One Final Fantasy 14 player spent 450 hours and $5,000 immortalizing their MMO character with a life-size bronze statue

A Final Fantasy 14 character immortalized with a bronze statue
(Image credit: icanit on Reddit)

You might love your MMO character, but do you love them enough to learn bronzeworking and spend 450 hours recreating 𓆏their likeness in a statue that could last centuries? That's exactly what one Final Fantasy 14 player has done.

The character you see above is the Warrior of Light Yoko Akatsuki, and she's created by a reddit user who goes by icanit. (Thanks, .) The statue has a hollow body to save on weight and material costs, but the parts you're actually seeing are all bronze. that the volume of bronze is worth around $750, though all the materials, instruments, and m🃏old assistance "around $5,000."

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, or 297lbs in freedom units. That's likely a bit ꧙heavier than the character's in-game weight, but hey,🧜 that Elemental Armor of Fending set probably contributes quite a bit.

icanit "I did learn specifically for this piece, but will continue with sculpting as a h𒀰obby for the rest of my life." The project began in what I can only describe as prophetic terms - icanit , "One day, I woke up and thought about the statue of my character in my garden. This was the beginning of everything else."

I don't think I'm going to be picking up bronzeworking (or putting down $5k) to get a real-life likeness of my own Warrior of Light, but I can'🦩t help but admire icanit's dedication and the results of all that work. May Yoko's re✃ign over that garden be a long one, undisturbed by perching birds.

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Dustin Bailey
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Dustin Bailey joined the GamesRadar team as a Staff Writer in May 2022, and is currently based in Missouri. He's been covering games (with occasional dalliances in the worlds of anime and pro wrestling) since 2015, first as a freelancer, then as a news writer at PCGamesN for nearly five years. His love for games was sparked somewhere between Metal Gear Solid 2 and Knights of the Old Republic, and these days you can usually find him splitting his entertainment time between retr✤o gaming, the latest big action-a💦dventure title, or a long haul in American Truck Simulator.