#dunban Xenoblade

[hoshizoralone]

little xenofriends

[gzeidraws]

BORN IN A WORLD OF STRIFE

[aerithcloud]

What I love about Shulk's characterisation across Xenoblade Chronicles 1 is the way he doesn't fit any of the norms JRPG protagonists tend to have. He's on a journey due to a need for vengeance instilled in him from years of grooming and with nothing else to live for beyond that.

Shulk is awkward and clearly neurodivergent coded in how he perceives the world and his fixations but also how he struggles with a lot of the social situations he ends up in if not for the support of Dunban, Reyn and others he'd be lost and would go further into his isolation.

Once Shulk learns the truth about the Monado and the Mechon he starts to question himself and whether he's right in his beliefs. He wants to learn more about the world, who he is as a person and also avoid creating endless conflict in the way the world was designed.

Zanza grooms Shulk to become his vessel and fed his belief and need for vengeance. Shulk realises this once he finally met Machina and spoke to them, he learned they were normal people just like Homs. Shulk struggles with how the world truly is and wants to change that.

Shulks act of defiance during the end of Xenoblade 1 is a way of reclaiming his own identity as well as the freedom for all Homs and Mechon alike. Shulk's journey is a path of acceptance and discovery that continues on even throughout Xenoblade 3 and Future Redeemed.

The mature, but mentally scarred Shulk we see in Xenoblade 3 shows the development Shulk made for himself over time. He took in the lessons of those he idealised like Dunban and wished to become someone his son and others could look upto.

I love Shulk's character so much and he's a big attachment from my childhood which affects me even now. Xenoblade series has so much depth and it's a series many people can grow to love through it's diverse cast of characters.

[waterfront-facility]

delightful little beasts... here's all the scugs all together!

[gerfball37]

smilingblade friendicles

[herbleol]

It was Fiora's idea. Reyn hates it.

[apollolewis]

Xenoblade chronicles 1 has a tactic where one of the characters wears 0 armor (and armor effects how the characters look). Now one may think that this tactic is for a female character, if so you’re wrong it’s for this man

And who wouldn’t want to see this man in his underwear for a good chunk of the game.

[rubedosaga]

i’m not gonna lie i don’t remember making this one

[calamitaswrath]

Did you know that Fiora's voice actress, Carina Reeves, also provides a possible voice for the player avatar in Xenoblade Chronicles X?

Or, alternatively: I got way too carried away while making this.

(x)

[emblemxeno]

HIM!

[cloudinal]

Dunban holding a very American pie, based on the "Characters Enjoying Food" Twitter

[xenoblade-chronicles-brackets]

[kamen-rider-ooo-fan]

So, I might be…okay I’m definitely late to beating this game that came out on the Wii, but I just wanna say,

This scene was fucking dope.

[aerithcloud]

I don't really get the argument that Fiora comes out of the end of Xenoblade 1 without any lasting trauma just because she got her homs body back. Imagine waking up after a traumatic near death experience in a body that was no longer your own and not in control anymore.

You have to deal with your body being used against your loved ones without any way to communicate back to them. However, you grow to accept the circumstances once you learn about the reasons behind it (Meyneth) but despite that; you mourn the loss of who you used to be.

Eventually, you gain control of your body back, but it dawns on you that you are dying soon. So not only does Fiora lose her old body and have to adjust to a new one that isn't hers, she also has to deal with the fact that she'll die soon and won't be able to live as herself.

It's due to this that Fiora becomes clingier to Shulk and Dunban. She knows she doesn't have much time left, so she decides to accept it, desires to change the world for the better, but spends her last moments with the ones she loves.

Fiora gets her body back at the end of the game, but the traumas and experiences she faced during the events of Xenoblade 1 stick with her. Symbolically, is why she cuts her hair short. It displays the change in the person she became by the end of her journey.

[waterfront-facility]

snuggle pile <3

bonus:

(alvis, galea and klaus<3)

[lefty-of-the-day]

Today's Lefty of the day is Dunban from Xenoblade

(Leaning toward Ambi as I did see some game screen shots where he was fighting with his right )