#i NEED LEONAS SSRS THIS SUMMER

[hyuckonia]

i am in fact: grinding the entire tsum event right now the day it ends (knew it)

i have also: done so many lessons my game just crashed

thanks to: that one ace groom card that carried in that last battle

[nakunakunomi]

Hi Hazel! I've been well and summer has been nice. I feel like it's passing by so quickly, I can't believe it's almost fall again soon. Can you believe we're already more than halfway through 2023? Soon it'll be a new year :O. But how have you been? Hope you've been enjoying the warm weather and have been taking care of yourself!

And yes! I am hoping you'll get all the cards you want! I'm giving you all my twst gacha luck! It's so hard to prioritize when they release so many nice cards at once ;-;

I hope you have a great rest of July and remember to drink lots of water! -berry anon

Hiya Berry! Super glad to hear you've been enjoying the summer!

The weather has been not too good over here, having major fall vibes already as it has rained really badly most of July 😩 but I have been enjoying my break as much as I can with a messed up foot! I cannot believe we're halfway through the year again, time really does fly. Currently on a weekend getaway, enjoying the quiet before I need to get back to start working and prepping for the new school year.

Your gacha luck has worked! While I had to skip on FG Ortho and basket Jamil, I did get both Leona's for his bday this year. Onto saving gems for Halloween and reruns now 😂 they're catching up with JP so fast its impossible to get everything at once so im choosing my priorities and hoping for reruns later when my gems have recovered 🙈 but as a f2p player i have 28? SSR atm, so I truly cannot complain!

Truth be told, actually looking forward to fall. I am a fall child, and I thrive in spooky season 🎃🎃 do you have more holiday plans? Have a great rest of July and August!

Please stay hydrated as well (I took a sip when I read your message)! Sending you loads of love and good vibes!

[skyemisc]

Ruggie Bucchi Birthday SSR Story Translation

I’m sorry about poor image quality 😭 I don’t have his card but wanted to TL so they’re just kinda screenshots from YouTube 😅

Update: I got better images 🙌

NRC Newspaper interview Birthday interview feature

~Ruggie Edition~

Part 1:

Option: Happy birthday

Ruggie: Thanks! Hehehe, birthdays are just the best.

Ruggie: Actually, I’ve given a bunch of birthday presents to others.

Ruggie: Of course, I wanted to help celebrate my dear friends’ birthdays…

Ruggie: …Sike, no it’s so they pay me back on my own birthday!

Ruggie: ‘Cause they’re from well off families, the presents I get are plentiful and top-notch.

Ruggie: Last year my hands were full of gifts. Lookin’ forward for this year’s too~!

Screen: Please share any memories with your family around your birthday.

Ruggie: My family? My mom joined the stars in the sky shortly after I was born…

Ruggie: My dad left claiming he’d be away for work but never came back since. Got now idea where he’s at now…

Ruggie: But if we talking memories, I spent a lot of time with my grandma.

Ruggie: At home, those days food was hard to come by, so we couldn’t buy any fancy cakes.

Ruggie: Instead, I looked forward to the donuts grandma would make me every year.

Ruggie: Crunchy on the outside, fluffy on the inside! They were simple but I’d just wolf ‘em down.

Ruggie: I earned some extra income from a part-time job, and I was able to buy some decent ingredients. We’d pour melted chocolate over them, add some almonds on top just to give them a slight rich flavor.

Ruggie: I buy cake now but, but on my birthday, I feel an itch to eat some donuts.

Screen: She must be a wonderful grandma.

Ruggie: Hehehe. Right? She’s a nice, but stubborn, prideful grandma.

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Part 2:

Screen: What sort of foods do you like?

Ruggie: Like I was talking about earlier, my favorite are donuts!

Ruggie: Though, I’ll gladly eat unspoiled meat off the bone and the bone itself.

Ruggie: …What? Did you think I was joking?

Ruggie: We hyenas have strong jaws, so we can chew through not just meat, but thick bones too.

Ruggie: If you don’t believe me, treat me to some meat on a bone. I’ll gobble the bone and whole right before your eyes!

Screen: Is there anything you value greatly?

Ruggie: MONEY!

Screen: Is there anything else besides that?

Ruggie: Huh? If there’s something else…? Probably my warthog piggy bank.

Ruggie: When I was young, some rich family tossed it out and it ended up in my hands.

Ruggie: Thinking I could sell it, I brought them to a secondhand store, but they couldn’t decide on a price, so I ended up keeping it.

Ruggie: Whenever you put a coin into its open mouth, it’d make a happy noise and start playing a fun tune.

Ruggie: it was just as happy about saving up money… So, I just got more attached to it.

Ruggie: On top of that, I heard there’s a meerkat one from the same series. I’d like to get my hands on it some day and sit it next to it.

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Part 3

Screen: Please tell me what kind of impression your dorm leader gives.

Ruggie: Huh? About Leona-san? Hmm…

Ruggie: He’s only lived with other servants, so he seems pretty used to using others.

Ruggie: He works people too hard but there’s benefits in it for me too, so it’s worth working for him.

Screen: What sort of benefits?

Ruggie: First are the financial aspects. Leona-san often gives me stuff he doesn’t need anymore… It honestly is so handy!

Ruggie: I’ll get some useful things. If I think anyone else might need it, I’ll sell—er, give it to them.

Ruggie: Second are the academic aspects. In exchange for labor, he’ll help me with schoolwork I’m stuck on.

Ruggie: Before enrolling into Night Raven College, I only had the most basic of knowledge…

Ruggie: I wasn’t sure how this so-called “studying” worked, so in the beginning my grades were pretty bad.

Ruggie: But, thanks to Leona giving me reference books, past exam questions, and advice, my grades are now below average!

Ruggie: Awesome, right? It’s hard starting from the very bottom to reach average grades~

Ruggie: Goes to show it’s important to keep powerful people in arm’s reach. Gotta snatch up whatever might be useful whenever you can.

Screen: How do you spend your time during long breaks?

Ruggie: Hmmm…. Besides going home, I get sucked into part-time work. There’s a lot of jobs that’ll let you live on site and provide meals.

Ruggie: Like working on staff at a resort in the summer or working as a ski instructor in the winter.

Ruggie: There’s all kinds of customers and staff and it’s fun meeting new people.

Ruggie: I can now do simple greetings and price haggling in over 10 different languages.

Ruggie: If I ever meet some famous magician by chance, it’d come in handy for making connections!

Screen: Thank you for letting me listen to your stories.

Screen: Once again, happy birthday.

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[twiwoncrackpopcorn]

Hello! This is really specific but it’s driving me crazy XD, I’m sure at a certain point in the game there’s someone who mentions something about Malleus usually talking a lot (?) to Leona or something similar, somewhere between prologue and chapter 1, but for some reason I can’t find that part anywhere 😭, in Leona’s trivia from the wiki page it’s mentioned that Sebek is the one who said it, but I still can’t find it on the game and at this point I think it might have been some kind of hallucination lmaoo, could you enlighten me?

… quite sure those two are not really talking to each other xDDD

Overall, Malleus wouldn’t mind chatting to people (and any such person should be honoured, dixit Sebek) but he always ends up absent from assemblies, Events and the Main Story (until Arc.5) while Leona spends more time napping in the greenhouse than bonding with his fellow schoolmates (even his seiyuu said it).

It’s kinda about them being rivals and simply not liking each other. If I had to summarise their interactions it would be none (if up to them) and if somehow they end up in the same room due to some other people, then they will destroy the conversation by trying to bring the other down (see the Asian painting of a tiger fighting with a dragon for the prevalence over the mountain, well just the same).

Personal Stories involving Malleus are mostly with Diasomnia, Riddle (some with Deuce and Cater, and with Najma also somehow). With Leona, the only stories you might want to check are Main Story Arc.2 that describes their rivalry at Magift (but no direct interaction between them) and their only direct interaction is their sneer at each other in the Personal Story of Malleus Ceremonial Robes (prelude to this being Leona Ceremonial Robes Story).

(for personal stories translation, I recommend @mysteryshoptls :3 always accurate and full of nuances, might also help checking their tags for “mentions”)

Anyway, Leona’s birthday interviewer this summer will (most probably) be Malleus, so you might want to pull for Leona SSR and read/listen to their interactions during the interview.

Maybe just maybe, there has been different lore about those two in twst EN game due to, well, let’s call it freedom of translation (I’m still not over Masterchef…). But I don’t usually follow on these “variations” as it doesn’t stick to the way Yana-sensei arranged it in the first place (and sometimes it would conflict with later situations and happenings, making it a mess…). Also, Sebek is clearly not the most objective reference when speaking about Malleus (as we should all be in awe at Waka-sama but not get too close either xDDD)

EDIT //

It seems to be Silver mentioning Leona being a friend of Malleus (in a kind of overly positive “you are able to speak to him so you’re friends, what a joyful event”). You can check Leona Ceremonial Robes story for more info on this https://mysteryshoptls.tumblr.com/post/680344955659632640/sr-leona-kingscholar-ceremonial-robes-personal-story-1

[adhdvane]

oh yeah, bc i wasn’t on here for like nearly a month, i haven’t screamed about gbf and the roulette. i’d started saving draws since like nov (the last gala i had drawn on was the last october one). and like then the gala’s in nov i had no interest in and thought, uhg, we’re probably going to get the fediel summon before gw. i should really just save to dump into that. and then at some point jellyyy was like, yo, they’re going to give us fediel as a character. tbh her telling me that (bc i never check twitter for myself lol), is what kept me from doing any draws outside of the free ones during the holiday character banners. u v u so i dumped all my draws during the gala banner fediel release (had over 200 draws save). i think we only had 30 free when the banner first changed?? anyways i got her like 8 ten parts in (∩´∀`)∩ had 235 draws, then we had an additional like 20 the next day or something? anyways i scraped some more draws out and got to 285. i reached sparked with the second to last set of free draws we got on that banner and sparked cidala (bc tbh i there was no one else i wanted to spark anyways). i love fediel,,, i’ve loved her since she was first introduced. hhhh. unfortunately team comp has changed, and vikala is replaced with halloween lady grey, but fediel’s field spell much better at helping six hit the hard hl ougi cap. during the 200 draws i got the last of the gold moons i needed and now i have 154 and can trade for a siero ticket. i’m still debating who i’m going to use it on. smart brain is like, you’re not going to get fediel summon, use it (but why do that when i could pick ticket it later if i really wanted). h.orny brain is like yeah but what if there’s a s.exy valentine character this year??? or just wait til white day, they’re probably temp bring around some summon character, and you can probably grab summer sieg. angry brain is like.... you have to wait for next october. its the only way you’ll ever get your halloween boi sob (uhg i’ll probably have to anniversary ticket him. i don’t have the patiences). anyways characters i got during winter into new years free draws: (Holiday) Yaia, (Holiday) Lilly, (Holiday) Metera, Benjamin, Fiorito, Zehek (SSR), Fediel, Ms. Miranda, Altair (yuck*), Monika (Grand), Baotorda (SSR), Cidala, Leona (Grand), Arthur (SSR), & Kolulu. Didn’t really get much in notable summons, did get a 4th Ca Ong so that’s 4* now, as well as a 4th Twin Element also no 4* for the hell of it. Oh and I guess another Europa so she’s 2* now. I just want to know when the heck they’re going to put the go.dda.mn evolite in the treasure trade. I DON’T WANT TO VALOR BADGE ONE. bc i have everything else i need to trade to get lobelia... gbf you its past due. anyways xeno diablo just started. excited to farm that. rip

*i have somehow avoided drawing him for these 4 years 

[murasaki-murasame]

Now that the 7th anniversary roulette is over in GBF, here’s one giant post going over everything I got from it. I had to make a whole note on my computer listing everything just to remember it all, but it was worth it, lol.

This is gonna be long, so I’ll put it under a cut.

TL;DR: 19 days of pretty much hot garbage, ending with a surprisingly good spark that I wasn’t even initially expecting to do.

I’m gonna just copy-paste my exact notes since it’d be a lot easier than trying to summarize it here.

Roulette: [Dark Character Banner] Day 1: 30 Rolls [Nothing] [Character Weapon Banner] Day 2: 30 Rolls [Nothing] Day 3: 10 Rolls [Nothing] Day 4: 20 Rolls [Kou Dupe] [Summon Banner] Day 5: 100 Rolls [Florence, Danua dupe, Siren, Poseidon the Tide Father] Day 6: 20 Rolls [SSR Dark Vira] [Flash Gala Part 1] Day 7: 10 Gachapin Rolls, 10 Mukku Rolls [Garula, Herja] Day 8: 10 Rolls [Hector] Day 9: 10 Rolls [Nothing] Day 10: 10 Rolls [Nothing] [Flash Gala Part 2] Day 11: Guaranteed 100 Rolls [Shitori, Grand Europa, SR Mary, Agni dupe, Grand Grimnir dupe] Day 12: 50 Gachapin Rolls [Macula Marius Summon] [Summer Characters Rerun Banner] Day 13: 20 Rolls [Summer Lucio dupe] Day 14: 20 Rolls [Nezha Summon, Summer Tyre] [Summer Characters Rerun Banner Part 2] Day 15: 30 Rolls [Dark Jeanne, Water Silva, Olivia Summon, Summer Charlotta] Day 16: 30 Rolls [Nothing] Day 17: 30 Rolls [Summer Ayer] [Summer Characters Rerun Banner Part 3] Day 18: 10 Rolls [Owen] Day 19: 30 Rolls [Summer Silva dupe, Summer Tanya] [Gala] Day 20: 20 Rolls [Catura, Garuda Summon, Morrigna Summon, Herja dupe] Anniversary Scamcha: Noa, some Damascus Crystals Day 21: 100 Guaranteed Rolls + 50 Super Mukku Rolls + 70 normal rolls [Hallessenna, Summer Korwa, Summer Jin, Athena, Light Zooey, SR Leona, Scathacha, Macula Marius, Grand Leona, Fire Clarisse, Water Charlotta, Freezie, SR Elmott, Vajra [from spark], Catura dupe, Katapillar dupe, Lancelot dupe, Lilele dupe, Demonbream summon, Nezha summon, Zirnitra summon, Adramalech summon, Freyr summon, Aphrodite summon]

Scratcher: Day 1: Ring, Berries, Raphael summon dupe, Gold Spellbook [missed out on Europa] Day 2: Gold Moons Day 3: Silver Centrums [missed out on Shalem] Day 4: Intricacy Ring Day 5: Light Earrings Day 6: Water Earrings [missed out on Sariel and a Grand Rackam dupe] Day 7: Gold Spellbook [missed out on a sunlight stone] Day 8: Bronze Moons [missed out on Bahamut and Grand Alex] Day 9: Grand Rackam dupe [missed out on Black Knight] Day 10: Lineage Ring Day 11: Half-Elixirs Day 12: Water Earrings Day 13: 3,000 Crystals Day 14 [+ ROTB Scratchers]: Damascus Crystal, Coronation Rings, Silver Moons, Gold Moons [missed out on Sturm, Zeus, Hades dupe, Pholia dupe, and G-Vira dupe] Day 15: Sariel Summon Day 16: Half-Elixirs [missed out on Ferry dupe] Day 17: Primeval Horn [missed out on Rei] Day 18: Dark Earrings [missed out on Rosetta] Day 19: Silver Centrums [missed out on another Rackam dupe] Day 20: Wind Earrings [missed out on Sturm again] Day 21: Guaranteed Sunlight Stone

I know there was no real point even caring about all the stuff on the scratchers that I didn’t get, since the whole thing’s rigged and I was never gonna get them anyway, but I wanted to note it down just to highlight how much misery they put me through, lmao. The only grand weapon I got was a Rackam dupe, and that’s not even one of the good grand weapons, if I wanted to get into making an Agni grid.

The roulette pulls before the spark were also pretty bad, but probably not as bad on average as the scratchers. I at least got some actual new characters out of them, lol. From the ones I got, I decided to level up Dark Vira since I was already leveling up some of my other dark characters, but I dunno if I’ll ever use her. Dark is probably the element I have the fewest characters in, but I have enough good ones that there’s probably no real place for her in my team, especially after I get Six. I’m also leveling up Water Silva now along with Vajra, and I might end up using both of them in my water GW team. At least with the current state of my water grid, I think Silva might work pretty well for OTK purposes. I’ll probably also level up Europa and Macula Marius soon too, but I dunno how much I’ll actually use them. Macula will at least be nice as a backline unit to make Romeo even better, at least.

Other than that, I probably won’t use Florence since she just seems kinda niche, and I have enough good wind units, even though I like her design a lot. Shitori seems kinda meh compared to all the light units I’ve got at this point, so I dunno if I’d use her outside of maybe OTK stuff, but I think we also just got done with light GW a few months ago, lol. And since I continue to have way more earth units than I know what to do with, Herja’s at basically the bottom of the pile.

I also got a few new random SRs, but aside from using Summer Ayer and his new EX pose as a skin for his normal version, I probably won’t use them.

Then we get into the spark itself on the gala banner at the end of the month, which at least went a long way to redeem my mediocre rolls leading up to that point. Ignoring the fact that I had like 1% left to the gachapin frenzy meter on the final day and that all went to waste, lol.

Even though I did buy the annitix [which I used to get Halloween VasZeta] as well as both Yuisis and Yurius’ anniversary skins, I still would have been able to spark here without any of that, which is kinda surprising since I basically used my entire stash last month to spark V-Aglovale knowing full well that it’d probably ruin my chances to spark here. I actually ended up with nearly 70 summons worth of crystals left in my stash, and I still have like eight or so side-stories, 40-ish chapters of the main campaign, and a whole lot of fate episodes to get through. So I’ll probably be able to spark for summer as well. Super Mukku really put in a lot of work by giving me 50 extra free rolls on top of everything else.

Anyway, Vajra was my spark target, since water GW is coming up, and she’d probably benefit me more than the other zodiacs would, so I ended up just getting her that way at the end of it all. I still want to get Mahira eventually, but I just don’t think I’d get as much out of her right now. I actually might have been somewhat tempted to spark Catura since I have most of the other main wind units including V-Grimnir, but obviously I didn’t end up needing to spark her anyway, lol.

I’m still kinda baffled that I got not one but TWO copies of Catura from this banner. I would have preferred to just have gotten a second new zodiac instead, but this was at least really funny. So now I guess I’m leveling her up, along with Summer Korwa, who I also somehow lucked my way into. I’ve heard that she works nicely with Catura, so that works out really nicely. I do already have regular Korwa as well, but I’ve been wanting Summer Korwa ever since I heard about her rebalance. I’m quickly hitting the point of having more wind units than I can reasonably use, but it’s nice to have her. 

Also on the note of wind units that I stumbled my way into getting, I now have Scathacha. I knew about her as a character since I already have Wind Naoise, and I got her Valentines alt last month, but I only just looked into her kit now that I have her, lol. I’m actually pretty happy to get her, since she sounds like she synergizes really well with my wind roster. Mainly since she has full uptime on wind attack buffs to pair with Grimnir’s passive, as well as providing team echoes for V-Grimnir’s passive and both of their team shields. It also sounds like it’d synergize really nicely with Relic Buster’s team shield ability as well. I’d like to also find a use for Summer Korwa, but I could actually see myself using Scathacha in my core wind team after I level her up.

In terms of earth units, I’m probably never gonna use Hallessena since I have other units that are less risky than her to use, but it’s nice to have her. I at least like her as a character, going by the Robomi events. But aside from her [and VasZeta from my annitix], Grand Leona is probably one of the big surprises from this spark. I might actually see myself replacing Baal with her in my main earth team, since I feel like he doesn’t really do a whole lot outside of his Session buff. She also benefits from Melleau’s passive, even though she won’t benefit from Hollowsky Axe. Now that I have both her and Grand Rein, it makes me even more interested in getting Cain later, but we’ll see how that goes.

I also got Water Chatlotta along with the other new water units I got, but like with Macula I think I’m only gonna use her for her backline passive. But it’s nice to have her just for that, since it seems pretty important for certain specific set-ups that need her extra bit of charge bar.

While I’m thinking about it, I think this Danua dupe is now my *fourth* copy of her weapon, so I guess I can just fuse them all together if I want to uncap it. I probably won’t bother, though. It seems like one of the few enmity-based light gacha weapons, so it’s probably worth keeping them separate just to be safe.

Funnily enough, even though I keep saying that dark is probably my thinnest roster at the moment, I dunno if I’m gonna use or bother leveling up Dark Jeanne or Freezie. I don’t think either of them will do enough for me at the moment. But it’s always nice to get new characters. Same goes for Light Zooey and Fire Clarisse as well.

Oh yeah, and I also got the anniversary scamcha. Which I wasn’t really planning to do, and I obviously didn’t even need to do it to finish the spark, but like with the other stuff I got this month, I’ve been really needing some retail therapy lately because of IRL stuff, so here we are, lol. Part of me kinda regrets it, but it ended up getting me Noa, so it worked out for the best. It probably would have been ideal to get either Vajra or Mahira instead, but in terms of the gala units from this pool, Noa was probably the one that I wanted most. I dunno if I’m even in a position to get much use out of him, but it’s really nice to have him.

Athena was also a huge surprise. She was on my list of suptix targets, so it’s nice to cross her off the list. I dunno how much use I’ll get out of her in the short term since I have Fire Siegfried already, but I can tell that she’ll be good to have in the long run. For a long time my flame roster felt really weak and empty, but it’s REALLY improved over the last few months, now that I have Zeta, Yuisis, Siegfried, C-Nemone, Yuel, and Athena.

I didn’t get many interesting summons this time, but Zirnitra’s HP sub-aura will be nice, and Demonbream might be good for wind enmity stuff. I did get another copy of Agni, but I’m not really anywhere close to being able to make an actual Agni grid. Which makes it hurt all the more to be taunted with Sturm twice in the scratchers, lol.

On the one hand I’m glad that magnafes is being extended so I have more time to hopefully level up some of these new units with the campaign quest, but on the other hand I’ve already spent so much time grinding that map during this event that it’s kinda driving me insane. At the very least I really want to level up Vajra in time for water GW.

I guess now my priority is to save for a spark during summer. I’d like to spark Mahira at some point, but I might end up sparking a new summer unit or something instead.

I dunno when the next suptix will happen, but my current main targets for it are Light Percival and Dark Eustace. Percival seems way better after his rebalance, and he seems to synergize really well with V-Aglovale, and Eustace seems really good with his 5-star uncap. I’ll probably end up going for Percival, but we’ll see.

I’m also putting off getting into the whole M2 grind, not to mention stuff like Akasha and the dragon raids that I can do now that I’m over rank 150, lol. I wasn’t even expecting to get that high anytime soon, but the recent exp boosting event got me way more ranks than I was expecting. Either way, I can’t really act like I’m particularly limited by my roster of characters at this point, so I mostly just have to motivate myself to get into it. I do still need to do some extra stuff with my grids first, like getting my seraphic weapons to SSR, and getting my Omega summons to 4-star, though.

So yeah I think the spark itself ended up going really well, even if the journey up to that point was kinda bad, lol.