#Yuri lowell

[h34vybottom]

Claw

[camillabanilla]

Tales of Vesperia playthrough thoughts:

The Blade Drifts of Zopheir weren't as bad as I remembered. I really don't love the dungeon layouts of this game though. Worth it for Karol's story. Everyone in the team is so loving and supportive of him.

I want to talk about the scene after Yuri leaves the group for murder and falls asleep in the Quoi woods. Everyone finds him and beats him up. They have a very strange love language, these people. They're such a weird family. Anyway, I'm playing the JP audio version and one thing that just about killed me is how Yuri's voice is so obviously near tears when he's like "aw you guys" after they admonish/encourage him to trust them, because they all love him. So much feeling in his line delivery. Yuri's just this absolute weirdo, definitely actually a cat that is outwardly self assured, graceful, confident and all those things but needs to be loved and has a hard-earned trust. And his team is like "get loved, idiot".

Literally every time there's a Flynn scene I'm like "rejoice!". Honestly this game is so not normal about him and I'm here for it. I definitely am not the only person recently to point out Yuri's soft smile when Karol remarks how amazing Flynn is.

On to Zaphias:

Alexie is a POS:

Ugh he's such a smug and smarmy little shit I love it.

Also the main cast is preaching "no one besides you can define you". I see you, game.

Touching moment aside it sure was fucking absurdly hilarious to obliterate Estelle in battle. I was spamming Mother's Memento because I wasn't sure when it was used and apparently it heals everyone for a bit of HP! I never knew that.

And then HOLY FUCK the 1v1 with Estelle and that fucking sad song playing omg 😭😭😭😭 game stop it my feelings

Okay but the actual 1v1 with Estelle got me a game over twice. Definitely harder without other characters to absorb hits.

When it comes time for Rita to pull some nerd shit to save Estelle, we have all the characters being like "let me help, Rita!". And Ravens just there hanging on by a thread 🤣

AHHHHH RITA IS USING EVERYONE AS PART OF THE SPELL THING TO SAVE ESTELLE. The way Yuri catches her after and holds her 🥹

Whoa straight into a Flynn scene. The picture Ted drew of Yuri and Flynn is in between them. I never noticed how Flynn takes up most of the page.

So Ted drew a picture either of Flynn but had to include Yuri in it cause Duh, or of both of them and the impact Flynn has on him was much larger. Neither of those are bad. Or rather both because imagine what most of the lower quarter kids probably think of Flynn. So kind, fair, strong and handsome. It makes Karol's admiration of Flynn all that more potent and wholesome really. But Flynn and Yuri come as a pair, and Yuri is probably like a Big Lower Quarter Brother and Flynn is too but moved away and y'know, has a job and you don't see him that often so he's almost like this mythical figure or smt.

Flynn and Yuri: Would these two idiots stop trying to downplay their own impact and usefulness and just admit that they complete each other puhlease.

When Sodia walks in and is all eww to Yuri, he's like "I smell a biiiiiiiitch" and goes to walk out.

This rando guard fangirling:

Karol is chillin in the mess hall with Hanks and seeing everyone praise him and eating up Karol being such a good, young boss is so lovely. It wasn't long ago when Karol would have been so uncomfortable with all this praise. Hey Yuri maybe Karol could teach you a thing or two about accepting praise and loving yourself.

[lyerra]

sooo uuuh @merddynaladar and @magicmetslogic said they wanted to know what i've come up with so far with my tales of vesperia ghost trick au... honestly i dont think i'll turn it into a fic but it was sorta fun coming up with all these ideas soooo... here they are!!

The setting is in the late 2000s, in Pornic, which is a coastal town in France. Yuri is a café owner while Flynn is a young police commissioner/police school student. Both of them are childhood friends and see each other as family (since none of them have surviving family members).

As Yuri is closing shop at night, he gets mysteriously assassinated in his own café by a hitman and... wakes up as a ghost, as he sees his killer holding an unknown pink-haired girl at gunpoint.

Another ghost(?) named Judith appears and explains to Yuri that while he is dead, he gained powers that he can use to save the girl from meeting the same fate, as well as learn the truth behind his death; however, he will only have one night before he disappears. After he saves her, the girl introduces herself as Estelle and tells Yuri that she is a friend of Flynn's, and that something has seemingly happened to their common friend.

I don't have 100% of the details about what happens next, but here is a brief summary of the main events of each chapter.

Chapter 2: Very similar to GT's actual chapter two, Yuri goes to check on his adopted brother Karol, and finds him and Repede in trouble. He asks Repede to look after Karol, and returns to Estelle.

Chapter 3: Estelle is somehow suspected of Yuri's murder and decides to make a run for it (since Yuri only has tonight and stuff)

Chapter 4: Rita, Estelle's roommate, gets reluctantly involved in this mess. The girls (and Yuri) decide to look for clues at Flynn's place. On the way, they go through a construction site to avoid suspicious people (like the one who killed Yuri) and with Yuri's help, manage to survive weirdly disfunctioning electronical equipment.

Chapter 5: We learn that Estelle met Flynn through her mother. Estelle's mother, recently deceased, was a scientist, and she was apparently working on a secret project with Flynn. We are also introduced to Raven, a shady police officer who offers information about a case Flynn was working on before his disappearance: the case of the manipulator, someone who is able to manipulate others and uses those powers to commit crimes. Also Rita dies in this chapter (so Yuri can save her and they can actually talk without having to go through Estelle lol)

Chapter 6: Through a bracelet that Estelle's mother gave her, Rita learns about a mysterious meteorite called Brave Vesperia, and that Flynn is linked to it somehow. Meanwhile, Raven tells the group about Alexei, a powerful government official who could be behind Yuri's death and Flynn's disappearance. Judith warns Yuri that Raven is not to be trusted.

Chapter 7: In this chapter, Repede returns as a ghost to help the group. Moreover, Rita figures out that the thing Estelle's mother studied were ghost powers like the ones Yuri has; only her subject was Flynn, who was apparently able to manipulate people and objects. This description sounds awfully like the criminal discribed by Raven, which comes as a huge shock to Yuri and Estelle.

Chapter 8: Raven betrays the group and gets Estelle's bracelet to Alexei. However, Alexei manages to also capture Rita who seemed to understand the secrets of the meteorite better than his own men. Raven, who did not intend to get a 15 year old girl kidnapped, decides to help the group by telling them the truth: Alexei was the bad guy and he manipulated Flynn into a deal. Using this deal, he turned Raven into a ghost and made him the manipulator. Alexei is now escaping with Flynn and Rita in a submarine, and Raven manages to send Yuri, Estelle and Repede there.

Chapter 9: Alexei escapes and this becomes very similar to the og game: Yuri and Repede have to help Estelle carry an unconscious Rita to safety while in a sinking submarine. They are eventually saved by Flynn!

Chapter 10: This is my favourite part haha. Yuri, Flynn and Estelle have a heart to heart. Yuri especially confronts Flynn on all the secrets he kept (he literally died and became a ghost and hid it from him for like, an entire year).

Wait, what's going on? Basically, Flynn died about a year ago in an incident that left him with a meteorite stuck inside his body, turning him into a ghost. His body is now invulnerable but also he's dead. He possesses his own corpse and finds Estelle's mother who studies him and tries to free him from his condition. After she dies, Alexei is charged with taking her research for the government. He finds out about the powers of the dead and Flynn and he erases the info about Flynn but stuff about the meteorite soon becomes known all around the world. Alexei then strikes a deal with Flynn, telling him he will try to finish Estelle's mother work if Flynn helps him catch criminals and stuff. Alexei's goal, however, is to steal the fragment of meteorite inside Flynn's body. Flynn agrees (Alexei doesn't make him do anything too bad anyways or he wouldnt have accepted). During one of Flynn's missions, Alexei kills Raven close to Flynn's body (and the meteorite) and witnesses for himself Raven becoming a ghost. His plan for this night was to convince Flynn to leave the country immediately because governments had learned of his existence through a submarine. The plan was to drop Flynn's "soul" in the abyssal plains where there were no cores he could possess to escape and run away with his body (and the meteorite).

Chapter 10 (part 2): So yeah they explain what's going on and they realize that Estelle and Rita are going to die and maybe Estelle manages to get the boys to say some touching last words or something... And then Rita wakes up and comes up with a way for the ghosts to escape and get help through a torpedo.

Chapter 11: As they escape, Flynn, Yuri and Repede find Flynn's dead body, without the meteorite that was stolen by Alexei. They realize that now that Flynn's body is not constantly going between life and death, Yuri and Repede can reverse his death and alter the timeline... Which they do :D Also Judith reveals she was like, the spirit of Brave Vesperia or something

Chapter 12: Epilogue!!! The group is having a party at Yuri's café :D Only Yuri, Flynn and Repede remember, and Flynn introduces Estelle and Yuri, but Estelle remembers a little bit when she sees him and they tell each other how happy they are and stuff,, Alexei never got to learn about the powers of the dead and eventually was arrested by Flynn for other corrupted activities. Raven never died, Flynn and Yuri never died either, and they adopted a cute little kitten named Sissel :)

So yeah that was long. Don't hesitate to ask!! I have a lot of details that I havent written down here so if you're interested in this AU I'd be happy to expand on whatever you want!!!

[spudbud]

just some shitposts i've been saving up to buy something nice

[tatatasoma]

[megoomy]

i was possessed

[scarlet-flowers]

Tales of Festival 2024 Key Visual

[vanridgeway]

long time no yuri

[kawotari]

The new tales of festival official artwork is amazing omg 😭😭 Jade looks so young there it's killing me

[ritoryb]

[troofless]

WAKE THE FUCK UP EVERYONE YURI AND FLYNN JUST GOT THE GAYEST PROMOTIONAL MATERIAL EVER FOR TALES FES

I GUESS IT REALLY IS CONFIRMED YURI CHANGED FLYNN'S TAG TO BE ON HIS TEAM IM

THIS IS THE BIGGEST FUCKING BAIT EVER BUT HOLY SHIT

[camillabanilla]

Tales of Vesperia playthrough thoughts:

Heracles sucks. Just saying.

There's something special about the main group and how they decide to take Raven back without any discussion between them. Could you imagine how hopeful he would have been going back to them.

Surveillance cameras are a thing in this game. I don't know what that changes but I feel like it's significant to mention lol

I forgot about this guy. He's not my favourite. What is that hair even. Neapolitan headed mfer.

Sodia. Girl stop trying to have protagonist energy you can't sit with us.

Also I'm assuming Flynn was yelling like "hey we're probably gonna drown" after his ships rammed Heracles. Typical Brave Vesperia being like "byeeee".

Poor Estelle, she's such a sweetie pie and the whole group is so affected by her absence. Not just "we can't heal", but her entire presence. These idiots love their princess. Everyone is so tired, you know they haven't really slept since Estelle was taken. I love that plot beat, how stressed and overtaxed the Team is right now but boy do I hate the Blade Drifts of Zopheir. Necessary for Karol's character growth or not this is the part that always takes me out of the game. On one hand I do love Karol, on the other hand I feel like this is an odd place to stick his character growth, pacing wise. His big hero moment will be next time.

[ontheseconddayitrains]

Vigilante

[spudbud]

tales of vesperia is a good video game

meme source

[tatatasoma]

[hopeisour4letteredword]

🎲 24 Fluri

24, a sleepy kiss

obnoxious morning person bf