#riele

[raven-at-the-writing-desk]

I wonder if it's intentional that we have yet to meet a student or character from the Land of Dawning, especially since NRC is located there. I think the only characters we've heard of coming from there are Silver's bio family. We also haven't met a character from the Kingdom of Heroes or the Sunshine Lands yet (I think). I'm wondering if the game intends for those areas to be where more of the Disney protagonist characters come from since the names of the places seem... more positive or brighter? "Sunshine" and "Dawn" are very light-focused words, and "Kingdom of Heroes" seems pretty on the nose for where hero characters would come from.

As far as I'm aware, yeah, Silver's parents (and Heinrick) are the only characters we know of from the Land of Dawning. We haven't met anyone from the Kingdom of Heroes or the Sunshine Lands yet either--unless, of course, you count the references made to historical figures. For example, the mermaid princess is said to have married a prince of the Sunshine Lands.

It very well could be that more of the twisted Disney heroes come from those places! I think it could also be the case that like... mobs come from them and we're just not aware since they're not part of the main cast? We also have to remember that some countries we're aware of, like the Shaftlands, span large tracts of land. It's entirely possible that heroes come from smaller areas of particular countries and we just don't hear about them because those spots aren't relevant to the main cast. If we assume that twisted heroes or supporting characters come from the same regions as the twisted villains, many heroes also do hail from the regions we know of: Rielle from the Coral Sea, Cheka and Falena from the Sunset Savanna, Chenya from the Queendom of Roses, Kalim from the Scalding Sands, etc.

It'd be cool if we could visit the Sunshine Lands, Land of Dawning, and Kingdom of Heroes someday :> I'd like to see what they're like... maybe meet some new chracters while we're at it (winkwink nudgenudge)!

[cherrychenry]

THE SWEETEST HUMAN BEING I SWEAR

i love her with like all of my h(e)art

[theoreticslut]

Affectionately,

HOLLY GO TO SLEEP 🗣🗣

But Riele 🥺

You don’t need to worry, I just took some nighttime cold & flu medicine so it’ll probably knock me out soon enough. If you see me still on here in another hour or so, then you can lovingly threaten me to get to sleep again 😂💗

[vxnatici]

the ghosts are coming for us

[callitprada]

riele downs

[birdsareblooming]

[*@someones-mayhem‘s Riele!!!]

She’s cute and her hair is fun to draw

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[raven-at-the-writing-desk]

Hi Raven!! Easter eggs in case you didn’t notice but Rook’s bedroom in his dream on the Neige side. It has many vector redraws over Epel poses! Credit to @/MoonlightEquin1 and @/lovesfirstkiss_ on Twitter for noticing this.

I think I found the Twitter posts you're talking about (here and here for those who are interested)! It looks like Epel’s Union Jacket, Suitor Suit, Birthday Boy, and School Uniform initial artworks were used as a basis for some of the Neige paper goods shown. (nxebwbkxnskw THE SUITOR SUIT BEING USED AGAIN… First it was for “Epel”, aka actually young Marja/this grandma, now for Neige…)

This just lends credence to Vil’s belief that Epel’s cuteness could rival Neige’s… thus making Epel Vil’s secret weapon and “poison apple” to defeat Neige in book 5. Maybe Neige copies many of Epel’s poses because Rook also sees the similarities between them (this is, after all, his dream). It’s great attention to detail on the part of the devs!! And, of course, very good eye to the fans who spotted this.

OH

You know what I caught while looking around Rook’s rook for any other potential Epel card matches??? Well, besides the fact that RSA!Vil STILL wears friggin tall heels as part of his uniform?? 😭

Enhance…

IS THAT.

IS THAT CHE’NYA IN THE TOP LEFTHAND CORNER… The cat ears and the colors are too similar NOT to be???? Rook knows who Che’nya is???? Somehow??? 😭

I get why there would be photos of Neige, a celebrity, but why photos of Che’nya…Unless… Rook acquired these pictures personally 💀 Like, he snuck on over to RSA campus and hung out in the bushes taking shots of Neige AND his classmates… Or he ripped it out of the RSA yearbook that he somehow got his hands on??? (The creepy part isn’t even that Rook is the type of character to do this, the creepy part is that this is behavior that’s “normalized” for Rook so we don’t even bat an eye at it when he’s involved.)

Also?? At first I thought the others in this photo card were the Dwarves (since, excluding Che’nya and Neige, there are 7 of them), but the hair colors are nowhere near the same. But they obviously must be RSA students because of the uniforms they wear. (Is one of them Vil?) And there seems to be a… redhead…

A… redhead… prince(ss)????

RIELLE???????? HONEY… IS THAT YOU???????? Is this foreshadowing for us meeting Rielle in the Octavinelle dreams and/or in the second huge arc of the main story????? here's exactly seven of them if you ignore Che'nya and Neige, meaning this count of RSA students would be perfect for another seven books of main story... aM I REAdiNG tOO MYCh JntO TH!S?????????

I didn’t expect to fall down this rabbit hole from an Epel and Neige centered ask but here we are, I guess 🤯

[raven-at-the-writing-desk]

Maybe I’m dumb but isit true that Rielle was classmates with the octatrio?

It's sort of implied but not outright said. Or, rather, that's a conclusion many fans (myself included) have drawn based on the wording in book 3. (The phrasing is similar in Japanese; I'm just showing English screenshots because that's what the majority of my readers will understand!)

In 3-11, Azul describes the photograph with Prince Rielle in it as one that "[commemorates] a visit to the museum". In 3-27, Deuce reads the caption for this photo: “A visit from Prince Rielle and his schoolmates.” (Ignore the fact that EN has written Rielle’s name two different ways lol)

Then in 3-35, Ruggie says the picture is a "group photo of an elementary school class". Floyd says that it's "a picture from our school field trip" and points out himself, Jade, and Azul in it.

Technically, it could be that their class happened to visit the museum the same day that the young Prince Rielle was there too. If that's the case, then why is Rielle pictured with some random elementary school's class? Maybe he wanted to be nice and engage with his people, but I'm not so sure this would be allowed for any royal to do on a whim (I imagine his guards or attendants might stop him; no way was he there alone and unattended).

It could also be said that maybe Rielle went to the same school as the Octatrio and in the same year but a different class since Deuce says the pic was of Rielle and his schoolmates, not classmates. Additionally, Floyd says it was a school trip they went on, meaning other classes from their school may have also tagged along. However, it has been made clear that the picture in question is of Azul and the Leech brothers’ class. Why would someone not in the same class as them be in that photo? Rielle must be in the same class then, right?

This line of thinking is what has led many to conclude that Azul, Jade, Floyd, and Rielle were in the same elementary school class.

If you consider the backgrounds of the Octatrio, the "Rielle is in their class" headcanon could make sense. They all come from reasonably well-off families (Tweel mob family theory + Azul's stepdad lawyer and his mom who runs the most popular restaurant in the entire Coral Sea), so it's possible that their parents could afford to send them to some prestigious school where other children of wealthy families (royals included) study.

I hope that helps! Let me know if you have any alternate interpretations for these lines.