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Tales of Graces f: DAY NINE
I may be doing a major roleplay event in which my character is the major player in the other window, but you know what I'm going to do when I'm not tagging like a fiend?!
That's right. I'm going to cry over Richard. I mean, play TOG.
Starting from: Crying over Richard. I mean, done with Strahta.
That's right. I'm going to cry over Richard. I mean, play TOG.
Starting from: Crying over Richard. I mean, done with Strahta.

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But not without doing lots of siiiiidequeeeeests!
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Hubert calls Asbel a big lunk, in flagrant defiance of reality, in which his older brother is in fact one inch taller and six pounds heavier than Hubert himself. Asbel looks super scrawny once you take away his giant shoulderpads and bellbottoms.
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Asbel: Hubert?! Gave a present?! To a girl?!
Asbel: I think I need to lie down...
Hubert: Everyone's a comedian. 8|
Hubert gave her the tools at a time of her life when she didn't know what to do with herself, and that helped her make up her mind about her future... and about Hubert.
Cheria is all up in this gossip!! And Hubert just sighs.
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The maid catches us afterward and asks if we can help her out... Moira was killed by monsters in the desert a year ago. The "mom" is delusional and the "dad" is going along with it because "mom" hasn't been happy in so long. They won't believe the maid, so -- we have to do it.
Awkwaaaard.
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Hubert: Over in a flash!!
Sophie: How long is a flash?
Asbel: Uh, less than a second.
Sophie: Why is he lying? :(
Hubert: ...these insufferable...
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Duke Dalen: Hey, can you check out something in Wallbridge for me?
...Nothing to say about Richard?
Duke Dalen: We heard there was some trouble there, but it's too dangerous to let my men investigate, so I thought I'd send you saps.
...Hey, remember all those times when you fired us on Richard's behalf? And then Richard turned out to be crazy and ate all Barona's eleth? Good times, huh?
Hubert: This is a ridiculous and selfish request.
Asbel: We'll do it!
Hubert: ...
...So... anybody want to talk about Richard? No? This is a sidequest?
Duke Dalen: Thanks. I'll be waiting in Barona when you're done.
...Where we still won't talk about Richard.
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Asbel: Sometimes I can't help but regret the past...
Cheria: Asbel.........
Asbel: Why didn't I ask for a raise in my allowance?!
Cheria and Hubert: ...What.
I love it. That's right, Asbel! Shake off the chains of your self-loathing! Defy expectations! Be ridiculous if you want to be!
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He declares her beating "heavenly" and leaves to find his brother and sister.
I'm kind of disturbed right now.
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The only explanation: heavy hallucinatory drugs. I am not charmed or amused or anything.
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And my thought is, yeah, it's pretty depressing how they slaughtered the king's family, huh?
No. No, it isn't. They were good and true warriors, men of great talent! He can't believe King Richard stripped them of their rank and fired them just for helping Archduke Cedric!
Ughhh, game, stop being stupid righteous at me.
They were his father's guards, and they murdered him and his family to help a traitor.
Richard has done a lot of crazy shit! You don't need to pretend that everything he does is crazy shit.
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These two NPCs know all the things I hate about this game and they're doing them to my face!!
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...one of them is tiny Presea, and one of them is tiny Anise, and one of them is tiny Patty!
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Tales of games just refuse to let me make up my own shipping decisions, but they're so bad at helping me.
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Seriously. Asbel/Cheria and Luke/Tear are shoved down my throat every time it reasonably can be and then some, Reid/Farah and Keele/Meredy are the worst possible combinations of those four characters... Lloyd/Colette was the only "official" Tales of pairing that I genuinely enjoyed, and they're from the only game where I can pair the hero up with anyone I want, including the dudes.
Vesperia is the only game in the fucking canon with the balls to not shoehorn in a romance, and people are still such incredible sheep that they will swear up and down that Yuri and Estelle are an official couple and I just missed their incredible romance.
And you know what? I can't blame people. Because they're a good pairing. A much better pairing than the ones the other games are actually trying to sell me on. Your heterosexual fanservice is really poor quality, Tales of.
/spoilers for completely random things in here
Re: /spoilers for completely random things in here
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/woke up and was right away like, "Liveblog comments! :D"
Pretty please, scared of spoilers
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I am very anti-spoiler and I don't read or see anything about a game before it comes out. I knew absolutely nothing about Richard before I started playing. But I wouldn't have considered "A thing happened involving Richard that made me sad" to be a spoiler... That could mean anything, and honestly could apply to about 90% of Tales of characters! The scene I referred to was very minor, although sad.
Anyway, the long and the short of it is that I really genuinely have made every effort that I could to keep the text of the posts themselves free of spoilers, because I hate being spoiled. But because of that, I really genuinely have no idea how to make them less spoilery. Even now, looking back at my starting from lines, the only one I think might have spoiled anything was Day 6... I'm sorry!! I'll try to keep it in mind, but I can't promise I'll be less spoilery than "[Character name] made me sad after I finished the Strahta plot." ;;;
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