Liz Ard's canon Timeline

Hello! Today I'm going to put all my videos so far in chronological order, and share some curiosities on how they fit together, my ideas and headcanons for my characters and talk about her journey with G'raha a little bit. :)

Also because I didn't have stuff to fill in all of the 15 minutes, I'm animating (in real time) in the background, so you can see how it looks without speeding up the video. I actually move things verrry slowly. :P

My Lizard isn't exactly a complete self insert because I don't see her as myself, but I want her thoughts and feelings to reflect my personal experiences with the game! To be honest, when I first started playing, I didn't even think I'd get this attached to her and think of her own story - I just created her as a vessel for me as an MMO player. Her appearance is half based on my (now 2nd) favorite character in all of fiction, and half how I wanted to look like when I was a teenager :P I used to dye my hair black and everything.

Then of course I did and now I try to think of everything so it fits both me as a player and her as her own character.

For example, I talked about her origins and her tribe, and I thought her being silent when young and being someone that expressed herself more with action than with words fit both the silent nodding WoL in the game, and the fact that I make short animations - meaning I always focus on trying to get my ideas across with movement and actions rather than dialogue.

Or the fact that she wanted to be a botanist at first, is because I really like gathering in the game, and botanist is usually one of the first things I will level - I like it a lot because it's one of the things we can do ingame that actually makes me walk around the game maps and enjoy the environment, interact with it and see what the items each places give me are. It would make sense it's my character's way of exploring the world, right? And the fact that her tribe was the one from Reunion, would make it possible for her to meet Eorzeans, to be interested in trade, crafting and gathering (and yet forced to hunt and fight - I mean, they would see her talent and need someone to go out there, right?)

There's little details I couldn't include in the video but I thought it was getting...kinda long. :x So if you're curious about anything else, I'm always happy to talk about them here or anywhere <3

And please share your own stories!! How do you view your own? Do you have anything that I can read or watch about them?? I love how the FFXIV community is supportive of everyone's OCs and headcanons. It's something unique that I never saw in any other fandom before, and it reflects how everyone's experience is different, but at the same time we're united by the love of the same story.

Oh by the way, when I was collecting the video footage for this, I came across some interesting localization difference that I posted on bluesky about. I had to stop everything to share it! :x I love this little mirroring scenes, and it makes me sad that it would be SO EASY to keep it in the EN text and yet they didn't! Whyyy????? It's the little details, you know!!!!

...anyway :x

Thank you for watching and for your support!