#l xenoblade

[wiffhuff]

A collection of cursed XCX characters I did earlier today on Insta!!!! I think my favourite one is either Buff Tatsu or Catboy Doug w/ heart glasses ❤️

[sharonpearlee]

Six Fanarts Challenge, Xenoblade Edition!

[xenoblade-chronicles-brackets]

[pattheanimator]

Just putting together one big post for all five of these. I really want to do more of these when I get the chance. Drawing detailed mecha in dynamic poses like this is such a pain in the ass to get right, but so satisfying once it’s done!

[dashfox1artwork]

Patreon Request for L'cirufe from Xenoblade

[cristal-lights]

I'm still not over long-haired Shulk

Bonus:

You should've seen it coming, Shulk

[skytheidiott]

Ive heard about how unhinged tumblr can be. Just how absolutely diabolical this place can be. The absolute goblins that you lot are.

And I cannot wait to immerse myself in this place >:D

[tunnels-end]

Who the fuck makes an hour-long final boss fight with no checkpoints that has a stunlock autoloss combo on phase eleven of eleven

[kingddd17commisson]

The Wind Blows hard in December.

The Xenoblade Chronicles X Party Members crew 

Commissioned with @rorah

Inspired by the Fire Emblem awakening cover art.

[deus-and-the-machina]

Agnians having super strength naturally because of their core crystals and Kevesi needing power frames to match that has hilarious implications for some characters. goofy ass wind nerd taion could probably bench press you? tiny Scottish sailor scout Fiona could probably pick you up with one hand??? wild

[artificervaldi]

Xenosaga at Home:tm:

[faleve]

I forgot what quest this is, but this is making me laugh!

[xenoblademisadventures]

Wh..what if I ranked every Xenoblade character with a one-letter name. Like, that would include L from X, A, and the three throw away Moebius in FR. So, 30 characters total, if my math is not shit.

[dirty-xenobladeconfessions]

this is what i think happened

[honestlyvan]

your post about bladelore was really interesting, do you have any thoughts about the designs of the ferronises?

(message from future Van as I edit this -- Beware Ye Of The Unmarked Asspulls in this answer. Also SPOILERS THROUGH THE END OF CHAPTER 7) Yeah, like, I'm kind of two minds about them? I definitely think the way they take on similar features to a big source of cultural trauma (Faced Mechons for Keves, Sirens for Agnus) of the two kingdoms supports the idea that ether is still a kind of collective memory, the way it was presented in XC2. They're weapons of intimidation, first and foremost, built to bolster the forces and make them more comfortable taking risks and choosing fight over flight, to feel like they've got something dangerous backing them up, but I also feel like they're subtly designed to reinforce the sense of hopelessness that is instrumental to the war working as intended. Z wants everyone to give up, the goal is to make everyone into Moebius and arrive at a kind of heat death of the universe that way.

From a practical perspective, I don't think the Ferronises are a new development in the war.... but I do think the war was probably initially fought without them, with everyone just under the one Big Flame Clock at the Castle. But we now that people do figure the war out, and if everyone was concentrated together, they'd just figure it out quicker, so eventually the amount of people fighting in the war necessitated they get split up and scattered across Aionios to stop them from seeing too much of the big picture to work it out like Alexandria did. So, basically, I'm taking the long way around to say that I think Flame Clocks preceded Ferronises, and Ferronises were conceived as extensions of Levnises, and are probably historically represented as such.

I think there's also a certain amount of incentive for Z to keep growing the scale of the war as more people became Moebius and started requiring Things To Do in the Eternal Now -- a lot of the Consuls in the game are or at least appear to be pretty new to their jobs, or at least have enthusiasm for it, which could be a ramp effect to embracing the true Endless Now of Not Doing Anything Ever Again after they get their petty victory or revenge or whatever it is that drove them to become Moebius in the first place. Maybe Ferronises were initially built to allow the Consuls to spar amongst themselves, and then as they got bored of that, new Consuls would take over.

Which brings me back around to the actual designs of the Ferronises -- lots of animal motifs to go around, but off the top of my head nothing really seems to match up that strongly with its Consul, other than maybe the miko outfit on Mu paralleling I's design. One that really leaps out is R with her fox design placed alongside the very scorpion-y Colony 11. Since there's a limited amount of Consul Titles to go around, if the ramp theory is correct, the Ferronises may be designed to spec by their original Consuls, but as they are now they're more like.... tabletop RPG factions, they all come with their own "playstyle" so to speak. Hell, depending on how circular you want to see the timeloop as, maybe colonies tend to have the same commanders over and over in a cycle, which would bring some periodic consistency to the game of war.

During the events of the game, we may actually be in a lull between campaigns, with a lot of consuls electing to not play, leaving Z to having to pull up a bunch of new Moebius to fill the seats around the gameboard, because if the war cools off too much, the people of the Kingdoms are gonna start asking questions again.

[burningfestivalpersona]

XC3 is definitely trying to make up for 2′s terrible tutorials, but I can’t help but think they’re trying a bit too hard.

I already had an equipment tutorial fifteen minutes ago. You don’t need to give me another one. If you really must, at least have me equip it on a different character this time.