#I feel like any ship with the traveller is controversial because people just dont like it but dangit if im not a fan of wanderer and aether

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This is a series of asks bc, while I do LIKE all the charas of Fantastic Beasts individually, much of the romantic pairings dont sit well with me. By that mean the messy love polygon w Newt & I think I finally figured out why & I'd like another's opinion on it. For starters, Newt's attraction with Tina is too fast for me considering he was friends w Leta, got expelled out of Hogwarts for Leta, carried Leta's photo in his case, & basically loved her for YEARS. But this is all undone by a [1]

jaunt in NY having met a woman, who he admittedly went on a huge adventure w, over the course of maybe a few weeks. He's so taken w her she replaces Leta's photo w her own &, after refusing to go to Paris for Dumbledore, leaves immediately once he finds out she's there. I just find this unbelievable. I can rationalize it from Newt's perspective where Tina is a fresh breeze sweeping into his life on (percieved) unrequited pining, but this is my conjecture based on my understanding of Newt. [2]

The audience shouldnt be left to rationalize endgame couple of the mc on their own. & the whole thing w Leta is so messily handled I dont think they can save it even if they bring her back in FB3. How she feels for Newt vs Theseus & unresolved lingering affection, etc. She & Newt were SO important to each other & we SEE that & they dont HAVE to get together, but they need proper resolution bc they have actual history between them. God Leta in general deserved so much better. [3]

But my main gripe is that this love polygon serves no purpose to what I believe is the main selling point of FB: the world. HP having love stories makes sense bc we're following the story of a boy as he goes through adolescence & his journey through that via school is part of that, which is why the romance feels fitting. It's a very personal story. FB on the otherhand is the best peak we have at the wider wizarding world beyond school. HP introduces the world of magic, but FB rlly expands it [4]

To that end Jakob & Queenie's relationship is the only one I find myself liking, bc it's deeply tied to the world setting, the series' biggest selling point (in my opinion, should have said this earlier). It underscores the attitudes of the period & the conflict they face feels suitably substantial & not like filler. There's a moral question between them of are they worth it? And how far should they go to be together?

Imma be real hear & say FB2 was rlly Queenie's movie & they should have been ballsy & just make Queenie the mc for FB2, bc her story was actually considerably more important to the overall development of the story than Newt's, which mostly came off as a rushed & a tad clichè soap drama. & making it about Queenie I think builds more room for good conflict & independent narrative for Tina that would serve her chara better. [5? 6?]

If I bad to be REAL ballsy, I'd say my big issue w/ the relationships in the FB series & how it enhances or impedes the main story & what I believe to be it's biggest attracter (the setting) could have been solved if they made Newt's romantic interest a muggle. It attaches a deeper meaning & relevance to them & the story so it felt more deeply that they truly moved WITH the narrative rather than beside it but I guess Im just picky. Thx for putting up w this! [Final]

(My response below the cut.)

Yeah, pretty much all of this is right.

Regarding the Tina thing, it was definitely rushed, especially since there was literally nothing romantic between them in the whole first movie, except maybe the end part where they're stumbling over their words. Despite knowing how movies work and knowing that they were the male and female lead, I still found that completely out of left field, because they don't really share any interests and I didn't feel like they felt anything in particular for each other before that. She really wants to be an auror and feels really intensely about it; he just wants to travel the world and write about magical creatures and take care of them. I don't see a lot of compatibility there, and the movie didn't really do anything to reconcile that gap.

Jacob and Queenie made sense, because they actually sowed some seeds for it. It's not even about the fact that they both like to cook; they showed an interest in each other throughout. They noticeably like each other. Newt and Tina never really had that, to me, so it was bizarre for her to become his primary motivation in the second movie.

Queenie's trajectory in movie 2 overall bothers me, so while I agree it would have been better if they'd centered it more around her, I definitely think they needed to drastically rewrite pretty much everything she did. Enchanting Jacob at the beginning never sat well with me; I usually only have to say this in the Descendants fandom, but if one half of the ship is magical and the other half isn't, we can't have the magical one enchanting the non-magical one for romantic reasons without addressing what a violation of trust that is. Like, Jacob would be justified for never trusting her again, over that. Also, the fact that she apparently holds it against people if they think bad things about her is not something I would expect from someone who has been a Legilimens as long as she has, and not a detail I like, at all. Especially since it was used to give her justification to be mad at Jacob after she enchanted him in the first place. I find it sad, because Queenie was definitely my favorite character in the first movie. (Also, joining Grindelwald was a nonsensical thing to do. I can only assume she's there to spy on him or something, because it makes literally no sense.)

As for Leta, I really don't like how that was approached. First of all, I don't like how their mention of her in the first movie was "She was a taker; you need a giver," because once we actually met the character, that only made me resent Queenie for representing her that way. Leta deserved better in pretty much every way, and they definitely shouldn't have killed her off like that. I find the whole situation really iffy from a racial standpoint. The first black character to be written three-dimensionally in all of HP lore, and they make sure to preemptively tell the audience that she's a "taker", kill her in the same movie we meet her, and manage to trivialize her death by turning it into a little "Who was she saying 'I love you' to?" mystery. I like her relationship with Newt and Theseus, and I'd definitely want to see more of it.

Yes, it definitely would have been better, thematically, if they'd made the love interest a Muggle. (I'd honestly say they should've paired Newt with Jacob, but I know they're unwilling to do that. That would be kind of cool, though, to see the movie shaping up with two male characters and two female characters and have the men end up with each other and the women just live their lives as humans.)

With the story they ended up telling, though, I don't think that is needed; since Queenie is already dealing with the wizard/Muggle storyline, Newt could have a different conflict. Maybe his love interest should be a werewolf or something, to tie in the wizarding world's unresolved dislike for "half-breeds". And if he were in a relationship with someone already regarded as a creature, the wider wizarding world might take a different view to his studies and look down on him a lot more. Idk, a thought.

And then, with Leta/Theseus and Grindelwald/Dumbledore (if they were willing to actually deal with that), they'd pretty much hit every controversial beat they've got: wizard/Muggle, wizard/"half-breed", interracial, homosexual. Credence and Nagini are both creatures, kind of, but I still like them together, so their relationship doesn't have to tie into any theme; it just has to be developed way more.

On the whole, Crimes of Grindelwald felt like they skipped a movie. It feels like they needed a middle installment to make these relationships happen, instead of jumping from "Do Newt and Tina maybe have feelings for each other?" to "Newt loves Tina and Tina is possessive enough of Newt to be outwardly upset with him when she thinks he's engaged to someone else," and creating a whole relationship between Credence and Nagini that we see none of.

The fact that Queenie and Jacob were done well in the first movie gives me a fair amount of goodwill for them, but that goodwill only offers enough cushioning from the botching that movie 2 did that I'm near-indifferent to the ship, now, instead of actively opposed. I'd like to see things improved, but as it currently stands, I'd be just as happy seeing them end up not together as together. The fact that Leta's relationships with Newt and Theseus were more interesting than any of the aforementioned makes it that much more ridiculous that they killed her. What ship am I supposed to care about how? If I can't go into the next movie delusionally hoping Newt and Leta will get some moments, or enjoying the Theseus and Leta content, then I'll just be sitting there waiting for Credence and Nagini to share a screen, and who knows when that'll happen?

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My thoughts on the cursed child part 2: things I didn't like

I made a post before about my opinions on the cursed child. I recommend you go read that one if you haven't yet before you read this one. My other post was mostly about my positive opinions and thoughts on the addition to the harry potter universe. This one is going to be more focused on my problems with the play. Again, this won't make such sense if you haven't read it.

I cannot stress how much I hate the fact that Harry named his child after Dumbledore and Snape. I know there is something to be said of some fondness he may feel for Dumbledore. He was kind to Harry at times and was someone Harry really looked up to. I can understand why he named his child after Dumbledore. But I don't think it's right. Dumbledore left Harry in an abusive household for his entire childhood, even when McGonagall questioned his judgement, insisted on tiptoeing around the truth and being vague on purpose when all Harry wanted was answers, ignored Harry when he needed him most(ootp), and raised a child to die without him knowing. And even though what Dumbledore put Harry through was terrible, I can understand that Harry might feel a certain fondness for him. But Snape. I cannot even begin to explain how much I hate him. I may make another post about it detailing exactly why but long story short, snape literally abused harry to the point where even less than a year into knowing him, Harry was convinced that his own teacher was trying to kill him. And then, "ur mom got mad at me cus I called her a slur twenty years ago and im still sad" and he's a saint? Fuck Snape.

I didn't like the 'Scorpius might be Voldemort's son' plotline. I don't think it made any sense. And I think it's stupid that everyone just believes this stupid rumor with no evidence at all. Even Harry believed it at one point. If they thought all the time turners were destroyed, how did they think Astoria traveled back in time to get knocked up by Voldemort? Why would Voldemort agree to that? How do they explain Scorpius looking like his father? It's ridiculous and shouldn't have been included. If they wanted to keep the plotline that Scorpius was secluded and ostracized by most of his classmates, they should have just gone with the 'his dad was a death eater' route. It makes a lot more sense than some stupid rumor that in no way could be true.

I didn't like the whole "there's a dark cloud around ur son" plot. Harry has been known to repeatedly discredit divination in the books. So why does he believe the centaur so wholeheartedly without hesitation? I know that he has respect for the centaurs because they saved his life and they are oppressed for being 'half-breeds' which is not right at all. But I still think its out of character for Harry to just believe in some vision the centaur had without any question. And it shouldn't take Draco Malfoy to tell him that after he already made both of their sons lives hell.

Speaking of Harry's character, I don't think it was in character for him to split up Albus and Scorpius like that. He, out of all people, should know how important friends are at Hogwarts. He even says to Albus earlier in the play that friends are important and he didn't know what he would've done without Ron and Hermione. So why would he willingly split his son and his only friend up just because Scorpius might be evil? And honestly, if he ever even made the effort to meet Scorpius, he would know that Scorpius 'excuse me, Mr. Muggle' and 'my geekness is a-quivering' Malfoy is the least likely person ever to be evil. I suppose it isn't too unlike him to hate Scorpius at first just because he's Malfoy's son. But if he can forgive Snape for bullying him for years, he should be able to look past his rivalry with Draco for the sake of his son's safety and happiness. I mean, Harry would be downright murderous if someone tried to split up him and Ron for no good reason at Hogwarts. So why does he think it's okay for him to split up Scorpius and Albus?

Also the way he treated McGonagall was completely out of line and out of character. In the books, he (almost) always treated McGonagall with complete respect and admired her, even if he didn't quite agree with her at times. So for him to storm into her office and demand anything of her is completely out of character and just downright shitty.

Also, and I know this has been said before but the whole Cedric Diggory being a death eater thing? So stupid. Cedric is quite possibly the best person in the series. He is always nice to everyone and always makes sure things are fair. You're telling me that because of getting embarrassed when he was 17 he's gonna turn into a wizard nazi? It doesn't make any sense. I mean. So many people loved him and were absolutely destroyed when he died. Because of how much of a genuinely nice and loving person he was. Amos Diggory, over 20 years later still is trying to find ways to bring his son back. Cedric wanted a rematch in poa after the dementors made harry faint in quidditch! Because it wasn't fair! That boy deserved better.

I hate the Delphi plot. It just kind of invalidates Voldemort's whole character. The whole point of his character and why he was so evil was because he was incapable of love. The only reason he tolerates certain people is because he has a use for them. It's incredibly stupid that Voldemort would ever feel enough for Bellatrix to do...that with her. I know that one doesn't need to love someone to have sex but I don't see Voldemort ever doing that. Not only because i dont want to picture it but also because he would find the whole concept of it too human. He would never trust anyone enough to have a child with them. The only way I could ever see him having a child is maybe to clone himself? Or find some other self dependent way to have a child. And he wouldn't have a child. So that's stupid.

I didn't like the relationship they try to push between Rose and Scorpius. Rose makes it pretty clear from their first meeting that she doesn't like Scorpius and her opinion doesn't seem to change throughout the play. Rose to me just seemed like 'I know that Albus and Scorpius have chemistry throughout the entire play and would make sense to be together but...no homo'. It's one of those 'won't take no for an answer' kind of relationships that are super harmful. If a girl says no, respect it and move on. I thought the little awkward attempts at flirting with her were cute but the overall concept of Rose and Scorpius ending up together doesn't sit right with me. Especially with the amount of chemistry that he has with Albus. It doesn't make sense for him to be with Rose.

Also. I hate that Ron and Hermione don't end up together in the alternate timelines. They obviously still love each other. It wouldn't make sense for Ron to end up marrying Padma after spending one night with her at the yule ball. While the yule ball was a big factor in ron and Hermione figuring out their feelings for each other, it definitely wasn't the only moment that mattered. Just because Hermione and Ron went to the ball together doesn't mean they wouldn't end up married. Wouldn't the house elf situation in DH have still happened in the timeline where Hermione is the teacher? I just don't get it. Is there something I'm missing here?

Hey, wtf was with the whole trolley witch thing? I hated it.

That's most of my problems with the cursed child. I overall enjoyed it but there were a lot of flaws and plot holes and things that just didn't make sense. To me the whole play was just a cash grab for jkr. She wanted to keep profiting on the franchise. She did the same with the fantastic beast series. She didn't do it for her passion for the series. She did it to stay relevant and make money. She sucks. It’s nice for if you want the feels and just need something to read but not if you want to take a serious look at something. Don’t go into it with high expectations.

Let me know if there’s anything else you’d like to hear my opinions on! I was thinking about making a post about Draco Malfoy and my thoughts on his character since he’s pretty controversial in the fandom. Or maybe some popular\unpopular ships?

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I’d love to hear your snk opinions!

hi!!

Im so, so so sorry for the late reply, especially because you were so kind to send me a message after I said that I wanted to talk about my thought on SKN.

I don't remember if in that post I referred to my opinion as "controversial", because I do think the could be considered that way by other people, although personally I just think that a better term would be unpopular, since I they are critics that I have about snk. I do hope this post dont bring any kind of hate because that really isnt my intention. If you enjoy that last chapters GREAT! I'm so glad you did! I just have some problems with the writing and I wanted to talk about them on my blog.

SO. Here it goes.

I wrote that post about wanting to talk about my issues with the final after reading the chapter 138, so I guess it would make sense to start there. And then I can talk about the leaks (Dont worry Im gonna put a disclaimer before going into spoilers)

138

where do i begin. 

I'm not gonna sit here and say that I ship Eren and Mikasa because that would be a lie. I think  Isayama is an AMAZING writer, and I always apprecieted that he kept romance pretty far away from the story. For the most part at least, we clarely have Historia and Ymir, thanks for the representation btw mister. He himself said that Mikasa was more like a mother figure to Eren, although that could be discussed since Eren feelings could have changed from season one to now. So now tha romances became such an important part of not just Eren character but of the story is... weird to say at least.  And don't get me wrong, Mikasa is an interesting character, is just that I would have appreciated to see her standing on her own as a character more often. Her writing is so tied to Eren character that it dosent always helps her. We have Armin, who i also pretty close to Eren, but he has his own jorney, his own dreams, for example. 

But regadles of what  think of the writing of Mikasa, Isayama it's a great story telling, so the closer we were getting to end the more I was warming up to the idea of Mikasa and Eren,because  he keept dropping hints of both feeling for each other , Which was giving me mixed feelings because Eren was also turning to a gencidal, so... yeah....

And this lead me to one of my biggest problems: Mikasa saying that if she had confessed back when Eren asked her about her feelings, this might not be happening.

what? No, seriously, what? First of all, if that's really the case well, oh boy, we have some problems. Since when Eren decided something like that based on whether his feelings were reciprocated or not? Im not saying tha is impossible for Eren to act like that Im just saying that seems a little inconsistent with his character, having in mind what we now of Eren and his personality.  But also.... having Mikasa thinking that someone is HER fault??? Look, Eren becoming that obsessed over his loved one dosent having reciprocate feelings,and actually committing genocide because of  that? yeah thats already is pretty bad. But having Mikasa somehow blaming her self? What?

Then we have all this dream/au sequence in which Eren show her the life they could have had and tell her to forget about him. And let me tell you that wasn't explain enough at least for me. All those time/mind travels are still pretty vaguely explained on my opinion, but okey.

AND THE , the fact that he said that he was planning on running away with her?? LIKE????? And I guess that this just show how over I am with romance, especially because I thought that Snk was more about camaraderie and friendship. EMA was always the core of this story, and I thought that both Armin and Mikasa would be beside Eren side at the momen of his death. And i know Armin ad Eren werent in the best terms, but still. Is weird to hear Eren and Mikasa planning on leaving Armin behind. Especially Mikasa at this poin of the story.

The kiss was messed up but I'm not that horrified. I mean is Attack on Titans and it could be considered as a way of saying goodbye.

AND THATS ALL FOR138. Lets go into the spoiler zone. 

139

I'm gonna keep this brief because I just saw the leaks, I'm still not 100% sure that are real and also I Haven't actually read it, so I can't really express a full opinion

Eren and Armin? YES 

Eren telling that he didn't want to Mikasa to go on? THE FUCK? 

But mostly my thoughts are these: "A BIRD? HE SUPPOSED TO BE DEATH!"

Mikasa burn that damn scarf, for god sake

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Thank you for eventually responding ;) 

Some of these takes are definitely controversial xD   

My own thoughts under the cut

Personally I don’t think the lack of Scorpia/Catra interaction is a failure for Catra’s arc so much as it is for Scorpia’s. Like, Catra’s arc very much stands strong without that reconciliation because she at least had the Entrapta reconciliation (if it didnt have THAT then I think there’d be WHOLESALE dissatisfaction even from the most diehard of fans), but Scorpia’s character and standing up for her own agency is undermined when she just immediately embraces Catra without waiting for an “Im sorry”. It says a lot about Scorpia, but also says that she hasn’t changed much across the show. And it makes the apology feel less conclusive for sure since it didn’t get room to breathe, so I’ve seen lots of fun fic handle either Scorpia not embracing Catra straight away, or Catra getting frustrated that Scorpia won’t let her apologise.  

Scorpia is really, really good in season 4, some trips at the finish line but a great character altogether.  

I really like Scorfuma because, well, Perfuma and Scorpia are complementary to each other. Explosively angry and emotional Perfuma being protective over delicate flower Scorpia xD Her dynamic with Lonnie is funny but lacks raw chemistry that you would get in a good actual ship. Any ship with Lonnie doesn’t work for me, apart from maybe Adora pre-show, because she doesn’t have that chemistry with anyone. There’s no problem with that, it’s just sometimes people try to force Lonnie into ships and it doesn’t work (including the horde trio ot3 that some of crew-ra likes, sorry i dont see it).  Maybe she’s dated some of those other horde cadets she hangs around with.   

What takes about Entrapta do you think everyone gets wrong…?  O.O

Entrapta’s hilarious because she’s technically a side character, but if you look at her impact on the plot then 90% of it straight up would not have happened without her influence. This is especially funny in Season 4, where she doesn’t appear onscreen until the very end but her sheer absence tore both the Horde AND the Rebellion apart, being a major contribution to Catra’s mental deterioration and the big fallout with Glimmer at the end. The Princess Rebellion splitting apart and coming back together, Catra’s downward spiral, the Portal and Angella’s death, the Heart of Etheria and the Prime invasion, saving Catra and Glimmer in season 5, even Prime’s death, none if it would have happened without Entrapta???? She causes so much chaos and has such a big impact but thinks that she doesn’t matter, and this is one of the greatest ironies in She-ra.

Entrapta’s side of the story is so different to everyone else’s, she jumps from place to place so much, that while she sees far less of the interpersonal drama, she’s almost written like a tertiary protagonist on her own journey. She reminds me of those insane shonen characters, Goku of all people, who has a similar habit of Running Away to follow his interest and only occasionally remembering to come back to help his friends, barely knowing what kind of plot shit is happening but not caring as long as they can do their thing, and travelling the world interacting with so many people but always moving on immediately even when they’re begged to stay, because… yknow???? They gotta do their interest!!! Gotta learn as much as they can. What a pair of airheads. Though to Entrapta’s credit she’d be a much better parent than Goku, at least by the end of the show. 

I really do think Entrapdak is great, but some people say it is “objectively better” than Catradora, this is just wrong and those comments are usually said out of spite. It’s precious and more meaningful to some people, especially if you’re neurodivergent or disabled, but it’s really not a competition. There’s never been anything quite like Catradora and their slow burn coming-out romance, as they hash out their problems and fight all-too-familiar challenges against queer identity in a fantasy war backdrop. 

I also think Entrapta and Hordak’s relationship is cleaner and less complex in the sense that, Catra and Adora having such a messy past dynamic is so important TO their relationship, whereas Entrapta and Hordak have done nothing wrong to each other ever. Some people say that makes their relationship better, it does not, because there’s different kinds of relationships. It does make them more pallettable and easier to understand for people though, like Catradora Lite.  

Though both are very well written and good duos and it’s valid to prefer one or the other. For example I love Catradora but I’m not remotely obsessed with it the same way I am with Entrapta and Hordak. Or even with some other relationships. Catra and Entrapta, Catra and Glimmer, theyre both dyanmics I’m more interested in, though I fall back onto Catradora fluff when I want to feel cozy.  

My favourite pairing is glitra… it reminds me of bubbline which is my actual favourite ever queer ship and maybe the most important but sadly forgotten to time.   

scorpia and entrapta!

I'm finally answering these after like three weeks. Yay, thank you all for your patience😭.

We'll do Entrapta first

Almost couldve got double bingo! If you’ve followed me forever you know how I feel about this baddie. But to sum it up:

-She’s the MVP of She-Ra. So much of this show’s plot is non-existent without her.

-Her ship is the best in the show. Can respect the C/A grind but what her and Hordak got? *Chef kisses* Just hits all my spots.

-There’s such a lack of nuanced takes about her and its been a thing since forever. And so, I confidently say everyone is wrong about them but me :3

-Fans do her dirty by consistently lightening her skintone. I swear because she didn't sound like a woc (whatever that means) people didn't recognize her as such and thus lightened her up all the time.

-The show definitely used her as much as they could as a side character but she also has main character potential. She’s one of the few from the cast that could get a spin-off that would likely be massively successful. 

Scorpia:

No bingo :( 

Scorpia’s odd because I definitely love her. Love her design, love the voice. But, I dont think about her a lot. I mostly just stare in admiration. I think the show did her dirty. Taking her out the plot just as Catra gets back to Etheria was a “no” for me and I think a lot of people that struggled liking Catra’s arc mention this too. It’s unfortunate she didnt get time to reconcile her relationships with Catra and Entrapta despite them all being on the same again. Idk I feel like for all the development we got for her in S4, her presence in S5, aside from the end of the Peekablue episode, felt pretty shallow. 

And of course, I wish we got more development on her family and whatever the hell happened between them and Hordak. I feel like Scorpia/Scorpion Kingdom couldve been key in showing how both sides of the conflict have their own agendas and opportunities to be harmful allies. 

*whispers* Scorfuma is meh, Lonnie/Scorpia forever!

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Bunni’s Rune Factory 4 Headcanons Even More So

okay MISC CHARACTER HEADCANONS AND THINGS

* first and most important one: arthur and dylas consider porcoline their adopted father just like margaret does, and they all see each other as siblings. Its never actually stated in canon but IT HAS TO BE TRUE OKAY * I wish Illuminata, Bado and Pico could have been marriages in dlc or something. Thats not really a headcanon but I wanted to mention it. * ALL THE GAY JOKES ARE NOW NOT JOKES BUT CANON. That is my headcanon. Stop teasing me with ‘lol isnt it somehow funny that they seem to be gay but arent’, and give me more actual being the what they are. Pico has a crush on Dolce, Doug and Dylas have a crush, Margaret is totally crushing on Forte, imagine a universe where all of that gets to be canon and not just a ‘joke’! And imagine if these characters that’re implied to be gay or bisexual could get to be gay or bisexual with regards to the protagonist too! If dylas, doug, margaret and forte could be marriageable no matter which gender you picked! Maybe if you could have some options that’re exclusively gay too? Perhaps pico is the lesbian marriage and I dunno.. bado could be gay because he’s kinda bara? XD Tho I think it’d be neat if frey could marry him too, i just wish he had a route in general. * Also i wish we could have been able to help Arthur track down his mother again and reconcile with her. It was mega heartwarming that you could help him discover that his mother loved him all along and only left because of outside cricumstances involving the controversy of arthur being the product of his father’s affair with a commoner, but still we dont know where she is now and whether she’s happy. I like to hope maybe she’s out there still alive somewhere, and maybe she collects newspaper clippings hearing about her son’s adventures as super businessman prince! And thus someday she hears that he moved to selphia and married frey the commoner, and maybe this leads to her deciding to come back and confess why she really left. And also maybe the marriage to the protagonist could help society get over the whole predjudice and stuff and arthur’s mum could regain a better reputation in the eyes of the nobles. or maybe she never does and she just ends up moving into selphia and never being able to return to her home city, but still its all ok cos at least she can hug her son and meet her new grandkid. * My thoughts for the guardians who didnt get much said about their past lives! For Amber the game says she ‘wanted to fly with ventuswill’ and thats at least more than we know for Dylas, but still its very undeveloped. My headcanon is that maybe she was a pilot? or like.. lived in an era before airships were actually invented, and was someone who dreamed of finding a way to make it possible. And her notes were discovered after she vanished, and ended up inspiring the person who ended up inventing the first flying machine! And even though now she can fly on her own wings, it could be heartwarming for her to find out about this and have a bit of conclusion to her life. I also headcanon that Amber’s relationship with Ventuswill was maybe more like an adoptive mother-daughter thing? I think it would fit with how strange and monster-like Amber thinks sometimes, even though she must have been human to begin with. I mean maybe thats just how the magic works and if you’re a weirdo who loves eating raw potatos and climbing trees to steal honey from beehives you become a butterfly?? But I think it could work if maybe she was an orphan who was raised by the native dragon and ended up a little ditzy because she hadn’t interacted with humans much until nowadays. like, maybe this was a period when ventuswill was mourning the first person who became a guardian (what order did it happen, actually...?) and she became more solitary instead of having this personal presence in the town. She flew off to watch over selphia from within the forest cave instead, and found an abandoned child by chance. And then once Amber had grown up she was always trying to drop her off at the town and make her live with her own kind, but amber would always find her way back. And ventuswill was like ‘aww shit no i ended up loving someone again’ and couldnt stop amber from finding out about the guardian ritual and doing it too. And like... the only reason ventuswill went back to the town was because now corrupted-amber is the boss of the forest area and ventuswill cant break through her magic to get back in. So amber’s sacrifice also helped convince venti to open up to other people again. *eternal sobbing* * And my headcanons for Dylas’s past are less developed, but I was considering maybe the idea that he was the last one to be guardianized? And by this point it had become seen as a tradition by the people of selphia, and they would like.. look for a human sacrifice, rather than it being someone who willingly did it. It was a very dark time in the town’s history. It was nearly the end of the town not because it was in danger, but because if they’d gone through with such a horrible plan it just wouldnt be selphia anymore. Those people wouldnt be worth protecting, it probably would have caused ventuswill to leave and never return. So anyway I was thinking maybe Dylas was some sort of weird loner fisherman on the edge of town that everyone hated, so they considered him the one who should be sacrificed. And he was so lonely and suicidal that he wanted to agree to it, just because he wanted to die and didnt care how. But then ventuswill put a stop to the angry mob and rescued him, and he regained his faith in people and found his first and greatest friend as he got to know her. So in the end he performed the ritual out of his own free will, after realizing she was the one who would be saved by his sacrifice. And she was haunted by the guilt that by saving him she’d inadvertantly caused him to go down the same path anyway, just for different reasons. And then Dylas is just way more happy nowadays because whatever reason the town hated him is now gone, and he’s seeing how kind and wonderful its become, and he’s never had so many friends before!! And he can still go fishing and hang out with venti, and even meet three other people who also loved venti enough to die, and bond over their super sadness together. Oh! An idea! Maybe Dylas was part of a different race of nomadic humans who travel in caravans, and the town treated him so shittily because they were racist fucks? I was just thinking how that could maybe be a reason why his monster form was a horse, if maybe horses were a highly respected animal in his home culture, and he’s all estranged from it and stuck living in a foreign land with a bunch of intolerant bastards. And it could be extra heartwarming cos nowadays he’s living in the future version of this town that is even more foreign to him, but nowadays that racial tension is less common and he’s actually been welcomed as one of them. And maybe he could have extra quests added to his rather short romance route, cos he could be trying to learn whether his clan actually survived and still exists nowadays. And then have a heartwarming reunion with the grandchild of one of his siblings maybe? look, everyone else in the batchelors got a big sad questline, why cant perfect tsundere horseman join them?? IT WOULD BE THE SADDEST OF ALL THE SADS * also it would be really cool if when you married the guardian characters your child could inherit monster powers! I’m still gonna forever headcanon that they do, even if they dont get any of the appearance traits. It would be so cute if noel/luna could poof into a tiny baby unicorn and dylas is just sobbing with pride :3 * also headcanon: I wish Leon’s fox statue guardians could move into the city after you marry him, and be like loving uncle babysitters to your child! the excuse would be like ‘we need to protect the next in the proud dragon priest lineage’. And maybe once they leave the temple they could be stuck in de-powered tiny pet forms of cute? * Oh and a possible headcanon that the name Leon is passed down from father to son in Leon’s family. That’d explain why that temple is called Leon Karnak. Unless it was renamed into a memorial to him after he sacrificed himself? But it could be cute if your kid with him was Leon Jr/Leona and had adorkable fox statue pets and was a prodigy champion in the buddy battle festival and made their parents proud. I HAVE MANY HEADCANONS! * Gahhhh I really dont know who I should marry! Arthur was the first one I dated and I really like him though I wish you could have a friend route with him where you still help him with his backstory problems, I dont feel like I like the ship as much. And then Leon’s backstory was so sad I feel guilty not marrying him, but Dylas’s marriage route was so BAD that I feel guilty not marrying him! He didnt get as many scenes as leon, so I wanna marry him instead so i can fly off headcanoning more scenes!! But gahhh leon!! I think I ship leon with female protagonist and dylas with the male one :P I might make two saves to try both. And a third save just to see what arthur’s route is like, though i still like him and female protagonist better as a brotp, yknow? Or maybe amicable exes. Or just people who dated once casually but didnt end up together. Or any way i could get the happy ending to his backstory stuff without having to date him, seriously why does everyone be backstory sad unless I date them?? Except dylas who DOESNT GET ANY SCREENTIME INSTEAD *pout* *....im gonna go back to the game and marry dylas aaaa * and everyone else * aaaaaaa * i just care so much about these characters * i think dylas might win cos marrying him also means my fave character porcoline becomes my father in law * i wonder if he’s at the wedding? that’d kinda confirm my headcanon dylas and arthur are like margaret’s adopted brothers. * I WANT EVERY FAM TO BE HAPPY AAA