Final Fantasy XI
Final Fantasy XI is the eleventh numbered installment in the… Okay, you know what it is, I’m just going to tell you about one of the storylines!
During the Wings of the Goddess expansion, adventurers will be sent back in time to experience the events of the Crystal War, a cataclysmic event that is the foundation for conflicts of the modern-day timeline. Should an adventurer choose to serve the Kingdom of San d’Oria, they will be immersed in the story of the Young Griffons—a group of children who would see themselves knights, many of whom grow into prominent characters later in life.
Among the Young Griffons, the player will find Bistillot, a shy boy who doesn’t like to be seen. With his penchant for engineering, shy demeanor, and lack of combat potential, Bistillot prefers to spend his time inside of an orcish war machine that he was able to repair to working condition.
He is often seen before he is heard, with his signature phrase, “HAAAALLOOOOOOOOO” being used to hail the adventurer. Through the course of the story, Bistillot finds his way, even contributing to the war effort with his engineering skills.
However, when another member of the Young Griffons is kidnapped and taken to the present day, the adventurer must return to the present day and reunite with the Young Griffons’ present selves! The adventurer’s first contact in the present day is Bistillot. When the adventurer hears the signature “HAAAALLOOOOOOO,” Bistillot approaches the player, but what the player sees is… a woman?? She introduces herself as Bostilette, a “friend of Bistillot.”
After the rescue mission, Bostilette comes clean. She is, of course, the very same Bistillot who was a little boy twenty years earlier. She explains that she was very sick as a baby, so her parents gave her a boy’s name so that she would be stronger and survive the illness. Once she overcame the illness, she was comfortable to reclaim her name and gender. Well, that closes the book on that story, except… I’ve decided that’s bullshit!
I have unilaterally decided that Bostilette is trans, the sickness she had was dysphoria, she stayed in the orcish war machine because she was an egg, and I hope you all agree!
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We kind of lost the magic of cosmic horror, I know you're joking and all but it is a real thing that the cthulhu mythos just got to explained and analyzed and built on and relies on some early 1920s style racism to be scared
The Three Body Problem series though does scratch the same itch if you wanna feel it. If you don't care
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Some of its silly but the feeling that the universe is actively hostile, that everything youve ever tried to do and underatand in science was just being manipulated by an enemy far beyond us technologically, that you thought you could fight back and send a fleet to win that gets blown up by a scout ramming each ship, that even the number of dimensions of space is a casualty of an internicene forever war, that it was our best qualities that doom our species, the only advantage we had was that our enemy didn't understand lying and subterfuge and now they do, that the aliens that destroy other civilizations do it as a matter of course, etc.
It was a good series to explore the cosmic horror space that the cthulhu mythos or the backrooms or whatever can't
I did start the three body problem while back but got distracted, i do know some of the spoilers cuz of one of titles.
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Does remind me of the demiurge, I'm shit at explaining stuff but sort of similar if you know. Prob the coolest blend scifi horror and demiurge I've seen recently was asura's wrath but even then it ends with you punching the demiurge in the face