#Octopath Durand

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Project Path Action's 3rd set of prompts that I forgot to upload! These were my choices this time!

MAIN 8 (OT1): Primrose INITIAL 8 (CotC): Millard GUARDIAN OF THE LIGHT (CotC): Bargello MAIN 8 (OT2): Osvald 3-STAR (CotC): Manuel ARENA 8 (CotC): Tikilen EX/JOB CHANGE: EX (Valentines) Molrusso FREE WEEK (Any): Durand

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[ENG Subs] Durand's Traveler Story

Overall Game Content Warnings: - Violence, blood, and minor body horror. - Sexual and suggestive themes. - Various types of abuse, including child abuse. - Drug usage, including overdosing. - Crude language (our translations don't soften the language). - And more...

"Durand's Traveler Story" Content Warnings: - None.

Durand 4-Star | Fame | Thief & Light | Coastlands, Rippletide Original Release Date: November 25th, 2020

Full Playlist of "Traveler Stories"

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OCTOPATH TRAVELER: Champions of the Continent Official Durand Trailer (2...

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Huevember Traveler

Part I - Days 1-15

Some days have extra characters/versions, I am sure you can see that! ^^

I love participating in Huevember! it's so much fun to see all the colours! All the colours are so much fun to work with and look at!

Part II - Days 16-30

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I never posted about the new custom charms my brother and I ordered! Characters are Paula, Leon/Elletrix, and Dorothea!

I love how this batch turned out! The artists (Snow, Gem, and Prim) all did a wonderful job with each of them!

With these ones, excluding Ned (maybe next time!!), the "Barrad's Group" is complete in charm form!

Y'all have no idea how much I love them. The amazing freedom-seeking/seafarers group!

My headshots of them from Huevember + Bonus Baltazar to fill up space. He's indirectly a part of this group, thanks to his connection to both Leon and Elletrix.

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Sharing old CotC Fanart (Part 3)

From 2021

I got lots to share from 2021, so we'll do these in pieces and with topics that work together. First is just random, because I did draw more variety this year.

Shelby

Traveler Charles

Valentines design of Merrit

Manuel

Brigitte and Wingate

Pride Month Durand

Summer design of Dorothea

Fall design of Sofia

Ceraphina

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Since May is over, I have to post my chibis I drew for Mermay! I decided to do the "Barrad's Crew" group that I love so much. This was a lot of fun to draw, I enjoyed it!

Here's all of them separated now!

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The New Travelers (65-74)

It's time to post the new Travelers! I'm doing them by 10s. Characters in order are; H'aanit - Hunter/Thunder - Woodlands/Valore - Fame (5-Star) Heathcote - Thief/Wind - Clifflands/Cragspear - Power (5-Star) Narr - Hunter/Dark - Woodlands/Valore - Wealth (4-Star) Therese - Scholar/Thunder - Flatlands/Theatropolis - Fame (5-Star) Durand - Thief/Light - Coastlands/Rippletide - Fame (4-Star) Nicola - Thief/Light - Frostlands/Emberglow - Fame (5-Star) Cornelia - Apothecary/Thunder - Frostlands/Flamesgrace - Power (4-Star) Molrusso - Cleric/Wind - Clifflands/Cragspear - Power (5-Star) Kenneth - Scholar/Ice - Riverlands/Clearbrook - Wealth (4-Star) Tressa - Merchant/Wind - Coastlands/Rippletide - Wealth (5-Star)

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When I was working on Durand's Traveler Story the other day, Tizi was helping me out! I can't say his additions to the subs were very useful though.

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I finished subtitling Molrusso and Durand's Traveler Stories now! These two are part of both my brother's and my teams, so it was nice to see their stories again!

As before, I will talk about their stories and my thoughts on them for a bit. I'll talk about Molrusso first. Molrusso is a young cleric who believes heavily on spreading truth. This said, she despises when people lie about anything to her or to others. As a cleric, her main goal is to preach the beauty of believing in each other. Her story starts off innocently enough with her trying to track down a book. On the way of finding the book, she discovers a book she had when she was a child. The book is called "Wish Upon a Shooting Star". It's a book that tells the story about a start that comes around the Cragspear skies once ever 10 years, but is only viewable to the people that believe in it. Later, she meets a little girl whom she learns from the child's mother that everything she says is a lie. The child has lied about having an incurable illness to her mother and to Molrusso multiple times. When she meets the child again, she learns that the child has the same picture book about the shooting star and that the girl comes to the Stargazing Hill to wait for the star. Suddenly, the lie becomes real, and the child becomes faint with a fever.

Molrusso vows to find the shooting star in the child's place, so she can wish for the child to recover. After staying awake all night, they learn the "truth" about the shooting star. In the end, Molrusso has to make a difficult decision on what to tell the child.

This story, though when I first read it, I never had too much care for it, but as time has gone on reading it a second time, I can appreciate it a bit more. It's a cute story and really shows the determination of Molrusso's. She wanted to do anything to help the child, even if learning that the child often did what she didn't like, which was lying.

Now to talk a bit about Durand's Traveler Story. Durand is a happy-go-lucky and free spirited kind of man. He enjoys a good party, a good glass of wine, and a good adventure! His story starts off exactly like that until he has a chance meeting with a merchant named Lorenz. Lorenz is a bit of an opposite to Durand, but during the short time they get to know each other, they're friends. Lorenz asks for aid from Durand multiple times throughout the story to help protect his cargo from potential threats like pirates. Durand agrees because he is "used to dealing with pirates". After a few successful business trips, pirates ambush Durand and Lorenz. They're from a group of pirates called the Ocean Fang. Here, we learn that Durand was once the second in command to the group, but he had left after realizing he wasn't "free" with them. Durand longs for freedom and to do things his own way, and continuing on with the Ocean Fang was no longer his wish. With encouragement from his new friend, Durand manages to overcome the past with the Ocean Fang and he deals with them himself, obtaining the freedom he longs for. By the end of the story, Lorenz asks Durand if he wants to be business partners, but Durand refuses for now, telling him he still has members of the Ocean Fang to help become free as well. He does promise to come back to Lorenz so they can go into business together! <3

And since this is Pride Month, I want to take a moment to say that I ship Durand/Lorenz and I totally think they will be a nice couple together. I headcanon Durand as gay. The dancer lady in the artwork literally means nothing to this story, trust me. Durand is just a guy who wants to party with anyone who wants to have a good time. Here's my 2021 Pride Art of Durand from last year. It's a bit old now (as I changed my chibi style), but I still like the turn out of it! I plan to remake it.

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My 365th Day of Playing Octopath:CotC!

I've been playing Octopath Traveler: Champions of the Continent for a whole year! :D Time sure flies from when I first started.

I started, mostly out of curiosity of whether or not an older phone we had lying around would be able to hold the game. It did! Also because at the time, the developers had messed up adding Agnès to the game. In apology, everyone was given free tenfolds which was enough to spark for her! She was helpful at the beginning of the game as a character with revives. My Chosen One/starting Traveler was Aslyte, but I don't care much for her (not a bad character, but just not a favourite), so I chose to swap her for Iris, the Blue Dancer.

This is my team! My Brigade's name is "BLAZlNG". I used this team to play most of the game. After a while though, it gets a lot more tougher for 4-Stars to do. I did all of the 4th story with them though! Iris - Brigitte Wingate - Levan Narr - Lyummis Durand - Gilderoy Here's the 1st Anniversary Photo Spots of my team!!

My favourite of the Main Story is obviously Wealth (both Master and Giver). It has the best cast of characters, the most interesting plotline, and it's the most mature of the stories. I love it a lot. Here's a picture from the Japanese Beta Demo that my brother was allowed to play.

"Cattina." ----- The Bargello Family

Although, despite this is MY 1 Year Anniversary, I've know about the game for over 3 years! I've been a fan of it since 2019! Here's my 3rd Year Anniversary fanart of my favourite character, Tiziano!

He's such a favourite character, and I've drawn him a lot! I am aiming to have done 100 drawings before this year is over!

I think that's enough from me though. I continue to enjoy this game so much! Thank you for reading!