#rex xbc2

[lauren-ce]

Don't mess with a girl who can literally rearrange your cells

[yuujin-art]

Ungodly, an abomination even

[iubworks]

Mythra

[platinumamiii]

~ Shulk and Rex ~

[jdrider02]

After beating Xenoblade 2 again yesterday I decided to remake one of my earliest doodles of this journey 7-28-2023

(If interested in a getting an art like this(not free), check my pinned post. Or support me on ko-fi: ko-fi.com/jd02_)

[spiritsncrystals]

YGO x XENOBLADE CHRONICLES Doodles

If you're wondering why Crow is the only non protagonist here and is also dressed as Shulk it's because they quite literally share the same Japanese voice actor!

Otherwise, these are mostly just for fun rather than any attempts at an Au for any of these games.

Bonus Haou N that's not lined because I had a real hard time with him. So it's probably not that accurate

[goldmaster-art]

My humble attempt at redesigning Rex from Xenoblade 2, one of my favourite games and protags ever! Oh, and Azurda's here too!

[nevermoredragon-main]

We need to talk more about how the trinity processor are doomed siblings.

Just like, PyraMythra and Malos being forced into a situation where they are enemies from the moment they are awakened.

The fact that Alvis disappeared into another dimension for so long where he can’t reach them.

When the worlds finally combine again, Malos is dead, and the Endless Now fucks something up in Ontos so now he’s enemies with Rex, and presumably Pyra and Mythra too.

They don’t get a chance to meet A before the worlds have to separate again. Even if it’s only temporary.

[lauren-ce]

Never thought I'd see the day where I write fic for Xenoblade 2, but here we are!

"Confessions in Steam"

Nia/Rex/Pyra/Mythra

(Pyra and Mythra are sisters, don't make it wierd~)

Frustrated that her harem isn't fully established yet, Nia takes matters into her own hands during a visit to Smùide Hot Spring.

[aokozaki]

Sometimes a story only really Hits the second time through.

Xenoblade Chronicles 2 has a bit of a problem, similar to the first game, where the early hours lean heavily on cliche fantasy RPG trappings, before the plot slowly reveals itself to be more complicated and layered than first assumed.

So XBC2 is enjoyable enough at first, but it's only with full knowledge that the plot will really seriously Hit.

Like, sure, Pyra offers half of her life to help Rex after he dies, in exchange asking him to take her to Elysium. But it's not until after you know her reasons for wanting to go there that it hits you:

She offers to bring Rex back from being dead because he complains about dying, says he wishes he wasn't dead so he could go sock Jin in the face for stabbin' him.

Or in other words, he still wants to live. Part of Pyra, perhaps, is drawn to that very simple emotion...

[puppyluver256]

So the answer is probably "very yes", but has anyone considered a XBC2 roleswap AU with the Drivers and their main Blades?

I'm just imagining human!Pyra getting on that boat somehow (idk if she'd be a salvager like normal Rex) and then finding blade!Rex but blade!Rex is either Future Redeemed Beefcake Rex by default or close enough to Future Redeemed Beefcake Rex (and also I feel Addam would prolly be in place of Mythra and vice versa). Also a Gormotti Dromarch could be a fun design, as well as a Nopon Poppi / artificial Blade Tora :o

EDIT: Searched for it and yup, at least One person has dipped their toe into the idea...but in 2021, so they didn't have FRBC Rex to base Blade!Rex on so anyone who does it now could still go for that! Hell, even the one I just saw could pick it back up with FRBC Rex inspo now XD

[platinumamiii]

~ Rex ~

[jinmalos]

Actually, XBC3 Future Redeemed Spoilers Under here to do with something noted in one of the last cutscenes/people's misinterpretations

I think the big beef about why the Pneuma/Logos cores still being around/semi-sentient enough to "help out" is a lot because it wasn't explained, but I think a lot of people are missing a few points.

Obvs bc of my brand I gotta come in and defend Logos against the Moebius allegations before I get into everything else, but a big argument about how he and Pneuma being even remotely present "just perpetuates the xenoblade 2 feud" actually misses something mentioned. Whether Logos inhabits N's Sword or his Sword's sheath specifically, I think we are forgetting:

Z actually has no clue where it came from.

If it were to be moebius specific, he would know about it and how it came to be and so on and so forth. But he doesn't. He actively comments on how it's weird that N has it and wonders How He Got Ahold Of It. But he also Acknowledges Who/What It Is with his comment on Origin being home to "those who are as gods" in reference to the sword. Again, if it were a Moebius product, Z would know about it and how it got into people's hands. Even in the main game when Noah manifests it, X is irritated with both him AND N because the sword's existence is an inconvenience to every Moebius worth their salt.

Obviously that doesn't explain jack shit about HOW it happened. But Somehow N is running amok with the "Sword of the End" aka the Endbringer himself doctor sex (Malos/Logos), and Z is not exactly pleased but mot exactly troubled by it because it isn't actively bothering him yet. How did it come to be? Is it tied to the sword or the sheath considering N was toting around a Lucky Seven of his own prior to the Agnus Castle incident? who knows. My personal theory is that the same thing happened to Logos that happened to what i THINK happened with Pneuma.

The situation with Pneuma is...a bit more complicated, because of the ending of xenoblade 2, moreso than with Logos. We would presume both Pneuma and Malos were destroyed, but that wouldn't explain Mythra and Pyra's existence beyond that point. This goes more into what little we know about blade anatomy and how the Trinity Processor Cores of Logos and Pneuma interface with them. Seeing as they intake data, record it, and output it, it's very likely that Pneuma did a bit of a black box when handing Pyra and Mythra off to Rex. She took them, their essence, and just kinda yote it into their own vessels. Like a backup. They probably no longer had the ability of an Aegis, and I doubt they were more flesh- or blade-eater than they were mortal. That in and of itself doesn't get explained much, but I'm inclined to think the Pyra and Mythra that stay behind lived normal human lifespans.

I dont know what happened to Pyra and Mythra, but I do think that Pneuma was at least partially damaged. The aegis cores aka the Trinity Processor don't exactly respond to things the same way the average blade does. It's possible that while damaged, at least Pneuma was more intact than Logos was after XBC2.

I assume what happened is they were procured by someone (likely Nia) and kept safe as weaponry, because there's no way either of them would be fully functional as Trinity Processor cores (think: youve got 3 flash drives but only 1 of them is being recognized ik this analogy sucks its the best i got rn). Thats part of why Ontos goes apeshit and reverts to Alpha, after all.

Ontos has to do all of the problemsolving and decisionmaking that Pneuma and Logos did originally. The Alpha we meet is probably the aspect of Ontos specifically responsible for the creation of the separate worlds in the first place.

BUT, Back on the topic of the two other Processors and WTF is up with them. I dont think either of them were fully destroyed, it's likely they just returned to dormant states with no extant "avatars." So they couldn't just pop out of their cores and wander about and probably still even now can't yet, but they are probably still sentient and conscious, intaking info about the world. It's also shown they CAN heal each other, it's possible that if given enough time in Origin (considering it's an extension of Ontos) they'd just finish healing themselves and beat Ontos' ass as is their preordained purpose. But Again, given that Malos/Logos talked to Pneuma at the end of XBC2, I can only assume they're primarily non-functional and just kinda. sitting around for a bit inside their funny computer homes.

We know Lucky Seven is a Melia/Riki construct specifically and thats it's own can of worms, but I like to think Logos allied himself with N/Noah because he knew exactly what their end goal was but thats bc im a Malos Good Ending Truther. I originally personally thought that perhaps Noah's sheath/glove was Pneuma's doing, and the Sword of Origin was primarily Logos (and was just being held back by Noah's refusal to hurt people), but I'm hearing a lot about Pneuma being responsible for maintaining the Ouroboros stones, so if that's the case she's the one in charge of maintaining that power and the gauntlet is just Rule of Cool, and Origin metal is just something they can interface with because it's an extension of Ontos (currently by A/Alvis depending on the chosen gender presentation of the day, with Shulk and Rex taking the place of the other two Processors for a while to help out).

Although...Even though Lucky Seven and Ouroboros and such are metaphysical concepts given form, I'm inclined to just say outright that the sword itself is Logos simply bc it does monado arts oooo spooky.

But yeah. TLDR: Logos isnt allied with the Moebius he is strictly tied to N/Noah (although whether he's lucky seven or SPECIFICALLY the Origin Blade/When it Does Monado Shit) Pneuma is tied to either Noah's gauntlets or the ouroboros stones as a whole (although I believe the former rather than the latter bc its cooler imo), and they're used not only to beat Alpha back into place as Was Their Job in the DLC, but their job is to help finish up what Rex Shulk and co. started in making sure the worlds reunite. Also Noah is in for a rude awakening when he meets the inlaws and Mythra and Malos obliterate him for launching them into the ocean ok bye

[tsunflowers]

“do you think the wife who can’t turn into a sword feels left out”

Actually, one of the big plot reveals in XBC2 is that she’s unique in that she’s actually also a Blade (person who can turn into a sword/weapon), in addition to being a Driver (someone who can bond with & wield the living-swords). Rex does use her sword at points in the story after the reveal, but other times (and all the time before the reveal) she fights independently with her Blade battle-partner, a talking snow tiger that turns into Chakrams.

Side note: the reveal that she’s a Blade comes with the reveal that she’s actually a Fox-Girl, and not a Cat-Girl like she has been presenting. Too bad her Fox-Girl outfit in 2 is way worse than her Cat-Girl outfit IMO.

At least in 3 they basically combined the two outfits together so it actually looks good again (plus, she now wields her own sword plus water-y copies of her fellow wives).

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I love characters who are both a living weapon and a living weapon wielder.... it feels very bisexual to me. I didn’t remember which character she was when I saw her with the other wifes but now I remember that she’s the one whose English voice actor has a Welsh accent

[vanillahina]

I'm figuring out Tumblr...I think! Hello there, friends!

My name is Vanilla, I'm a French Canadian (tokébec icitte!) gal who's working hard to become a constant VTuber content creator. Drawing, writing, streaming, you name it.

I especially love creating content for the Xenoblade Chronicles Trilogy. That, and also Pokemon (including my OCs, though you won't see them here very often). I'm also a huge fan of Spy X Family, though I don't create content for it (...yet?).

Tags, favorite ships and others below:

Posts-related tags: vanilla streams / vanilla writes / vanilla reblogs / vanilla art / Poké Art / Xeno Art

Favorite characters: (xbc1) Shulk, Alvis, Fiora, Riki | (xbc2) Malos, Pyra, Mythra, Nia. | (xbc3) A, Taion, Sena, Na'el, Matthew | (Pokemon) Adaman, Irida, Kieran, Raihan, Sapphire

Favorite ships: Shulk/Alvis (Shalvis) | Melia/Fiora (Meliora) /| Jin/Malos | Rex/Pyra | Mythra/Nia | Taion/Eunie | Eunie/Ashera | Adaman/Irida | Raihan/Leon | Ruby/Sapphire | Twilight/Yor

[lizzxrd]

I've said pretty much this exact thing on Twitter several times already when that site was still usable (as in it functioned and at least didn't give you constant error messages) but goddamn Amalthus is such an amazing villain !!!

(now u guys here have to deal with my repetitive rambles bc I can't fucking regulate my emotions and properly process how much I like Xenoblade so I must scream about it somewhere or else I Will Explode <3)

He's such a great antithesis to Xenoblade's overarching themes/message of the power in friendship, trust, compassion and hope and the perseverance of the human spirit. And on a smaller scale he's also a fantastic antithesis to Rex. They both lost their parents at a young age, they both saw people commit some truly awful things. Rex's believe in a better future - in a literal mystical utopia - and his unfaltering kindness got strengthened; Amalthus succumbed to his despair entirely.

Also I absolutely love how he isn't just like that because he's weak spirited or whatever. His beliefs are a direct result of the Indoline political and religious doctrine. He's more or less a personification of the extreme conclusions to it (and also to some extent Judicium's general beliefs abt the world but unfortunately the info xbc2 and tgct give us about Judicium is just crumbs). I'm probably treading into some speculation/headcanon territory here. Indol's general social structure seems to be far more atomized/individualistic than that of other places in xbc2 probably due to its wealth while Indol is also posing as this beacon of virtue - a nation that must help others because it is better than them. Like, of course he doesn't believe in compassion and kindness. He probably never really experienced those personally and all of his most lasting impressions of the outside world were of people doing horrible things. And of course he doesn't treat Blades as people; that's just how things are. He's thoroughly adopted Indol's views of the world. Even his delusions of grandeur were a direct result of this.

I know that as a character he is a person with his own agency and he failed to ever question these views and I absolutely understand why people in the fandom don't like him; he's not supposed to be a likeable character. But as a narrative tool he's fantastic. He's a personification of a logical extreme to a fascistic theocratic nation which makes him such a good villain in the setting of xbc2 and just generally xbc as a series

I have so many more detailed thoughts abt this tbh but I'm neither eloquent nor smart enough to untangle that mess and express them in a way they make sense outside of my head but, like, you get what I mean. I love Amalthus so much and I also hate him. I want to tear him apart limb by limb but I also think he's fantastic