#f!orologia

[saltprince]

Orologia's (Female) home screen lines

君があの時手を伸ばしてくれて、どんなに僕が嬉しかったか。伝えられたらいいんだけど、言葉にするってこんなにも難しいんだね。 Back when you reached out for me, you have no idea just how happy that made me. I would love to show you just how much, but putting it into words proves more difficult than expected.

うおおー　よしよし！辛いことがあった時はロジャーさんの胸で泣きたまえ！いやぁ、本当に、本当に！いつだって泣きついちゃっていいのだよぉー！ Hoho! There, there! When the going gets tough, rest your weary head on my bosom and cry it out! No, really, I mean it! Cry to your heart's content, however long it takes!

っえ？　顔色が悪い？　そうかなぁー!?　これがデフォなような…デフォなのがまずい？　…っ、そうかも…　己バハムー‼ Huh? I look like a ghost? You think so?! But these are my default set-- You think it's faulty? Oh, maybe so… Curse you, Baha!

[brbaltering]

grief of a mother

[icharchivist]

Granblue Fantasy Festival 2023's new key arts!

Featuring: Djeeta, Lyria, Vyrn, Gran, Seofon, Makora, Cupitan, Ewiyar, Lu Woh, Lobelia, Maria Teresa, Orologia (M&F), Halluel&Malluel, Caro

+ Scathacha and Sevilbarra illustrating the Food & Drink section and Ewiyar playing with the plush dragons for Merchandise

[goldenteaset]

I imagine the feeling of "You can't go home again" re: Orologia's gender being different depending upon whether you play as Gran or Djeeta would hit harder if m!Orologia wasn't the one that shows up most often, like in Olivia's newer fate eps. Instead, it reads adorably like Orologia needed to conserve their energy, turned travel-size ("Your mileage may vary! See back of box for details!"), and then after being around your Danchou enough they found their equilibrium/preferred shape. ;v;

And maybe they got tired of putting on that complicated-looking chest brace every morning, AKA my one beef with f!Logia's design

[icharchivist]

Can you maybe go and summarize the orologia loreeee, im too lazy to read it all, but i love the character design

of course!! it's my pleasure, i love them so much!

i don't know how familiar you are with Granblue but i'll try to make this as accessible as possible for non-Granblue fans --

This is only One Character btw. Orologia is genderfluid and goes from one apparence to the next a lot. There's a whole portion of their event where they switch appearance every sentences or so.

On the event they were introduced, their appearance also depends on the Main Character gender. If you play as Gran (Male!MC) they'll start out with their fem appearance and will finish the event with their male appearance, and if you play as Djeeta (F!MC) it's the opposite.

Otherwise they go from one presentation to the other in different stories they've appeared in since. They're also a dragon -- the human-ish appearance is one they took to approach the Skyrealms, where our story happens.

Orologia is one of the first Dragons in existence, and they oversee Causality. in Granblue the first dragons, also called Wedges, all influence a concept and can manipulate the element they're associated with. By being the Wedge of Causality, Orologia can see different timeline and see how to influence the man timeline in order to get the result they think is best for the world's development. They can also lock themself into simulations where they can experience as many realities as possible in order to see what future would be best to influence and how, but those simulations take a lot on their bodies, and also emotionally because for Orologia everything they see and feel in simulations is real, so when things go wrong the heartbreak caused by it shatters them.

As they've been here since the beginning of time, they have done their best to try to develop a world where the people of the Skyrealms would have a chance to live as happily as they could. However they cannot influence the Astral realm nor the Primal Beasts, as their power only extend to the Skyrealms, and therefore they have to plan around this. Usually they use their powers to influence some things by butterfly effect, because they can't do anything too drastic to alter the future. They also give vision to people who can see the future in order to help them prevent some catastrophic events.

We first hear of Orologia when Arulumaya, one of the psychic in our journey, says they came to her in her visions to warn her about a cataclysm that was about to hit the skyrealm. We then learn more about then when we're introduced to the 6 Dragons, Wedges of the elements and of light and death. Orologia is considered their elder and is also the one who gave them their Skydwellers appearance.

But we officially get introduced to Orologia during the 9th Anniversary event called "... and you".

The Main Character of Granblue Fantasy is considered "A Singularity". Orologia explains that the reason for that is because the Singularity exists in every possible timeline, and therefore, it means that their own existence is going to influence the world pretty drastically, for better or for worse.

Knowing the fate that awaits us, Orologia locked themself in simulations in order to try to figure out the best path we could get to live a happy life with as little struggle as Orologia can manage.

Our Main Character was abandoned by their parents, not knowing anything about their mother and learning that their father left in a journey to never return. As a result, our MC grew up in loneliness, with only Vyrn, the small red dragon at their side.

Orologia, knowing that, therefore first tried simulations where Orologia would be there to be a parent for MC, trying out simulations when MC was a baby.

Immediately, Orologia loved the Main Character as a parent would their child. In those simulations, Orologia stayed around as a supportive parent who would do anything for their child. As those simulations are very real to them, the simple duty of caring for us because we were the Singularity morphed into Orologia caring for us because we are Their Child.

Orologia influenced as many things as they could at first also to try to get our friends out of situations that would cause them so much heartbreak.

For example, they looked at Seox, who was locked in cells and abused as a child by his parents who were part of a master clan of assassin, and when they "tested" Seox for his assassin skills by drugging him, Seox, as a kid, massacred the whole clan and was left dealing with the guilt of such a horrible thing happening to him. He met our father afterward, and our father did his best to help Seox feeling better, but left him there -- and it's over a decade later that Seox meets MC and gets to grow with MC's warmth, and upon learning who our father was, feeling guilty that MC's father was more of a father to him than they were to MC. In the first simulations, Orologia influenced Causality in order for our father to find Seox BEFORE the massacre and bring him back to MC's house. While their father still abandonned them, Seox therefore was also raised by Orologia and Seox and MC could grow up as siblings, avoiding the horrors of their past.

This is the type of things Orologia will tweak in order to give us the happiest life as possible...................

but with horror, Orologia realized that being a dotting parent to MC would bring them to doom no matter what. Without their loneliness to drive them forward, MC keeps meeting an early death.

Orologia ran 5,153 simulations as MC's parent, refusing to acknowledge that the only path MC can survive on is one where they are fully alone. They tried to influence the timeline in every way, constantly having to see how MC would gruesomely die, over and over again. From freak accident to people trying to kill MC just because they're a threat to the skies.

But even if they try so hard to deny this reality, they have to accept eventually that they need to be out of MC's life. And they need Seox to be out of MC's life. they need MC to be fully lonely to survive.

and it breaks Orologia's heart.

During the second part of the event we see as Orologia tried to influence the others timeline to make things easier for our friends, even though they couldn't be there for us. We get to see multiple timelines of our fav characters getting a Bad End and Orologia trying to see the path that will lead to their happiness, and therefore, all the horrors we go through in our events are the necessary evil Orologia had to let come to pass.

By the end of the event, Orologia has ran 576,000,000 simulations, trying to figure out the best one for us.

During "... and you" however, Orologia is dying. Because in one of the simulation they were our parent in, MC wondered what their real mom ever felt about them, and Orologia promised they would figure it out. So Orologia searched every timeline for a moment with our mother that they could show us. Complicated to explain but our Mother is being hid by God's interferance itself, so Orologia strained themselves into getting this message, if only to let us know our mother loved us.

And because they did this many simulations, the barrier between every dimensions is about to collapse unless Orologia bears all of those possible timeline inside of them, and that they're killed before they can go bersek. Meanwhile as it happens, our Main Character is getting feverish and sick. It's implied that this deep connection with Orologia means they can feel what the suffering is all about.

Orologia begs the others 6 dragons, the Eternals, and even MC to kill them. They talk about how they know MC is too soft and they'll never manage to do it, but it's the only way they can leave this future into the hands of our MC, and they were hoping MC wouldn't know how much Orologia loved them so it would be easier, even though he knows this kid won't give up.

Orologia manages to pass down the words from our mothers they tried to reach, and then apologize to MC about all the pain they had to put everyone they loved into for it to be the best ending.

But we're the Singularity and we defy the odds. Fate cannot so easily be calculated for us, and we end up able to save Orologia's life in a way Orologia didn't manage to see coming.

and like that we saved Orologia's life, saved the skies, because ultimately we have the free will to choose our own path, and our own path is to save Orologia.

Ever since then, Orologia has been fine. they've reunited with the others dragons, and for now is acting awkward with MC, because while Orologia has loved MC for so many centuries (because Orologia mentions he started running simulations after the Astrals occupation's war, which we know to be a few centuries ago), MC doesn't know how much Orologia has loved them.

At the very end of the events we realize that there was a code in the name of each chapter. The code translate to "HOW ARE YOU". The final part of the story is called "I'm fine THANK YOU". all of this to conclude the event, called "... and you?"

So that's basically all you need to know about Orologia. They're the parent who stepped up, the one who went through all of those possible scenario, only to keep us safe and love us as much as possible.

They've cameo'ed in some Fate Episodes since then, influencing some light moment of life by butterfly effect, and we learn also that the 6 dragons have been asking Orologia helps to make gifts for us.

But yeah. So far that's where we're at.

And that's why we love them.

so you totally should get our Orologia today.

you're welcome ;D

and if you want i wrote a propaganda poll for them a while back.

Take care <3

[saltprince]

I'm sure it was asked already but i haven't been much on tumblr these days, what are the valentines cards that you currently have? I've been planning to get some second hand this year when they get delivered

You can find a list of all translations on the masterlist (under Granblue Fantasy Valentine's translations) or through my tags page via Valentine's card translations. You can simply ctrl+f for characters. The masterlist also has a list of upcoming cards near the bottom. I keep those lists updated within minutes of uploading my posts.

For you convenience, currently I've done:

Orologia

Wamdus

Wilnas

Fediel

Lu Woh

Seofon

Sandalphon

Lucifer

Lucilius

Belial

Beelzebub

Vikala and Vane have been done in the past, but I intend on updating them.

Dragon Knights and related characters, more Eternals, Marionette Stars/Vintage weapon characters, foxes, alchemists, speakers, vampires, and a few others are on the list to be translated, to loosely give an indication. Again, you can find a full list of character names at the bottom of the masterlist.

If you have any requests for characters, don't be afraid to put them here and I'll probably add them to the list.

[icharchivist]

Out of everyone in GBF, who would you want Belial to do an outfit switch with the most?

My biased self says Scandal, but on the other slightly less biased hand I wanna say Orologia for the giggles

scandal...? SANDALPHON?

Sandalphon would be funny but you're going to choke Belial in those clothes. he needs air!!

As for Sandalphon in Belial's clothes, i def saw fanarts of that, he'd look hot.

for Orologia, this would be hilarious, the association of parental love to his fucked up self would be a mess. I'll wager, specifically f!Orologia design, because i think putting Belial in boob cage would be funny.

But MomDad would look so weird in those clothes, kinda want to see it.

all in all, i feel like i'd probably pick something a bit horny so i'm kinda going to Erune style clothings.

like SSR Elmott.

or that one Seox outfit

... i think the point i'm trying to make is, i really want to see Belial's back. it's the one thing we never se of him. I'd kill to see it in the Erune fashion.

and i admit seeing Elmott and Seox in Belial's outfit wouldn't be a problem for me personally. They'd both probably get extremely flustered though. Which is a plus.

And on others i have in mind, while i don't want to see Belial wears their clothes, i def want to see the Dragon Knights in Belial's outfit. Or more like a friend already did a fanart of Percival in Belial's outfit just to fluster me and it killed me on the spot.

Other characters i'd like to see in Belial's outfit are the pretty dude. Like Eustace or Seruel and stuff yaknow?

and just for fun i want to see Seofon in Belial's outfit because it could either be super sexy or super silly and i want to see which one it would be

those are my pick o7 thanks for asking!

[icharchivist]

BUT WHERE'S OROLOGIA

I KNOOOW LOGIA WHERE ARE YOU!!!!!!

i suppose they wanted really to make it about the six dragons only, esp since they sing in groups there, and Logia might have had a harder time fitting in.... the album is already longer than most granblue album so there's that

but i also really hope it means they expect to have a Logia album down the line. A Duet with themself. Both M and F singing (like how his battle theme is a f/m duet that is only supposed to be sang by only Orologia)

ONE DAY LOGIA. ONE DAY.

[icharchivist]

they could get a male and female orologia cosplayer and have them switch places. or just have both of them walk around at the same time. nobody would mind.

YEAH THAT'S THE IDEa!!

imagine stage show where m!Logia is on stage and then suddenly they run off real quickly and they come back annd it's f!Logia, and none of the dragon acknowledge it. Meanwhile Belial is like huh. huh? huh??? and then the dragons take advantage of his confusion to beat his ass. By the time they're done m!Logia is back on stage. This is normal.

But then when they're going around they're together and it will be fine. momdad can be mom and dad too we're not picky.

[icharchivist]

i think it was a really missed opportunity for Orologia to have multiple forms (one for each of the "standard" skyfarer races, and all done more "correctly" compared to the other dragons to demonstrate that they're older and know what they're doing, with maybe one towards the end of the event that was more of a mishmash like the others just to demonstrate how they were falling apart?) and i like the idea in theory but yeah the human "masculine" Orologia just generally communicates their character way better in the design aspect

On a concept level yeah i think it would have been cool for Logia to have multiple forms by race as well as by gender, but i feel like it could have been a bit confusing to put into motion in the game, considering it would come with each version having a working design and their sprites and managing to equally divide time for them.

As much as the binary of f!Logia and m!Logia is a bit limiting compared to what they can do, i think it pulls more effectively its punches because you really have one Logia at the begining and one at the end (not to mention that the one you get is affected by your MC's gender), which anchors them as like... there's the parent's face and there's the stranger's face, but the stranger is just as much a parent as the one of the simulation yaknow?

And in the middle point where Logia goes back and forth between genders especially when they spiral, i think it would have been really difficult to pull it off effectively if Logia had more than two forms.

As for the mishmash, it could have worked, but yeah it should have commited for multiple version first and personally i think it wouldn't have hold up to scrutiny / would end up having the designs too spread out toward the event rather than trying to make us care for two steady ones with an equal-ish screentime.

The genderfluid idea and everything was fucking cool though and i do like the idea of having a different Logia depending on your settings, it was so fun to see people realize when the event came out that we didn't??? have the same screenshots??? for some scenes??? bc some people didn't see granblue_en mention that the gender of Logia would change depending on the settings.

(also i feel like it works wonder in actually having people stick to Logia being genderfluid because since you can't say "well they were a woman in the simulation but a man in real life so clearly they're actually a man!" because that's not true, that's not how it went, and that depends on your settings, you're forced to acknowledge Logia's fluidity, and that's something i think that is interesting for a gacha to enforce, like "no you're not ignoring this, face the genderweird parent >:(". it's a weird moment where the binary actually works to its advantage in term of how to execute it in a way the fanbase cannot hoop around it.)

But yeah, m!Logia's design is vastly superior. Probably also because it was made ways before f!Logia? m!Logia first appeared in Wamdus's FE, so it has been in the game for a while before And You and before we knew Logia was genderfluid to start with. I feel like F!Logia might have been a late-in-development addition to Logia's gimmicks and it may be why they sound less polished imo, and really more trying to "secure" the horny fanbase into caring for their new chara because the whole center of the anni will rest on if you like this chara or not and everything.

They mentioned in interviews that they are interested with eventually making alt for the dragons where they would switch genders and possibly race later on, like they teased with this:

which would at least imply that even Logia could end up getting more forms eventually. I think they'll stick to the original designs as their "base forms" (and i'm sure Ewiyar will Refuse to try to toy around with other races. She remains a Cat.) but there's always a possibility to see more even if the event stuck to 2, so we may see in the future at least!

but yeah m!Logia best design, for sure. Hopefully one day we'll get to see more!

[icharchivist]

Am I allowed to say that while I love Logia infinitely, I definitely prefer the masc presenting design over the femme

Not that either is inherently better or worse, it's just my personal preference

you're kinder than i am, i'm totally on the "whoever designed F!Logia i just want to talk why the fuck did you think the boob cages were a great fucking idea"

I adore the fact Logia is genderfluid and race fluid as well, i like that the m!Logia is a human and in theory that f!Logia is non-human is cool.

But it goes back to how i personally really dislike the whole idea of the differences between m/f draph to start with, i dislike how it's a cheap way to sexualize your female characters. But for the most part i kinda grit through it because well, it is what it is, and it's a gacha, they also will rely on their horny fanbase, then so be it.

In theory if the draph didn't come with the hypersexualized design i would love that f!Logia is one since the horns do really look nice on them, and echo their dragon's form, and i find that really cool.

But god the F!Logia body really irks me and the design choices added to the draph body really just are bewildering to me.

There is this desire in m!Logia's design to have them look sick, there's sorts of metal parts around the legs and arms that are supposed to be here to help them walk and move because Logia is supposed to be frail.

And i feel like on f!Logia they redirected those designs details on the boob cage and the corset and personally i really dislike it, and on the legs what was a sort of walking aid on m!Logia is just. sexy compressing boots?

Even the posture is different, m!Logia is hunching a bit forward, they're not standing straight, you really do have the feeling they're not exactly at the peak of their physical condition. f!Logia kinda redirects that on having Logia's head covered in bandage in a way that looks more messy than m!Logia, but otherwise their posture is pretty straight, and with the arms posture, it just puts her breasts and her thighs into focus, in a way that are not present at all on m!Logia.

I'm really seeing it in a Doylist VS Wastonian reasoning (Doylist = what the creators out of the universe had in mind // Wastonian = what the character's reasoning for things in universe are).

On a Doylist perspective, i find it cheap and lazy and there were better way to design the f!design. I'm glad they didn't chicken out of the concept of "since they are the personification of how the slightest details being changed in a timeline can change things drastically, then it makes sense their appearance reflect that if only by switching back and forth between different presentations, in race and gender". But i think it was the laziest possible f!Design that relied too much on sexualization, like they were scared their core women-attracted audience would tune out from the heartful parental story if they didn't make them sexy.

On a Wastonian reasoning. Look. If Orologia wants their female form to be a sexy woman with big boobs who am i to shame. i'll support my parent over any way they want to present themselves. And in the end, sure, i can find it fun that our canonically genderfluid character has such drastic different physical appearance.

But yeah. I prefer m!Logia form in general as well.

I do think that the voice work on both gender really elevate the characters by the end of it anyway and i get to care about Logia when they're in f!form too, it still gives me the impression both Logia are the same Logia, so it makes it easier.

but yeah f!Logia's design personally is something i have problem with. alas.

And my problem starts with the draph bodytype, but i love the horns, so if i was personally to work on redesigning it and keeping the draph body, i'd just personally change their clothes. Like just give them the same type of aesthetic than m!Logia rather than the bdsm gear i beg you. Momdad deserves better.

[icharchivist]

the problem with playable logia is that they are op and have different genders according to the player and are elementless/null çVç even if they were to be playable they'd be clearly dark oriented but IMAGINEin an utopistic world where we get playable light mom and playable dark dad (i assume by how their shirts are colored in the granblues mamalogia white and papalogia black)

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okay so, actually, i don't think they'll be OP? In Lu Woh's FE Orologia mentions that they made their mortal body to be disabled/to look sickish in order to contain their powers, because the power of casualty is so big that they have to nerf themselves.

So, as long as they're in their mortal forms, they can bypass the OP-ness of their powers, there's a canon loophole in place to make them playable.

but yeah i think if anything, it'd be adjusting for the element and the gender the issue.

Tho for the element they can just plan to make Orologia the next Rainbow Character (see, Vira or Narmaya for what i'm talking about, characters who basically have an unit in every element). But to keep up with which one will be the Grand... that's where issue would arise. Deciding on an element for someone who was famously Null element would be difficult.

And then there's the gender gimmick. If The Orologia unit ends up having the same gimmick as in their events it would basically mean making sure to record both set of Logia and everything, which might be a bit tricky. Though i suppose it's just slightly harder than making a dual unit, so it should be something they can accomodate for.

In Lu Woh's FE we see F!Logia, in Wamdus' FE we see M!Logia, no matter our settings, so, at least, when independently from MC, they can decide not to bother with the gimmick and either commit to one gender per unit. Say, if they want to do an unit where Logia doesn't talk to MC (like a prequel Fantasy unit or something) they can at least have set gender without having to program two different possible voicelines depending on your inputs.

personally i think they'll carry on the event's gimmick (while having Logia switch around once in a while in the FE so you can see both Logia, even if the lines you'll see mom or dad on will depend on your settings) but it sure makes it delicate.

in the way back there was some characters who had dual elements gimmick (Light Amira could switch to Dark, Nezha's kit is famously unusable because of the Fire/Wind gimmick ect..) so i don't think they will bring those back, but they're always possible.

They can set an element for the Grand but then decide to make all the skills be Plain Damage skills tho.

I don't know. many possiblilities. I hope we'll get to see them one day!!

I just want Logia man i'm taking them in any shape or form.

[icharchivist]

thinking about how baby gran probably pulled on fem!orologia's horns a lot and it was the cutest thing

AWWWWWWWWWWWw :sob: YOU'RE SO RIGHT!!! HE PROBABLY DID!!!

in the art i have pinned on my blog rn both babies are grabbing and pulling the hair of their beloved parents, which is why Orologia is all awwwwwwwwwing at them

so it figures that if the babies are grabby grabby with their parent like this, then yeah, Gran totally probably pulled on f!Logia's horns.

This is so cute though sobbssss. Logia would be crying so hard about how cute it is.....