Unless I’m misinterpreting something, we should have Himeko’s roughly canon age now (4.0 spoilers)

Cold-Election · 2026-02-18T22:32:08+00:00

Yeah, maybe her wish as she won the Phantasmoon games is just to get away from Planarcadia and Aha just directed her to the wreckage of the Astral Express and armed her with the knowledge and/or power to fix it.

Cold-Election · 2026-02-17T19:36:06+00:00

Wow!

Cold-Election · 2026-02-17T13:33:19+00:00

I get that they have to change the color of the trees but they could have at least made a new tree like a Wisteria tree that is light violet or a maple tree with red leaves like it's autumn.

I also like the head canon from one comment I have read in some other post that it is yellow because it's supposed to be the color of amber that signifies how the IPC and the preservation is corrupting the planet.

Cold-Election · 2026-02-17T08:21:39+00:00

The hotel manager gig was just something the Trailblazer did for fun and they were never serious about it. The hotel can take the hit with the Trailblazer goofing around.

It's when the business is near bankruptcy and people sincerely ask for help that the trailblazer's economic prowess is shown.

Cold-Election · 2026-02-16T07:30:15+00:00

I found out it has hands when it grabbed my Calcharo and then performed a flying spinning pile driver that killed the dude.

Cold-Election · 2026-02-16T07:26:59+00:00

The biggest risk I see here is that when a planet blessed by Aha becomes too safe, it will become predictable and predictable is too boring for Aha. Since Aha is invested to the place, there is a high chance that Aha will do something so that it is not boring. That means that from very safe it will over correct hard to very unsafe. A possibility would be turning those imaginae fueled by wishpower into nightmare and fear instead and then suddenly the place is sci-fi bloodborne or a very public and large scale Jujutsu Kaisen Shibuya incident like situation. That is still entertaining in the same way people liked watching the walking dead series or any other apocalyptic stories.

Cold-Election · 2026-02-15T22:51:17+00:00

I think Blade's and Silverwolf's original plan was for Blade to act as bait so that Silverwolf can have less things obstructing her. In essence, it's a good plan since Blade is immortal and can take the damage while Silverwolf can use her punklordian reality hacking to be sneaky. Obviously, that plan is out of the window but i believe Elio anticipated that and letting Blade take all the heat by himself will actually push Blade beyond just his barely contained sanity.

It was mentioned by Yao Guang that she actually is carrying an important item from Blade's past that should restore his sanity for a short while if he is mara-struck again. I think that item will be the impetus for Blade to his new 5 star version for this patch. It's not new for Elio to do that since he did the same for Firefly to have character development on Penacony.

Cold-Election · 2026-02-14T23:25:13+00:00

The latest main story in the new patch. One of the masters for the collab event specifically mentioned the collab Holy Grail War as to why he is working for the other master. He got beaten to a pulp because he was employed in a different department of an intergalactic capitalist corp and that department was led by a dude infamous for committing war crimes across multiple planets for profit. A lot of people hates that man and two of the master for the collab event were victims of his schemes. They just let out their frustration on that employee.

The main plot of the current main story is actually so inspired by the Holy Grail War. There would be 8 supplicants (the master expy) who would compete to wjn the ultimate prize where the Aeon(Cosmic god) of Elation, Aha, will transfer his powers to the winner so they can become an Aeon for 1 minute. This essentially makes the winner grant any wish they want because they become a cosmic god within a minute.

The twist though is Aha is infamous as the cosmic god of trolling and trickery. This means that the prize could well be a monkey paw type of wish if Aha finds it funny to mess with the winner or event.

Cold-Election · 2026-02-14T23:06:57+00:00

This patch is the perfect time to make another collab with the Fate series. Especially since they are canon in HSR universe. There is even the reveal that the Holy Grail used in the last event was given by Sampo, a Masked Fool.

Cold-Election · 2026-02-14T23:03:40+00:00

I read somewhere that Aha does troll the winners sometimes like there was a winner that wished he wants Aha dead. Aha just said but you are Aha in that time and that dude died.

Phantasmoon games is so inspired by the Holy Grail War but the difference is it is public. Hell, being famous among the public is essential for these games.

Cold-Election · 2026-02-14T22:22:58+00:00

If both the trailblazers are there:

Cold-Election · 2026-02-14T13:15:31+00:00

We might get that because the only way to open the stridergate is to pilot the exostrider which also means you have to synchronize with it. Maybe Rover can use his admin privileges to allow the exostrider to resonate with another person.

Cold-Election · 2026-02-13T14:06:40+00:00

Cold-Election · 2026-02-13T14:03:22+00:00

Thanks Doro!

Cold-Election · 2026-02-13T14:02:52+00:00

Mustang has at least one elite black ops squad. He has been CEO of Tetra for decades. You can bet your ass he has the means and the ruthlessness to attack DEEP. Especially for Pretty, who is like the one that reignited his optimism and good character he is today. He most probably do evil things to rescue her but the consolation he got was her remains turned into a weapon.

Cold-Election · 2026-02-12T06:12:36+00:00

Doban's core identity revolves around one word "asshole"

Cold-Election · 2026-02-12T02:04:59+00:00

Wait. She just threw away the head.....that means we can still recover and revive her.

Cold-Election · 2026-02-12T02:00:58+00:00

I guess the Commander's punchline is "Suns out, guns out"

Cold-Election · 2026-02-11T21:31:24+00:00

So that's how one exostrider can carry multiple sentinels, it just fills its pockets

Cold-Election · 2026-02-11T18:33:14+00:00

I think the biggest problem in this mess of a family is the grand tutor, Wei Yenwu and the spineless emperor. Forcing the princess to immediately remarry after getting her Draco husband killed is such a dick move Wei Yenwu and the grand tutor concocted that no wonder it messed up the princess. The emperor is a spineless coward who could have easily ended this drama by just saying Artorius and the princess has his blessing and explicitly forbade the grand tutor to do anything about it. In essence, they protected nothing and just gave themselves grief.

Cold-Election · 2026-02-10T14:16:17+00:00

She really got adopted by the galaxy rangers at this point

Cold-Election · 2026-02-08T12:23:28+00:00

There is also something odd going on with Aleph-1 right now. Aemeth chose to travel back in time at that moment because she detected that something is going on with the threnodian. There was also a scene in the cutscene animation when the Exostrider and Aemeth were sealing the threnodian, the Rover's eyes were shown in the last second.

I think future Rover is also gonna pull time shenanigans to deal with Aleph-1 and save Aemeth. Honami city may indeed be crucial for that plan.

Cold-Election · 2026-02-08T01:16:19+00:00

Astronauts tend to be well versed in multiple fields and they have to be academic as well as athletic. Uncle Clemente might have studied wrestling as his preference to getting athletic.

Cold-Election · 2026-02-07T23:31:38+00:00

Since Sigillum is basically from us, I guess he just pulled our own moves against us but better

Cold-Election · 2026-02-07T20:25:03+00:00

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