemonium would be the 2nd time something big just randomly popped into the Aetherial Sea. The 1st would be when Gaulf and other Senior members of the Students of Baldesion chose to plunge the Isle of Val into it.

A fairly tame bit of headcanon that I only just realized I have: The Warrior of Light doesn't drink. They have too many bad memories attached to drinking, but those memories are also so specific and heavy that nobody wants to even try talking them out of that.

"Hey, do you want a drink?"
"No thanks, every time I've shared a drink with someone there's been an assassination attempt that put allied nations in jeopardy."
"...well I don't even know where to start with that."

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Originally Posted by Cleretic

A fairly tame bit of headcanon that I only just realized I have: The Warrior of Light doesn't drink. They have too many bad memories attached to drinking, but those memories are also so specific and heavy that nobody wants to even try talking them out of that.

"Hey, do you want a drink?"
"No thanks, every time I've shared a drink with someone there's been an assassination attempt that put allied nations in jeopardy."
"...well I don't even know where to start with that."

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I don't think it's headcannon. I think the first time they at least in MSQ that they actually didn't act cagey around alcohol is in Endwalker. Not sure what they were drinking during the meal scene in their annex room was. But I want to say the drink they are given when they sit down to spend time with the oldest Scions might have been alcoholic. As I want to say we were given a wine glass.

Course the WoL is kinda cagey about food in general. My headcannon is that he allowed G'Raha to keep to the Exarch persona as for me a note from them with that basket of sandwiches wouldn't be enough to make the WoL feel easy enough to trust said food.

Knowing how much of a dork the WoL is I feel that some how that is part of their soul. And that Azem was just as much of a dork. Thus why Emet-Selch looks like he gets no sleep when Azem is mentioned. I also feel that Emet-Selch is an introvert of some sort. He always seems to be wanting to find alone time.

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Originally Posted by SannaR

Knowing how much of a dork the WoL is I feel that some how that is part of their soul. And that Azem was just as much of a dork. Thus why Emet-Selch looks like he gets no sleep when Azem is mentioned. I also feel that Emet-Selch is an introvert of some sort. He always seems to be wanting to find alone time.

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I mean.. is that really headcanon? That just sounds like canon. lol

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Originally Posted by Alleluia

I mean.. is that really headcanon? That just sounds like canon. lol

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Which part? As we don't know if personality traits cling to the soul. All we know is Azem was seen as eccentric by your average Ancient. Meanwhile I think many of the Scions would face palm if they saw us doing almost anything the Loporrits asked of us during their tribal quests. Or how we look on the mount from them. At least only some Oronir would have seen us riding the mount we get from the Namazu.

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Originally Posted by SannaR

Which part? As we don't know if personality traits cling to the soul. All we know is Azem was seen as eccentric by your average Ancient. Meanwhile I think many of the Scions would face palm if they saw us doing almost anything the Loporrits asked of us during their tribal quests. Or how we look on the mount from them. At least only some Oronir would have seen us riding the mount we get from the Namazu.

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Well, uh... Azem is consider weird and dorky enough that 12/13 members of the Convocation (sans Azem's best friend Emet-Selch) took their statement about taking one of Lahabrea's concepts and running off to fight a volcanic eruption for the sake of saving the delicious grapes on the island the volcano is on at face value. The same Convocation consisting of the best and brightest members of mankind who are also specifically trained to be able to parse truth from lies. And Azem has apparently been censured for similar actions and commentary repeatedly according to "Ere Our Curtain Falls".

Azem's reputation as a weirdo is so profound that WoL is able to excuse all of their behavior in the Unsundered Past by calling themselves Azem's familiar, and one Elpis researcher's first reaction to what he thinks is Azem is, "What in the blazes are you doing here?"

I'm still curious what the Endwalker logo is supposed to be. People say that "oh its just the Ragnarok going to the Moon!" but that doesn't look like the Moon, and the Moon doesn't have a giant hole in the middle unless you consider the small speck Zodiark occupied to be a massive cavern. Then on top of that the Ragnarok doesn't look like a giant flying square pillar, and we didn't take the Ragnarok to the Moon to begin with.

I've seen "Hollow Earth" symbols that look STRIKINGLY similar to the Endwalker logo, and I feel as if they're going to go with a "Hollow Etheirys" with a hole somewhere at the planets Polar region. Maybe another group comes in on a giant flying square thing to invade the Poles of the planet for one reason or another?

Idk but the Endwalker logo never sat right with me because its inconsistent with the story thats happened thus far, which is different from every other logo in the games history

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Originally Posted by Sieggi858

I'm still curious what the Endwalker logo is supposed to be. People say that "oh its just the Ragnarok going to the Moon!" but that doesn't look like the Moon, and the Moon doesn't have a giant hole in the middle unless you consider the small speck Zodiark occupied to be a massive cavern. Then on top of that the Ragnarok doesn't look like a giant flying square pillar, and we didn't take the Ragnarok to the Moon to begin with.

I've seen "Hollow Earth" symbols that look STRIKINGLY similar to the Endwalker logo, and I feel as if they're going to go with a "Hollow Etheirys" with a hole somewhere at the planets Polar region. Maybe another group comes in on a giant flying square thing to invade the Poles of the planet for one reason or another?

Idk but the Endwalker logo never sat right with me because its inconsistent with the story thats happened thus far, which is different from every other logo in the games history

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The logo is Ultima Thule, or more specifically, the giant dead planet at the middle top of it. That's what the sphere is.

Come on guys.. it's the Moon... the game's title screen outright shows it, the moon travels across the screen before turning into the title. Remember, the Ragnarok's original purpose was a shuttle between Hydaelyn and the Moon, not going on intergalactic voyages. And the 'big hole' is clearly The Cradle of Darkness, have a look at the Mare Lamentorum map if you don't believe me.

And before you pass judgement saying "but it doesn't look like the moon", neither does the Ragnarok in the title, but there you are - that's Yoshitaka Amano's artwork for you, it's a stylized depiction and never 100% the same.

I'm really sorry if that came across as testy or nasty (especially as this thread is about crazy or impossible stuff), but yeah, I would have thought it was pretty simple to understand what the title was meant to be (especially given all the moon iconography throughout EW's promotional phase - it's even in the banner at the top of this very forum!).

Agreed, its the moon. It doesn't look remotely like the ultimatum. Meteion's ultimatum is more smoothly textured and not a stand alone sphere. It hangs like a water droplet or a cocoon or a booger. And the dead star it spawns from doesn't work either.

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Originally Posted by Dikatis

Well, uh... Azem is consider weird and dorky enough that 12/13 members of the Convocation (sans Azem's best friend Emet-Selch) took their statement about taking one of Lahabrea's concepts and running off to fight a volcanic eruption for the sake of saving the delicious grapes on the island the volcano is on at face value. The same Convocation consisting of the best and brightest members of mankind who are also specifically trained to be able to parse truth from lies. And Azem has apparently been censured for similar actions and commentary repeatedly according to "Ere Our Curtain Falls".

Azem's reputation as a weirdo is so profound that WoL is able to excuse all of their behavior in the Unsundered Past by calling themselves Azem's familiar, and one Elpis researcher's first reaction to what he thinks is Azem is, "What in the blazes are you doing here?"

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Yeah, but most of Azem's behavior would look like normal adventurer type stuff if done in present day in game. And as I said we don't know if personality traits are able to attach themselves to a soul or not. Course I think even if some of the Scions might wonder why they're friends with the WoL with some of the more zany stuff the WoL has done that they'd shrug it off. Since you know just about everyone has placed many a burden on their shoulders. So they might see it as allowing a friend to be as silly and do dorky stuff after all the burdens they've placed on em. You know just as long as they're not dragging around a corpse again.

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Originally Posted by Enkidoh

Come on guys.. it's the Moon... the game's title screen outright shows it, the moon travels across the screen before turning into the title. Remember, the Ragnarok's original purpose was a shuttle between Hydaelyn and the Moon, not going on intergalactic voyages. And the 'big hole' is clearly The Cradle of Darkness, have a look at the Mare Lamentorum map if you don't believe me.

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Just because they put a logo of a round thing on top of an image of a round thing, does not mean they are the same round thing. It can be part of the misdirection so you assume it's the moon until you arrive at Ultima and realise what you're actually looking at.

The Ragnarok's purpose was to go to the moon, but it never actually went there. It did go to Ultima.

And the Cradle of Darkness is simply not that big.

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Originally Posted by Iscah

Just because they put a logo of a round thing on top of an image of a round thing, does not mean they are the same round thing. It can be part of the misdirection so you assume it's the moon until you arrive at Ultima and realise what you're actually looking at.

The Ragnarok's purpose was to go to the moon, but it never actually went there. It did go to Ultima.

And the Cradle of Darkness is simply not that big.

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Its not as if the logo image matches up perfectly to anything in Ultima Thule either, though. I think the Cradle of Darkness being bigger in the logo than it should be isn't really a good argument against it being the moon in light of that.

Like... it's an Amano illustration, y'all. He famously takes a lot of artistic license. All that's really important is that it's evocative of the journey our heroes go on in the expansion. And it is. ┐(°ヮ°)┌

Heh, most definitely the place for this.

I think the reason Alphinaud has so much influence on basically everyone in a high position (way beyond being just a rich kid) is the fact he summoned Vauthry to his body. Of course thanks to previous character growth he's past the usual megalomaniacs who think they're beyond reproach, are infallible and can do everything on their own. No, he doesn't transform or throw pink magical gass of brainwashing, he just has Vauthry face on his body somewhere, much like Vauthry had that sin eater face on his, that gives his words more weight.
It's a more suddle influence that allows him to freely say anything and peoples brain makes it seem sensible and makes them act exactly the way he'd want them to act despite how childish what was said might actually be.

Let's be honest, it's the only way to explain how that guy who watches his beloved Satrap get devoured by a giant monster, watches as people around him, including his son, turn into monster and watching the giant one step and flatten his monster son to death could accept Alphinaud showing up with some empty words that make him go "Pfft, yeah, children. You win some you lose some. Meh, *shrug*"

/t Misplaced_Marbles That was cat boi, not the little lord.

Who thinks that some of the Orchestrion rolls outside of the XV collaboration and the ones from strictly outside sources confuse people in game. For example we learned that Aymeric is a collector. Now Imagine if the WoL visited him after coming back from somewhere and played him Civilization, Deep Down from Malikah's Well, A Long Fall from the Twinning or The Queen Awakens from Delubrum Rginae. And Aymeric going "Wait you said you found this inside a chest where? Were you meant to be hearing this while there?"

Ok so this isn't so much a headcannon but probably a funny and maybe one of the most awkward conversations a person could put the WoL in. That being a conversation between the WoL and Brother E-Sumi Yan or with any other padjal who became THE whm and ended up becoming a parent to a child born as a padjal. Could you imagine how that conversation would even go? "Sorry WoL, but rules are rules. You'll have to hand over the care of your child to the Conjurers guild so we can teach them how to use their powers." With the WoL just giving them a "Say what now?" look. Sure the Elementals haven't ever directly tried to speak to the WoL so we don't know if the Echo could help in understanding them. But we do know that a Whm WoL would not only already be apart of the guild, but probably could do a great job in making sure their child wasn't getting eaten by a voidsent. And after our time with Zero probably could probably ask her and "Golbez" a favor to make sure on their end that no voidsent they know will even think about trying to eat the WoL's kid.

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Originally Posted by SannaR

Sure the Elementals haven't ever directly tried to speak to the WoL so we don't know if the Echo could help in understanding them.

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If I remember correctly we see elementals speaking in 1.0, that's presumably interpreted by the Echo. Hell we can definitely understand the elementals in Eureka who sing and give us their blessing.

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Originally Posted by Zero-ELEC

If I remember correctly we see elementals speaking in 1.0, that's presumably interpreted by the Echo. Hell we can definitely understand the elementals in Eureka who sing and give us their blessing.

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That was during the White Mage questline, which is the only job questline they actually changed in the jump to ARR, presumably because they drastically changed how they were writing the Elementals.

Vrtra will use one of his vessels when he needs to reference some written material - dragons don't have a tradition of putting words on paper (or tomestones), but running a city generates a lot of data, and he is not going to ask the satrap every time he wants to read something.

When Viera and Hrothgar, two races hailing from faraway lands, first arrived in Eorzea, they found that the armorers and hatmakers of this realm do not know how make headwear to account for their ears.

Some have made do by squishing their ears under hats and helmets, while others took it upon themselves to cut openings in headgear. Many resorted to absolutely not wearing hats—though Hrothgar and Viera adventurers, of course, still need head protection, and therefore choose to endure uncomfortable helmets.

(please ignore any plotholes about Hrothgar conscripts in the Garlean Empire, thx)

The entire FF franchise takes place in the same galaxy and is all canon.
General laws of reality revealed in one title can be applied to others.
I will consider Dissidia and Stranger of Paradise as valuable resources when pondering time mechanics in other FFs and won't hear any differently.

Koana is a trans man. His birth parents never knew they had a son. The guy telling that story in 7.1 made it up -- maybe he saw the aftermath of the attack, but he never encountered Koana's parents. Koana realizes immediately that the story was fake, but he accepted it nonetheless because it made him realize that his earlier assumption was completely illogical.

Needlessly elaborate headcanon to explain away a plot point that really annoyed me.

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Originally Posted by SilverArrow20XX

The entire FF franchise takes place in the same galaxy and is all canon.
General laws of reality revealed in one title can be applied to others.
I will consider Dissidia and Stranger of Paradise as valuable resources when pondering time mechanics in other FFs and won't hear any differently.

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The lynchpin for this theory being IV: The After Years instantly makes me not care for it lmao

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Originally Posted by Zero-ELEC

The lynchpin for this theory being IV: The After Years instantly makes me not care for it lmao

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Don't worry, every other game in the series, including FFXIV, instead disproves this theory by going interdimensional. The main thread showing this one is Gilgamesh constantly going in and out of--oh, look at that--the Interdimensional Rift.

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Originally Posted by Zero-ELEC

The lynchpin for this theory being IV: The After Years instantly makes me not care for it lmao

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The After Years also disproves it, because it implies that the Creator actually destroyed all those other worlds.

The boss cameos in TAY are the same as the cameos in XIV and any other game, they're just references, not the exact same characters. Except Gilgamesh, of course.

I wouldn't really call this headcanon crazy, but it's one that I'm very fond of: Alphinaud and Alisaie are identical twins. I feel like this is a fairly reasonable assumption to make given their appearance. While it's possible for fraternal twins to look very similar, it's not as likely as it is with identical twins, and Alphinaud and Alisaie look similar to the point that characters in-universe mix them up; however, there's a major detail that throws a wrench in this idea, which is that identical twins are always the same sex. There's an easy explanation to get around this, though. It's one that I'm almost positive wasn't intentional on the writers' part, but that amusingly seems to have some accidental evidence supporting it: one of the twins is trans, and it's probably Alphinaud.

The reason why I headcanon Alphinaud as being trans rather than Alisaie is simply that I think there's a bit more in the text supporting it. He gets mistaken for a girl at a few points. In one instance of this, Matoya immediately assumes he's "Louisoix's granddaughter" upon seeing him as a teenager for the first time. This is probably meant to be her mistaking him for Alisaie, but I think it's fun to interpret this as her either not being aware of Louisoix having a grandson or forgetting that he has one. After all, Alphinaud and Alisaie were taken away from New Sharlayan when they were still infants, so Matoya likely didn't see them at all during the time they were gone and may have not received a ton of information on their status.

Anyway, in this headcanon, I imagine Alphinaud socially transitioned when he was pretty young (before attending the Studium), so him being trans isn't very widely known. Outside of his family, the Scions and some close friends probably know.

Another one: My headcanon is that Nero is a shard of Athena.

No, there's no basis for this at all. I was just thinking one day about what kind of person Athena might have been before she encountered the Heart of Sabik. And I figured she was probably a prickly asshole science jerk but not a total megalomaniac. And I realized that sounded a lot like someone else we know.

It also means Lahabrea was involved in the same evil scheme as his reincarnated wife and never knew it, which is just funny to me.

Also, another name for the mythological Athena was Cydonia, so I also decided that Athena once had a rival/ex-girlfriend by that name who just kept one-upping her. No points for guessing who her soul was reborn as.

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Originally Posted by Cleretic

Don't worry, every other game in the series, including FFXIV, instead disproves this theory by going interdimensional. The main thread showing this one is Gilgamesh constantly going in and out of--oh, look at that--the Interdimensional Rift.

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Time and space are dimensions. You use the Rift between dimensions to bypass normal space. Kinda like Shadesmar of the Cosmere.
A place far enough removed in time and space might as well be another dimension.
The Rift is used to warp, time travel, and travel to parallel planes.

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Originally Posted by PorxiesRCute

The After Years also disproves it, because it implies that the Creator actually destroyed all those other worlds.

The boss cameos in TAY are the same as the cameos in XIV and any other game, they're just references, not the exact same characters. Except Gilgamesh, of course.

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It only implies that The Creator seeded those worlds and seemingly intends to destroy them at some point. Whether it's already been done or not isn't specified. I like to think he was stopped from doing that when he was defeated.

It's just a more fun way to view the series to me.
Handwaving explicit connections as "just cameos" to shut it down doesn't make much sense to me.
Pupu is another connection. There's also the "word of God" on VII and X sharing a universe, so why not all of them?

I also firmly hold that every single dumb crossover event is fully canon. Come at me.

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Originally Posted by SilverArrow20XX

It only implies that The Creator seeded those worlds and seemingly intends to destroy them at some point. Whether it's already been done or not isn't specified. I like to think he was stopped from doing that when he was defeated.

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It's been a while since I played it, but to me the fact that he'd gone back to get the crystals he seeded implied that he had already destroyed those worlds, as he was about to do to the FF4 world before he was stopped.

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It's just a more fun way to view the series to me.
Handwaving explicit connections as "just cameos" to shut it down doesn't make much sense to me.
Pupu is another connection. There's also the "word of God" on VII and X sharing a universe, so why not all of them?

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It makes it less fun to other people. And also if you try to cram all the games into one universe, you wind up with irreconcilable paradoxes. We already have the Interdimensional Rift connecting them via a multiverse; why isn't that good enough?

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Originally Posted by PorxiesRCute

It's been a while since I played it, but to me the fact that he'd gone back to get the crystals he seeded implied that he had already destroyed those worlds, as he was about to do to the FF4 world before he was stopped.



It makes it less fun to other people. And also if you try to cram all the games into one universe, you wind up with irreconcilable paradoxes. We already have the Interdimensional Rift connecting them via a multiverse; why isn't that good enough?

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Well, I don't really see it as cramming.
Galaxies are incomprehensibly huge.
In a practical sense, there's pretty much no difference between sharing a space and being different dimensions other than that one doesn't allow for as much fun with space aliens.

Of course, it's a headcanon, so I can handwave inconsistencies and undesirable implications. lol
For example, the Crystals shatter when Maenad drains them, so the ones you find on the moon with the bosses in them aren't the same ones.
So I interpret that as the Crystals having been transmitting data to these receiving crystals all along, and those could have just been surface level data replications that existed before the Crystals were drained of power.
The Maenads themselves are recreations of Rydia using a similar technique.
Ergo, the other FF bosses could be transmitted data, and they haven't been visited yet.

I believe the new life Zodiark's followers were planning to sacrifice were the human species of modern Etheirys, and one motive for the Sundering was to unite Ancient and creation.

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Originally Posted by MediocreIndigo

I wouldn't really call this headcanon crazy, but it's one that I'm very fond of: Alphinaud and Alisaie are identical twins. I feel like this is a fairly reasonable assumption to make given their appearance. While it's possible for fraternal twins to look very similar, it's not as likely as it is with identical twins, and Alphinaud and Alisaie look similar to the point that characters in-universe mix them up; however, there's a major detail that throws a wrench in this idea, which is that identical twins are always the same sex. There's an easy explanation to get around this, though. It's one that I'm almost positive wasn't intentional on the writers' part, but that amusingly seems to have some accidental evidence supporting it: one of the twins is trans, and it's probably Alphinaud.

The reason why I headcanon Alphinaud as being trans rather than Alisaie is simply that I think there's a bit more in the text supporting it. He gets mistaken for a girl at a few points. In one instance of this, Matoya immediately assumes he's "Louisoix's granddaughter" upon seeing him as a teenager for the first time. This is probably meant to be her mistaking him for Alisaie, but I think it's fun to interpret this as her either not being aware of Louisoix having a grandson or forgetting that he has one. After all, Alphinaud and Alisaie were taken away from New Sharlayan when they were still infants, so Matoya likely didn't see them at all during the time they were gone and may have not received a ton of information on their status.

Anyway, in this headcanon, I imagine Alphinaud socially transitioned when he was pretty young (before attending the Studium), so him being trans isn't very widely known. Outside of his family, the Scions and some close friends probably know.

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Definitely not what CS3 was thinking but I'm an FTM Urianger truther. Not just because of the dysphoria hoodie but because his soothsayer's chiton is modified with panels on the sides. Could be hiding scars.

my personal unhinged headcanon i will forever stand by is that all adult miqo'te and hrothgar are lactose intolerant (because adult cats irl are lactose intolerant). the WoL spends half of msq with an upset tummy, truly hydaelyn's strongest sufferer