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speaking of square enix....had to share an old lucca i drew to inaugurate my sketchbook

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Chrono Trigger Super Nintendo 1995

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chrono trigger doodles

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Proper pics! Alfador is teeny tiny, I smile every time I see him. This is my interpretation of his sprite. I added the shiny gem on his collar because I think Schala gave him an amulet too Nab one here- https://magitekscraftworks.etsy.com/listing/1818090674

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25 years ago (1999), Chrono Cross was released! Nikki plays his guitar in celebration. A beautiful game with incredible art direction and a wonderful OST. Happy 25th birthday~

Here is a bonus drawing I made as a little kid way back in 2000 hehe 🥲 (added "under the break" to keep the timeline clean, in case no one wants to see a little kids drawing lol)

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I got emotional thinking about Chrono Trigger tonight, and the fact that the majority of the cast could have just given up on the whole ‘saving the world’ thing, gone home, and lived perfectly fine lives with no consequences for walking away.

If you’re unfamiliar with Chrono Trigger, the basic plot is that our plucky heroes accidentally get pulled back in time after a science experiment goes wrong. On their quest to get back to their own time, they accidentally end up in the distant future, and discover that the world is destroyed in the year 1999 (of course,) and the future they find is a desolate wasteland where the few surviving humans are on the brink of starvation. It’s terrible!

But here’s the thing: our heroes are from the year 1000. The apocalypse is 999 years away from their time. Once they find the way back to their own time, they could have just forgotten about the future. It wouldn’t have affected them! They would be long dead before any of that ever happened! The only character who would have been impacted was the robot they met in the future, but they could have brought him back to their time too and called it a day. There was no consequence for them to walk away.

But they don’t, of course. They make it their mission to figure out what caused the apocalypse and how to prevent it by jumping back and forth through time. They do all that, risking their lives, for a future that they wouldn’t live long enough to actually experience. They don’t do it for themselves. They do it for the world.

It’s just kind of a lovely thought. Planting trees in whose shade they would never sit.

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Something about daylight savings ending made me want to draw Crono 🕰️

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reminder: alfador

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Chrono Trigger Fanart

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does anybody else see my vision? anybody?

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GLENN: What happens after you defeat Lavos? The war will still be here. As will Guardia and the Mystics.  MAGUS: Glenn, if this troubles you, my offer from before still stands. You can leave whenever you want. I’ll see to it that no one tries to stop you.  ….. GLENN: I’ll be at Denadoro. 

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In which Dark Glenn calls Magus out and Magus reminds him no one’s forcing him to be here. 

A sort of continuation to that last art post! I’m thinking of the possibility that Dark Glenn guards the Masamune as a way of avoiding things.  

I’m out of art juice for now but I had an idea for a scene where an imp (much to the horror of his companions) candidly asks Glenn why he continues to guard Denadoro when he’s not really needed there. Said imp points out that the mountain is teeming with their forces and if any humans entered, Glenn would be alerted and immediately transported there, so there’s really no need for him to be there 24/7 (the imp even points out that given his training, Glenn should already know this). He’d probably be more useful at the Keep with the other Generals or leading the front lines.

The truth is that it’s been so hard ever since Glenn switched sides. It’s hard to participate in planning attacks against his own kingdom, and it doesn’t help that the Generals are lowkey expecting him to give up valuable insider information about Guardia. It’s hard dealing with the aftermath of what happened with Cyrus (esp since it resulted in him getting seriously injured hence the huge scar). He doesn’t like seeing his friend Janus slip further away into darkness. He doesn’t like being here 

So he’d rather stay away and use guarding the Masamune as an excuse.

Magus knows this of course, and he just lets Glenn be. He knew his plans wouldn’t sit well with Glenn so he gave him an out at the start of all this and reminds him that he can safely leave whenever. It’s a bad move from a tactical perspective (bcus Glenn could learn their secrets then run off to Guardia) and the other Generals def wouldn’t approve if they knew, but Magus would defend him in the name of their friendship.

Glenn, however, hasn’t gone through character development yet at this point and still can’t stand up to what troubles him. So he continues guarding the Masamune.

I guess you can say Dark Glenn hiding out in Denadoro is his version of canon Glenn’s staying in the Cursed Woods for so many years. 

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Chrono Trigger Super Nintendo Entertainment System 1995

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I finished this cool Chrono Trigger cross stitch pattern by WonderPerlerBead on Etsy! 😄

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Boys

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