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[gcldcnhour]

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[fulgurbugs]

Style swaps!

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Lineups :P

[satsuha]

happy 5 years of octopath! journey on, travelers 🐙🗺️

both octopath and 2 are on sale rn across all platforms so go!! buy!! them!!!!!!

close ups below:

[thequeenofvalkyries]

here they are in all their glory. medium: 14 point aida cloth stitch count: 18,682 stitches number of colours: 215 most prevalent colour: DMC 3371 Black Brown (3,485) number of single-colour stitches: 23

[blazlngblade]

Octopath Popularity Contest Results (UPDATE with the 1-20 results!!)

Remember when I posted about the Octopath Traveler Popularity Contest hosted by the CotC team a little while ago? Whether yes or no, I'm posting about it again!

For a recap, the winner of the event was...

Erika Edoras!

Second and third place goes to...

Cyrus Albright and Sazantos!

Fourth and fifth place belong to...

Hikari Ku and Bargello Ghiberti!

The placements of sixth, seventh, and eighth go to...

Temenos Mistral, Ochette, and Viola!

To celebrate their placements, the anniversary art focused on these eight!

Also because of their placements, the eight Travelers here get to have food inspired off of them at the Square Enix Café, as well as be some of the coasters that show more art details as characters are removed! We're likely gonna pick up Bargello, Elle, and Sazantos!

***October 30th, EDIT: This was actually a different cafe collab event! I don't know what the Square Enix Cafe is planning to do, but I hope it's something with the 1-20 results!

With all that said, let's get to the top 9-20 rankings!

9. Tatrocha | 10. Castti Florenz | 11. Therion

12. Ditraina | 13. Throné Anguis | 14. Shana

15. Rinyuu Crossford | 16. Auguste | 17. Osvald V. Vanstein

18. Tiziano | 19. Ophilia Clement | 20. Rondo Ravus

Since the Octopath Café always does "Partition Chats", I imagine that on top of the winners getting to be in them, that the 9-20 winners will be involved as well.

Anyway, that's all from me! Looking forward to the Café, happy with the popularity contest results, and overall the 4th anniversary has been good!

[justiceisoverr]

5 years with one of my favourite games!! time passes so quickly, i can still remember playing the demo as therion & having to stop myself because i was impatient for the rest to come out🫢can't wait to see where it goes from here ^^

[tim94oconnor]

WAIT NO I NEEDED THAT

[saarovar]

Hihi I have a question!! How would you rate the travelers’ ability to sing (both games :D) from worst to best?

Hiiiii!!!! :D This is going to be LONG. But I have thoughts again so I will answer it now! :D I'm going to group them within just rankings as well, kind of like tierlists but for... people like me who do not know how to make tierlists. (Oh and Crick is included because I like Crick don't mind me. :3) Here we go! (SEE REBLOGS FOR THE REST I LITERALLY BROKE TUMBLR'S CHARACTER LIMIT AND IT WON'T LET ME POST IN ONE THING)

TERRIBLE: #17: Cyrus Canonically, he cannot sing, referring to singing as "his weakness" in his banter with Olberic and Tressa. Maybe vocal lessons would help, but he'd need to find a teacher who knows what they're doing. He's the type who likes to learn EVERYTHING, so I can't imagine him just not caring and brushing it off. I think he just doesn't know how -- he can probably pick up on the relative pitch of all the notes, but can't translate what he's hearing into stuff to do with his own voice; he probably has NO idea where his range is and frequently tries to hit notes too high for him; he can do falsetto but can't really control it well; and he kind of just decides he's going to try to hit a high note now when THE SONG DOESN'T GO THAT WAY PROFESSOR. #16: Partitio Also kind of canonically. If I remember correctly he was kicked out of the tavern or something when he tried to imitate what Agnea does and sing to cheer people's spirits. I feel like he has NO concept of where the notes are other than "that high note is higher than that low note," so Cyrus actually has a better ear than him, but at least Partitio doesn't try to hit quite as many high notes. Partitio also doesn't really know how to do falsetto, and just sings louder to try to hit higher notes (which does not work as well as he thinks it does). #15: Ochette Well... she's great at howling... if that's what you're looking for. I think she thinks that "the louder you are, the better you must be at singing" and that is exactly how she functions. She doesn't know what she's doing at all, she's just having fun... much to everyone else's chagrin. The good news? She generally doesn't try singing unprompted. The bad news? She WILL join in if someone else is singing. The party often ends up with mysterious headaches coincidentally soon after a duet between Ochette and Partitio, which also happens more frequently than it has any right to. #14: Throne She's bad. She knows she's bad. She won't sing for anyone no matter how much Agnea tries to encourage her to join in when the party is entertaining themselves on the trail or during "karaoke night" (or whatever the hell they have in Octo-universe) in the tavern. She's completely tone-deaf AND she's anxious about performing, so if she were to try it would be a lot of trailing off and shaky words that are kiiiiiiind of close to the intended note if you squint. She can't go into falsetto at all... no one knows if she CAN'T or if she just ends up too quiet for it to work whenever she tries. Also she has managed to "harmonise" with Temenos in tritones before and has no idea if she's actually that bad or if he did that on purpose.

BAD: #13: Osvald Never tried to sing in his life. I don't know what happened to actually manage to get him to sing for this particular scenario, maybe he was mind-controlled or something, but when he sings it... doesn't hurt anyone's ears? But he's incredibly monotone, only drifting the tiniest bit above or below his default voice if he decides the note is higher or lower -- it's more monotonous than if he were just talking, honestly. He doesn't insert any emotion at all, and if there ever came a time when he "sang" emotionally it's because he overheard someone say something that sounded kind of like Harvey's name and he got distracted. He would never do a duet with anyone, and honestly no one wants to try singing with him (he'd throw them off so bad).

#12: Tressa She doesn't sing to be "good," she sings for the fun of it. Loudly. But at least she's kind of close to the notes she's trying to hit for the most part, though there are plenty of times when she'll try to go for a note WAY out of her range and fail spectacularly. She's another one who tries to sing louder to hit higher notes, though she probably COULD do falsetto with someone to teach her how, she just hasn't figured that out yet. She and Alfyn have a blast doing duets, and the rest of the party (sans Therion) doesn't mind her being off-key, they just are happy she's having a good time. #11: H'aanit She's another "I don't want to do it don't make me" anxious one. When she tries, she's bad at it, but it's more the "never tried to sing before" bad than anything else. She's closer to the actual notes than Throne would be, but her voice wavers a lot and she ends up drifting away from the intended notes even when she might initially hit them. She won't try hitting high notes, and she won't try falsetto. She gets more comfortable if someone sings with her though, and (if the other person is good) she might be able to match their notes on occasion.

MEDIOCRE: #10: Olberic He's not really comfortable singing in front of other people, and feels like he needs to practice a lot to get good at it. If he doesn't know a song well, he'll pick the parts he does know and sing those ones (kind of like when there's a song that comes on in the car that you kind of know so you sing along to the chorus), but mostly mumbles or is quiet through the rest of it. Or he might just sing the chorus and say that's the song, that also works. He does have that one song that he knows really well that he will sing if prompted (probably learned and sang with the other knights of Hornburg), but that's going to get old really fast... but the first couple times he did it were really good! #9: Castti She doesn't really sing, she just... doesn't have the time... yeah, that's it. Too busy going around treating all the headaches the rest of the party have accumulated from the last Ochette/Partitio song... because that is very, very important work, what if they get sicker if she doesn't treat them? Okay, okay, more seriously, she's just another person not comfortable with trying, because she worries she'll be bad at it. She definitely hasn't had any practice or anything, and that's obvious if she were to try by herself, but she actually CAN do falsetto and can control it pretty well, though she might not be exactly perfectly on tune all the time. She's able to follow what other people are doing if someone else sings with her, and actually sounds pretty good if she has Agnea or someone to guide her, but she can't pull off the same level of skill on her own... but the fact that she can do it with others means she might be able to eventually! #8: Primrose She dances, she doesn't sing. She knows she's not an expert at singing, too, and she doesn't try doing it in front of people because she thinks it will ruin the dance. She does practice her dancing while singing (or humming) the song she'll be dancing to though, and it sounds on-tune "enough" to her when she's doing it. But it's always really clear when comparing her singing with the actual song that she's a little off, and if she were to hum the song to others they'd never be able to tell what song it is. If she ever were to sing in front of people, it would be alongside her dancing, so there might be a lot of pauses in weird places because she's having trouble multitasking and finding where her next step is going to be at the same time as remembering what the next word is (she'd get better at that if she seriously practiced both singing and dancing for a show though). #7: Crick He might be good if he practiced and were more confident in himself, but as it is he can never seem to get a song right and it frustrates him. When singing to himself he's actually better than he thinks he is, and can hit almost every note without thinking. When singing in front of people though he freaks out -- his voice gets super wavery and he can't hit any of the notes right, when he tries to go into falsetto his voice cracks and doesn't work, and he keeps forgetting the words. He's "good" but with a missing ingredient (confidence)... or he's "good" if you subtract an ingredient (other knights and/or inquisitors watching him), but as it is now he's stuck in mediocre category.

#6: Alfyn He's... kind of good, kind of bad. It really depends on the song and how drunk he is at the time. He loves singing alongside the other party members, and he'll always be really encouraging to those that aren't as comfortable with it (without pressuring them too much), so a lot of times when he sings he's joining someone else, trying to heighten the mood, or starting something off for one of the more nervous people. He can do falsetto, but he doesn't know where his range is, and if something is too low or too high he WILL try to hit it anyway and sound bad, but he has managed to get some songs down perfectly if they're right in the perfect point of his range.

[confusions-shed-of-ideas]

Octopath Traveler 2 alignment charts 2: electric boogaloo

(Except I included the first 8 travelers too)

Some of them were. really hard to put in the different categories so I tried my best

If you have different opinions regarding where they should go feel free to share because I don't think this is really that accurate lmao (also I'd like to hear your thoughts :D)

[fideidefenswhore]

‘My master has withdrawn from negotiations between the duke of Angoulême, his son, and Princess Elizabeth, and instead pursued a dynastic match with Princess Mary, showing his allegiance to the Pope,’ Du Bellay said. ‘This is untrue. Your master stopped the negotiations because the king of England asked for the duke to be kept in England during his betrothed time to his second daughter. It has nothing to do with his allegiance to me or the Roman Catholic Church.’

Thorns, Lust, and Glory: The Betrayal of Anne Boleyn, Estelle Paranque

[x-heesy]

𝙻 𝚘 𝚟 𝚎

„𝚂𝚙𝚛𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝙳𝚊𝚗𝚌𝚎𝚛𝚜“. 𝙿𝚑𝚘𝚝𝚘𝚐𝚛𝚊𝚙𝚑𝚎𝚍 𝚋𝚢 𝙲𝚕𝚎𝚖𝚎𝚗𝚝 𝙼𝚘𝚛𝚊𝚗, 1920

𝙵𝚊𝚋𝚕𝚎𝚜 & 𝙵𝚊𝚒𝚛𝚢𝚝𝚊𝚕𝚎𝚜 - 𝙳𝚎𝚗𝚒𝚣 𝙺𝚞𝚛𝚝𝚎𝚕 𝚁𝚎𝚖𝚒𝚡 𝚋𝚢 𝙽/𝚊, 𝚁𝚘𝚜𝚒𝚗𝚊

[fulgurbugs]

Doodle comic - Path actions

[mrwoeful]

Tgere was a better lightened one but there was this fucked up spot I couldn't fix :( but yeah I wonder what these dubious little creatures r up to

(might draw mid-transformed augustin,,, maybe)

[apenitentialprayer]

St. Joseph is traditionally viewed as a saint of the Counter Reformation [...] However, as is seldom pointed out, the acts of the Council of Trent (1545-63) are in fact silent on the cult of St. Joseph, and his name disappears from the Roman breviary after the reforms of Pope Pius V (1568-70). Renewed papal interest in St. Joseph's cult is directly apparent, on the other hand, by the late 1590s under Clement VIII, and the next public milestone is the year 1621, when Gregory XV ordered that the feast of St. Joseph be observed as a holy day of obligation throughout the Universal Church.

- Carolyn C. Wilson (St. Joseph in Italian Renaissance Society and Art: New Directions and Interpretations, pages 1, 8)

[okaycoffees]

i still haven't watched nude tuesday (because i'm worried my heart can't take it. might die from horny) but every few weeks i go and watch the trailer again and it always fucks me up because i know its all gibberish but like, ,, that's swedish ,, and i know its not but yes it is. and that scares me

[lola-legendary]

@stars-and-loops MAVERICK I HAVE WRITTEN IT