FFXIV ’s player community of interests knows how to pick ‘em .
As player carry on to enjoy search Tural in Final Fantasy XIV ’s Dawntrail , managing director Naoki ( " Yoshi - P " ) Yoshida has not only stay on top of divvy up update on what ’s still to come in the enlargement but also how the FFXIV residential area has react to it so far . For example , there are always certain new account - refer reference that players tend to gravitate toward , but one that caught Yoshi - P by sodding surprise was the boisterous Bakool Ja Ja .
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Yoshi - P has been continuing his international media tour for Final Fantasy XIV ’s Dawntrail expansion , which is now afoot and is resonating strongly with musician raw and honest-to-goodness . At a recent sit - down Q&A interview in France , he tint on several different topics about coming content , and at one point cite a screaming community - related tidbit about , of all characters , Bakool Ja Ja .
Thanks to a thorough translation of the interviewpostedin full by Reddit users ' BlackmoreKnight ' and ' Iluna Minori ' , we were able to find out that Yoshi - P remarked how he and his entire development team were utterly baffled by how players have been , quite literally , simping for Bakool Ja Ja . They may have expect another lineament like Koana or even Sphene , but the standout hunger trap in Dawntrail is apparently Bakool Ja Ja who gave Wuk Lamat a considerable amount of grief during the story ’s Rite of Succession chapter .
FFXIV is certainly no unknown to having its villain revered by the community in preceding expansions , with 1 like Zenos Galvus , Emet Selch , and even Stormblood ’s Yotsuyu earning their pedestals . However , a gargantuan two - head up Mamool Ja is probably the most unexpended - field ingress we ’ve had so far .
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Not only was Yoshi - P express joy wholeheartedly about it , but even Bakool Ja Ja ’s English VA , Javier Prusky , chime in via X ( formerly Twitter ) shortly after Dawntrail ’s launch , remarkinghow " this is cash in one’s chips a different direction than I ever imagined tbh " . Since then , he ’s shared his heartfelt gratitude for the overpoweringly positive receipt to his performance .
After their initial shock , the FFXIV squad actually embraced this bizarre fandom by making apostof their own , asking players how they ’re savour Dawntrail so far with Bakool Ja Ja front and center , no other context clearly call for .
While the fandom surrounding Dawntrail ’s Bakool Ja Ja seems downright bizarre on the surface , on one front it makes perfect sense . For those who have finish theexpansion ’s MSQ , Wuk Lamat ’s sidekick , Zoraal Ja , understandably served as Dawntrail ’s overarching dramatic scoundrel , bring the story to its unexpectedly worked up and riveting superlative . His downward coil not only enamour many of us and even pulled at our heartstrings , but his character was also the gross hydrofoil to Bakool Ja Ja .
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As described perfectly in a reception by ' smashbrawlguy ' to another Redditpostby ' MidoriTea ' about the Q&A talking point , " there ’s something so magical about petty , loudmouth , low - stakes villains realizing that they ’re in reality a sight happier help people instead of bullying them " .
Bakool Ja Ja ’s borderline comic Holy Scripture villain arc starts fundamentally from the moment we first meet him in the story , as one of Wuk Lamat ’s rivals for Tuliyollal ’s throne . He ’s brash , unshackled , point-blank , and remain firm out as the only competitor not relate to the current Dawnservant , Gulool Ja Ja . He spend a good destiny of the competition for the pot using underhanded agency to get ahead , whether it ’s betray or even briefly nobble Wuk Lamat to hinder her progress .
However , his reckless legal action and overall attitude towards the contest step by step start to backfire and culminate in a surprisal twist at the Greenwich Village of Mamook in Yak T’el , his native land . There we learn of the lengths his clan move to facilitate the birth of " blessed " two - headed Mamool Ja like him , the pressure he was below the belt burdened with , and before long enough his boisterous facade crumbles .
His subsequent repurchase electric discharge is when he truly start up to become a sympathetic fictional character , as he place himself on the frontlines to protect Tuliyollal during Zoraal Ja ’s onslaught and puts his full support behind Wuk Lamat ’s ascendancy . He regrets how he acted before , but sustain no resentment at all decease forward and puts the well - being of Tural first .
That ’s when we know who he truly is beneath the bravado , and why the instrumentalist community of interests resonate so strongly with a character like him . As for the " thirsty " fan art , well , we would n’t take it that far but to each their own .
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