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Alisha never thanked Lunarre for saving her life in the prologue episode. It's because of him that she survived Symonne and survived to see the rest of the series!

Granted Lunarre was planning on eating her (presumably) at the time but he never actually did it...XP

He still deserves a thanks damnit!! If she can forgive Maltran (game) then she can easily forgive him!

A resident of Ladylake with high resonance spotted Lunarre! 

This pops up before Sorey and Mikleo encounter him again and have their big fight in the alley. Went back to the beginning of the game just to capture this comment. I love these little details you hear passing by people.

I’m going to hell for this aren’t I?

Alisha vs The Scattered Bones... So Many Problems

Dazzling animation aside, the more I think about and watch this scene, the more ridiculous and problematic it looks. To think so many issues can be found in the first episode of an anime this visually spectacular baffles me even as I write it.

[WARNING: It’s long]

Since when did assassins attack their target when - in this case, she - is heavily guarded and armed herself? With all the research Rose is so proud of doing regarding her targets, you’d think they’d be in tune enough with her schedule to know when and where she would be most vulnerable to attack. Here, in this scene, she is in control and absolutely capable of fighting back. Rose apparently likes making things difficult for herself. They could have easily just snuck into her bedroom at night and slit her throat, as they attempted to do later with that dick prince. 

Why are they attacking in daylight, where their dark clothing counts for practically nothing? This really pertains to the above problem about attacking Alisha while she has means of defending herself. Assassins, at least by modern ideas, do their jobs under the cover of darkness as much as they can. Rose and her guild do the same, as we see with their attempt on the dick prince’s life, and in their espionage work. They’re not the assassins of old that attacked people in broad daylight in front of public eyes. If they didn’t, then wearing matching uniforms and coating themselves in black would be entirely pointless and only be to their detriment. In any case, they really did not make the most of their oh so fearsome powers of stealth as assassins did they?

So it appears the reason they all had to jump in out of hiding in the first place is because some guy fucked up and can’t hit a motionless target to save his life. We’re supposed to believe these assassins are feared? The knife sailed past her head by quite a margin, and was that really inteded as a killing blow, because it almost looked soft. I wouldn’t trust a dagger thrown from on high to take out a target - an arrow would be far more effective if that was the plan. Or was that knife throw intended to miss, as in the case in their game debut? If so, the entire thing was cocked up from the very beginning. There is zero benefit to alerting your target - the target you intend to KILL - to your presence before striking. And before you mention ‘oh but they have their honour, they couldn’t just attack a helpless target’, I’ll remind you how Rose drove a knife into the leg of Lunarre, a member of her so-called ‘family’, who was outnumbered and not hostile towards them, simply for speaking up. I’ll also remind you how they were almost killed Bartlow (game, manga) despite him being necessary and important to Ladylake regardless of his many bad deeds, only stopping when Alisha reminds them of the political, economic and even social impact this would have. In short, they are not as honourable as they like to think they are, nor is their honour-protecting reasonable. Here it costs them a mission.

Combining all the above problems, no damn wonder they have trouble fighting Alisha and her guards head on. With only daggers and nothing else at their disposal, once disarmed (and they inevitably are) they’re up against the wall with nothing else to do but retreat. Not only was Lunarre no match for Alisha (thanks Rose) arguably none of them were. Their weapons are best designed for their line of work - quick, silent and stealthy killing, not drawn-out combat. They seem to have forgotten they are assassins, not soldiers or warriors. And from what I’ve read online from weapon enthusiasts, a weapon with a longer reach, like a two-handed or one-handed sword, would be a far better match against a spear. As this scene made clear, the assassins and their daggers/shuriken were not cut out for extended close combat, especially not against spears. In Episode 3, Alisha wields a dagger, and so her battle with Rose is at least even-matched and can go either way.

The so-called ‘family unit’ of the Scattered Bones abandon one of its members (Lunarre) and leave him to fight Alisha alone, despite being (to quote Rose) ‘no match’ for her? From what I could see there were two other members besides Lunarre, one of whom being Rose, unless she was just watching it all from the shadows. They disappear almost immediately after he engages with Alisha, and for all appearances they retreated into the trees at that moment as there is no sight or sound of them fighting the guards in the background. As a result, when Lunarre is inevitably disarmed and rendered helpless, he is utterly at the mercy of Princess Alisha. Rose tells Lunarre to retreat, but neither he nor Rose has the means of protecting him if Alisha decided to cut him down. She could well have done, and at this point Rose does not know Alisha’s character enough to know she won’t kill him, otherwise Rose wouldn’t have bothered asking the princess why she didn’t do it. Rose should have called for Lunarre to retreat the moment she and the others disappear. Of course, he could have ignored it, but it would have made more sense. This problem can come down to lazy writing, Rose canonically not giving nearly as much of a shit about Lunarre as she claims to (in the game), or a combination of both.

Tying in with Point 5 - ALISHA SAW LUNARRE’S (UGLY-ARSE) FACE. Even MORE reason not to let her get out of the woods alive! A dead princess would tell no tales, guards included, and having them being able to describe and recognise one of her assassins is a ramification no assassin organisation worth their salt would risk. If they weren’t so horrifically equipped and outmatched, with practically everything including the environment dead against them, they would have the means to make it happen. Unfortunately, they had a damn big reason, but no means. 

Alisha’s BODYGUARDS entirely disappear from the scene the moment Lunarre starts attacking her. You could argue they’ve got their hands full with the other assassins - but there were only three assassins. Rose is already in a tree when Lunarre is attacked and subdued by Alisha, so it’s safe to assume the other assassin retreated also - so where the fuck were Alisha’s guards while all this is going on? They weren’t exactly having trouble with their opponents, and at this point in the scene they only have one, who retreats. And since no bodyguards are present to defend their princess... why the fuck does Rose not move in for the kill right here? Her and Lunarre against a lone Alisha would have a greater chance of success and, as previously stated, Alisha has seen Lunarre’s face so she kinda HAS to die at this point. Nope, the guards just come running back after the assassins leave. At that point Alisha should’ve gone “I COULD’VE BEEN KILLED WHERE THE HELL WERE YOU? YOU’RE GUARDS, YOU’RE SUPPOSED TO GUARD ME!” She doesn’t, however, do this.

Lunarre turns into a hellion and pointlessly fucks off instead of trying to finish what he started. What was the point of that? Presumably he became a hellion because of Rose’s ‘no match for her’ comment - though a little build up and clearer showing of this would’ve been helpful blah blah blah - and he later expresses interest in killing/eating Alisha himself, faithful to his game personality... so why the fuck doesn’t he do it right there and then when Alisha is right there and caught off-guard by his transformation/behaviour? God everybody is this scene is so stupid it hurts! Everything is so obviously happening because ‘it looks cool’ rather than ‘it makes sense because x’. Not even the pretty animation can disguise it.

OK rant over. Time to play some Zestiria XP I might rag on the anime and aspects of the game, but I do love it - and that’s why I think I make these posts. It pains me so much because I still love the characters and the story of the game regardless of its flaws, and to see it given such a disservice in the anime adaption while at the same time given amazing animation just pisses me off so much.

Look at how happy he is~

「 楽しい ね ! 」

“How fun!”

Excerpt from ‘sorry not sorry’ crack post that I am more proud of than I have the right to be [x]

Lunarre’s name written in Glenwood script.

Day 2 - Lunarre from Tales of Zestiria. Drawlloween theme today is DEVIL, though honestly I get more of a demon vibe from him, then I notice DEMON is a theme later… Too late. Done with felt to pen. He’s here for DEVIL. 18 days till Zestiria! Woot woot! I think I covered my basis.

A couple of colour palettes! Symonne in ‘A Brush Filled with Moonlight’ (from color-palettes) and Lunarre in 'warriors’ (from spectrra) ~

I’ll likely be starting on the requests tomorrow - I have Divine Messenger to proof read, then I’ll likely do some writing 💕 Really happy with my progress today though despite it being a rough day!

BULL-BUGGERY-SHIT.

Lunarre pops onto the screen to remind the audience he exists near the end of Episode 13 of the first season of the X. By this point the battle is practically over with only the wounded or dead scattered around. 

I repeat, the battle is over. The only malevolence that should be floating about should be the remnants from that which would have existed in the heat of the fighting. Most of the people generating it in the first place are lying about either dead or barely conscious!

The ultimate reason this reasoning is bullshit? Jump to season 2, and Lunarre comes out from behind a boulder to remind the audience that he exists. He once again overlooks a battlefield, except this time he has (presumably) arrived while it was still raging. 

What are circling around in the skies? 

DRAGONS. HUNDREDS OF DRAGONS. 

AND WHATEVER THE HELL THESE ARE. LET’S CALL THEM DEMENTORS. THEY’RE PRACTICALLY DEMENTORS.

Lunarre is literally standing underneath a sky chock full of the bearers of the most unspeakably high amounts of malevolence imaginable - next to the Lord of Calamity himself - seraphim who have lost their minds and become monsters of destruction. And also the dementors. And the explosions. And the fighting.

IF HE’S CAPABLE OF STANDING AROUND AND FIGHTING WITH ALL THIS GOING ON, HE WAS CAPABLE OF DOING WHATEVER HE PLANNED TO DO IN EPISODE 13 OF SEASON 1.

You could say that perhaps Lunarre had simply gotten stronger in the timeskip. I say bollocks to that - did you see the shit he was pulling off, even so far back in the first episode, after having just become a hellion? Literally flying in the air and exploding giant fire tornadoes with his own fire. Also there was a dragon nearby I believe. He was throwing a young man not much smaller than him around like a rag doll and a whole load of other crazy shit he did in his fight in Elysia.

He took out an entire squad of soldiers with one sweep of his arm. 

X Lunarre is OP as fuck the entire series through. There is nothing to suggest he practised or made any effort to get stronger. He simply was stronger, INSANELY so, right from the moment he transformed. It was 50 - 100,000 in the space of a few seconds.

No, I think the writers just didn’t know or didn’t care to make enough time for Lunarre to be onscreen for a few piddly seconds to add nothing of substance to the scene he’s intruded in.

“The malevolence is too thick” my arse.

[Mun pauses to calm down. Tea helps.]

Now, what could have been.

If they gave a shit about his character at all, they could perhaps use that scene in Episode 13 to showcase Lunarre’s inner conflict. In the scene he expresses concern for Alisha, though from it we can only glean self-interest. 

However, what if we had already seen some build up, the groundwork for Lunarre’s interest in the princess and her and her friends’ struggles? What if we’d seen Lunarre fight with himself about his wants vs his needs, and question his attachment to Our Heroes (TM)? 

This scene could have been the first step forward, or backward, for him. Given the X anime intended, at least at the end, to give Lunarre a redemption, let’s give the step forward scenario.

Instead of making a bullshit excuse (malevolence too thick - fuck off etc.) and fucking off because oh no here comes a wild Sergei and his posse, Lunarre could provide some form of assistance or help to Alisha. However, he does it without her knowing (as she is passed out) and tells Maltran and others surrounding the princess to keep his involvement a secret. He could even perform some sort of assistance without being noticed. But do it nonetheless.

Lunarre then leaves the battlefield. He feels uncomfortable, embarrassed and even afraid. He’s confused, but also glad that he at least did something. It makes him feel good.

And here we have the first big step towards redemption.

Not that hard was it?

Movin’ time.

It appears Rose is worried Lunarre would tattle to the authorities as to the identities/whereabouts of his former guild and have the authorities raid their hideout. Lunarre could have done this, but didn’t, because bugger logic. Yes he does get some Scattered Bones members captured and sentenced (to death I believe) but very... very late.

Um, Lunarre was with you people for two years, I’d think he’d have an idea.

Now would be a good time for Sorey to ask what the hell happened.

Any minute now.

The ‘leeetle bit rough with her people’ line sounds like key information for me. This and more tells us that Rose the Boss was like another personality inhabibiting Rose’s body. Methinks Lunarre saw more of Rose the Boss than Rose the Person that Sorey and co. got to know. 

Methinks Rose’s chipper happy-go-lucky front was just that for the most part, just a front. I always got that feeling, which made it difficult to really like her like other people did. It was somewhat unsettling. From the conversation Sorey and co. after the final battle with Lunarre, they seemed to think so too - that Lunarre found such a disconnect between the two Roses and the guild as a whole unsettling, and that and other things probably shattered the family image he had initially liked them for.

Not if he finds you first.

Now would be a REALLY good time to say something Sorey. Lunarre is a very dangerous hellion, and you don’t know he’s not still hunting Alisha. He also has reason to hunt Rose and the guild, and you. HE ATE YOUR FRIEND. HE’S PROBABLY EATING OTHER PEOPLE RIGHT NOW.

YOU AND ROSE CAN TRACK HIM DOWN TOGETHER.

SAY SOMETHING GODDAMNIT.

One of the many great much needed little things in the manga that help clear up a lot of undeveloped/unexplained or outright confusing/contradictory elements in the original game.

Here, in volume 2 (which I’m cheekily getting for Christmas along with volume 1 and 3) Sorey and co. have just purified the drake in Marlind and gotten the blessing of the Lord of the Land, Rohan. 

In the game we don’t really see the effects of the blessing outside of the boons Sorey and the team gets. Yes, the area itself is cleared up of the dark malevolence, even though sources of malevolence within the area can still exist (e.g.: Bartlow and cronies). 

The blessing means that hellions can no longer enter the area, but we never see this happen before in the games. There is more emphasis on the malevolence already existing in the area, generated by the people within its confines. The most we see its effecting outside that perimeter is in the boons Sorey and co. get.

Here, we see Lunarre actively trying to enter Marlind, but he can no longer do this thanks to Rohan’s blessing. The blessing is shown in action as a barrier, in a way that actively expands on things established previously, e.g.: Lunarre’s pursuit of Sorey and the others, AND sets the groundwork for others, e.g.: Lunarre’s alliance with Symonne.

From this we can connect Lunarre’s inability to enter areas guarded by a seraph’s blessing (e.g.: Pendrago later in the game, under the protection of Morgrim) to his partnership with Symonne - right from this early stage. With no malevolence, Symonne can enter areas he cannot, and (presumably, somehow) help him do the same despite the barrier.

Also Lunarre doesn’t just fuck off and reappear again suddenly ages later, hurray!

I can only imagine what went through the minds of the poor birds as Lunarre jumped through the air in the anime.

Bird: "What a lovely day -- FUCKING HELL!!!"

Thoughts on what could have been: TOZ edition.

Wouldn't it have been interesting if we had seen Lunarre become more physically monstrous as time went on and he slowly lost his grip on sanity?

When Sorey and Mikleo first meet him he is still pretty human-like with the exception of a few foxlike features. But we see later how his malevolence has grown and how unhinged he has become.

He could still feel vindicated and therefore be unable to purify, but his inner conflict and inability to deal with the emotions driving him could cause him to lose himself both physically and mentally.

This could be the key difference between him and Maltran. They both felt vindicated but whereas Maltran was self assured and accepting of her own feelings and past trauma, and thus kept her humanity, Lunarre was not.

Alternatively, in the anime, Lunarre could experience the same erosion of his humanity but this time events and his own self could battle against his inner demons and, eventually, with the help of Sorey and co., enable Lunarre to at least keep in the form they see when they first encounter him. Lunarre insists he keeps at least that form because he wants to be able to fight alongside the others with the power of a hellion.

However, because he has hung on and is very nearly purified, Lunarre is not nearly as powerful as he would be if he had become a monster. As such, his act to save the team on the battlefield against the Lord of Calamity kills him.

In this case Dezel would have to have been killed off way before this point. Having two dramatic sacrifices would kind of take away from each other I think.

I got Volume 3 of the Zestiria manga today...

IT’S AWESOME!

Jesus this was dark. Never expected to hear something like this from Lunarre. I was struck by the immediate assumption that it was Simone was the one saying this, though it is clearly Lunarre because he is the focus of the panel and his lips are parted in speech.

It struck me - because family is Lunarre’s fixation, the thing he loathes. His next words (“Family, how disgusting” etc.) and the rest of his bitter dialogue tell us as much.

This speech sounded like something Simone would say. This made me think - did Simone further entrench Lunarre in darkness with her own views? Did she impart her own nihilistic worldview onto an already bitter and vengeful individual? It would certainly go a ways to explaining how and why Lunarre suddenly ended up at SImone’s side, working alongside her under Heldalf for his own ends.

If this is true, then could Simone be responsible for driving an angered Lunarre to malevolence before the start of the story? Was it she who had him become a hellion? Or did Lunarre seek her out, or come across her, and hearing that she could give him power - something Lunarre craved back then - willingly heed her words or do her bidding so that he might attain that power (as in, become a hellion)?

If Lunarre didn’t meet Simone before he went rogue, then it make sense that Simone would have approached and recruited Lunarre some time after the confrontation in Ladylake between him and Our Heroes. What did she reel him in with? Promise of more power? Promise of a definitive plan to destroy the people and things Lunarre hated?

Back to the speech itself, it appears Lunarre is regurgitating Simone’s beliefs in order to justify - or validate - his current state of loneliness. The idea of family still rankles him, and causes him immense pain, but he repeats Simone’s nihilistic ramblings because it momentarily hardens his heart against the pain. He doesn’t enjoy what he says - the mad grin he usually wears is replaced by a darkly solemn expression, as if he’s trying to convince himself.

I GREATLY look forward to where the manga takes my favourite fox boy!!

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5☆ Hermana and 4☆ Lunarre will be added to the options of co-op roulette prize spreads (here is how to select a spread).

Hermana, P.Kanonno and Rose can now be evolved into 6☆. Their Evolution Crystals are also added to the roulette prize spreads (they can be selected).

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I will never not hate the human form they gave Lunarre in the TOZ anime. Really becoming a hellion was the best thing that could have happened to him. Even in the end he looked goddamn beautiful. The writers were stupid clearly loved Lunarre’s hellion form so much they couldn’t bear for him to be seen dead as an ugly frizzle-haired human nobody.