Do you ever think post-chapter 7 Noah and Mio looked at Ghondor, so grateful that despite everything, their legacy and their son’s legacy still lived on?
Another piece commissioned from @thepeelucof87 (Twitter)
Decided to open these early, although the bracket won't be getting set up before the end of the current weapon bracket, so it'll be a while before it actually starts.
Shulk Xenoblade Chronicles is truly one of the greatest fucking video game protagonists of all time. He’s introduced as just this wet fucking nerd who stays inside all day and messes around with robots and machines and is almost completely oblivious to the looming threat of robot invasion cuz he’s too busy staring at the alien laser sword that he keeps unsecured in his apartment and hoping that it will do something cool. Then he witnesses one atrocity and immediately flies off the fucking rails and decides that he’s not going to calm down until every single robot in the world is dead. He literally does not pump the breaks until 50 hours into the game and then after that he makes it his singular mission to kill God. He wakes up, declares that he’s going to either kill God or become him, fucking *succeeds* with this goal and then goes home and immediately starts making machines again cuz he’s still a wet fucking nerd who likes robots.
Shulk Xenoblade Chronicled rewrites the fabric of the universe and goes home and starts fixing watches or whatever. He canonically has a phobia of caterpillars. He was dragged onto an arctic expedition as a five year old for no fucking reason. He jumped off the edge of the earth with zero hesitation and never once thought in retrospect about how that might have been a bad idea. He’s an orphan and that is the least fucked up part about his backstory. He died ten years ago and didn’t realize so he’s just walking around still. He has God in his brain shouting at him trying to get him to commit genocide and manages to avoid falling to darkness cuz he’s just to damn oblivious to even realize that he has another fucking voice in his brain. His adopted father is a round furry who is 1/5th his size and in crippling debt. This technically means he has 12 other step-siblings. He gave up being a god and there’s a non-zero chance that he’s still some kind of divine cross-dimensional force. He managed to save the world while also being British! Incredible.