sword and spear

More Octopath keychain WIPs!

what if… kimono Rai Mei (explodes instantly)

[Image description: Digital drawings. First shows Captain Kaldena and Rai Mei in simple standing poses, drawn in outline. Second shows Kaldena and Temenos sitting beside each other at night, with firelight partially illuminating them. Kaldena is dressed casually in a red waistcoat and white shirt. She eats steamed rice from a small porcelain bowl, while Temenos only looks down at his own bowl without eating, as if lost in thought.

Third is a doodle of Ori gleefully holding up a newspaper and saying, "After 50 years,* Parti & Roque finally makes the correct decision to stop using a medieval-ass font in their logo. Why it took that long is still anyone's guess.**" Next to her is the old logo written in the blackletter-like Orsterran font and the new logo written in the modernized Solistian font. Beneath her is written, "*It has not been 50 years. **Partitio hired her to handle press releases despite her continual refusal to phrase things like a normal person." Temenos, sitting on a chair with crossed legs, steepled fingers, a shadow cast over his eyes, and a wide grin, says, "When they burned the library of U, the crowd cheered in horrible joy. They understood that there was something older than wisdom, and it was fire, and something truer than words, and it was ashes." Someone off-screen says, "Who let that guy in here." The last image is the Tweet that the doodle is based off of. Theo Fanning @TheoFanning Tweets: "After 50 years, Guitar Center finally makes the correct decision to stop using a guitar as a 'G' in their logo. Why it took that long is still anyone's guess." frog "Kid Omelas" kosaric @yurirando Quote Tweets: "when they burned the library of Alexandria the crowd cheered in horrible joy. They understood that there was something older than wisdom, and it was fire, and something truer than words, and it was ashes." End image description.]

their designs are so complicated help me + a night in ryu yields a rare moment of silent understanding and contentment + yeah

for your consideration.

Oh, how I wish it was last year When we were still best friends

Rai Mei I will never draw you like how you're depicted <333 this is you now

ALSO GIVE ME MORE HAPPY TIMES BETWEEN THESE THREE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLE- [gets dragged off stage kicking and screaming]

(edit: fixed the typo)

i must say i’m kinda in love with rai mei

Ochette and Hikari are good friend, I think.

Hikari was my protagonist on my first play. Throne was his first fellow.

fun facts about octopath traveler 2’s spanish localization:

Mindt’s name is Trinidad which just makes me feel like the game is more latinoamerican coded than what i originally feel like due to the situations and themes explored LOL. Actually a LOT of the names of side characters change in spanish which is pretty shocking to me because the spanish localization of the first game barely changed names at all. Rai Mei is called Lai Mei, King Jigo is named Rey Yi Gou, Roque is named Locke, Pala is named Paula. etc. Also Agnea’s last name in spanish is Bristarniz which still makes me confused when i have to tag her name and i gotta be careful not to put the z at the end

Allure is actually called Seducir (Seduce) both in the first game and in this one which makes the scene where you have to allure Giselle in Agnea’s chapter 3 pretty gay.

You have to seduce her in order for her to see the value of her art again. Which i find a completely insane choice.

Tbh it’s quite Odd that uhh Agnea is canonically 18 and the option in spanish sounds sexual, whereas in the first game this wasn’t much of an issue because Primrose was more of a femme fatale kinda character and she was 24. But ok. There really isn’t much of a translation for Allure that doesn’t sound suggestive in spanish though. Maybe something like Encantar? Atraer sounds weird too.

Partitio and Agnea use a lot of very Castillian Spanish expressions which makes it really hard for me to understand what they mean sometimes help??? Like it makes Sense because they even have their own accent in the english dub and localization. But i’m not spaniard. I have gripes with the fact every single game gets a castillian spanish localization and never a neutral latin american because despite them being the same language there are a lot of different words and it annoys me to see hostia and hala like omg i’m so fed up of this

Also Tanzy’s journay entry is written formally with big boy words which i found awesome because it makes it sound more romantic, if that makes sense? Like some quotes coming out of the golden age of mexican cinema. i love toxic yuri

ku trio can have a little kemonomimi

Smth smth Hikari in the present forgiving Rai for her clan's part in murdering his mother parallels Rai in the past forgiving Hikari for his clan's part in murdering her brother

Your name is Rai Mei, and you are a warrior. Your tale begins in the desert region of Hinoeuma.

You are the loyal vassal of Ku, a nation ever at war, and one of the few to know of the royal family's curse.

"It's my fault you succumbed to the curse. Hikari... I'll find a way for you and our country to know peace."

With a heavy heart, you set out on your journey...

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anyway my brain's been on "man being in war with that kind of curse as a teenager Hikari is SO lucky he made it out still nice and sane and reasonable--AU where he didn't. Mugen deliberately steered Hikari's unit into a shitty situation to get him killed and Hikari clawed his way out with the shadow taking over and Mugen figured hey, good enough, so now they're both being awful in Ku but Ku is kept so separate from everything else who would even get involved in that" and just now it clicked. RAI MEI.

So it'd be something like she was IN the shitty situation with Hikari, or may even have been used as bait by Mugen to get Hikari into it, and she's been trying to stand by Hikari's side over the years as it's gotten worse out of both guilt and obligation for the clan but at a certain point she's realizing that's not helping him, he's just getting worse, and she has to find a way to either stop Hikari and Mugen or save them. (granted given canon, Mugen is probably beyond saving. But Hikari, maybe...)

At first I was pretty confused about Rai Mei’s hair, but I think I decided to stick w/ the style on the right

spoilers for hikari ch4

A breakdown I did with her boss sprite

Most smashable female Octopath II NPC

(If you're not into women then vote for the most aesthetically appealing design/your favorite)