Downside of being in Gen 2 where a majority of time you as the player will not be picking Meganium, which leaves it to Silver, to be sufficiently wiped up.
Although I've recently grown a fondness for Silver with Meganium... And Silver just in General aha.
Ah yes with New Class Seven, who begin their First Year when we reach our Third Year with a brand new teacher who may be Elise who decided to graduate early.
An organization in parallel to the mysterious international syndicate Ouroboros from the Trails series, down to the organization - Grandmaster, Anguis, Enforcers. And like Ouroboros, the Enforcers take codenames based on Tarot.
As a bonus, The Head, The Eye and The Claw are most likely (because I will never say something with 100% acuity apparently) another Project Moon thing. Where in Project Moon they are tied to the biggest three megacorps, who are in charge of Laws, Surveillance and Enforcement respectively.
I am not so sure about how equal that comparison will be when turned from 3 corporate mega-structures down to three single people, but I assume the theming of what each does will stay similar enough. (It also reminds me a tad more of The Garden's structure then Ouroboros' as a side note.)
I was going to say, our precious enby baby would never kill a man, and if they somehow did it surely would've been deserved, and if it wasn't then they were under duress. They are too pure and good for this world
I was going to say, our precious enby baby would never kill a man, and if they somehow did it surely would've been deserved, and if it wasn't then they were under duress. They are too pure and good for this world
Ostia would absolutely kill someone, but it's not their fault as they probably are under duress like you said. Also they would hesitate if it would make Mary sad, but yknow, under duress so, not much choice in the matter but they'd feel bad about it.
Where in Project Moon they are tied to the biggest three megacorps, who are in charge of Laws, Surveillance and Enforcement respectively.
I am not so sure about how equal that comparison will be when turned from 3 corporate mega-structures down to three single people, but I assume the theming of what each does will stay similar enough. (It also reminds me a tad more of The Garden's structure then Ouroboros' as a side note.)
Since we've just identified a pair of the local mega-corps and the involvement of people at the top, I think this acorn may not have fallen that far from the tree.
Since we've just identified a pair of the local mega-corps and the involvement of people at the top, I think this acorn may not have fallen that far from the tree.
Haha... (Thinks about how Lysandre has access to every Holo-Caster in Kalos through his Company and how Kalos is one of the few Region's where we don't know what's going on with.) Oh fuck. He'd make a good Eye huh? Got that Surveillance down pat. And there's probably a comment to make about "The Eye" and his obsession with Beauty.
A necessary change. Just being bi isn't enough to get the controversy Olivert craves in this day and age. Not with the Champion living every girl's dream of being with Rika.
"You've made a life for yourself, a very impressive one I do say so myself. You shouldn't let a ruffian like him worm his way back into your world." Leaf has to stop herself from smiling as Clarice tries to lift her spirits. The kid has always had blinders on when it comes to her. A little one-sided crush since Sinnoh, though both of them know by now that it'll never go anywhere.
Never underestimate those royals capacity to snag alcoholic Bracers/Rangers (or is that why she's trying to go sober?). Just because you're Sara doesn't mean you can't be Schera too!
Haha... (Thinks about how Lysandre has access to every Holo-Caster in Kalos through his Company and how Kalos is one of the few Region's where we don't know what's going on with.) Oh fuck. He'd make a good Eye huh? Got that Surveillance down pat. And there's probably a comment to make about "The Eye" and his obsession with Beauty.
I think Lysander feels more like an arc villain for the guys in Kalos. The Ultimate Weapon wouldn't really be Ouroboros's style, and I doubt it'd be their expies style either.
They would never destroy the world. Do you have any idea how many schemes they still have set up? Wiping out humanity would waste so much time and effort putting an iron in every fire on the planet.
I think Lysander feels more like an arc villain for the guys in Kalos. The Ultimate Weapon wouldn't really be Ouroboros's style, and I doubt it'd be their expies style either.
They would never destroy the world. Do you have any idea how many schemes they still have set up? Wiping out humanity would waste so much time and effort putting an iron in every fire on the planet.
To be fair it's not like Ouroboros has everything perfectly in hand. At least two of the Second Anguis (funny how that works) wanted to basically enslave all of humanity, or worse. Even if one of those were going "off script" as it were.
And then they were, yknow... pretty okay with forming the Sept-Terrion of Steel and possibly causing the extinction of humanity by proxy.
Combine the two, and you have an insane Anguis figure, going off-script with the tool of mass destruction to kill everyone!
...Or we could just be in the X timeline instead of the Y timeline, and his goal is immortality at the cost of a couple thousand lives, rather then just mass extinction, who know, hard to predict those snake bastards.
I wonder if professor Sado/Turo are memebers of this organisation - and, potentially, the AI professors aren't. It would be a good break in a favour of heroes, a kind of meta foreshadowed deus ex machina - literally ex machina, in fact.
Downside of being in Gen 2 where a majority of time you as the player will not be picking Meganium, which leaves it to Silver, to be sufficiently wiped up.
Although I've recently grown a fondness for Silver with Meganium... And Silver just in General aha.
In my mind, Silver takes Totodile, an angry, bitey boi who learns to channel its rage but never loses it, and even more so because Cyndquil is easily my favorite Johto starter for both gameplay and design reasons.
In my soul, though, I stick him with Chikorita every time.
While Iono would be the closest thing to a major radio star, Vita Clotilde from Trails is a famous personality on Erebonia's Radio Trista, under her alias of Misty. Vita is a witch with miraculous magic powers and a part of Ouroboros. Sabrina is a potentially Rocket-affiliated powerful trainer with miraculous psychic powers, psychic powers strong enough to put her somewhere in the top 3 with Caitlin and Olympia.
I wonder if professor Sado/Turo are members of this organisation - and, potentially, the AI professors aren't. It would be a good break in a favour of heroes, a kind of meta foreshadowed deus ex machina - literally ex machina, in fact.
You had such a perfect chance to say "In my heart" followed by "In my soul" for the HeartGold and SoulSilver joke and I'm so disappointed you did not take it.
While Iono would be the closest thing to a major radio star, Vita Clotilde from Trails is a famous personality on Erebonia's Radio Trista, under her alias of Misty. Vita is a witch with miraculous magic powers and a part of Ouroboros.
...Y'know now that you point it out... Iono's ace is a Mismagius, the "Magical" pokemon, which looks like a woman in a stereotypical witch hat. Why does that fit so well?
Ostia being a UB Burst doesn't make sense in the context of the scene as presented anyway - Blacephalon only appears as human (and notably, a human with as close to a direct visual parallel to their true self as is reasonable to have) in the ShadowDistortion Weird Timestopped Realm, with the cracks proceeding it being broken out of it in the first place seeming to imply that it's a property of that space. In the real world, it's consistently appeared as it's true form, and was recognized as such.
That it does appear to be a timestopped space (or near enough so) makes the fact that it was broken pretty interesting for either reaction speed or psychic/magic interaction with it. "Jess" is mentioned as setting it up, whoever that is?
You had such a perfect chance to say "In my heart" followed by "In my soul" for the HeartGold and SoulSilver joke and I'm so disappointed you did not take it.
While Iono would be the closest thing to a major radio star, Vita Clotilde from Trails is a famous personality on Erebonia's Radio Trista, under her alias of Misty. Vita is a witch with miraculous magic powers and a part of Ouroboros. Sabrina is a potentially Rocket-affiliated powerful trainer with miraculous psychic powers, psychic powers strong enough to put her somewhere in the top 3 with Caitlin and Olympia.
I know this isn't the point of the speculation, but you reminded me that this universe's version of Caitlin is probably based on Manga Caitlin, which means there's good odds that the people present for Trails of Platinum got to see her insane battle maniac mode before she got on her permanent Valium scrip. That must have been fun, and I hope she kills Ghetsis with her bare hands now that she's on the Unova E4.
Some thoughts on my speculation after actually sleeping:
The UB and "Distortion Pocket" aren't COMPLETELY the smoking gun for Raifort being in Xanadu that I thought I had when I thought Fool was Ostia, but it is still the most likely explanation by a wide margin. Especially since
Arvis did mention that Fool and Ostia are related.
My response to this was that I cannot be held responsible for confusing Millium and Altina with no context and a lack of contrasting personality.
Every one of these Enforcers or whatnot probably has their own agenda separate from Xanadu, save for maybe Fool himself. I'd believe Raifort just genuinely wants to take a measuring tape to Gods, and Surge is pretty clearly just here because Gentlemen: he loves war.
I've also gotta wonder how long Xanadu has been around. Were they scooping up refugees from defeated Teams, or were these people always double agents for something greater.
I also forgot that Temperance was confirmed to be Sird so let me just go add that in to the previous post.
Ostia being a UB Burst doesn't make sense in the context of the scene as presented anyway - Blacephalon only appears as human (and notably, a human with as close to a direct visual parallel to their true self as is reasonable to have) in the Shadow Distortion Weird Timestopped Realm, with the cracks proceeding it being broken out of it in the first place seeming to imply that it's a property of that space. In the real world, it's consistently appeared as it's true form, and was recognized as such.
That it does appear to be a timestopped space (or near enough so) makes the fact that it was broken pretty interesting for either reaction speed or psychic/magic interaction with it. "Jess" is mentioned as setting it up, whoever that is?
"Jest" set up the Distortion Pocket thingie, which I took to mean the UB itself given that Fool is otherwise good about using codenames for humans, and other Pokémon fighting it breaks the overlapping, but it could be someone else.
I think there's Weird Science at play here that we're not privy to that lets Fool and Blacephalon basically occupy the same space on different levels of reality. It's not that one is the other, it's that they are synchronized in a way we don't understand yet. It probably ties back in to Combat Links or the other 38 ways human and Pokémon consciousness can mingle, but on a different level than what we can do with an ARCUS.
When I first read the chapter I too thought it was Ostia for a moment, and the shared hair-colour certainly didn't help, and then after realizing that it didn't quite fit my second instinct was "I wonder if Ostia is 'big sis?'" instead.
And then I discarded that too, because "big sis" was too gendered for Ostia but the point is, it was clear to me they were probably related.
To be fair it's not like Ouroboros has everything perfectly in hand. At least two of the Second Anguis (funny how that works) wanted to basically enslave all of humanity, or worse. Even if one of those were going "off script" as it were.
I always figured Weissman was on script. Even if he didn't actually know what the script really was. Or how it ended.
Campanella knew about Kevin's position despite the Anguis being in the dark, after all. Assuming no unknown and/or esoteric restrictions on what the Grandmaster can share (entirely possible, I suppose), she chose not to tell Weissman about the guy sent to end him.
In my mind, Silver takes Totodile, an angry, bitey boi who learns to channel its rage but never loses it, and even more so because Cyndquil is easily my favorite Johto starter for both gameplay and design reasons.
In my soul, though, I stick him with Chikorita every time.
That's why they're a villain. Not respecting the non-binary. Shameful, really. It's truly the worst crime they've ever committed. Easily beats the mind wiping and the murder.
Just as a side note, I checked the chapter Ostia's introduced in and I find it very funny that Ostia never mentions being non-binary, Mariana just gets the pronouns right in her narration because she can't tell if they're a boy or a girl (Pokémon Professor Mariana when?). While it's not likely to be true, I now firmly believe Mariana still has no idea and mainly just thinks it'd be too awkward to ask for clarification.
Like, on one side, I guess they know he was gonna fail regardless, but on the other hand, they still gave him the chance to achieve it, which isn't great!
Ouroboros Grandmaster is very big on letting things play out to her advantage despite people thinking they're betraying her. Weissman's new world order grandstanding was a fantastic decoy, so she just let Weissman think he was betraying her and then had Campanella loot his corpse after the "heroes" took care of him.
The only time the Grandmaster intervenes in other antagonists doing whatever they want is when the other villain's divergent interests look like they're ACTUALLY going to win in a way that will lead to her plans failing, like
The normal ending of CS4, which would result in Ishmelga actually winning (eventually). So she does some Undertale time rewind bullshit to make the True Ending possible/canon for her plans to continue. Or at least that's my understanding of CS4's ending.
Other than that, she much prefers for the problems of traitors and opponents to solve each other.
Like, on one side, I guess they know he was gonna fail regardless, but on the other hand, they still gave him the chance to achieve it, which isn't great!
Ouroboros Grandmaster is very big on letting things play out to her advantage despite people thinking they're betraying her. Weissman's new world order grandstanding was a fantastic decoy, so she just let Weissman think he was betraying her and then had Campanella loot his corpse after the "heroes" took care of him.
Weissman didn't even think he was betraying her. It seems like he thought she agreed with his aims, considering he says he intended to give the Aureole to her and even introduces himself as a loyal servant of the grandmaster.
But then again, it's not like Anguis can't be both loyal and traitorous. Considering Vita.
It probably ties back in to Combat Links or the other 38 ways human and Pokémon consciousness can mingle, but on a different level than what we can do with an ARCUS.
Im honestly feeling during FE 2, but thats because i want to spend like 3+ AP just exploring Mesagoza for new locals/mechanics. Also get closer to Renne bond 3
With Ruby and how much Roland has grown during the FE, we might be able to do both.
First the before-FE gym - the obvious choice is Iono in Levinica. Electric/Ghost is a great matchup for Roland/Ruby - Ruby being electric "immune" and Roland resists it. Roland might take SE from ghosts but also deals it out. The gym task is probably something city or social media related (it's Iono after all) and Levinica is a day's train ride from Mesagoza so we can turn up, sign up and come home in a day (or stay overnight, either in a centre or hotel). Roland might even evolve in 2 weeks, or hit 3rd badge level - he's only 700 XP off.
This leaves us Brassius during the FE, which is a tougher fight, but Grass/Rock is fairly netural to us, and a hard fight we lose is still a great growth opportunity.
Just trying doesn't mean we'll win. But Mariana has just been reminded how important strength is - this is the time for a unhealthy dedication to acquiring it.
but the point is, it was clear to me they were probably related.
