I swear this project is cursed. When I tried to render the first half of the animation, blender would crash every 10 frames. it's almost like there was an invisible force not wanting me to change Haurchefant's fate or something. The second half, however, was rendered without a single problem. I have never faced so many technical problems on a single project and I'm glad it's finally done.
The sad thing is that I can see this happening for our poor WoL. Everyone turns on us, we flee to Ishguard and to the only allies that we can ask for help and then HW does one punch after another. Its a wonder the WoL isn't suffering from CPTSD at this point.
And this, my friends, is the exact moment where sprout White Mage decided to lay down her cane and take up her sword as a Dark Knight. The wheels of Justice having failed, we now needs take the reigns.
I leveled Paladin up through this point in HW. This was the last dungeon I did before switching to Dark Knight which has been my main class ever since.
Dark Knight's story is so good when Uldah is fresh, and this just fuels it even more. The more horrifying heartbreaks and infuriating mistreatments the WoL faces before picking up that job crystal, the stronger the story hits (imo.)
Legend say if you run Dragonsong's Reprise (Ultimate) and get the Infirmity debuff from the lance, If you are a healer there is additional sentence in the tooltip saying: "There's nothing you could have done." Tried to backtrack the video where I heard it, but I cannot find it anywehere. Maybe my memory is playing tricks on me.
Same. I ran with a group of sprouts a few days ago who were doing the Vault for the first time and I was just like...."oh you're going to be in so much pain...." (It's even worse if they run with duty support since he's the tank the whole way through and giving you words of encouragement)
Lol, I love how accurate the scene at 0:53 is to the original rapper video. Even Alphie running in front holding his head with the mouth open, literally made me cry. It's just perfect.
This is the kind of shit Fordola saw in you with Echo and wondered how the fuck you deal with all that and don't break. Good shitpost turned into solid story, very impressive.
@@EAFSQ9 It's an under-appreciated character aspect. The false-echo forcing a (painful) kind of empathy on a woman so divided from the world around her is a choice poetic irony.
@@RoboChocobo and this is why one does not just... replicate an Echo from anyone without understanding what it entails, much less getting it from someone like Krile. 🙃
It'd be fun if she changed to a "darker" job after this. BLM, DRK, RPR or something. Why bother with healing when your bestie dies in front of you etc? There's potential for a whole miqo'te sprout character arc here.
@@Toffeehammer That's the way I play lol, I play WHM up until that point. But queue kinda slog so I play WAR. My character would use rage instead of darkness edgy lmao.
Its been, what, 7 years? 7 years, and *none* of us are okay still. For all the trouble you had making this, you managed to completely capture the entire playerbase's feelings in a single animation. Well done. I'll be over here crying.
There is two characters that the Warrior of Light canonically just can't get over running into, if I recall the Endwalker spoilers, and having it be Nael Van Darnis in the Coils and Hauchefaunt is probably as fitting as it'll ever get.
I swear I’m not just trying to be edgy but I genuinely can’t understand how people are sad about that scene. Was I supposed to give a shit about Haurchefant? The game certainly didn’t give me any reason to. Bitch is lucky I even remember his name.
I'll be real, with how Haurchefant was forced onto us as characters it 1 made me instantly be like "okay this guys going to die" and 2 due to how fast it all happened and because it didn't feel very organic, it really didn't feel like that big of a deal. Oh look a guy we met a few weeks ago died, so sad anyway. Honestly I wasn't even a big fan of Papalymo but his death got me real sad. Much more of a build up but I will admit I started in Gridiana so that probably helped.
The closest the camera is from a character's eye, the more empathy it generates This is why when we want the public not to be too invested we have the victim die from afar, while when we want them to empathize we zoom on the eye like this. Think about it while watching movies and you'll notice it
Damn... first we saw her in the vault video, then her depressed sitting with Haurchefant's shield in the graphics update trailer, and now she's having nightmares about his death. Poor white mage miqo really loved him 😭 Only hope good things for her in future vids
0:00 - 1:09 is my head cannon now. He went on to join the Scions becoming a valuable member helping us stop calamties through all the expansions. He even becomes best buddies with G'raha..... I'M NOT CRYING, YOU'RE CRYING!!!!
Seeing Zephirin getting his own spear through his gut made my day. Just makes me wish we had a real 1v1 with Zephirin instead of him just dying with the other knights.
I think so. At least I wish SE will change boss 2 in The Aetherochemical Facility from stupid sphinx to Zephirin human & giant form someday. Yeah, just wish.
I felt a great disturbance in the Force... as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in joy and were suddenly silenced....until they just...cried. Splendid work, BeneG. I tip my hat to you. Now if you would excuse me, you seem to have reopened an old wound that now needs bandaging...
@@overseerpjoe9477 The Eden bosses are Ryne recreating them from WoL memories. It's not a direct parse of WoL's memories, it's Ryne trying to interpret what she's seeing/feeling. No, that still doesn't explain why Ramuh turned into a hot centaur dude or why Titan lost a lot of weight and got a bike. Either WoL or Ryne have a very active and possibly damaged imagination.
the amount of attention to detail you put into these is amazing. How the sprout healers eyes move near the end you can tell shes thinking a thousand things a second
For real, the switch in animation quality is palpable when it goes from shitpost to serious. They've got some amazing talent when it comes to facial expressions and lighting when the time calls for it.
You see, Heavensward Paladin could only block physical damage with their shield. It was sort of the "physical tank", with Dark Knight being the "magic tank", and Warrior just being an hp sponge. We didn't get the ability to block magical attacks passively, or with sheltron, until Stormblood launched. If only haurchefant could've made it one more expansion.
I love how the animation was awkward and stiff up until the reveal, but after everything is super smooth and meticulously worked on from the camera angles, body movement, and even eye movement
That's a cool bit of detail, like the dream is just a bit too uncanny and strange.. You know something is wrong, but can't or don't want to figure out what ;-;
Amazing work. Really captures a lot of the emotion that we as players feel the days after The Vault... You really got me in the first 2/3rds of the video, where I thought it was just all happiness, sunshine, and memes. Much more of a gut-punch than Squenix themselves with their dull flashbacks after HW.
I love how this was basically me during Heavensward. Catboy White Mage main, didn't have a single other class leveled, and was similarly depressed when I finished the Vault. All my friends got quiet when I told them when I unlocked it and then didn't do it for a few hours, I was driving them insane by delaying for no reason lmao
legitimately incredible- i never expected something like this, but it is utter perfection. Somehow you managed to make go into this expecting a cute little silly 'what if', and leave crying.
I was literally crying in voice chat during Atiascope. I told my friends "I'm having a moment..." while doing the kneel emote in front of his armament.
Good to see I'm not the only ones whos character experiences nightmares of failure. For my WOL they remember reaching out to Edda in the deep croft, reaching out a hand to snatch them from the edge only to miss unwilling finger tips by inches. The smell of burning wedding dress and burning skin, wet eye filling with gladdened despair. Her body plummeting as a blaze to the uncaring rock below like a forsaken comet. All the fanfare deafened as a single life slips through such praised fingers. The great vaunted hero and the broken corpse they stand upon like uneven stones. And the bodies of those all too willing to lay their lives down for them. A single death growing into a parade of corpses, their weight pushing the hero forward less they too fall among the mass.
How does the WoL carry on? Azem sums it up perfectly. “Aye, it’s true. We’ve lost much and more. Known unimaginable suffering. But through it all, we never forgot what we dear to us. And that’s what gives us the strength to carry on.”
The empty liquor bottles on the counter and floor leading to the bed. The dead silence when she wakes up. This is a horrifyingly accurate depiction of PTSD and/or survivor's guilt.
Fun fact: In the Inn room of the The Forgotten Knight, there are bottles already there. I think he did move some but there are a lot there by default. Even on the floor if I remembered correctly. Before I got a player room to place as many bottles as I could to show what an alcoholic my main is. I used that room for it.
What makes it worse for her is she was the healer and was the only one who should be able to do something. learned skills and spells to save everyone and in the end was powerless to do anything That guilt is devastating
@@kiriuxeosa8716 they changed the Vault. They made it so Alphinaud tries to heal Haurchy, but the magic from the attack prevented the wound from healing, so Haurchy bleeds out. You can check out the new cutscenes in the Unending Journey book at inns.
@@kiriuxeosa8716one thing of note is people don't die, and resurrection doesn't revive the dead. Players just pass out. So it goes without saying that visibly having a hole in your chest might actually kill you.
This is a great representation of the human mind, in states of contentment in sleep, our own brains like to torture us by coming up with your greatest fear and using it against you
Really making us go through it, huh? Went from laughing my ass off to trying not to tear up. Amazing animations as always, the eye movement at the end was fantastic.
So that's why you answered "well..not yet" when someone said " We now have the white mage sprout trilogy thank you BenedictG " in the previous video XD
Naw. I love G’raha to death but Hauchefant came through and believed in you when you were a literal fugitive. He stopped at nothing to make sure you could become the famed hero you had yet to be. Without him, your story wouldn’t have grown to the point where people made a whole time travel project for Raha to save you. Edmont wouldn’t have written your story to be passed down. Hauchefaunt solidified your path to legendary status.
Absolutely amazing that you made that one image of Haurchefant into video form, with the same WoL from the Zoolander meme video and everything. Was not expecting what came after though. That _hurt._
I was SO happy watching the first part of this! I want him to liiivvvveeeee!!!! Absolutely Fantastic video! 🤩 It's incredible what you can do More please!
Damn you!!! For the first minute or so I was sure that I was looking at one of those cute silly FFXIV renders...and then the second half of the story started... And now I'm sobbing.
Why does Bene like hurting us? First the video with Emet going from being cheered up by Hythlo to him being alone in Amaurot, and now this. I was so happy and now I'm sobbing. Also the fact the sprout is a WHM just like I was, they could be going through the same thing I had my character going through in her story, which is feelings of "why couldn't I save him, I'm a healer", bigger oof
@@elusixXrelix Damn, that's nice. I think he enjoys it at least a little bit because of the reference in his meme graphics update video with "Real-Time Depression" showing the Sprout in the aftermath. 😭
They actually changed the ending of that raid after the 6.3? update to include a scene with Alphinaud trying to heal him and then saying the wound refused to heal with normal healing spells.
It would be cool if depending on where you are in the MSQ, you would get RNG nightmares like this when logging onto your character kind of like how 1.0 did it. For Stormblood for example, after battling Zenos at Rhalgr's Reach, upon logging in it could be a nightmare revolving around Zenos killing all the scions and everyone else which would show the doubts the WoL potential had around that time. Another example could be in Shadowbringers, instead of Tesleen turning into a sin eater, Alisae pushes her out of the way and by doing so, she turns into one instead. Then the WoL would wake up. That'd be pretty cool imo.
I swear this project is cursed. When I tried to render the first half of the animation, blender would crash every 10 frames. it's almost like there was an invisible force not wanting me to change Haurchefant's fate or something. The second half, however, was rendered without a single problem. I have never faced so many technical problems on a single project and I'm glad it's finally done.
The fates truly were against him
Rendering this truly was your Dragonsong's Reprise [Ultimate]
And what a fine job you've done. 👍
sometimes it be like that
Its a canon event.
Didn't think i'd see Haurchefant say " A smile better suits a bitch" yet here we are
I mean it was a dream
And im sure ya all smiled on this moment
@SoAp1999xD I did more then just smile. Was in disbelief at first before laughing.
@@NikgassHaurchefant did too
I'm absolutely his bitch.
Can I just say I love Estinien just smiling while everyone else is shocked at what happened? Perfectly in character.
Like at the end of Endwalker when everyone is all angry and stuff and Eistinien's like, "Nice, bro"
@@rustyjones7908 I feel like he had utter faith in the WoL that they would survive. Otherwise he would have been upset, too.
I WAS CRYING FROM LAUGHTER BUT NOW I'M CRYING FROM A SHATTERED HEART
Same.
The sad thing is that I can see this happening for our poor WoL.
Everyone turns on us, we flee to Ishguard and to the only allies that we can ask for help and then HW does one punch after another.
Its a wonder the WoL isn't suffering from CPTSD at this point.
Same. my poor WoL and her nightmares from this >.
we end up crying either way, damn it beneg
My tears won't stop omg :"(
And this, my friends, is the exact moment where sprout White Mage decided to lay down her cane and take up her sword as a Dark Knight. The wheels of Justice having failed, we now needs take the reigns.
Similarly my white mage took in black magic and mixed them becoming a red mage
Nah they pick spear instead
I leveled Paladin up through this point in HW. This was the last dungeon I did before switching to Dark Knight which has been my main class ever since.
Dark Knight's story is so good when Uldah is fresh, and this just fuels it even more. The more horrifying heartbreaks and infuriating mistreatments the WoL faces before picking up that job crystal, the stronger the story hits (imo.)
I feel called out 😂
I mained whm and thought about trying other jobs. This cutscene was the trigger for me to try drk
Welp. Now I feel even MORE bad for the poor sprout
I hope years from now they remake the "After you help a new sprout beat "The Vault" but instead of the DRK Vet, it's the WHM who's now a vet.
@@CrusinaI was just thinking, there's a DRK arc incoming for her.
Legend say if you run Dragonsong's Reprise (Ultimate) and get the Infirmity debuff from the lance, If you are a healer there is additional sentence in the tooltip saying: "There's nothing you could have done."
Tried to backtrack the video where I heard it, but I cannot find it anywehere. Maybe my memory is playing tricks on me.
Same. I ran with a group of sprouts a few days ago who were doing the Vault for the first time and I was just like...."oh you're going to be in so much pain...."
(It's even worse if they run with duty support since he's the tank the whole way through and giving you words of encouragement)
@@Rafael64_That's a story that originates before the Ultimate, from when you do the stack mechanic in Thordan EX.
"I did everything right...everything that was asked of me and still.
*Still* it came to this."
It never gets any easier to watch.... The wound in my heart refuses to heal
The voice actor better have gotten a damn raise. That delivery was raw and real. Still beings tears to my eyes.😢
Lol, I love how accurate the scene at 0:53 is to the original rapper video. Even Alphie running in front holding his head with the mouth open, literally made me cry.
It's just perfect.
I was looking for this comment because hard same lmao
But Supahot's not a rapper.
@@jderekwastakenGet his name right. It's S U P A H O T F I R E
This is the kind of shit Fordola saw in you with Echo and wondered how the fuck you deal with all that and don't break. Good shitpost turned into solid story, very impressive.
Imagine Fordola witnessing that at the end of Shadowbringers, or even Endwalker. It would be enough to just full-on snap her in half
tbh I kind of want to see more story with Fordola. Especially how she got it and how it changed her.
@@EAFSQ9 Minor spoilers but the EW role quest for Healer is basically all about Fordola.
@@EAFSQ9 It's an under-appreciated character aspect. The false-echo forcing a (painful) kind of empathy on a woman so divided from the world around her is a choice poetic irony.
@@RoboChocobo and this is why one does not just... replicate an Echo from anyone without understanding what it entails, much less getting it from someone like Krile. 🙃
The cut between scenes is so well timed.. and that last eye scanning movement at the end is so relatable
I like that the BeneG universe has it's own characters like Sprout White Mage
reminded me of my own time as a sprout WHM TT
The benGverse
I literally had to make a miqote just for that
It'd be fun if she changed to a "darker" job after this. BLM, DRK, RPR or something. Why bother with healing when your bestie dies in front of you etc? There's potential for a whole miqo'te sprout character arc here.
@@Toffeehammer That's the way I play lol, I play WHM up until that point. But queue kinda slog so I play WAR. My character would use rage instead of darkness edgy lmao.
I play a Moon Keeper WHM who was absolutely in love with Haurchefant. This shattered my heart in new and interesting ways 😭
I like how everyone is horrified by Haurchefaunt just decimating Thordan, but Red-Estenien is totally happy about witnessing violence
In the MSQ, Estinien is always ready to commit violence if the opportunity presents itself
Yeah, Estinian's smirk while everyone else is shocked/horrified was hilarious.
Name one time where Estinien isn't happy because he's the one committing the violence?
Estiniens mind works like: Violence isn't the answer,it's a question. And the answer is: YES!
I have seen it's a foreshadowing because real Haurchefant would not kill Aymeric's father casually.
Its been, what, 7 years?
7 years, and *none* of us are okay still.
For all the trouble you had making this, you managed to completely capture the entire playerbase's feelings in a single animation.
Well done. I'll be over here crying.
Oh, I still have that shield on my paladin. 7 years and shield bashing enemies as my last hit with his shield is STILL satisfying revenge.
There is two characters that the Warrior of Light canonically just can't get over running into, if I recall the Endwalker spoilers, and having it be Nael Van Darnis in the Coils and Hauchefaunt is probably as fitting as it'll ever get.
HW came out in 2015. It's been almost a decade lmao
I swear I’m not just trying to be edgy but I genuinely can’t understand how people are sad about that scene. Was I supposed to give a shit about Haurchefant? The game certainly didn’t give me any reason to. Bitch is lucky I even remember his name.
I'll be real, with how Haurchefant was forced onto us as characters it 1 made me instantly be like "okay this guys going to die" and 2 due to how fast it all happened and because it didn't feel very organic, it really didn't feel like that big of a deal. Oh look a guy we met a few weeks ago died, so sad anyway.
Honestly I wasn't even a big fan of Papalymo but his death got me real sad. Much more of a build up but I will admit I started in Gridiana so that probably helped.
Never thought I'd get the emotional damage from eye movements alone but damn, that final shot.
The closest the camera is from a character's eye, the more empathy it generates
This is why when we want the public not to be too invested we have the victim die from afar, while when we want them to empathize we zoom on the eye like this. Think about it while watching movies and you'll notice it
looking for answers and finding none
The snapping back to the real world, as the sprout double blinks, is just ... haunting ...
The little eye flicks of 'oh fuck oh fuck' is too real.
Damn... first we saw her in the vault video, then her depressed sitting with Haurchefant's shield in the graphics update trailer, and now she's having nightmares about his death. Poor white mage miqo really loved him 😭 Only hope good things for her in future vids
Oh, of course there is good things. Like when she gets to personally turn Elf-Pope into Primal Mince Meat.Veeeeeery cathartic.
@@Merandil94she's gonna figure out how to make the healer LB3 a damage move.
@@Merandil94That kot is going to take and grind DRK just to commit heresy against the Archbishop.
@@Khontis its gonna be like godberts goldsmith lb3
I hope Healer Sprout changes into a Paladin and wears house Fortemps shield so it's the last thing Thordan and company see.
This hit me so hard. Because I am also a powerless WHM in this cutscene.
You too, huh?
I was half expecting a smash cut to her huffing copium but a heart-wrenchingly realistic PTSD nightmare wake up is fine too
Seems more fitting for FFXIV I'd say.
It works too well unfortunately
Yo, my hrothgar Paladin would be trying to help this poor healer man just knocking on the door entering and sitting next to her just being there
0:00 - 1:09 is my head cannon now. He went on to join the Scions becoming a valuable member helping us stop calamties through all the expansions. He even becomes best buddies with G'raha..... I'M NOT CRYING, YOU'RE CRYING!!!!
too bad it's never meant to be
Only problem is that without Thordan, Lahabrea and Igeoyorhm would still be kicking around, and we certainly couldn't have that.
"Parry this, you filthy casual."
-Haruchefant
harsh reality : no u
He tried superior blocking against an unblockable attack when he should have used Bulwark counter. /for honor nerd.
BRUH 😵
Seeing Zephirin getting his own spear through his gut made my day. Just makes me wish we had a real 1v1 with Zephirin instead of him just dying with the other knights.
This!!!!!!😩
Do Dark Knights quests. It was good to personally carve his face in instead of having to also deal with his sugar daddy and his band of fuckboys.
You kind of do in the Dark Knight questline.
I think so. At least I wish SE will change boss 2 in The Aetherochemical Facility from stupid sphinx to Zephirin human & giant form someday.
Yeah, just wish.
Healer Sprout needs a hug.
I really like her constant appearance and hope we see more of her journey. :3
Sprout Healer will be damn protective of G'raha after all this.
@@Gusc231 lol fr
"There is nothing you could have done."
Whenever she shows up it's always gets sad at some point
Wait til she reaches her Shadowbringers phase and changes her entire hairstyle, goes full Dark Knight, and gets a few scars added on.
Me still screaming "WHAT ABOUT THE PHOENIX DOWN" to this day
I went from giddy and happy to just plain sad...
Definitely the FFXIV experience.
That closeup on Haurchefant right before she wakes up was haunting and horrifying. Exceptionally well done.
For the majority of the video I had the phrase “Then you woke up” on my mind. Now I really wish I could have been more wrong.
I felt a great disturbance in the Force... as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in joy and were suddenly silenced....until they just...cried.
Splendid work, BeneG. I tip my hat to you. Now if you would excuse me, you seem to have reopened an old wound that now needs bandaging...
Man this is great. People really don't seem to think of the ptsd the WOL would suffer from the msq. Good stuff my guy
Unless they finish the DRK questline
The Eden Raids also suggests the WoL has some drain bamage.
@@overseerpjoe9477well we go fall a lot. I think we even hit our head falling from a waterfall during weeping city
@@overseerpjoe9477 The Eden bosses are Ryne recreating them from WoL memories. It's not a direct parse of WoL's memories, it's Ryne trying to interpret what she's seeing/feeling.
No, that still doesn't explain why Ramuh turned into a hot centaur dude or why Titan lost a lot of weight and got a bike. Either WoL or Ryne have a very active and possibly damaged imagination.
@@dc8836 I mean the Ramuh centaur part is probably the WoL getting Ramuh crosswired with Ixion.
Wow. What a roller coaster.
Also the story of this sprout is getting deep. I am all in. Please keep seeding it through videos.
the amount of attention to detail you put into these is amazing. How the sprout healers eyes move near the end you can tell shes thinking a thousand things a second
For real, the switch in animation quality is palpable when it goes from shitpost to serious. They've got some amazing talent when it comes to facial expressions and lighting when the time calls for it.
I was laughing and crying, and now I'm just crying.... It never gets any easier
Damn, with this channel you never know what it's gonna be in the end: good laugh or emotional damage. Or both
You see, Heavensward Paladin could only block physical damage with their shield. It was sort of the "physical tank", with Dark Knight being the "magic tank", and Warrior just being an hp sponge. We didn't get the ability to block magical attacks passively, or with sheltron, until Stormblood launched. If only haurchefant could've made it one more expansion.
I literally just went from "HEELS YEAH" to "WHY WOULD YOU CAUSE EVEN MORE PAIN?!" This somehow made the pain even worse. Congrats.
Yeah, really didn't think the pain could get worse. But it did.
"A smile better suits a bitch"
*immediately turns to the camera and smiles*
it's the elezen man chaos god energy
It's been like a decade and you making me cry AGAIN?!
Come on bruh. lmao
I like how you used the white mage from the vault clip
That empty dead stare is haunting. So well done!
Its merely a dream, in reality he died content knowing that the WoL is safe and sound.
@@BrightCasterAnd thank. Goodness. For. That.
I couldn’t handle it if that stare was cannon…
@@BrightCaster Not to PTSD
Small, but nice, detail: she no longer has her sprout.
I love how the animation was awkward and stiff up until the reveal, but after everything is super smooth and meticulously worked on from the camera angles, body movement, and even eye movement
That's a cool bit of detail, like the dream is just a bit too uncanny and strange.. You know something is wrong, but can't or don't want to figure out what ;-;
I didn't even realize that until you pointed it out. And now I can't unsee it. Thanks for adding to the heartbreak.
Amazing work. Really captures a lot of the emotion that we as players feel the days after The Vault... You really got me in the first 2/3rds of the video, where I thought it was just all happiness, sunshine, and memes. Much more of a gut-punch than Squenix themselves with their dull flashbacks after HW.
I love how this was basically me during Heavensward. Catboy White Mage main, didn't have a single other class leveled, and was similarly depressed when I finished the Vault. All my friends got quiet when I told them when I unlocked it and then didn't do it for a few hours, I was driving them insane by delaying for no reason lmao
This might be my favorite animation from you. Especially that last scene with all those quick eye movements, you've really outdone yourself!
I CAME HERE TO LAUGH NOT TO CRY 😭 Great job as always with these videos love your work!
Why not both?
His dad's reaction gets me everytime
lol I love that it's the healer from the other vid.
Well that took a turn
Thank you so much for the support! Hope you enjoyed this rollercoaster ride!
Wasn't expecting that switch, you definitely should try something similar to this more often.
Yeah bro does good storytelling that isn't just comedy. That was great.
nah
Stop encouraging our pain and suffering!
legitimately incredible- i never expected something like this, but it is utter perfection. Somehow you managed to make go into this expecting a cute little silly 'what if', and leave crying.
I'm eagerly awaiting for her to reach the Atiascope in the MSQ, hang in there little WHM!
Hey friend don't forget she's still gotta reach out for him when being yeeted into the first
I was literally crying in voice chat during Atiascope. I told my friends "I'm having a moment..." while doing the kneel emote in front of his armament.
Sprout White'Mage gains "Together Forever".
I went from laughing to sobbing uncontrollably.
Three things:
How could you.
I love the ongoing use of characters through your videos.
That was a piece of art. Excellent work and thank you.
This is the third time I cried from Haurchefaunt's death. That man has singlehandedly reduced me to tears far too many times.
Good to see I'm not the only ones whos character experiences nightmares of failure. For my WOL they remember reaching out to Edda in the deep croft, reaching out a hand to snatch them from the edge only to miss unwilling finger tips by inches. The smell of burning wedding dress and burning skin, wet eye filling with gladdened despair. Her body plummeting as a blaze to the uncaring rock below like a forsaken comet. All the fanfare deafened as a single life slips through such praised fingers. The great vaunted hero and the broken corpse they stand upon like uneven stones. And the bodies of those all too willing to lay their lives down for them. A single death growing into a parade of corpses, their weight pushing the hero forward less they too fall among the mass.
All of this loss and suffering... all happening in a year 😢
There is no way anyone's WOL is ok.
How does the WoL carry on? Azem sums it up perfectly.
“Aye, it’s true. We’ve lost much and more. Known unimaginable suffering. But through it all, we never forgot what we dear to us. And that’s what gives us the strength to carry on.”
Woe betide the man who stands against the Weapon of Light, for death will be his reward. Death for him and his kin and all that he holds dear.
@@josephgregorowicz5135 "To those we have lost..... To those we may yet save."
The silence was so haunting. I almost felt physically sick taking that in. This was really well done. I'm going to go hug his dad now.
love that estinien is just standing there smiling like "jupp thats haurchefaunt for you."
even nidhogg watching from inside esti was like "atta boy"
fhhhh dAMIT YOU I WAS HERE FOR LAUGHS (thanks to the thumbnail) NOT THE TEARS
The empty liquor bottles on the counter and floor leading to the bed. The dead silence when she wakes up. This is a horrifyingly accurate depiction of PTSD and/or survivor's guilt.
Fun fact: In the Inn room of the The Forgotten Knight, there are bottles already there. I think he did move some but there are a lot there by default. Even on the floor if I remembered correctly. Before I got a player room to place as many bottles as I could to show what an alcoholic my main is. I used that room for it.
She just needs some Tetris :(
What makes it worse for her is she was the healer and was the only one who should be able to do something. learned skills and spells to save everyone and in the end was powerless to do anything
That guilt is devastating
@@kiriuxeosa8716 they changed the Vault. They made it so Alphinaud tries to heal Haurchy, but the magic from the attack prevented the wound from healing, so Haurchy bleeds out. You can check out the new cutscenes in the Unending Journey book at inns.
@@kiriuxeosa8716one thing of note is people don't die, and resurrection doesn't revive the dead. Players just pass out.
So it goes without saying that visibly having a hole in your chest might actually kill you.
This is a great representation of the human mind, in states of contentment in sleep, our own brains like to torture us by coming up with your greatest fear and using it against you
Really making us go through it, huh? Went from laughing my ass off to trying not to tear up. Amazing animations as always, the eye movement at the end was fantastic.
Truly the FF14 experience
went from laugh to depression in matter of second...
So that's why you answered "well..not yet" when someone said " We now have the white mage sprout trilogy thank you BenedictG " in the previous video XD
How could you remind me that I was also a WHM during my first run of HW... I have yet to recover from this and it's been YEARS... Great video BTW
Hauchefant walked so G'raha Tia could run.
G'raha Tia ran so Zenos could fly cross the universe.
I mean, technically, we lost G'raha first. Though we at least got him back, thankfully.
Naw. I love G’raha to death but Hauchefant came through and believed in you when you were a literal fugitive. He stopped at nothing to make sure you could become the famed hero you had yet to be. Without him, your story wouldn’t have grown to the point where people made a whole time travel project for Raha to save you. Edmont wouldn’t have written your story to be passed down. Hauchefaunt solidified your path to legendary status.
Typical G'raha fans making everything about him when the video has nothing to do with him...
@@truesoprano2152 They were just pointing out a similarity in relationship to the WoL. Chill out. lol
You've raised my hopes and then dashed them expertly. Bravo, sir!
This comment needs far more likes.
MY EMOTIONS ARE WHIPLASHED
You really pierced my heart like that spear of light pierced Haurchefant's
Did not expect the feels, and i'm already somewhat immune to that cutscene after watching it so many times.
Great animation!
Her eyes were so expressive. Fantastic animation
Just let me hug that poor Sprout, give her a warm beverage and words of comfort... 😢
I was happy at first thinking he lived... Only for you to break my heart all over again :'(
Holy crap. Well that certainly took a turn. lol
*DARK KNIGHT INTENSIFIES*
That went from comedy to tragedy in half a frame. Jesucristo, my fucking kokoro is disintegrated.
How is it that you manage to make me laugh hysterically with a video, or give me the hardest punch in the feels? there is like, no in between!!
This is genuinely really great work!
Absolutely amazing that you made that one image of Haurchefant into video form, with the same WoL from the Zoolander meme video and everything. Was not expecting what came after though. That _hurt._
Holy shit. THAT took a turn. Fantastic work, there, Bene!
"Of couree this isn't real, old friend. But who is to say you cannot enjoy the euphoria of what could have been, if only for a moment?"
That was a rollercoaster of emotion
No matter how many times I've seen this video, night in the brume at the end is just a godsdamned kick in the feelings.
Aww.. I love that you used the sprout from before. Really funny and absolutely heartbreaking. The eye movements at the end were a lovely touch.
it was so devastating for her that the dark knight from before gave him his handcrafted pajama as a parting gift.
Alright, we NEED this as a dream sequence for when we sleep in an inn like in 1.0
I was SO happy watching the first part of this!
I want him to liiivvvveeeee!!!!
Absolutely Fantastic video! 🤩
It's incredible what you can do
More please!
I appreciate that you find ways to conclude your short animations! Well done BeneG!
The emotional trauma the warrior of light goes through is just wild... Thank you for making a video that shows that.
Well this was a rollercoaster and a half.
When she hug him on top of Midgr, I know this is definitely gonna end with this is all a dream.
A genuine roller coaster of emotions. You got me right in the feels. Poor SproutMage.
Damn you!!! For the first minute or so I was sure that I was looking at one of those cute silly FFXIV renders...and then the second half of the story started... And now I'm sobbing.
Why does Bene like hurting us? First the video with Emet going from being cheered up by Hythlo to him being alone in Amaurot, and now this. I was so happy and now I'm sobbing. Also the fact the sprout is a WHM just like I was, they could be going through the same thing I had my character going through in her story, which is feelings of "why couldn't I save him, I'm a healer", bigger oof
I think he doesn't it was a request of some of his patrons
@@elusixXrelix Damn, that's nice. I think he enjoys it at least a little bit because of the reference in his meme graphics update video with "Real-Time Depression" showing the Sprout in the aftermath. 😭
Mood. I was a White Mage too. I basically quit the game after Heavensward though. Doubt I'll ever return.
@@xelestial_sky oof. Unable to, or got disinterested?
They actually changed the ending of that raid after the 6.3? update to include a scene with Alphinaud trying to heal him and then saying the wound refused to heal with normal healing spells.
I just finished Heavensward, and a veteran friend showed me your channel before. The coincidence is uncanny, but my heart aches.
It would be cool if depending on where you are in the MSQ, you would get RNG nightmares like this when logging onto your character kind of like how 1.0 did it. For Stormblood for example, after battling Zenos at Rhalgr's Reach, upon logging in it could be a nightmare revolving around Zenos killing all the scions and everyone else which would show the doubts the WoL potential had around that time.
Another example could be in Shadowbringers, instead of Tesleen turning into a sin eater, Alisae pushes her out of the way and by doing so, she turns into one instead. Then the WoL would wake up. That'd be pretty cool imo.
I’m a Paladin, and in that cutscene I always think about how my position got him killed. Now I’m always thinking about my positions in dungeons.
i genuinely cant get over how well made this is, its got me both grinning madly and also feeling like "oh damn."
I didnt realize this is a sort of follow up to your other video. Nice touch
I cannot stop laughing at Alphinaud's reaction, even with everything in the second half.
Quite a turn compared to the tone of the previous videos, but a welcome one. Great video!