If ever you shut the game down!!! Last fight suggestion

[AlaineIV]

If SE ever decides to shut the game down, PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE make the last fight Tataru and her carbuncle!!! Just for the memes and awesomeness of this character.

[Gerolan]

Honestly if they ever do, which I hope not, it would be fitting to end with ultimate Bahamut

[AlaineIV]

Honestly if they ever do, which I hope not, it would be fitting to end with ultimate Bahamut

UCOB already exist

[Gerolan]

UCOB already exist

I meant as in how 1.0 ended, just this time we get to attack one last time

[Avoidy]

If they ever go full blown "screw it" mode, make a benevolent-dictator Alphinaud setup. Have it take place several years later when he's older and fed up with the inaction of those in power, so he uses his accumulated personal wealth to fund a sort of rival syndicate that takes matters into their own hands. When you question him on it or ask him how he could ever think this was a good idea (especially after his failure in ARR doing a similar thing), he'll tell you that this time it's different because the funding is coming from him, and he'll reference his success in Eulmore and marvel at the fact that you of all people don't trust him to steer this world in a better direction. Maybe he stages a coup in Limsa and kills the roe lady in charge after warning her not to stand in the way of a better future, and he dispatches officers to Gridania and Ul'dah to do the same, issuing ultimatums and following through while convincing himself that it's for a righteous cause, and that's when we step in to end his hostile takeover. But he expected this, and uses BS portal ascian crystal magical bullshit to banish us and us alone to a dying shard, where we spend the expansion fighting our way out and saving a doomed people. The expansion ends with us returning to Eorzea, only time operated differently between worlds and a decade has passed with Alphinaud installed as supreme dictator... and things are going really, really well. It turns out alphinaud was smart as hell and really was the right man for the job, so there's peace and people are happy and the refugee issue is solved and things are 10/10. And now if we want to challenge him to exact justice(?) for those he killed to stand at the top, we'll have to effectively go against the wishes of everyone, and for what? To avenge some people who have been dead for 10 years? To kill a beloved ruler who's brought genuine prosperity to Eorzea at last? Maybe you even meet the other scions who weren't sent away and they're older and actually trying to dissuade you from bucking the system because yeah, what he did to get there sucked, but at least now we have peace. So you have to go rogue and operate in the shadows or through rebel factions to bring down a tyrannical, but ultimately benevolent, dictatorship.

idk, this is garbo, i just wanna see older more confident (earned confidence, even) alphi getting pissed at all these people who keep questioning his abilities. He's done a lot and deserves more credit. I hated when his dad pulled up in EW to basically dunk on him and Alphi was just sorta shattered by it instead of being like "listen here bitch, I'm a hero to an entire civilization" or something. I'd also love to see like... a leader who's actually kind once he's in power, but he had to do a lot of unforgivable stuff to get there, and you're sorta the only one who still remembers/cares so you feel compelled to do something about it but you're not sure what it'd serve. That feeling of wanting to act, but not knowing why or what good it would do, I'd love to see that encapsulated here, but the whole thing would have to be slowly worked up to, foreshadowed over many expansions, and done by writers who know what they're doing and not someone burning out the clock at work.

[Fyrebrand]

We gotta go up against the big man himself, Godbert Manderville! We may need to call on Cid and Nero to lend us their latest Ultima Weapon-style gundam for this one.

benevolent-dictator Alphinaud

Wow. I have to say, if they did that kind of storyline in the right way it could be really epic. It's kind of unthinkable with the current state of things, but with enough time and a desperate enough situation, maybe it could be done convincingly if handled right. After all we've been through with Alphy up to this point, having to face him as an enemy would hit hard. It would make a hell of an ending to the game, though.

How about this: we suffer another calamity, similar to the Final Days, where people are turning to monsters. We discover it's due to our efforts to rebalance the elements in the various shards -- it's having a side-effect on the Source, changing people's aether. Except, not all people. Only some are affected, maybe one in ten people, but we have a method to detect exactly who is susceptible. Alphinaud funds the construction of a great, shielded dome to protect these people from the aether corruption, where they can shelter until a cure or some other solution is found. Days turn to weeks, to months, and no solution is in sight. Some people want to leave, but Alphinaud's militia won't let them, for their own protection and that of the outside world. Long story short, no cure ever comes and Alphinaud's dome of protection becomes a prison city. He's not wrong though, by this point anyone who leaves will turn into a monster. Here and there, a few people manage to escape but are transformed the instant they pass the city walls.

Flash forward to the future, and the prison city has developed into an independent nation and had a change of image. It's now called the Crystarium, with Alphinaud as its benevolent ruler, the "Crystal Exarch." He even calls his personal army the Crystal Braves.

Not sure how Alisaie would side in this. I think it would be more interesting for the story if she opposes Alphinaud and they become enemies. The other Scions may be split as well, with some opting to stay and serve Alphinaud while others left.

It may be discovered, long after it's too late, that the methods of detecting who would turn were imperfect, resulting in many false positives. If that news gets out, it could cause riots. People would start to try to escape again, and Alphinaud wants that information suppressed. I dunno, the particulars of this whole story can probably all be changed to something different but this is the general arc that popped into my head.

[Avoidy]

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Dude that's badass, I love it

[AlaineIV]

Alphinaud end fight would be POG as well. I could get behind that. All this post is though is just for meme's and things not really a serious post lol.

[Rein_eon_Osborne]

So basically a True Last Boss design?

I shall nominate: FFXIV “Healer” Designer Team.

/j