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[theknightlywolfe]

[alttaritar]

Linkki Hesarin juttuun - maksumuurin takana

[ub-sessed]

Strawberry pretzel salad.

[linguinemunch]

finished it lol. ernst is carving a pumpkin btw. i never carved one tho so it probably looks off

[wepepe-draws]

The Locations Made You Forget the Storm (Act 1)

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (spoiler)

✨Wepepe yapping time ✨

Yes, I want to yap about how beautiful the world is how contrast each location to another, and how it also speak for the story (to me at least) I'm gonna yap based on the pace of the main story here. (sorry if some of the writings are wrong english is not my native language)

The Dark Shore Our first location when the expedition 33 reach the continent. This is place already set the tone really dark compare to Lumiér.

The Dark Shore colours are combination of black, muddied purple and grey, gives the dark, and depressing feeling, the ship wrecks and human corpses scream DEATH to our face, but this also what the Expeditioners expected in their journey, they just didn't expect it will be this soon (me too, and our first trauma from the game)

The Spring Meadows

After that we switch to Gustave, survived and covered in blood and suddenly we're at Spring Meadows, and how's the place looks like? CALM, RELAXING, beautiful and bright, we can hear the sound of waterfall, the breeze, and see so many lush greens, completely 180 of what just happened.

Gustave may have thought he was dead and like "is this heaven?" until he met a Nevron. It's like the game telling us "okay, you got your trauma, here's a place to make you calm down"

There are some areas in this location that have a dominant colour, when we will be fighting the first boss fight, Évêque. Blue-Cyan, Cyan represent calm, tranquility, rejuvenation, and relaxing (although fighting the boss is not relaxing at all) narratively the location of Spring Meadows is the calm after the storm.

These two locations (Dark Shores and Spring Meadows) show that contrast of Clair Obscur, Light Dark, Death and Rejuvenation.

The Flying Waters

This next location is my favourite, Flying Waters (or weird corals as Verso wrote it lol) speak surrealism to me. Like we're dreaming, sense of wonders and creativity. Water also symbolize tranquility and calmness, still related to Spring Meadows a bit with the theme.

My meta explaination in this, is the game wanted to show that "painting" aspect, hence it use surrealism for this place, a dreamlike atmosphere, this also could distract us from the traumatic tragedy.

The Manor

From the Flying Waters to this, is like we're waking up from a dream, and back to reality. The Manor feels like the anomaly in this world, because everything looks weird and more surrealist, but this place looks normal. It's a luxurious manor, very luxurious. The golden lights dominate the whole manor atmosphere.

This place scream RICH, but empty, and cold, the big space in the manor really showed the hollowness although they have furnitures and paintings filing the walls, and all of the walls in every rooms have motifs, there's no empty, bland wall, but yet the place still feel empty and lonely.

Could be mirroring how the Dessendre family is feeling, they have everything (material) but they also loose everything, because of the grief that consume them.

Flying Waters and the Manor also symbolize that Clair Obscur, Dream and Reality.

The Ancient Sanctuary & Gestral Vilage

From Blue to Red, this is also another contrast shifting, Blue give us sense of calm, while Red give us adrenaline, but red also represent danger and alert, because the Gestral want to fight because they just love to fight.

It's like the game telling you "okay now you calm down a bit from the storm, let's get ready to fight again!" the previous two locations are for us to get used with the combat, so the environment atmosphere didn't scream at you.

Although there's another location that use red as the dominated color (Crimson Forest) but compare to the Gestral location, this location still have harmony and sense of warm, combine of red leaves and grass with woods and warm lighting from the sun, this can also showed although the Gestral can be aggressive and fight you, they still have that welcoming side.

Esquie Nest

Esquie's Nest is interesting, the colours atmosphere are mix shades of purple from Indigo and Violet. I say interesting because the previous locations are dominated with Blue and Red, two colors that mix into purple. Indigo lean more into the blue side, while Violet lean more into red.

Another contrast location from the previous, outdoors to indoors and limited lights.

Indigo symbolize: tranquility and mystery. Violet symbolize: imagination and dreams.

The symbolization of the colors is exactly how I feel when I enter Esquie Nest, feels calm and dreamy, but yet mysterious because we don't get much information about Esquie from the location, beside so many mushrooms and hanging lamps, only the carving of Esquie statue showed us a hint who's the host of this place, but we still don't know what is he?

The Stone Wave Cliff

Can you feel the DRASTIC change of tone, from Spring Meadows, Flying Waters, Ancient Sanctuary, Esquie Nest to this? the obvious is the desaturation of color, this place smells grey and ash. VERY depressing, and it fit with the story.

After we met Esquie we help him find Florrie, but the shock revelation is Gustave died here, the tone of this place told you already that another storm will hit you, and just like when we were at the Dark Shore, we didn't expect it will be this soon (or even happen)

and of course Renoir is there again, the grim reaper, taking another soul of an expeditioner.

After I arrange all of the locations for act 1 story, it's like the locations make us to forget what happen in the Dark Shore, and hit us again where we didn't expected. I expect there will be a fight of course, just like the whole Expedition 33 when they arrived at the Dark Shore.

But to loose Gustave this quickly?! NO! and it's amazing how the game play with us, give us sense of wonder seeing the locations and how different they look and feel from one another.

Until we enter Stone Wave Cliff, it's that atmosphere of depressing, somber and death. Coming back to us.

Anyway that's my thought of the locations, this is my first time writing analysis post lol. Sorry if it didn't sound that ground breaking 😅 but after writing this, that final conclusion just hit me too. This just making me love the game even more.

[barmadumet]

au idea because I've been thinking about the fact that Palpatine has been grooming Anakin since he was 9. What if Ferus finds out his fellow Padwan is being groomed and he realizes he needs to tell someone. I dont know how Ferus would find out. Maybe Palpatine got over confident and Ferus saw him being weird with Anakin. Maybe Ferus was doing some research for a mission and realizes Anakin has all the signs of someone being groomed. Ferus realizing he's not sure what do and you realize hes a kid just like Anakin is. Somehow he works up the nerve to tell Obi Wan.

Oh. Ma. Word.

I love this! I actually have something drafted that is somewhat similar, based on one of the Jedi Quest books - Ferus getting involved when Granta Omega tries to drug Anakin.

But Palps! Yeah! Let’s stop the Sith and save the galaxy and shit!

Let’s be honest, Ferus can be an observant creep lol. He would DEF be keeping a close watch on the strange relationship Anakin held with Palps. And I’m sure he would be very eager to run and tattle lol. BUT upon realizing the seriousness of it, I could surely envision Ferus getting fiercely protective. Justice is everything to my love muffin! He would not stand for a corrupt leader trying to manipulate a young Jedi. I feel like this would also open Ferus’ eyes to understand some of the more difficult and frustrating aspects of Anakin’s personality - his arrogance, for example. Palps was all about inflating Anakin’s ego and instilling that he was better than all the other Jedi. That undoubtedly played a part in Ferus and Anakin’s rivalry. But if Ferus had this awareness, he could be more patient with Anakin. And that’s a good start, but YES, we gotta tell Obi-Wan. Absolutely!

We already know Ferus wasn’t afraid to voice his concerns over Anakin to Obi-Wan later in the JQ series, but I like the idea of a younger Ferus ‘working up the nerve.’ Ferus has been taking notes long enough to know that Anakin is EVERYTHING to his Master, and it’s not any secret that Master Kenobi doesn’t trust politicians.

Obi-Wan would have to approach this very carefully. Anakin can’t know that his nemesis was the one to sound the alarm, and he’d probably also get defensive should Obi-Wan voice any negative opinions towards Palps. So, I could totally see Obi-Wan leaving Anakin out of it and confronting Palps directly. It’s not worth the risk of waiting when it comes to his baby boy! Nip it!

Things could easily escalate when Obi-Wan unknowingly angers a Sith. Palps could blow his cover and we can end this before it really begins! 🙌

Happily ever after please! Skylin besties 😍 Obikin love 💕… but you know, if I had my way… 🔼

Thank you so much for this Ferus-themed ask! This really brightened my day 🥹

[smimon]

i'm translating another fanfic until my indigestion calms down. pass the balls!