lemres, and rafially, for the ask memes you rb'd last night
Lemres
Sexuality Headcanon: Not sure honestly! Gender Headcanon: I've been seeing transfem Lemres floating around lately and I kind of love it especially considering his backstory A ship I have with said character: I do not...have one this is very funny. he's just kind of hanging out. A BROTP I have with said character: Lemres and Aya :)))))) For headcanon reasons A NOTP I have with said character: Lemres/Accord because that's. A thing in some circles. Not only do I not vibe with it for personal HC reasons but just their relationship still feels very teacher/student A random headcanon: Related to above: Him and Accord are distantly related and share the same ancestor. There's a lot of bad blood between her family and his, but he feels like she understands him better than his own family does and she offered him a safe space when he was in the process of getting away from his parents. Lemres is an only child so he didn't really have people to rely on but he met Accord at a big family meeting and he started to secretly see her to vent about his home life and not wanting to be a dark magician anymore lol General Opinion over said character: Overrated but I still have a soft spot for him, I wish people wouldn't insist that he's extremely deep/well-written when I think a part of Lem's character is him trying to kind of escape that spotlight. (wow a lot of puyo characters really just wanna be normal huh)
RafiAlly/AllySol
describe their canon relationship/dynamic
In canon there probably is not much unless you squint. I know Ally is a cardboard box to most people but I think her philosophy on love and how she still extends her friendship/affection to Rafisol in spite of how Rafisol hurt her is really important... Especially since Rafisol is pretty fatalistic and can't perceive herself as being capable of loving or receiving love because of what she was "designed" to do. It's not necessarily romantic and while I lean towards romantic interpretations of Ally/Rafisol I think they also make great platonic partners lol
your ideal/headcanon version of it? how does it differ from how it is in canon & why is this your favorite version? any other alternate versions of it you enjoy?
LOL well. My headcanons for puyo always go off the walls but I prefer thinking of Ally as being someone who also struggles to understand love and feels a bit out of place because she's never really had friends. Tying in the whole idea that Ally was the original hero of the book she was in, I think there's a disconnect Ally feels towards herself and like other inhabitants of her world that she's never really been able to explain that only became larger after Satan rewrote her story to fit his needs... Conversely I haven't though much about Rafisol's past or why she was born from the pendant of luwa, I think because I don't think that's necessarily important for Ally to know or forgive because that's in Rafisol's past and Rafisol in the present now is trying to learn how to exist outside of the "purpose" she believes she was given... I really like thinking of Ally delving more into her philosophies of love and why that matters to her as a hero, even if she doesn't realize it herself, and Rafisol learning about accepting it and learning that it's a two-way street that involves both parties giving/receiving soemthing from each other. I don't really know any other versions besides my own, lol, I don't see many people shipping them together (I see more people insisting they're canonically related which? confuses me.)
what do you like about their relationship, why is it interesting or enjoyable to you?
I like Rafisol. I like Ally. I think it's enough for me to just Like them and want to do something with them. I think they were underutilized in their games, and I'm mad constantly that chronicle did not have a proper writing team. Rafisol's an interesting villain and god I've been through so many fantasy scenarios in my head where I rewrite chronicle's plot and give it more meat, because I think they deserve it. Anyway I think also the whole idea of becoming human and connecting to others is just soemthing that innately appeals to me (looks at Aya) so I got really invested in their relationship following Rafisol's master quest
what about the individual characters involved? what does this relationship mean to them, what makes it unique among their relationships?
I think for Rafisol specifically Ally is like, just something she never imagined could happen to her since she's spent her entire life assuming and believing she was evil and only designed to destroy things to sustain her existence. For Ally I think Rafisol is someone that can finally be a companion to her on her adventures and
favorite interaction they have in canon
That one Valentine PPQ manzai I helped to TL where Rafisol's wondering what love means to her and she just, remembers all the different Ally alts talking about love. And freaking out because she still doesn't get it.
favorite interaction they have in your head/a situation you want to put them in
Really want to work on my rewrite where Rafisol is a more active antagonist that uses the power of the villages' stars to try and break free of the fictional confines of their storybook and get into the real world where she can destroy things LOL. This is probably a bit of a spin on Septem on Dies (the latter specifically) from Arle no Bouken but I think chronicle was a weird half-reference to that game anyway. I think Ally being more explicit about remembering she's the hero would also be cool, since that seems to have gone over most people's heads and it bothers me. A lot. Anyway in this scenario they have a slightly more dramatic confrontation than the one in game. (Playing around w/ the idea that Ally sealed herself within the book alongside Rafisol to protect the world and how Satan's rewrite weakened the seal... but I feel like that might be...drawing too much from my personal interests?)
