#Frederica Irving

[jumpingwjoy]

2022 group photos - outskirts of etria and shopping for new clothes!!

[faline-cat444]

*ahem*

[oimodaisuki05]

[the-witchs-cafe]

[burningfestivalpersona]

Seriously, the history of the new Alchemist portrait is really interesting.

At first glance, she very clearly takes after one of the Hero portraits from Nexus, just with her hair grown out a bit. For once, it’s incredibly unlikely to be the same character, though, as this is earlier in the timeline, and the Alchemist is roughly the same size as everyone else, while the Hero she takes after is Very Smol.

She also seems to have stolen part of her color scheme from one of the Schoolgirl DLCs, but that’s a bit less relevant.

But this gets really interesting when you look at potential origins of the Hero portrait. See, that sort of hat and hairstyle has appeared in the series before. As concept art for EO2U for a potential reappearance of Frederica. (Whose pigtails in The Millennium Girl match those of the Hero pretty closely)

Some of the potential implications this has for the Alchemist:

The Smol Heroine is actually an adult who got shrunk sometime between High Lagaard and Nexus.

After Nexus, the Smol Heroine trips and falls through a time portal back to Etria.

The Alchemist is the Smol Heroine’s aunt or something. (Most reasonable answer)

In this universe, Ricky gets decanted and promptly decides that she’d rather learn alchemy than attempt to reinvent munitions.

[caramecocoa]

in light of the recent political events i come to say frederica irving wouldn't have missed

[lockssteps]

doodle

[lepospondyl]

ricky remembers memes and then almost causes several diplomatic incidents

[gravedice]

Made Ricky’s dress in Animal Crossing

[jumpingwjoy]

memes.............

[faline-cat444]

Frederica's black cat patch

[oimodaisuki05]

[arborknight]

highlander!frederica, this time in full color!

[burningfestivalpersona]

The question of which Etrian Odyssey canon character would most realistically be able to explore their game’s Labyrinths depends entirely on whether or not Frederica actually went to college.

[hyperbole1729]

[flirtyblonde]

There was a point when I first joined the EO fandom where people just shit on Ricky a bunch and lemme tell you I’m glad that’s over.