Question meme!!

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I was going to wait until Canary hit 2k comments but then I was like FUCK THE POLICE I DO WHAT I WANT so here you go.

SO YEAH ASK ME WHATEVER!! Currently I just have Canary/Polka.


but I mean I GUESS you can ask me stuff regarding other characters too.

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OH SURE I'LL JUST COME BACK IN A COUPLE YEARS AFTER I'VE EITHER DIED OF ILLNESS OR JUMPED OFF A CLIFF, WHOOPS

really though that would make her sad to hear since she still hasn't seen any real signs that she'll live past 14 in canon :')



Let's see, Allegretto... I have some issues with the way their romance (and really all of the romances in the game) was written, though it does have some pretty nice parts, like the scene I took that pastebin from. (You can watch the scene here if you want.) Most of what I take issue with is that you don't see a ton of development getting them to this point and by the end it's supposed to be ~*~true love~*~ or whatnot.

BUT as for Allegretto himself, he and his brother Beat are orphans from Ritardando (the port city that you can see from the cliff in that cutscene) who would steal bread to help the other orphans who lived in the sewers. He's headstrong, and while he tends to lean toward action rather than overthinking things (like Polka does), he's pretty good at understanding the complexities of conflict and the moral grayness between right and wrong. He also seems to already be crushing on Polka from early on, and he gets flustered and tsun whenever Viola makes fun of him for doing anything remotely romantic toward her (which she does basically every time it happens). He also knows early on that she's dying, since it's common knowledge in their world that having magic = you have a terminal disease, and while he doesn't treat her any differently for it, he worries about her a lot and wants to find some way to save her.

I suppose I could also point out that the reason I said it's supposed to be true love is because from the beginning of the game, you see her falling and talking aloud: "I must do this. And it's for the person who means the most to me. My life is nothing compared to his. Doing this is easy if it's for him." And there's a bunch of other small stuff hinting toward them being kinda fated to be together- remember that stone she quested for from Lloyd? Well, if you watch that cutscene, you'll see some of how that relates too...

WAS THAT ENOUGH. OR MAYBE TOO MUCH. IDK!!

Tell me about Colette :|a

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Don't jump off a cliff so you can grow up and date me :|a SEEMS LEGIT

HA HA OH BOY. So Colette is Lloyd's childhood friend! They grow up together knowing Colette is the Chosen, a figure of some importance in the Church of Martel; when she's sixteen a bunch of foretold shit will happen and then she'll begin the ~journey of world regeneration~ which, upon her completing it, will save the world! This is a big deal because the world is undergoing a ton of attacks by monsters as well as incursions by the Desians and drought, famine, etc; this is because no Chosen has succeeded in Sylvarant for a long time — conditions which also make it impossible to give the Chosen a ton of support once it's time for their journey, especially as it's traditional for the Chosen to only travel with a very small group of companions. Colette's birthday is an annual holiday as everyone celebrates her journey to save them getting a little nearer! She's basically treated as a huge symbol of hope more than as a person in a lot of ways, and she values her life accordingly — especially since by the time canon starts, she's known for a long time that when her journey ends, so will her life as "Colette." The journey of regeneration is to change her into an angel and she knows that when it's over, she won't be able to go back to her human life. It scares her a lot, but that's what you have to do to save the world and let's have fun till then :')!!!

Over the course of her journey of world regeneration she first loses her ability to eat normally, then sleep, then feel! Her eyesight and hearing get so good they're kind of painful! She loses the ability to speak after that, but throughout the journey, she keeps reiterating that she wants to save the world and wants everyone else to have fun :')!! and hides it until Lloyd basically pries it out of her and then ignores his promise at the last to tell the others what's going on. Still, they continue, because how else is the world supposed to be saved?? — and then the inevitable conclusion is that Colette has to lose her life as a human and memories and heart/soul entirely to become an angel; it's revealed once she's already an empty husk that this is done because they need her body to try to revive Martel, not to save the world. The world regeneration system is set up as a way for Mithos to breed good Chosen candidates to hopefully match his sister's mana signature and lose their souls so that hers can take their bodies, and the religious leaders and the Desians that have been putting people in concentration camps for generations are actually the same group! How nice!

...with the help of a group of renegade Cruxis members, the party (especially Lloyd) rescues Colette and eventually brings her back to herself. Which she's grateful for! But she never finished the journey of world regeneration, so Sylvarant is still suffering; it wears on her a lot as the game continues that she's a failed Chosen, someone who dared to value living over the world, who wasn't brave enough or isn't worthy of this. She hides it from the party when she gets an illness to try to keep from worrying them, and basically continually wrestles with a sense of self-worth and who she can be if she's not the Chosen who'll save the world. She hangs on to Lloyd telling her he wants her to live for herself, and she's really not over any of it by the time the game ends. In ToS2 you see her as more settled, hoping to continue serving the world in a new way and trying to help and change it into a form that won't encourage the kind of system that broke her, but her lack of self-worth in the face of the world runs very deep. It's notable that she's very much a deconstruction of the smiling martyr girl trope — the kinds of attitudes towards your own self-worth that it fosters and how damaging and isolating it can be.

this music video is a good summary of Colette as a character, for me.

Tell me some of your character pings!

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face in hands I really need to play through ToS one day. ONE DAY. I do have my gamecube copy lying around somewhere.

I THINK I HAVE A LOT OF THOSE, let's seeeee. what the hell let's do it in CONVENIENT LIST FORMAT

- Antiheroes
- Dark/traumatic pasts
- Internal conflict
- Literal internal conflict (multiple personalities etc)
- Fate issues
- Humanity idealization/envy (ex. robots who wish they were human)
- Cool powers (especially if they exist for some significant reason)
- Selfless/Self-sacrificing tendencies
- dumb boys Shounen spirit
- Big damn heroes
- Jaded, antisocial types
- Characters who serve as the darker foil to the more positive protag
- Loyalty that outweighs morality
- ...i'm sure there's more but i'm tired

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