Tales of Graces f: DAY SIX

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Okay. Is everyone ready to tell Asbel what the shit is going on yet?

No? We're only level 25 in a Tales of game, so the plot hasn't even started yet?

Sigh...


Starting from: post Richard's coronation and the thing that happens in Lhant after that.

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[temples]

NO.



... Yes.

/sits.

Hi.

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RECAP! Last episode on Tales of Code Geass, Emperor Lelouch was all yandere for Suzaku and Suzaku was like, wtf, Lelouch?! You are helping me by killing everyone who matters to me. And Lelouch was all "I know! Just like you wanted!"

Then Marianya arrives to try and beat sense into him, but Lelouch is so stunned that Suzaku would take his mother's side that he feels extra super betrayed and he erupts into darkness and glowy red eye, and we fight him with swords. Then Anya gets all her memories back.


Disclaimer: Recap may be very slightly inaccurate.

[temples]

I like it.

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Okay, so Hubert's creepy aide with no name, who rainfall and I simultaneously nicknamed Jadia because Jade and Sodia's horrible bastard lovechild is just too long to keep using, is giving him a report on Lhant's situation.

Lhant's situation: Surrounded by enemies, everyone hates us.

[rainfall]

/name fail high-five

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Hubert basically tells Jadia to pretend the battle with Richard never happened. "You need not include those details in your report."

Jadia is not entirely fooled by Hubert's rationalizations for basically cooing and fussing over Lhant.

Jadia: You appear to be prioritizing the locals over the orders of our superiors...
Hubert: You only think that because you still consider me a wayward orphan from Lhant.
Jadia: ...Isn't that precisely what you are? /sneer

This is why you don't get a name.

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Hubert is, of course, still very hurt about being sold to the Oswells seven years ago. ;; Poor woobie.

[rainfall]

/gathers Hubert up >: >: >:

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Meanwhile, Asbel is still fussing over Sophie. She wants to go to the meadow where we first met her~

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...there's a watermelon in the middle of the road.

It's an attachment!

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...I can put it on someone's head.

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... /leaves it on Sophie for the upcoming dramatic revelations

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SKIT! Sophie is slightly sulky over being tiny.


Asbel: Even if your height and such haven't grown, you're still the same old Sophie to us.

Sophie: ...and such? What else is there?

Asbel: ............NOTHING.


Good boy, Asbel.

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srs bizns pan over the meadow

srs bizns Sophie

srs bizns conversation

...watermelon on Sophie's head

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Sophie still doesn't remember a lot of things. Where she was before she met Asbel; what happened after she last saw him seven years ago; where she came from... it worries her.

"Maybe it's something I shouldn't remember."

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Asbel tells her that the past doesn't matter. Only the present does.

He's finally getting over his fucking life. I'm happy for him. ♥

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Back to Lhant. Which is a total wreck, wow.

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People in Lhant are still being dicks to Asbel. That's good to know. I mean, we wouldn't want to have priorities or anything. Town is a wreck? Well, let's spurn the help of this guy because he ran away when he was eleven. Pride is way more important than doing something reckless like accept help when we're in shambles.

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ASBEL, YOU WERE ELEVEN.

ELEVEN.

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Asbel was contemplating leaving for good, and Cheria makes it sound like he's running away again, but fuck you.

She points out Hubert might be leaving too; she heard he's being recalled by Strahta. They're disappointed by all his mushy feelings for Lhant!!

Asbel is upset.

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Cheria doesn't want them all to be separated again, and she runs off.

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SIDEQUEST! Kerri wanted to see Hubert, and Hubert is barely listening. She knows he's angry at her and Lord Aston, but can't he at least forgive Asbel? Asbel had no idea Hubert was being sent away, and was so angry when he found out.

Hubert: Your favoritism is so obvious.
Kerri: What? I tried to raise you as equals--
Hubert: So I assume that when you had to choose which son to send away, there was a long, tearful discussion of the pros and cons of each of us?
Kerri: ...
Hubert: Yeah, that's what I thought. I was expendable.
Kerri: BUT WE DID IT BECAUSE--
Hubert: I am ending this conversation now.

I hope there's more of an excuse than "Because we didn't want you fighting" because that shit is bananas.

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The dog in Lady Kerri's room tells me that she's been taking care of him ever since she lost both her boys, but even the dog finds her clingy and stifling. ...so this is both disturbing and sad.

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Talking to Hubert. He confirms that he's been recalled, the order signed by "the president". Oooh, fancy. Anyway, it means he doesn't have any choice but to obey, and probably get stripped of his rank and banned from returning to Lhant.

Asbel asks if he really sacrificed all that for Lhant, and Hubert tsuns and denies it. IT'S JUST COMMON SENSE, GUYS.

Asbel grovels about how much awesomer Hubert is than him, and Hubert bitches about how Asbel is just insufferably arrogant. Yes yes, I get it. Asbel hates himself and Hubert is bitter.

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Asbel volunteers to go to Strahta and basically buy time for Hubert to do more here in Lhant. Hubert is mystified by this stupid act, but at length writes a letter for Asbel to deliver to the president.