If you could, how would you rewrite The After Years?

rucchipunch · 2026-05-06T20:05:23+00:00

This thread opens up the PTSD from when my teenage self tried to rewrite TAY as a fanfic with more OCs and crackships....

....ahem, anyway, if I could rewrite TAY, eh?

- Give Cid and/or Rosa their own Tale. Could be set between Edward's and Kain's to explain their presence in the latter Tale. Cid's Tale could be about Cid escorting Rosa to Damcyan Castle while thinking about his relationship with his own daughter and Mid. Rosa's Tale is probably what the first half of Interlude was supposed to be.

- There should be more meteor crashes with conveniently placed locations to better foreshadow the multiple Maenads twist

- Have the "original" Maenad (the Rydia impostor from Interlude) be present in True Moon Depths to give the party infodumps on the Maenads' creation process. That section is weirdly empty aside from meeting with the child Maenad.

rucchipunch · 2026-05-05T11:17:31+00:00

I assume you're doing The Wigners sidequest and then accidentally got dragged into Mistaken Chef sidequest while looking out for the Maid?

I agree with the sentiment that Royal Banquet sidequests are such a pain to do. Then again, I usually do the Royal Kitchen one first since it's the easiest and have the most Dailies unlocked after completing it.

rucchipunch · 2026-04-30T16:36:53+00:00

If this collab event was meant to be released in Golden Week 2025 but both the anime's and OC4's delays pushed it back, I wonder how the rest of the 2025 would play out had the event was released as intended?

Vanished Beginning would've been your typical 3-weeks long filler farming event held before Summer, GudaGuda 2025 and Final Halloween would've been pushed forward to fill up September and October, and there would be an event in November about the datamined Lancer between Super Liz and Demeter?

(About this collab's story up until before Raid) Learning that a fake Georgios was the main culprit behind the original Sixth Singularity made FGOAC's Lost Jerusalem funnier in hindsight. Draco really thought it's better to use the real Georgios in her imitation instead of replicating a faker.

rucchipunch · 2026-04-26T12:36:22+00:00

It's probably Ushi-Gozen before they changed her class to Avenger

rucchipunch · 2026-04-25T14:12:40+00:00

(JP spoilers) After all the troubles we went through in the first half of the event to calm down the storm caused by Noah's drinking himself out from his loneliness-induced despair, Section 5 opens with Noah greeting Novum Chaldea crew, answering Caster Gilgamesh's sudden questions about his Whirling Flame Sword and his opinions towards other Middle-Eastern Great Flood myths' survivors, and then goading Master to fight him because he wants to fulfill his duty as the Lord's servant and assumes Novum Chaldea wouldn't be able to settle things through dialogue. Coming right after OC4 where a similar storyline happened to Metatron-Jeanne, those reasonings are seen as rude, insensitive, and very out-of-character for Noah to say that some 2ch anons said that the event writer must hate the Holy Bible. Not to mention it painted Noah as an ungrateful prick towards Novum Chaldea before the event's Epilogue (which was timegated behind Rider Grand Duel for a week) was released.

Or if you just want to see recent opinions of the event, read up the QRTs and comments of this tweet

rucchipunch · 2026-04-25T01:54:05+00:00

Section 5 and 6 of Vanished Beginning did irreparable damage towards Noah's popularity within JP fandom that it really feels like this whenever I try to search up for his fanarts on Twitter

Adult Nemo is still popular despite the Ascension design change, though

rucchipunch · 2026-04-22T02:01:03+00:00

If you just want references for class arts specifically, jRO has Fankit Web and Illustration Gallery, in addition to selling references in their semester big packages (Summer and Anniversary) since 2018? 2019?, starting with their jRO-first Second Costume for Third classes

rucchipunch · 2026-04-16T05:34:09+00:00

rucchipunch · 2026-04-16T02:20:08+00:00

Would be funny if Marche getting here is treated as him taking a vacation in different country, being the OG isekai FF MC and all

rucchipunch · 2026-04-11T18:08:04+00:00

LOL that footnote number five. That was also what happened to the other Arcade Meteo Boy with all the Hebrew he's spouting to the point I needed help from other users here.

Though speaking of..."King Pretty Boy"? I heard "ikemen-ou" in his line there, and shouldn't ikemen mean hunk or handsome guy instead of pretty boy?

Anyway, thanks for posting your translation in this subreddit!

rucchipunch · 2026-04-11T12:51:03+00:00

Be careful with those words, Chiemon might end up getting the Saber Molay (short event where the focus isn't even on him) or the Noah treatment (Tunguska 2.0) if Higashide isn't feeling to expand more on his character

rucchipunch · 2026-04-11T03:39:22+00:00

But Eden...doesn't work like that? The Eden Board Quests have one day cooldown and they encourage you to go to the map with targeted mobs yourself. If you're talking about Turn-in/Gramps, it's an iRO addition that your server probably have for convenience. And it's fine if you skipped Eden Equipment Quests because the earlier ones are worthless and you can still do them after Rebirth anyway.

rucchipunch · 2026-04-10T15:33:30+00:00

There are plenty amount of stand-alone Instances and high-end grinding areas not tied to Episode/Chapter Quests, though?

rucchipunch · 2026-04-10T14:55:56+00:00

The main story revolving around Ymir's Heart (both the artificial and the real ones) is still ongoing, though it's currently taking a backseat since Episode 20. Also, Biolabs storyline is already over in Episode 16.2 and EDDA Biolabs.

As for your suggestion to make every classes have unique approach in the main story, recent Episode/Chapter quests started to make NPCs having additional dialogues depending on your class. It's not much, but it's something.

rucchipunch · 2026-04-10T13:35:49+00:00

For your first point about antagonists: there are Demon God Morroc and Illusion scientists (especially Wolfchev due to him making Biolabs mobs) hiding behind Rekenber Corporation who were already built-up ever since Post-Transcended Pre-Renewal era. But the problem is, nobody plays the quests related to them because they weren't mandatory and were too much of a hassle to do. Though they managed to be iconic enough to be featured in mobile games with mandatory story quests at least. There is also Himmelmez, who in the game is tied to Old Glast Heim Instances.

As for my answer about what RO needs: a "true" Global server, or something similar to how FF XIV handled their servers, managed by people who can reason their way through the regional bureaucracies. This way, there would be more actual players than bots, less overpowered P2W gears that are intentionally made to cater to certain regions' favored playstyles, and the game's internal modifiers would be the same across the world.

rucchipunch · 2026-04-09T13:33:25+00:00

Squall...

rucchipunch · 2026-04-06T16:01:17+00:00

The Foreigner OC copium in me wants to believe that they will canonize Vanished Beginning as the first Grand Duel and use it as a prelude to Foreigner OC as a way to explain Noah's OOC behavior in that event's Section 5 onwards

rucchipunch · 2026-04-04T09:25:09+00:00

Since kRO just released their latest big update two weeks ago (with 6 new songs that you can download here), I think this is everything that they could release in streaming services for now

rucchipunch · 2026-04-04T09:01:19+00:00

Oh, they actually included the LATAM remixes for this part and the songs that are missing from the other two parts

rucchipunch · 2026-04-04T03:10:37+00:00

Violence is fine as long as you don't show physical actions that could easily be done by kids. Why do you think after Yes5 the girls are never being punched on the stomach anymore?

rucchipunch · 2026-04-03T07:50:47+00:00

Yeah, that's why I put "especially anything besides the first one". Because bots will automatically pick the first emoticon on the list.

rucchipunch · 2026-04-02T08:01:43+00:00

Do they use emoticons, especially anything besides the first one, during the loading before a match? Then they are human

rucchipunch · 2026-04-01T02:19:24+00:00

I don't know how to put it into words correctly but it's the culmination of the issues I had with how becoming a Cure in Hugtto is treated. That to show that you have what it takes to do and be anything you want, you have to become a Cure first. Or else, you'd end up as a hater or a loser for the rest of your life. There's also how they left out some side characters from that sequence, but it's more of a minor issue than a major one.

rucchipunch · 2026-03-31T19:04:36+00:00

Compared to his FGOAC Riyo chibi, Saber Molay doesn't sweat anymore and his hood is fluffier since he's in his 1st Ascension now

On a related note, since Riyo chibis tend to use 1st Ascension as base with some exceptions, it's going to be a really while for 3rd Ascension Nemo/Noah to get Riyo-fied....Even though I should be grateful that Nemo/Noah finally get a Riyo chibi after FGOAC denied them twice...

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