Ok like even tho the wol can be whatever u want them to be I do think the wol is EXPECTED by the writers for ppl to HC as a youngish adult? Esp w how many dudes in their forties and fifties treat us like kids and newbies and I think that ties so heavily into papalymos stuff
One little spoken on theme that starts with aymerics succession arc and has continued to carry through with emet selch and exarch and continues to hold true is the theme of legacy and the future
Papalymo in a sense entrusted us - lyse and the wol - with the future. I like that we're human weapons in stormblood in a sense, used in someone else's war. Minfilia and ysayle are gone, the only people we could truly connect to in the way we did (w their arc theming esp)
Papalymo forces both us and lyse to LEAVE. He will entrust the world to us as it was once entrusted to him and the other scions. In his wise eye are we not children
Xiv is not...a coming of age story. Not for us. For Alphinaud and Ryne certainly (Alisaie thusfar has not followed the coming of age arc formula in msq and that's fine) but in a lot of ways it thematically does seem to hone in on the transitioning from one phase of adulthood
Into another which isn't often showed in media outside slice of life media so I appreciate it a lot. Papalymos death signifies the transition from young adulthood where we are still stumbling to finds place in life to the crushing responsibility to actually having a role
In the world. And I love that.
It is not that papalymo made us realize we are adults. We knew that.

But with him left the last Inklings of joyful youth and threw us into an eons spanning conflict that we've yet to resolve.

It was lonely and hard but he knew we could do it

He has faith in us.
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