#rune factory bachelorettes

[yorufi]

two favs from rf4!!

i would give anything to marry Lin Fa… even if she’s already married and has a child… please please ple- ☹️☹️

[kokomalls]

✨ rune factory gals ✨

everyone guess what favorite farming game series i've recently started replaying again :)

[runefactory-marriage-tournament]

RF Bachelorette Tournament - Side B Round 5 (Finale)

[croxxed]

Playing Rune Factory 4 Special and boy...I have to say I absolutely love it already. This is my first dive in Rune Factory and it's just so pleasing.

[ventus-selphus]

frontier(and oceans too) is such a slept on game

[aashiyancha]

I FOUND A SHEET WITH ALL THE OFFICIAL RF5 CHIBIS

AND IMMEDIATELY WAS COMPELLED TO DROP EVERYTHING AND GET MY GRUBBY LITTLE HANDS ALL OVER IT

Edit: I separated each row to be its own sheet because it's so much easier to see them when they are bigger( ´∀`)

[deedjre]

i feel like i keep making generic halfbodies but this might be bc of all the halfbodies i made in july.

anyway!!! clorica!! i remembered that i drew her a long time ago when i was younger but i didnt feel like searching my art folders so i just drew her eepy like this.

[avzplays]

Marian is such a fun character LOL Unstoppable queen!

[chandellite]

struck by the urge to redesign all the rf4 swimsuits. I dont hate them, but just I think they're kinda boring in comparison to the rf3 designs. they all look way too similar, and I feel like they dont really express the characters' personality/fashion sense(?) very well.

[silverdragon-imagines-blog]

Okay, just some Rune Factory 4 things for now

I can see Margaret eventually being the one to ask Forte out, since Margaret seems like someone who would say what’s on her mind and isn’t afraid to say how she feels. Margaret feels safe with Forte, and Forte feels stronger around Margaret. They talk and grow closer until they are able to decide what to do next. 

Doug and Dylas are rivals to lovers for sure. It doesn’t click how much they actually care about each other until Doug gets badly injured in the second arc of the game. After that whole mess, they’re basically inseparable. Dylas definitely worries about Doug a lot, but he’s willing to give him space and such. Also can and will call Doug out on his bullshit. Doug does the same for Dylas and they just end up closer until eventually they get married. Dylas probably opens his own restaurant or takes over for Porcoline. 

As for everyone else, I can see a few relationships clicking and making sense, but they are so much less concrete.

I could see Arthur ending up with a few different people, or even in a polycule. Leon could be a good match, starts with the usual teasing and friendly banter until they grow to enjoy each other’s company more and more. Then it’s just the logical next step to Arthur. Another one would be Dolce, and that just cuz I can see her sitting in his office as a quiet place for her to do her sewing/knitting/embroidery while Arthur does paperwork. Mutual respect for each other then grows into a nice little friendship where they have tea and breakfast in the early morning before Porcoline opens the restaurant fully. Then it’s again, the logical next step. The three of them together also makes sense, just following a similar path where Leon jokes and teases both of them, and then it progresses. 

Amber I’m very unsure about, but maybe it would be cute if she was with Kiel? Something about exploring the world together and going on their own type of adventure.

For Clorica, Xiao Pai, and Vishnal I really have no idea who would fit for them. Like, I guess I could see the three of them together? But I couldn’t tell you how that would go. The more I play Rune Factory 5 tho, I could see some of them getting together with the characters from Rune Factory 4. I’ll have to play the game more to tell for sure tho.

[brinaanana]

[ Reblogs/ sharing appreciated!!] Hello guys!! My shop is finally open!!! The rf4 bachelor charms plus additional fe fates items are now available for preorders <3

The rf4/rf5 bachelorette charms from last year are also available~~ please get them while you can!!

Link to store

As always, each Rune Factory order comes with a bonus print and stickers. The sticker set(s) you will receive will depend on which charm set(s) you ordered from. There is a limited number of them in stock, so its first come first serve!

[avenger-concerto]

Major Rune Factory ramble and rant to get it off my system before 2024 ends.

This is just me airing out some dirty Rune Factory laundry before the year ends so I can get it off my chest and start a new, as Rune Factory Guardians of Azuma comes up. It'll be one big tl;dr so if you don't wanna read then you are far from obliged to do so but if you want, then sure thing.

I wanted to write something sincere and honest that isn't just a jab meme with a predictable punchline.

Really, this is just me speaking aloud not just about Rune Factory but about the nature of writing in farm sims. I dunno. It's the last day of 2024. I've done my New Years cleaning and I'm bored.

So, RF fans and by extension, Bokujo fans keeping saying "We need Rromanceable MILFs" but I think they just mean more bachelorettes in Rune Factory that visibly not just look but also behave like adults.

I'm aware short / young looking / petite adults exist too (Xiao Pai in 4 looks visibly young but she constantly makes it a point to Lest that she's their senior while they're dating) and that younger players may also get into the series for the first time but let's not forget the series' history so we can learn and observe how it can evolve and progress in the future. It's easy to forget that Rune Factory used to pander to otaku in Japan long before they realized it had a huge market with female players and an international audience.

Granted, RF1-RF2 were very tame and the latter game I remember attracting a lot of fanart of the male characters and it sowed the seeds for an interest in potential bachelors. Which is a sharp contrast to Rune Factory Frontier, which up its tropes like a trashy 2000s harem romcom anime with features that wouldn't fly well today e.g. choosing to "accidentally" walk in or peep on the bachelorettes' changing room by the beachside or the discourse surrounding Eunice's story arc but that's another can of worms unrelated to this post. The Rune Factory 4 manga that was published in Dengeki Maoh back in 2012 had a lot of skeevy fanservice that would not align well with the series image nowadays.

"But it's in anime style, so female characters will look young by default" It's true. Especially with Minako Iwasaki as the artist, as much as I love her art. But that's not always the case. Fire Emblem mainlines or Hoyoverse gacha games (Genshin, Honkai Impact 3rd, Honkai Star Rail, Zenless Zone Zero) can and have designed adult female characters who visibly look and act like adults. (just posting Ruan Mei from HSR and Shamir from FE:3H as examples) And not just their designs or mannerisms either, I mean like... more heavier, hard hitting and mature storylines. I feel like 5 lacked it in that department compared to the feels coasters that were the marriage candidate sub events in RF4. But then again, it's probably weird to be asking for a revenge story or a tale of redemption and loss in a fantasy farm life sim but this is just me rambling on.

I don't want to say I've "outgrown" Rune Factory or anything. Cozy life sim games are such a comfort to me and I'm well aware a meme I posted then deleted yesterday resonated a misleading message but knowing 5 gave men likers Murakumo but kept Misasagi or Elsje off limits was weird.

I know 5 was just one entry in the series. I know bachelor and bachelorette rosters are variable depending on the game. Tides had a wide variety of designs while its bachelors fell flat because they were last minute. I personally felt like 5 had far more better designed bachelors than 4 did and 4's bachelorettes felt more balanced compared to 5.RF GoA and RF6 could turn out differently with their own sets of marriage candidates but the problem with RF5 was that they designed and wrote bachelorettes as if it was a game released in the late 2000s and early 2010s in 2021-2022.

RF Guardians of Azuma releases next year and RF6 will presumably align with the series' 20th anniversary window in 2026 so we'll see how the series. I know romance and marriage aren't the only things that define Rune Factory games but I feel people should be more open to discussing what makes them uncomfortable with the series instead of handwaving it because of X or Y.

I go on benders like this because I grew up with Rune Factory as the title that introduced me to cozy life sims. It has a special place in my heart. I was in high school when I first got into the series but even then I could tell that the candidates looking young may have had nothing to do with my age, probably due to a combination of artstyle and who Marvelous/Neverland were pandering to at the time.

Granted, my experience getting into the series won't be 1:1 with others so I can't speak for them and hell, maybe I'm wrong too but I do feel like "hey, maybe put more effort into the series' female characters" shouldn't be a hot take that can be dismissed with it being a cozy life sim or that kids play these games too.

That being said, I still haven't and will never forgive the garbage writing they gave Xiao Pai in her main marriage proposal event. RF4 treats her pretty horribly and it's always kinda weird when I read people going on about how "we should have married Lin Fa and adopted Xiao Pai instead" when in her romantic dialogue, she's brought up how she's older than Lest (in the JP script, she specifies by two years) which brings me to my next point....

I think ultimately it also has to do with the fact that the characters we play as in Rune Factory are pretty young themselves. In games like Potion Permit, the My Time At games, Fields of Mistria, Sun Haven, and Stardew Valley, we are blank slates we can easily customize to our liking with our headcanons and whatnot.

Rune Factory... the self inserting begins and ends once we choose a name for our protagonists. RF protagonists are usually their own characters and any dialogue choice prompt we are given with them aligns with their base personality.

Raguna was pretty "vanilla" in RF1 but had shades of 2000s harem romcom protag vibes in Frontier. Kyle in RF2 was more or less similar to RF1 Raguna imho. Aaron and Aria played the role of precarious and rowdy kids seeking to go save their father. Micah in RF3 comes off as a mild-mannered but somewhat deadpan snarker in the face of Sharance and the Univir Settlement's antics. RF4's Lest and Frey are defined by their devotion, trust, and loyalty to their friends. RF5's Alice and Ares have this air of skepticism and caution that I haven't really seen with Lest or Frey. Aden is the reckless, hotheaded shonen hero with his childhood friend, Sonja, as the fussy but well-intentional voice of reason in Tides/Oceans. A lot of male protags in RF are written to be "boyish" and "inexperienced" hence why older adults in these towns don't seem like immediate options but Ares can also marry Murakumo and Lucas so really, at this point I probably shouldn't think too hard about it.

I don't really have anything else to say aside that I like cozy life sims a bit too much and Fields of Mistria is a blast so far. I think Celine, Reina, and Valen are my favorite bachelorettes so far but I like all the bachelors and bachelorettes really. I really do think Olric will be added as a post-release bachelor in an update or patch after the full thing comes out.

Thanks for coming to my TED Talk. Here's to 2025 and more Rune Factory games to come.

[sowffskrungliez]

Scene of Alice braiding Ludmila's hair in the morning :)

This is sorta old art from 2 years ago that I did for an official Rune Factory 5 art contest that I didn't win, but it was a very fun project that helped to push me out of my zone!(which is doing backgrounds lol) Also Ludmila was and always will be my fav bachelorette <3 my queen <3 my wife <3

[runefactory-marriage-tournament]

RF Bachelorette Tournament - Finale

The final round of the bachelorette bracket! A three-way battle between Forte, the winner of Side A; and Raven and Dolce, the tied winners of Side B.

[lilaroxa]

RF1: Year 1 - Spring 8

During Raguna's second week in Kardia, he started giving gifts to the lovely residents.

Although Mei's LP raising days are very restrictive (her birthday, Fishing Day, Sacred Night, and Spring Festival), I had to test for myself to see if the guides were factual (they were).

But her reaction to you giving her a fish always gets a chuckle out of me.

I know was considered to be one of the two "secret" bachelorettes in this game, so raising her LP was not supposed to be easy. But I wonder if there is any hidden Japanese cultural significance behind her reason for being so difficult to court.

Personally, I think Mei is someone Raguna needs to tell explicitly that his actions towards her are romantic (perhaps she thinks Raguna is "too young/immature" for her and brushes off any other gifts given throughout the year).

Aside from the traditional "romance festivals", the only other days her LP will increase is by gifting her Baked Rice Balls on her birthday or by giving her up to 10 fish on Fishing Day (a Sabrina and Mei exclusive event). From my own experience, the majority of LP I gained with her was on Fishing Day, which leads me to believe that she appreciates quality time above all else.

But I'll get more into my thoughts on Fishing Day when we get there in my blanket!

As for now, Row 8 goes to Mei and her fish-shaped heart!

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