Crazy Personal Headcanons

[MikkoAkure]

Despite all the lore presented to us in-game and the two books, it still feels like there are some lore gaps, weird retcons, and other things that aren’t quite explained fully. People make up their own ideas of things outside the known lore either just for fun, to explain something, or to fill in a gap for RP. Sometimes that even makes it to canon (like the powers that be saying “sure, why not” to au ra kissing by rubbing horns). It doesn’t have to be something earth shattering but I was wondering if other people have little ideas of stuff that goes on in this world that they wanted to share.

One of my own crazier examples goes back to 1.0 with Good King Moogle Mog. I thought I heard the music changing as you offed the moogles one by one and their parts of the song went silent. And I remembered that as we got to the subsequent primals in ARR and beyond that had their own modern-sounding tracks with lyrics.

I came up with a dumb non-canon idea on my own that the music we hear in a primal fight is heard by our character. Most of the songs already have lyrics that are either sung by the primal or their followers (notable exceptions for Ifrit and Garuda who were done by the old team and Bismarck who is just a big dumb whale). So whenever we’re in a fight, we’re being sung at by the primal or their followers or our echo sounds and we’re hearing the thoughts of who we’re fighting like in Shiva’s case. The music accompanying the lyrics is either how the echo interprets the input or just the pure power of the primal warping reality combined with echo stuff.


Does anyone else have thoughts like these or do I just think too much?

[Sabora_Makingai]

BISMARK IS A BEAUTIFUL CREATURE WHO HAS THOUGHTS AND FEELINGS!!!!

but on the real, sometimes I think of stuff like this but then the game like to prove my idea wrong within a patch or two.

[TheMightyMollusk]

When my retainers bring back items from the First, it's actually Feo Ul giving it to them to troll me by making me wonder how they got it. Iyami knows what's actually going on, but plays along anyway to keep her volatile pixie friend happy.

[Dakuryon]

I have this headcanon where every time a certain retainer of mine (it's always the same one! I'm talking about you, Der! you naughty boi!) bring me housing items,
he's actually ran off to break into other people's houses to steal their furniture. But!! He doesn't do it out of malice; rather, he actually can't help it since
he suffers from kleptomania (which is an actual illness btw). Chanai isn't amused by it, of course, but he IS empathetic so he will go out of his way
to ensure that his retainer doesn't get into trouble for it. He will sell the stolen goods on the black market if he cannot find the owners of the items Der has stolen.

[Crushnight]

I have this head canon where once we disperse primals they get a talking to from Hydelyn and then allowed to just play with other dispersed primals or go back to mortals.

Right now Ifrit, Garuda, Leviathan, Ramuh and Titan are all having an identity crisis.

[Anonymoose]

Thancred and Y'shtola dated for a few months when they were seventeen and it went disastrously wrong and Thancred knows it's mostly his fault but they've never talked about it or gotten closure and everyone knows about it but no one brings it up.

It explains everything.

[foussi]

My crazy headcanon:
Alisae is a clone of alphinaud....

[ChazNatlo]

I think there was a similar thread some time back.

I made the assessment that our Chocobos are actually Primals that we summon, and that our failing crafts at high odds is due to the Crystals actually having been dried up by our companions.

Edit: Here we go: http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...anons-SPOILERS

I also apparently had a theory about the Gold Saucer Adamantoise being Teledji Adeledji's Giant Tortoise from the Heroes in a Halfshell Guildhest picked up after he... no longer needed it. Colour and species be damned.

I think I'm going to have to give that thread a read when I have a chance to see how the random thoughts stack up to where we are.

[Anonymoose]

I think there was a similar thread some time back.
Edit: Here we go

The final boss of Snowcloak was actually just a regular Abalathan hoarhound that Ysayle adopted. She was heartbroken that you killed it, but she never told anyone.

Oof, I'm pretty sure that one turned out to be true.

[Enkidoh]

Thancred and Y'shtola dated for a few months when they were seventeen and it went disastrously wrong and Thancred knows it's mostly his fault but they've never talked about it or gotten closure and everyone knows about it but no one brings it up.

It explains everything.

We share the same headcanon! (I believe it's why she says with a steely edge to her voice "He and I will have much to discuss." after Thancred was revealed to be Lahabrea's meatsuit in ARR's story - she's barely containing her mixture of anger and worry towards him because she still has feelings for that damn BRD, but her pride would never let her admit it to even herself). And their UST at the end of the 2.55 story how she snarked at him about not wanting to spend an eternity trapped in the Aqueducts with him.

Yeah, their UST is so obvious SE may as well have put a giant flashing sign above their heads about it. (Even if it actually isn't, I'll still keep this ship afloat! )