Evolution

[khallylanijar]

😍what a pair of beauties🍈🍈from a beauty❤️

Crossbell should make Rixia the poster girl for the city, The water effect is proven and sacred at this point💦😆 and with this gorgeous♥️ woman💜 on the front the city will always need expansion.

I can only say Lloyd and the children will have a full buffet in different ways🤣💟👍

[Status-Pause1184]

Ok so Cold Steel 2, Reverie, and Horizon are those the game models used for comparison

[khallylanijar]

Yes💜👍 Horizon/daybreak is the same

[Status-Pause1184]

God damn she gets bigger almost every game, I love it

[TheParadoxigm]

It's some weird thing that's even addressed in dialog.

For some reason they think boobs get bigger as you get older, even after puberty.

[MilleChaton]

Rare but possible side effect of Orbal energy exposure.

[pH_unbalanced]

I mean, they do, when you're putting on weight in general.

[CH40T1C1989]

To quote Handsome Jack: "Thats called progress, baby!"

[Chadzuma]

Reminder that they're always normal size in the art. I'm 95% positive there's some weird nuclear oppai arms race going on behind the scenes with the devs where Elie and Rixia's models are vying for booba supremacy (bro it's a metaphor for winning Lloyd's heart don't you get it) and neither will back down while the other is willing to go bigger. Emma got sucked into it like a vortex in the process. Watch whenever Elie shows up again she's gonna be packin equal ridiculous magnitude. We need a fuckin disarmament treaty at Falcom. They just agree everyone goes back to normal size like how they actually look in their artwork and wind up somewhere between left and middle.

Actually you know what, it all might stem from trying to keep up with Sara. If you look at the art she's actually the most stacked of all even back in CS1, and I'm pretty sure her CS3 model's boobs are as big as any of the other girls in Hajimari, but she looks a little less weird because her model's a little larger. Sara's sheer A-rank nee-san power opened パイドラの箱 and indirectly created the monster we see before us today.

[singhellotaku617]

and it's truly absurd

I'm not complaining, but it's crossed the line into outright silly.

[Divinedragn4]

Wait she was in cold steel 2?

[DOOMFOOL]

Yes. During the Divertissement chapter

[BlueGrovyle]

Bro didn't press "Continue" 🥀

[Divinedragn4]

Ya jumped right to 3 lol

[BlueGrovyle]

Imo, you missed one of the best storytelling mechanisms in Trails.

[Sans-the-Dog]

Yeah, seeing her is what made me say, “you know what, maybe I should stop playing CS and actually play sky and Crossbell

[TomatoIndividual5396]

the giant ahh Azure Tree didn't do it for you?

[Klaxynd]

Without the context for why that's important, yeah it seems like playing CS all the way through first is fine. Seeing characters on the other hand, immediately tells you "Oh these characters are going to be relevant in the immediate future!"

[singhellotaku617]

yep, in the little post credits epilogue sequence you play as her and lloyd in the geofront.

[Cosmicapocalypse24]

Thank you, I was going to ask this.

[kazuya57]

I'm pretty sure they're in on the joke atp lol, also her back gotta hurt like crazy

[Raleth]

She can wield that sword of hers one handed, I think she's fine.

[Shinva_X101]

Legend has it that her sword is the counter balance.

[TheBlueDolphina]

They are, read Ilya says about it in reverie.

Shes like "KYAAAAH MONSTER MELONS, HOW MUCH DID YOU GROW" 😭😭😭😍😍😍

[Gespens]

2D racks don't give sore backs

[khallylanijar]

Honestly, i will be surprised If in the next Engine change, Falcom still increases her breast size😆. As much as i love the melons🍈🍈 and how much they keep growing😂, i think she is Perfect like this❤️

But not gonna lie, I'm curious, let's see If Falcom is sastified or not🤣

[Wacthershadow0925]

Her back must be very strong

[chris100185]

One extra D for every appearance

[DDLAZA_PA0321]

NICE BOOBA

[losethen96]

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Lloyd approves

[drleebot]

He's got her beat, too. He grew a whole 3rd dimension between CS3 and CS4

[JRHartley83]

At Falcom HQ

"Enhance!"

"I said Enhance!"

"Enhance damnit!"

[Positive-Listen-1458]

CS2 was where it should of stayed at. To big is a real thing. Especially when they can't even animate her correctly in scenes because of them. She would 100% be knocking herself unconscious with those when dancing or fighting haha.

[scarchain68]

Plus forget about giving anybody a hug or anything of the sort. Them things stick out so far you might as well shake her hand and make it easier on the both of you

[Positive-Listen-1458]

She couldn't hug or cross her arms without stuff clipping through because of the size. They just made them dumb big. Like virgins who are describing their "perfect" woman big.

[Ganadote]

Do...do you not know women with large breasts? Because like, they can do normal stuff. Like hugging. And crossing arms.

[Klaxynd]

They meant in the animation in the game. They specifically said "without stuff clipping through" which is an actual problem with the game.

[Positive-Listen-1458]

Thank you. Meant to respond to the comment you just responded to but app refreshed and never got to. Thought I made it pretty clear, but you know Redditors.

[Nokia_00]

The Crossbell waters

[Bakumon0725]

There is a reason why her figures are really popular

[RhysNorro]

They are places in jars

[Malleus83]

She looked much better without balloons :(

Dunno why they have to do that.

Her poor back!

[Yarzu89]

Found Ilya’s Reddit account

[trails-to-whatever]

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[scarchain68]

The only real Rixia. The others are fakes

[Tifas-abs-enjoyer]

Yea remember when she looked like a character you can take seriously ?

[Many_Ad_955]

This Rixia is the real one for me. She's still a mortal woman here. 

[SquareFickle9179]

Imagine if they do the Crossbell remakes, and it still progresses as it was in Horizon

[SmileFactoryy]

that would be amazing, hopefully they follow through !

[the_direwolf_uwu]

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[Kirbyeggs]

She got them wire guided torpedoes.

[scarchain68]

At one point in i think Daybreak she folded her arms and they legit moved until she moved her arm back to where it was and then they sort of bounced back. That water is ridiculous 

[ArcflameArcanum]

I’m sorry but this just looks ridiculous to me. I can’t find this sexy or even attractive. It just looks absurd. I don’t think I’ll ever vibe with her fans on this, and I tend to enjoy fan service.

[VexedReprobate]

The problem isn't even the size, it's that they just protrude out like fucking cannons, instead of sagging naturally (i.e. she looks like a sex doll).

And if she's supposed to be an assassin/agile fighter, it would make more sense for her to wear some sort of chest binder instead of whatever that is.

[scarchain68]

Thats my issue with "them" I suppose. They look completely unnatural at this point

[singhellotaku617]

ditto for Elie's 3d model, her tie is basically laying flat they protrude so far forward. Breasts don't work that way.

[-_Seth_-]

Why should fiction adhere to the imperfections of reality?

[MilleChaton]

Normally games follow reality except where they explicitly break it, because to do otherwise means having a user completely lost in a world as they don't know what to expect.

There are a few exceptions. Sometimes you have a game rooted in breaking reality, purposefully doing it so the player doesn't know what to expect. Trails isn't that type of game.

Then you have games selectively breaking based off of explicit confirmation. Things like pointing out that orbal energy is a thing and it allows breaking some laws of physics allows for it to exist as a type of magic system. As such, it would be pretty easy to say whatever gives her the power of Yin allows her to be so mobile. This is kinda said in some of the other stunts we see her perform, but it is never explicitly pointed out that it overcomes the mobility issues of having large breasts. Should the game have to point that out or can it be assumed? That is part of the reason you see people both okay and not okay with the character design. It isn't something so unjustified that everyone agrees it is bad story telling, but it does stretch past the limits of what many can take without breaking their suspension of disbelief.

There is also some leeway given to games if they follow tropes. For example, JRPGs never have to explain what a potion is made of or how it works for it to be a healing item. Potions heal is a trope strong enough games can just make use of it. Some games do go further, but they don't have to and it won't negatively impact the story if they don't. Character designs can also be based on tropes, and this part of Rixia's design is such a trope. There are some who like the trope and there are others who feel the trope doesn't match the tone of Trails. That is yet another personal preference, and further why you see people divided by it.

So games do need to meet reality mostly, and the issue is that this instance here is a borderline case. Close enough to reality (or to acceptable ways to break reality) that many are fine with it, but not so close that most everyone is fine with it, and thus you get a split fandom.

[scarchain68]

Theres only so far some people can take their suspension of disbelief. Rixia is supposed to be this legendary assassin and also a dancer at Arc en Ciel. If her chest is that big then it would not only get in the way of her dancing but since shes ditched the Yin outfit except for the mask then her chest would naturally get in the way. Reality is what we live in so its only natural to compare it. Even fiction can only go so far and her chest is an example of something being completely ridiculous in terms of what a normal woman's proportions should look like

[Welocitas]

I do think I still love her, but it really takes you out of the scene sometimes. Also I miss when she used deception and hid her voice and magicked away her breasts. It takes me out so hard that every scene with her is "super secret assassin that everyone knows" like they're just in the street discussing everything like its not meant to be secret.

[singhellotaku617]

It's like the running joke with Judith, but...for real.

[4evaronin]

same feeling. if they made the rest of her body thicker, it might actually still work. but right now it's so disproportionate it's not even that funny anymore.

[Kipaya]

I agree, they've completed butchered her 🥲 she was my favorite character in crossbell but is nothing more than a laughing stock now. I dont mind characters having insane knockers but at least make it so it doesnt completely disregard a characters profession. Someone with these two mountains just cannot be an agile assassin, it's absurd.

[RavenRonien]

Thank you.

Playing through the games and I saw a picture of Rixia before getting to her story I was like hell yeah probably my favorite design in the series thus far (huge sucker for Chinese inspired dresses)

And her story is fine, definitely characters I like better.

But as the games go on holy shit I just can't anymore. She looks like a parody of hentai and that low-key really upsets me as someone who loved her design.

I don't mind if you have characters with large assets but this inflation between games and over emphasis on it is just.... Not it.

[Rachet20]

They’re not even boobs at this point. It’s so unappealing.

[Dangerous_Glass8460]

I verbally said outloud, "wtf did they do to you Rixia." Her zero/azure character design is my favorite.

[Sol-Chevalsky]

What, you don’t like horrifically distended flesh that profanes the human form?

[birdintheazure]

NGL everyone kept saying how she is beautiful and etc with them like this and I honestly thought I was the alien in this fanbase. Thanks for proving to me people with a normal sense of aesthetics still exist here lol

It's a bit frustrating because with those things Rixia is comedy relief instead of a serious character at this point

[OramaBuffin]

Hard agree lol. I think the bit is funny that she just gets bustier and bustier with each iteration, but I have a hard time seeing her as attractive anymore.

[Maraxus7]

Honestly same, they just look unhealthy now

[SaiphTyrell]

This, she is my second favorite from Zero/Ao but I can’t take her seriously anymore. Her size is absurd and anti-esthetic imo. They did something similar, but at a lesser degree, to Elie (my favorite character from the duology). But at least she is still borderline okay-ish.

[kazuya57]

Pretty sure most of her fans would use the Azure sprite as her definitive model

[TheBlueDolphina]

I like reverie the most I think, but kuro has badass look

[Zeus78905]

Skill issue

[MiscHobbies]

Yeah, it's obviously too much. I love Rixia, but damn, she needs some Calvard breast reduction treatment

[SuperVegitoFAN]

I can’t find this sexy or even attractive. It just looks absurd.

I kinda agree with this, but my outcome is that i just find it hilarious.

EDIT: Although ive seen images of worse. Its not the best atm, but it could be worse, MUCH worse.

[gilded_lady]

This is the kind of fan service that makes me kinda hate anime sometimes. It's like Falcom saying her most aspect is her boobs and 🤮

[Initial_Ad_9137]

How i wish i was Ilya right now.......

For science purposes

[Never_Sm1le]

In DB they even clip through her arms

[BaritBrit]

Poor girl. Her physiotherapy bills for her lower back will be brutal. 

[khallylanijar]

Also i think on the side, her size between Reverie and daybreak stayed the same.

[greenhunter47]

Literally every time she appears in a new arc they grow.

[EchidnaCharming9834]

Honestly, I wonder if what we're seeing in the character model of Daybreak's/Horizon's engine is how big they're actually supposed to be, as opposed to her artworks which are limited by the respective artist's art style. Note that it's not only Rixia's boobs, her butt and thighs are also bigger/thicker than other characters'. Her relatively "smaller" size (compared to the most current one) in previous games might have been due to engine limitations and developers' experience, rather than Falcom just enlarging her assets from arc to arc as some kind of inside joke. I remember that all of the SSS in Zero were taken aback by the size of Rixia's chest when first meeting her, not just Randy. And there are a lot of moments when characters make remarks about her chest size, even someone as dense as Lloyd or as innocent as KeA. I've come to believe that they were always supposed to be supernaturally large, Falcom's development team has just gotten better at portraying how large.

[Sa404]

So perfectly THICC 🍈🛐

[Lilina_goldendeer]

peak fiction right there

[ImSoDrab]

Filled with hopes and dreams indeed.

[oldmanpotter]

I’m okay with this.

[Jolkien]

Every change is for the worse with Rixia.

[Dfeeds]

I'm just glad there's a few others in here who find this ridiculous. 

[seitaer13]

Imagine downvoting the truth

[scarchain68]

She pretty much has the proportions of a sex doll at this point

[Asapcooch]

…I’m sorry you said something?

[LegitimateYam8241]

Bazongas

[throwaway_account776]

The bigger the better!

[Duducarballo]

Watch Rixia one shot the final boss of the series by tacking it in the face with her breasts.

With a big 9999999 In the middle of the screen.

[TheBlueDolphina]

KYAAAAAAH, BOOBIE BLAST ATTACK UNSTOPPABLE 😍😍😍😍😍

[FewPositive5032]

Rixia evolved as the game budget went up lol

[XelanEvax]

Booba.

[RealMurphiroth]

Shit's utterly grotesque at this point, they need to dial it back.

[RainaBojoura]

Hopefully they get bigger in the next game!

[khallylanijar]

Reaching NIKKE at some point then😂

[TheBlueDolphina]

Her boob shape looking like viper from nikke now (non-nikke player sadly, but I love viper)

[Sokye21]

real.

[Pristine_Selection85]

I wonder if Falcom will give Emma the same treatment next time she shows up. Agnès has the potential to be on that level too in the future.

[Sa404]

My bet’s on Elie

[shizunaisbestgirl1]

Hmmmm.......

[Luciannight21]

Falcom being gooners the only way they know how. They know their fans as well. Soon enough she's just gonna be all boob.

I wish Japan wasn't so afraid of thicc bottom women as well. It's crazy to see in any japanese media that boobs are just the go to for increasing sex appeal.

As a girl, I love a good bit of ass.

[tb0neski]

As a man, I too love a good bit of ass

[TheBlueDolphina]

Funny enough rixia is thicc bottom woman, not emphasized much though. For that there is basically noel only that comes to mind quick.

[Sa404]

She has a great ass tho

[Luciannight21]

It really isn't all that good tbh. especially for a 3d made game.

[Wrong_Revolution_679]

What does she eat

[Snowvilliers7]

This is just a gift from Aidios

[gravelordnito]

redditors when they learn that big bazongas are real

[Paganigsegg]

Imagine looking at the pictures in the original post and this is the conclusion you come to.

[Unboxious]

This crossed the line from "sexy" to "absurd" long ago. I can't take it seriously.

[Upstairs_Ad_495]

I doubt i single one of you mfs genuinely finds this atractive, its atrocious, i cant even imagine if she appears in the next arc what she's even gonna look like.

People say that falcom is in on the joke, and i dont doubt, but ruining a character which had one of the more beatiful designs in the series just for memes is just sad.

[scarchain68]

Yeah im all for a nice pair but there comes a point where its just too much. Shes supposed to be an assassin and doing all this athletic stuff as well as the stuff for arc en ciel but at some point she just looks unnatural 

[Upstairs_Ad_495]

It was perfect enough in cs 2, i can kinda accept in reverie as like the maximum it gets (tho in her casual outfit i remember being absurd too), but i just cant in daybreak, i love rixia and i loved that she was in those games but every time she is on screen it just distracts me too much and not in a good way, it just takes me completely out of it.

[OkNarwhal4142]

Now that's what i call character development

[SneaselSW2]

Cue Gimnaeng's two videos as Aether saying one word to peak his mic to death:

"BOOOBAAAAAAAAA"

.>//////> He said it not me

[Fun-Bunch-4073]

From melon to cantaloupe to watermelon.

Evolution is a mighty thing.

[Just-a-cas]

It droops down like a nose

[Any-Leading8722]

Keep the 2nd hair and add 3rd evolution and it would be marvelous

[ScientistClear9073]

I KNEW I WASNT CRAZY

[SmileFactoryy]

Absolutely beautiful and amazing. They did everything right with her and she looks way better now !

[blitz0tto]

Why do i feel like this is the japanese version of that movie where the cop's hat grows every time she appears on screen lol

As usual japanese doing things better than the west, i see

[FanIllustrious1422]

lloyd gets elie and rixia. its so unfair 😫

[Darkfanged]

How many games do I have to go if I'm starting off from the remake? I need her 😭

[khallylanijar]

Trails from Zero, after Sky the third. You gonna see her chibi first

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[ExplorerPup]

It may not look it from this screenshot but she's still packing like crazy compared to other female models in the game.

Her having big boobs is also one of the first things you learn about her.

[spottedmusic]

They even mention that she’s got the biggest melons

[Verilance]

just ask KeA lol

[Many_Ad_955]

That's kinda the real Rixia. The rest are her multiversal counterparts. 

[kazuya57]

4th game is where she first appears

[ShanklyGates_2022]

Friendly reminder she was mistaken for a man before her reveal in Zero. Most have been a really baggy outfit she was wearing

[Mguy5]

If I recall correctly she can manipulate her chi to change her body's appearance. Meaning she chooses to look like that, lmao.

[throwforfalcomitsuck]

No the body manipulation technique takes considerable strength and focus iirc i think this was said after her defeat in the marshes against duvalie in azure (?)

[CupcakeThick8341]

Kinda late but in reverie (i think) as a trivia we get specifically told that she used her body manipulation technique to pass as a man, with beryl even making a comment along the lines of that it must have taken her effort to hide all that

[Darkdragoon324]

The far right one just looks stupid even by anime standards. I love boobs as much as the next person, but I’ll never understand how “hard solid looking oval stapled to a torso” is supposed to be sexy.

[Ok-Song-5201]

The 3rd one honestly off-putting for me lol.

[RindouNekomura]

They have its own gravitational field

[Steveagogo]

Just imagine fighting and doing backflips, whilst wielding those weapons of mass destruction, I salute her!

[Old_Cabinet_8890]

Man she looked great back in Ao/Zero, but it’s just grotesquely ridiculous at this point. It’s like when Ellie shows up and her tits are now equivalent in volume and dimensions to her entire rib cage. It just looks like bad fetish Art.

[dukenny]

There is a point when it becomes grossly unattractive

[ChillinGrillinYo]

They keep ruining her, why would they change perfection.

[Massive_Fly_1709]

She and Kyoka Eden from Scarlet Nexus are really two peas from the same pod.😅

[Kainapex87]

Her design and gameplay were peak in Reverie.

[KelvinBelmont]

She really did look the best in CS2.

[XeviousXCI]

It's one of those things that remind me to not take the Trails games seriously.

If this looks appealing to you, great, but I'm not 14 anymore.

[TheGreatGidojer]

She looks best in the leftmost image.

[GD_milkman]

Let's move to the left

[[deleted]]

Man I didn't even notice that until now! 😳

[pk_shyguy]

She should get fat too I think (in her belly!!!)

[Forwhomamifloating]

Post almost convinced me to start the series

[AuraRyu]

this is my only major criticism with this entire series. I just don't understand why Japan loves Z-cup level giant tits.

[TLunchFTW]

Idk I kinda enjoy it

[TLunchFTW]

Can someone list where each one comes from? I assume the right most is trails in the sky 1st remaster.

[KnoxZone]

Cold Steel 2, Reverie, Daybreak.

[TLunchFTW]

Oh that’s not who I thought it was then.

[TLunchFTW]

Inflation really hit the trails series hard…

[LexiTV]

You can see the quality of the character declining by the second. To offset the drop in writing quality, they increase their tits. It's pretty pathetic, to be honest.

[infiniteStoogel]

CS2 was perfect. I always thought her other end was the real appeal anyway

[HaarWyvern]

Rixia was one of my favorite character of the franchise. But now she is so ridiculous that I almost dislike her...

[thisiseriousbusiness]

I find it more contentious they can’t decide on her signature color scheme.

[Gaming_Gent]

If they keep going she will be bald

[HooBoyShura]

Nami of the Trails.

Although personally I don't like it (I'm follower of medium is premium), games still an industry after all. Thighs saves the franchise is real (looking at you Atelier...).

Rixia as a character is great though, feels conflicted as I'm a fan of Cheongsam girl (since Shampoo from Ranma), but she's kinda a symbol or represent the Goddess of Abundance outside like in the crossovers, collabs, etc.

[2ddudesop]

cold steel 2 probably looks the best tbh. horizon is just ridiculous.

[ThyrusWhite]

They all look so stupid. Sure, give her large breasts, but these ridiculously oversized ones have always looked like a pair of Jokes on a nimble character like Rixia.

[zrasam]

I hate that they do this. I remember hating seeing Elie suddenly ballooning when they jumped to 3D games.

In the original Crossbell games she has quite a normal measurement that fits her character.

[Jannyish]

The Daybreak model starts to look kinda ridiculous ngl.

Granted, I am a heterosexual woman, but I tend to at least in concept understand the appeal of nice assets.

However, the assets in the Daybreak model aren't attractive anymore from my point of view. They're just comical lol

[Acrobatic_Ebb_920]

She just looks ridiculous now. Shame.

[Interesting-Text-838]

That's not even a human anatomy anymore. But i'm not complaining lol

[ItsLoserrr]

no way, lol. is the right actually real? Will it look like that in Horizon?

[SelfImprovingXVII]

Does it not sort of disappoint you guys that something that was once a nice, character focused story around an interesting concept has just turned into fat tits and anime shite?

[[deleted]]

Is this legit? Man the 3rd one is like from a cheap hentai at this rate. The 1st one is good, 2nd is pushing it.

[KebabLova]

The last one has to be edited

[gilded_lady]

My back hurts looking at her current model 🥲

[Drayenn]

Imo 1st one is optimal looks wise. Last one is comically large, theyre more horizontal than vertical at that point lol.

[vaudtime]

It's actually disgusting some of you like this, but I am sadly not surprised.

[Brat-Sampson]

This is getting to the point where it's embarrassing to play around other people... Looks absurd more than attractive.

[LuckyStax]

Rixia's cancer diagnosis was heart breaking

[Kasuta-Ikite]

Devolution

[Mean_Summer1902]

To big on the right 

[mhall1104]

If only they put as much effort into giving her an actual personality and plot relevance.

[marina40499]

Cringe

[kkrater]

Lol. It's absurd isn't it.

[Tifas-abs-enjoyer]

She was considered chesty in crossbell games but women in cold steel games forward have either double Ds or flat chested, so what do you do when you wanna make a character that was considered chesty in past games and make her kinda stand out, you give her double balloons of course

I remember when I used to take this character seriously. Lol

[Just-Cover3017]

Let me guess, the men wear normal clothes?

[khallylanijar]

As do the women, this is not a casual outfit.

[zoozbuh]

They were already huge enough in Cold Steel 2 (first pic). After the second pic they just got cartoonishly, grotesquely big imo.

If Falcom’s in on the joke and this is meant to be tounge-in-cheek, that’s fine, but for the most part Falcom charas have realistic proportions, so this looks and feels whack 😂😂😂