more meme, some under the cut so when I scroll I can be blessed with Just Rhen, my angel.
“Who is your favorite protagonist out of the games (Talia, Rhen, Ean, or Mel)?”
I love Rhen so. heckin much. Dameon tells her she is "deadly and beautiful at the same time" and look at her. She really is. She deserves everything. Love of my life. Light of my days. I have said it a million times before but she literally saved my life, her kindness and courage, her trust in her own heart and beliefs. Also her FREAKING ADORABLE sense of humor. Also as far as I’m concerned she is the OG of the trope where a protagonist is presented with choices and all of them are terrible but she chooses kindness and it changes everything-- that’s Rhen, that’s my BABY GIRL and I LOVE HER and I know that trope was done before Aveyond was made but she did it BEST because she is the BEST AND DID I MENTION SHE IS MY FAVORITE????????????? Okay good perfect thank you.
Fave sidekick? (and the options it gave me were devin, lard, iya, or edward because the meme writer doesn’t Know)
Okay, this question annoyed me honestly so excuse my salt XD "Sidekick" to me means a character who actively helps the hero on the hero's quest. Devin does that, definitely. It's specifically Talia's quest, and he is explicitly there to help her, and his contributions are like, actually contributions and not just talk. Lard definitely doesn't do that, the plot of the game would be exactly the same if he was ditched in Veldarah. Elini would make more sense, or like, LITERALLY anyone else. As for AV2, Iya is the chosen one, so Ean would be the sidekick. And I guess you could count Edward for AV3, but it's blatant Stella erasure because she joins Mel on the actual quest first, and I won't stand for Stella erasure.
“favorite main villain?”
All the bad guys of the Aveyond series are great, but Ahriman has the most history and does the most diabolical things. I mean, he sealed a princess in a glass coffin. And that's just one example. Plus, I've wanted to try to design him in a way that fit his ap AND av1 sprites for a while, so this was the perfect opportunity. He ended up being too creepy to color properly though so take this pink thing XD
Devins bonding. Early teen Devin, late teen Devin, and adult Devin. Imagine the kind of conversations they would be having together. Don’t worry, adult Devin isn’t planning to tell them anything about the future.
“If you have played AP, (duh obviously I have) name your favorite characters?”
I love all the AP characters. I can't choose. Except that Haddan is a step behind everyone else-- sorry, Haddan, 600gp is too much for my stingy little heart.
“name your favorite [AP] pairing?”
I've ranted about this many times but I’ll say it again because I can: when I first watched my mom play Rhen's Quest as tiny child Berry, I thought Tailor was Jack in disguise. Which obviously meant Ma could only be Alicia, since she clearly wasn't Talia. So my favorite crackship was born. I know they don't interact in canon ever, but Jack remembering her as Queen Alicia in av2 even though he could only have known her by that title for maybe a few months is cute, and imagining how they could have been if everything had gone differently is fun.
Continuing my aesthetic series of everyone Rhen saves:
Devin is very important to me. One of the reasons I'm so adamant about playing Ahriman's Prophecy first is that it establishes his character and arc and the importance of the places he mentions and it makes the scene in the Wildwoods shack SO much more impactful. If you don’t know Thais from before, if you haven’t already felt the life in its atmosphere, the opportunity, the glorious adventure waiting to happen, and if you don’t know how noble and ardent and ambitious Devin was before, you will miss out on how shocking and sad the meeting in AV1 is. And you miss out on the sweetness and simple profundity of how, after all he's lost, he can still be saved-- finally be saved-- when simple curiosity and friendliness leads the new hero to find him.
And then on the second playthrough you get the additional thrill of knowing the new hero is his daughter. Gah! The poetry of these games, I'm so in love
Here's a question, if Devin never studied magic or joined any kind of priest guild of any sort, but he is now the Druid of Light by word of Goddess, is he also a sun priest? Or can the two be separate?
Given how they treated the local drunkard in Elden - and in an appropriate scenario - I think it'd still be in-character for Talia and Devin to grab Lars by the coat and call him a bastard.
