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[balileart]

Honestly getting bonus rosemary art is the best thing out of this anon. I'm only thinking are they ok and do they actually know who's on the writing team on hs2 because the wlw there are powerful and would never 'end' rosemary

I have no clue why they sent that, but any excuse to draw lesbians is always a good thing!

[carnelianwings]

@ochirinu replied to your post “only good thing that might come out of the anime: gramps survives”

Not mentioning Sorey and Mikleo's past. Like, Let's show Dezel's past, Rose's past but who needs main character's story? I mean, where they supposed to find out now?

Yeah, I mean, what past?  Since when has the main character(s)’s past been relevant to the story in a Tales game?  Oh wait . . . (Tucking the rest behind a cut for some of my newer followers who might actually want to play the game for themselves and don’t want it spoiled.  This is like, the mid game plot “twist” for Zestiria - even though it’s a pretty mild one by Tales mid-game plot twist standards - so don’t read if you actually want to keep the surprise or you haven’t gotten to The Iris Gem Event in Lohgrin.  Plus a spoiler for Berseria as well.)

It doesn’t matter that had both been born in the months before (in Mikleo’s case) or during (in Sorey’s case) the attack at Camlann.  (I mean, I say attack, but the scenes in the game make it seem more like a massacre and razing of the village.)

Or that Mikleo’s uncle is none other than the previous Shepherd Michael, who founded Camlann, and moved Maotelus from his shrine in Pendrago to a new shrine near Camlann, which we discover in Berseria was originally a shrine built by Artorius to Innominat (the Seraph Lord Empyrean of Void), and by Zestiria’s time has become Artorius’s Throne.

Or that Michael fell to malevolence as he helplessly watched said village he helped found get massacred and burned to the ground, because Heldalf (a Rolance army general who had fallen out of favor) chose to retreat instead of defending the village from an invading Hyland army.

Or that in his final moments of said despair, Michael sacrificed a badly burned (and possibly dying) infant (human) Mikleo on the altar of said shrine to cast a curse of loneliness on Heldalf, forever linking Maotelus to Heldalf and corrupting Maotelus as a result.  (Oh wait, where else do we see a human get sacrificed by another, creating a Lord of Calamity as a result . . . )

Or that Mikleo was then reincarnated as a baby Seraph, and that Muse (his mother) gives him to Zenrus to raise, offering her life in exchange to become the seal over Camlann to keep Maotelus’s malevolence sealed within and away from the rest of the continent, and that as she hands baby Seraph Mikleo to Zenrus, she gives him the circlet she wears.  (Yes, Mikleo’s pretty circlet that we all love so much is actually a Tragic Keepsake from his mother.)

Or that a prematurely born Sorey was found nearby, still in his dead mother’s (Selene) arms, and that the manga had heavily hinted that Heldalf is in fact his (biological) father, which would make Sorey Heldalf’s illegitimate son. (Heldalf is shown having a family in a few other scenes.)

Oh wait, oops.  Maybe that

was

important.  Maybe even plot critical, for both stories. 

I mean, it’s not like Maotelus isn’t a playable party member in Berseria under a different name . . . *coughs*

  Well too late now!  Maybe we can have Heldalf monologue all of this for no good reason in the final 2 episodes.  I mean, it’s not like Mayvin went to Northgand with them so he won’t be there to die to reveal this to the party.

[newstuck-liveblog]

Let me just say from what you've already read you could gather that everybody is related in this comic, so being related to obama isn't hard. Also I was crying laughing through all of it because sometimes I forget how wild this shit sounds. It's also an old matter but troll versions of real life people exist.

troll lana del rey is related to obama, no i will not take questions, no i will not elaborate

[carnelianwings]

Talking about openings. Maybe you metioned it somewhere but watching current opening (to see the scene where Sorey looks like he's kissing the bow) I decided to watch again Kaze no Uta opening and I realised something. First opening is so good comparing to this one by showing Zestiria as it is really. Mikleo as a deuteragonist, seraphim are showed properly, not just thrown there and the atmosphere is much more positive!

I agree!  I really liked the S1 OP/ED, especially since, like you’ve noticed, it’s much more upbeat and has Mikleo getting the spotlight next to Sorey (like he should be).  And the S1 ED is really good too because it’s showing Sorey’s dream, with the Sparrowfeathers talking with the Seraphim and everyone just having a picnic and having fun just spending time together.

I actually really like the S2 ED for this reason too, as it’s one of the few places that lets Mikleo keep his Deuteragonist status and shows a lot of him up in the front lines fighting side by side with Sorey - which is exactly how I end up playing him (I don’t trust his AI so he tends to hang back and cast on AI, lol).  The S2 OP plays too much with the Sorey the Lonely Shounen Protagonist angle and I just can’t with it.

[carnelianwings]

6,13,21 for sormik please!

Ask me questions for OTPs!  I’ll answer for SoreMiku, Puzzleshipping, Blindshipping, and Kurama/Hiei!  Questions I’ve already answered are here!

6: What is their favorite feature of their partner’s? 

For Sorey, it’s Mikleo’s eyes.  They’re like these beautiful amethyst orbs, always sparkling and shining, whether it’s in the sunlight and moonlight, and he can just . . . always see the love Mikleo has for him in them. It’s a shade of violet no flower could ever hope to match in color and intensity, and they’re just so beautiful.  Everything else about Mikleo just brings out the startling color of his eyes, and Sorey never tires of seeing them.  (Did I just write that answer with bonus Sorey-o-vision?  Of course I did.)

For Mikleo, it’s Sorey’s smile.  Seeing that is enough to brighten his day and know that everything will be alright.  Even at his darkest moments, even when things are at their most dire, he will always tell himself, “I must survive, I have to see Sorey’s smile again.”

13: Who reaches for the other’s hand first?

During the game, they do it more or less simultaneously, but after the epilogue, Mikleo does, at least, at first.  It’s his way of reassuring himself that he’s not dreaming and that he’s finally done waiting.  After a little while, it goes back to them reaching for each other simultaneously.

21: Who is more likely to start dancing with the other?

Sorey, and it would be entirely on a whim, and entirely unpredictable, much to Mikleo’s irritation.  (*cue Edna snarking at their sappy romance in the background*)  Every time it happens, Tsunleo makes an appearance.  But Sorey keeps doing it because he loves the way Mikleo’s eyes tell the truth (he doesn’t truly hate it) and he thinks Tsunleo’s pretty cute anyway.

[carnelianwings]

I wouldn't decide wich one, so feel free to choose something or answer shortly > o < I'm sorry! 28, 6, 22

Send me asks about videogames!

Those are some really good questions you picked.  I’m going to go in reverse numerical order, just so I can save the best (and longest) answer for last.

28: Which character's clothes do you wish you owned the most?

Pretty sure a few people can guess this one, but basically any character that rocks the high-low dresses, bonus points if high collars, flared sleeves, and/or lace is involved.  I just love how it gives you this modest ladylike silhouette from the back, and with the lighter materials I favor for this style of dress, it just flows behind you ask you walk down the street, paired off with a pair of heels.  I usually imitate this look in one of two ways: actually wearing a dress with a high-low hemline, or wear a tank top/shirt skirt combo, with a long jacket (trench coat or a sleeveless long cardigan) and thigh high socks (if it’s chilly) and heels.

Which basically means, it goes without saying I wish I could have Lailah’s default costume, impractical for combat heels and all, since it’s literally all of that in one single outfit.  I love her outfit when I saw it in the promotional artwork, I love how it flows behind her character model in game both in combat and when she’s walking around . . . I just love it so much.

22: If you could immerse yourself in any game for one day, which game would it be? What would you do?

If I could, I would love to spend a day in the now-defunct superhero MMO City of Heroes.  I think it would just be really fun and cool to sit in Atlas Park for a day, maybe talk a little bit with Ms. Liberty, but mostly just people watch as fledgling and experienced heroes fly/run/jump their way in and out of the square and reporting to City Hall.  Check out their self-designed costumes and maybe talk to a few of them.

Or if I could, go into the game as one of my characters - my two mains were an Ice Blaster (she shot ice from her hands and froze villains in place and she could fly) and a catgirl version of Wolverine, super healing and all, haha.  Maybe the Ice Blaster, just because I always think it would be super cool to be able to fly, haha.

6: A game that's changed you the most?

There’s actually 2 games in my case, and we’d have to go back in time, back to the days when I was just starting out on my journey to becoming a JRPG loving gamer girl and received a CD filled with SNES ROMs and an SNES emulator from her high school crush . . .

The first was Seiken Densetsu 3, the third game of the Mana series, that never saw an English language release, although it did have a fan-translated English language patch, which is the one I’d played.  Also one of my first JRPGs, and my first action RPG at that.  I think my favorite part was that I could pick a really cool female character for my main character, and it’s a game I’ve played over and over again, as all 3 of the female characters for my main character.  My most common party configuration for that game was Liese, Angela, and Carlie.  I remember I really loved the combat (it was a nice contrast to playing Final Fantasy and its turn-based system), and being able to control your character to try to avoid hits and in a lot of ways, it really did set me up for Tales when I’d get my introduction via Symphonia with @katanagasuki and a few of our mutual friends 3 years later.

And my other one is good old Final Fantasy 6.  It’s my other major introduction to JRPGs, and one of the first games where I accidentally stumbled upon a game breaking bug - the Relm Sketch bug, lol.  Imagine my surprise when my game glitched, and me, having no idea that’s what had happened, finished the combat, and reaped the reward of stack upon stack of Economizers, lol.  The game also drew me in right away with Terra as the main character for the opening half of the game, and switching over to Celes for the second half.  It’s also the first Final Fantasy game I’d finished - I’d gotten horribly stuck in Final Fantasy 4 because I’d never played an RPG before, didn’t know what sort of challenge a final dungeon was, and got horribly stuck at the final boss fight because I hadn’t been upgrading equipment well, nor had I thought to stock up on single use items.  Needless to say, that run got abandoned and I’d gotten sucked into FF6 instead, and immediately found Terra to be more relatable than Cecil ever was, and spent my time on it instead.

But more importantly, FF6 is the game that gave me something to talk about when I met my college boyfriend (now my ex).  His AIM handle was a very obvious reference to FF6, and it was one of the things we’d talked about when he IMed me a few nights after we’d met at the university anime club (where we spent a good chunk of the showing snarking at a really troperiffic harem show).  And when I met his friends (among them the aforementioned katanagasuki), it gave me something to talk to them about.  And it’s probably one of the reasons I became friends with him in the first place . . .

Which means if it hadn’t been for both of these games, I never would have become the Fanfic Writing, Plays On Chaos For Fun, Loves SoreMiku To Pieces fangirl you guys see here today.

[watch-me-suffer]

Your comments are super funny and I'm excited to see you react on your journey through homestuck. I hope you'll love it as much as me and others. I'm actually on my second reread and not far behind you

I bet you’re way ahead of me now, whoops! :’)

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Is another episode planned? I'm looking forward to more!

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