#I WANT TO MAKE MY ALL NU-MOUS TEAM BUT I CANT

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hey you know its a good day to JAM THE FUCK OUT TO THE CHILL ASS PUB THEME FROM TACTICS ADVANCE

man i would just stand there staring at the mission screen and jamming out for hours

ALSO MYSTERIOUS SHOP OF SASS GRANDPA

Ezel Berbier was too good a character for this world, seriously what a sweet strange chaotic evil pigman WITH A REALLY RAD HAT

Though the red patterns specifically on his ear piercings always struck me as a weird choice. Since literally every other nou-mou has those piercings too, I kinda assumed maybe they’re not really piercings and this species is just born with ear holes for some reason? But man, poor Ezel looks like he got some bad back alley surgery on those lobes!

Actually, while we’re here, can we just appreciate what a damn weird and cool design the nou-mou are? (At least, the more cartoony original version, I disliked how they were remade in FF12) like.. its just.. such a WEIRD design! the monster people in FFTA have this kind of grody aesthetic of mid 80s overdetailed rad punk monsters, like the super anatomically incorrect early digimon cards. Except if you took that design and like.. undetailed it again?? Its this really pastel punk take on it, and its somehow also ye olde woodcut illustrations AND really shoujo-y kids anime. I wish this game could have a cel-shaded 3D remake! And then the nou-mou in particular are just so odd and good! the other monster people races are just a surprisingly actually-anthro-not-just-bunny-ears race of fanservice women, and a plain crocodile-as-a-man thing. Then the nou-mou are like WHAT ANIMAL EVEN ARE YOU! xD They’re like if ‘wizard’ was an animal, they’re like if you tried to anthropomorphise the abstract concept of sorcery. And I also love how they’re the least anthro?? Seriously they’re more speculative fiction on an animal that developed ways to fit into human society, rather than just giving them boring normal human hands and legs and a spine that points upward. Have we ever even seen a nou-mou’s legs, ever? Can we prove they actually have legs?? Well, Babus has tiny little booties but babus also somehow is the only one with a beagle nose. Also: THEYRE JUST SO VARIED!! Yet still the same?? Every one of them looks like a grandpa, everyone one is bald, every one of them is a small round friend, but they have their different tail fluffs and noses and WHAT THE FUCK I JUST NOTICED EZEL IS THE ONLY ONE WHO HAS HAIR. I THOUGHT THAT WAS PART OF HIS HAT. ITS LIKE A MULLET. Man I just LOVE them cos you can see all this detail in the concept art that you never would have known on the sprites?? is ezel like a bishie amoung the standards of the grandpas race SO MANY QUESTIONS seriously they make you feel like there’s no damn rules for what a nou-mou can and can’t be, I feel like maybe they’ve dabbled so much with magic that waking up with an extra eye or something is completely normal XD

Oh i forgot, the white mage nu-mou are light skinned and bald in FFTA1 but get a colourscheme change and a sweet mohawk in the sequel. Only on their portraits though, their map sprite is weirdly unchanged?? Also LOL I only just noticed the weirdass locks on his piercings! I think its just such an odd and cool detail to have the spirit-of-harmlessness cute grandpa healer race also have a cultural thing of wearing increasingly ludicrous punk earrings. Honestly, that’s also very ‘wizard’! Why don’t we see that more on fictional wizards? Gimme more gnarled kooky grandma in the forest type aesthetic!

ALSO: look at this really sweet extra round nu-mou from FFTA2 also FFTA2 had a lot of improved designs for the various job classes, even though the plot kinda sucked

Also apparantly they finally showed us a non-elderly nu-mou in the trading card game and I am shook??

YOURE SO TINY HOW

Also completely unrelated to the other two songs and the entire point of this post, but this is a really good song too: