#trainzelda

okay so like first of all, i think the theme of like "oh it's wrong to judge ppl based on only a tiny action w/o the whole story" and honestly that natalia event? way back forever ago? was like REALLY good w it like i think it was handled Wonderfully there.

(warnings for discussions of child abuse below)

but. can we...stop? trying to excuse cody? like this man was abusive and trafficking children and being all "i've got to cure my daughter's disability <3" just. rubs me wrong. and this isn't the first time tales has done this either, like cheria's like "but aston was nice to Me!" like. cool, cheria. that doesn't. excuse his abusive behavior. the same w jude's dad in milla's route (i call him dickrick bc he fucking sucks) like dude you're just Abusive that's all there is to it. and there's no excuse—AND I'M SORRY TO GET SO HEAVY ABT THIS ON A MEME ACCT but it's a topic that's very personal for me. and the same shit with penelope's mom?? like i don't think yuna was in the wrong At All on that and im like if you want to make it feel like they condemned ppl wrongly, just look at farah's side story even!

(end child abuse discussion)

but also like, not to even go into the terrible characterizations in the events (yet) but esvanilla also kind of pissed me off?? like. they're like "oh ppl just judge others bc they want to hate them" AND THAT'S LITERALLY WHAT HAPPENED TO YUNA!!! and yuna just stands there like "lol anyway" and i think it could've been really meaningful and yuna could've rlly had a spotlight for a minute to like...reflect on her own condemnation which. i kind of thought our theme was "the mcs were wrongly condemned" so that misella and kanata are backtracking on it and being like "im a bad person totally responsible for my sin" is just. [heavy sigh] but anyway yeah i thought it could've been a great moment of character development for yuna. and i get that kanata is the mc but. can other characters pls get a bit of spotlight? please?

as for events—OHHHH MY GOD. half the time the writing is just so genuinely awful esp w aegis like he's so ooc imo and i don't. get it at all. which i also feel like aegis had a single moment to be like "okay cool ill stop being depressed" but ppl are still dying in front of him? like? i just? maybe internal conflict over killing ppl esp other knights maybe??? but also there was like. i think it was an event, it could've been a character episode—either way! aegis was like "being poor is bad and awful and makes u have less worth as a human" or some stupid bs and im like. did. did the writers forget he literally comes from a really poor family what kind of fake ass aegis is this—

Actual potential leads:

His connection to dragons, given that Nova is, largely, dragon people.

His disdain for transcendants not barring him from using time magic to seal off travelling prior to that point, which would require him to call upon Rhinne….u n l e s s.

Btw that has gotta be a massive ass spell to do smthn like that

Also hold up would this make regaining euns existence prior to then next to impossible since u cant change anything prior to then now………… is that why they made it a curse bc they were afraid they wrote themselves into a corner GOD WOULDNT THAT BE SMTHN

Unless ive forgotten if it was explicitly stated that he got rhinnes help from either freud himself or rhinne herself

Some transcendants reincarnate. *some.* And none of the ones we know of now do that, to our knowledge. So why would they just throw that tidbit in if it’s not relevant?

It’s been said time and time again how damn similar Evan and Freud are, and like. C’mon. There’s NO FUCKING WAY theres not a connection beyond just Evan being The Chosen Dragon Master. And WAIT A FUCKIN

Mir is directly Afrien’s child if what tvtropes is reminding me of is correct, which would mean that the previous soul bond that Freud and Afrien had could still have some influence over him, or at least make a similar bond easier, or at least have influenced him towards Evan, which would explain why he was chosen because this is Freud 2.0 and Afrien’s Child OH MY GOD THATS SAD

BOTH ARE MISSING

Freud was able to regain a memory that there was a sixth hero. Luminous, the one who is part transcendant, did not. BM remembers Eunwol because, in his words, he is a transcendant. It’s possible that it is in fact because he made up the plan, but you think you’d remember almost giving up your entire existence for a spell, Lumi? And then suddenly not having to?

Lumi cited Freud as his intellectual/magical match/superior, and the only person ever to be such.

Anecdotal evidence (maybe idk):

His spell erased eun from existence *entirely*. Not just erased him, but erased him from the *past*, too, from the evidence of the pictures, and also everyones memories.

Chronica is a guy. He is a guy man. Yes we know this.

HOW CAN HE JUST BUILD A TOWER. WHAT. THAT WAS A MASSIVE ASS BEAM OF LIGHT FROM THE TOWER TOO.

Freud was very conveniently passed out when the player character came back to the past in the Arkarium/Silent Crusade thing. Would he have said something when he went back? Would he have known??? Hm??????????

This brings the seeing the future of all world aside from your own into question (detail from zero storyline that Rhinne can see the future of all worlds aside from her own). Did he have some idea of the future? Anything pointing to anything like that?

Would the Freud’s journal quest count, almost…?

Ill have to go through zero’s storyline more to see if any other details abt Rhine pop up than can guide me here

SPEAKING OF, why was Freud in mirror world if he’s dead? And of all people that we know of? Sure, Phantom and Evan are there, but both of them are connected to those places in some way- Evan grew up in Henesys, and Phantom probably grew up in Ariant. And both are alive. As is everyone else we see in mirror world, younger or older or whatever (I THINK?). So why the fuck is Freud there? I remember I thought of something related to this earlier that I can’t remember anymore and now I’m mad but I might remember later…