So for those familiar with Code: Embryo's gag route, you'll be familiar with Acht's past as a blogger. However, there are two A.O.S.es related to her blogging-- one from Kuon talking about Es sharing Acht's old poems with her and one from Acht expressing her distress over her old blog being dug up. (You can really tell why Seiko Yoshida loved voicing Acht with the second one...)
[Image Description: A digital drawing of Acht and Sechs from XBlaze, walking by a riverbank at sunset. She is turned to him and smiling, as if saying something. End ID]
Merry Valentines here's Acht taking her Autism Creature boyfriend for a walk
"Like all Persona protags, he hardly canonically speaks. Seems too cool for school but is actually just a cringefail guy who loves his little sis Nanako, likes to fish and make beef stew, and also likes cats. He also solves murders with his friends and forcibly teach people the power of friendship! And to paraphrase one of my mutuals, "I love Yu because he just stands there like •_• and then everyone falls in love with him. Gets accused of dating like every girl he meets, gets teased by every girl on the investigation team, has whatever he has going on with Yosuke. This kid and his autism swag". Oh yeah there was also originally gonna be an option for Yu to romance said Yosuke guy, including the confession dialogue being recorded in both Japanese and English, but it was removed because ALTUS hates gay people </3 But don't worry because there's a mod that adds this option back in because the devil works hard but gay JRPG fans work harder."
Sechs -
"As a teenager his father reveals to him that he's actually not human and then he essentially intellectualizes his own crisis toward that so hard that he talks himself into enacting a doomsday plan to make all life cease to exist so technically nobody will suffer anymore. So he takes two of his fellow wizards both of whom are absolutely infatuated with him (one of which is the closest the BlazBlue series gets to a canon gay man imo), takes a super powerful weapon from his father and in a sort of misunderstanding slash random event ends up killing him, and then the three of them flee the country and start trying to act out his plan. He pretty much just stares at people silently and only talks occasionally, when he does it's usually either a short sentence that is either blunt or vague. His magical attribute is gravity magic idk as someone with vestibular/proprioceptive sensory issues gravity magic is an autistic as hell magic to master in. He also has a funny name. In the joke route he is also written adding a sort of gap moe attribute to his tendency to not talk a lot where he stops talking in any instance where he's thrown off a social script or doesn't know what to say, and in the gatcha spinoff of course because they have to make him at least cooperate with you he tends to read as less overtly evil and more just having low empathy and a strong sense of his form of "justice." There is so much more I could say about him he's one of my favorite characters in the entire BlazBlue extended universe he's just a very cool character both as a villain and a circumstantial ally. Vote for funny guy named sex as a win for autistic emo twinks everywhere."
"Has a kind of mini humanity crisis upon realizing he's not fully human, the person who designed him has done a little doodle of him and the other main protagonist genderbent before, notably another character who has a similar crisis of humanity and has to deal with people treating her as lesser or not a full being because of it in the wider Blazblue series is Mai Natsume, a character who gets transformed into a woman when she loses her full humanity but eventually ends up being ok with it like she really doesn't care after the first manga series she's in. So it would be a kind of funny narrative parallel right? A character who has to deal with a gender crisis and then later a humanity crisis and then in another spinoff a character who has to deal with a humanity crisis and then later a gender crisis? Also idk. look at her. she already looks at most a few months away from curiously looking at hrt results and wondering if she could look like that." - Anonymous
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Front and back covers of Es Works, a collection of extra art, design notes, and more by Konomi Higuchi.
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