#legretta

[tacaleo]

TALES OF THE ABYSS 2005, dev. Namco Tales Studio

[ctae]

TALES OF THE ABYSS 2005, dev. Namco Tales Studio

[squidlife-crisis]

[seine-draws]

Tales girls drawn in 30 seconds

[toc-battlequotes]

[The Quick Shooter]

[daily-rayless]

A design for a younger Legretta that I recently unearthed. I like this color scheme for her.

If you’re wondering about the pose, this was originally part of a larger picture, her warning back a younger Asch while they were on some secret Order mission together. Asch didn’t turn out as good so, like with the Score, I have hidden the true picture and only shown you the good parts.

[automaticgiraffe]

A quick lady

[mousathe14]

Oh, this is genuinely interesting.

I never thought about “The Score” in that way.

For those of you just tuning in, Tales of The Abyss’s lore has a lot of stuff of their deity and giant magical stones. Fon Stones are like the basis for all the magic in the world and it’s all music themed. The Score is like people reading about their future.

I always assumed it was, like, advanced horoscoping or fortune telling. People always talk about how their Score always come true and junk but, like I’ve never read the game’s Scores before. I don’t know how literal or metaphorical Scores actually are. They could be using the vaguest language possible and anyone can claim “OMG, IT CAME TRUE”.

But obviously they must be a bigger deal than I think if the “villains” of the story are concerned with releasing people from the Score and achieving free will. Like, presumably you don’t have to read your Score, why would anyone need it to dictate their lives? Do Scores predict the future or are they an accurate account of future events no matter what?

Surely people have read their Score and chosen to ignore it. It would be silly to think they all do. So why do the God-Generals think

Hmm, maybe there is a problem, but surely that’s for extreme cases.

Oh... oh.

This is a bigger problem than I thought.

Wait, so I was right, they are just as vague and weird as horoscopes or fortune tellers! That means that this is all meaningless!

On the one hand, I think Legretta’s right.

But this is all extremely stupid. The Oracle Knights, and the world in general, have put too much into what are essentially vague notions of what might happen.

The Score might be representative of some sort of global theocratic conspiracy designed to keep people in line and that’s what Legretta and the others are fighting against and in that case, the heroes aren’t really the “heroes” anymore.

But surely this can’t all be a fight about bad fortune telling.