Falin Touden is an example of the manic pixie dreamgirlification of autistic girls
the same traits that made Shuro actively resent Laios (strength in noticing details, specific unusual interests, weak social skills, propensity to daydream/get lost in thought) made him fall in love with Falin because they were repackaged in a cute girl
The use of difficulty ratings (easy/medium/hard) rather than levels of firmness (soft/firm/hard) to describe egg yolk viscosity implies the existence of higher difficulties such as “eggs over-legendary” and perhaps even “eggs over-nightmare”
the fact that pro-monarchy arguments have degenerated, over the past few centuries, from “the king rules by divine right and is accountable to nobody but god”, to “uhm the royals generate a lot of income from tourism” will never stop being extremely funny to me
the monarchs… bad. but the castles? oh, the castles are positively lush with rats… 👅
Did a couple more iterations on the pangolin design during July.
Gave her a big like, detective-esque coat and cloak? haha Itās mostly there to represent and act as the kind of defensive ball that pangolins (and that kind of type of creature) curl themselves into when needed.
The loose pants are also inspired by the general shape of the pangolins legs when theyāre standing - they just reminded me of these sort of likeā¦ loose pocketed combats? just felt like it fit haha
because im a broken person i decided to level all the crafters and gatherers in ffxiv all at once, getting all the resources from scratch without buying stuff on the player-run marketboards. its a pain and i live in hell but at least itās funny when i need to get an ingredient that drops from an enemy. like yeah, iām a āculinarianā
