Crazy Personal Headcanons

[EaraGrace]

Azem accepted the Convocation position as to travel as far away from Amaurot as possible as often as possible as to have the freedom to be able to shed those excruciatingly ugly and ill-fitting robes and wear garments without being judged as childish or fermenting resentment and jealousy in others, only bothering with the mask and robe when having to return for government meetings. It's why the Warriors of Light care about glamour both in-game and meta (true endgame jokes, also every and any fantasia usage) and are constantly doing tasks or fights solely for appearance items, and why every time the WoL applies a new glamour plate, that piece of their soul that is Azem is singing with joy.

I like the idea of Azem taking every opportunity to transform, making them basically a nudist in the Ancient world.

[Vyrerus]

Whatever tribe of Tree people summoned Sephirot... They knew the roots of our world, and as such, so does Sephirot. I mean, dang, look at those lyrics. They're practically penned by an Ascian-Ancient that knew the truth and was salty about it!

[Rannie]

Whatever tribe of Tree people summoned Sephirot... They knew the roots of our world, and as such, so does Sephirot. I mean, dang, look at those lyrics. They're practically penned by an Ascian-Ancient that knew the truth and was salty about it!

You mean the new world didn't... grow on them? ... yeah I'll just leave... it at that and see myself out...

Or I just could be barking up the wrong puns =P

[EaraGrace]

Whatever tribe of Tree people summoned Sephirot... They knew the roots of our world, and as such, so does Sephirot. I mean, dang, look at those lyrics. They're practically penned by an Ascian-Ancient that knew the truth and was salty about it!

Meanwhile Zurvan worshippers are busy wondering which one of them introduced the weird bug bottom into their summoning.

[Enkidoh]

Azem accepted the Convocation position as to travel as far away from Amaurot as possible as often as possible as to have the freedom to be able to shed those excruciatingly ugly and ill-fitting robes and wear garments without being judged as childish or fermenting resentment and jealousy in others, only bothering with the mask and robe when having to return for government meetings. It's why the Warriors of Light care about glamour both in-game and meta (true endgame jokes, also every and any fantasia usage) and are constantly doing tasks or fights solely for appearance items, and why every time the WoL applies a new glamour plate, that piece of their soul that is Azem is singing with joy.

I like the idea of Azem taking every opportunity to transform, making them basically a nudist in the Ancient world.

Oh goddess, that is so my headcanon now! And, playing on that headcanon, now I have an idea of Azem showing up one day at the Capitol in Amaurot for an important Convocation meeting.... maskless and wearing a business suit (and for extra hilarity, what we would consider a very conservative business suit style with low below-the-knee skirt hem and button-up shirt if wearing a skirtsuit), prompting shocked gasps and glares from everyone else. I can even picture this exchange:

Azem (rocks up in the business suit): "Well, what do you think about my new creation? It's rather fetching on me don't you think?" (starts doing the '/examineself' emote)
Convocation member (lets make it Lahabrea simply because I hate him and imagine him to be ever the stickler for 'decorum', especially as he's the Convocation's Speaker and all): "Azemmmm.... what... is that you are wearing?"
Convocation member 2: "Why don't you go and put something respectable on?"
Azem: "But I like this! And, everyone I met since I arrived back in Amaurot seems to like it too, from all the comments of encouragement I got in the street. I think I might be onto something big!"
(Everyone else glares and mutters to each other)
Azem (grinning wildly): "Besides, the cities across the pond already dress like this so, you don't want to be seen as behind the times don't you?"
(Lahabrea says nothing but is clearly glaring daggers at the young rapscalion.)
(Azem snaps their fingers and heads into the chamber) "Okay lets go everyone! Time keeps ticking and all!"
(Lahabrea shakes his head and mutters, then sighs wearily) "..... We're just not getting through to that one..."
(Emet chuckles and sighs) "Well do you expect any different from one in their seat, especially given who their predecessor was? Urgh, I guess it's an 'Azem thing'..."

I imagine Azem was such a troll to authority... (and yet was in authority).

[RyuDragnier]

I imagine Azem was such a troll to authority... (and yet was in authority).

I can now only imagine Azem as Bartz from FFV, and am not disappointed in the slightest.

Scholar: *talks about legendary weapons*
Azem: "Twelve Legendary Weapons?"
Scholar: "Azem Azem Azem, I swear you do this to spite me. Yes, the Twelve Legendary Weapons. They are Legendary. They are Weapons. There are even Twelve of them."

[Alleluia]

Given the 20s Art Deco stylings, the Ancients in my head canon had a particularly tense debate over one specific topic.

Prohibition.

After all a drunk Ancient would be a mighty threat indeed.

Building off this, Azem proves the validity of this concern. Often. He/she loved grapes for a reason. lol

Also makes me wonder how many of the problems they had to solve were the result of drunken creation now.

[Enkidoh]

Another crazy, retroactive, Azem headcanon/weird theory I've just realized - the summoning animation for Ifrit even back in 1.0 started with the sun becoming eclipsed by the moon (which Ifrit then bursts out of in a fireball) - given that we already knew back in ARR that Lahabrea was the Paragon who instructed the amal'jaa how to summon, and what we now know about Ifrit being based on his ancient Ifrita fire spirit concept, I wonder if the reason for the eclipse in the summoning was by his design as a deliberate slap in the face towards the memory of the former Convocation member whose symbol was the sun, and whom 'borrowed' Ifrita without his permission for their infamous volcanic excursion 12000 years previously!

If so, then cue the irony - the one who ended up felling Ifrit had the soul of Azem all along and did not even realize that they were being personally attacked by Ifrit's summoning process being a coded insult towards them!

Of course, it's all just circumstancial, but I think it's such a deliciously hilarious jeer I kind of want it to be true. (Really, I just want my headcanon about Azem and Lahabrea hating each other to be confirmed and just like the idea of Lahabrea being consumed by his feud with them that he would be that petty. ).

[Rannie]

Ok so crazy headcanon... the game even with Endwalker is STILL a better love story than Twilight. <_< >_>

I'll be in the corner now waiting for my hot chocolate....

[Riastrad]

The newest headcanon that I made just this morning with absolutely zero proof is that the moons are linked together across all shards. Which is why when we see the ascians bring Cyella, Unukalhai, and Ardbert across the rift to influence another shard it's always on the surface of the moon. That the teleporter isn't just for travel to and from the surface. And, why in one of the more recent lore Q&A's SE was cagey about talking further about the celestial bodies.