FF14 players skip over perfectly serviceable catboy to thirst relentlessly over a giant, two-headed lizard jerk instead

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Bakool Ja Ja, a twin-headed Blessed Sibling from Final Fantasy 14, regards the camera with twin sets of mischievous smirks.

Final Fantasy 14 is known for its pretty, fanbase-fuelling men—and they typically share a few common characteristics between them.

So naturally, the thirst object of brand-new expansion Final Fantasy 14: Dawntrail is (checking my notes, here) a… uh. It’s a two-headed lizard man. Hm.

That’s right—despite the fact that Koana, a beautiful, pretty, bespectacled, shy, wonderfully voiced cat boy is standingright there,the FF14 fanbase appears to have walked past him like a pet ignoring a freshly unpacked bed just to sit in a cardboard box. To illustrate this, here’s a beautifully rendered image ofBakool Ja Ja in a maid outfit.

(Image credit: @PigeonPii on Twitter/X.)

A post that reads: “Bakool …. Ja ja… 🩷” with an image of Bakool Ja Ja, a two-headed lizard man, serving tacos in a maid outfit.

As someone who wrapped the Main Scenario Quest up recently, this is extraordinarily funny. Bakool Ja Ja—and I’m taking care to avoid spoilers for thelatter halfof the story here—is a comprehensive jerk.

He takes almost every opportunity he can to cause problems, unleash terrors, and commit assault. Almost all of his screen time is spent cackling like a Saturday morning cartoon villain—every single idea he has is poorly thought out, and fails catastrophically. He is a schoolyard bully wrapped in a pile of failure. He literally steps on your tacos (not a metaphor, thank god) at one point out of sheer spite.

On the other hand, he is around nine feet tall, has big pecs and back muscles, and y’know. Two heads. That’s fun. I guess.

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They are, at present, freaking out about the factKotakumanaged to write about this before I did (hello, I’m here to make things worse).

(Image credit: @bakooljaja on Twitter/X.)

A post that reads, incomprehensibly, “ASLKJGSDLGSDG?S?????G S?D G?G MY GOD STATUS ? ? DSG JH LKKFDNLKFDK”

There’s no possible preamble I can write that’ll prepare you, psychically, for the batch of Bakool Ja Ja fanart that’ll greet you if you search the character’s name on Twitter. Here’s another one of him in amaid outfit, here’s one ofhim in a bikini. There is one of him being “milked”, which I don’t want to link here because it means I’m going to have to look at it again.

I feel like this entire thing is a cognitohazard, because the more time I spend considering the pros and cons of some blessed sibling loving, the more I sort ofgetit. We’re going to get intospoilers for the latter half ofDawntrail’s story now. Away with thee if you haven’t finished it.

Bakool Ja Ja does do a 180, and hedoeswind up being a sympathetic character in the end—revealing that he is, essentially, a spoilt-rotten golden child with heaps of expectation placed upon his shoulders, desperate to stop attempts to create more two-headed lizard people like him because, uh, most don’t make it to adulthood. It’s pretty grim.

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