#OT2 Spoilers

[drainbangle]

can you ever picture someone clearly if you love them

[not romantic ship]

[smilepebble]

actually, its completely okay that the ot1 travelers absolutely kicked my ass into next week. because at least they were having fun and being themselves

[aptericia]

oops I got unhinged about a blorbo again.

[nightowlqueen]

Mr. Roque is so lucky Partitio believes in second chances

cause if some capitalist fuck swindled my town out of our land, stole all the profits from our hard work, pushed our town into such soul crushing poverty we were literally starving, ran a fucked up company town, blatantly backed out of the deal he made and was contractually obligated to, publicly announced his intention to sell the steam engine to militaries to revolutionize war, and then tried to kill me with a train?

to the guillotine with you sir

[patchworkmirage]

pride month

[stratecheez]

" Purebalm, scalebark leaf, skybalm, santanejo blossom... and finally snowdrop petals " A castti poster thing, i tried my best i hope u guys like T^T

oh and symbolism was like castti cutting of her illusions of malaya while they give her guidance one last time... kinda thing

[nyankocatnyan]

Bad shepherd.

[viridiave]

ot2 is about overcoming despair (the overview)

Below is a list of disjointed topics tryna tackle the overall themes of Octopath Traveler 2 in an attempt to salvage all the notes I lost while trying to write the Temenos essay

MIGHT become a masterlist once they're filled with substance EITHER WAY YOU'RE GETTING HIT WITH SPOILERS

edit: it's. probably better to view this on a blog I really hate Tumblr editing sometimes.

edit 2: i gave up. I really hate Tumblr editing.

OCHETTE

CASTTI FLORENZ

THRONE ANGUIS

OSVALD V. VANSTEIN

PARTITIO YELLOWIL

AGNEA BRISTARNI

TEMENOS MISTRAL

HIKARI KU

[tarn-ati0n]

Trousseau irl:

Diversity win! The Bioterrorist who destroyed your hometown is Aromantic!

[reiveriie]

love this guy

[silvercat-the-daydreamer]

so i went ahead and went through all the sprites and textures in ot2. found smth interesting (as if all the various textures in the game aren't interesting lol), for some reason there's a folder with old screenshots from some points in development?

well, firstly there's- world's worst pathetic fucking tiny sacred guard headquarters. couldn't even afford roof textures. featuring my girl kaldena ofc.

and now for smth a little more interesting (to others. kaldena is always interesting to me), there's this screenshot from the start of temy's stormhail chapter where the mint writes a letter to him. (for some reason it's still got that window title bar at the top??)

so here, she calls him veritas. in fact, none of the screenshots call him temenos, just veritas. suppose they didn't really have a name for him yet at that point and picked a placeholder name, but vados, the mint and crick (whose names appear in the same screenshots as his) do get to have their real names. of course, this name fits with temy's whole truth thing, but, as a friend said, it's a little too on the nose.

and one more thing:

there's 8 statues here instead of 2!! they all look the same yes. i assume they wanted to change them to the other god statues but just removed them? maybe because it would cover some npcs or smth? it certainly would have made more sense to have all of them there instead of just... 2. well fuck man maybe someone stole them... or smth. but my god for a world with at least 8 gods they sure like to focus only on One (1) god. maybe 2.

i've nothing particular to say anymore but if you want to take a look at them yourself here's the link for these screenshots. a lot of them are temy related for some reason.

[drainbangle]

obsessed with them

[smilepebble]

funny octopath textposts part 2: ot2 edition

[part 1]

[aptericia]

🤔🤔🤔

also these

[nightowlqueen]

Dolcinaea Boss Fight had no fucking business being that difficult for a battle that is only metaphorically happening

[i-hate-gravel]

my thoughts about Osvald Octopath Traveler 2, the guy of all time

his entire character is the most tragic and hysterical thing to me. what if there was a guy so autistic about math and magic he equations his way into harnessing the fundamental forces of the universe or whatever. also he's a dilf and loves his family.

oh yeah also his story starts with him MUZZLED and FALSELY IMPRISONED for the murder of his own wife and child. the first thing you do with this epitome of academia is MUG AND ROB A MAN, and its one of his MAIN MECHANICS as a characters

if you start the story with Throné the way i did you find him passed out in the bushes after he escapes by making a friend and then having that friend immediately SACRIFICE HIMSELF for him.

he only drinks black coffee and is pretentious about it canonically

SPOILER SHIT BELOW

i feel like the horrors he endures are so insanely next level compared to the average party member? like they have their problems (Hikari fights a full out war???) but there is a certain depth and horror embedded in "hey Osvald I framed you for the murder of your wife and child and got you sent to prison for it so I could steal your life's work and respected position as a professor. Also your daughter's still alive but I've brainwashed her to believe that I'm her father instead of you. Also your wife? Yeah I took her FUCKING SOUL AND PUT INTO THIS GOLEM THAT IVE COMMANDED TO KILL YOU. toodles i'm off to sacrifice your daughter to achieve forbidden power." that cannot be matched.

like i genuinely had to stop playing for a while and just put my switch down in complete shock as I realized what was happening. the writing in octopath 2 wasn't always great with all of the stories but oh my god when it hit it fucking HIT

he wears a rope as a belt, which at a certain point in his journey is something he could definitely fix, but i believe chooses not to

maybe he can't see it when he looks down because of his massive fucking naturals metal collar and chain. which he also chooses to keep on.

i utterly detest the stereotype of 'autistic and good at math/comparable things but struggles with emotions' that burdens so many characters esp because he has a full. wife and child and i would also hit that but like there's no way he was as emotionally closed off before the events of the story as he is when we encounter him so i choose to believe his regression in emotion maturity to how he considers the world and people around him is purely a trauma response and survival tactic in prison, hence how it is through meeting the party and traveling with them that he unravels his defenses and relearns how crucial love is to True Magic and he does it all for his family oh my god

what a nerd ass loser i love him