Big inspiration from the first two chapters of Trails in the Sky- I did my best to match the orange to Estelle's outfit, and the blue mark on the left shoulder represents her single piece of armor in the same place. ​

Went on a little Trails tour this morning.

I think I'm missing the Celdic market and a couple of others. Gonna have to see which ones. Cheers

Another line having a funny double meaning when you know future game.

https://x.com/keyv1q/status/2112605000971251716

I adore Daswani. If you have played up to Trails Beyond The Horizon, his development revolving Van comes full circle.

From not trusting Van, to getting an idea what he is about to finally trusting him after all the times the Spriggan has saved him. Perhaps he thinks Van has earned that trust and he now have another contact he can go to for reliable help.

Man, it's really hard to follow up Renne with another speculation post, but the good news is that today's Arcana, the Tower, has the most potential to be a fascinating Enforcer of any card outside maybe the World. Consider today a nice breath of fresh air to enjoy before we hurl ourselves into the "New Generation" of Ouroboros.

If you know anything about Tarot readings then you'll probably be aware of the Tower, because it's meaning is the one everyone thinks Death or the Devil is. The Tower represents chaos, massive upheaval, and change on an unprecedented scale. It's not necessarily always a bad change, but it's a widespread and irreversible change and that's scary in and of itself. While not always the case, the card has been linked to things like natural disasters, destruction, and trauma. It isn't always bad, but when it is, it's really bad.

The good news is that the reversed Tower is puppies and rainbows and... Yeah, I'm lying. When reversed, the Tower at best means a near miss and at worst just represents delaying the inevitable. The chaos will come, that can't be changed, the only thing you can do is avoid it or delay it until it finally catches up to you. Now, I know this all sounds depressing, and that's because it is, but the important thing to remember is that nothing lasts forever, and this is true for the danger presented by the Tower too.

So, who could the Tower be? Well, literally anyone. That's ultimately the thing about the Tower, it's a rogue lightning bolt, it can come from anywhere. But this does give us a bit of a hint. I imagine the Tower is likely a stealth operative, similar to Joshua and Sharon, but one that deals in more carnage than precision strikes. Something akin to a saboteur, able to strike with maximum damage while never being located, a kind of expert bomber.

I like this idea because it can easily be weaved into prior stories if they feel like it, and you know Falcom loves a good retcon. Jester was the patsy for Ouroboros' bombings of the Guild in Erebonia, but that doesn't mean they did it themselves, it may well have been the Tower unleashing this destruction. Did George create the bomb that was planted on the Courageous? We haven't seen him make explosives before or since, so it's possible he got the bomb from someone else entirely. With all the discussion of nuclear bombs in Calvard, it'd be interesting to have an explosives expert's opinion on what they consider right or wrong about the weapons.

This is, I admit, a very literal way to interpret the Tower. It could be a politician who intentionally causes problems in government, it could be an assassin who eliminates the most sensitive targets, it could even be an aggressive military leader, desperate to let slip the dogs of war once more. There are so many ways to cause destruction and chaos in Zemuria, that it's hard to say which one would be the biggest threat.

Give me your suggestions, your theories, your hopes, let's enjoy them together while we wait out the storm, because tomorrow always comes, and a new Star always rises.

Anyway, it's definitely Nate's Girlfriend until I'm proven wrong.

I Faced Off Kannoe’s guards, the Tank and Herself!
(And man, I was lucky that I didn’t get a game over, except losing to her guards)

And (Spoiler alert) Renne was evil and her real mom and dad… Was a robot

Man, I managed to finish before midnight!

Yeah, I'm definitely coming down with something. Not bad enough that I won't finish the month but will probably go back to just B&W

And recognizing all of them. Now I want to go back and try to recapture the shots from the paintings.

https://x.com/willfinyu/status/2018633821642698866

Love the jiggle physics man😏

[Ignore Freeza, he is there for emotional support.]

...and so is Josette. Here I show you how they both completely decimate Nightmare Lv+75 Loewe, WITHOUT NG+ accessory, death, item, food or droplet. Bladelord got schooled by 4 kids.

Tita also has the stamina to go all day long, was saving her Overdrive for Self-Maintenance but it's not even needed. No more Josette and Tita slander thank you very much, they're both S-Tier units 🙂

P.S.: My meme aged like fine wine

I love this game, I love this franchise, I love this cast and I love this trilogy and boy do the other ones have some MASSIVE shoes to fill for me.

P.S: For anyone who saw my previous post, I beat the boss with the same setup, I was just complaining because I was tired

with Estelle saying, 'I don't want to but i have to do this, only to just slap her, as if minutes earlier in gameplay, we weren't literally fighting her to the death

I genuinely laughed during the fight against him. Such a pathetic dork 😅