#like my brain just lowkey wiped it from my mind with all of Tomizawa's bullshit

[goldentigerfestival]

I did a proper tier list for myself for the first time in several years. Giet wasn't in it, but he belongs in the favorite tier.

if you wonder why I don't talk about Moses much, well... two reasons. one, almost nobody fuckin' knows who the guy is, and if they do they either hate his game or never played it. two, I'm insane. you've seen me with Yuri, and you can see here that Moses is the king of the tiers, so... I'm sure you can put that into perspective LOL.

Yuri-hime (princess Yuri) is a joke from the tenth anniversary skits, where the characters were part of a play and Yuri was given the role of princess. technically Yuri would be in the favorite tier with everyone else (I don't have them listed in order of favorites beyond tier, they're listed by game (mainline order, then side order, then gacha order), but if you asked me to pick between Yuri and Vicious for example, I'd reeeeally struggle. some faves are ofc higher than others and it'd be easier to put some over others, but Yuri currently just has special admin privileges in my brain, so he gets his own tier that is effectively equal to "favorite", but he's a princess and he should have his own princess tier).

I have other tiers below this including like, neutral, below neutral but not dislike (basically means I don't dislike them but I don't care either way and will get bored very quickly with them/don't have the attention span for them out of general lack of interest) and two tiers reserved for characters I don't like, but I only want to share my bigger likes and loves here.

Jade, Luke and Natalia are in a weird spot because if you asked me who my second fave in Abyss is, I'd say Jade without question, which is true. I'm not even sure myself why Natalia is higher than him on my own tier list LOL, like in my own head I get it, but I... don't LOL. I guess maybe just bc I feel that Jade has more fans, and I'd feel the need to talk about Natalia instead since Jade has lots of love as it is (and he's everywhere in merch/media LOL)? I'd say Luke and Natalia are probably about even as my third faves tho.

I did have a moment of revelation when I put Asura above Ruca without hesitation and I felt so bad for Ruca LMAO. Ruca's in a good spot for himself, I just didn't even hesitate to put Asura in a higher ranking and I felt so bad LOL I am not helping Ruca's self esteem issues about his past life. Aster also deserves a spot next to Emil and Ratatosk, not just for the luls about it but because he really would be in that tier with them. Grune is complicated bc while I do love awakened Grune, she's there for like two seconds and there's no differentiation for this tier list. If she was there I'd put awakened Grune in like a lot tho!

ToE/ToB aren't here at all because I haven't played them (or watched a walkthrough), so I'm only familiar with them through the gacha games, and it didn't feel fair to rank them based on knowledge of games that only one of them reflects their canon selves and the others are all AUs (and even in Rays' case, their situation/circumstance is still vastly unlike their canons).

I also did favorite games. I only put one of each version because Tales has re-releases/remasters/remakes galore. also in order of release.

I know I put "this one" and not "these ones" but I don't feel like fixing it and I wasn't thinking about anything except Legendia when I made the rankings LOL. Hearts is in a tough spot because it's higher up than Dawn/KoR, but I don't know if I'd put it on the same level as Destiny/Rebirth/etc.