Crazy Personal Headcanons

[Cleretic]

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

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.

[PorxiesRCute]

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

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.

[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.

[PorxiesRCute]

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.

[SilverArrow20XX]

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.

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.

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.

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.

[PorxiesRCute]

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 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'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?

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?

[SilverArrow20XX]

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?

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.

[StormChase]

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.

[StormChase]

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.

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.

[HisuianMiqote]

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