#ni no kuni batu

[incorrect-ninokuni]

Roland: Anyone know how we can resolve this conflict?

Tani and Batu: [raise their hands]

Roland: Without resorting to violence.

Tani and Batu: [lower their hands]

[m0th-gh0st]

i really said i was gonna go to bed like 3 hours ago and drew this instead

[quinnleyaeroraen]

For this one as well in comments or reblogs why they are the best

[prince-jelli-fish]

such devious critters

[star-felled]

more citizens posting

a muriel i drew a while back and a species swap speio ! shes an aspiring priestess who works as a lady-in-waiting for the ding dong dell royal family

[thetisming]

btw Batu was cursing Lofty about wanting Evan and Tani to kiss because Tani is a lesbian and he knows this HIT POST

[superbeans89]

No one:

Porn writers:

[ninokuni-dumbassery]

Leander: How are we supposed to put a tracker the size of a penny on Batu without him noticing? Bracken: Hey, Batu, I bet you 5 bucks that you can't swallow this penny. Batu: *takes and swallows tracker* Pay up, loser. Leander: ...

[cwgames]

Chapter 9: To Be a King Part 9

There just one more monster to face in order to save this world.

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[astralynx]

If i were to make a hypothetical PowerPoint about religion in ni no kuni I'd probably spend most of it talking about the ancient ones and other stuff and once that's all wrapped up I'd bring up that screenshot of Batu saying christening and start spiraling the implications of nnk Jesus

[daily-hinomori-sisters]

day 13 - au! shiho is included, alongside the rest of leo/need, tsukasa and a few others

small fandom (this is all self-indulgent anyway) BUT. i've been thinking about a ni no kuni ii au:

Tsukasa as Roland, Saki as Evan. One of the main reasons for this is how each person from Roland's world is connected to one in Evan's. Though I don't think it's ever said, Roland's son is at least implied to be tied to Evan. Roland's son is also implied to have a chronic illness. Throughout the story, he protects and encourages Evan, watching him grow. Evan goes from a timid, frightened former King to the confident ruler of Evermore, a kingdom he founded with Roland, and the boy who united all 5 kingdoms.

Airi as Aranella. I didn't know who to put here, but because Saki looks up to Airi, I thought this would be sweet. Even if Nella does die at the start. It's fine.

Ichika as Tani. I almost picked Shiho because she's also a bit of a stick-in-the-mud with a secret love of cute things (which also matches anessa from dqb2 but anyway.), BUT I decided on Ichika instead. It's implied that she eventually marries Evan, for one thing, but I thought that overall, she just fits better with her extroverted, optimistic nature (fits Saki better, but she's already Evan).

Shiho as Batu. Rather than a parental figure to Ichika, she would be more of a mentor and experienced fighter, both to her and Saki. I have less to say here. In this AU, the way she found Ichika wouldn't be that different. However, rather than stealing from Ichika's dying mother, she'd probably just take her to protect her, though she'd probably be a child or teenager rather than a baby. Plus, she's lonely (and in need of an heir, but that's not important). I do think it would be sweet if she used to be cold, but softened with Ichika.

Honami as Martha. She gets to look after all those little Higgeldies. I just think that would be cute. As a bonus, Kanade and Mafuyu could either live with her, OR be Higgeldies. Either are really sweet.

Miku as Lofty. It's funny.

Rui as Leander, Shizuku as Nerea. Shizuku would be a Queen, Rui would be her chief adviser. They're also in love, which was the main reason. Besides that, Leander is (one of) the most knowledgeable in the party, though it's Bracken whose knowledge is based around machines, as she is from Broadleaf (and her best friend is its ruler).

Bracken as An. I know Nene (with Zip as Rui) or Haruka might've made more sense, but I cannot let this go now. However, it could also be Toya as Leander, Haruka as Nerea, Nene as Bracken and Rui as Zip. Anyway, Bracken as An. That's it.

Akito as himself because I just really wanted him in here, especially where Toya is Leander rather than Rui.

NOW the part I was struggling with: Alisandra and Doloran.

A King isn't supposed to fall in love with his Kingmaker. Doloran did what he never should have. Alisandra reciprocated his feelings and for a while, they were happy. Alisandra, though, was immortal. Doloran wasn't. As a sort of last resort, she attempted to split herself into two and succeeded. One half mortal, the other being the powerful half, which became a great evil, the Horned One. Though she worked with Doloran to defeat it, this was only temporary. She gave up her future with her lover to seal the Horned One away and guard it, though Doloran didn't know this. She was also the one to bring Roland into their world.

Doloran wanted his kingdom, Allegoria, back, as it had been destroyed (sort of). He brought the Horned One back and took souls from across the world so he could begin to rebuild. Basically, he wanted his kingdom and he wanted Alisandra. So, who to pick?

For this one, I went with Mizuki as Alisandra and Ena as Doloran. Mizuki breaking unspoken rules for the woman she loves, then giving everything up to protect her. Ena never knowing this, desperate to return all that she lost, only to lose it again because not only did she not know everything she needed to, but because she was too hurt to care about what she did. It might not necessarily fit their characters, but I think it fits them best (though KanaMafu, AkiToya or MinoHaru could've worked well too imo).

As I said with Akito, Kanade and Mafuyu, the other characters would probably just be themselves. Assuming they're residents of different kingdoms that they can pick up along the way (the side quest characters, that is), here are their kingdoms, including the characters who could be replaced by others:

Ding Dong Dell: Minori, Emu

Goldpaw: Kohane, Toya

Hydropolis: Haruka, An, Shizuku

Broadleaf: Nene, Rui

[incorrect-ninokuni]

Roland: What makes you all smile?

Evan: Friends and family!

Tani: Snacks!

Batu: Victory and success!

Leander: Face muscles.

[m0th-gh0st]

I'm gonna be real with y'all I can't remember the last time Ive drawn traditional art with a pencil.

[quinnleyaeroraen]

Doing sort of the same thing with ni no kuni polls, except this isn't about the characters' stats and/or if they're the easiest/best character to play as, and it's for both games.

[prince-jelli-fish]

screenshot redraw

[dreamsausage]

just had a dream about ni no kuni two where we ran around doing quests and had to destroy a labyrinth to get to another kingdom

and we made it to the new kingdom which was a huge forest. and we got a new member of our team who was a little kid with a blue-and-red dinosaur hood who used hammers and wands

and then we got another member of our team who was a pink mer-dog who worked similar to lofty - and if you lost enough members of the party in battle he would do a big attack that halved all the enemies' health and gave you a massive special defense boost. you could remove him from battle by switching him into a separate menu

then I put my switch into handheld and went into my kitchen and my sister was there

I showed her the new stuff and then showed her this thing where if you found specific item sets you could unlock a familiar that could be used by different party members

bracken had a huge mythical beast that was labeled as "rhino" where you needed to get an item from the first game which was a claw, an armour that was a hide of some sort, and a hammer that looked like an elephant foot. it could charge forward in battle and knock enemies over to stun them.

batu had some kind of giant monster thing and to use it we had to collect the head and the top and bottom jaws of a piranha-plant-like monster.

the kid with the hood could use a giant caterpillar, which needed a cloak made of leaves, a piece of shiny armour and some kind of pair of boots.

I think roland was able to use this huge snake with a golden head. you needed a curved sword, an evil eye wand and a black cloak. it attacked enemies by biting them and could also coil around them to weaken or curse them I can't remember which

tani's monster was a bison cow thing. it was like a baby cow but it already had horns. for this one you had to get a sword that looked like a horn, a spear that had a black tip, and something that looked like a baby buckler but slightly different. I'm guessing it had attacks like stomping the ground because its hooves were really big and powerful. I never selected hers so I didn't see what it could do, but I had two pieces of it so I could see how it looked.

leander and evan's monsters were just silhouettes because I hadn't gotten any of the items needed. I already unlocked roland and the little kid's ones, I had two of the three pieces for batu's one, and I was trying to get the last two pieces for bracken's one. I could see what those were because their silhouette became slightly more visible when you selected an unfinished monster.

when you got the items, you picked the ones you wanted to surrender and it would put the item permanently onto the part of the silhouette that the weapon represented - the claw was the rhino's head, the leafy cloak was the caterpillar's body, etc.

the mer-dog and lofty were in thr same menu, and it was this really cute artwork that had each of the monsters running around and playing with eachother. the dog was trying to get lofty to play, the snake and the caterpillar were crawling around to the left, the rhino thing was meant to be playing with evan's monster. tani's cow was running towards where leader's thing would be, and the plant seemed to be snapping at it as well. it seems that before you've gotten the party member, the monster is just a blacked-out silhouette, and you only start unlocking it with the items once you get the owner. stronger monsters require rarer items, and some might only be acquired through quests or main storyline events, like the dog. I apparently already had a good grasp of it while I was playing, and immediately entered a battle to see how the dog would work. I had bracken, roland and evan on my team, but switched to bracken halfway through. I have no idea what I pressed to activate the familiars - it might have been a power like the ones when you press ZR.

I only unlocked this after I got leander from hydropolis, and it's one of the first things he mentioned when I got back to evermore. my guess is that because hydropolis was set in the past, they kept the ability to form familiars and used them alongside higgledies as more appeared. obviously, due to the lack of familiars in the overworld or the heart-winning harp, you can only form a familiar from your soul.

I have vivid memory of what each of the characters looked like. plus the little kid who joined our team only vaguely followed us around in enclosed spaces; he would run around and do cartwheels. at one point he seemed to be practising a spell that required him to run really fast, but he just tripped over and fell flat on his face. I was worried until he laughed, got up, and started trying again. I think we got him from the new area at some point.

but yea that's it