#bowman gbf

[mytyldotwav]

Finally hitting 1 million damage :)

[nightmarenoise]

[icharchivist]

So I'm finally getting to reading all the valentines stuff (for the chocos), and one of the new ones I got is Freezie. It has Tomoi and Freezie, and I thought it'd be really cute! I was very wrong. It was so sad and I thought there was a really sad angsty story to it, so I went to read it again but accidentally clicked the first one... wow the whiplash I got. Like, wow...

oh my gOD LMAOOOOO

see "i feel like i just read a fanfic with an amnesia tag that i didn't see" is actually exactly what happened and i'm not even kidding.

Clearing stuff out of the way first, no, Tomoi and Freezie aren't related at all. Similar designs, yeah, but not related.

Anyway you literally did miss a tag and it's this one:

Freezie's unit isn't a canon unit.

See, one thing that defines the Lowain Bros (ie, Lowain, Tomoi and Elsam), is that they have a really, really big imagination. There are a couple events as well as a couple units that are completely, and i really mean COMPLETELY, them making shit up for a laugh.

They make themselves the heroes of some crazy stories that absolutely make no sense whatsoever, and they roll with it, and some units push it as to make their fantasy playable. (another similar unit completely based on their fantasy is Lady Katapillar and Vira, a Water unit where Lowain imagines Vira going completely Mad Scientist by creating a robot of Katalina to destroy the world. It is how it is).

you'll find some events of the Lowain Bros doing this shit in the side stories, it's the event "Let's Hang!" "Table for Six" and "Walk on the Wild Side".

And it's worth noting that Tomoi has a massive crush on Freesia, who's one of the main antagonist of the Main Plot Storyline. Freesia is a no nonsense allowed woman who is ruthless and would destroy anything and anyone on her path. Tomoi has big heart eyes for her.

They also, never, canonically met.

Freezie's unit is based on Tomoi having an elaborate fantasy in his brain where Freesia, or rather, Freezie, as to distinguish her from the real Freesia, gets a redemption by hopelessly falling in love with hom. And as is , i do think to recall that in the fantasy, in order to offer her this redemption, there is an amnesia storyline.

So the storyline of the vday lines is that Tomoi is sharing with the Lowain Bros what he would imagine his imaginary relationship with Freezie would be like during vday, which includes her being lovey dovey, her being caught back by her past, her trying to leave him behind.

It's really nothing too serious in general, Tomoi is just like that.

.... but that is probably the wildest possible way for you to be introduced to the concept of the Lowain Bros's stupid AU, and in general the Fantasy tag on gbf.

The more you know?

[alanwakemeup]

Here they are, my favorite dark team. Vampire Musician, Teenager with Split Personality and Lich

[whalehouse1]

GOT AYER’S IMAGINARY DILDO!

[moralessweasel]

I can feel it in my bones that this magisa lady is so good but i have NO OTHER DARK

[buddytwenty]

Introduction post time!

My name is Buddy!

I started playing in about September of last year and I've been hooked ever since. I just can't get enough!

My favorite characters are Wilnas, Bowman, Siete, Nezha, and Vaseraga as seen in the screenshot. I have some other characters though that I have not pulled yet or aren't SSRs who I would consider my favorites. Characters like Aglovale, Sariel, Vane, Sevilbarra, and recently Sevastien!

My favorite side stories are Seeds of Redemption, Lone Wolf's Passing, Hope from a Snowdrop, Bistro Feendrache, and the WMTSB trilogy!

My plan for this blog is simple! I plan to post fairly mundane things relating to GBF, stuff like some of my good pulls, lucky drops from raids, thoughts on new story events, and some gushing about the beautiful men in this wonderful game!

I also play and make GBF characters on the game Ponytown! so you may every once in awhile see me post some of those. I may make a follow-up post in the future, showing some of my favorite ones I've made. If you play as well and see me on the game, feel free to say Hi!

But, that's everything for my intro! Seeya!

[fictionimitateslife]

GBF players using Bowman:

[duoduotian]

this is my 3rd attempt at culinary crucible and i'm still terrible at it. no idea if the food (?) increases the skill % bc i can't rmb and i don't want to waste my ingredients

[icharchivist]

Ayer, finally having getting rid of Bowman: fuck yeah, holiday time

[icharchivist]

Hello! I am trying to find new stuff and i see you're a big fan of GBF. By any chance, is there any Plural rep in this game? (i.e. characters who are more than one character. D.I.D./multipersnality/possessed people/one dude split into multiple dudes, that sort of thing)

hey!

Yeah, there are!! quite a few actually on the possessed front and also in term of alter.

That being said i wouldn't really know if those representation are really positive or not? GBF is a fantasy RPG that includes a lot of violence, and while some of those violence are genre-typical, i feel there might be concerns about seeing those on characters with alters.

That being said, all the characters i'll mention in this post are for the most part, friends of MC/The crew, and out of the ones who are not, 2 of them have been stuck in villain jail but has been treated as mostly sympathetic, and two others have been on the path of redemption/considering eventually revalue MC and become their friend. GBF really redeem their villains so much that anyone can become a friend down the line, so take that as you will.

Out of the actual characters i can think of:

One of the most notable one to me would be Ayer

He's a normal kid who's always been driven by battle and fighting, and we learn eventually that he has an alter called Bowman that is basically encouraging him to fight for himself and all that jazz. Bowman is also a playable character.

Though i'm not very familiar with Ayer, so i don't know how well it's handled, i just know that Ayer and Bowman are both really popular so people seem to like how it's dealt with?

Else we have more the general fantasy possessed people with different voices/alter/influence on each other.

Another one that applies to multiple people inside one body, who's unambiguously a good character, is Tikoh:

Her/Their? story is really fucked up though, and it's probably one of the story that justify the most GBF's high age rating, so if you have some triggers you need to check out before going in, do ask me about it.

But for her, tldr, Tikoh is a healer with a weapon gifted by the stars itself, that only a few selected people can control, who gives her healing abilities outside of the norm. She had for best friend a kid named Shannon. But following a horrifying tragedy, Shannon was "killed" in front of Tikoh by a guy who wanted to test out Tikoh's abilities. Unable to heal Shannon, Tikoh did the next best thing and tied Shannon's soul to her own.

The two of them now lives in harmony in her body, described often as not knowing "when one ends and the other start". While Tikoh is in control most of the time, she often ends up using Shannon's unique language gimmick which could imply that it's Shannon talking, but since both girls are on the same wavelength, it's not something either of them really bring up. They care for each other a whole lot and are now on a path of revenge against the man who started it all. Tikoh does hope eventually down the line to restore Shannon into her own body, while they also mentioned how it would feel lonely if they ever split at this point.

Not playable but another one of the most notable one on that would be Geo:

Geo is a primal beast. if you're new to gbf don't let the "beast" part make you feel like it's bad or anything, they're basically godlike creatures who were created as weapons originally but were abandoned centuries ago and developed free will and a will to live for themselves. There's a lot of Primal Beasts characters in game and we love them all so much, and reclaiming their place as people is one of the huge theme of the story.

Geo is particular in the sense of, he saw the suffering Primals are going through as immortal beings forced to see people they love die, that he took it upon himself to give those primals a place to be at home and at peace, never alone... inside of him. It reflects also on him as Geo would have the various primals inside of him talk through him at random.

Originally an antagonist, and while currently still one, his "twin sister" for lack of a better word, Zooey, has been doing everything to have Geo consider joining us instead. (the thing about antagonists in gbf is that most of them gets redeemed in some way, especially when they have sympathetic motives. I believe Geo will eventually join us, down the line).

(when i say her twin, it applies to split people. There was a primal beast named Cosmos who couldn't move from the place she was tied to, so, she sent some parts of herself to see the world for her. Eventually, those parts all became individual people: Zooey, Geo and Yuni. Cosmos died, but the three other parts, who are driven by the same starting soul and Cosmos's desire to protect the people living in the Skies, still live on.)

(There are quite a few characters who are split or copies of one another. Most noticeably are the ones we call the Lucifaces, with Lucio being the original, who had a clone named Lucilius, who then made his own clone with Lucifer. I don't know if it applies to how you see it per se but i bring them up still. Lucilius is described by being plagued by visions of Lucio's life, which had made him unable to really determine his own reality. Lucifer also had Sandalphon who inherited his powers when shit hit the fan, and Sandalphon also inherited Lucifer's memories, often having him zone out and live out one of Lucifer's memory.

There's also Shalem and her clone, Beelzebub, but while we know that, neither of them really explored what it'd mean for them to be clones.

Another notable one on that is the Orchis/Orchid/Zwei situation. Orchis was the original, until an accident basically blasted her soul outside of her body. Her body was left an empty shell with magical powers due to the incident... But as she was exploited by people, this "empty shell" developed her own personality and her own sense to live. She decided to show herself as different to Orchis by becoming Orchid. When later on they manage to bring Orchis back into her body, Orchid's homemade soul was transferred into another body and now Orchis treats Orchid like her little sister.

Zwei meanwhile was a clone of Orchid, made to try to replace her. Zwei developed herself as her own person still, and while i haven't advanced into this storyline much i know Orchid and Orchis both are working together for Zwei to accept herself as herself rather than a copy of them. Idk if it counts with what you want but yeah)

In term of "characters who merged and sometimes take turn with one another", there's Azrael and Israfel. Again, though, two chara who gives you food for the gbf's age rating:

Az&Iz are twin primals, who were always together, until they huhhh got locked into a horrifying torture prison by an antagonists and experimented on until the two of them fused completely. They now have only one body, that is horrifically disformed, and as such they use cute mascot outfit to walk into the world.

Azrael is the one who's the most in control, as Israfel is often tired and asleep, so Az goes through life like this and Iz often ends up advising her later on.

Az recently joined a theater troupe and made friends there and Iz is cheering for her!

Other than that: there are a couple characters who are possessed by primal beasts. Noteworthy are Vira and Yurius for example. It means they always have the primal talk to them inside their head. They both started out as antagonists because this influence was driving them over the edge though, but as it is, nowadays, they both made peace with the primal inside of them and consider them a friend.

Vira especially often gets her primal talk to her to give her love advice lmao

I haven't read any of her story so i don't know where she falls on that, but there's also the case of Jeanne D'arc. While on one hand she has a lot of units showing her as chosen by God to fight the darkness crawling into the world, there's units of her where she has been consumed by the darkness and had her personality changed due to that.

Those are the most noteworthy people with very clear alter/people influencing them/possessing them i can think of.

There characters who could be taken into this category if you stretch a bit, because of things like. amnesia and such.

One that comes to mind is Aoidos, a musician who has amnesia, and we learnt later that he used to go by Benjamin and was part of a Snuff band (... again, high rating game for a reason). Benjamin also has his own unit ever since, and Aoidos learnt to embrace this part of himself.

Other than that we have characters like Lunalu who is a writer and who often makes up story about self insert characters in stories. One of her unit is said self insert character, when, during an event, she was talking about a story she loved and couldn't help slipping into characters for this OC she loved so much.

There's probably a lot of people i'm missing, especially in NPC and also unfortunately into one-event villains.

I would love to say those stories are well handled but between my own lack of experience on that regard and the heavy themes of gbf to start with, i cannot garentee those are stories you would look for.

out of all of them, the one i think is the best handled and is unambiguously positive is definitely Tikoh, but like i said, Tikoh is part of one of the most mature and gore-y storyline the game has yet, so it might be a lot to have to stomach for an otherwise really good "two people in one body" storyline.

If you need clarification about anything, don't hesitate to ask. I just hope it works out for you!

Take care!

[icharchivist]

You think Bowman's the closest we'll get to a playable Belial? I wanna get him but he's been avoiding me in every spark 😩

as for now, at least, yeah. In the future gbf may give a reason for Belial to come back, or, honestly, most of us have been thinking about how they probably have an emergency button to release a Belial unit if they're ever in trouble financially -- but aside from that, unless they get a good reason, they won't make Belial playable in a while. so Bowman is as close as we can get.

Bowman's unit is tricky to use, but hope you'll get it sooner than later then 🥺

[icharchivist]

Hosoyan, Suzuken, Sakurai, you mentioned a Suwabe-voiced character exists, fucking GACKT

That cast is stacked

And all the hivemind's faves are assembled

I'm sure we'll find even more familiar names if we dig

there's also Maaya Sakamoto playing Aerith, being Olivia in Granblue as well

hell i wouldn't be surprised if there's even more.

like looking through it...

just so to mention them

Suzuken, playing Zack in ff7, and Sandalphon in gbf Sakurai, playing Cloud, and the Lucifaces in gbf Suwabe, playing Tseng, and Seofon Hosoyan, playing Sonon, and Belial and Bowman there's also Kappei Yamaguchi, playing Red XIII, who plays Walder in gbf. Hideo Ishikawa, playing Cait Sith, who plays Zaja in gbf. Kazuhiro Yamaji, playing Cid, who plays Yngwie and is Eugen's second seiyuu Speaking of, Keiji Fujiwara used to play Reno, and Eugen, before his death Taiten Kusunoki, playing Rude, and Eso Megumi Toyoguchi, playing Elena, and Shura Kenta Miyake, playing Roche, and Deliford Shigeru Chiba, playing Hojo (piece of shit die die die), and Yodarha Banjō Ginga, playing Reeve (!!!), and Eahta Satomi Moriya, playing Jessie, and Sylph Tomokazu Sugita, playing Aniyan (Andrea in english? the owner of the honey bee inn), and Drang

and the MVP i need to not forget, Toshiyuki Morikawa, playing Sephiroth, and Seruel.

and that's only for the characters i bother to check. I also see Shirai Yusuke (Mordred) is playing a minor new character in Rebirth for instance.

so yeah, the cast is stacked as always, i just forget it most of the time.

but yeah. yeah..... much to think about!

[icharchivist]

Bowman hot so congratulations

oh he IS hot, and he is voiced by Bastard (affectionate) so yknow i'm not like, complaining!

it's just that it's so fucking funny with how i started the year with a Belial summon and closing it on Bowman out of anything, while in the middle we talked a lot about ASMR Hosoyan and how i have an app on my phone giving me ASMR Hosoyan. And bastard went "actually i'm "blessing" your year on gbf" and i'm just. why.

but yeah i'm happy to have him!! just. goodness.

thank you still tho!!!

[whalehouse1]

Hold up! Ayer’s imaginary boyfriend/what he fantasizes about his future boyfriend should look like/dildo’s namesake is in GBF? And yet we still aren’t responsible enough for playable Belial…

[icharchivist]

He’s not even TRYING to NOT sound like Belial i’m going to riot. 

I know he has a huge range, i heard him in no.6, so what the fuck why is it just his Belial’s voice i’m going insane.