#machias x jusis

[princess-starscourge]

Obviously I want confirmed gay relationships in games but there’s also something special about the heavy subtext gays that I don’t wanna lose. Like we’ve built a community around it. We share in the screaming. We share in the pain and the confusion and the ecstasy. We share in the reactions over wildly fruity official arts. We share in the unhinged posts and the incoherent to everyone else but us explanations for why they’re canon.

[witchofcustom]

Yandere!Machias Regnitz Headcanons

Heyyyy it's been quite a while since I've posted anything. I don't really have any particular reason besides the fact that I've been rather busy as of late.

I realize this is probably not what my current followers want from me, but it's time I go back to my roots and write yandere stuff.

I may or may not be willing to take requests for Kiseki x Reader stuff, since I'm currently hyperfixated on the series and there is a SEVERE lack of any sort of x reader fanfiction or headcanons.

If you enjoy my work please consider buying me a Ko-Fi.

CW: Yandere, incel behavior, panty theft, degradation, non-con, forced marriage

A/N: (Y/N) is a member of Class VII and from a noble family, also these are less headcanons and more a story written in the form of headcanons because prose are my weakness.

-Machias can’t help but feel enraged! He’s been falling behind in his classes and struggling to focus on his studies. He’s never felt this way before. All he can think about is you. 

-He has to pull himself together! After all, he can’t lose to Emma and Jusis just because of some noble girl he shares a class with.

-This only makes him feel more angry. He can’t get you off of his mind no matter how hard he tries. 

-He wants to put a stop to this, so on one of Thors’ free days when Rean brings you along with him to explore the old schoolhouse, Machias stays behind, saying that he simply isn’t feeling the best. He won’t deny that there’s a part of him that feels quite mad at Rean for being with you, but he can put that aside for now.

-Making sure that nobody is in the Class VII dorm, Machias enters your room. “Stupid (Y/N).” he thought to himself. Nobles like you have no idea what kind of danger is out there. 

-He is quickly drawn to a pair of panties you left on the ground. Muttering to himself about how naive you are, he picks the panties up, a tent growing in his pants. He takes the panties back to his room. 

-Machias then begins to pleasure himself using your panties, enjoying the softness against his length. He can feel where you’ve mastrubated before while wearing them. He dirty talks to himself while doing so. “You’re such a dirty whore. It’s like you’re asking for this.” 

-He very quickly reaches climax. It’s a bit embarrassing, but he couldn’t help himself. Machias can only imagine just how good it’ll feel once he is finally able to fuck you. 

-He keeps your panties for himself, using them almost every night to jerk off. 

-Eventually Machias will confess his feelings to you. If you accept, great! He might be a bit clingy and occasionally make comments about your body, but otherwise he’s just a bit shy. 

-If you reject then…

-Machias won’t take no for an answer. He’ll threaten you to start sucking him off, putting his shotgun to your head. As you obey, he begins to feel overwhelming amounts of pleasure. He never knew just how good having this sort of power over someone could feel. Could this be how nobles feel?

-The mere thought of such a thing makes Machias push you down onto the bed, rip your panties off, and start thrusting in your tight little pussy. This is where noble girls like you belong, taking the cock of a commoner like him, the type of person who does all the work, while you just sit around all day. 

-As he cums inside of you, Machias continues to say degrading things to you. However, he assures you that this will not be the last time he does so. 

“So, do you promise to be my girlfriend?”

-You nod, too afraid of what he might do to you. 

-While you and Machias try to keep it a secret, on the final night of the school festival, he asks to dance with you. You are forced to accept. After the dance finishes, he asks you to marry him. Of course, you are forced to accept as well. 

-News soon spreads around Thors of your engagement. Your classmates are especially aware of this. Millium and Fie tease you while Alisa and Elliot congratulate you. Even Jusis is happy for Machias, thinking that he’s finally gotten over his hatred of nobles. The entire time, you’re forced to act as if you are happy. 

-Of course there will likely be some backlash from the nobles, including your own family, but Machias will do all he can to make sure that they are silent, using his father’s position to his advantage. 

-Once the two of you graduate and begin to live on your own, Machias will demand that you are a stay at home housewife. He wants nothing more than to be able to come home from a stressful day of work to be able to eat your cooking and stuff his cock in your pussy. Of course he wants you to one day have his child, but he’s not in any particular rush. 

-While not the worst yandere, as he still does genuinely love you, Machias can be rather rough. It’s best to behave and not piss him off. S just be a good little wife for him and things will be alright. <3

[timelessxmemories]

Hey there! My name is Machias Regnitz, glad to be here.

I'm bisexual, demi-boy. He/They pronouns. I am not single. Please keep this in mind. Flirting with me is fine, but please, keep it to a minimum.

I enjoy studying, reading and having long debates. I also enjoy learning about new and other cultures. I'm always open to learning and trying new things.

I don't like Chai. Im going to say this now. I cant stand the taste of it. I also don't enjoy horror of any kind. At all.

I am questioning, but I do believe I am Pansexual.

He/Him/They/Them pronouns.

I tend to be rather cold towards those I don't necessarily know. So please, if you'd like to interact with me, be patient.

I am an Inspector for the Inspectorate as well as a graduate from Thors Military Academy.

I also enjoy crafts and puzzles that test your brain.

During my time in Thors I was top of the school, one of the smartest and most intelligent. My marks were always insanely high.

I used to hate Nobles due to childhood trauma. Which resulted in me and Jusis hating each other due to his Nobility. We still bicker back and forth but not as much as we used to.

If you actively ship me x Jusis, please, keep that to yourself. It makes me quite uncomfortable.

@unidentifiable-body LOOK!!! ITS THE MACHIAS!!! ITS THE SAIHCAM!!! -C

[asoulofatlantis]

This. The return of my second favorite Rean x Alisa shipper in the game (the first being Sharon, obviously XD)

And also the fact that I agree with Gwin. No one can blame anyone who wants a piece of our young stud here XD

The first time ever you want to scream at them: “NOOOOOOO! DO NOT GET BACK TO THE COURAGOUS! ABONDEN THAT SHIP AND TAKE ANOTHER ONE INSTEAD! PLEEEEEEEEEAAAAASE!”

The fact that Juna pretty much confirmed that Rean and Alisas tender reunion embrace felt like it lasted 5 minutes, even tho it were barely two and a half XD

(Also, it is always amusing that Juna and Kurt talk about how hard it must be for Alisa and Rean that Angelica is missing and Ash decided to lighten the mood by asking if they have been doing... you know... “things” at their reunion last night XD)

He just got the trademark glare from Alisa because Musse was playing her “Instructor Rean, have you been seeing other woman?” - record and this is his reaction XD

Seeing how far Reans sister-complexe can bring the guy who is always saying to “detain” and “suppress” the enemy and never aims at killing anyone, no matter who or what, is definitely quite worth replaying this game XD

The fact that we here that last line A LOT from now on but still keep saying “new class 7 and old/original class 7″ anyway XD

One just has to love the auto-assignment of those teams XD Rean has half his harem right behind him. Jusis, Millium and Machias are in the same team. Ash and Musse are in the same team just as Juna and Kurt are, which is simply the way they work best. It feels like Sara just randomly got dropped into a team, while Gaius and Elliot makes at least somewhat sense. But... well... I don’t mind.

This is the Semi-Final-Dungeon and it feel a lot more like and actual final dungeon then the Gral, so I need all my strength for that part. Which is why I will take a break for now.

[yibodie]

I think about this moment so much. Rean, the og Machias x Jusis shipper

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the Legend of heroes trails of cold steel Sara Valestein x Rean Schwarzer

Nous sommes le lundi 3 comme d'habitude l'instructeur Sara préparer c'est papier pour sa classe. La classe VII elle fessait des photocopies pour ces élèves préférés et sortie en diction de la classe, Rean qui arriver pour ce rendre en classe était occuper sur sont téléphone et c'est a ce moment que Sara arriva BOMMM Sara -Rean !! Rean - instructeur Sara........je suis désolé !! Je vais vous aider à ramasser ! Sara- pas grave tu mes tomber dessus pour un rendez-vous !? Rean –in.....instructeur Sara n'importe quoi ce n'ai pas ça j'ai était sur mon téléphone je ne vous es pas vu Sara –de toute façon j'aurait du regarder de avent moi Rean –non c'est ma faute la prochaine fois je regarderait au je vais Sara-les autre doive nous attendre dépêchons nous Rean- oui En classe Laura – instructeur, Rean Machias- enfin voila Emma- ah ah Gaius-.......... Jusis-........... Millium- ah ah trop drôle Fie –pour quoi vous rigoler Eliot-je sait pas Alisa-*soupire* Sara-............. Rean- ........... Millium- quoi si on peut plus rigoler Sara- *tousse* bien le cour d'aujourd'hui sera sur la pratique technique de renforce d'équipes Laura- instructeur ! Sara- oui Laura- que voulais vous dire par renforcer les équipes ?! Sara- j ai vu qu'il fallais renforcer les équipes car vous êtes démotiver Emma- ah Eliot-............... Alisa-................ Gaius-.......... Jusis-........... Machias-............ Rean – vraiment instructeur ?!! Sara- oui Rean Rean- mais j' panse vous avez fais équipe une fois avec Gaius,, Jusis, Alisa et Eliot pour nous aider. Pour quoi vous ne former pas une équipe avec nous Sara- oui c'est une bonne idée Rean *sourie* Rean- merci *sourie* Eliot-............... Alisa-................ Gaius-.......... Jusis-........... Machias-............ Alisa-.............. Emma-.............. Laura- ............... Fie-............... Sara- quoi ?!!! Rean- pour quoi vous nous regarder comme sa ?!! Eliot-............... Alisa-................ Gaius-.......... Jusis-........... Machias-............ Emma-.............. Laura- ............... Fie-............... Sara- Hé Rean- instructeur ? Sara- rien *sourie en rougissant * Rean-*sourie* Sara- *tousse* bien il est l'heure que je vous donne vos fiches d'équipe pour travailler vôtres technique Rean- *regarde la fiche*(hein l'instructeur Sara a fait des équipe différente cette fois je vois qu'elle et dans le premier groupe c'est-à-dire mon équipe elle avez déjà prévu de faire parti dans l'équipe Sara- voila cela consiste a vous renforcer en changent les équipe la premier équipe sera composer de Fie, Rean, Jusis, Laura, Emma, Millium et moi Alisa- hé pourquoi je me retrouve la seule fille dans le deuxième groupe *fiche du deuxième groupe Gaius, Machias, Eliot, Alisa Alisa- instructeur ?!!!!! Sara-*siffle* Alisa- ??? Sara- *tousse* bon il et l'heure de partir a North ambria Rean- instructeur c'est de la que vous es originaire Sara- oui North ambria Sara-nous si voila ! Jusis-........... Emma-.............. Laura- ............... Fie-............... Rean-.............. Millium-................. Sara-le climat et très difficile Rean-............... Sara- Rean ? Rean- non rien *sourie* Sara-......nous allons à une auberge que je connais bien pour dormir le temps de la duré de nôtres quête Rean-.................... ? Sara – ah sa fait longtemps que je ne suis pas revenu sa me rappel temps de souvenir Rean-.................... ? Sara –quelle que chose ne va pas !? Rean- non je me demander si c'est dur ici Sara –oui *soupire* Rean-............. (Elle a l'aire triste) Sara –Rean ?! Rean- hein euh rien instructeur Sara- appelle moi Sara ici Rean- hein !!? Sara-*soupire* Rean -........... Arriver l'auberge Sara -Nous voila arriver Aubergiste -content de te revoir Sara Sara- oui *sourie* Rean-......... (Quelle que chose ne va pas elle cache quelle que chose. elle sourie mais sa voir bien quelle ne dit pas se qui ne va pas) Aubergiste – Sara comment va tu depuis ses année Sara- rien de grand-chose Rean-........... (Elle et bizarre depuis qu'on et arriver) Aubergiste- je vois Sara- pourrait tu nous donner des chambre pour quelle que temps Aubergiste- oui bien sur suivez moi L aubergiste indiqua les chambres de tout le monde. Sara fatiguer ne pendit pas de temps à s'endormir mais pendent la nuit......... ! Sara- il et quelle heure *regarde l'heure* il et que 3h00 Rean passa a ce moment et vu de la lumière il toqua il entendu un entrer Sara- ah c'est toi tu ne sais pas dormir ? Rean- non je me fais du souci pour vous ! Sara- comment sa ?! Rean- Sara je sais que tu ment quelle que chose ne va pas Sara-.......il est tard bonne nuit Rean*l'attrape et la serre dans ces bras* Sara-....... !!?*pleure* Rean- Sara je sais que sa ne va pas je l'ai vu Sara- oui...........*regarde Rean et devin toute rouge* Rean- Sara sa va ? Sara rouge- oui Rean rouge- je viens seulement de comprendre la situation tu et en nuisette et je n'ai pas de chemise je......je vais mettre une chemise (trouve une excuse tellement qu'il et gêné) Sara rouge- attend!! Sara se lève et lève la couverture qui traîne parterre et Rean tombe avec Sara et l'ambrasse accidentel ment Sara rouge-........... Rean rouge-............. Sara rouge-........... Rean rouge- Sara *l'ambrasse a nouveaux* Sara rouge- Rean ?! Rean rouge- je euh je t'aime bien Sara rouge- Rean !!! Rean rouge- je sais que tu et mon instructeur mais Sara rouge- Rean ne dit pas des choses que tu pourrais être déçu Rean rouge- non j'en et trop dit pour m'arrêter la Sara rouge- Rean je suis ton instructeur Rean rouge- je le sais et je m'en fiche je......je t'aime et me fiche de ce que les autre peux dire Sara rouge- Rean je ne peux vainement pas te faire changer d'avis ! Rean rouge- non je t'aime et ne laisserai personne te faire de mal pour quoi que ce soit Sara rouge- Rean*pleure* Rean rouge- Sara* l'embrasse* Un peux plus tard dans la nuit Rean- je ferait mieux de retourné dans ma chambre aven que les autre vois que je n'i suis pas Sara- oui Rean- bonne nuit Sara Sara rouge- bonne nuit Rean Le matin tout le mode se réveilla et alla prendre le petite déjeuner a par Sara qui penser a cette nuit Sara- quelle idiote je suis j'aurait du le repousser mais c'est comme si mon corps le voulait pas il et tellement mignon et si gentil allons Sara reprend toi !!! Le petit déjeuner Sara décent Fie- instructeur on vous attendant Rean- oui on vous a laisser une par de gâteau*sourie* Sara rouge-*détourne le regard de Rean* Emma- vous aller bien vous êtes toute rouge !? Sara rouge- oui oui Rean- instructeur Sara Sara de plus en plus rouge s'en va Rean veux la rattraper Sara- mais qu'est qu'il m'arrive je le regard et je rougie non et non reprend toi !!! Rean- Sara !!! Sara- oh non c'est lui !!!!!! Rean- Sara attend je dois te parler Sara qui courra ne sentie pas bien et s'évanouie Rean- Sara !!! Rean porte Sara jusque à l auberge et c'est à ce moment que Sara tombe malade Rean- Sara tu et brûlante Sara- ................. Rean- tien bon on va arriver Sara-..................... Rean- Sara !!!!! Sara-..................... Rean- il faut que je me dépêche À l auberge Rean- A L'AIDE À L'AIDE UN MEDECIN VITE Jusis- Rean ?! Laura- instructeur Sara !!!!!!!!!!!! Emma- Rean que se passe t-il !? Rean- c'est l'instructeur Sara elle est brûlante et c'est évanouie elle ne répond pas je l'ai porter jusque ici VITE IL FAUT FAIRE QUELLE QUE CHOSE Fie- calme toi Rean Sara fiévreuse - Rean Rean- instructeur Sara Sara-je voulait dit appeler moi Sara je ne vous et pas tout dit mais je ne suis plus instructeur Millium- hein comment sa Sara-............................... Rean- Sara !!!!! Laura- Sara !!!!! Fie- Sara !!!!! Emma- Sara !!!!! Jusis- Sara !!!!! Millium- Sara !!!!! Emma- je vais chercher un médecin Laura, Fie, Emma, Jusis, Millium- on vient avec toi Rean- je m'occupe de Sara aller si faite vite !!! Laura, Fie, Emma, Jusis, Millium- oui En attendent le retour de c'est amies qu'ils ramène un médecin Rean s'occupe de Sara a qui son état ne s'arrange pas Sara fiévreuse -........................ Rean- Sara tien bon il vont ramener un médecin Sara fiévreuse -........................*tousse* Rean-(sa fièvre a augmenter pour vu qu'ils trouve le médecin a temps ! Laura, Fie, Emma, Jusis et Millium trouva le médecin a temps et alla a l'auberge mais l'état de Sara et de plus en plus grave Laura, Fie, Emma, Jusis, Emma, Millium- on la trouver Rean- docteur pouvait nous dit se qu'elle a Docteur-je vais l'examiner Rean- oui Docteur- par contre pour respecter sa personne je vous demanderai de sortir Rean- oui Rean et les autre attend le docteur pour savoir ce que Sara a Rean- alors docteur ? Docteur- elle a beaucoup de fièvre elle et très faible Rean- JE LE SAIS DEJA DITE MOI SE QU'ELLE A Jusis- Rean calme toi ce n'ai pas en t'es nervent que tu arrangera la situation Rean-.............. Laura- dite nous docteur ! Docteur- elle et a une hypothermie sa arrive beaucoup ici avec le temps d'ici Rean-.............. Docteur- je la connais bien elle n'a jamais eu une telle maladie depuis qu'elle vivait ici je pense qu'elle a perdu le sens du climat d'ici Rean-.............. Docteur-elle a besoin de repos, de la chaleur pour ne pas que l'hypothermie augmente et il faut qu'elle mange et surveiller bien son état. Vous avez eu de la chance que vous m'avez appelle a temps a l'heure qui et elle serait morte. Mais elle n'ai pas sorti de danger faite très attention Rean remercia le docteur et retourna au pré de Sara Rean- Sara........ Sara-................. Rean-............ Sara- R.......Rean Rean- Sara je suis content de t'entendre Sara- que c'est t-il passer Rean- tu et tomber malade et tu n'ai pas encore guérie tu as encore de la fièvre Sara- je voir pas la peine de me dire ce que j'ai je connais bien cette maladie Rean-................ Sara-*pleure* des gens a qui je tenez sont mort de cette maladie c'est moi qui aurait du mourir a leurs place Rean- *embrasse Sara*ne dit pas importe quoi il a encore des gens qui tien a toi Sara-................. Rean- moi je tien a toi je t'aime j'ai eu tellement peur de te prendre Sara- Rean ! Rean- je sais que tu rejette t'es sentiment envers moi parce que tu a peur de prendre encore une fois une personne que tu aime Sara- R.......Rean Rean- mais je n'ai pas l'intention de te laisser tu a crue que je te draguer au bal mais c'est faut je t'aime vraiment Sara- Rean je.......... Rean- Sara je t'aime Sara- Rean je.............je t'aime *pleure* Rean- *la serre dans ses bras* Sara je suis la calme toi Sara-*se calme* Rean je ne suis plus instructeur Rean- oui et alors tu ce qui conte c'est toi et rien d'autre Sara- Rean ! Rean- si tu n'ai plus instructeur on peux s'aimer et je t'aime Sara- R.......Rean Rean- mon amoure je t'aime Sara- mon...... amoure je.......t'aime Rean- plus rien ne m'en péchera de protéger les gens que j'aime Sara- Rean De retour a l'académie tout c'est était bien passer pour la mission a North ambria touts le monde repris leurs habitude a par Rean qui passer a Sara Rean- ah Sara tu me manques ! Alisa passe a se moment Alisa- Rean sa va tu a l'aire dans tes penser Rean- ah Alisa tu ma parler ?! Alisa- oui !!! Rean- excuse moi je me demande juste si je reverrai Sara vu quelle n'ai plus instructeur Alisa-......*l'embrasse* Sara -Rean, Alisa je.......... Rean- hein Sara ?!!! Sara était revenu mais ce quelle a vu lui fait mal Sara-............ Rean- Sara attend Alisa pourquoi tu ma embrasser ?! Alisa- je............ Rean- on reparlera de sa plus tard Alisa- ..................... Rean- Sara attend moi Sara- lâche moi je ne veux plus te parler et te voir !!! Rean- Sara je suis désoler c'est un accident ! Sara- ah oui pour t'en tu na pas réagi quand elle ta embrasser !!!! Rean- Sara a ce moment je penser a toi ! Sara- ne prend pas pour idiote !!!!!!!! Rean- Sara je suis désolé !!!!!!!! Sara- sa ne sers a rien de t'excuser je t'ai vu !!!!!! Rean- Sara !!!! Sara- Rean je suis furieuse je ne veux plus te voir c'est terminer entre nous !!!!!!!!! Rean- Sara !!!! Sara- tu ma fait asser fait mal comme sa !!! Rean- Sara attend je ne te ment pas je t'aime c'est elle qui ma embrasser mais je n'ai pas réagi parce que je penser a toi et j'ai cru un instant que c'était toi Sara- Rean je Rean- Sara pardonne moi désoler si je t'ai blesser Sara- Rean je t'aime je suis revenu pour toi tu me manquer Rean- c'est la même chose pour moi Laura- sa va Emma- on va entendu vu disputer Jusis- on se demander ce qui ce passer Sara, Rean- rien c'est arrangé Laura-......... Emma-............ Jusis-......... Sara-(Rean) Rean-(quoi) Sara-(on peux aller discuter en priver) Rean-(oui) on vous laisse on a des affaire a regelai Sara- il sans et fallu de peut pour qu'ils comprenne Rean- je suie moi Dans la chambre de Rean Rean- sera tranquille pour parler Sara-................ Rean- .............. Sara- Rean je te pardonne parce que je t'aime Rean- merci je t'aime aussi Sara-........... Rean-.......... Sara rouge- Rean Rean rouge- Sara*l'embrasse* Sara rouge- humm*ferme les yeux*

A suivre (histoire créer à partir jeu vidéo) ​

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Cold Steel (this is probably obvious)

𝒲𝑜𝓌, 𝐼 𝒹𝒾𝒹𝓃'𝓉 𝑒𝓍𝓅𝑒𝒸𝓉 𝓈𝑜𝓂𝑒𝑜𝓃𝑒 𝓌𝑜𝓊𝓁𝒹 𝓈𝑒𝓃𝒹 𝓂𝑒 𝓉𝒽𝒾𝓈 𝒻𝒶𝓃𝒹𝑜𝓂. 𝒯𝒽𝒾𝓈 𝑜𝓃𝑒 𝒾𝓈 𝓀𝒾𝓃𝒹𝒶 𝓈𝑒𝓃𝓈𝒾𝓉𝒾𝓋𝑒 𝒶𝓃𝒹 𝐼 𝓂𝒾𝑔𝒽𝓉 𝓁𝑜𝓈𝑒 𝒻𝑜𝓁𝓁𝑜𝓌𝑒𝓇𝓈 𝒷𝑒𝒸𝒶𝓊𝓈𝑒 𝑜𝒻 𝓌𝒽𝒶𝓉 𝐼 𝓌𝒾𝓁𝓁 𝒶𝓃𝓈𝓌𝑒𝓇, 𝒷𝓊𝓉 𝐼'𝓂 𝑔𝑜𝓃𝓃𝒶 𝒷𝑒 𝒹𝑒𝒶𝒹 𝒽𝑜𝓃𝑒𝓈𝓉 𝒽𝑒𝓇𝑒. 𝐼 𝒸𝒶𝓃 𝑔𝑜 𝒾𝓃𝓉𝑜 𝒻𝓊𝓁𝓁 𝒹𝑒𝓉𝒶𝒾𝓁𝓈, 𝒷𝓊𝓉 𝐼'𝓁𝓁 𝒿𝓊𝓈𝓉 𝓁𝑒𝒶𝓋𝑒 𝓌𝒽𝒶𝓉𝑒𝓋𝑒𝓇 𝐼 𝒽𝒶𝓋𝑒.

Character I first fell in love with: Rean. He’s so pure that I want to protect him. I’m probably overreacting, but I’m not gonna lie.

Character I never expected to love as much as I do now: Rean and Crow. It should only be one, but I’m going to make an exception since I really can’t choose between them. These two are probably the reason why I am in hell. And for Crow, he just basically broke my heart when he died during Sen II. NGL, I cried for more than a week and I didn’t expected that.

Character everyone loves but I don’t: I’m gonna be rude honest, I call her Bitchlisa. As much as I don’t want to go overboard insulting her. But all the negatives and I hate to a person just showered into her. It’s like when Aidios showered people with attitude, she caught all the bad stuffs I could see. I could go into details as to why I hate her to the roots of her existence, but we can just talk this in the messages. I also dislike Elise. I mean, I, again, dislike incest.

Character I love but everyone else hates: Do people hate someone I love in this game? I have no idea who people hates in this list: Rean, Crow, Machias, Jusis, Elliot, Gaius, Emma, Sara, Fie, Laura, Millium? Probably Kurt? Juna? Ash? Altina? The list would just go long...

Character I used to love but don’t any longer: Cedric. Because honestly, he turned into an asshole after Sen II.

Character I would kiss: I’m not going to stay in one person, but that could go from Rean to all of the Class VII boys. For girls, let’s say Emma. I don’t want to be slapped by a big-ass sword handled by Laura, but a friendly kiss for her. Millium would just go immediately without asking so I am find with it.

Character I want to slap: Bitchlisa, Osborne, Black Alberich, Rufus, and Cedric. You know why.

A pairing I love: If we’re going Hetero route here, I’m going for Rean x Laura. It can be Rean x Emma, too. Homo route is going to be Crow x Rean or a little bit of Jusis x Rean. I’ll admit that I am a fan of Yaoi. Crow x Rean is my canon ship.

A pairing I hate: bitch being paired to Rean and incest wanting sister being paired to Rean.

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Sen 3 new info: brief recap + comments

AAAAAAAH. *screams in excitment* 

We’ve got some info, guys! And images too :D

Septian Calendar, year 1206. After Crossbell, Erebonia annexed even the Nord Highlands as a province and it is planning to invade North Ambria as well. The Imperial government has centralized its power and the Four Great Houses no longer rule the four Provinces. 

Thors Military Academy, to which Crown Prince Cedric is now enrolled too (yay, theory confirmed!), has now opened a Second Branch in the city of Revees, in Western Erebonia. 

Rean works as an instructor for the Second Branch. The headmaster of this Second Branch is said to be a former commander of the Noble Alliance.

(I’d bet on Aurelia LeGuin or Bardias, since they had so little space in CS2 despite being introduced as very powerful characters. Rufus should be the governor of the Crossbell Province, so I don’t think he’d be the headmaster too). 

Olivert and the rest of former Thors staff have been removed from their positions.

Rean is now 20 and works as an instructor. Apparently, he keeps regularly in contact with his former classmates and his relationship with Patrick changed significantly during their last year as Thors students.

His “Ogre” power is said to be growing unstable and uncontrollable. 

Altina still works as an Intelligent Division agent and has been sent to the Second Branch as a student after Rean started working there.

According to Kondo, we’ll get to know her better and we’ll finally discover the mysteries surrounding her birth and her connection to Millium. 

Blue-Haired-kun is Kurt Vander. Yes, Vander: he’s Mueller’s brother!

I repeat: MUELLER’S BROTHER, OMGGG. 

...Well, apparently Osborne dismissed the Vander family from their job as bodyguards of the Reise-Arnor Family. Kurt was very disappointed and decided to not enroll at Thors, but Mueller convinced him to join the Second Branch. 

Pink-haired-girl is Yuna Crawford. The fact she wields tonfa just like Lloyd is not casual: she comes from Crossbell and she’s a big fan of the SSS. She wanted to join the Crossbell Police but then Erebonian invaded her country. She joined Thors upon invitation from a certain someone. This certain someone should be someone we already know... Mmmh, I’ve honestly no clue right now: Toval, maybe? Let me know if you have any theory about it!

So yay, now we know two of the new characters!

Green-Haired-Girl is still nameless and there’s also this guy: 

Who might he be? 

Another instructor at the Second Branch, maybe? Because of the light in the image, I can’t even say for sure if his hair are blonde or white. Or silver. Like, dunno. 

Here’s a scan with Green-Haired-Girl with Altina and Yuna, if you don’t remember her (which I think it’s unlikely, since she’s soooo cute):

SO. CUTE. 

Oh, according to Falcom there will be a “report” on the rest of Class VII members soon. CAN’T WAIT. 

I wonder what they’re doing right now...

Alisa is probably still working with Reinford. Jusis should be in charge of the Albarea Family, but what now that the Four Houses have lost a great deal of their influence?

Fie is probably still out looking for Zephyr’s whereabouts. Maybe she’s still acting with Sara and Toval?

Has Emma found out more about the Hexen Clan? How will her relationship with Vita develop?

LAURA, MY DEAR, HOW STRONG HAVE YOU BECOME IN THIS YEAR AND A HALF?

Is Millium still working as an Ironblood? If so, why she’s not a Thors Second Branch with Rean and Altina?

And what about Claire? Could she be an instructor at the Second Branch?

I also wonder how Gaius will respond to the Highlands being annexed to the Empire. And I also wonder if Machias and Elliot are satisfied with this new state of things in Erebonia, with the nobles no longer above commoners like them. 

Maaaan, I can’t wait!

I’ll probably snap when we’ll get something about the other characters!

O M G 

sources: x | x

[barefootfriar]

50 ToCS Prompts

with a few sneaky trails in the sky prompts thrown in. planning on writing these all, no matter how long it takes!... but I still need 5 more prompts. any suggestions?

warning: this is a long list

x = romantic ship & = non romantic

1.       Knight in Shining Armor - Laura x Emma (Emma compares Laura to the heroes of fairy tales)

2.       Loveseat – Gaius x Elliot (Gaius teaching Elliot to ride a horse)

3.       First Snowfall – Rean x Gaius (Rean takes Gaius home to visit)

4.       Adventure Novel – Emma & Dorothee (Emma attempts to broaden Dorothee’s literary horizons)

5.       Too Hot! – Margarita & Nicholas (Nicholas teaches Margarita to tone down a recipe… and some other things?)

6.       Nature Hike – Jusis x Paula (Jusis and Paula get lost on a ride)

7.       County Fair – Becky x Hugo (Becky’s food stall aspirations meet with disaster)

8.       Highlights – Jusis & Millium (Millium tries to be a ray of sunshine in Jusis’ day……………)

9.       Waiting for Summer – Patrick & Celestin (Celestin helps Patrick write a love letter)

10.   Permanent Marker – Sara & Machias x Emma (Sara plays matchmaker for her star students, through dubious grading)

11.   One, Two, Three Strikes You’re Out – Alisa & Ferris & Emily x Theresia (Alisa and Ferris clash over lacrosse)

12.   Ancient Words – Rosine x Rean (Rosine tries to forget certain aspects of being a teenager)

13.   Once a Year – Alisa & Sharon (Alisa’s birthdays have never been great, but dammit, Sharon will succeed this time!)

14.   Under the Sea – Elliot x Rean (Elliot tries to become a stronger fighter, neglecting arts in the meanwhile)

15.   Fashionably Late – Crow & Millium (Millium surprises Crow with a show of solidarity)

16.   In His Image – Jusis & Laura (Jusis and Laura try to find common ground in their lineages)

17.   Manifest Destiny – Machias x Jusis (Machias and Jusis squabble over red tape)

18.   I Shot an Arrow into the Air – Alisa x Rean (Alisa wonders how she found her way to Rean)

19.   Tea Time – Alfin & Elise & Olivier (Alfin and Olivier team up for the win)

20.   First Date – Rean x Towa (Rean tricks Towa into taking a much needed break)

21.   Barbed Wire – Clara & Gaius & Linde (Clara rejects the use of new materials)

22.   No Time Like the Past – Instructor Thomas & Sara & Niehardt (History repeats itself for Thomas)

23.   Mission Trip – Gaius & Rosine (Rosine’s faith deepens every time Gaius comes to pray)

24.   Stand Your Ground – Patrick & Alan x Bridget (Bridget drops in on fencing club)

25.   Next Door Neighbor – Machias & Elliot (Machias and Elliot take a walk around the Ost District and wonder at how they’d never met)

26.   Poor Reflection – Linde & Vivi (Linde uses baked goods to apologize for Vivi’s antics)

27.   Miniature – Fie & Millium  (Fie and Millium have a contest)

28.   Finest Hour – Beryl & Rex (Beryl inadvertently gets revenge on behalf of the girls of Thors)

29.   Flight or Fight – Sieg & Kloe  (Kloe learns that there’s a time for everything)

30.   Yearbook – Fie & Emma  (Emma has an idea – Fie should make a scrapbook)

31.   Rocket Ship – Tita & Agate  (Tita dreams of one day going to the moon)

32.   People Are Alike All Over – Laura & Machias (Laura worries about what Machias thinks)

33.   Exit Strategy – Crow & Rean, Elliot, Machias, Gaius, Jusis (Crow weasels his way out of responsibility one too many times)

34.   You’re Fired – Sara & Class 7  (Sara is very late and rumors abound)

35.   Fine China – Laura & Fie vs Angelica & Millium  (Laura defends Fie’s honor)

36.   Resurrection Men – Emma & Elliot  (Emma and Elliot practice their arts in private)

37.   And When the Sky Was Opened – Sara & Neihardt  (A sudden rainstorm forces foes together)

38.   Bedside Manner – Tita & Agate   (Tita cooks the greatest meal she’s ever made)

39.   Just a Little Too Late – Josette & Joshua x Estelle (Josette and Estelle are compared by the rest of the Capula family)

40.   Public Displays of Affection – Gaius x Jusis  (Gaius doesn’t realize Jusis is uncomfortable with the stares)

41.   Edelweiss (Noble Purity) – Jusis x Rean  (Jusis wonders if he’ll ever be as noble as Rean)

42.   Last Resort – Estelle & Olivier  (Estelle threatens Olivier during a vacation at Valleria Lake)

43.   Let Down Your Long Hair! – Laura & Her Fangirls  (Laura gets an unexpected birthday gift)

44.   Deathbed – Cassius x Lena (Cassius is used to sleeping in a lot of places, but not an empty bed)

45.   The One That Got Away – Kenneth & Rean (Kenneth tries to teach Rean that fishing is a lot like romance)

[halcyon-writings]

ooooo for the ask game can we get 2 (running fingers through hair) for Machias x S/O?

he... (affectionate) i’m also queuing this so if it posts at a weird time my bad dhdjdn

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you know there is a certain duality in machias where one moment he and jusis are at each other’s throats, and the next, here he is, albeit grumbling quietly, arms crossed but you can see vestiges of red on his cheeks.

words grumbled about your classmate, some you pick up as, “he started it” and “damn nobles” among other things. but you still listen politely, allowing him to let out the steam.

you have half a mind to give him one of your throw pillows just to scream into before you realize that he falls backwards weightlessly against your chair. a sigh leaving his mouth.

you had half a mind to realize that this stress wasn’t just about some everyday argument with your classmate, but mindfully, you also realize that if he wanted to talk about it, he would say something by now, so you leave him be.

you leave him be for now, book in your hands while you absentmindedly play with his dark hair. although he may be half asleep, he still stiffens. what a strung up guy.

blearily, one eye opens, peering up at you with mild irritation before machias remembers where he is. and you cover your mouth with your hand, hiding your laugh with a fake cough.

surely enough, he relaxes again. turning a page in your book you let him sleep, his uniform coat a makeshift blanket as the afternoon passes by you both slowly.

although when machias is more lucid, does the fully red color return to his face, the way he almost liked the way you played with his hair. yes, definitely almost, he insisted to no one but himself.

of course you simply nod and smile, happy to see he was back to his usual self, of course this makes him stammer even more so.

it was fortunate that it was just the two of you, however machias still vehemently swears you to secrecy about it. which of course, you only quietly snicker in response, but agree anyway.

[yibodie]

My Rean x Sara headcannons

I finished my 2nd playthroughs of the entire Trails of Cold Steel series recently and mannn do I just wish the romance endings had more meat on the bone.

Naturally, I read ALL the Rean x Sara fanfic on AO3 and realized how different others visualized their relationship. The main being the variations of possessiveness. So I wanted to share my HCs to the other like 10 RxS Tumblr blogs 😋

HC: They mutually respect each other as individuals first and foremost. They take on a more professional approach for all serious situations. Compared to the rest of their allies (minus Fie) they're consistently helping people. Most of class vii pretty much normal jobs but Rean is still out there taking care of people's safety non-stop. Rean is essentially a bracer as well in that sense.

How does Sara react to all the girls fawning over Rean? She finds it amusing. "Ha! All these girls don't stand a chance. Rean doesn't even notice their feelings or react to their flirting. But I can make that man blush and feel bashful whenever I want to. They don't even notice that he only has eyes for me. Such silly girls.." Sara and Rean are completely confident and secure about their relationship.

When I got confessions scenes during my playthroughs, most of them Rean was just like "??? Huh what do they mean? I'm lost. I need a dictionary to understand what they just said."

But both times when Sara confesses to him, he immediately reacts, almost like "woah! Holy shit, did she just kiss me on the cheek?! Am I dreaming?! uwu!!"

Sara's bonding events in CSIV really hit me too and how much she trusts Rean by letting him in and opening up about her dad. When they go to his grave and even make plans to visit North Amberia.. so he can tell him that he's taking care of Sara?! 😭 100% trust, respect and love for one another.

They do hide their relationship only because they don't want to distract others from the tasks at hand. They however do little things when shit is about to hit the fan, like reassuring hand squeezes when no one is looking or just little nods to each other as if to silently say "We're coming back alive and safe. We're not going to lose each other. I love you"

I also like to think that after his class vii graduates he joins the bracer guild and they kick ass together, happily ever after.

Oh yeah and they adopt Altina because not only is Altina fond of Rean but she was also in North Amberia with Rean and Sara. I'm sure Sara became fond of Altina as well for helping keep her home country safe.

NSFW~ They're really into teacher/student roleplay 🤣😏

list of Rean's other relationships HC:

Crow (and Valimar 😭) = best friend

Jusis and Machias = best "couple" friends

Altina = adopted child (all of new class vii really are his adopted kids in a small amount)

Emma and Celine = his "mom" friends

Toval and Olivert = his "night out with the boys!!" Close friends

[yibodie]

My favorite part of my day is when I take my sleeping pills, lay down in bed, close my eyes and continue where I left off in my mental Machias x Jusis fic

I call it Chapstick

Jusis has a coffee flavored chapstick and Machias, a tea flavored one

Why are they so cute 🥰

[monasatlantis]

My Trails-Favorites...

Top 10 favorite Trails-Games characters:

 1.    Rean

1.    Olivert

3.    Alisa

4.    Alfin

5.    Tita

6.    Claire

7.    Jusis

8.    KeA

9.    Millium

10. Lechter

 (This was really hard... But I have all my blond angels in a row XD)

 Top 5 favorite „Ouroboros-Members” (This was named: „villain“/“enemy“/“antagonist“ but half of them is less a Villain than Osborne seemed to be ^^’)

 1.      Vita

2.      Duvalie

3.      Shirley

4.      Campanella

5.      Phantom Thief B

 Best written „villian“/“enemie“/“antagonist“

 Gilliath Osborne

(Nothing more to say here XD)

 Top 3 “Traitors”

 1. Claire

2. Crow

3. Sharon

(I have no idea why Crow has the second place because I still dislike his reasons...)

Top 5 favorite “Harem” – Waifus (Rean and Lloyd)

 1.      Alisa

2.      Elie

3.      Alfin

4.      Sara

5.      Rixia

 Top 6 favorite Trails-Games-Ships:

 1. Rean x Alisa

2. Tita x Agate

3. Millium x Jusis

4. Joshua x Estelle

5. Cedric  x Shirley

6. Lloyd x Elie

 Top 5 Non-Ship-Relationships

 1.      Renne and Estelle

2.      Lloyd and KeA

3.      Rean and Celine

4.      Claire and Millium

5.      Jusis and Machias

 Top 5 Trails Games

 1.      Trails of Cold Steel 3

2.      Trails of Cold Steel 4

3.      Trails in the Sky 1

4.      Trails of Azure

5.      Trails of Cold Steel 1

 Top 6 favorite scenes from all Trails-Games (SPOILER for Hajimari no Kiseki)

 1.      Epilogue of CS4 (Oliverts Wedding)

2.      Reunion-Hug between Rean and Alisa in CS3

3.      The meeting of the Liberl-, Crossbell- and Erebonia-Teams on the          Panthagruel in CS4

4.       Estelles and Joshuas reunion in Trails in the Sky 2

5.       Ball in CS3 (Dancing Scene)

6.       Rean FINALLY realizing that to make the people around him happy, he has to be happy himself (Hajimari)

 Top 3 most hated parts from any Trails-Game

 1.      Freeing Leeves (especially the Einhel Keep Part) in CS4

2.      Any Geofront-Section-Mission in the whole Crossbell-Saga

3.      The freaking whole Trails in the Sky 3 Game (with a few small exceptions)

[monasatlantis]

Review of Trails of Cold Steel 3!

As you probably know… I am a fan and a player of Falcoms “Trails of Cold Steel” – Series and now, after what felt like ages, we here in Europe finally got the 3. Part of that series and there was no way that I would not buy this game XD Granted, I already spoiled the actual ending of the whole Series and everything in-between but as usual that only made me want to finish the series myself. So here I am, reviewing a game whos shocking ending made me cry long before I actually understood a damn word that was said in said ending XD

1. So how was the Prolog? I am not sure if Falcom found it funny to do the same thing they already did in the first Trails of Cold Steel game, despite the fact that it wasn’t a good start for that game, or if they just found it to nostalgic to not do it. But let me say this, I only will speak from the perspective of a player who played the previous two games here, because if I would speak out of the perspective of a new player who accidentally ended up playing Trails of Cold Steel 3 first, I would be screaming about that prolog because basically you pressed random Buttons with Characters you did not just simply don’t know, but also with names like “Blond-Haired-Boy” and so on, because they weren’t willing to reveal their names. So, with said unnamed characters I ran through a (fairly easy, I have to admit that) dungeon, fought random monster while pressing random buttons and had no idea why? Not to mention what they were talking about. Anyway… thanks to my knowledge and also the knowledge most players who have at least read the description of the game should have had, plus the experiences from the previous games, made it of course relatively easy to get a hang on the controls and know at least somehow what was going on. So instead of being confused I could enjoy them talking about my Rean-Bean who was not there for most part of the prolog. I laughed my ass of while they said he is a “glory-hunt” and that he is an “oblivious player” because this is so damn on point and is so amusing coming from his own students. Not to mention, when Rean finally did show up, he really once again stole the glory-moment XD I mean… okay… his kids would have died without him, but come one, the timing was perfect to claim all the glory.

Anyway… I definitely liked this prolog better than the one from the first Cold Steel Game. Less characters. More things that already made sense. Shorter. Just a nice “What the hell is going on and were the hell are we?” – Moment that might come in handy later. No deceiving you this time either. While in the first game, Millium and Crowe were purposefully left out of the prolog even tho when you finally reach that point, they are there – to hide that they will in fact later become part of your team – this time they didn’t hide Ashe and Musse even tho in the Introduction-Chapter, those two were not sorted into Reans new class 7. Pluspoints for this. Although they did hide Angelica and the Principal… but… uh… I think I let that slide. They are not that important.

 2. What was your favorite Chapter?

 My absolute favorite chapter was chapter 2. The pacing was great, the plot was interesting, the monsters not too strong and the maps not too big, the dungeons not too complicated and all in all did it provide a good mix of the old and new in the way it presented the new characters and included the old ones in the story without completely ignoring the new class 7 characters. Tio was (although unknown to most players do to the fact that this game has yet to come out in western countrys…) a nice addition and as a shipper, I couldn’t be happier about the Rean x Alisa reunion and how it was handled. All in all I really liked the Mix of Rean, Alisa, Machias and Emma together in a team. And I was also more than Happy when “Olivier” joined our team. It was also great to see Alfin again and also Vita. And Sharon of course. Crossbell as the place where we had our mission was great and I really loved the scene on the rooftop of that super tall building, when everyone was sad because of Junas understandable devastation while that asshole Rufus just walked away without a care in the world. This scene said a lot about every character that was present at that time. I would say chapter two was the best out of all of them. (The final chapter not included as it was too different to compare it with chapter 1 – 4.)

 3. What was your least favorite chapter?

 Definitely chapter 3. Although chapter 4 had its downsides as well, all in all it was still better than chapter 3. In chapter 3 the difficulty of the game suddenly rose a lot. The monsters became harder, the maps bigger and more complicated, do to that the very good pace of the game slowed down and the plot was a bit… too long and yet unsatisfying. While Kurts character-arc was in chapter 1 and Junas character-arc in chapter 2 (while Altina seemed to be having a huge background-arc over the whole game that didn’t really end yet) Musse and Ash had to share the spotlight in chapter 3 and that did the plot and the pacing no good. Musses story is obviously even bigger than it seemed at first, but even the bit we got than would have deserved its own arc, even tho Ashs arc was also just scratched on but it was still too much to put both of it in the same chapter. I also personally feel that the older characters all in all got the shorter end of the stick in this chapter. While in all other chapters the mix of old and new Class 7 was done really well, in this chapter it was done poorly. I love Jusis and it felt extremely wrong that he wasn’t there when we were searching for Millium. Not to mention that the map of that island was too freaking huge and when we finally found Millium she wasn’t even able to join us for the fights. The plot was really slow in the beginning and then got hectic at the end. While most of the time the chapter was rather boring, at the end all of the sudden hell broke lose and made us run through that fucking maze of a damn castle. And here, once again, the old members of class 7 did not get as much attention and “alone-time” as the others did, do to the “splitting the groups” – thing. (Tho the idea of that was not bad and worked very well in the 4. Chapter. It did just not fit in chapter 3.) So of all the chapters this was definitely the one I disliked the most.

 4. What can you say about the final chapter and the ending of ToCS3?

 Oh boy… after we had that semi-final dungeon in chapter 4 and fought that semi-final-boss there as well I was worried at first that they would threw us into yet another labyrinth with puzzles and such bullshit. Thankfully, they didn’t do that. And that makes a lot of a difference for me, I can tell you that. The plot of the final chapter was amazing from the beginning to the end. A bit shocking at times but really good. It started with a lot of lore but it was interesting enough to not make the game boring. Especially with who explained the lore and with us and the characters putting every given piece of the puzzle together so it would make more sense. I kind of also really liked how on both sides everyone was working together for their goals. The dungeon, as I said before, was good and it was also looking really good. For a final dungeon it was rather pretty… I liked how in the beginning, you could put together your dreamteam no matter if it included the new class 7 characters or not, but slowly but surely took those older classmates away from you but still gave them an important reason. No “We have too much characters so these what feels like 20 characters will only stand on the sidelines and watch you all get killed” – bullshit. Instead the members of the old class seven got their own important jobs and with them, they tried to solve their own personal problems. I really like that. Although fighting with the (in my case) weaker new class 7 against a dark holy beast was not that easy at first. But all in all I really liked how they managed those many characters in the final chapter. It was also funny how they slowly but surely took your dreamteam apart and forced you to go back to the routes of ToCS3…

Now… the ending. Boy… the ending… When I saw it the first time on Japanese I was crying my eyes out and I was shocked and speechless. So when I saw it a second time, this time with a language I understood I cried my eyes out once more, internally screaming and sobbing and despite the knowledge I had already I was still in shock. The ending was so good, spoilers didn’t do it justice. Literally going through the whole game on your own terms by playing it yourself makes it even worse (in a good way) than it is when you just watch the scene on YouTube (and in a language you don’t understand no less) and I also kind of already had tears in my eyes a few moments before shit got down because I knew what was coming and that it would break everyones heart – mine included – in a matter of seconds. And then when it happened, here I was, crying my eyes out. And without saying Milliums sacrifice and Reans reaction were bad, I still think what happened with the crimson wings was a tad bit sadder in a way. Because when the ship showed up, it gave everyone hope again and then, just a few moments later, that hope was crushed when the ship exploded. Of course, as I said before, Milliums sacrifice was nothing short of sad or dramatic, especially with the way Jusis feeling had been slowly but surely building up in the background. Reans reaction was nothing else but shocking. Here we are, after 4 hard chapters, an enormous amount of hard battles, betrayals, and lies and secrets and when we reach the point where we SHOULD be saving the world once again, everything goes down and we… fail? Rean going berserk was the moment everyone had to realize that we fucking lost that battle. We lost Millium, the Courageous, my beloved Olivert, Lauras father, Toval and now our last ray of hope, our dearly beloved boy Rean had gone into berserker-mood when we would need him standing strong and tall the most. What an ending… At that moment, all hope was lost.

So let me say this loud and clear, if this ending would have been the ending of the cold Steel-Saga then it would have been a bad, rushed and very unsatisfying ending. But knowing there is a part four, this ending was one of the best cliff-hanger-endings I have ever seen in a game. It was shocking, emotional and devastating. And yet… after we lost everything, after the credits gave us time to dry our tears the game itself tells us to rest, because there is still that light of hope and we will find it. It was great.

 5. Shippings!

 Oh boy! When I started Trails of Cold Steel I was shipping Rean and Alisa and that was all the game had to offer me. Now I enjoyed Agathe and Tita from Trails in the Sky and also had Millium and Jusis suddenly at my disposal and it was… great! I had so much fun with all the teasing for Tita and Agathe and also for Rean and Alisa and I enjoyed the rather subtle way how things had gone on Jusis and Milliums side of the story. It was wonderful to watch all those very different ships develop in their own way.

Nothing can compete (yet again) with the Rean and Alisa Reunion-scene. Or their final bonding-event at the summer-festival, while we are at it. I think Falcom did go all out once again in this game with their love for Alisa and Rean as a pairing. As you will notice that, even tho yes, Laura also got a hug, her hug was very different from Alisas, starting by the length of it and the palpable intimacy between Rean and Alisa that Laura and Rean couldn’t match. Also notice how Reans voice automatically drops to a more gentle tone when he talks with Alisa in their reunion-scenes. What is also worth noticing is that when Sharon made that command that  Rean couldn’t help the embrace because of Alisas beauty, he actually admits to it after a rather questionable attempt to deny it at first. This is the only time Rean openly admits to be drawn towards any girl, besides the scene with Claire were he thinks he is dreaming after she gave him a kiss on his cheek were it admittedly also could be more meant as a “I am a lucky bastard that such an amazing woman likes someone like me” and didn’t have to mean that he is also drawn to her, especially since you can not officially dater her. There is also worth mentioning, that Alisa is the only girl of the old class 7 that he danced with at the ball, and once again the game seemed to pay special attention to them in that scene. Not to mention how their first-bonding-event is extremely romantic without you as a player having any chance to choose if you want it to be romantic or not. There is also the thing that Alisas gift is a ring for the pinky-finger… Agathe and Tita managed to made me smile so often. After liking that ship already in Trails in the Sky, I was happy I could enjoy it in Cold Steel 3 as well, not to mention how much I laughed about all the times they got teased because of their close relationship. There are also two changes that you have to take note of. First off all, Tita is by now much more conscious of her feelings for Agathe then in Trails in the sky, were she didn’t get a thing when everyone was teasing him about not doubting that that bizarre world he was in was real because of her embrace. She was subconsciously drawn to him without giving it much thought as to why or what it could mean or lead to. Now she is aware of her own feelings, blushing and doing things like trying to keep in mind how to approach a stubborn man after the principal told the girls. While Agathe on the other hand, very clearly stated Infront of Rean and the other that he sees her as a little sister and is more concerned about her safety because of a promise he made to her parents… while later in the game he stops denying anything and was even able to tell Tita in the light of all the bad events of the ending that she will be save as long as they are together which was – by all means, not a moment between a brother and a sister, but between to people deeply in love with each other. I will be eternally grateful that they gave me that moment, because in all my sadness and despair, in the middle of sobbing, they made a smile show up on my face.

I won’t go into more details when it comes to Millium and Jusis, because as I said, that was a little more subtle and gets its greater and more clear moments in the next Trails of Cold Steel game.

 6. All in all, how many points are you giving this game?

 I give this game a great 9 out of 10 points.

 I really enjoyed playing it. The plot was very good, pacing was very good, so was the music, the beloved characters were mostly handled really well and so were the newcomers. The characters from the older Trails games were a great addition to the game. And extra plus points for being allowed to play this game on the difficulty “very easy”. Minus-Points are for the NPCs as they didn’t bother to try to at least use different looking NPCS for different missions. I don’t know how often that guy that looked a bit like Machias with the lilac hair and the glasses was part of a mission, despite being a different character every time. In a crowd they had 3 people and copied them over and over again instead of trying to put all the few different NPCs they had together. They even got as far as to make the mother of a child in saids childs-picture that a girl has drawn for her father in one mission, to look like Towas aunt, same Haircolor, same clothing and all. Girl also looked like that one girl-child-NPC that runs around in every town. They literally have drawn two characters in what looked like a picture from a child, that were never shown in the game as they were from a different far away country, look like all the other damn NPC-Characters. WTF?! All in all seemed it was too expensive to make all the character-models they would have needed. Because it was mentioned that along Agathe there was another A-Rank-bracer from Liberl but even after it got finally revealed that it was Oliverts Girlfriend Shera, she didn’t show up. Not even in the final fight. Same goes for Mueller. I am sorry but I have to take points away for that. I get that a game like Trails, which is not half as popular as Final Fantasy for example, has a lot more money-issues then the guys from Sqaure Enix have with their Masterpiece, but seeing that in Trails of  Cold Steel 4, all those characters from the previous two games, including Shera and Mueller, are there and it is on the same console with hardly different graphics I don’t see why they didn’t just do the models for part 3 if they had to make them for part 4 anyway.

 Besides a few minor  things, that was all the bad stuff I find worth mentioning. The rest was really good. I have to especially mention the pacing one more time, because that was something I had a huge problem with in a lot of the JRPGs I played in the last 3 years. And I am talking about big games like Final Fantasy 15 or Kingdom Hearts 3, were you would expect that they did their homework and wouldn’t struggle with the pacing. In Trails of Cold Steel 3 the pacing was splendid. It was a bit hard in chapter 3, but just because they spoiled us in the previous chapters. So I just had to make it clear that the pacing of the whole game was really, really good in Trails of Cold Steel 3. In the end I would say this is by far the best game of the series (for now).

 7. What else? Were the hell did Towas “I think Angelica and George have feelings for each other” – thing come from? Girl! You yourself have been fallen victim to Angis totally crazy love for Girls and Woman more often than not, why on gods earth would you think a woman who likes cute girls would fall for George of all people?

I get that Alisa as the main girl of the previous games and Falcoms chosen Girlfriend for Rean has to show that she is pretty as fuck and all, but they had to put her into that machine where she had to sit with her legs spread apart, so why did they gave her that extremely short skirt AND gave her damn dark red panties? Seriously?

There was a huge ass-problem for everyone who hasn’t played Trails in the Sky in this game. It might be okay to not know much about Joshua and Estelle or Agathe and Tita or even the whole Hamel-Incident as they tried to explain at least the basics of it all… BUT if you haven’t played Trails in the Sky 3 you have no fucking idea about the Grahlsritter. You don’t know who they are, what they are doing or how their Stigma actually works and with not just Thomas Lysander and Rosi being part of this messy story, but also Gaius becoming one of the more powerful people of that group it would have been better to give us a more intense summary about all that stuff in case people haven’t played Trails in the Sky 2 and 3 yet.

Abendtime! I was laughing so hard when basically every character in this game was happy Abendtime was back, despite the circumstances around Vita aka Misty. Lector, while explaining that they try to use Abendtime to find Vita, who is part of Ouraboros, casually mentioning that he is also a fan of the show… XD I could so relate to that. Well partly. I always loved Vita, so I didn’t really mind her being part of that society. But I definitely missed Abendtime so much. I loved how she gave us small clues to what would happen on our next fieldtrip. “Watch out for changes in the weather” she said and then, one day on your fieldtrip you leave a building and suddenly the sky is all cloudy and you are like: “Uh-Oh…”

Do to Rean being the oblivious glory-hunt player that he actually really is, he is of course part of a lot of flirting and teasing and I mostly enjoy it, even if it has nothing to do with Alisa, but Musse has gone too far with her trying to put Rean under a magic spell to actually trick him into kissing her. Musse per se is not a bad character (although also not one of my favorites) but she got a whole lot of minus-points for that trick from me. Tho I liked that when Rean pulled out of the spell last second he was all like “Puh, that was a close one…“ XD

I love how after in the first two Trails of Cold Steel games, we actually only had to deal with Olivert, the Prince of Erobonia, we finally get to meet Oliver again, the traveling bard who helped save Liberl in Trails in the Sky. He jumped back into his old clothes and just nailed it. Teasing Tita and Agathe on the way too XD Boy did I miss this guy through most of the game, no matter if Oliviert or Oliver, he is THE BEST Character in this game. I can’t even imagine playing any other game of Trails without him being part of it in some way.

Poor Claire. She had it rough from the start. As an Ironblood she is having trouble doing what Osbourn asks her to do and still kind of don’t get in Reans way, as she has been in love with him from the start – and don’t give me that “little brother” – excuse bullshit. It didn’t work with Agathe and it certainly won’t work with Claire. I love how she is also connected to Juna. She might be an Ironblood, but she is a person that does the right thing if she gets the chance to do it and that is why it is so hard to see her suffer through most of the game.

I am torn between liking and disliking the fact that in this game, there are rarely any “normal” familys. Like, per se I like it that we have kids who have been adopted, raised by just one parent, or grandparent or aunt or something like that. It gives us a great variety and with that in some way, there will always be a character you can relate to somehow. It also gives those characters more depth. But sometimes it’s a little bit too much. I get that this is a game that plays after a great war and in a world where many dangerous things have happened for many, many years and I understand that it makes sense that they have lost people in the war and though accidents. I really get that. But there is hardly a person with a normal family in this game. And this doesn’t even just start with Cold Steel. Its not very different in Trails in the Sky either. And it starts to… you know… get boring in a way. I mean, look at Musse, who obviously is more then just a dukes niece. She is basically playing the role of Kloe from Trails in the sky, although her character is mostly different from Kloe, she still is the “hidden princess” somehow, with the fake name AND who also lost her parents do to a sinking ship. Its like they wanted to copy Kloes story as much as possible. I find this is a bit unnecessary. But its not the only “copy” of complicated and hard family-circumstances in this game. Although I have to say that I am proud that Trails barely uses the “Bad stepmother” – trope at all. On the contrary. In Olivierts case his stepmother helped him get better after his real mothers dead.

Speaking of which. The emperor of Erobonia got a Girl pregnant while he was still in Thors. Rean was 17 or so when he entered Thors and so  was almost everyone else. And they leave after not much more then two years. So… WTF kind of rolemodel is that Emperor? And why the hell did it take Rean almost until he was 21 before he slept with Alisa? That feels totally wrong now! XD

They could have answered at least a FEW of all those Questions we got so far in the Trails of Cold Steel – Series in this game, if you ask me.

Campanella saying “Was that really necessary?” when the Crimson Wings with Olivert on Bord exploded while Cedric (Oliverts little brother) basically saw it as a necessary price to archive their goals? Campanella got good points for that one. Like… the bad guys (not just him) standing there in shock and wondering if that was really something that had to be done to their enemies while Oliverts own brother just stands there and shrugs it off. Hell, do we have great villains. They do shit for their crazy goals, but at the end of the day, they are still humans… mostly.  Anyway, I found this scene really great.