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fulgurbugs · 4 months ago

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Headcanon ask (I'm sorry the Pokemon SwSh thing made me think of this all of a sudden): Octopath / Pokemon -- gym leaders! Who would be a gym leader and what Pokemon type would they specialise in? (Alternatively if the main antagonist of each Octopath character's story was a gym leader what Pokemon type would each specialise in... you know for the characters who actually have a human antagonist for their story... I feel like Redeye would just be a corrupted legendary or something I don't know?)

alright, had another big brainstorm sesh with the bestie @snailcruncher for this one so here it goes

Here’s what we’re going with: everyone gets one type, 4 pokemon. we’re going to get everyone fully evolved versions of their team as if they’re like, the 8th gym leader, mostly so we had more to work with but also didn’t have to give a fuck about nfe mons

as for choosing the types, we basically went by choosing some who felt obvious first, then filling in with what we had left so nobody repeated a type. maybe some don’t fit perfect but yk. also shoutout to inherent class magic types for giving us some pokemon types to fall back on

also, i’m imagining in this scenario it’s probably like. the only example i can think of is cheren (i don’t watch the anime) where gym leaders clearly have gym teams that vary depending on challenge level, and personal teams for outside of the league, so that’s how we’re rationalizing this

anyways

Up first

Ophilia - Ice

Ace: Lapras

there’s not really a good equivalent to “light” in pokemon types, so we decided to go with the frostlands special on this one.

Abomasnow is here to set hail/snow. if any character has a team that benefits from a weather being set, we’ve usually included a setter in their team. so that’s what abomasnow does

ninetales is for aurora veil, which i think is a pretty good equivalent to the sheltering abilities of cleric

frosmoth was on her original team so decided to carry it over. same with lapras, which i think has a fun connection with guiding/carrying travelers on its back, which makes it a good ace for her.

Cyrus - Psychic

Ace: Alakazam

since scholar covers 3 types of magic, pigeonholing it into one is a little difficult. decided to go with psychic, since it is pretty magic-y and most of its mons are known for being very specially focused rather than physically

alakazam gets to be ace because, let’s face it, none of these other guys are sweeping. alakazam is known for being mega smart and also laser beam crater blasting everything, so i think it’s a pretty safe cyrus pick.

claydol is just something i think is pretty fun for vibes. what with its mysterious origins… feels very cyrus ch4 mural a la runerigus he has in his other team

Swoobat. with the ability. unaware.

Oranguru cuz it’s the instructor pokemon ^_^

Tressa - Water

Ace: Gyarados

Since tressa’s from a seaside town, she felt like the best pick for water types.

Gyarados is her ace because, well… magikarp starts out kind of wimpy but turns out it had the best potential of them all (tho tressa herself certainly has a less rocky start) anyways this thing is a dragon dance sweeper and will kill you.

Pelliper rain setter. plus, gulls feel on brand for her. Gastrodon (east) so that she has an electric immunity that this team sorely needs

Palafin for another zero to hero because tressa would not let you get off easy even if you get past one of her hard hitters. she’d have this thing in the back after flip turning it out of there.

Olberic - Steel

Ace: Aegislash

notable “unbending blade” of hornburg olberic gets steel types, clap if you are surprised. no one?

anyways, Aegislash for the ace. i’m sure it’s pretty self explanatory.

Aggron and steelix are pretty much in for the same reason. they’re big. they have high defense. and they’re steel types. escavalier just goes more in on the knight motif while bringing another dual type to the team

Primrose - Flying

Ace: Oricorio

there’s definitely a good argument to be made for something like dark primrose, but to be honest… i like flying for her, because i feel like it works with her kind of caged-bird motif. in addition, flying types cover a lot of dual types, which means i can pick pokemon that can use dance setups or support.

Oricorio is the picture perfect flying/dancer ace. obviously it gets top spot

Altaria as a dragon dance setup sweeper

Vivillion is a shitmon, admittedly, but it was that or butterfree for a quiver dancer, so i went with vivillion because honestly it doesn’t fucking matter they have the same shit basically. i guess this thing can also use sleep powder (and so can butterfree) but it comes in more pretty colorsssss

Swanna gets featherdance, just to cover one more dance. and you know. swans are like pretty and elegant or whatever. allegedly. anyways something something primrose is a beautiful swan.

Alfyn - Grass

Ace: Leavanny

Alfyn greengrass has grass types? this is shocking to nobody. anways, deciding between leavanny or meganium for the ace i eventually decided on leavanny because i say so. but they could both work

vileplume so that he has at least one grass/poison rep. i so rarely use the apothecary poisoning skills in OT but he can like. do that, so….

Sunflora is here because it would use sunny day and do fuck all except be a shitmon, because it is, but personally i think Alfyn wouldn’t gaf because it’s cute and he likes it, and it supports solarbeam/Clorophll for its team which is enough of a job to put it on here

Therion - Fire

Ace: Houndoom

the inherent fire magic of the thief class is here to bail me out in giving therion a gym type. thanks.

Anyways, i’m going with Houndoom as the Ace because he does have an image to uphold. it can’t all be fluffy arcanines or whatever.

ceruldege is here bc A) swords and B) it’s a little hater of a pokemon so it stays. centiskorch is here because it’s one of MY favs and i think it’s fun to put more interesting dual types into these teams, and as much as i love volcarona (my all time fave) it’s not really a therion mon… but i do think he’d be on board with a centiskorch.

then for a sun setter… it kind of had to be ninetales, tbh. i cannot really justify giving mr fastest speed stat in orsterra a turtle. so ninetales it is.

H’aanit - Electric

Ace: Luxray

another one where the inherent class magic gets to bail us out. if i’m being honestly, H’aanit is not much giving electric trainer, but we did our best.

Kilowatrells reasoning here is the same as it was in her original team. it’s a literal thunderbird. (also, no legends here but she deserves a zapdos)

Galvantula is a webs setter. holy shit guys, leghold trap reference.

and then Manectric and Linde are of course, dollar store Hägen and Linde. definitely an intimidate luxray, too.

next we can move onto the OT2 ones!

Ochette - Dragon

Ace: Noivern

ochette… she’s giving 8th gym dragon gym leader. i think her emphasis on finding legends basically tailors her to the dragon trainer for me. as for her mons, i’ve given her three dragons whose secondary types match up with Acta, Terra, and Glacis, while noivern is… honestly it’s just vibes i think noivern is cool and she would like it.

i didn’t really wanna make one of the three legends her ace over the other, so i’ll just say noivern is the ace.

Castti - Poison

Ace: Roserade

now, for Castti, we decided to bend the gym leader rules a bit, so she doesn’t have all poison types, though she does have an entirely poison-based team still. Breloom has poison heal, so we’ve elected to give it a spot, considering it also gets spore and is a fighting type that can throw THESE HANDS.

Zangoose is here for a similar reason, posssing the ability toxic boost, upping its damage when poisoned.

Glimmora of course has two poison based abilities in corrosion and toxic debris, though i’d say castti’d do toxic debris/venoshock shenanigans.

For the mandatory Apothecary Grass/Poison type, i’ve given her roserade. it’s like uh. the flower malaya gave her.

Throné - Dark

Ace: Bisharp

tho throné herself maybe wouldn’t like to be the dark type leader, or at least would wish she wouldn’t get a bad rap for using them, they still fit her (and OT2’s theif inherent magic), so that’s what we’re going with.

Absol: maybe this one is on loan from temenos lol.

liepard is a very evil team-grunt pokemon so i’m giving it to her also it’s purple.

weavile is a little less of a shitmon and also gets the ability pickpocket, plus brings some dual typing to this team. tho she would get her shit so rocked by a fighting type let’s be real

Bisharp: ok so… what if… the blacksnakes… are like a bunch of pawniards. and only the best ones can be bisharps. that’s throne. or something. also, it’s kind of referencing that she’s distantly related to notable kingambit haver hikari. bonus!

Osvald - Normal

Ace: Drampa

hear me out… Osvald normal type trainer. but he uses only dual types, and he also likes to play a lot less straightforward than your average trainer. Ursaluna (for the teddiursa in his original team) makes an appearance, while Farigaraf can set trick room and other fun psychic pokemon shenanigans. Hisui-Zoroark is here to throw another wrench in the mix, being able to throw off incoming fighting type attacks and hit back while making you readjust your strategy. the whole time, the threat of this thing makes you always have to consider if you know what you’re fighting first.

and drampa. this thing is just such an osvald pokemon to me. thank god it’s half normal. he should have it. make it the ace too.

Partitio - Rock

Ace: Coalossal

partitio was a bit of an odd one to pick a type for, but we settled on rock for a few reasons. honestly…. started with the ace and worked backwards, and therion’s already hogging the fire slot. besides, even though he’s looking towards the future, partitio’s definitely a little behind the times initially, so some good old fashioned rock types seem like a good fit.

anyways the coalossal is the ace because he’s ability is. steam engine. lol

lycanroc because. i think partitio would like a awesome doggy and then we went dusk form bc i don’t think he would have the evil one and dusk sucks less than the midday one lol.

gigalith sand setter

and then crustle is cuz we wanted to give him it as a shell smash sweeper. and i dunno they probably have dwebbles around oresrush.

Agnea - Fairy

Ace: Togekiss

Agnea feels like a pretty good fit for the fairy type, tho she does get less dancer-move user options than primrose does using flying types.

Togekiss i feel like is a shoe-in for her ace. it’s a pokemon associated with peace and kindness… i feel like agnea is definitely the kind of person to be able to actually acquire a togepi. also, it gets serene grace, which is a very agnea-ability title. i think she should get to paraflinch people too.

Ribombee is a much better quiver dance user than vivillion, and it’s half fairy, so agnea gets it. i love this thing. it can be so scary if it gets set up.

gardevoir: in our original teams, hikari had this due to its association with loyalty to its trainer/friends. so i think agnea also fits it very well too! since hikari (⬇️down there later ) has been swapped to a gallade to fit his type i’ve given it to her. awesome matching time.

whimsicott is here because she is fun and whimsical. this thing would set tailwinds probably.

Temenos - Ghost

Ace: Houndstone

i’m so sorry temenos but i think it’s really really funny to make you a ghost trainer. like really super funny.

anyways, yamask was on his original team, so we’ve upgraded to cofagrigus here. chandelure is vaguely sacred flame-esque while also being ghost type, tho it’s kind of. ominous but whatever. Sableye is a silly little guy who kind of vaguely references the mirror shard crossed paths. i guess if he mega evolved it i could do that even more with magic bounce but we didn’t really work w megas or regional gimmicks or whatever

and then houndstone comes out last to spam last respects after you’ve killed all this other pokemon just like all the EVERYONE HE KNEW IN REAL LIFE died too you monster.

like i said i think ghost trainer temenos is really funny

Hikari - Fighting

Ace: Gallade

Hikari nabbed fighting type right out of the gate. as compared to olberic who is very definsive brick wall of a guy, hikari feels more versatile in a way that fits fighting types to a T.

I’ve given him heracross because the heracross i caught in my nuzlocke is named after him so i think he should have one.

Lucario is here for a fun friendship evo, while scrafty is here to rep a more “dirty fighter” type of pokemon on the team being fighting/dark.

then gallade gets to be the ace because i feel like it’s the most ace material tbh.

as for your second part we did pick villian types (but not teams), here’s that much more briefly

Mattias: Dark (i feel like this is self explanatory. maybe malamar ace?)

Lucia: Psychic (this seems to must be the type we’re going with for most scholars)

Esmerelda: Poison (because the wound may prove fatal)

Werner: Fighting (idrgaf but i guess he used to run a merc company so i guess or whatever)

Simeon: Normal (hes the least normal guy you’ll ever meet but you’d never guess it from his pokemon team)

Ogre eagle: Iron valiant. 6 iron valiant.

Darius: Ground

i’m just. uh.

Redeye: Iron valiant. also entire team of 6 iron valiants (lore accurate)

Darkling: you never guess this but 6 Iron Valiants

Trousseau: Poison but for real this time

Claude: Dark (feel like that’s also self explanatory)

Harvey: Psychic (specifically, this guy has a hypno.)

Roque: Steel ⬇️

Dolcinea: Fairy mirror match/Tiernos Dancer only team she’s based like that. either or

Kaldena: Ghost (another mirror match)

Mugen: typeless but every one of his mons knows swords dance

ok that’s basically it hope that’s enough of an answer ok byeeee

#octopath #octopath traveler #long post #you know i’ll get brainrotted abt pkmn crossovers any day #ok real answer for the non-human final bosses is yes they’d probably be corrupted legendaries or maybe redeye like a UB. but also.#what if their teams were 6 iron valiant.#someone’s gonna rb this not from me and bel like why do they have 6 iron valiants it’s joke im joking prommy

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zoobiefish · 1 year ago

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I’m just sitting here imagining fake scenarios in which the scholars from the Octopath games were high school teachers.

Cyrus: Welcome, my dear students, to the marvelous world of history class! It is here that I shall take you on a most ✨ m a g i c a l ✨ journey through the ages so that we may learn about those who came before us! Be prepared to have your young minds expanded as we discuss *blah blah blah blah blah* 🤩

Osvald: Welcome to calculus. I hope you brought your lorazepam. 😒 *sips coffee mug that says “students’ tears” on it*

#octopath traveller #octopath traveller 2 #8path #8path2 #cyrus albright #osvald v. vanstein #octopath cyrus #octopath osvald #shitpost

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viridiave · 26 days ago

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💕 for Octopath 1 and Another Eden ^^

Hi Lynn!!! Thanks so much for the ask!! I hope you have enough context for the Another Eden bit lmao

💕: What is an unpopular ship that you like?

Is this my opportunity to shill Erhardt x King Alfred. Like I know like exactly 2 other people who ship this even ironically lmao and I'M THE THIRD IRONIC SHIPPER IT'S JUST SO FUCKING FUNNY

LIKE AGE MATH ASIDE??? IF YOU PLAYED AROUND WITH THE CONCEPT YOU'D GET SOME JUICY SHIT - allow yourself to imagine for a second, REALLY think about it, how much fucking angstier would the entire deal about Hornburg be if King Alfred was smitten with the man whose life he has unintentionally ruined? And if Erhardt played along with it?? If Erhardt was using this to further his own ends?? IMAGINE - Alfred working harder for his Kingdom so that no such tragedy like Erhardt's could ever happen again, only for everything to have been in vain all along because his fate was sealed with Erhardt's festering agony?

But I guess if you wanted a serious answer uhhhh I guess I also like Erhardt x Cyrus lmao. I really want to write a Cyhardt piece one of these days it'd be a fun exercise

As for Another Eden hm. I guess Clarte x Aldo is rare. Like I know exactly one person who told me they shipped it too and I have scripts to further this agenda lmao - like I'M JUST SAYING. CLARTE'S CONVERSATIONS WITH ALDO GET A LITTLE 'HMMMM.' SOMETIMES. A LITTLE 'A H' IF YOU WILL. I don't wanna spoil anything that happens with Clarte for ya Lynn but god I love Clarte they're my favorite character in Another Eden

If I had to name another one I guess Melpiphia x Sazanca also counts. Bertrand x Lakhesis also. Then Utpalaka x Kuchinawa but neither of those 2 specific ships are rare in the Japan side of things lmao

#octopath traveler #another eden #ask game #LISTEN I just think Aldo and Clarte have so much fucking potential #..and so do Erhardt and King Alfred just cuz it's the funniest shit ever

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lunarluna0 · 5 months ago

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Octopath Traveler: Another

Hello hello Octopath Traveler community! I am here with a prospective AU of the first game!

Basically, everything’s the same, except the travelers are switched with side characters.

So instead of Ophilia, it’s Lianna. Instead of Cyrus, it’s Therese. Instead of Alfyn, it’s Zeph. So on and so forth. I’ve already got all the ones planned out, and basically I’ve just limited it to characters that show up in the travelers’ first chapters. Here’s the actual list, plus my (honestly kinda lackluster) reasonings for the choices!

Ophilia is switched with Lianna

I feel like this is the most obvious of the bunch? I chose this one mainly because Lianna was originally supposed to be the Flamebearer and go through the Kindling.

In this AU, basically she goes to the cave, passes the trial and gets the flame + the lanthorn, and sets out on the Kindling despite how worried she is for Joseph (while Ophilia stays behind). Pretty simple, not a lot of big changes like with some of the others.

I imagine that during her journey she regains much of her former personality (as it’s stated by Joseph that she put aside a lot of her true self to serve the church), and learns how to properly balance that VS what the church needs of her.

Cyrus is switched with Therese

This one is more of just me wanting to give Therese more of a personality and role than just “Cyrus’ student/admirer”.

Basically she overhears Cyrus talking about one of the books being stolen from the archives and, while he’s off having his talk with Yvon, she decides that she’ll try to find it for him in order to impress him! She does so, finds Russel and beats him up, but when she goes to return the book to the archives she’s told by Yvon that she’s being suspended from the academy for “breaking rules, reckless endangerment, and violence against others” (she was originally going to be expelled, but Lucia and Cyrus talk Yvon down so that it’s just a suspension). While she’s leaving the Academy, and dreading having to go home and explain to her parents about her suspension, she gets to chat with Cyrus and he offhandedly mentions that one of the books Russel stole- From the Far Reaches of Hell- had yet to be recovered. Therese, because it’s Therese, says that she’ll go and find it for him. She’s already on suspension, why not do something productive with it? Cyrus tries to dissuade her before relenting and telling her to go see his friend in Quarrycrest.

Basically during her journey, Therese both grows a proper spine, and also grows out of her schoolgirl crush on Cyrus.

Tressa is switched with Leon

Now, I know what you’re thinking; why not Ali? The answer is simply because I like Leon more. Also his lends the story more ✨pizzazz✨

So basically he sets anchor in Rippletide, and he overhears that the towns been having pirate troubles from Tressa. After seeing the pirates causing the townsfolk grief, he decides to help them out. Tressa helps with the plan of getting all the pirates to sleep, and he goes in to clean up the mess. While going through the treasure horde to help make sure they go back to the right people, he stumbles across a worn, old journal. He picks it up and reads through it, very surprised to see that it’s the personal journal of his dead friend Baltazar (how it got there, he doesn’t know for certain, but he supposed that with the pirates randomly found it, or stole it from a townsfolk for randomly found it). He decides to retrace the journal’s steps in a vain, last ditch effort to find the “greatest treasure” of his late friend.

I’d imagine that he’d start out at a higher level compared to some of the others, especially since he was an established pirate before becoming a merchant.

Olberic is switched with Philip

Warning: I only chose this option because I thought it was funny. This poor nine year old is about to become Orsterra’s #1 most traumatized child.

Basically he didn’t get kidnapped by the brigands, but chased after them instead because Olberic did and he wanted to help his mentor. Once he gets there he sees Olberic fighting off the brigands and demanding answers from Gaston about Erhardt- but Olberic is also wounded because it’s been a long time since he fought so many people all at once. Philip decides to play hero and help, picking up one of the swords on the ground (which is almost like the same size as him) and rushing in to provide support. Somehow he wins, because he now has plot armor, but still wants to help after seeing how torn up Olberic is about what Gaston has told him. He had overheard quite a bit of the conversation himself, and decides that he’ll help Olberic find Gustav and Erhardt. Both Olberic and Philip’s mother go “absolutely not”, Philip goes “well tough luck I’m a Big Boy™️ and I’m going anyway”, and runs away to go to Victor’s Hollow.

I find the mental image of Philip being an absolute prodigy/beast with a sword almost as big as he is to be incredibly funny. Just the team goes up against a dude and they say “time to get our master sword fighter in here to help us” and it’s just some kid.

Primrose is switched with Yusufa

I want justice for my girl, and I will give her the spotlight she deserves if it’s the last thing I do. Also fuck Helgenish, all my homies hate Helgenish.

In this AU, Primrose had told Yusufa her backstory because they’re each other’s only friends, and Yusufa swears to help Primrose find and get revenge on the guys that killed her father. Flash forward to the first chapter of the game, Primrose sees the guy with the crow mark and starts chasing after him, but is stopped by Yusufa asking where she’s going because she’s supposed to perform on stage. Primrose tells Yusufa that she saw one of the men and Yusufa, remembering her promise but also not wanting Primrose to get in trouble, tells Primrose that she’ll chase after him as nobody will notice her absence and so that Primrose doesn’t get in trouble with Helgenish. Primrose is, understandably, hella reluctant but obliges after some convincing. Yusufa gets out of the tavern and starts chasing after the man. She gets pretty close to catching him before Helgenish shows his ugly face and reveals that he had taken Primrose hostage. He gives Primrose a very nasty wound (she doesn’t die) and Yusufa, in her anger at seeing her only friend get hurt, attacks Helgenish and kills him. Because of Primrose’s wound, she can’t chase after the perpetrators even though she wants to, and Yusufa swears that she’ll find them and kill them for her, just like she had promised to help her so long ago.

Is it obvious that Yusufa is one of my favorites? We love a girlboss. She also becomes besties with Lianna because I make the rules now.

Alfyn is replaced with Zeph

I feel like, like with Ophilia and Lianna, this is also one of the really obvious swaps.

Basically Nina still gets bit by the Blotted Viper, and because he’s her older brother he goes off to get the viper’s venom and leaves Alfyn in charge of Nina’s care. He does so, he gets back and makes the cure, bing bang boom everything’s peachy keen. Nina tells Zeph that, while she was sick, she had a dream (kind of in the same vein of the one Joseph had) about Zeph traveling around Orsterra and helping a lot of people, and how she thought it was so cool that her brother was a hero. Zeph, wanting to honor that dream and make Nina proud, decides to leave Clearbrook and travel Orsterra to heal people. He and Alfyn trade satchels, and off he goes!

We get development for Zeph’s relationship with Mercedes! Not a lot changing in the character development department, though he does go through sort of the same problem with Miguel that Alfyn went through.

Therion is switched with Cordelia

Sort of in the same vein as Olberic and Philip being swapped as I did this originally because I thought it’d be funny, and then I realized that it lended Cordelia a lot of character development and that’s always a plus.

So basically in this, Therion defeats Heathcote like planned but doesn’t fall for being hit with the Fool’s Bangle so he just takes the Sapphire Dragonstone and skeddales. Cordelia is hella pissed off and also distraught that the last of her family’s heirlooms had been stolen again, and promptly starts chasing Therion down. She confronts him, defeats him and gets the Dragonstone back. While the both of them are being patched up by Heathcote (Therion is only there because he has a begrudging respect for Cordelia and the fact she has a nasty right hook), Cordelia decides “fuck it I’m getting all the Dragonstones back myself”. Heathcote tries to dissuade her, Therion just goes “hell yeah stick it to the rich people” and teaches her the basics of thievery (she learns it terrifyingly quick), and off Cordelia goes.

I imagine that when Cordelia was little, and before her parents died/the Dragonstones were stolen, she was a very mischievous kid and always stole stuff from like the servants and whatnot. I also find it funny that you have this prim and proper rich girl, who will not hesitate to steal all of your money the second you look away from her (and sometimes when you’re looking straight at her).

Last but not least, we have H’aanit switched with Z’aanta

Our favorite old man with a gambling addiction, as well as his big cuddly direwolf buddy, fill out our last swap!

Honestly, this one is just pretty much the same as H’aanit’s. The only real change is that H’aanit was the one to go after the Redeye, because Z’aanta was too busy protecting S’warkii. He got really worried due to how long it was taking H’aanit to get back home and, when Linde shows up in S’warkii without H’aanit, he decides to set out and find her. His direwolf, Hägen, is just along for the ride.

Z’aanta does as Z’aanta does, and now the story is exactly the same except with more alcohol and more loosing all the leaves they have to a crippling gambling addiction.

Anyways, that’s the basics of it that I’ve got down so far! If anyone else has any ideas or suggestions or just wants to talk about the AU with me, feel free to do so! I don’t know if I’m going to write any sort of story or whatnot about it, but who knows what the future holds!

#octopath traveler #alternate universe #Lianna Octopath #Therese Octopath #Leon Octopath #Philip Octopath #Yusufa Octopath #Zeph Octopath #Cordelia Octopath #Z’aanta Octopath #Octopath Traveler: Another #Can’t believe I’m doing another story when I already have the most WIPS known to mankind

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lunar-insanity · 5 months ago

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So they updated Octopath Traveler II with a new mode, called Extra Battles.

I thought "Hey, I fought Galdera and won, and I set everyone back to roughly the way I wanted them. Let's see them!"

My reactions?

Spoilers for it below, but just imagine a lot of freaking out yeah?

------ "OOOOH SHIT! IT'S THEM!"

"o-OH DEAR GOD WHA-"

"WHAT'S HAPPENING WHAT ARE YOU DOING"

"HELP HELP HELP HELP"

"AAAAAAAOW!?!?"

"OH GOD THEY CAN BOOST TOO"

"WHAT EVEN-"

"I HAVE TO BUY BACK MY WEAPON???"

And that was with Majestic Mysterious Travelers.

with MASTERFUL Mysterious Travelers

"Oh boi..."

"PRIM WHAT THE FUCK!"

"hEY! HEY!"

"WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU STEAL MY ITEMS! THIS AIN'T PAPER MARIO!"

"YOU CAN TAG TEAM? WHAT-"

"PRIM STOP STEALING MY TEAMMATES!"

"Oh yep there's the divine skills!" "You changed j- WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU CHANGED TO STARSEER!!!"

"If Cyrus or Olberic does that we're fucked."

"Nope! Iiii aaaam done here! Noooope!"

I just- Holy fucking shit.

I am both ecstatic to see they brought back the Travelers from Octo 1 and gave you a rematch fight with Vide, but- HOLY FUCKING SHIT

I HAVE HAD THE FEAR OF EVERY GOD IN SOLISTIA PUT INTO ME

I'm gonna wait till those crazy speedrunning, no-nut-no-damage-low-level/level-1, bastards (affectionate) put out their attempts because oh my god xDD

#octopath traveler 2 #octopath traveler spoilers #technically #extra battles

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starghost-fics · 11 months ago

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Thank you for reading. Here it is, the last chapter!

Chapter 7—the disposition of their heart: Cyrus has a think, and he has a talk, and then he has a listen. Then the gang fights a god, again.

commentary under the cut:

my notes to myself to summarize this last chapter includes: "Cyrus finally achieves emotional intelligence" which is rude but also fair

There were a couple things from earlier chapters that I'm not sure came across as resolved by the end. But maybe they were, if subtly. Those being:

the conversation with Ophilia about Cast No Shadow in Chapter 4 — about the balance of light and shadow in the world

and the brushed over conversation with Alfyn in Chapter 3, in which Cyrus wonders if there's any point in (loving someone) in such a dark world, though in the moment Cyrus can't even finish the question much less answer it

the point of loving someone is loving them, of course

but also the gods looked down at this group and were like "they'll fight an evil god much better if they're honest and open about their feelings, especially those two dummies (cyrus and therion)"

also it is almost a parody of myself that the way to resolve a big weird divine event just before a big difficult fight is a lot of talking. lol

but like can you imagine two characters that more need to honestly talk about things than therion and cyrus, rather than respectively not talk or talk too much but about the wrong things

since i finally wrote a sequel, i thought i would explicitly give them a happy ending sort of semi-epilogue wrap-up, rather than the open-endedness of the previous

augh i love thinking of these characters long after their journeys, finally finding a bit of peace and growing old and settled slkdjflkds

ok thank you for reading, and for reading my little notes. I hope you enjoyed the journey!

#cyrus/therion #octopath traveler #cyrus albright #octopath therion #therion #fanfic commentary #fanfic #ao3 #alfyn greengrass #tressa colzione #fic: as shadows gather and gods move #fic series: divine intervention (god shit)#primrose azelhart #olberic eisenberg #ophilia clement #h'aanit #linde

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12, 20 and 25 for primrose? :]

this one got long so it's going under a cut

12. What's a headcanon you have for this character?

a cute headcanon i have about her is that she and tressa pick out all the different class outfits together! well, except for one. cyrus was very excited about getting the sorcerer job so primrose let him pick the outfit. she then never let cyrus pick out a class outfit ever again.

a second, less cute headcanon less having to do with her and more just having to do with her story is that the moment in chapter 3 when she was stabbed and nearly died was a moment that made the rest of the travelers stop and reconsider a lot of things. they realized that they hadn't been doing enough to make sure everyone's safe and vowed to take better care of each other.

20. Which other character is the ideal best friend for this character, the amount of screentime they share doesn't matter?

i can't narrow it down to just one. i really truly can't. she's such a fun character and i love her interactions with so many characters

her and tressa are probably my favorite primrose dynamic, i think they're very close and have a sisterly relationship. primrose's way of teasing people is really funny to me, and tressa always has an equally funny reaction. i also think that tressa was especially broken up about what happened in primrose's ch3.

i also love primrose, ophilia, and h'aanit's dynamics. im sure they have a ship name but i personally like to call it "whatever dykey thing these three have going on"

i also like her dynamics with olberic and therion. it seems like primrose and therion have an understanding of sorts at the beginning because they're both pretty standoffish characters. although as their characters develop i do think an actual friendship forms between them. with olberic they both start out in pretty similar places, spurred into a journey of revenge due to traumatic events in their pasts. and what's interesting to me is that while olberic's goals in his journey change and he ends up gaining a new purpose in life, primrose stays true to her goals and ends up feeling empty and lost (although i do think she finds her purpose again thanks to the friends she's made along the way). also they're demo buddies!!

i think primrose would also get along with the octopath 2 cast really well. primrose would LOVE agnea. she would be so happy that her successor got to live a relatively happy life :')... i think she and throné would get along really well too, and i imagine her dynamic with temenos could be really funny.

25. What was your first impression of this character? How about now?

she's a pretty well known character, so i recognized her when i saw her on the character select screen. i was so so worried that she wasn't gonna be handled well and be reduced to just. sexy girl character. so i was very pleasantly surprised when i realized she was actually handled relatively well! which isn't to say she's handled well 100% of the time, i will say im not a fan of how she's written in some travel banters, but for the most part she's a really well written character. laura post's performance of her is fantastic, especially in her chapter 4. primrose is definitely up there in my favorites now :)

#ask game #ot1 #didnt have a place to say this but i think she's a fun character to draw. she's got a lot of those swirly shapes i like to have fun with #ot1 spoilers

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