i make you and dominionflower sit together in the trails corner being normal

I AM TOTALLY NORMAL ABOUT TRAILS

TOTALLY AND COMPLETELY N-- I have a Crow itabag, I am fooling no one

My ReanCrow shrine

My itabag

... i just looked at your muselist again and now also need to atrypical because how do I very specifically collect all of the animorphs players in dwrp -

double bird etc

ANIMORPHS FANS

also i would give you a screenshot of my semi-active characters who I have on my firefox tab containers but. there's a spoiler for one of my fics in there

but atm I theoretically mod and play Neuvillette and Eula at which is a small slow horror game made slower by WORK EATING ALL MY WORDS

and here's my other sins

I have never had the focus to write decent-length fanfic but i have so many plots in my head

haha. haaaaaaaaaaaaaa. ha oh god help the longfics are eternal

Nael write good fics /nod

This does not surprise me one bit

forwardrelentlessly: yes with the username forwardrelentlessly i can see you are in fact normal about trails yes sir

love the crow collection

i have had people play trails, get to That Part, turn to me and yell at me about my username

it's delightful

XD

look. my username is lyrebright because estelle bright exists. i get it

estelle is bestelle, you have good taste

the actual games im insane about are the crossbell ones (i have a 90k ongoing noel-centric fic) but i will love estelle bright forever

i need to get back to playing through daybreak soon...

that's because the crossbell games are peak

Cold Steel is what I'm insane about, but, gestures at Crow

understandable. cold steel is also very good! i will admit that my favourite character to come out of cold steel is juna though XD

the crossbell bias might be terminal

i do love how they went back and actually retconned her into the games

it's the funniest thing in the world but i do love it. i like how they added towa in as well

ME TOO, and I'm excited to see what they bring forward from future games in the upcoming Trails in the Sky remake

im VIBRATING about the remake...im sure the main story will be kept basically faithful to the existing game, but imagining the kind of flavour text? extra books? they could add...especially with voiced overworld dialogue in exploration...

The Expanse Of Geopolitics In Liberl Could Be Greater Than Ever

oh god please give me more geopolitics

and yeah, i expect it to be pretty faithful but with extra bits

I have, uh, spent an inadvisable amount of money on preorder stuff

(I got both the limited run bracer box and the preorder from pinbox as well)

no ur so valid i was SO close to buying the stupid expensive collector's edition but like. the aussie dollar is so bad at all times and i just could not justify that kind of money :sob: however, if they ever choose to remake trails to azure,

i'm actually kinda praying they do b/c crossbell Deserves It

plus imagine the costumes. imagine the costumes

and maaaaaybe if I'm a REALLY good person I'll get remakes for the first two cold steel games because the graphics in those first two are. um. not great.

the costumes...also like. imagine the actual integration we could have smoothed out with cold steel sob sob

YES

also my friend the biggest Randy fan ever deserves it

hot take cs1 and 2 are the most poorly aged games in the series graphics wise. the sprites of sky/crossbell are obviously dated but still very cute and good to look at. whereas you can so tell with cs1 and 2 these games were made for vita with no concept of them being played on a screen larger than you can hold in your hands

YEAH.... yeah. Like, Cold Steel 2 is my favourite of the arc but it ain't because it's pretty

also god if they remade CS1 they could put the ymir vacation that they had to take out back in

i just wouldnt want them to revoice everything...especially considering how some characters have been recast since

laura, i think, has an entirely different VA in cs4 to her og

yeah, they definitely had to change laura's voice at one point. millium's too

it's been so long since i played the first half of cold steel i honestly forgot millium sounded different

the replacement did a fairly good job emulating the original's energy, to be fair

but yeah i love trails so so so much i keep TRYING to pspspspsp nael over here with promises of geopolitical intrigue but he won't listen to me

i could buy him a preorder of the sky remake---

(I have literally already done this for three other people, aside from myself.)

LMAO honestly i was looking at the steam summer sale like. maybe i should just start shoving this game (og sky) at people without their consent

i am shoving a copy at my partner without his consent

he knows i won't force him to play it, but i WILL force him to have the option available

i also keep going pspspspsps Matt Mercer is in it as the best character

to my partner

we love him

i convinced a friend to play trails (she's currently in azure i think? maybe zero)

and she kept calling him olivier lenhorn, which i thought was her being funny

apparently she just. was sincerely misreading his name

omg i love that image

i just made it because the thought popped into my head

i have an argument there is a character in the franchise for almost everyone

gonna start sending it to people

you are so valid

forwardrelentlessly: it's like how every pokemon is someone's favourite

there's a trails character out there for you. probably.

YES!!!

In addition to Crow, I'm the world's only George stan

nodding, i get it. im definitely not the only noel fan but i feel like our corner of the fandom is small

especially when you think she's a lesbian XD

noel is a very good girl and i fully support her being a lesbian

also that scene in reverie with her and the motorcycle is BADASS

IT WAS SUCH AGOOD SCENE honestly reverie ended up dethroning azure as my favourite trails game (discounting daybreak and anything past it because i havent finished/played them yet)

i really liked rean's arc in reverie, c's route managed to turn my entire opinion around on a character i'd despise throughout cold steel, and lloyd was also there, and i love him

Oh man, I have a fan who was a huuuuge fan of C pre-Reverie and CALLED OUT HIS ENTIRE ARC

she was soooooo vindicated

Also really Lloyd and C in that last bit in Reverie (trying to avoid spoilers) is one of my favourites

LMAO i was dodging spoilers like a ninja waiting for reverie to get localised and i MANAGED not to get spoiled on c's identity and then a fucking. ao3 comment on one of my fics spoiled me. when i was like 2 hours into reverie. was genuinely such a good route tho like wow the writing

forwardrelentlessly: SO CORRECT

Also also, Daybreak is really good (I haven't started Daybreak II yet) and I am 100% if this franchise were more well-known idiots would have weeped and sobbed and gnashed their teeth and claimed Trails had Gone Woke™

sam reich vc ive been woke the whole time

im like

5 hours into daybreak? 4 hours?

but i nearly cried when i realised that Moving Is A Free Action in these games

It has
• Multiple queer characters
• The protagonist asks a character's pronouns
• It says with its whole chest that white supremacy is bad
• Also is pro-immigrant

makes enemies who cast arts hysterical though. who needs arts canceling when you can use the advanced tech of Move Out Of The Way

I love the ability to swap between free movement and going turn-based

once you work it out, it feels so good

forwardrelentlessly: van is also not a teenager which is. i get that rean was 20 in the later cs games. but as someone who is now closer to 30 than i am 25. a protag in his mid 20s from day one is spectacular

i love an adult

YES!!!

I am also just genuinely fond of Van. Van is such a good

ive enjoyed what ive seen of him so far! and im super excited to finally see calvard

It's suuuuch a fun game, I'm not quite AS attached to this gang as the CS gang but they are all delightful and there's not a single one I don't like

yeah after like a decade spent with the erebonia gang the following casts have a lot to follow up on...we're very attached

horizon is giving me Crow back (that's not a spoiler, it's in the promo material on the site) and I'm so hyped

← one-tracked mind

i dont know much about horizon but i know the pookies are back (for me im just chanting ALTINA ALTINA) because ive seen so much art about them

I LOVE ALTINA

altina is my DAUGHTER

BEST DAUGHTER

she's probably top 10 trails character of all time for me

i'm all here for Rean treating her like his daughter, it's very cute

Altina's on my top ten list too

rean mentally adopting his students is so cute but also very funny when you remember that with the exceptions of altina and musse he's like. maybe 2 years and some change older than them

right like, he's barely graduated himSELF

he literally turns 20 during cs3 which means when he STARTS teaching them, he's 19 to kurt/juna/ash's 17. genuinely hysterical

right like, his birthday is somewhere in the first couple of weeks in May and he's SO baby. "hero of erebonia" NO, HE'S BABY

hi i'm here

HELLO I HEAR YOU LIKE MY FAVOURITE BIRD BOY

I DO sad bird so sad

dominionflower: look it's not that I'm not interested. it's that I have left yuffie hanging for a year now halfway through her dlc and 9s hanging for a year and a half in the liminal space before his world ends. I need to finish more games, not start more games