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Overused to Death (but loveable) Tropes in Zestiria

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Grumpy jerk and actual ray of sunshine are BFFs

Dezel and Sorey? They weren’t BFFs per se, but friends, so it counts. Mikleo is not a grumpy jerk, so he doesn’t count here.

Dezel and Rose (debatable, as I don’t really consider Rose a ray of sunshine).

Edna and Lailah (not sure if they’re BFFs, again, but Lailah certainly likes Edna a lot and shows it).

Mutual unrequited pining

[Insert SorMik fan response]

Character A falls fast and hard for Character B

 [Insert SorMik fan response] 

 [Insert SorLisha fan response]

Character A slowly falls in love with Character B over the course of several years, realization hits them that they’ve been in love with B for a long time hits them like a truck

[Insert SorMik fan response] 

[Insert SorLisha fan response]

[Insert DezelxRose fan response]

Cool badass is actually a giant fucking nerd

Mikleo, for ruins.

Dezel, for fauna and flora.

Mayvin (?)

Segei (he’s a dork, yes, does that count?).

The Power of Friendship ™

Our Hero and His Party ™.

Flat “what” reactions

Too many to count in the skits.

Sweet adorable characters with horrible tragic pasts

Sorey and Mikleo, though they have no memory of their tragic past (being infants at the time). They did however relive it. Both sweeties, especially Sorey.

Alisha (not exactly horrible, but sad - early death of mother, distant father and spending her entire life trying to prove her worth, being the lowest ranked of the royal family or royal children. And then it turns out her entire life so far had been manipulated to suit the bitch Maltran’s wicked ends and that the person she thought was her mother this whole time was evil and wanted to destroy the world. Yet in spite of all that, she’s a sweetheart.

Lailah, though we’re counting her life as a seraph. This only counts for her past with the Shepherd Michael and how he ended up and her guilt over it.

Villains-turned-heroes becoming the Weird Uncle

Lunarre, to an extent, in the X anime. Unfortunately he doesn’t get the opportunity to become the Weird Uncle, firstly because Ufotable botched his character arc - if it was even planned in the first place - and secondly because by the time he actually turned hero Ufotable killed him off seconds later. 

Though not an outright villain, Zaveid was considered an enemy prior to joining the group and becoming the Weird Uncle.

Characters that aren’t actually related having a parent-child relationship

Rose and Dezel (?).

Rose and the former boss whose name escapes me.

Sorey, Mikleo & Gramps (Zenrus).

Alisha & Maltran.

Dezel & Zaveid (????).

Characters that aren’t actually siblings having a sibling-like bond

Our Heroes and His Party ™.

Sorey & Mikleo.

Scattered Bones members.

Edna & Eizen.

“I can’t stand this person but I would die for them”

If this is a tsundere thing, Dezel & Rose? Not sure about this one.

I PAUSED IN BETWEEN FRAMES AND THIS IS WHAT I SAW HOLY SHIT I CAN’T STOP LAUGHING

LOOK AT HIM

LOOK. AT. HIM.

I PAUSED IN BETWEEN FRAMES AND THIS IS WHAT I SAW HOLY SHIT I CAN’T STOP LAUGHING

LOOK AT HIM

IT’S LIKE HE’S FROZEN HIS FUCKING SEX FACE.

I PAUSED IN BETWEEN FRAMES AND THIS IS WHAT I SAW HOLY SHIT I CAN’T STOP LAUGHING

LOOK AT HIM

Goddamnit Ufotable.

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]

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?

LOOK AT HIS BEAUTIFUL BABY FACE.

LOOK AT IT.

Sorey: WHY ARE YOU AFTER ALISHA?

Lunarre: WHAT?

Sorey: I SAID, WHY ARE YOU AFTER ALISHA?

Lunarre: WHAT?

Mikleo: YOU HAVE FUCKING ELF EARS HOW CAN YOU NOT -

Lunarre: Heh, my ears are fine, I'm just screwin' with ya. Later fuckers! *runs away*

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.

How funny would it have been if Sorey and co. had buried hellion Lunarre and gone on their merry way, only to be later interrupted by a half-frozen fox man charging after them screaming “YOU BASTARDS TRIED TO MURDER ME!!”

be careful who you call ugly in middle school

                 When the FOX preaches,

                                                take care of your GEESE.  

Day 5

Mikleo (adult) - Tales of Zestiria the X (Anime)

I gave her a pendant that I made from the stones in the mountains. When I gave it to her, she gave me a pendant too. That day, we had the same thinking and gave the same present to each other in the same day. At that time, I was sure. We share a familial bond between us.

Eizen - Tales of Berseria

They once broke my heart btw.. Anyways.. The ending was one of the best thing ever tho ♥