I'm Sorry Greninja, But Granbull Was My First Shiny I HAVE To Vote For It

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First off, spin this wheel.

You just landed on one of 200 fandoms that have been very popular somewhere on Tumblr over the years. Topics were chosen either from appearing on a @fandom end-of-year recap or from my own long (long, long) site memories before that.

also all of these fandoms are definitely things that really exist in the real world and none of them are Tumblr creations

Echoes of Wisdom: Zelda redesign turnaround 💞 I drew this ref sheet because I was sad how you couldn’t see her full outfit in my original drawing 🥲 Also I wanted to show what I think she’d look like with her little hood up~ 💜

A Semi-Formal Xenoblade 3 OC Post

May as well organize the OC lore from the other day into one post, and add some new stuff.

THE BASICS:

Name/Title: Shockwave Thea (name might change, title’s good though)

Gender: Female

Age: 7th term (16)

Race: Blade (lightning element)

Affiliations: Colony Delta, Agnus

BACKSTORY AND RELATED STUFF:

Thea’s generally a pretty nice person, always looking out for the others in Colony Delta. Doesn’t take care of herself enough since she’s busy worrying about the others. She refuses to let anyone from Delta be hurt, and does her best to prevent enemies from attacking in the first place. With Cammuravi dead, she became the commander of Colony Delta (don’t ask me where it is I have no idea), wanting to continue his legacy as a leader of honorable warriors. She and the others in Delta respect Ethel despite her being a Kevesi commander after she spared him in their first battle.

If she was a Hero, her quest would involve the party fighting the members of Colony Delta, believing they were the ones who killed Cammuravi. Her Ascension quest would involve the current incarnation of Cammuravi reuniting with the people of Delta (also maybe meeting Ethel, either way Thea is still the adopted Ethelravi kid).

CLASS DETAILS:

Class: Bastion/Bastion Warrior (2nd is a Xenoblade X class name and we need all the rep we can get, but I think just Bastion sounds better)

Weapon: It’ll either be a halberd (similar to Cammuravi’s lance but still distinct), a gatling gun (one of the Bastion Warrior’s weapons in X), or a flail (I just think it’s neat).

Role/Nationality: Agnian Defender

Specializes in preventing enemies from attacking. Has a Launch art and can inflict Accuracy Down, don’t think I can do much more than that without making her broken.

I’ll add art and skill names after I settle on a weapon, I don’t know enough to make effects/descriptions for them though.

APPEARANCE:

This picrew is good enough for the face/general vibes, don’t think there’s any character creator that could let me get a fitting outfit for her. Making her look like the lightning Blade that she is would also be a pain since I don’t think there’s any where I could add stuff like a core crystal, ether lines, or other stuff to fit the theme.

Thinking about the world for this Xenoblade idea. Initially I was thinking of an island world (either in a normal ocean or sky islands) but that could get too similar to Alrest. Then it hit me, cave world. People live underground in these giant cave systems. You can have funky glowing crystals and wildlife, lakes, lava caves, icy caves, weird magnetism stuff like Pokemon's Chargestone Cave, super dark areas, ruins, mines, there's plenty of variety for these caves. There's also the whole "why the fuck is everyone underground what's going on on the surface". Were they forced to go underground, and if so was it because of some natural disaster or the actions of other people? Is it dangerous on the surface? Do the cave dwellers even know the world above even exists? Lot that can be done here.

Haven't done much on the characters yet since I'd like to get the whole situation with the cave world and the surface first. Will probably have a starting trio like Shulk/Reyn/Fiora and Noah/Lanz/Eunie, trio of childhood friends. Mentor figure is also likely, might have a kid join the group, and of course there's got to be a Nopon in the group but I'm not sure what they'd do. 5-7 is the range for permanent party members in Xenoblade games so I don't want to get too carried away.

Aside from humans and Nopon (they are everywhere), there's probably other new races but I don't have any ideas yet. Another thing is that while the numbered games lean towards British accents with some American and Australian accents thrown in and X has mostly American accents, I'd like to think that the cast of this game would have their own accent(s) to help signify that this is it's own universe. Not sure what accent they'd have, I am unfortunately a dumb American.

So Xenoblade release dates

Xenoblade 1- June 10th, 2010 (2011 in Europe, 2012 in North America)

Xenoblade 1 3DS- April 2nd, 2015 (came out a week later in North America)

Xenoblade X- April 29th, 2015 (early December of that year outside Japan)

Xenoblade 2- December 1st, 2017

Xenoblade 2 Torna- September 14th, 2018

Xenoblade 1 Definitive Edition + Future Connected- May 29th, 2020

Xenoblade 3- July 29th, 2022

Xenoblade 3 Future Redeemed- April 25th, 2023

Dear Monolith please give us an X port or sequel in like 2025 on the Switch 2, it’s been 8 years I need to know what happens. It’s stuck in Wii U jail, you can’t even download the free dlc that helps it actually run on that system anymore. There’s a lot of stuff that needs answered, and even though it’s pretty different from the other games it’s still a good time. X was my first Xenoblade game I miss it so much and wish it was easier to access.

Just something to keep the blog occupied while I'm building the bracket

Same rules as usual, lowest amount of votes is eliminated each round. >50% votes ends the countdown with no future rounds.

Thinking about Xenoblade OC stuff again, and I'm thinking about Kevesi/Agnian soldiers becoming traitors and joining the opposing nation. Is it even possible? I have no idea, the closest we have is Shania who wanted to become part of the cycle, but we don't find out if she'd be part of Keves (since her ancestors are from Xenoblade 1) or Agnus (she was affiliated with them after defecting). I just think it'd be neat having someone who's clearly from the Xenoblade 1 world be part of Agnus, it's good sidequest material too. Either their current incarnation is the traitor, or a previous one switched sides and the current one has been part of Agnus from when they were born.

Thinking about a Persona 3 Arcana Swap AU.

Went to that wheel of names thing to randomly pick the new Arcana, here's the lineup.

Fool Fuuka

Lovers Kotone

Magician Akihiko

Emperor Ken

Priestess Aigis

Empress Yukari

Chariot Junpei

Strength Shinjiro

Justice Mitsuru

Hierophant Koromaru

Already decided on making Aigis a human and Junpei a robot. Priestess!Aigis is named Aina Shiratori, Chariot!Junpei might be named Adamant or Jupiter, or maybe I'll find a better name for him. Still unsure on the situations with Ken and Mitsuru (do they keep their original ages or is Ken a teenager and Mitsuru a child now), and Shinjiro and Koromaru (do they swap species, and how does October 4th go down regardless of what species they end up as).

i’ve been looking at this for a few minutes but I can’t see anything wrong with it, i’m just lost.