Everyone Goes About Their Day With Multiple Impulses In Their Head Of What They Could Do In Any Given

everyone goes about their day with multiple impulses in their head of what they could do in any given situation; many of them things we would never do, that don’t actually reflect anything about our identity or desires. y’know, like how most everyone who’s ever held a very small animal has had a thought pop in their head about what would happen if they chucked it at full speed, and then didn’t do that.

my interpretation of how kris experiences being inhabited is that all of the options we’re given are impulses of theirs — not things they always want to do, just thoughts that enter their head — and we get to decide which of those impulses they act on. that’s why although they narrate with the word “you” to describe actions they ascribe to the player, they also use the word “you” in many cases that seem to be referring only to themself. for example, when you command noelle to Act on her first encounter with virovirokun and she gets confused, the narration says “you and virovirokun explained combat to noelle” without any input from the player telling kris to explain it to her.

kris knows that their heart is making decisions for them, but they don’t always perceive a difference between their decisions and the ones their heart makes because some of those decisions are things they would’ve done anyway.

extremely niche and personal ffxv headcanons

noctis edition:

unhealthy obsession with spicy food (esp heavily seasoned meat dishes), even though he can’t handle it most of the time. both prompto and him love to dare each other to try the spiciest food they can find and yes, it always ends up badly.

has an aversion to touch unless he initiaties it first. lots of sensory issues regarding skin-to-skin contact so he always keeps his hands to himself. he’s fine with hugs/casual touching from people he loves (chocobros + prompto especially) but he WILL throw hands with strangers who invade his personal space.

extremely generous. he will pay for everything if left to his own devices. a sensible budget? doesn’t know her. you tell him you need something and he will get it. he doesn’t care about money enough to put it above the needs of his friends or other people. thankfully ignis is there to keep him in line.

spotify edgelord. keeps his music library organized by mood and yes, he has a specific playlist for brooding during long car rides. tends to assign specific sounds and songs to situations in his head.

has a form of auditory–tactile synesthesia. certain sounds can trigger physical sensations in him. if he had trouble training or mastering specific combat moves during his teenage years, he’d play music to help himself practice to the beat. it helped him with tracking his reaction time and developing a natural grace to his movements.

would prefer if life had a soundtrack so he could play badass music during real battle sequences. his performance actually improves. gladio has tested it during practice and the faster the beat of the song, the faster and more agile noctis becomes. it’s almost hilarious.

funnily enough, he’s an average dancer at best. he’s definitely better at fighting.

secretly interested in dj-ing. might have considered it as a profession were he not a prince.

on that note, he fucking hates yelling. if you yell at him he actually physically feels it, which makes him go into fight or flight mode. it’s one of the reasons why he rarely yells or raises his voice, because he believes other people feel it the same way he does. if you hear him yelling, he’s probably extremely emotionally distraught or nearing a breakdown.

usually low energy in most situations, but his rare high energy episodes make him manic. he will go climb a mountain to find the best fishing spot in 5 minutes just to feel something. he WILL fight 5000 daemons, you, your entire family line, his ancient evil uncle, a god, and still feel restless afterwards until he crashes. and he crashes hard.

gladio used to make fun of him for it but a lot of his battle moves are re-purposed movesets he steals from videogames. if a character has a cool move in-game, he will learn it. has he tried to recreate the leap of faith during a high-stakes battle just so he can look cool? he has. and he will at any chance he gets. prompto absolutely goes wild whenever he does.

has a ridiculously cute handwriting style. ignis says it’s unbecoming of a future king to use so many flourishes and doodles in his cursive but he doesn’t care.

really likes fluffy things that are soft to the touch. afflicted by chronic ‘pet the cat’ disease. he will pet any cute fluffy animal he comes across even under the threat of bodily harm. if anyone hurts a cat in front of him he WILL unleash his full armiger on them. violently.

he’s a very curious person by nature. will poke around doors and random contraptions just to find out what’s inside. gets secretly excited whenever he finds maps and keys because he likes finding out where they lead or what they open. his favorite game during childhood used to be treasure hunting. he’d love whenever ignis hid things around the citadel for him to find. 

he also loves gossip, but you didn’t hear that from me. he’s the kind of person that people feel comfortable talking around, since he’s quiet and a good listener. he’s accidentally heard the WILDEST things from servants and citadel personnel but he doesn’t say anything, just silently files the knowledge away to be used at a later date if needed.

So I’ve edited Somnus Ultima, another piece of Yoko Shimomura, on Riku’s sacrifice and… I cried found it beautiful and really fitting, so I wanted to share it

Because I have ADHD and am super awesome at hyper focusing.. 🙄🙄… I rewatched Felix and Mega Leech today just for senti signs I guess. It’s interesting that Felix did the same hand raise in front of his mother to silence her when he was apologising for impersonating Adrien during that episode.

It’s the same manoeuvre that Gabriel does to silence Adrien in Mega Leech when he is explaining why he was at the protest. But Gabriel didn’t spin the ring until after Adrien had already gone to his room.

I still don’t think that this show a sentimonster being controlled by it’s amok. Gabriel is controlling Adrien the same way he always has in this episode. The ring definitely represents something, but we don’t know what yet. And we haven’t seen Felix actually do anything yet with the ring he stole.

It’s up to Susie?

So I dunno if anyone has thought of this theory with the whole Ralsei asking us how Susie’s doing but I wanna put in my two cents.

But what if Ralsei wants us to view Susie doing nice things for a reason, being a character we could trust in doing the right thing (and being very lovable)

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

I could easily see Ralsei talking about Susie

‘So that’s why… it has to be Susie‘

Something to that extend

I don’t have any ideas on why, it just feels like Susie is going to grow more and more into a hero with each chapter, someone we root for, someone the player wants to side with

My theory is that Ralsei is telling Kris that Susie is going to be their last hope in something or that she’ll be the one give the final choice in something?

Anyway, that was my rambling on a theory that just popped in my head XD

is it just me, or does the idea of queen’s rooms of your personalized searches just seem. really creepy?

yeah- maybe it’s just because it’s such a staunchly dystopian concept, but can we notice that these are public computers? even in broad daylight, noelle is googling some pretty disturbing stuff. not just creepypastas and dumb horror things, but noelle’s recurring searches about “the last month of the year” (december) fill up a bookshelf. assuming that the theme of Queen/The Internet taking things too literally continues, Noelle could possibly have been doing research on December Holiday- not “the holiday in december.”

If that’s true, Noelle could possibly be doing her own investigation into what happened to Dess- I feel like Noelle wouldn’t reference her so vaguely unless she truly didn’t know where Dess was. It would make sense- Noelle’s family is clearly wealthy and Noelle is a clear introvert, why wouldn’t she do something like that at home? Noelle also clearly has morbid fascinations with mystery and horror- she resolves to find out what happened to Kris in the Snowgrave route with little consideration for her safety, even then just being terrified for her life when Kris approached her.

If Noelle is indeed googling her sister’s name so frequently, it lends massive credence to the “Dess is missing” theory.