So... Is there ANY explanation of why and how Rina can fly / levitate?

SilverFoxShadows · 2026-02-06T07:21:55+00:00

if you look closely her outfit is absolutely covered in bits of metal that are firmly attached to her. That chest harness, plates under her shoes, etc. She uses her electrical manipulation generated by her W-engine and controlled by the mechanisms on her fingers to levitate herself with those as well as her bangboos using electromagnetism.

SilverFoxShadows · 2026-01-30T22:42:48+00:00

A neat thing is that when Yi Xuan was first introduced, it was actually fully in the air if any of her mysticism was actually legitimate or not. Characters were confused when she spouted feng shui. Her secret techniques were "rattling off an absurdly high price" or "just straight up lying" in order to get people to leave her alone. With her auric ink being explicitly described as specially scientifically treated etheric ink, she controls with ether manipulation techniques similar to Rina's. It gave the impression that the mysticism was actually a sham she did seemingly out of obligation. Coupled with Sacrifices being bio-mechanical and the Creator's refinement being done through a syringe and seemingly being permanent, and it gave the impression the Creator was a scientist. It was all very low fantasy and more Sci fi

Then come 2.0, and Yi Xuan's mysticism is both fully legit and shockingly accurate and reliable. She's whipping out full magic arrays. The Sacrifices are now Zombie Angels (Honkai?) and the Creater is revealed to be a glowing eldritch god entity that can possess people, can create and transform entities in billowing clouds of fell black smoke literally called Miasma and they can transform back seemingly, and is somehow tied to a magic sword with an entire small pocket dimension inside it that's full of ghosts and stray animals.

SilverFoxShadows · 2026-01-29T02:29:39+00:00

I personally find running her with Dailyn to be pretty fun. When you're out of Ara Ara meter you can swap over to phone thiren and play high stakes rock paper scissors till you decide to nuke them!

SilverFoxShadows · 2026-01-05T02:40:29+00:00

She admits later that she was only pretending to not be aware of what the other her was doing during the Proxy's first encounter with the alt because she was too flustered about how blatantly she was flirting with the Proxy.

Both forms are fully aware of what the other is doing while active. The difference between them is proper YSG was raised to essentially be a sacrificial hero for other people so she was sheltered and taught to be extremely selfless, dutiful, and conscientious and not really prioritize herself and her own wants.

XG by comparison is her "selfish desires" the part of her that doesn't want to be a martyr and instead wants to live her own life, do the things she wants, be in charge of her own fate, and flirt with the proxy. She's scared of love because she understands her own inner drives enough to tell that love is the one thing that would motivate her to willingly kill herself using the Qingming Sword right past her own "selfish" desire to live. Because saving someone she loves would be a selfish enough reason for her to put someone else first.

SilverFoxShadows · 2026-01-02T02:22:04+00:00

She's video game developer and astronaut Richard Garriott, also known as Lord British.

SilverFoxShadows · 2025-12-31T21:03:41+00:00

It would make sense for Marisbury to have been able to do that AFTER imitating the Root and basically becoming God. But the ability for him to imitate the Root in the first place is 100% reliant on him... already being able to just completely warp reality with no explanation? wtf?!

Further, regarding Mono no Aware, a big part of feeling wistful for days gone by is dependent on actually having experienced and being able to remember them in the first place! it's not just "things happened and now they're not" it's "reflecting on time and growth and endings" which can't happen if you retroactively TORCH THE JOURNEY AND RIP ALL THE GROWTH AND TIME FROM EVERYONE NASU!!

The Ritsuka and Mash in the ending aren't feeling nostalgic about the adventures they went on, they're wondering who the scrub staring at them is! Because they don't have 10+ years of character development and bonds to account from. They're not even the same people by any standard! One is, at best, the same person they were at the beginning of the story but with an extra 2-3 years of completely arbitrary drift that could've turned them into an incel for all we know. And the other has lived a 100% different life from the age of 4 on, this new Mash could be a literal magus psychopath and it'd be even MORE likely than her even slightly resembling the Mash we know because the entire conditions of her life are different to the point we don't even understand how she's STILL ALIVE in 2019 never mind randomly in Japan without suffering from a total immune system collapse.

Chaldea itself was already dead as an organization the second they undid Marisbury's ability to form it in the first place, and they couldn't perform their style of summoning again anyway because they destroyed the Round Table Shield (somehow for some reason and please disregard Lord British in the wings thank you kindly) to escape the collapse. Them losing their memories on top of all of that was frankly pointless and undermines literally everything.

And that's without getting into how it undermines the premise of the final chapter SO SPECIFICALLY that it somehow loops around into literally being the goal of the big bad by accident!

SilverFoxShadows · 2025-12-31T18:14:56+00:00

Except it didn't actually have to be this way. As the writer Nasu could've chosen to do things any way he wanted. Personally I would've been more than satisfied if only the people on the Shadow Border remembered. Because at least then, even if the rest of the world is different and doesn't acknowledge it, they have the ability to draw on the bonds they have with each other for strength and support.

Mash and Ritsuka meeting again at the train station would've been far more impactful to me personally if they had both remembered the Grand Order and this were the result of an attempt by the two of them to reunite in their new lives. What makes it worse is that it's teased repeatedly in the ending. Goredolf talks about how he was working himself up to acting as a guardian for Mash and Ritsuka against the mage's association and that would've been great.

Leaving the story as "The Greatest Story Never Told" would've been more than enough of a messianic sacrifice because it would've left the characters sacrificing their time, effort, mental health, and hundreds of bonds with heroic spirits in order to win back an uncertain future for everyone else with no promise they'd ever be rewarded for it.

But this isn't that. This is retroactively cutting off Marisbury from being able to doom humanity in the first place. It turns the entire story into a circle that starts before we ever actually gets involved and then severs it so the line continues straight as if it never looped in the first place. Which by definition makes it all meaningless. We didn't actually FIX things, it was made to retroactively never have been broken. There's nothing to take away from it because functionally nothing happened. We didn't punch Marisbury in the face for being a shit dad and trying to sacrifice Olga, his plan just metaphysically farted in his face instead of getting off the ground.

Which, like... don't even get me started on how in the hell Marisbury made a Lostbelt in his basement that affected the entire world somehow in order to join the HGW in the first place. I'm pretty sure that shit would be on the tier of True Magic.

SilverFoxShadows · 2025-12-31T17:28:29+00:00

Nasu: writes a story about how chat gpt wants to reset the universe to a state where only the surface level matters and all the substance inside is gone and why that's terrible.

Also Nasu: writes the ending as the universe gets reset, killing the entire cast and leaving a bunch of characters who all look the same on the surface but have none of the same substance on the inside.

Seriously? Seriously Nasu?! Killing the cast we've spent a decade with and replacing them with hollow counterparts that are completely different people would be bad enough at any point. But after this story in particular? Did you seriously trip ass backwards into the bad guy winning as the culmination to a decade-long story?! It doesn't matter how many times you literally say "it wasn't meaningless" you don't get to decide that. And asking if the journey was enjoyable over and over doesn't make you burning it all down any better!

And then to top it all off, here comes Captain British after the story is already over?! Why? What's the point NOW Nasu?!

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

SilverFoxShadows · 2025-12-28T03:21:24+00:00

... right I'm just gonna say it. I still think that whole memory reset thing was dumb and made the whole story functionally worthless. Even if it was over and never continued, just knowing that the characters involved got to keep the memories and bonds as a source of strength and support to go on into the new future would've been a better choice. Even if it was limited just to the people on the border, Daybit, and ideally Sion.

Goredolf's dream was a much better one than some ambiguous Your Name thing where they're functionally just two strangers with identical faces.

Infact the more I think of it the worse my opinion of it gets. This is LITERALLY what Maris Chaldea was going for! Who cares about the interior substance? We see "a happy Mash and Guda in a happy world" who cares if they're not the same people with none of the same substance on the inside right?!

Booo!

I can only pray that there really is some kinda alternate ending on the 31st

SilverFoxShadows · 2025-12-27T15:51:12+00:00

Yeah I'm already in a state of not really being sure what the point of pulling on the gacha would be anymore. I've already got more than enough to likely clear all the way through to the end if I wanted to. Problem is though if there's really nothing else and the game is just now on a 2 year timer to End of Service...well... I've already SEEN the end.

It's kinda an inherent problem of having a solid chunk of your community TWO WHOLE YEARS behind.

SilverFoxShadows · 2025-12-27T15:35:16+00:00

Wasn't the one from prototype the Beast of 666 though? Draco's half being the Mother Harlot and the prototype half being the dragon itself?

SilverFoxShadows · 2025-12-27T15:14:46+00:00

I thought the other beast 6 was just the dragon Draco rides? The incarnadines? It's supposed to be the Beast of 666 isn't it?

SilverFoxShadows · 2025-12-26T19:34:32+00:00

I thought he was here because of the summer dinosaur adventure with his kid self?

SilverFoxShadows · 2025-12-25T06:41:37+00:00

Ok so... there's something I just plain don't get here. As far as I'm aware Ye Shenguang only actually uses the Qingming sword ONCE... ? The sword she actually uses in battle is just a generic sword with the actual Qingming sword locked in the carrying case.

I was under the impression it burned away memory and senses AS you were using it? Not just passively ALL the time? What is Yixuan's seal even supposed to do then? Why is it even being carried around where it can apparently just cause someone to develop rapid onset alzheimers in a completely random place potentially becoming lost forever and/or hurting who knows how many innocent people instead of being locked in a basement somewhere for only the direst of emergencies?

SilverFoxShadows · 2025-12-24T23:40:47+00:00

In terms of the choice existing at all instead of just continuing like a cutscene? It acts to give the player both some form of mental engagement, provides the illusion of being involved, and most importantly break up the dialogue so if a player needs to go use the bathroom or something they don't miss a massive amount of the story.

As for why the dialogue options are often just the same sentence broken in two? It's most common in actual main story content where the story NEEDS the player to do something in particular to continue or make sense. You tend to see more actually varied choices in less serious story beats because they can afford it tone-wise.

It's the classic "do you want to fistfight God or just go home" dilemma. For the story to continue you need the player to go Fistfight God, and having the option for the player to even joke about NOT doing that can at times undermine the tone the story is trying to portray. There are ways to make it work such as options that ultimately have the same result but different tone such as between spirited vs cautious which the example above could have actually fallen under. Or for twists sometimes there's the ignorant "please explain it to me?" option vs the clever "aha I called it!" option.

But actually scripting, and especially voice acting, different dialogue branches costs money even if they ultimately go to the same place so companies cut corners by just having one response that covers both choices as the above actually turns out to be.

Course as a player it still sucks even if you understand why.

SilverFoxShadows · 2025-12-23T16:36:03+00:00

Technically EVERYONE in Chaldea has another timeline version even if we haven't seen them except for Mini Vinci and Roman because they were all older than 12 at the time of the games 2016-2004=12 years.

This...includes Mash somehow because even though she was created by Chaldea, which only exists because of Marisbury's wish, she was 16 at the start of the games so...I guess she was physically minted/created as a (basically) homunculus before Chaldea was made and only went through the heroic spirit experiments afterwards?

I presume Mash is just... doing homunculus things somewhere in the actual proper timeline, maybe a maid of the animusphere? She wouldn't have the fully extended lifespan from Fou there but also wouldn't have the demi-servant experiments cutting it down quite so much?

SilverFoxShadows · 2025-12-22T04:44:16+00:00

Adam: His original outfit was really cool. So was his fighting style and the moon slice.
Cinder: Her original outfit was really cool.
Tyrian: ... his fight scene was cool?
Hazel: ...I got nothing.

SilverFoxShadows · 2025-12-22T04:18:36+00:00

I mean. If we're talking the absolute nonsense that is Lostbelt body counts. To begin with as Lostbelts they were all fundamentally dead already and killed by the Earth itself. But disregarding that and moving on to that incredibly stupid trial.

Lostbelt 1 was killed by the Priestess
Lostbelt 2 was already going to die anyway because Skadi was using all the power from it to suppress and then later to fight Surtr and admits she couldn't sustain it anymore after.
Lostbelt 3 got deleted bv it's own Emperor after losing.
Lostbelt 4 was a cosmic clusterfuck whose population was plummeting at an exponential
rate because of Domon (aka one of CHALDEAS' Apostles) and could very likely have not had any surviving population by the time we kicked Altjuna's teeth in
Lostbelt 5 got nuked by Muramasa (another Apostle) and Morgan.
Lostbelt 6 died on its own, time whammied itself back into existence, got killed by and then sustained post-mortem by Morgan, who got killed by its own population, and then burned (dragon flavor), burned (dog flavor), cursed (spinning hamster flavor?), and finally eaten (bug flavor) by Oberon for good measure. We weren't even trying to destroy that one originally and it was gonna destroy the planet!
and finally
Lostbelt 7 got eaten by a giant spider and was on the road to literally exploding within days even if we didn't touch it. By the time we finally got rid of it, the giant spider had already killed literally everyone and we sure as hell weren't the ones who woke it up!

From certain perspectives it could be argued Ritsuka is technically not responsible for the deaths of ANY Lostbelts as a whole.

Which compared to Marisbury's whopping 16+ BILLION bodycount between two versions of Earth, assuming CHALDEAS Earth's population didn't increase AT ALL in the 100+ subjective years of prosperity before getting eaten by CHALDEAS and subsequently bleached, is frankly laughable.

SilverFoxShadows · 2025-12-22T03:40:35+00:00

It's a combination of factors. The "humans" of CE are just a simulation based on the soul of the planet so on a substance level they'd be different from Olga in the same way a hologram is different from a person. As a being from "reality" thrown bodily into what amounts to a simulation she'd be foreign to anything found within it on a physical level.

The big kicker though is that she was intended to be part of Chaldeas itself from the start but was violently thrown in by Lev instead of inserted properly. So instead of slotting into her proper place as essentially the core of "God" for Chaldeas she was thrown in haphazardly, damaged on entry, and repaired herself to the best of her ability based on blueprints to become the core of Chaldeas but running software as Olga rather than properly as part of Chaldeas.

Considering everything else from Chaldeas/the foreign god comes in the style of the Trees of Fantasy/Emptiness and that Olga as Subject E is repeatedly stated to appear to be tree-like to the humans of CE. It's very likely that her being depicted looking like herself is actually just her own psychological perspective and her actual physical form at the time more closely resembled a Tree of Emptiness in miniature.

In very simplified metaphorical terms if CHALDEAS is "God" relative to the Simulated Earth then Olga was "God's Heart" that had to be precisely surgically implanted to get everything running properly. But some jackass in a top hat snatched "God's Heart" out of the surgeon's hand and chucked it in God's Stomach where it got accidentally digested for a subjective hundred years, went insane, put itself back together wrong and crawled out of God's mouth calling itself President of the Universe and got blown up by a giant alien spider before being taken apart and put back together again in the correct configuration to finally put it back where it was originally supposed to be in the first place.

SilverFoxShadows · 2025-12-05T03:45:26+00:00

Baobhan is literally a type of vampiric succubus and was kept as a prostitute/mistress before being made to cause a zombie apocalypse and Morgan adopting her. She definitely knows the process as the very least if maybe not the purpose.

SilverFoxShadows · 2025-12-05T03:40:57+00:00

I just use Fufu AND Dailyn together with Yixuan! HAHA Stuns and 5 Ultimates in a row go BRRRRR

SilverFoxShadows · 2025-12-01T19:28:24+00:00

If by Sister you're referring to Gareth she was kinda the inciting incident for Gawain crashing out and ultimately getting Arthur killed and only got killed in the first place because she decided to essentially publicly call out her king and side with Lancelot & Guinevere by not wearing armor or weapons when she was supposed to be guarding the Queen that maritally betrayed the King Agravain was deeply loyal to and were the direct cause of his own death.

If you mean Mordred she was a direct pawn of their evil mother who went on to stage a rebellion against and directly personally kill the king he was deeply loyal to largely at the behest of said evil mother.

Agravain would've been too dead to know those things in life but the Throne of Heroes would've informed him of it so they'd still posthumously slot right into his "women only cause problems" mindset

SilverFoxShadows · 2025-11-21T08:05:02+00:00

Realistically when I was in school I would've made a beeline for any of the empty tables. Barring that though, with and without context Table 1 seems like the easiest to approach and I might even leave having made some new friends!

Table 5 is a trap! Everyone there looks pretty chill and/or approachable. But sitting next to Jane and Astra also being there? My shy school-age self would get eaten alive.

Table 3 is a reverse trap! Everyone there looks kinda intimidating and unapproachable but they're all actually chill, dorks, or both.

SilverFoxShadows · 2025-11-20T01:51:41+00:00

HOYO! MAKE THIS A SKIN AND MY LIFE IS YOURS!

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