Logic

[Astarotha]

actually it makes logical sense, garlemald has magitek, they have airships, tanks, metal gears, flying chimneys, massive flying battleships, all in their military, the regalia doesnt fit the aesthetic of garlemald BUT we do have a (very pertinent to us especially) frame of reference to attribute it to

a camera on the other hand, is something we have never interacted with, and since photography doesnt exist in even a basic sense in eorzea and most of the world and the whole like 3 times weve ever seen anything capable of video playback its presented as either rare allagan tech/mystical tree (which i think still surprised the wol when it happened) or the giant garlean viewscreens in the prima vista, or omega level tech (big honkin crt monitors left to cid to fiddle with while we worried about the world ending), so someone suddenly pulling out their personal phone/camera and taking a picture of us is an act for which we have no initial frame of reference and therefore it would surprise us

itd be like if i pulled out a gun irl that shot lightning itd be an unusual outcome to an expected thing, if i summoned an eldritch horror though thats much scarier even if the horror was named tim and it was a great enchanter