#lilas

[lilblueorchid]

Violet dreams

[praline1968]

[vinlynce]

My bastard son aka anabels latios aka Lilas

[jeanfrancoisrey]

Lilas, Tamaris et papillon…

[zylphiacrowley]

What is Suikoden about? :>

Ohhhhh hohohohoho Meg, you have no idea what you've done (I'm sorry this is going to get wordy... I just really love this series so so much).

So all the mainline Suikoden games (plus Suikogaiden I&II which are visual novels) take place in the same universe, some years apart. All the games have war as a main central conflict, but you usually play as a young "unnamed" protagonist (technically all the heros have like manga canon names iirc), with the exception of Suikoden III which took on a tritagonist situation where you switch between three main heros and then you make a decision about halfway through the game which one you want to be the "main" hero (as a bonus you also get to play the story from the "villain's" perspective as well if certain conditions are met). The series is based on the classic Chinese novel, The Water Margin (perhaps rather losely. I own the novel but I haven't actually ever gotten that far into reading it OTL).

One major important part of the story is the runes system, which is essentially the magic system. There's many runes that you can just straight up buy from vendors in the game, but then there are also 27 "True" runes, which are super powerful, and usually come with built in immortality (except the Rune of Punishment which.... Does not :)) and a lot of them also come with fun and horrible Extra "Perks":tm:! Each game also has at least one of the 27 True Runes that your protagonist ends up wielding. The in-game legend about the origins of the True Runes goes as follows (pulled this direct from the wiki):

In the beginning, there was "darkness." Then finally, the "darkness" shed a "tear." From that "tear," the brothers Sword and Shield were born. Sword Bragged that he can cut anything. Shield replied that he could protect anything. Then the brothers began a legendary battle for seven days and seven nights. At the end, Sword cut Shield and Shield smashed Sword. Sword became the sky, Shield became the earth, and the sparks from the battle became the stars. And the jewels that adorn Sword and Shield Became the True Runes-- The runes that all other runes were born from.

Each game has a "base" that your hero finds at some point that gets built up not only as the story progresses, but also as you recruit characters to your army. Which is another thing all the games share! There is a collection of 108 recruitable characters in each game (give-or-take as III is kind of different in that it includes antagonists, and also the other games have some characters that will take other's places depending on certain conditions e.g. there's one character, who if you make certain decisions, will die in battle, and his son will join your army in his place, taking his place in the roster, but if you don't make those decisions, you keep the father and never meet his son). Not all the recruitable characters are playable in battle however, some of them are there as either battle support, offering you different benefits to your combat party, and some are there to add things to your base such as minigames, shops, or entertainment (The Suikoden II Iron chef style minigame is still my all time favorite videogame minigame, although some of that might be nostalgia talking lol). It's incredibly rewarding to return to your base after recruiting people and then find another wing added onto it and sometimes with more fun minigames to play. It really starts to feel so lively! Also if you recruit all 108 characters and fill your roster (known in-game as the Tablet of Stars) usually before the final major tactical battle, you unlock different really cool extras (like the aforementioned ability in III where you get to play through parts of the game from the "antagonist's" PoV)

Oh gosh, another thing all the games have in common is there are three battle systems. 1) your typical turn-based system (6 characters):

2) a duel system where it's 1v1 in a sort of rock-paper-scissors style thing where you have to read your oppenent's dialogue to determine how they're going to attack and react accordingly or take massive damage

and 3) the large-scale "tactical" battles, where you set up battle units with the characters you've recruited and then you essentially play a semi-chance based version of chess and fling them at each other on the field and try to reduce the enemy to a certain number, hold out until a certain amount of moves/time has passed, or just all out reduce their army to zero.

(also lol this video has the joke about Viktor's Lion flag)

Along with all the war, there's a bunch of deeper underlying themes like companionship, loyalty, hope, grief, loss, guilt, you know all the happy fun JRPG style storytelling elements! And honestly that's what really elevates the games. I think it's a lot like some of XIV, especially StB and HW in that respect. Like yes, war is going on, and it's the main big central conflict, but there's always more to keep you engaged and interested in the heroes and their journeys. I was going to go on and explain a synopsis of each game specifically, but lol just this is already soooooo long. There's also a villain (he's not the main villian.... ohhhhh no) in the first two games who's a vampire, his name is Neclord (fuckin lol), and he has a bangin battle soundtrack:

There is literally so much more I could say about the series, but like literally if it sounds even slightly interesting to you, I implore you to pick up the remasters when they come out in March (I believe on multiple platforms, including Steam and Switch iirc?)

Also a special mention about the creator Yoshitaka Murayama, who passed away in February of this year. He created his own game studio, Rabbit & Bear Studios which developed the Spiritual successor series to the Suikoden series, Eiyuden Chronicle (which had an incredibly successful kickstarter campaign and is available to play to the public right now, and I own but have not yet played).

[mrchill]

Ophélie, glass of fruit-flavoured water © Chill · +

[ullzeng]

حب

[justdancestimboards]

Lilas Stimboard “We can’t stop this fire”

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[chanyouchan]

⌕ a vida nos separa, a morte nos une

⚠ em caso de inspiração, me credite.

📆 18/11/23 | ✎ @mnini (psd)

[lavampira]

👀

How do Koana and D’alia go from awkward strangers to that last gpose

🎤🎤🎤take your time 🎤🎤🎤

well you see :3c

they spend a lot of time talking after the rescue mission - koana is encouraged to open up, so he does, and d’alia finds it easy to confide in him because of that, so she does, too. and talking about their childhoods and how they can relate (or the differences!) builds a deep connection between them that grows over msq. I like to think there’s times when they can talk or spend time alone as lamaty’i and koana work together, sort of a budding friendship with a side of attraction as they get to know each other.

(also this moment during all of that lol)

and then there’s the conversation with koana saying that he hopes she stays in tuliyollal despite his jealousy before the coronation, which is ultimately where d’alia says oh, she really might have started to develop feelings. being asked to stay is something that she’s always wanted but hasn’t really had before from someone, and even if he’s asking on behalf of his sister, it’s that quiet admission that he agrees with the request that really gets to her.

(and the flustered glance and smile from the palace balcony before she goes to shaaloani AAAAA)

then, you know, everything happens. there’s no time to test the waters, but d’alia tries to be there for koana as a new friend, and look after lamaty’i as hers, and even though there’s so much going on, I’d like to think that protective and supportive side of her really touches him, too. maybe letting his own growing feelings slip when he spots her from the balcony (again), yells for her not to leave, and runs all the way down to talk to her.

so that gpose set is a few snapshots of scenes I’m writing in the ‘how did they get together’ fic post-msq. it takes place after the funeral and festivities and once koana has some time to spare from repairs and other dawnservant duties - he wants to check on the hhetsarro in person as vow of reason, after having sent thancred and urianger to aid them during the attack, and since d’alia has been staying in tuliyollal and traveling to mehwahhetsoan, he asks her to accompany him. it’s also an excuse to spend time together, as much as it is utilizing her familiarity as a resource, and maybe a small part emotional support, as she knows about his childhood that clearly still lingers with him.

and the rest I’ll leave to when I finish the fic, but the basis is that they finally have a chance to explore those feelings during this time together, and dive into a bit of boldness to be closey and kissy!

[scionshtola]

Cori and Than the Man :>

cori and thancred would be a disaster—two people prone to ignoring and hiding their feelings, thancred in a broody way and cori in a very cheery “nothing is wrong” way, and also to guilt complexes. they’d have a terrible on and off relationship and it would annoy all their friends and probably everyone is on cori’s side about it, because she’s sweet 😂 i’m sure they would have really nice times together also but i really don’t know what they do when they hang out ahdjdkkd

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[praline1968]

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[alexlacquemanne]

Syringa vulgaris

[jeanfrancoisrey]

Le premier lilas…

[zylphiacrowley]

Question for maintenance day: has X’vahl kind of found a paternal relationship with the twins since he was never allowed to see his own twin children?

Hi Meg! (Sorry I'm only just now answering this) but the answer is YES! Not in any official capacity of course but he kind of thinks of them as his own kids (nevermind that he was prepared to sign the adoption papers to make it official pre-EW... you know when I'm talking about). Alisaie calls him dad a lot (It's a joke... is it tho? 🤨). He wouldn't think of them as replacements for his own bio kids, but they do all kind of think of each other as honorary family at this point.

Like many things in his backstory, this whole thing started as a joke to me then I made it into real lore lol. Called him "catdad" as a joke in the beginning, made him a dad in his actual backstory, then realized the twins were... also twins like the kids I had in mind for his bio kids so I was like "wouldn't it be funny if they called him dad?" (This was before we really knew much about their parents), and then it all stuck.

Moral of the story: joking about character development things is a slippery slope into actual character development. 😅

Thank you for the ask!~♡