#Arglas

[artificervaldi]

HELLO XENOBLADE FANDOM!

Ever think about XC1 being the only game without a prequel? Well, I can fix that!

Here's a 10 chapter, 26k word fic I wrote about the time of the Giants, Egil, and the possession of Arglas!

[xenoblademisadventures]

Gud

xenoblade is a great game actually because the scene where a certain character is philosophizing about the nature of life and existence is also the exact same scene- the exact shot- where we ABRUPTLY learn that this guy has actually just had his whole BARE ASS out the entire time we’ve known him and we just didn’t see until the game wanted to give us a wide shot of the landscape he was looking at

[emblemxeno]

Omg, gay people lore...

[carpetthecarp]

WHICH IS BEST?

[machinavillage]

would egil and arglas qualify for old man yaoi

[likestoimagine16]

#it's a good game. great game even. I love foreshadowing and innocuous details that take on new meaning retrospectively ❤️ #also you've got to tell me more about that headcanon 👀 that sounds very interesting

It is kind of ties into the foreshadowing with Shulk's grief/vengeance quest being fed into by Zanza's brain gnawing, tbh - basically the questions come down to 'why did Zanza and Dickson have a backup plan that involved shooting Shulk?' and 'why did they need it?'

Obviously the answer to the first is what happened in the game - Zanza tried to compel Shulk to hate the Mechonis and kill Egil, but Shulk chose not to do that. Because Shulk did not choose murder, Zanza and Dickson chose it instead.

But like... why was that necessary? Why go through the entire game trying to subtly influence him, trying to direct the natural flow of his choices towards that end, when he was apparently able to possess Arglas without this kind of build-up?

My headcanon is basically that he planned this because of Arglas - because he found a host who was compatible with the Monado, and could therefore grant him a body that could use it, and yet Arglas loved the Machina, as much as he loved the people of the Bionis. He wanted to work with the Machina in harmony, and so when Zanza used his body to destroy them, Arglas would have been willing to fight back

I think this, combined with the Machina's own attempts to evacuate, could have tipped the scales enough for Meyneth's fight with Zanza to end in a draw, despite being at a disadvantage as the defending party who absolutely Does Not Want collateral damage, when compared to Zanza seeing all that death as a literal goal.

I don't think the game proves or disproves it in any way, which is why I consider it more of a headcanon than a theory, but I think it fits well with themes of the game - that Arglas's will could have been one part of the fight against Zanza's bleak destiny, and that his resistance had meaning even if he couldn't live to see it through.

Happy 2024! My roommate and I are back with more xenoblade!

We did like 2 quests and hit 5 star affinity in Central Bionis! We're Nopon celebrities now

We've been stuck on Valak Mountain for like an hour just trying to get all the battle-exclusive items needed for quests. The mountain is taking its revenge for how easily we got the ice cabbages...

During the red pollen orbs sidequests: Roommate: "So it's drugs, right? It's just drugs."

I don't know what magic they put into the NPCs in this game to make them so memorable but it's amazing. We were going to get the club card and my roommate said "oh, I bet the drunk Nopon has it" and then he does! I love how we both 1) remembered him and 2) predicted that he'd be the one to give us the card because of his previous character

The Fiora and Sharla heart-to-heart is kind of fucking me up because like. [best route] Sharla: "Maybe he tried really hard to stop himself from changing. [...] Maybe part of him really wanted to keep hold of who he was." [neutral route 1] Sharla: "He doesn't seem so...grimly determined." Which is like! Hello Zanza! And I can't even scream about it properly because my roommate has no idea!

And then the other routes deal with Fiora worrying that the rest of the party just pities her for the robot body situation and augh. Surprisingly top-tier heart-to-heart for something that starts out failing the bechdel test

[dying-suffering-french-stalkers]

Trick or treat :)

You get a trick AND a treat because your personalized trick (THE most cursed Xenoblade 1 lore from the art book) is so awful that I feel the need to make up for it with a very cute photo of my dog

[kalboykiyay]

Zanza at the dinner party with his Disciples, Hot Computer, Skinny Hulk Hogan, and Insolence is Actually Free And his vessels, Moldy Santa and Shulk Hogan.

[dirty-xenobladeconfessions]

You've heard about a XC1 movie. You've heard about a XC1 pinball game. Now. Get ready for an XC1 series on the CW about Egil, set before Arglas found the monado.

[egil voice] in case you havent noticed, im weird. im a weirdo. i dont fit in. and i dont want to fit in. have you ever seen me without this stupid hat on? thats weird.

[xenobladeimagines]

Any headcanons on how Arglas and Egil first came to know each other?

Spoilers!

>Technology and knowledge was being exchanged between the civilisations of the Mechonis and Bionis. 

>Arglas was representing the Giants, and Miqol the Machina. Miqol brought Egil along, who at the time was barely an adult. 

>Arglas and Egil hung out, talking up until the early hours of the morning about their work. 

>While Arglas was always more of a philosopher than Egil, he was also pretty good with machinery. 

>The two quickly became friends, through working together for so long. 

>They decided to work together for both of their people, and make lives better for everyone. 

>They truly believed the two worlds could live in harmony, and were setting things up for the future. 

[xenobladetranscribed]

It’s lavender scented!

[wall-maria-around-ba-sing-se]

Google when I search "A Xenoblade character white hair wields a sword":

I wish the Xenoblade fandom hunkered down council-of-nicaea-style as soon as Future Redeemed came out to invent a codename for A that everyone uses and agrees with (a la "seven" or "coffee with milk") because leave it to Monolithsoft to invent the most UNSEARCHABLE character in all of human history

What am I supposed to google?? "A"? "A Xenoblade"? "A Xenoblade character"?? "A Future Redeemed"???

[xenobabble]

I think it's funny to see ppl talking about how gay each Xenoblade is and everyone forgets they accidentally made Egil and Arglas very gay by making them parallel the Very Canon Main Couple that Literally Kisses Upon Reunion

[textsfromxenoblade3d-blog]

[carpetthecarp]

I made another fic.

Summary:

The giant Arglas stumbled through the woods of Makna forest, laughing all the while as his young nephew followed after him, being delightful company. Though his laughter didn't last for long as he spotted quite the oddity among the foliage. making him walk over with a curious hum and oh what a oddity it was. a red blade, stuck in the soft ground and easily allowing itself to be drawn from said ground. A swirl of blue ether enveloping it as he held it in one hand, and he laughed in glee as he looked it over, and the blade laughed with him. Though it's laugh was far more nefarious than his.

[fushigidane]

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