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• Right at the start of Endwalker as the Scions board a ship at Limsa's port, the Leveilleur twins refuse to let Thancred live down the fact that he ended up in all this Scion business because he tried to pickpocket their grandfather.
  • Also, Alphinaud calls Estenien "Ser Estenien", causing the man to squint with a lot of disdain at him for the sudden politeness. Alphinaud immediately stops the polite treatment when the Dragoon threatens to call him "Little Lord Alphinaud".
• When the scions arrive in Old Sharlayan, they have to register their arrival as inconspicuously as possible. You can instead grandiosely declare yourself Champion Of Eorzea, which incites G'raha Tia to wholeheartedly and excitedly back your declaration with his usual fanboy flourish.
  • Even more hilariously, when Estinien stoicly states his previous occupation as a Knight Dragoon of Ishgard, the registration lady pointedly asks what his occupation is now. What follows is a long awkward pause where with him having no idea how to respond as he slowly glances aside while otherwise frozen stock still. When Krile rushes in to save the day with a reason for his presence, the registrar accepts it but is still clearly over-exasperated at the paper thin excuse.
• To hammer in Alisaie's comment about how Sharlayans in general have terrible culinary taste (The Last Stand is still the only proper restaurant in Old Sharlayan after she returned to her homeland), a sidequest in Labyrinthos has a scholar researching whether or not Coblyn (a rock-based creature) can be eaten. Astute players that remembered the "On the Culinary Applications of Coblyns" book in The Great Gubal Library (Hard) will know that, no, Coblyns are not edible as their feelers are toxic.
• Y'shtola turning you and the twins into frogs. Complete with renaming the twins as "Alphi-toad" and "Ali-toad".
• A sidequest in Labrynthos has a Gleaner asking for your expertise, since you have traveled to Hingashi, in identifying a strange pot they gathered that is shaking for some reason. The player can tell them in no uncertain terms there is a Namazu in that pot.
• Getting to Thavnair would normally take too much time via boat, so you turn to an alternate way of travel: a special aetheryte that can teleport people without the need for attunement. However, this method causes violent aethersickness, so when you, Thancred, and Urianger come out on the other end of the aethernet (Estinien is already attuned so he's fine), the aethersickness promptly wrecks the three of you to the ground. Then it cuts to said three slumped over a bench as if they're hung over from one too many pints of alcohol last night. The aetherical sickness is so bad that Urianger is reduced to utter silence. Alas, there is no time to waste, as Estinien is out to get some drinks to ease the sickness spell, and it's up to you to fight though it to stop him from getting scammed because, according to Krile, he's terrible with money.
  • If anything, we find she was being polite and understating the issue. Shortly after the drinks fiasco, Estinien drops out of sight for a minute and pays nearly ten thousand gil for a hair tie while you're not watching him. And not an intricate one made of precious metals, either - it's a bit of string.

    Thancred: He could give Alphinaud a run for his money.

  • Once everyone recovers, Thancred says that even with his hardest nights of drinking, they don't compare to what he just went through. Meanwhile, Urianger says he would rather go swimming than to endure aether sickness again. This is coming from a man who can't swim.
• Upon arrival at The Great Work, you discover Nidhana and all the other alchemists bodies sprawled across the ground, seemingly massacred. When Varshahn arrives seemingly unbothered by the sight, he announces he brought in a supply of dragon scales, with everyone suddenly waking up to get back to work as if nothing happened. They all weren't dead, just dead tired from work and fell asleep where they were standing.
  • Once the Alchemists at The Great Work see that Estinien is a dragoon, they all want a piece of him. In some cases, literally. Some of the looks on his face, and the scene, wouldn't be out of place in a Hildibrand quest.
  • As Estinien is being taken away by the Alchemists, Urianger can be spied on the right side of the screen doing what effectively amounts of a prayer for the Azure Dragoon.
    • To put it in perspective, Estinien has been possessed by a dragon, seen a proto-Ultima with a person attached to it, and all sorts of other horrors, yet he barely even blinks. On top of all that, there are multiple ledges high above where he could have simply jumped up to and escaped the horde. However, seeing the alchemists with their (hilariously creepy) wiggling fingers coming closer and closer to him absolutely terrifies him, and it is glorious to see.
• When running Tower of Zot with Trust as healer or tank, right before the final fight in which one has to fight all three bosses, even though it initially only looks like one, this hilarious little exchange happens:

  Estenien: Would have been quicker to fight all three at once...

• In the aftermath of the Tower of Zot dungeon, the Scions go their separate ways for a time to do some preparing. At Old Sharlayan, those who didn't split off gather food for a small feast, resulting in quite a bit of relaxing casual banter.
  • After having made an one-off comment about wanting a burger but never having the opportunity to have one during his studies, G'raha finally gets his burger (and one that's almost the size of his head), his face lighting up as he's about to chow down. He even had to pause for a moment to stop the patty from slipping out of the buns.
    • Catboy can finally has Cheezburger
  • Alisaie, too, has a burger, but proceeds to pick out the pickles and sneak them onto G'raha's plate. Later on, she quickly snatches a cookie off of his cookie plate and smugly bites it in half right in front of him.
  • Alphinaud claims he invited Estinien, but is quite obviously absent. Alphinaud and Alisaie takes the chance poke fun at him declining; Alphinaud jokingly talking like him, and Alisaie questioning if he's practicing brooding.
  • G'raha Tia reveals in that he had to not only use his stealth magic to sneak around Sharlayan's archives, but also use levitation... because the shelves were too tall for him.
  • After dinner is done, G'raha eventually notices the phantom pickle slipped onto his plate, looking at Alisaie as the prime suspect. She just as quickly looks away from him as if to say "It wasn't me.". All of this is emoted in a hilariously dramatic fashion.
• During the big meeting with everyone preparing to storm the Garlean Empire, Y'shtola teases Lyse over her strength in the battlefield, to which Lyse retorts with how she heard about her stint as "Master Matoya, Avatar of Destruction." Cue Thancred fanning himself innocently and Urianger looking at his cards all casual like while Y'sthola scowls at them both.
• Emmanellain is tasked with representing House Fortemps for the mission, right away complaining about going. At the prospect of dancing though, he happily starts doing so. Thancred gives a slight Oh, Crap! look.
• During the big meeting, if you speak to Emmanellain he will yet again express interest in wooing the women around him and has his eyes set on not just Cirina but Sadu of all people. Fortunately, he second guesses doing so because of Magnai's presence, never realizing that would have been the least of his troubles if he had made an attempt.
• Sadu of all people gets the Duty Complete music playing for her when she unleashes a Limit Break and defeats the third Legion and leader in battle. Since it was thanks to her the heroes won, it isn't too out of place, but still funny.
• After defeating the III and I Legion, we see Cirina running towards Sadu and completely running past Magnai, who had his arms open to accept the tiny Au Ra, causing him to drop his arms and his head in defeat as he's denied another Moon.
• Emmanellain actually becomes somewhat useful while looking for potential Garlean survivors in need of aid by providing the use of his telescope. While surveying the land, he echoes some player frustration by spying what he believed to be an aether current, only for it to be a wind sprite - somehow, in an area normally completely devoid of wind sprites.
• In your search in scavenging a ceruleum tank, you have to find a hatch in a murky, ice-cold pond of water that was once heated with cereuleum. You manage to find the hatch with a tank and raise your hand in celebration...and then shortly meet the immediate repercussions of having to wade and search in an ice-cold pond. Namely, the smell of stinky water and freezing cold temperatures.
• After being kidnapped by Fandaniel, the WoL awakens at a dinner table with Zenos, and Fandaniel in a tuxedo, enthusiastically playing the part of butler by pouring wine. While the reveal that they stole your body is horrifying, the WoL can potentially react with annoyance, treating being stuck in a random Garlean's body as though someone's wearing the same costume as you to a Halloween party.
• When Thancred sees Argos for the first time, he comments how he expected something fiercer, not "man's best friend".
• After the grim war against Garlemald and the Telophoroi, being unable to stop Zodiark from being freed, and then finding out he was the only thing which prevented the world from the Final Days returning... we meet the Loporrits, who immediately induce a violent tonal whiplash as they reveal the moon is a spaceship designed to evacuate the planet. And boy, are they struggling: like the Amaurotines, they think the Scions are children, and when corrected, they fly into a panic about having made the domiciles three times the necessary size.
  • Just the introduction of the Loporrits, whose stasis unit pops them out almost like a jelly bean dispenser, as the Scions have a collective Jaw Drop on realizing that Hydaelyn's moonship crew and chosen people are Lalafell-sized bunny rabbits. And all to the classic Final Fantasy victory theme to boot. Urianger seems taken by their cuteness, while Thancred is utterly dumbfounded.
  • This then follows into correcting other misunderstandings. For one, they believe that they're making residences for people of Amaurotine size, with Livingway panicking upon realizing how much smaller everyone has gotten since and hastily telling Buildingway to rebuild everything at one-third the intended scale. Furthermore, while they do technically have enough nutrition for the trip, it's made up entirely of various special, oversized carrots, and they don't seem to understand that people might not like carrots. For another, their understanding of fashion is a mishmash of Amaurotine austerity, Allagan facemasks and visors, and modern fashion as interpreted by Sharlayan. Even their idea of a nice relaxing park turns out to be an enormous green-tiled room with crystalline structures instead of trees or grass.
  • Speak with Thancred after trying the carrots and he'll sheepishly admit he actually quite enjoyed them.
  • Then when you're asked about the "forest", your have the very blunt response of "'Tis as transcendent as burying your face in a chocobo's plumage and taking a good, long whiff!" For players that were around before the A Realm Reborn trim, they know that a chocobo has a very, ahem, unique scent.
  • When Growingway shows the Warrior of Light around the "forest" one possible dialogue option has them asking if they're allowed to lick the rainbow colored crystals in the area. Growingway is understandably shocked by this request and quickly tells them no.
• When the Loporrits are panicking that the Scions/ the Eorzean are unwilling to accept the evacuation plan, Urianger calms them down with a very well-worded pep talk, that they fully understood the Loporrits well-meaning intent through their names. But when Puddingway introduces themselves, you can see the eloquent Elezen pauses for a bit before claiming that there are some deeds that cannot be simply conveyed by words alone.
• The night before the Final Days strike Thavnair, you get to have a heartwarming one-on-one talk with a Scion of your choice. If you choose Estinien, he leaves the scene through the window instead of the way he came like all other Scions. Then there's his opening line:
• One of Hermes's creations is ambystoma that garners several funny moments. Emet-Selch, upon seeing the creature, is dumbfounded by Hermes's claim that the creature can climb with its "sorry excuse for limbs." The creature gets away while everyone is distracted and Hermes later finds it in a tree. He climbs up to get it, only for the creature to come down from the tree on its own and Hermes is hanging upside-down from the branch. Lastly, when you check on the creature at the end of the quest, the Warrior of Light notices that the creature's demeanor is one of a rebellious nature as if it is proud of itself for going on an adventure.
  • True to its demeanor, it manages to find itself within Labyrinthos as you show the loporrits around, claiming it got approved to be sent down to Etherys.
  • Even more ridiculous is that it somehow managed to make its way to Ultima Thule, which, until the arrival of the Scions, was explicitly stated to have been a gigantic stretch of nothing at the furthest edge of the universe.
• Once in Elpis, the Warrior of Light needs a cover identity so as to not rouse suspicion. Hythlodaeus and Emet-Selch settle on "Azem's familiar", as Azem's reputation is of eccentricity, and the Warrior's soul's "color" is very close to theirs. Any time the WoL's behavior is brought up as odd, "Azem's familiar" has the questioner's reaction essentially become "oh, well, that explains it, never mind!"
• At one point, Hermes needs someone to teach the descendant of a test creature to fly since it has too much water aspected aether compared to the "expected" amount of air aether. Emet-Selch immediately refuses to help since he doesn't want to be involved in Hythlodaeus's schemes. Living up to his trolling nature, Hythlodaeus suggests to the Warrior of Light that they wear down Emet-Selch by constantly insisting that he appeal to his good nature and altruism. He eventually relents.
  • Even funnier: the quest has you say "Please, Emet-Selch" in open chat, and the new expansion means that loads of players are running through the same quests at the same time. Emet-Selch has been literally surrounded by dozens, possibly even hundreds across the various servers, of Warriors of Light at all hours of the day, all begging "Please, Emet-Selch", for two whole weeks. Well played, Hythlodaeus, well played.
• In your time in Elpis, Meteion decides to introduce you to some of the lifeforms that are being studied in the area and use them to demonstrate her powers. The one she chooses is a shoebill, which just... stares. And keeps staring. And keeps staring. She eventually gives up because there's apparently just nothing there for her to read.
  • There's a later sidequest where a researcher is trying to get a reaction from a bird. Any reaction at all. The WoL's aid is requested, and they're quite certain they can get a response. Guess which bird it is? After staring and poking at it, you do get it to barely react - it briefly glares at you after you hug it, so quickly the researcher didn't even spot the response.
• A side quest in Elpis has you tracking down a researcher who is trying to catch his newly created Mandragora. When you find him, he says the plant creature does have sentience, but he can't understand what it's saying. The Warrior of Light tries to understand the creature's unique speech, but doesn't know what it's saying. The researcher then transforms the Warrior of Light into a Mandragora to see if being the same creature will help the communications, only for Warrior of Light to find the screeches even less understandable.
• During your tour of Elpis, Hythlodaeus notes that Ascian people has been so obsessed with sharks as of late that they kept submitting shark concepts every damn day.

  Hythlodaeus: At first they were largely orthodox; consideration given to such things as size and environmental impact. And then, a whimsical someone thought to bestow it with flight, another superior intelligence, and then the floodgates burst; concepts with multiple heads, or arms, or legs, or arms and legs, and so on and so forth. It was getting absurd. A part of me wanted to tell them to go away and find something else to create, but in the end, I couldn't deny their passion. And here we are.

  • As Hythlodaeus rambles on such grievances, a giant humanoid shark in the distance roars and comes after him, as if it took offense overhearing the "go away" part. Its only Venat's timely intervention that stops him becoming landshark food.
  • This isn't the last time Hythlodaeus comments on the inclinations of his fellow Ascians. If you take him into Ktisis Hyperboreia as a Trust, he can only wonder what manner of thinking spawned the second boss upon seeing it, and once it's defeated, declare that he will be sure to reject it if it's concept is submitted.
• You wouldn't expect the future caring Hydaelyn to begin her story divebombing a man-shark creature from the air. A bit later, Venat wants to test the future Azem by dueling you, using Zenos' moveset from Stormblood MSQ no less!

  Venat: You seem doubtful. But useful lesson or not, it will certainly be a moment to remember─a memory of the distant past to cherish!

  Warrior of Light: (optional, with worrying face) And if this memory turns out to be a bad one...?

• Emet-Selch is known to be a Perpetual Frowner by his peers and friends. When Venat is introduced, she wastes no time teasing Emet-Selch for being such a grump that he's forming wrinkles on his face.

  Venat: I daresay the lines upon your brow have both deepened and double in number. A shame for one so young. You should make an effort to frown less often.

  • Taking the time to speak to Emet-Selch a bit later has him reply:

  Emet-Selch: <sigh> And she wonders why these lines upon my brow grow deeper, when she herself wields the hammer and chisel...

  • In a way, this makes his Convocation mask Hilarious in Hindsight. Its perpetual menacing glare suited the imposing culmination of the Shadowbringers storyline, but seems extremely out-of-place back in Ancient times... until one realizes it was modeled after his constant Resting Bitch Face.
• A side quest chain in Elpis has you dealing with an Ancient named Kleon, who is struggling with some of his concepts and wants advice from a battle-ready familiar - aka you. He first asks your opinion of a batrachoi, which is revealed to be the giant toad model that has plagued many an adventurer in FFXIV with its sticky tongue, and you're given several dialogue options to improve it, all including features that annoy players today. Then, excited by your help, you're led to Kleon's next creation - an io, that he wishes to be an apex predator ruling over the land, but is little more than docile livestock at the moment...with a very familiar bodyshape. Giving him advice turns the concept into...the behemoth. Congratulations, the person who created some of Eorzea's most dreaded monsters...is you!
• One Elpis researcher tasks you with tracking down his latest project, a nymphe, which has stolen some honey and shouldn't be allowed to eat all of it in one go. The WoL agrees, only to find... beavers. After reprimanding the "... nymphe?" three times, you report back to the researcher, who asks you what became of his creation. Once you explain the situation, he expresses confusion, as his nymphe fit the description of the pixies from Shadowbringers... and then has a brief breakdown before telling you some things are better off left unrevealed as he departs.
• One MSQ quest in Elpis has you deal with many of Ascian's Morbol-equivalents in The Hungering Gardens, as in, run into the zone packed full with nothing but dozens of these suckers. You're guaranteed to pull 2 or 3 of the damned things at once by accident and cover the entire arena with area-of-effect warnings, especially during launch week when it's more likely that people are doing this very quest and constantly spawn additional mobs. Apparently it was so horrible that Emet-Selch comments about how you smell when you come back.
• If you take the story trusts into Ktisis Hyperboreia, at one particular trash pull Hythlodaeus comments on Hermes being a rather efficient manager. Under the circumstances, Emet-Selch is unamused:

  Emet-Selch: Seriously? You want to discuss his candidacy now?

• You can only bring the Scions to Ktisis Hyperboreia in Avatar mode, but if you do, they've been given their own reactions to the first boss's hide-and-seek mechanic, with some particularly standing out:
  • The second time around, Alisaie gets annoyed and begins blasting everywhere but the safe zone with Contre Sixte spam, and then pops Sprint to get there in time.
  • Estinien will, in true Dragoon fashion, backflip into the safe spot at the last possible moment.
  • Since Y'shtola sees via aether, the boss's trick doesn't work on her at all, and she'll casually walk to the safe spot while saying "Have you learned nothing?"
  • When G'raha gets to the safe spot, he starts doing stretches while waiting for the rest of the party to join him.
• When the Loporrits arrive on Etheirys during the Final Days, one of them is given a rather tense introduction as they lurch forward like a zombie... except it's just Puddingway, wondering where the hell can they find pudding on this planet, to Livingway's chagrin. Even as the party and the Loporrits converse, Puddingway continues to lurch around in the background.
  • Additionally, Urianger is accompanying them after having stayed on the moon for an extended period to prepare for the exodus. Except that he's arrived on the ice-cold Garlean soil in his Astrologian chiton, which is loose, flowy, and sleeveless. He's shivering in place to confirm to Alisaie that, yes, he is indeed cold and is concerned about his health without proper clothes.
• Upon arriving in Sharlyan along with the Allagan Adamantite necessary to complete the Ragnarok, Cid tears into the Scions for not immediately telling him about a ship that can fly to the moon, downright offended that the one time they don't ask for his help it's about a gods damned ship that can fly to the moon.
• After repairing their relationship with the Twins, Fourchenault tells them that he would very much like to hear about their adventures in Eorzea and beyond after they finish dealing with The Final Days. His wife is extremely amused by this because, according to her, he "turns pale and runs out of the room" whenever a letter from the Twins arrives because he's terrified to hear about all the absurdly dangerous things that they've been getting up to on their adventures.
• At one point when the Scion has nothing to do but wait for Rangarok preparation in Sharlayan, Urianger bid you gather NPC researchers to help facilitate cooperation with the Loporrits. Just the sheer size of the search area alone is enough to give several players a headache (to the point that someone posted a map in the FFXIV Subreddit) not to mention some of the more erratic personalities...

  Capricious Researcher: (Dancing) I can't stop now- I've got my second wind! Or my second-second wind... Hahaha!

  This woman is beyond help. Only sleep can save her now.

  • When you run up to an other female administrator, she explains she was simply plucking leafs from a tree to calm her nerves during free time. The game helpfully notes that "she's doing better than you are." The 'you' being the Warrior of Light who's probably wracked with anxiety about the universe ending very, very soon...
• While it occurs in an otherwise very heavy scene, there's two things that happen during your conversation with Hydaelyn/Venat that, if you pause to think about it, are actually hilarious:
  • At two different times after her fight with you, Venat speaks in the same way she did in Elpis, with the cockney accent and dropping the flowery talk. This means she only used that speech pattern to make herself sound more like how people expected her to sound as Hydaelyn and not because she had to speak that way.
  • She admits that the Mothercrystal was NOT her, but rather came to represent her due to how much aether got stored in it. In other words, in all the other times she talked to you through the crystal, she was effectively using a divine form of ventriloquism!
• Before departing for The Very Definitely Final Dungeon, you spend some downtime with the Scions, starting with a drink with Thancred, Y'shtola and Urianger at the Last Stand. Urianger proceeds to get absolutely hammered between the end of the cutscene and return to gameplay:
• Towards the very end of the story arc, the starship Ragnarok needs to transform a massive amount of crystal into something more portable; the Loporrits then recruit the Beast Tribes and teach them an uncorrupted version of summoning that brings forth benevolent Primals who have no desire to temper anyone and are willing to sacrifice themselves if it means saving their followers... except Garuda, who while still going along with the plan is - true to her nature - very bitter about helping the flightless and loudly making her displeasure known. Meanwhile, Susano tells her to help anyway since this whole event is a good excuse to rejoice in the revel.
  • The Ragnarok has a Summoner dong ^note Summoners' artifact gear, true to the greater series, often includes a horn on the forehead. The Ragnarok sports a similar protrusion on the bow of the ship.
• One side quest in Ultima Thule has an Omicron point out they were ordered to patrol the area, but there hasn't been any enemies around and the Omicron weren't given an exit condition to end the patrol. The Warrior of Light can suggest that the Omicron dance and they perform a dance to teach them. The Omicron do the dance, but they don't stop dancing since they weren't given an exit condition. Their monotone pleas for help to stop dancing only makes it funnier.

  Omicron Guard: ...No exit condition has been specified. This unit requests orders to free itself from gyration loop.

• An Ea asks the Warrior of Light to slap them to jog their memories. They then ask if they had any memory that involved giving someone a hard slap like the one they gave out. Both answers you can give point to the Namazu, which implies the Warrior of Light either still finds them annoying or hasn't gotten over being betrayed by one of them during Stormblood.
• When resurrected by Azem's crystal boosted by creation magic to help confront Meteion, Emet-Selch, his memories of his visit to Elpis restored by a soak in the Aetherial Sea, is just a bit indignant that his poignant last words at the end of Shadowbringers have come back to make him look foolish for how ironic they ended up being. He also complains that he can't even rest in peace watching the show being put on which is doubly funny if you remember that in his days as Emperor of Garlemald he enjoyed theater. The frosting of the cake is some playful ribbing from a similarly resurrected Hythlodaeus who practically lampshades the story thus far.

  Emet-Selch: (Annoyed sigh) I bid them remember, but all this time, I'm the one who had forgotten... A right fool you've made of me, Hermes. And to add insult to injury, I've been denied a sound rest, forced to watch this clamorous show.
  Hythlodaeus: Oh come now, it's been a gripping tale. Unbreakable bonds and noble sacrifice, sprinkled with moments of levity to counterbalance the pathos. It's got it all. I for one would have been perfectly content to watch enraptured from the stalls... But I won't say no to a bit part!

  • Not long after he can't help but throw a bit of snark Venat's way, knowing her well enough to see that she was counting on the Warrior of Light to call him back to help finish it.

    Emet-Selch: So, here I am, Venat. I suppose you needed me to tie it all together, these frayed threads of our history—but knowing you, I suspect there's a joke in it too. Oh yes, I can imagine you gloating over my forgetfulness. Were I feeling charitable I might assume you had left room for the possibility of this outcome. Even so, you'll get no applause from me. A single gesture will not lighten the burden I've had to bear.

  • His final words as the summoning spell fades are one last bit of snark:

    Hythlodaeus: I pray we meet again. If not in this life, then perhaps another. Whensoever it should be, I trust it will be a most joyous reunion.
    Emet-Selch: For you, maybe. I want nothing to do with it.

    • Note that in spite of his snark he favours the Wo L with a smile very similar to his parting smile from 5.0. Man is just a tsundere.
• While Zenos jumping in to help you against the Endsinger is a badass moment, there's some hilarity in the moment, as he basically says "Why is this thing still alive? It's no match for you."

  Zenos: I take it this is your prey? But why does it still live? Surely it's no match for you. I had assumed you would be above something so banal as despair. Am I mistaken?

• Playing the world's greatest hero as a short Lalafell is a already questionable idea to some FFXIV players. But Endwalker takes this ridiculousness to a new high when Zenos offers one last throw-down. That one of the universe's strongest being will kill metric ton of people, break space-time and defeat godlike being capable of ending existence itself all because he wants to pick a fight with a person one-fourth his size is utterly hilarious. During the final fisticuffs, the game had to angle Zenos' fist downward just to make it look convincing, and a kick to push them away makes it look more like he's trying to punt a child in a mix of a bar brawl and launching a football.
  • It gets a bit better when you remember that since 1.0, Lalafell have been demonstrated to have the strength of soldier ants, able to pick up and bodily throw fully grown adult Hyur, on top of the Warrior of Light being demonstrated to be strong even by those standards as far back as the mid-thirties MSQ. You can tell, however, that the camera angles are trying very hard to sell the encounter, to mixed effect.
• Though it's time for the Scions of the Seventh Dawn to leave the world to the Grand Company of Eorzea and say your goodbyes until next time, the story manages to squeeze in one jab at the Warrior of Light's Heroic Mime status. When talking to Estinien, it opens up with the both of them with arms crossed and staring at each other in silence until the dragoon breaks the ice.
  • When Estinien asks the Warrior of Light about what seems to be troubling them, their responses are wondering how Estinien is going to earn coin going forward (as the Scions was pretty much his first meaningful employment in a long time) or how they themselves are going to earn coin going forward. Estinien has to remind the Warrior of Light that, though technically disbanded, the Scions are still writing their paychecks.
• After Alphinaud officially disbands the Scions, its members can be seen in various parts of the world pursuing their own purposes. Ocher Boulder part ways from his brother Hoary to hone his healing crafts in Gridania, leaving Rising Stone's resident Yaoi Fangirl Aenor a bit wanting...

  Aenor: My appetite is lost, and sleep does not come easy... I can't scarce remember hold my bow without my hands starting to shake. <gasp> Could this be...? This lack of brotherly love must be causing me to suffer withdrawal! Oh, help me, Clemence!

• Even bit part NPCs in Endwalker's minor sidequests are now starting to expect Warrior of Light to turn up despite having no real reason to, to the point that it may have turned into an in-universe joke. Take one sidequest in Camp Broken Glass for example:

  Iliette: Aha! You do have a way of appearing at the most opportune times, don't you. I was only just thinking to myself, 'if only [Warrior of Light] were here...' So, to business!

• As soon as WoL climbs up Shalayan Hunt rank to Elite, they are immediately flooded with requests for specimen hunts including species long extinct since millennia ago from nearly all departments of Sharlayan (much to the Hunt Guildmaster's consternation) If only there's someone nearby who could time travel that happens to hang out in Sharlayan at the moment...
  • The mental image of WoL taking on the "silly" requests and then coming back successfully anyway. With Fresh kills to boot.
• While going through Smileton, a level 90 dungeon, the WoL ends up passing by various members of the Loporrits survey team that had gotten lost in the maze-like hallways. One group of them is seen arguing.

  Loporrits 1: You've lead us in circles again, you fat-tailed idiot!

  Loporrits 3: <gasp> Why would you say that!?

• When Warrior of Light is called in to deal with mysterious emergency signal from the Omicron post-MSQ (which unlocks another dungeon), the Loporrit in charge have you board the Ragnarok again, which now exists in both Sharlayan and Ultima Thule at once for some reason. Why? The Loporrit has no idea either. Just roll with it.
• One of new food items added in Endwalker was initially named "Beet Soup" - but localization team missed an already-existing item with the same name (added all the way back in Heavensward). In 6.01 patch, the new item was renamed to "Wine-dark Soup", and description was updated with some self-deprecating humor:

  "A creamy variety of beet soup - though no self-respecting Sharlayan would ever utilize such vulgar nomenclature. Ever."

• After defeating Hydaelyn, you can find a Loporrit in Old Sharlayan and challenge them to Triple Triad. Their name? Cheatingway.
• The start of the Studium questline for the Culinarian and the Alchemist has Debroye ask you to sample a food known as the Panaloaf, made by the oh so brilliant person who made the Archon Loaf. Unsurprisingly, the WoL sports an expression of complete and utter disgust. The description you get depends on your race; options are visible if you scroll down a bit on the quest's wiki page here. Every one ends with:

  "It is quite possibly the worst thing you have ever eaten."

  • The worst part is that Galveroche intends to have this disgusting garbage be fed to everyone in Sharlayan in an emergency, which Debroye sees as a Fate Worse than Death.
  • The abovementioned aether sickness from that experimental aetheryte? Debroye shrugs it off because compared to the Panaloaf, it was nothing.
  • The Mervynloaf bread that Debroye develops to oppose said culinary monstrosity can potentially be described as one of the single greatest things the WoL has ever eaten. However, in contrast to Panaloaf's plain and unassuming appearance, it's unfortunately visually identical to The First's Meol.
• In 6.0 launch there is an oversight regarding Radz-at-Hanz's Skywatcher during The Final Days, causing them to report weather as if the totally bloody red sky with monsters spawning out of it just don't exist.
• In 6.1, you go to gather up a group of Scions to do a little bit of treasure hunting, and find Y'shtola passed out amid a stack of books. You and G'raha resolve to wait until she wakes, and she eventually does... with a Sudden Soundtrack Stop when she realizes you're both watching her. And then a book falls on her head.
• The final boss of Alzadaal's Legacy has the attack "Spin Out", which grabs you with a bolt of silken fabric, then whips you and your party out like a Beyblade. The attack is as silly as it sounds, leaving you dizzy on your feet when the spin time ends.
• Your treasure hunting of Alzadaal III's Hoard is ultimately ill-advised, as the vault you're hunting to help pad Thavnair's treasury is... actually itself part of Thavnair's treasury — specifically, it's Vrtra's personal treasury, a well-kept secret so no one would mess with the Voidgate sealed within. No normal adventurer or treasure hunter could brave the traps, but Vrtra didn't count on you raiding it. Whoops.
  • When Vrtra, in his Varshahn guise, asks what you were doing, you have the option to blame Y'shtola... and she does not appreciate it, giving your character a deadly glare and a threat that outright terrifies the Warrior of Light, complete with a menacing soundtrack.

    Y'shtola: You and I will speak later.

    G'raha Tia: Not the time for frivolity, my friend, not the time...

  • Later, when Varshahn is asking for replacements to be reinstated, the Alchemist wonders what terrible horror could have found and felled the guardians of the vault - clearly fearing that invaluable funds for Thavnair could have been lost, or worse. The Scions can only guiltily look around, deeply embarrassed.
  • Then, when you return to the vault, it's clear from Varshahn and Estinien's dialogue that there were a few constructs left untouched... which Estinien destroyed before Varshahn could stop him.
    • The Warrior of Light was inspired to raid the Bounty in the first place by Emet-Selch suggesting it, which implies he knew and wanted to put them in the awkward situation of explaining why they're raiding the treasure vault of one of their allies.
• During the discussion on how to expand the void gate, everyone notes how the gate's current size is far too small for any man to enter. Estinien suggests Alphinaud could easily fit, showing that he still loves to give the kid a hard time even if he's not present.

  Estinien: No man? I should think Alphinaud would fit, given a firm enough push.

• Alternatively, you can give Estinien a hard time with nothing but a knowing smile, even though he's obviously too big to fit through the tiny rift. It's as if you're passively telling him "Ok Estinien, get in."
• Remember the Nixies from Matoya's Relict? The ones revealed to be created by Y'shtola? She decides to use them to test the effects of an expedition into the Void. Which means we get to see their summoning ritual for the first time... and it's like something straight out of Magical Girl anime. Even Y'shtola was a kid once...

  Y'shtola: Water, water, froth and foam!♪

  Estinien: Ready your arms, I fear she's been possessed...

  • Everyone's reactions to the summoning. Y'shtola is dying of embarrassment, but Nidhana is absolutely delighted by it, and finds the whole thing adorable. Estinien, meanwhile, admits he struggles to picture a young Y'shtola, instead imagining her coming out already an adult from one of Matoya's cauldrons.
    • Varshahn's reaction is just mouth open, stunned silence as he contemplates what he just witnessed. Made even funnier when you recall that he's a simulacrum of Vytra's. So now you get to imagine an incredibly large dragon, one of the oldest no less, with a look of absolute shock wondering what the hell he just witnessed.
  • If you choose the "Froth and foam!" dialogue option Y'shtola will threaten to shrink you down to the size of a Nixie and throw you in the void portal after them, which terrifies the Warrior of Light.
  • If you choose the "..." dialogue option, the Warrior of Light just stares at Y'shtola in open-mouthed Stunned Silence. Y'shtola pleads with you to never mention what you saw again.
  • This scene also makes Matoya's Relict much more amusing in retrospect, considering that if one runs it with Trust and has Y'shtola in the group, she will be very upset upon seeing the big Nixie (to the point of mumbling "Oh gods, it's still here..."), followed by some choice words after the fight with it:
• After Vrtra gets encouragement from his people and Estinien to go and find his sister, Y'sthola notes how it's very unlike Estinien to go out of his way to give people encouragement due to his lone wolf nature. Estinien claims it was for the great good due to Vitra's thundering sighs keeping the citizens awake at night and travelers thought an unnatural storm was occurring. Yes, a huge dragon sighing was preventing people from getting sleep.
  • Even funnier is that Vrtra (through Varshan) is visibly taken aback, either at Estinien's sheer gall or the embarrassment of being told this. If there was any doubt Vrtra hadn't spent his time as hidden Satrap Going Native, they'd be dispelled by how sincerely he reacts to it.
• In 6.1 if you visit the Firmament in Ishgard you have the potential to find an NPC wearing a blue elephant costume, except that's not just any NPC, it's Ser Aymeric. It turns out that Estinien carried out his joke to gift the costume to Aymeric and he's using it as a method to be out among the people without being swarmed by his fans.
  • Though he's even becoming famous in the costume, with other NPC's dubbing him the Azure Elephant, and claiming that his presence guarantees good fortunes, so who knows how long that anonymity will last.
• After finishing the finale of Endwalker's Role Quest series, talking to Alisaie in Tertium has her go on a hilariously hypocritical rant, and demonstrate which parent she takes after.

  Did Father really storm into the Tower of Babil alongside you? I told him not to overexert himself, but he never listens. If he were anyone else, I'd give him a thick ear for being so reckless. The next time you see him prepare to do anything rash, do be sure to call on me. I'll feel better knowing the both of us are there to keep an eye on him.

• While aiding Omega's research on mortal "heart" in exchange for its translation help, the Warrior, Omega, and Alpha travel to Bestways Burrows to learn more about the culture of the Ancients. While there, Growingway despairs when he sees Alpha, thinking that he'd been one-upped in fluffiness. Later, the trio search out Argos to take them to the Watcher's Palace. When Argos refuses to acknowledge Omega's attempts at communicating, the machine pieces these two events together and starts to believe that a fluff-based hierarchy exists on the moon. If the Warrior of Light is a miqo'te or hrothgar, Omega wonders if their fluffy tail is proof of high status among this alleged hierarchy, while for a viera it attributes it to their fluffy ears.

  Omega: <bloop> Impedance detected. The creature identified as Argos refuses to acknowledge our presence. Hypothesis. Upon our arrival, Growingway expressed concern that he had been "out-fluffed". This suggests the existence of a fluff-based hierarchy. My station in such a system would be predictably low, but Argos is adamant in ignoring even Alpha. Its fluffiness level is impossible to gauge. ... <bloop> You have secured the creature's permission? Curious. Is it your fluffy tail which provides such exemplary standing in the hierarchy?

  • If you implore to Argos that he is the fluffiest of them all, he gives an exasperated snort in response to your silliness. The alternate response is to tell him to "just think of them as luggage."
• When meeting with Ameliance to discuss her plans to house and educate foreign exchange students, F'lhaminnn and Rowena show up. The Warrior of Light is shocked to see Rowena turn up and she accuses them of not being happy to see her. They can respond in one of two ways and both of them involve trying to avoid dealing with her:

  <cough> I think I may be coming down with something...

  I just remembered, I uh...left my oven fire burning at home.

    Pandæmonium

• Once the task to investigate Pandæmonium is made clear, the Warrior of Light makes their way to the Ocular to travel back to Elpis, and eventually find an ally in the matter. They, however, didn't expect to meet their partner by literally falling on top of them.

  Themis: [They] told me a falling star would appear before me, and I suppose you must be it. Truth be told, I did not expect the expression to be so...literal.

• Pandæmonium is absolutely lined with statues of a three-headed snake creature...The same model of the second boss of Ktisis Hyperboreia that Venat and Hythlodaeus complained about, meaning it was probably a Lahabrea-adjacent creation. It seems Lahabrea got no respect even back then.

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