Holy Shit The Power of Friendship Comes in Clutch Again! Read about it here!
Summary: Hikari kicks that guyās ass so hard, Dāarquest feels it.
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Holy Shit The Power of Friendship Comes in Clutch Again! Read about it here!
Summary: Hikari kicks that guyās ass so hard, Dāarquest feels it.

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Alfion is so funny to me because imagine being Therion. You find yourself stuck with some random guy from the Riverlands, and from the moment you meet, everything about him repulses you. He's full of idealism and he's altruistic in a way you didn't think existed. So you convince yourself he's full of it. Every time you talk, you hang onto every word, waiting for a lie that never comes. You know it's cynical, but you convince yourself it's necessary. It's a precaution. But the reality is that as long as you can drag everyone and everything down to your level, you'll never have to admit how low you really are. It's a comfort, so even in the face of somebody so stubbornly good, you believe the universe is bound to break him. So you watch him, town after town, while your merry band faces everything fate has to offer. He never wavers, he probably even doubles down, and eventually you stop thinking about it. Then it happens. His world shatters before your very eyes. He cries in frustration, cursing his naivety, another man's blood dripping from his shirt. You're conflicted. This is what you've been waiting for. This is what you wanted. Order has been restored, yet you feel no relief. Instead, you're angry. Not at him. At the world. Because somewhere along the way, without noticing and without meaning to, this man dragged your old, beaten sentimentality out of hiding. It's unnerving and you're vulnerable in a way you haven't been in years, but as you look at that tear-stained face, you decide in that moment that some things are worth your fear.
tell me about your ot1 canon
chapter order, character development relationship development, protagonists, classes, story changes, potential crossed paths, extra chapters. anything you can think of in excruciating detail with a borderline illegal amount of words
OT1 family/backstory hcs
keep the ball rolling (check out @/lola-legendary @/sly-s-n0nfusion and @/fulgurbugs versions too they have great takes)
most of my story and character hcs are based around connecting the travelers more, so I decided to include some of my brief notes with my hcs!
(cw for mentions of trafficking and domestic violence)
Uhhh octopath family headcanons in strong detail inspired by @fulgurbugs and @sly-s-n0nfusion
Ophilia: Her parents were middle-class merchants who sold weapons to various people. It ended badly because they tried selling polearms to kind of shady men and they got stabbed. Everyone attributed it to the war, no one knows for sure exactly who those men were (itās the obsidians. itās always the obsidians.)
Cyrus: Iām actually starting to hate myself for talking so much about him. Post here
Tressa: we know exactly what her deal is. But I will mention that I hc her family business to be kind of failing when she was 12 or smth? (or maybe itās canon. I donāt know i havenāt consumed octopath in a very long time)
Olberic: Heās the youngest of 6 siblings, and the only boy. Heās also the smallest of his family by a decent margin, which is terrifying. He looks exactly like his dad and uses his sword (itās a family heirloom⦠sobs). His dad was a great swordsman but died just before Olberic was born. His mom is a matchmaker. She and three of his five siblings are alive and in Saintsbridge. One of them is dead. The other is in Solistia, somehow.
Primrose: Not many details here. But I like to think she was betrothed to Cyrus when they were younger, and they were friends before the Fall
Alfyn: Alfynās mom and dad were happily married, but his dad wasnāt big on responsibility (since he was a thief) and they split amicably, with Alfyn staying with his mom. Alfynās dad never spoke to him, but heās been shadowing Alfynās travels (without being noticed by Olberic. heās a very good stalker but not good at actual thieving).
Therion: Therionās dad is a hit-and-run kind of guy, and so his mom went to a Riverlands town, she had him there but had to abandon him due to reasons. She now lives in Quarrycrest and doesnāt know heās alive. (Sheās also Cyrusā aunt, making him and Therion cousins, but no one has a damn clue). Therion isnāt his true birth name, itās Carnelian, but when he finds out (like 3 years post canon) he has it changed so that Carnelian becomes his middle name
Hāaanit: I really donāt have much to say. They got gored by a wild boar when she was two lol

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Travelers' childhood/family headcanons
Let's go (inspired by @/fulgurbugs' inbox ask)
(Putting this under a read more for sensitive topics and possible spoilers)
prev anon: as in how their thoughts about their birth family (example how Therion thinks of his parents who abandoned him or Olbericās family members
iām gonna answer this with text because iām having trouble getting the hands to work drawing wise (and some shit has happened today and iām a bit tired to draw like 8 doodles pages) but i wanna answer this ask anyways
i also want to preface this with i didnāt go back and watch all the cutscenes and shit again, nor do i know any of the COTC lore and i wont until OT0 releases, so if i contradict anything its because im just the awesomest at knowing
also this is long so iām putting a readmore
I have completed all of chapter one of Octopath Traveler!! I am so happy I have everyone. I need to grind before heading off to chapter two because my party is underleveled as hell. Even ophilia and she's level 16 or 17. I think I'm gonna go around the eight towns stealing and getting into everyone's business and doing quests for the people. If this game had a moral system, I'd have none. I know if you fail four times, your reputation goes down. It's genuinely so funny to me that my reputation improved when I got Therion given his profession as a thief. Also!! I'm excited to see everyone interact. What interactions between party members are your favorite? No spoilers please, just list names. I have ophilia as my main.
I wanna know what happened to Darius. They left me hanging and I'm positive I'll find out in later chapters because the game gives no indication of what happened based on therions reactions to his memories so I'm intrigued. I want to know more about therion, his backstory, everything. Man is shrouded in mystery at the moment. And you know what? That makes me wonder about ophilia!! Like, I'm just curious about everyone.
It's so funny to me that ophilia, a woman on a pilgrimage, is like, "Yeah, we'll help you break into this mansion and steal a bunch of treasure." š and therions all about working alone, but he begrudgingly goes along with it too. It'd be so fucking funny if you could take your whole party into fights. "Yeah, let's break in through the window. All 8 of us." Lmao
Im so curious about the dragonstones. Can they turn into dragons with the stones??? Don't answer that!! (I heard dragonstones and went, "fire emblem fates.") I'll find out what they are exactly later. Also, the Heathcote fight was not hard. I'm kinda glad tho bc I was just chilling.
Cyrus comes in clutch as my mage. It's so funny how ppl just willingly talk to alfyn. But cyrus, he has a harder time getting information out of people, but alfyn could literally go up to the captain of the guards and get his backstory.
No spoilers or backseat gaming please!!
I love how every town so far in orsterra feels and looks different. I genuinely love the level design (is that the right term?) For example, Bolderfalls has stairs and uses a bunch of oranges and browns to fit the desert aesthetic while Flamesgrace looks so pristine with its whites and blues. Cyrus' town sprawls, and it makes sense that these places vary in size. Alfyns home is small because it's a backwater town. That kind of detail is so good.
While I'm still talking I have a few more ot1 relationship hcs and observations (platonic this time)
Ophilia and Therion were both born in Creek. All we get about Therion's past in game is that he's presumably an orphan from the Riverlands, but has no attachments to any given town in the region. The closest thing to non-Darius related backstory dialogue we get from him is a cagey comment towards Ophilia in her ch2. I don't think they were friends or even recognize each other, but I can imagine Therion hearing Ophilia mention Creek and instantly becoming attached to her against his will. It makes him agreeing to travel with such a large group earlier on in his character arc easier to believe. The way they might see each other is interesting too. Ophilia envies the way Therion moved forward on his own and developed such resilience and Therion envies the way Ophilia rose above tragedy and became someone so archetypically good. In reality they're just two very different outcomes from the same situation.
Alfyn tried to save Yusufa. I've seen this a couple times in fics and I like to think it's the reason Primrose agrees to let Alfyn "life is a wonder" Greengrass tag along on her revenge quest. I have my own octopath canon in my brain and in it Alfyn and Primrose are the only two present for Primrose's ch1. Alfyn and Yusufa get along famously so when she dies Alfyn literally can't bring himself to leave Primrose. Alfyn historically does not handle death very well, so the idea of letting the woman Yusufa died for walk away on a suicide mission somehow makes him sicker than the fact he just watched that same woman kill several men with nothing but an old knife and some magic.
Speaking of Alfyn's relationship with death there is so much untapped potential between him and H'aanit. They both have ideologies based heavily around mortality. Alfyn spends the majority of his story considering the relationship between morality and the worth of a human life while H'aanit acknowledges death as something that should be balanced and unbiased. H'aanit canonically helps Alfyn gather ingredients for medicine while Alfyn's secondary class in the ot2 ex battle is hunter. They are constantly learning from the other's ideas to the point it changes the way they approach the world around them.
Ophilia met H'aanit first and immediately decided to travel with her when she found out Z'aanta was missing. Ophilia barely thinks about her father for most of her story and I choose to read that as repression instead of a writing oversight. She's barely a week out of Flamesgrace and the first person she meets is a young woman fretting over the unknown status of her father. Of course she's going to project and do everything in her power to help.

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I think todayās the day I write some old man yaoi.
God help me, I am seven pages deep into this thing. And Olberic isā
No. I shanāt say.
MISSION FAILED, THEYāRE CRYING IN EACH OTHERāS ARMSā
Eisenbright is so funny to me because what if you were Olberic and youāre in your tiny village and one day this random guy shows up mid-crisis and just so happens to have encyclopedic knowledge about your fallen kingdom. This guy probably wrote his thesis about the most traumatic day of your life and the second he learns who you are he asks you question after question about the home you failed which probably sends you spiraling back into all the unresolved grief youāve been rotting in for the past eight years. You probably resent him for that at first because the more you think about home the more you hate yourself for failing it. He does not understand your grief and you never tell him because your grief is far too precious a thing to talk about, so he keeps asking questions. He probably knows folk tunes and folklore you thought you left in a past life and he talks about the world you lost in a way you wish you could remember it. He holds every detail with reverence and care and, slowly, you begin to feel it too. His questions feel easier and you even begin to look forward to answering them. You teach him songs heās never heard before and every mundane thing you lost eight years ago. He hangs on to every word like itās more than just a second hand memory to him. You realize that this man is the closest youāve felt to home in a long time. You crack and spill the grief you kept so close to your chest and suddenly your conversations are about more than just questions and answers. You talk to him about your day and his and you spend the time you normally would alone discussing battle tactics and strategy. He tells you about his own life and baggage and bombards you with trivia every time you pass through a new town. Eventually he himself has become home to you.