#rf2 Aaron

[sassyfever]

this is 2 years old but I just realized I never posted this here

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Cozytober - Day 2 - Pumpkins

Hold on, it's almost perfect...

[patakoo]

i actually really like that they covered the part where how ridiculous it was putting up a gigantic school in a town that only has 8 children

[mistyfarm]

My wishlist & ideas for a hypothetical Rune Factory 2 Special:

- Option to choose between a male or female protagonist in first generation. FEMC’s name can be something lame like Kylie or Kyla or Kira idk LMAO

- All the rivals will therefore become bachelors! Yayyy the barrett girls will finally win

- The non-chosen protagonist will show up in the game as an NPC (think, like, pokemon.) They will stay at the Eagle Inn, their gimmick being some sort of mysterious, wandering vagrant who gives the player the ability to change their name (Basically a combination of Lukas and Ivan from RF1, and Mistress Trupin from RF4.) They are non-marriageable but, if befriended, the player can get a few hints about their past.

- ALTERNATIVELY: They could be the bartender of a hypothetical bar in town? Multiple characters in game are referred to as drinking buddies and there’s a whole event (the flower festival) that’s seen as an opportunity for people to get drunk, so it honestly kind of confused me there was no bar in Alvarna. I know these are E10+ games but honestly if RF1 had a bar there’s no reason RF2 can’t have one as well lol. It could be like the bar in stardew valley too! have everyone gather there on friday nights for easy gift-giving access, it’s perfect

- Additionally, if Kyle is the non-chosen protagonist, he will marry a bachelorette if her intended husband is already married to the player.

- Not really sure how rival heart events would function in RF2’s system but fuck it, any candidate with a rival will have heart events with said rival. For the drama

- We don’t need to lock EVERYTHING behind the second gen wall. At least let us forge weapons or brew medicine in the first gen. Maybe have these be something that the player can unlock if they befriend tanya or natalie? I always make kyle befriend those two so maybe I’m biased LOL

- Alternatively: give the gen 1 player access to a small kitchen, at the very least. Herman is nearly impossible to befriend in the first generation because all of his gifts are cooked dishes and it sucks because if you are ME (insane) you try to befriend everyone in every single playthrough

- Updated gen 2 portraits for most, if not all, of the cast. It’s understandable if older characters like Byron or Gordon look relatively unchanged after the timeskip, but the younger characters should have updated portraits! I think it would be cute if Dorothy’s portrait changed to show her eyes since she’s now a confident nurse, or if Mana and Barrett dressed differently after becoming teachers, or if Roy and Cammy had visibly grown into their awkward teen years. There’s possibilities!!

- Have more characters acknowledge your child as their relative if you marry a member of their family. It’s very cute that Max acknowledges this but I want all characters to express it because its very fun for character building

- I think it should be harder for your child to access the dungeons in the 2nd gen. every character is like “dont go into the dungeons!!!” and then you can just turn around and walk in. i want aaron and aria to do some solid snake shit to get into these dungeons. i need to see cardboard boxes. sunglasses and trenchcoats. perhaps even false identities. lets get silly with it (i fully acknowledge this would be a terrible design decision) (i dont care)

- remove the marriage events from the second generation, they feel so arbitrary compared to gen 1! The themes of second gen are family ties and the solidarity the kids build with each other, so i think friendship and story events should be prioritized instead

- Bring social services to Alvarna because honestly your child is so neglected by both of their parents its tragic (this is a joke) (kind of)

[ntrlily]

The more I replay RF2 the more I think that with a port/remake the problem that you have is that like

A lot of the issues are baked in rather deeply? Like, the generational thing for one, that's an obvious thing. Also it is built around marrying Mana and stretches to accommodate marriage to one of the other girls, but if you wanted to introduce an option to marry one of the guys this causes problems ranging from "Their 2nd gen quests don't mesh with the 'Aria/Aaron's other parent does not want them in dungeons' thing" to Barrett.

Some of it you could fix if you wanted to do more than like, a port with barebones QoL add-ons like, of course if Kyle marries Yue it becomes problematic to keep her hanging around in dungeon entrances but you can at least have her shop not limited to "sunny days and only the bare minimum (m,w,f) to let Aria furnish the school" and some of it would just. not work within the story. You could maybe have Tanya upgrade tools like Leo did, at least getting the watering can capacity not locked at THIRTY until your kid takes over the farm, some other things like that that're way beyond the scope of qol stuff that rf3/4s do (and just revert any tool changes with the genswap with the same excuse that is used to get rid of your tool charges)

But if you wanted to let Kyle marry Jake I think you could just handwave it and let Jake be the kind of father who encourages his daughter's hobby of running around in dungeons. This is the easiest problem to solve regarding gay marriage (or het!fem!kyle i guess)

[monsterpokemoon]

Aria headcanon

Although you can only play as one of them, it's my headcanon that Aaron and Aria accomplished all the events of RF2 together.

It's also my headcanon that in any RF or Harvest Moon game where you can choose a male or female protagonist that both protagonists exist in the same universe. Because I said so.

[nervouslywaitingforlife]

Hoes fighting with hoes.

[keonnise]

Drew the rf2 kids

[zweinai-art]

@rfweeks ‘s Rune Factory 14th Anniversary Celebration Week ! Day 1: First Step One of my favourite quotes for one of my favourite series. I discovered Rune Factory when I was a child and I fell in love with it. I’ve met amazing people through it and Iit’s what motivated me to keep drawing! I have so much love for this series and I can’t wait to keep seeing the community grow! I had this idea of all protags (minus the RF Oceans’ protags because I’ve still not played it orz) adventuring together and I thought it fit for the first day theme. Sadly, I’ve had no time to prepare for this rf week so I churned this real quick out this morning; I would have liked to work on it a li’l bit more, but it is what it is :o

[trick-or-triche]

drawn for the rune factory server's holiday exchange 2019!

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two kids and a flower festival

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I have my entire little pink family on my tablet now, life is good 💖💖

Meanwhile, the other side of the tablet is still ruled by Raguna and Felicity, as it should be 👏

[nerdtokwa]

Casual---!

[forestofbeginnings]

[ Rune Factory 2 - Voice Acting ]

A comparison between the English and Japanese voice acting for Aaron