Urianger seeing Moenbryda’s parents in FFXIV Endwalker
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Remember how Part 27 was a ‘much needed emotional breather?’ Welcome to Part 28: emotional devastation returns.
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00:00 – Sharlayan Errand Boi
06:38 – Loporrit Tour
28:21 – Farming w/ Cookingway
45:51 – Tour Wrap Up
50:14 – Cheering up Researchers
01:10:21 – Moenbryda’s parents
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Yay o/ more than one in a week!
This is the emotional damage they snuck up on us. Have is do boring quests run around then bam punch us in the feels.
It never ceases to see and know the gravity of the scene more so that to actually hear Urianger stutter…
I remember I was doing the quest before the cutscene and a friend warned me of how annoying that quest was, he was right, I was incredible annoying with it just to have my feelings completely destroyed after that cutscene.
This with the moon is the urianger expansion. We had our moments with yshtola and thancree in ShB, urianger needed this.
…..I'm loving the fact you get Moen's impact where a good number of people didn't/don't care to. You a real one ❤️❤️
This shit left me fucking unconsolable
Amazing moment 🙂
Ah, a new one already? Thank you, oh gently enticing summer night's dancer. It was fun to watch you go through the "lull" of the Loporrit quests, not realizing they were a ploy to lift your mood before destroying you again.
i didnt know whether we would come back to that plot point but I had hope since FFXIV often does and Urianger was deeply affected by her loss, as she came up in each expansion and even around Sharlea.
This Freaking Destroyed me
The music in this section drove me bananas! I was convinced it was some kind of bug.
to most men, hearing someone tell you they're proud of you is such a rare, precious thing… this hurts each time.
♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥
yeap, ugly cry, every time… damn…
Moenbryda is still my favorite character, even with her short presence she had more personality than anyone else. Bummed she is gone but this was perfect closure.
Your voices of the Loporrit make these areas so much more enjoyable rook xD
A little something about Urianger – I am a new ish player who is a complete Gideon Emery fanboy, who was urianger's prior English VA. Guy's just a legend. So I was resistant to Timothy Watson for a while. This scene was his finest hour. And for a character I never really managed much sympathy for throughout the MSQ, it made me cry instantly in that one specific moment when he tries to tell Moen's parents that it was his fault she died, because he'd involved her ("No, more than that. "Twas I who…"). And he can't even get it out before her father intercedes, so gently, to say it isn't so.
Ah, the punch in the feels I never saw coming…
You hit the nail right on the head when you were talking about grief. There are so many conflicting thoughts and feeling circling around inside you that sometimes its hard to come to terms with it, while accepting the situation at the same time. My father passed away back in may of 2019, due to complications with his heart surgery. It happened so suddenly, that it was a struggle to accept that what happened is real.
Soon afterwards, Shadowbringers got released and the MSQ was written in such a way that you would relate to the situation it was describing. That sense of loss. For instance funeral scene, Seto's story and end of patch 5.3. The line that hit me and hurt me the most was one at the end of patch 5.3, namely: "The rains have ceased, and we have been graced with another beautiful day. But you are not here to see it." It summed up my feelings so well at the time.
Then Endwalker was released and we to tie up the loose end between Urianger and Moenbryda's parents. The way they interact with each other, the body language they used, the expressions on their faces and how they phrased their dialog. There is so much emotion in it that we all can resonate with.
It's incredibly hard to put your emotions, feelings and grief into words and how much the person meant to you. Due to this, you don't get to talk with a lot of people, to share these feelings and vulnerabilities with. Sometimes not even with your own family. At the same time, i can't emphasize enough how important it is to talk to others about these struggles. I'm an introvert myself and i find it easier for myself to write down my thoughts on paper, then i can by talking to someone in person. It gives met time to think about the words i want to or should use, but also what it is that i really want to share.
And this is why Hyedalyn created bunnies as her tools.
Who don’t want to talk to a work with cute bunbuns?
Oh I waited to see your reaction to the parents scene and man did it not disappoint.
You really understand the subtleties not to mention the emotions.
Yes!
Great reaction and I glad you caught how important Moen was. Their love was deep for each other. You are right that partners complement each other. They brought out the best in each other…and I know Urianger loved he so deep and she did him. This scene reminded me of my mom and dad. My mom was fiery, outspoken loving woman and my dad was the gentle, intelligent, kind man. I could see whenever my mom would get upset a simple touch from my father would calm her fire. When my mother was in hospice for cancer, she told my father he was her best blessing in life. When she passed, my father could not let go..it took the nurses calling me to tell me my mother had passed and to come help my father as they were in tears themselves and didn't have heart to move him. This scene just broke and brought back a flood of good memories. 🙂
I think you really got what Ishikawa was going for with Urianger. It's no doubt that originally in 1.0, ARR, HW, and SB Urianger was meant to be nothing more than the overly verbose scholar who was strictly there to give us exposition. But once we get to ShB and especially EW, we really get to see that Urianger uses his vernaculars as a way to hide the fact that he really doesn't know how to express himself. So to see him open up and become vulnerable and loss of words, even simplifying his vocabulary, is so powerful for his character.
hugs Rook I know…and I understand completely. We try so hard to find the words when we are stricken with grief….when words aren't needed most of the time. Those times, the heart needs to speak…whether that be through hugs or crying…it says more than any word could in the moment. <3
Grief for me, is something that never disappears from our life. We learn to expand our life around it, hoping not to touch its walls because one sunny day, when all seems right, you just might find yourself crying again, remembering people or pets or things you love that has been lost to you, not sharing that moment you are in right now. Sorrow further magnified by regret.
This reunion of Urianger and Moen’s parents was the moment that hit hardest for me. Urianger gets redemption, and we get closure for Moen’s death. It was beautiful.
Lemons! My mom told me that when I was a toddler and she had me try a lemon, I made the sour face but then wanted more. I'll still happily eat a lemon slice garnish, 40-some years later.
Urianger is the best!
I could listen to this woman read character dialogue all day.
I cried so hard at this part, really after losing my dad endwalker destroyed me, like from this point on I was just not ok.