#RF Vishnal

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Melotober - Day 12 - Brew

Did you brew this?

What do you mean, did I brew it??

[hysterical-ryu]

Part 3 of my RF4 child redesigning project: Vishnal!

For Vishnal we have Odetta, Archibald, and Elliot!

I picked the name Odetta way back in 2018 when I started the project, so I don’t quite remember why I picked that name. I also hadn’t realized there was already a Rune Factory character name Odette! But oh well, the name is still cute!

For Archibald and Elliot I wanted names that sounded somewhat butler-ish. They’d go by Archie and Eli regularly, but I wanted some connection to Vishnal’s theme since none of that is really present in their designs.

Odetta is a very responsible older sister and enjoys helping people around town. She usually watches out for her younger brother who enjoy adventuring and fighting. She spends a lot of her time in her own little garden and bakes a lot of sweets.

Archie wants to simultaneously be like his father and his mother, but ultimately he also just wants to help people! 

Eli is very young and still figuring himself out, he’s incredibly clumsy and always follows around his parents or his siblings. He likes to pick up bugs and take them home, but he doesn’t always remember where he puts them.

Since I leaned a lot towards making the children look like their non-MC parent I decided that Vishnal’s would lean a little more towards looking like Frey! Vishnal and Frey also just generally seem like nice and helpful people so I expect their kids would quickly take on similar qualities. Vishnal has a large family himself (6 siblings) so I think he would have a lot of kids, too.

Next will be Dylas!

[durotoswrites]

Awww look at him all fired up! He's so cute!

If you're up for it, a chibi Vishnal would be super cute! 🥰 Oooh, or you could draw Breath of the Wild Link in your favorite set of armor! 🤩

Vishnal for you!!! 🥰🥰 What a wonderful boy!

[freakinthefridge]

put your favorite fantasy characters in street clothes

[ryuuseirune]

blorbos (orb variety)

[raven-at-the-writing-desk]

Goddd rook would pull the whole thing of letting someone else pretend to be a royal so he could spend his days doing whatever he'd like. I never knew he was so Arthur Rune Factory 4 core

[Referencing this post!]

The Princess and the Pauper except it’s Rook and his body double/j I totally forgot that was a part of Arthur’s story 💀 (Can you tell he wasn’t the one I romanced? I went for Leon and Vishnal www)

Rook comes off as a flippant person, but you can really rely on him when push comes to shove. He’ll surprise you with what he’s capable of!! Rather than Rook abandoning his role because he simply doesn’t want to tend to his responsibilities or because he wants to goof off, I think it’d be more for safety reasons? Like having a public lookalike in case others are after your life, or to free Rook up to take on other tasks or training. I do imagine that he enjoys hunting on horseback on palace grounds or something like that!

Being that he is a middle child, I don’t think Rook needs to seriously contend for the (hypothetical) throne. He doesn’t strike me as someone who would care for it either. The royal duties would probably also be split up between the 6 Hunt siblings, or maybe each of them specializes in a certain sector?? 🤔 (Now I’m too invested in this AU, lol)

[coderedblood]

Rune Factory English Voice Actors/Actresses:

I’m a huge fan of Rune Factory. It seems sort of niche bc when I ask other gamers (I’m a casual gamer, don’t ask me to be on any teams 😂) about it they don’t really know what it is. One of the things I love about is is how they get these huge voice actors for the games, which seem so small (but I know it isn’t, it’s sold hundreds of thousands of copies)

WARNING: ONLY ENGLISH VOICES ARE COUNTED HERE. I’M DOING THIS FOR MYSELF AND WHAT I KNOW. I MAY DO A JAPANESE VERSION.

Raguna (Rune Factory and Rune Factory: Frontier) is Vash the Stampede, Ichigo from Bleach, Sabo from One Piece, and Nero from Devil May Cry

Mist (Rune Factory and Rune Factory: Frontier) is Haru from Persona 5

Bianca (Rune Factory and Rune Factory: Frontier) is Saya from Blood+ (I didn’t see that one coming)

Tabatha (Rune Factory and Rune Factory: Frontier) is Mima from Perfect Blue and Rem from Trigun

Iris (both of them, RFF) is Rukia from Bleach and Yuki from Haruhi Suzumiya

Anette (RFF) is Starfire (and Blackfire!) from Teen Titans and Princess Bubblegum from Adventure Time

Raven (RF3) is Amy Rose from Sonic Boom

Electra (Rune Factory: Tides of Destiny) is Annie from Attack on Titan (didn’t see this one coming either)

Bacchus (RFTOD) is Vampire Hunter D (and D’s left hand!) (loved this one)

Vishnal (Rune Factory 4) is Leonardo from the 2003 Ninja Turtles cartoon and Kappa Mikey

Clorica (RF4) is Shiki from The World Ends With You

Xiao Pai (RF4) is Jenny from My Life As A Teenage Robot

Doug (RF4) is Sasuke from Naruto

Margaret (RF4) is Hinata from Naruto, Kyrie from Devil May Cry and Orihime from Bleach

Forte (RF4) is Abbey Bominable from the first Monster High cartoon

Amber (RF4) is Morgana from Persona 5

Dolce (RF4) is Lust from Fullmetal Alchemist (this one actually makes sense), Maka Albarn from Soul Eater and the female protagonist of Persona 3

Frey (RF4) is Gaz from Invader ZIM

Ares (Rune Factory 5) is SwaySway from The Breadwinners

Scarlett (RF5) is Retsuko from Aggretsuko, Akko from Little Witch Academia and Ryuko from Kill La Kill

Lucy (RF5) is Loona from Helluva Boss and Emira Blight from The Owl House

Martin (RF5) is Louis from Beastars

Cecil (RF5) is Hunter from The Owl House and Remy from Big City Greens

Ryker (RF5) is Trebol from One Piece (also, also did not see this coming)

Livia (RF5) is Rebecca from One Piece

Misasagi (RF5) is Tatsuki from Bleach

Rudolph (RF5) is Mugman from The Cuphead Show!

Yuki (RF5) is Beauty from Bobobo-Bo Bo-bobo

Darroch (RF5) is Jelly Jiggler from Bobobo-Bo Bo-bobo (which brings back memories and makes actually a lot of sense)

Radea (RF5) is Reiju from One Piece (also makes sense)

Gideon (RF5) is Griffon from Devil May Cry and Scratchmen Apoo from One Piece

SHARED VOICE ACTORS/ACTRESSES

Lara (RF1 and Rune Factory: Frontier), Eunice (RFF) and Maerwen (from Rune Factory: Tides of Destiny) have the same voice actress (and are Kitana and Mileena from Mortal Kombats 9 and X)

Melody (RF and RFF) and Sonja (Rune Factory: Tides of Destiny) have the same voice actress

Carmen and Shara (both Rune Factory 3) have the same voice actress and is Triela from Gunslinger Girl

Rosetta (RF and RFF) and Beatrice (Rune Factory 5) have the same voice actress

Nancy (from RF4) and Hina (from RF5) have the same voice actress who’s also Kikimora from The Owl House

Ventuswill and Lin Fa (both RF4) and Selphy (RFF) have the same voice actress who’s also Faye Valentine from Cowboy Bebop

Micah (Rune Factory 3) and Bismarck (RFTOD) have the same voice actor who is also Ling Yao from Fullmetal Alchemist and Natsu Dragneel from Fairy Tail

Violet (RFTOD) and Priscilla (RF5) have the same voice actress

Lily and Sierra (both RFTOD) have the same voice actress

Pandora and Quinn (both RFTOD) have the same voice actress

James (RFTOD) and Leon (RF4) have the same voice actor who’s also Law from One Piece and Levi from Attack on Titan

Dylas and Bado (both RF4) have the same voice actor

Arthur and Jones (both RF4) have the same voice actor who is also Donatello from the 2003 Ninja Turtles cartoon

Father Gerard (RFF) and Heinz (RF5) have the same voice actor who’s also adult Gohan from Dragon Ball Z and Kiba from Naruto

Cinnamon (RFF) and Fuuka (RF5) have the same voice actress who is also Marinette from Miraculous Ladybug and Verosika Mayday from Helluva Boss

Simone and Julian (both RF5) have the same voice actress who’s also Ash from Pokémon and April from the 2003 Ninja Turtles cartoon

[runefactory-marriage-tournament]

RF Bachelor Tournament - Round 3

[beck-a-leck]

What are your headcanon ages for the main character, bachelors, and bachelorettes from Rune Factory 4?

oh my gosh I started answering this like a week ago and then it fell through one of the swiss cheese holes in my brain. Sorry Nonny!

I don't really have any hard headcanons about the rf4 character ages, and really what I do have is just kind of a general age range for them. But if you're curious about how the characters read to me maturity-wise I'll tell you.

Frey/Lest - I think they're in their early 20s, somewhere between 19-23 at the beginning of the game. the amnesia helps them have a bit more of the "youthful innocence" that just comes as being that age. Like you can clearly tell they're grown and responsible enough to have been given the story-compelling mission in the first place, but that also have the energy and optimism of someone who still sees the world as completely open to possibilities without as much of the "i need to have my shit together" vibes an older 20-something might have

Amber and Kiel are the ones I headcanon as the youngest, and they both give me very strong late-teens/babey adult vibes. I don't see them any older than 19 at the beginning of the game. And depending on when in the RF world society would consider someone a Full Adult TM, it can change the lower end of that age range, so even to 16 or 17. They're not children, but they're still kids, if that makes sense. They both still have "parental" figures in their lives so they're not entirely independent as an older adult might be.

Forte, though I actually don't think is too much older than Kiel, she's maybe just a few years older than him. So about the same age as Frey/Lest, early 20s, no older than 25. I think given her family history and her general character she was definitely the girl who had to grow up too fast and has acted more mature than other kids her age needed to. So she can very easily be read as older, but I think there's enough clues in her dialogue and her character to show that she's younger than she wants people to perceive her as.

I get the same general age range from Vishnal and Clorica too, 19-25 though probably closer to college ages. Vishnal I think is the younger of the two butlers. Their roles as apprentices and the fact that they're still in training tells me they're probably still rather young adults. I imagine butler training of the caliber they're going through is a 4-6 year ordeal and I imagine they would have started in their late teens/early 20s, much like most people choosing a career path.

Xiao Pai and Doug are the last of the under 25s. It's hard to know Doug's precise age, given he's not human and dwarves are long-lived in the RF world. So while he might look and act like a hot-headed 19-22 year old, he might be 60-70 years old. They've never really spelled out the lifetimes of the non-human races. Xiao Pai I tend to read as on the younger end of her 20s, but given the way she acts and her general clumsiness (which are often associated with younger people) she could also be older than that. It's hard to say.

Margaret is another one of those ambiguously ages characters, being an elf, we don't actually know how old she is. But I definitely read her as an adult in her mid-late 20s. I think she's the eldest-coded bachelorette, so I could even see her as a 30-something. (I genuinely don't think any of the bachelorettes are supposed to be older than 30 because god knows the developers would have had them complaining about being an old maid and a spinster 🙄) She just reads as a character who has had much more worldly experience than the younger girls, and yeah, some of that can be attributed to the fact that she's had Decades more time and lots of freedom than the others, but she also feels more settled into life and adulthood than a younger character would.

Dolce I think is mid-20s. I can't really explain it, but she just gives me "I'm 25 and I've finally felt my brain chemistry solidify" vibes. I do think what she went through in her life, as well as dealing with an eternally youthful and chaotic spirit of Pico probably made her act more mature than she was, much like Forte, but I also do think she's just a little bit older than most of the other marriage candidates in town.

Dylas and Arthur I think are around the same age, mid-20s. Arthur I could push to late-20s, but there's something about his character that makes me go "oh no, he still has that independent streak of the young 20s" I do think his upbringing also forced maturity onto him at a younger age than would otherwise be expected, but he also took on responsibilities that people might not expect someone so young to do (he also shirked the responsibilities he didn't want to do, so again that independent/rebellious streak) Dylas I think acts younger than he really is, though he's really not all that old. I think he got to spend a several years living as an adult in his original time before becoming a guardian, though he didn't really see himself as 'grown' back then and that carried over to how he behaves in game (with additional traumas)

Which brings us to Leon as the last, I think. He's the one I could possibly see being the oldest of all the bachelors, late-20s to early-30s. In his life before becoming a guardian he has established a whole vocation and had been in it long enough to become a high-ranking priest. Even if he had started his vocational training as a young teen, I don't think he could have gotten as far without spending a good portion of his 20s working at it.

So the tl;dr list:

Lest/Frey: 19-23

Amber: 16-19

Clorica: 22-26

Dolce: 24-28

Forte: 22-25

Margaret: 25-30

Xaio Pai: 20-25

Arthur: 24-28

Doug: 19-24

Dylas: 24-28

Kiel: 16-19

Leon: 27-33

Vishnal: 20-24

[durotoswrites]

First sentence game!

Forte and Vishnal shared a nervous look before the knight reached out and knocked on the closed door.

Forte and Vishnal shared a nervous look before the knight reached out and knocked on the closed door.

"You know they're not going to answer - Pico ran too far ahead, and there's no one else who is going to give us a friendly greeting," Vishnal pointed out with a laugh that came out far too shaky to sound playful.

"What's the holdup?" Frey asked, sheathing her weapon and jogging to meet them.

Before they could reply, she opened the door, charging ahead. The room was eerily quiet, and she instinctively held out her hands for her partners to hold as they all looked around the room of the manor frantically.

Forte relaxed a bit, giving Frey's hand a squeeze and letting go, wandering toward an object sitting by the wall. "That's a cute wooly doll..."

Vishnal joined her side, his eyes scanning the room. "It's not covered in dust like everything else here... but... why are there so many gathered in that chandelier ahead?"

Aged wood creaked under Frey's boots as she ran forward.

Her partners' eyes widened in horror.

"Frey, no!"

"P-Princess!"

Send me an ask with the first sentence of a fanfic and I’ll write the next five.

[cheriipan]

p-princess...

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Cozytober - Day 13 - Apple Pie

How... How does that even work? Don't question it.

[chickenbeep]

Vishnal - I love this sweetheart. The sunflowers symbolize dedication, ‘cause he’s such a good butler (and husband)! 🌻

[hexelina]

Vishnal is so cute 🥰

[toltava]

Hey @smolcreambun I’m your secret Santa 🎅🏻 I was pleased to see we have the same taste in men, I love em innocent and pure ❤️ I hope you enjoy this drawing of the best boy of them all, Happy Holidays!

[ryuuseirune]

002- lest :^)

How I feel about this character:

homosexually! Lest is my primary blorbo... my beloved. I will never stop thinking about him. He’s cute, sweet, and a little bit silly, which makes him the perfect whump target lmfao. Make that ray of sunshine suffer!!!

All the people I ship romantically with this character:

Dylas, Leon, Doug, Arthur, Kiel, Vishnal, Ethelberd, Forte, Bado, Barrett, Volkanon, and Porcoline.

My non-romantic OTP for this character:

Lest & Venti - self-explanatory. I have a real soft spot for our dragon BFF.

My unpopular opinion about this character:

he deserves more attention and appreciation in the rf4 fandom!! Everyone is a Frey main and I understand why people prefer her over Lest, but sometimes I wish people would give my little guy a chance too :( it's why I focus on commissioning/drawing him the most. I need to recruit people to the Lest agenda

One thing I wish would happen / had happened with this character in canon:

gay marriage option wish we knew more of his backstory and that the guys would flirt with him more 😔

my OTP:

do I even need to say it? Dylas/Lest

my cross-over ship:

within the RF franchise, i think Lest/Ares or Lest/Raguna would be hot. otherwise, maybe he would look good with Aira from Ensemble Stars since they both have that feminine twinkish vibe? idk i haven't thought about this one much

a headcanon fact:

oh man it depends. I like to think of him as a gay trans man, but I also like to hc him as a he/him transmasc butch lesbian. i feel like all of my interpretations of him kind of exist at once so i will give multiple "facts" for each one :)

in situations where he's trans and he likes guys, i think he's a bit more subdued/reserved. he feels more societal pressure to fit in with the bachelors because of all the little comments that they make about liking girls. otoh i see him acting more like Frey if he's a butch lesbian – brash, earnest, and not afraid to speak his mind. he chills with both the guys and the gals at sleepovers and he doesn't care what people think!!

when both Lest and Frey are present in an AU, i like to think of them as siblings. sometimes i see them as fraternal twins, sometimes Frey is Lest’s younger yet more experienced sister. either way they have a pretty close bond! frey teases him a lot but he never complains bc he knows it's all in good jest and it takes a lot to piss him off. they joke about being bodyswapped at birth and team up to bully doug.

>ask game here<