#i could drown myself in the mythos of alrest i find it so cool

[silent-partner-412]

an idea in xenoblade 2 i wish they explored a bit more was the idea of blades changing depending on their driver, specifically with the aegis’s. it’s a huge part of malos’s character that he doesn’t know how much of what he wants to do is thanks to his own desire or just because of who he was awakened by, and it’s an incredible concept that adds a lot to him but it would’ve been cool to see these changes be more… shown?

i don’t think malos would be a great fit for this in the context of xenoblade 2’s story because he kinda needs to be your big bad guy and having him change to be… not that? would definitely harm the story. but i think they could’ve done something with mythra since we actually see her have two different drivers with addam and rex. admittedly rex and addam are super similar, and the way mythra’s personality manifests probably wouldn’t change a ton between the two of them. but i think it could’ve been interesting to see her acknowledge subtle changes to how she thinks and feels after being awakened by rex.

the thing that’s hard is that so much of what makes mythra compelling is how much she changes over the course of the xenoblade 2 timeline, and seeing her regain hope and desire to live after hating herself unrelentingly for so long, and i think this would be somewhat undercut by them stating that she was in some way fundamentally changed thanks to being awakened by rex. plus, we do get stuff like the theory and praxis questline that blatantly shows how blades can be changed depending on who their driver is. but i think it would’ve been interesting to explore how this principle would work for an aegis since they don’t return to a core crystal and lose their memories when their driver dies like all other blades do.