#not over it
every night, i think back
to what we had and where it went wrong
all my friends said, “he’ll hurt you”
guess i really should’ve known it all along
i wonder if i’ll see you someday,
flashback to when we first met in your lonely little town
i’ll smile tightly and say “you look good”
and i’ll get deja vu when you say, “you too”
god, i really should’ve known right from the start,
that someday you’d shatter my heart
and the only thing that break really did was break us apart
and the girl you love now, was she worth it?
are you happy with the life you chose?
maybe you hate me now, maybe you blame me for what happened,
but darling,
our shadows, they know what they know
-can you blame me for running? c.r.
I hate twitter because I’m sitting here watching Hermes drama unfold in the FFXIV twitter fandom and there aren’t enough characters in a fucking tweet for me to explain that 90% of people who aren’t interested in Hermes are not interested becausehis character was badly under-developed and the writers themselves couldn’t remember the lore about creation magic enough to keep his plot-line straight, notbecause of other reasons like shipping or being unable to empathize with depressed people.
Like how to condense “In creating deliberate distinction between Amon/Fandaniel and Hermes, the writers created two different characters and left bothof them without satisfying character development or logical motivations, particularly robbing Hermes of any chance of connecting to the majority of the audience by distinguishing him from both a fan favorite (Fandaniel) and the dark horse call-back reference (Amon), leaving him as a brand-new character whose entire arc was crammed into thetwo-levelspan of the Elpis zone and then grossly overshadowed by the presence of the much beloved Emet-Selch and Hythlodaeus AND THEN by the Azem!Venat reveal.
NOT TO MENTION that the writers didn’t bother to draw clear distinctions between when creations have souls and when they don’t, leading 90% of Hermes’ core internal drama–that the ancients were killing living beings with souls completely callously–as a giant question mark in the minds of those who followed the earlier lore that creations don’t have souls except by pure accident or eventual successful generations of natural breeding. Hythlodaeus, the guy who can literally see souls, says the creations don’t have souls and then five quests later Hermes cries over the lykaones’ souls. The souls that… lore says they don’t have… How are fans supposed to 110% empathize with a character when the writers can’t even keep their own lore straight on a key point of that character’s motivation???
And this is also completely ignoring the fact that people might dislike the character because he’s written to be exceedingly hypocritical (honestly probably the best part of his writing), claiming that he’s loath to bind another being to his will and then shooting his million identical bird daughters into space without a single thought for their safety simply to satisfy his own desire…
On occasion it is true that the fandom loves or hates a character based on whether they make a great ship with another fan favorite, but 90% of the time, even if they can’t articulate their reasons, when viewers are failing to fully embrace a character its because the writers messed up somewhere, and this is absolutely the case with Mr. Hermes Endwalker.
Thank you for coming to my TED talk.” into 280 characters?
I hate it, please everyone in the FFXIV fandom come to tumblr instead.
Oh god no wait please don’t there are so many scary people on twitter.
Please don’t love me. It’s a waste.
