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A down-to-earth mayor meeting a celestial being ❤️🩵

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"Pretty please?"

"You dummy"

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whumper

dapperd0g

my quarterly xenodump

fidelcostco

the human brain is so cool, if you're tired and stressed enough, your brain will go, "don't worry, I got you" and shadows will start moving

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and what's the genital situation on the shadows

fidelcostco

oh this is my post

tagfer

welcome to the club asshole

tarenko

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it’s like a spot the difference game with you people

this is dumb

I don't post my Low Effort Doodles here a lot huh

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I know people don't really talk about it cause it's just an early-game tutorial thing that also eases the player into X' cast by just introducing Elma, but. If you stop and think about it Elma finding Cross while she's all on her own is actually pretty interesting?

Like, something you see again and again over the story missions and side missions is that it's very unusual for any given BLADE to just wander off on their own, even if it's to do missions. With Lao it is pointed out time and time again that he does it, and it does turn out to be a Sign™ of something. And sure, the player can do it in terms of gameplay, but I never go the implication that that's how we're meant to imagine them going about it.

And you'd imagine that Elma, being like one of the biggest big shots in NLA (even if it's not official) would also follow that. But no, she's all alone when she finds Cross. And while there's a BLADE camp just outside of Starfall Basin, it's not really narratively acknowledged in any way, so she didn't come here with anyone there either. Plus, once Elma and Cross do get back to NLA she doesn't know yet that Chausson was made Director General two days ago. Meaning she apparently reported that she found Cross, but hasn't really been following anything that happened in the city while she was out in the Miran wilderness. And while there's some ambiguity about how long the walk from Starfall Basin back to NLA is meant to take on a narrative level (since in gameplay time of course runs faster and the continents are far smaller than they realistically are), nothing about how it is framed really implies to me that this took several days.

So, Elma apparently spent several days wandering around Primordia all on her own, presumably searching for survivors.

And then when the player first meets Lao, he's surprised to see Cross and Lin with her while asking about her former team mates Danny and Boris. Who Elma explains were killed by an indigen, which must have all been pretty recent since Lao doesn't know about it yet.

So between that and the loss of Elma's Original Partner™ the fact that she finds Cross while on her own reads to me like she was getting desperate to save any life she can after she lost several people so close to her in quick succession. Maybe that's also why she so readily takes to Cross and is happy to put them on their team - they're a life that she did manage to save, a reminder that not everything is hopeless now.