viivi 🪸 she / he 🪸 23 🪸 i write about xenoblade sometimes (xc2, xc3, xc1) 💜 ttgc enthusiast. this is like if a xenoblade sideblog was your only twitter acc
I think xb2 would greatly benefit from a pikmin 2 type collectopedia where you can view any enemy you've defeated and throw carrots at them to watch them eat
god i was literally arguing with my irls abt this yesterday. no one wants mio to be Angry more than i!! and it's crazy bc she literally Gets angry in game... briefly.... which is still more than the average monosoft woman, can u believe it
And if they had more women villains it wouldn’t be quite as infuriating, but when every time it’s a woman having to forgive a man for something heinous he did to her personally – like now you’ve created a pattern and it fucking sucks.
monolithsoft has such a difficulty with writing villains in general. like villains are a) sad tragic guy with a sad tragic backstory, rly, could you ever blame him for killing hundreds of people? :( or b) totally flat cartoonish evil like moebius, taken to the worst w/ z, x & y
z, x & y who have literally Nothing going on behind them. (with some exceptions to this) and yeah i like that the games push forgiveness and understanding and connecting to other people as one of their big things. but there are Limits.
@herridot literallyyyy like as much as I went off abt M most of this shit also applies to my beloved xc2, it's so frustrating. like can we have a woman allowed to be angry? Genuinely pissed off?? xeno villains just aren't allowed to be loathed ig
lrt every time i think about the shit they pulled with M i start steaming like oh my godddddd what's this, this woman is so kind and motherly and Forgiving? oh she's a martyr? it's sooooo brave of her to martyr herself, such a revolutionary choice ooooooh
also christ's sake "she kills herself" as a gotcha. wow she didn't get fridged, she only killed herself! hashtag strong woman character wow i'm so happy she killed herself. what a great win for feminism that M killed herself
people are qrting this with "M literally kills herself to get out of her abusive relationship with N!" as if the game doesn't drag her ghost outta the grave to embrace and forgive him because he felt bad about it
beyond all the gnostic scifi stuff, I think my favourite part of xenoblade is Shulk getting so frustrated trying to get Xord's daughter a job he gets an entire skill tree called Pessimism