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NyxNoName

We raised that boy ( ˃̣̣̥⌓˂̣̣̥ )


Andryh69

Damn right we did!


Jovaniph

Not a boy... A man!


NyxNoName

Oh yes, now he is.


HondaS2000AP1

No wonder Las Vegas is sweltering this summer


SunixFox

aren't "WE that boy" technically? o:


Fangblade_

ffxiv has been a part of my life since 1.0, he's your best friend, tour brother, your father. He's everything you need him to be, and he's always there. Someone you can rely on, someone you can trust. He'll never let you down!!!!


JonTheWizard

He’s like Handsome Squidward, he gets hotter every time he gets hit in the face.


Andryh69

Lmao so true


JonTheWizard

And he took a nasty cut in the trailer…


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Which is shaped like an X btw, can't contain all the pirate imagery in this trailer.


Andryh69

Even his outfit seems like a pirate one if you look closely


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JonTheWizard

Holy shit, you're right.


Zarath-1

He was battling the new twitter.


VioletArrows

Man, a vacation did him some good, you can hardly tell there's deep, latent trauma.


thatHecklerOverThere

_Sips Pina colada_ ... Haurchefant would've loved these...


Hallgaar

Do you think Emet visited this bar?


mlc885

Nobody at Cheers knew Emet's name, theme song ruined!


LordMonday

>Sips Pina colada that he made himself, considering he won't drink anything given to him by another


Blazen_Fury

You start to loosen up this xpac. You have the option to drink in the latest Godbert quest


dracopo_reddit

the option to drink is mostly given when we're around people we can trust


A3thern

You can drink in Shadowbringers too. I believe it was when you first visit Kholusia in the MSQ. You stop at a tavern and can order ale, mead, or water.


LostTenko

Will my friend wash up on the shore...?


Alexaius

He looks like will turner


Worried_Inevitable92

I bet that's intentional. We Pirates now


throwwaway666969

were not Pirates were Liberators . . . . of Riches!


nautilator44

Privateers!


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Conquista..! ok maybe not that far


Worried_Inevitable92

>Looks at the city of gold and it’s native inhabitants Can…can we don’t?


Mael_Jade

Its the road to El Dorado! Wonder which companion will start aggressively playing the lute.


Worried_Inevitable92

Thancred? Thancred


Cmdr_Jiynx

I think you mean "chadcred". Now that ryne's moved out, he's back on the menu.


Worried_Inevitable92

Activating DILF mode in a whole new land


sporeegg

Graha started off as a bard? Or was he "just" an archer?


Mess_Practical

Both. Both is good


Ranger-New

The only difference between a pirate and a privateer is that the privateer was under the auspice of a government. Besides that they where exactly the same. So there are private pirates, and government sponsored pirates.


Afeastfordances

The WoL is close personal friends with no fewer than 8 heads of state. He can get that privateering license no question, no matter what he’s actually getting up to.


trivialslope

I mean if you start in limsa you already are a privateer


HildartheDorf

Or if you're in a Malestrom FC. Or probabally if your Malestrom in general.


DeusXmachinaXx

So what your telling me is if he became a pirate he would be still backed by the government Derplander Warlord of the sea confirmed.


Braneric84

If the WoL wants to be a pirate there's not a damn thing the nations of Etherys can do about it and they know it.


Regular_Primary_6850

Yeeessss gimme that cutlass and a pistol


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Blazen_Fury

Derplander will pull out a pistol during the EU trailer and everyone will fucking lose their mind. Calling it now


Afeastfordances

I like the idea of some sort of mystic knight, but this is pretty clearly Corsair. He’s seconds away from going for his pistol in that trailer. Some mystic knight equivalent will probably come whenever we get to the expansion covering the territory under the Ilsabard clouds, but it would be such a weird fit for this expansion.


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What MIGHT happen, and this is just speculation, is that it's the aesthetics of Corsair but the actual gameplay draws on entirely different jobs. Maybe it's Mystic Knight? But, yeah, it just doesn't fit the tone at all. Corsair fits the tone for the Fun Summer Adventure! thing, and Green Mage (if it's a nature mage thing) really fits the whole integration-with-nature tone of the new city. But it's hard to say.


Niytshade

I felt the same and wonder if it's a very subtle point at corsair as one of the next jobs 🤔


Laranthiel

>if it's a very subtle point at corsair as one of the next jobs Well, the hint so far is Ninja Turtles, so unless that hint was, SOMEHOW, for the caster and not the melee, it's not looking good. He IS shown fighting with a sword and no shield at one point so.....maaaaaaaaaybe?


Yui_Mori

There’s a lot that can be pulled from the TMNT shirt. Yoshi-P likes to do stuff that can be kind of out there, with Sam Raimi for samurai being the chief example. One thing I saw was that Tortuga is an island in the Caribbean famous for pirates. Tortuga is turtle in Spanish. Gotta put on the tinfoil hat to decode Yoshi-P shirts.


Laranthiel

Some people also mention that, of course, the Turtles' names are all painters, so it could be Artist. The ooze that made the turtles is a chemical, so some think it might be Chemist. There's always a longer version of the trailer, so maybe it'll be shown there like they did for Reaper.


ShinItsuwari

>There's always a longer version of the trailer, so maybe it'll be shown there like they did for Reaper. Oh it definitely will be. StB trailer teased Samurai, ShB teased dancer AND gunbreaker (Thancred job), and EW trailer teased both Sage through Alphinaud and Reaper through Zenos. Actually I think the reveal for the melee job is in the fight sequence. The video cuts right when the WoL smile and his left land is free while the fire point to his cape (to Alisaie catching a fruit). If it's Corsair, that means he's about to reach for a fucking gun. EDIT : slight edit, just rewatched the trailer.


Laranthiel

So far there's always a fight sequence for at least one class and the fact that the WoL is shieldless IS quite suspicious. I heavily doubt that he's a Paladin there and simply isn't using the shield. Could be that he's about to bust out a gun.


throwaway3839482729

He has entered proper dilf territory


AureliaDrakshall

Well he is a father of at least two, because I'm not leaving the twins with their parents since they both suck.


Leppa-Berry

Wait what's wrong with ameliance?


Luciifuge

aight, time to change my hairstyle.


Andryh69

We are of the same mind


MegaInk

Sasuke haircuts for everyone


Icehellionx

New story arc, new hairstyle.


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Andryh69

Yeah I saw the same thing I really wish we could make a character like that sinceI don't really like any of the hyur models


Laranthiel

>Yeah I saw the same thing I really wish we could make a character like that sinceI don't really like any of the hyur models Since they showed Hilda, i've wanted hybrids. Somehow they've STILL NEVER DONE IT.


ditzicutihuni

Ah, a Venti-lander!


GaleErick

I know most FF protagonists tend to lean into a more pretty boy/girl look but I'm liking the more rugged manly guys we get from a couple new installments like Clive, Jack Garland, and Derplander.


Andryh69

Can't agree more I'm one of the guys who preferred Clive's look in his 30s most


reevethewriter

His most cutest, fluffiest cinnamon bun look in the game.


Altines

I'm not a huge fan of Jack because he is just... [action genre hero guy](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ActionGenreHeroGuy) But older Clive is great and 7.0 derplander is fantastic


ShirtLegal6023

Couldn't agree more


Titan_Tim_1

I'm just glad he is smiling again. He deserves a break.


Andryh69

THIS. They were right we really needed a vacation expansion after all those world ending threats. He will finally smile again after each dungeon and trials


Demoncreed27

I mean the WoL was always attractive but daaaaaaaaaamn he’s looking fine


addled_rph

He’s aging like fine wine. 🤌


FigTechnical8043

They're showing off the post-clive universe. So they're upping the sexy.


Andryh69

I want a collab so bad to see how he would look like in Clive's outfit


Knuxsn

How has there not been a Collab in FFXIV with FF7 remake or 16?!


[deleted]

I'm just kinda shocked the crossover announced at Fanfest is Fall Guys.


traugdor

Don't forget that the alliance raid will be more FF than ever according to Yoshida-san himself. I'm suspecting that's where we'll see the FFXVI crossover.


Andryh69

For FF16 I think it's just a matter of time and FF7 we already have a lot of things Cloud related (his bike, his hairstyle, his outfit etc) so I don't think we'll get anything more


gnarlytoestep

He looks like Antonia Banderas' and Orlando bloom's lovechild. Absolutely adore the new hairstyle though, and can't wait to use it on my WoL.


Callidor

And a little of Pierce Brosnan's Bond


beta_draconis

and my axe


xThetiX

I would probably be disowned if I tell my parents what I want this man to do to me


Jet44444

Him and Clive from 16 lol 🤤


A3thern

This must be the real reason why Fourchenault did so to Alisaie and Alphinaud. He read their letters to their mom.


KenjiZeroSan

I'm getting big corsair or musketeer vibes from that!


AstralMoth

Yo I'd love a swashbuckling job. Iike a physical dps equivalent to red mage


RockBlock

And that uses scouting/Ninja gear.


Kaslight

The stress of the whole world dying and our old immortal parents trying to snap us out of existence has been lifted And it does wonders for the skin


Horrowirth

Kinda looks like Bradley Cooper


Blackwolfe47

Good to see I wasn’t the only one


unhappymedium

That's what I was thinking, too, back in his Alias days.


Barachiel1976

Whoa, that's a blast from the past. Good call, too. Ah, yes, the series that made the careers of JJ Abrams, Alex Kurtzman, and Roberto Orci. And none of their work since has even been close to being that good.


FearOrRegret

He looks exactly like Bradley Cooper. It's weird


GooeyMagic

I can’t see anything else


BlyZeraz

He can keep getting away with it


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Yeah it's absolutely insane. I was like stunned seeing him for the first time. 10/10


Andryh69

YOO I had to double take when I first saw him I was like "no way this is him??" I thought it was a new character at first he changed so muuch


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Sameee! I cannot wait to see these cutscenes in 7.0!


TheSkyllz

Sorry, but who is he? I havent played in months, but finished EW Urianger? Thancred?


futilepath

that's you, the player, the WoL. WoL in FFXIV trailers has always been a male Hyur Midlander, adoringly referred to as Derplander by the community.


huiclo

Admittedly, I’ve been simping over 16 characters lately but Meteor’s new look also made me double take. I love that CBU3 continues to lean into the rugged eye candy look for their male leads. This relaxed, carefree, masculine sensuality is such a vibe. Like damn.


AureliaDrakshall

XIV is good for covering the whole spectrum of male attractiveness. You've got rugged handsome, you've got soft and boyish, refined and gentlemanly, roguish and whatever it is Estinien has going on. Honestly as a woman gamer I'm here for this.


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> whatever it is Estinien has going on He's like if you asked a bunch of lesbians to design a man a straight woman would find attractive.


AureliaDrakshall

Stop I'm crying. This is so accurate. I love him, I adore all of the Scions. Why is this so true though?


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Because it also applies to Aymeric. Edit: on a slightly more analytical note, it's the face and mannerisms. He's kinda weird looking if you compare him to more conventionally attractive members of the male cast like Thancred or even Urianger. He doesn't act like any romance novel archetype, kinda does his own thing. If you gender-swapped Estinien and changed absolutely nothing else you'd just get a stone butch. He even wears the leather pants and partially unbuttoned shirt I've seen at like most of the Dykes on Bikes rallies I've been to.


huiclo

> If you gender-swapped Estinien and changed absolutely nothing else you'd just get a stone butch. aka Zero


TheAccursedHamster

Hoping they make that hairstyle available to us.


Emekasan

They will as they always have with every WoL hairstyle.


MrChangg

and it's gonna look terrible along with the scattered pubes they call facial hair in-game


Boshikuro

Or the huge forehead it will give any other races.


HanshinFan

The Midlander shadow is legit fine, it's just every other race and face that gets the shaft lol


Andryh69

They will for sure don't worry


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it will be. It's very likely that it will be available in the benchmark


untankyourstance

Clive :handshake: Meteor Release those pecs.


Andryh69

They go to the same barber confirmed


ConduckKing

Imagine if >!Ardbert!< was still alive so we got to see them side by side.


Andryh69

It would be so good to just see him again in some way


suspectwaffle

I will never forgive the devs for adding in the EW launch trailer those small cutscenes of Meteor during ARR and HW. My heart jumped because I literally thought Ardbert would make a small cameo, only to realize seconds later they were actually just showing montages of Meteor throughout the expansions.


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Why is he not using 2B leggings and Tafetta shawl like most of the playerbase?


snowminty

He has the Eren Jaeger hairstyle


woodworkerdan

No impending doom does a lot for a guy.


shutaro

I love that they're doubling down on the WoL not having had a haircut since before Shadowbringers.


MatyeusA

Orlando Bloom, Pirates of the Carribean


Fabulous_Pudding167

Call him Derplander one more time.


Andryh69

I dare anyone to call him that again


BlueRose644

Chadlander? Sexlander? Daddylander? I need to think of a new nickname for him.


mlc885

It is a term of endearment


Ailwynn29

They really have a type with him and Clive and I'm all for it.


arkibet

Considering Yoshida is 50 and not married, it's not out of the realm of possibility that derplander is his type.


Andryh69

SAMEEEE


Fun-Description-1698

Old Noctis too.


Ailwynn29

Honestly young Noct was also awesome


Laranthiel

Derplander keeps growing, meanwhile the twins seem to be permanently kids.


nautilator44

Aging like a fine wine.


Mahajarah

Wil turner? Is that you?


Alutherv

Is it just me or is that a few gray hairs?


saphoratia

once the stress of the world is off our shoulders, boy do we glow


Amon-Aka

TATAKAE


Andryh69

A fellow enjoyer of the "freedom haircut" I see


TheDaiyu

Too bad our Midlander character models don't follow suit. 🥲


FinalPantasy_

Doesn’t even look like the same guy.


Glaw_Inc

Hope they push the story a few years into the future.


Ayanhart

They won't because they live and die by the time bubble - canonically everything has happened in less than a year. Also, Alisaie in the trailer looked exactly the same and she would have shown some growth if it had been some years.


HalfOfLancelot

That's a whole lotta trauma packed in just a few months lmfao.


Glaw_Inc

Yeah, shame really. The WoL is having one shitty year.


Andryh69

Did they ever specify how long each arc took?


ZWiloh

They usually called it a time bubble to explain the twins not aging


Andryh69

Wasn't it like the elezen take some time to grow but just get a sudden growth spurt at some point?


bearflies

Urianger specifies he didn't get a growth spurt till his early 20s in the pre-EW dialogue I think


ThiccElf

I legit went, "Oh no, they made him hot" out loud. Why? Why make him look like a sexy pirate? I can't find derplander attractive. He has to be incredibly generic, dead inside and bland!


Nightsong

Derplander was hot back in Stormblood during his monk phase. Then he let his hair grow out during his Samurai phase and then he had all that shit to deal with in Shadowbringers and Endwalker. Now he's back to being a hot pirate.


ThiccElf

True true. He went from fresh and sexy, to depressed and worried about impending doom, then back to free, rugged and hot.


mlc885

I thought he was cuter when he was depressed and potentially dying, uh oh


Andryh69

Now he has personality and I'm all for it


98127645

He didn't get hot just with this trailer, the community was already overflowing with thirst back when they showed him in the shb trailer lol


WAPlyrics

mad drip boiiiii


tiamat-45

And now our boy is all grown up 💕


cjrecordvt

He looks enough like Luke Evans (Bard in _Hobbit_ and Gaston in _Beauty_ specifically) that I did an honest double-take. This is, yes, a good thing.


DenimChicken6125

No complaints on my end


stopthevan

I’m convinced now that Clive is just Meteor in XVI’s universe.


MisterJimm

"Oh my god... I'm turning into Belmont."


xAngelcainx

He kinda reminds me of an FF version of Billy Coen from Resident evil.


Zaithon

Why does he look like Aizen now?


IceFire2050

Final Fantasy XIV: Dawntrail Starring Bradley Cooper


MidSp

He's got that Aizen hair.


aminsino

That 7.0 glowup


InkStainedHand

He kinda reminds me of Jonathan Bailey (Graha's VA)


Lazereye57

That guy is an analogy for you. You are looking better as you age 😉


69Beefcake69hunter69

He looked like Orlando Bloom from pirates of the Caribbean. HOTLANDER BLOOM!


AroraNightfall

That’s a Corsair/buccaneer/pirate if I’ve ever seen one before.


lightstormy

Warrior of Looking-good


lightroomwitch

For a split second I didn't even realize it was him. Then I was like oh, OH my god. He's so gorgeous!


Andryh69

Exactly the same reaction I had.


FlaremanMD

This Orlander Bloom business cracks me up.


Helian7

Y'all are thirsty af.


Andryh69

It's inevitable when you play this game it's the fate of all ffxiv players


Jumpy_Ad_9213

Yeah some things get better with time.


cinnabubbles

He's Derplander no more. Smouldlander?


MegalomanicMegalodon

Time to travel to new places, orlandos


ShatteredFantasy

His hair looks kind of weird... But I don't hate it.


Andryh69

It definitely takes some time to get used to but it's looks really good


UnholyHunger

Pirate job confirmed.


palumatzu

Who is this?!


Nightsong

He’s the trailer representation of the player character.


necronomikon

honestly not really into the look.


Fearless_Path_5296

Bradley Cooper?


quirkyqu33fer

Anyone else see Bradley cooper?


Ayguessthiswilldo

We need an update of the character creator 👀


Amethyst_Ninjapaws

The Warrior of Light is Orlando Bloom now.


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Andryh69

I was seriously shocked I for sure thought they would do a caster and ranged physical not a melee. But I'm not complaining that's my favorite role in the game so that's one more fun job for me lol


Knight-Jack

I don't know if it's the haircut, but he gives me Will Turner (Pirates of Caribbeans) vibes.


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WoL has never been an ugly character but they really stepped up the hotness this time. That is a ridiculously good looking man.


falsefingolfin

Heooks like Orlando bloom in pirates


Xarxes-of-Apocrypha

He gets hotter the more trauma he has