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thunderstomm · 2 months

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HOT WHEELS: LET’S RACE - Mini-Redesigns and Headcanons !

Over the past few weeks, I’ve been watching this super-cute new hot wheels show! And while I originally didn’t intend to do much in terms of fan content, I accidentally got very attached to these silly little guys so something was in order. While I like what the show has to offer, I don’t love that they wear casual clothes instead of actual racing gear, so I designed my own !!

The suits match because I imagine that these were given to them as a gift from Dash, symbolising the shift from “temporary campers” to her full-time protégés. I wanted to go full-hot wheels inspo, so all of the suits are decked out with a sweet flame pattern ! They all have little name badges on the side, and the colours of their suits are taken from the racing gloves which Dash gives them in S1! I wanted the suits to feel very simple compared to a pro racer’s suit, so while they have many staples, they have no sponsor patches anywhere ! As for the numbers on their suits, they are their rankings from camp !(thanks @viewer-of-many for the idea!!)

As I do with any media I like, I’ve included some little headcanon pages to go with! I’ve included headcanons for their full names- because I refuse to believe that these are all their legal names- as well as their pronouns, ages, racer numbers, nationalities, and heights ! I want to go in-depth on some of my choices, so buckle in! (Also if you’re finding this post and you’re a hot wheels fan PLEASE come talk to me I need more people to babble with)

COOP

Cooper “Coop” Fèng, our camp champ and main character is up first! I’m pretty sure that Cooper is canonically his first name, so I stuck with that. The nickname “Coop” was kind of just a natural development, it’s shorter, and he likes cars. Perfect! His surname is Fèng, a Chinese surname that means phoenix- which I chose because I think it’s a neat reference to his shift from “average kid” to camp champ. A real rise from the ashes! I headcanon him to be Chinese & African American- his Dad is the former and his other parent would be the latter. His pronouns are he/him, he’s 12 years old, 4’10” tall and thanks to his winning status- racer 01 in the level 2 training program !!

MAC

Mackenzie “Mac” Caliper is next ! Like Cooper, I feel like his nickname is just a shortened version of his full name, and “Mackenzie” just felt right. Before you ask- the name is gender neutral where I come from. His surname, Caliper, is taken from a car part, it’s the disc in a brake system ! Also I made his hair into some sort of mullet-y thing because of his crimes of having no bangs. I headcanon him to be Canadian. Mac uses he/him pronouns, is 12 years old (he is the oldest of the three 12 year olds, having a December birthday in the year prior), 4’11” tall, and racer 04 !

SPARK

Samantha “Spark” Turner ! For her first name, I wanted something cute that could hypothetically be given a GNC nickname. Plus “Samantha” and “spark” sound so cute together! The nickname Spark came from her love of inventing, and how her brain is always “sparking” with ideas! Her surname, Turner, is a play on a car’s “turn signal”. Not included on the chart, but I headcanon her as Autistic ! Spark is a black Canadian, her pronouns are she/her, she is 11 years old (the youngest of the 6 campers), 4’7” tall, and is racer 03 !!

BRIGHTS

Bryce “Brights” Hikari is racer 05! I imagine that she was born missing her arm, hence her prosthetic. Despite her hair matching her Uncle’s- it’s 100% dyed. Her first name, Bryce, fully just comes from me mishearing her name the first time I watched the show. So I choose to reuse it. I headcanon her as being Japanese, and her surname, Hikari, means “light”! The nickname “Brights” combines the sound of her first name and the meaning of her last! Brights uses she/her pronouns, is 12 years old, and is 4’9” tall.

AXLE

Axle Spoiler, son of beloved champ Striker Spoiler! The only character with a canon full name, and the only one who I can believe that his name is actually his legal one. I headcanon him as being Mexican. Axle is the oldest of the racers, at 14 years old. Axle uses he/him pronouns, is 5’2” tall, and is racer 02- something he accepts, but feels just a little taunted by. (I feel so funny saying so little about him because he’s my favourite.)

SIDECAR

Simon “Sidecar” Cotter is the final racer ! For his name, I wanted to keep the initials of his nickname (S.C.) intact. I went with Simon for his first name, because it’s a little goofy, but also feels just a little TOO formal for someone like him. His surname is, you guessed it, a reference to a car part! A Cotter is a pin which secures something in place. I think that Axle gave him the nickname “sidecar”, because he seems to start off as his sidekick. Sidecar is American, 13 years old, 4’8” tall, uses he/him pronouns, and is racer 06 at camp !!

While that is all I’ll be sharing for now, I do have another more detailed art piece of these guys in their canon outfits, in my more polished art style, which I hope can be coming out sooner than later. Again, if you like this show, please DM me here or on discord so we can chat!!

Thanks for reading !! 🩵💚💛🩷❤️🩶

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bad0mens · 10 months

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Things about Octopath Traveler 2 that I think about A LOT (1/?):

If the game were more self aware, the sort of damage that you could do to the player who chose to abuse Hikari's Shadows Hold Latent ability.

Even early on, the game is pretty clear that the Shadows Hold is not fun for Hikari. He cries out in pain, and clutches his head. It's not a good time. I got the very distinct feeling that I shouldn't be using it much because of potential negative effects. Now, did I honestly think that it was something the game would hold against me for using? No. Not at all. That's way beyond OT2 depth where there is a ton of narrative dissonance for all sorts of reasons, but mostly for player convenience.

But what if the game punished you for using Shadows Hold too much and you not even being able to realize it until it's too late?

Ways in which the game could do that/how I see it playing out if you do, given a set amount of uses that the player is not told about/is randomly determined:

Hikari gains a chance to enter a berserk/confused state, starting low for the player only using it a few times willynilly (ie, about 10%) and ramping up as the player uses it more and more frequently (up to I'd say 75%).

There's a chance that Hikari no longer heals when staying at inns, implying that he's not getting proper rest, devolving into holy magic starting to hurt him.

During his Shadows Hold state, other party members get a set chance (25% or so) of gaining the Terror status effect.

A slow degradation of his sprite, with his skin growing ashen, eyes occassionally showing as red instead of dark brown/black.

Being unable to remove him from the party (if you did not select him as your starting character)/getting weird error glitches like with Castti's memories.

While berserked, he gets the Vengeful Blade counter ability, but uses it on friend and foe alike.

Once a certain threshold is reached, if he gets too close to npcs as head of the party, he auto challenges them.

And if the player just keeps it up through everything telling them to stop, you get a secret boss fight against a corrupted Hikari, who morphs into a sort of mirror of his fight versus Mugen, twisted limbs and multiple weapons, dripping with shadows and just a horrible little text box that says [Your voices cannot reach Hikari now].

LIKE the potential to do some REALLY messed up and wicked things with that. And really with the other travelers' latent abilities too. But Hikari being as close to the darkness as he is, is one I feel the easiest to sort of speculate on.

#octopath traveler 2 #hikari ku #octopath nonsense #bad0mens speculates on a game that's deep but NOT THAT DEEP

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tnsophiaonly · 10 months

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Chapter 1:

𝐈𝐧 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐍𝐚𝐦𝐞 𝐎𝐟 𝐋𝐨𝐯𝐞♥︎ 𝒀𝒂𝒏𝒅𝒆𝒓𝒆!𝑽𝒂𝒓𝒊𝒐𝒖𝒔 𝑮𝒆𝒏𝒔𝒉𝒊𝒏 𝑴𝒂𝒍𝒆𝒔 𝐱 𝐈𝐬𝐞𝐤𝐚𝐢'𝐝 𝐅!𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐞r

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Trigger warning.

Ft. OC's

Timeline: before in-game events

Pt. 2

Chapter 2:

Caught ya!

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Ping!

Name: Hikari

Status: Acquaintance

Opinion: [redacted]

Hikari has a short black hair with white tips at the end. White skin tone. Blue crystal eyes

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The teacher just stared at you irritated. You're not his type but he had to put up an act you know? But then you said no, which made it worse. Then you started crying. Seriously how worse can you get?

The male teacher forced a smile, "Now now dear, stop crying~ it doesn't fit your beautiful face y'know?~" he cringed at the nickname he called you.

Then you started smiling. It was as if nothing happened, it was so unrealistic. But this isn't real so why not?

"haha." You said dryly. It was getting more awkward. You could just die.

But ofcourse, if you were gonna be a vermin in their eyes, you will stay by them to keep them annoyed! Apart of you wishes to be no burden, but that's ignored. It needs to be ignored.

Then an unrealistic time skip happened, woah, now it's cleaning time! You wished it was this fast in real life, but you're no longer in school anyways.

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You were gonna leave now when you heard the teacher ask for a black haired chick to stay after class, because he wanted to *discuss* some things with her.

You wanted to stay. But instincts said that you wait if he does any red flags to her then you come in. But you wanted to-

"Hey weird girl!" A cheery male voice was heard, followed by an irritated male voice "Shut up, Tadahiro!"

I glanced behind me with a fake smile, a smile that makes everyone back off. But they knew better.

"S-sorry Tadanori!" The one who called out for you with Saturated Blue Hair with pretty pink eyes, Tadahiro. 'Who are these people..?' you thought quietly, they weren't in the story line. Did you change things..? No... Please...

Tadanori. With Saturated Darker Blue hair with dull green eyes. Who was at least 7cm taller than (don't ask how) Tadahiro. (Ff: Tadahiro is 175cm tall/5'9ft)

"Who are you guys?" You asked the two identical people, you didn't call them twins yet, what if they weren't?

"I knew it! See Tadanori, she isn't what she was earlier!" Tadahiro sounded... excited? You cocked your head to the side as a sign of confusion

You could hear a tsk from Tadanori. As he averted his gaze from you and Tadahiro.

Then your realization hit you like a brick and your realized yoú didn't put up your act and your supposed to be tone at them. You were supposed to be childish, devious (Deez nuts), cunning-

"Tadahiro! But pleaseee call me Hiro!!" He ran up to you, and expected a hug. Then stopped midway, oh.

You were strangers

"Ahaha, sorry about that..." He quickly apologized, "Tadanori, address me as me Nori." Nori spoke and swiftly walked away

"Oh yeah! What's your name? I forgot your name even tho we've been like- classmates for soo long!" Hiro asked. Something felt wrong but you just moved with the groove.

"(name).." there was no point in even hiding your true self if it's exposed already, but you shouldn't have given up yet.

"Great! How about we meet up at the music club after cleaning time?" He suggested, "Great I'll meet you there!" He said and ran off completely not even making me answer. It was a demand.

Just after that you heard a "Let me go!" then muffled after, oh no. I quickly glanced at the glass windows, seeing that teacher touching the MC or Hikari so inappropriately. Worse that he was about to kiss her and she was a crying mess.

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TW!!! APPLIED PXDXPHILLIA AND NSFW THEMES. PLEASE PROCEED WITH CAUTION OR SKIP.

Then he kissed her, went for her collarbone and started nipping on her neck. Hikari was squirming, bawling her eyes out, desperate for help, I ran at the door only to turn pale just to see it locked. You were banging at the door.

LET GO, LET GO, LET GO. I'LL KILL YOU I SWEAR- those phrases were swirling in your mind.

At least it distracted him from going further and went forward to the door. And was about to check who it was. Only to see nothing.

Then he went back to her, whispered something then let her go. She quickly ran away from him. Little do any of them know.

Someone from the window, was recording everything. ahahaha. evidence.

You quickly hid your phone when you heard footsteps coming and stole a broom from someone nearby and started brushing.

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Clean time was over, so quickly, but you were busy thinking if you should go and meet with Hiro. You were... kind of doubting the boy.

Not really kind of, you really were doubting the boy.

With the weird way he asked you to meet him, correction demand. At the music club. Isn't the music club losing its members? He must be u- wait you're overthinking again.

Just go with the flow.

Do it now.

Regret onwards.

I went to the music club, and Hiro was actually waiting for you? then he glanced at you and quickly went forward. Held your hand,.

"I knew you were gonna come!!! Ahahah!" He predicted? No your overthinking things.

"What did you want me to meet you for?"

"Obviously, for you to join the cl- for me to learn more about you and you learn about me! Let's learn about me first, let's get inside the clubroom and check out those instruments! I'll tell you how they work!"

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Club time was already done and Hiro still hasn't shut up. He's forcing you to do instruments even though it's clear as the sky that you were not interested/good at it.

You played wonderfully awful. You cringed at yourself and felt like digging up a hole and rot there. Seriously why is he so pestering, he's like, putting you in a tight position, where you cannot answer neither or either.

But only one.

"Your so awful at this! You need to be good at this to at least be capable of joini- I mean- capable of playing wonderfully!" Hiro said in a really concerned tone.

"Look, i'm not interested/good at this. Please let me go-" "I'll help youuuu!!!" He cuts you off.

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You spent the whole after school learning about the basics of (instrument).

"Tadahir-" you snapped your head to the boy clearly annoyed that you were forced to play something you didn't wanna play but was cut off "Hiro. What do you need?" He asked sweetly.

"Hiro... Yeah... Well, can i just practice this tomorrow? It's kind of lat-" "How about you come over to my place! Great! Come with me!" He did it again, he asked a question without needing an answer, it was another demand from him.

He grabbed your hand harshly and tightly, you shoved his hand off.

"Stop going and deciding things for me. I already told you it's late." It was futile. He took your hand yet again. And walked out to see Nori outside on the verge of snapping.

"What the hell took you so long Tadahiro?! You want me to keep on waiting for you till Christmas?! Hell no! It's 7PM/19:08 goddamnit..!" Nori snapped and boy he was really scary, like literally, his voice was so loud it echoed throughout the halls.

"And you! You could have at least tell him to fuck off!" He scolded you too, and damn he was harsher on you.

He shoved Hiro's grip on your wrists that left a mark and pushed you, falling on the floor with a thud.

Your instincts are too glare at the man with hatred. And Nori took Hiro away. Hiro didn't even glance at you nor tried to help you out.

You stood up and dusted off your clothes and walked to the other exit. You heard them arguing outside.

"Tadanori, I swear I just wanted to-" Hiro tried reasoning with the angry angwy man

"Tadahiro! Stop it! You were spending too much time with that weird woman!" Nori quickly cuts his sentence off and pointed a finger at him in an offensive way.

"Why do you care so much Tadanori?!?!" Hiro fought back, he was also angry now

"Because I'm your brother?!" Silence.

"I just wanted a new member at the club! I had a bet with him!" Hiro was exposed

"This is your prideful problems! You know that he's a literal threat! And the fact that your also talking to Hikari makes this worser than it' should've been."

"She was the one that talked to me firsttt!!"

They continued arguing.

"You! What the hell are you watching for?!" Oopsies, Nori caught you red handed!

"Oh I don't know, I was to about to pass by then I saw you guys arguing. I'll get going now." You were about to escape when—

Hiro quickly grabbed your wrist, stopping you any further, he looked rather tense, worried?

Nori was caught off guard by his brother's actions and was about to do something when..

"h.. hey? Hey-! I- whatever you heard earlier about me mentioning of wanting you as a member- please forget forget about it! I'll- I'll do anything- if he finds out I was forcing people to be a member i-" Hiro was about to cry and dropped on his knees.

You being you, didn't really know how to react, I mean you don't even know what's going on. But apart of you thinks something else....

"Uhm... I guess so? I'll forget about it sooner or later either way." You replied and Hiro felt like every hope was within him. He was delighted, he hugged your leg (ps. If you don't have legs, just think that the game regrow it for you /dedicated for the Walmart ones out there 😔🤟).

"thank you thank you thank you thank you-!" He was chanting gratitude, geez what's up with the he they are talking about to make him act like this?

Hiro wouldn't get off your legs and Nori had to drag him away, —much to Hiro's dismay— "I'll see you tomorrow~!" Hiro said so giddily and excitedly.

You just stared in silence, what the heck is going on?

You flinched tensely out of nowhere, you looked around searching to see if someone else was left, then you thought it was best for you to just leave and go to your so called home.

She just stared at you run away, did she scare you? She apologizes. She didn't mean that. She just wanted to see her saviour earlier, to admire her from afar.

Guess someone else admired you huh? Ofcourse who wouldn't-

Oh, it's already late,too late in fact. She needs to go home.

(the color of the text matters btw! And I wonder, who is the he they're talking about, and why are the twins so scared of him? Clue: A member at the Literature Club!)

Also, what will you do tomorrow? Apparently Hiro asks you to hang-out with him today but Hikari reminds you that you guys have a project tomorrow! Who/What will you choose? Vote in comments!

Hang out with Tadahiro.

Do the Project with Hikari.

A character trait you stole! (Politeness, I mean anyone is, I just can't think of any characters that are polite.. only makoto came in mind)

#yandere genshin #genshin impact #yandere genshin x reader #genshin x reader #original #fanfic #female reader #yandere #yandere x reader #idk anymore #idk man #i need help #reader #x reader #character x reader

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helpimstuckinafandom · 2 months

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Thanks for tagging @nowonderi-nc!

Last song I Listened to:

Currently watching: The Originals

Spicy/sweet/savory: Savoury nine times out of ten, occasionally sucker punched by the need for sweet

Current Obsessions: in terms of a full media title or fandom I'm gonna be real the depression and paralyzing endeavour of having deadlines have not been allowing much to occupy my mind but in my procrastinating I've been watching Smosh Board AF Legacy. Otherwise the only thing that managed to take over my brain even a precentage is kolvina (kol/davina) from the originals

Relationship Status: single since the day I was born

Fav color: yellow or white

Tagging: @hikari-yumi @gophergal @wings-of-angels @sunflowergraves @mintshade-springtime @wwwwyamd and anyone who feels like it (just lie and say I tagged you - no one will know)

(For copy/pasting)

Last song I Listened to:

Currently watching:

Spicy/sweet/savory:

Current Obsessions:

Relationship Status:

Fav color:

#ask game #tag game

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arichaa · 2 months

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My Demon Slayer oc

Hi, so I made this oc, but just so you know, I'm not an artist so that's why it's average

I wanted to do this for a long time, I had little ideas for a cute oc so here I am, humbly putting this here

Sorry if y'all have been waiting for a oneshot involving the literal Akaza, I didn't have any ideas anymore. Now, I might have an idea and there will be a post. But Idk when. And don't worry it's just this time that I'm doing something different, I'll continue to do Akaza content☻

I know I said that already but it's not a masterpiece but you know what? idc. idc anymore

And sorry if the headcanons don't make sense huhihjviveekevhhahahhahahhhaha AHHAHAHAHAHAHАННАННАНa

The Appearance

Family Name: Ha

First Name: Ariana (not the grande one🤨)

Gender: Female

Age: 20

Birth date: July 3rd

Height: 161 cm/ 5ft3

Weight: 55kg/ 121 lb

Occupation: Hashira

The Breathing Style

Light Breathing (6 forms)

光の呼吸 (Hikari no Kokyū)

☆Fruit of Enlightenment☆

☆Shower of Sparks☆

☆Reflection of the Stars☆

☆Depth's Glow☆

☆Gleam of Hope☆

☆First Sunrays of Dawn☆

the light breathing is derived from the thunder breathing

The Sword

her father, a passionnate weapon collector, travelled the world to collect them. he found a foreign sword he liked and left it to his daughter upon his death. she was inspired by this sword and created hers based on it.

the star represents the 6 forms of her breathing style

attached to her back with that grey thing around her torso

The Crow

I didn't draw it because I estimate that it is unnecessary since he looks like a regular crow. But he has a little red bracelet around his cute foot just so people know it's Ariana's. And his name is Revali (iykyk)

The headcanons

she is strong and she knows it (probably because of her breathing style? demons are creatures of the night, so the light contrasts, idk)

only child

has too much love to give

touch starved

would never refuse a hug

respects rules (never late, never enter homes with empty hands when invited, etc.)

easily shocked when someone doesn't have the same manners as her or doesn't show the same respect

would probably be against Nezuko being spared and would want Tanjiro to be punished

is embarrassed when she deals with attractive people

is literally so cute

so overly respectful to demons it sounds like she's making fun of them

example: "excuse me, sorry to come unnannouced... I am Ha Ariana, the Light Hashira, and I'm here to take your life!" all that with a sorry smile. Not because she has to kill them, but because she came in their home without knocking

encounter with Akaza : Why don't you become a demon? "Thank you for your offer, but my Hashira status prevents me from even considering it."

she flees from the fight if she knows she ain't winning sh*t, like the jjk characters (would only happen against The big 3 and Muzan chan) no bc if she know she's gonna lose why bother?

Like that woman would even announce it like "you're too strong, I'm off" (don't worry, if someone is in danger she'll flee with them)

encounter with Akaza 2:

Akaza: A woman?

Ariana: Uppermoon 3?

🏃‍♀️"I’m out!"🏃‍♂️

Personality and Traits

Okay, I almost forgot, but like I said, I'm no artist, so for the body base, I used 8asaki's oc for it (instagram). Hope it's not too much trouble♡

#demon slayer #demon slayer oc #kny #kny oc #kimetsu no yaiba #kimetsu no yaiba oc

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dnangelic · 2 months

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// WHO WOULD BE ON DARK AND DAISUKE'S POKETEAMSSSSS ive always thought daisuke would have a smeargle (art moment) an eevee (wiz moment) (also normal types bc hes So Normal and Regular and Unassuming) annnd zorua (edgy red moment) while dark has shiny zororak (edgy purple moment) and. idk. maybe an umbreon to mirror daisuke's eevee. blinks

@zenigatakeibu

HARVEY AUGHHHHHH UR SO SMART!!!!!!! honestly dai wouldn't be a hardcore pokemon trainer (he's here to steal hearts not to win fights or become champion^tm) so he wouldn't have a fully decked out party. dai would LOATHE battling, he'd never want to do it, even if given dark's reputation he'd probably get flamethrowers and lightning bolts fired his way every other day or night. it's hard being dark. he'll still use his abilities to save other people because that's his whole thing but whatever.

in my head it was like - hilariously enough dark and wiz would be daisuke's only 'pokemon' and this was an immutable concept in my Brain, if i didn't go the legendary/fragment of giratina route then dark just would've been a gengar possessing the niwa line (to mirror the way dark's sometimes described as the infinitely repeating 'ghost' of the original niwa/ancestor) or a nightmare-curse from darkrai that bled into reality (not biblical/'creation' focused enough, esp on the hikari side of things.)

dark's not allowed to be human, ever, so why not make him just the weird human-infused product of the equivalent of vaguely-pokemon-satan already who has weird dimension hopping powers(dai n dark can already do that normally) and a cool edgelord aesthetic that has a gold torque just like one of their outfits. and wings. and territorial behavior with a sensitive side lmao or everybody wanting to 'seal' and lock them away for being chaotic/trouble makers aldkjaldkjf - anyways you get it! wiz and dark even within dnangel canon are supposed to be pretty unique weirdos already, wiz is more like shaymin status (a la there's only ever like One Around) which i also think suits him a little better than an eevee would too -

^ you can see what i mean right. KDSJLDKJG GOTH SHAYMIN TO CANON'S PASTEL. these small transformers mammals can kick it into FLIGHT MODE. but i can still totally see dai loving normal types overall like smeargle and eevee!!

in canon the way that artworks fill up dai's house as dark collects them i can see him basically filling up his mansion with all sorts of pokemon that are only 'his' in a kind of a distant and territorial, royal sense- canonically he gets artworks that are / can turn into a small bird (towa, maybe a natu given the psychic/supernatural 'guide to eternity' thing she has going on, or a swablu/altaria since it fits her aesthetic more?) a snake, (or a gecko, that's argentine, there's plenty of pokemon for that,' and a whole ass dreameater-tapir for baku, (drowzee and musharna are both RIGHT THERE) so if we're going canon-wise, i'd give him those!!! i love him slowly building up his found family of little weird guys who he loves and who love HIM very much, + again it elevates the whole giratina fragment/noble ruler of another realm/burdened boyking bit. otherwise, i've always used a clefairy(not a clefable! not! a! clefable!) to represent daisuke and still a gengar to represent dark. dai just has a fairy type affinity in general alongside his normal type behavior since he's a fragmented fairy tale mc. give him a mimikyu or impidmp or something. if anything i think the ghost types as a whole fit dark very well too - mostly in lore.

banette being thrown away and haunted inanimate dolls??? sinistea being just a lonely lil guy in a cuppy?? sableye?? LITWICK???

^ 'SPEND LESS ON LITWICK.' 'NO.'

#*･ﾟ⊰ 𝐎𝐔𝐓 𝐎𝐅 𝐂𝐀𝐑𝐃𝐒. ⊱ ✦ › OUT.#*･ﾟ⊰ ANSWERED. ⊱#zenigatakeibu #BLINKS BACK AT YOU. SORRY FOR THE MASSIVE SILLY POST #BUT UR SO SMART TTTT #would zeni's team of lvl 99999 pokemon throw flamethrowers and lightning bolts at dark. do u promise 💝

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collectivenothingness · 4 months

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tagged by @hikari-ni-naritai thank you!

last song i heard: "The Other Side of the Wall" by Void_Chords feat. MARU

fav color: I don't know if I have one. I like various reds, blues, greens, purples, pinks, ...

last watched series: like finished? or just whichever series I watched an episode from last? I will assume the latter because it's easier to remember. I rewatched most of the Originals S1 the past few days. Embarrassing.

spicy/sweet/savoury: no sour option D:< well whatever. hard to pick. none of these are bad, really depends on context.

relationship status: dating @moonsinkfoxgirl

last thing i googled: "Error: 0x800f081f The source files could not be found."

last thing i read: oh that one fic you wrote. you know the one

current obsession: idk if I have one right now... in a very transient state of mind atm... maybe because exams are on the horizon.

something im looking forward to: taking a bath after troubleshooting whatever windows is having a problem with

I was brave last night and added a mutual on discord, so I will decidedly not be brave and don't tag anyone. But if you see this, reader, you can consider yourself tagged if you would want to be.

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friendly-french-fry · 14 days

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Got tagged by my lovely @hikari-yumi (took me awhile, sorry)

Latest song: Sagan - Nightwish (had to buy the élan CD since you can barely find this song)

Favorite color: Purple

Currently watching: Not really anything. Het Huis Anubis when I'm walking (on a walking pad, not just randomly on the street lol)

Last Movie: The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Threader (after reading the books I just had to)

Sweet, spicy, or savory: Sweet, always, I'm a sweet tooth through and through

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Current obsession: Still just Nightwish and Het Huis Anubis, ongoing for years now, something will have to take over someday

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❝ I still can’t believe Mars, Jupiter and Saturn ruined Mars, Jupiter and Saturn for me. Bastards. ❞ Now she can’t look at a star chart or watch a solar system documentary without feeling her blood pressure rise a little ( why did they have to name themselves after planets ).

Charon the POS would’ve left a stain on Charon the moon, too, if she had more unpleasant encounters with him.

At least Cyrus, the worst of them all, stuck with his real name instead of going by “ SUN ”.

#[ just hikari things :: status. ]

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Would you be willing to share your builds/levels for the final boss(es) of Octopath II? I'm trying to figure out how much more grinding I realistically need to do to actually finish this game.

Oh yeah, sure! I uh, had a lot more thoughts on this than I realized I would, so I'm sticking most of this under a read more, and I've tried to be vague about spoilers bc I wasn't sure how much you knew already from osmosis or looking at other online tips/guides. Also I ended up breaking things up into sections for easier navigation, because there is...a lot.

Table of Contents

General Thoughts

General Overarching Strategies

Character Preferences

Notes on Bosses

General Thoughts

Full disclosure, I've basically just been rotating my party and using whoever's the lowest level to try and catch them up on levels. Because I started with Ochette, she's locked into the party and is ungodly powerful as a result, but this will occur with literally anyone you start with (my first run I was using Osvald and he was so damned powerful by the end of the game). So I don't have a real "strategy" per boss (except for the optional superboss) so much as I switch around passive skills and subjobs based on who's lowest in levels and who I have to have in the party (Ochette + whoever's story I'm completing).

I will say, I don't feel like most of the bosses require a lot of level grinding, at least not for the character story final bosses. I kinda assume that the recommended level of 45 is like, the average of the entire team. As a general rule, I rarely use the fast-travel feature until I'm in the postgame section, and will literally walk my team everywhere, which helps to maintain levels so that I don't have to grind (and even if I do it's like, running laps in the dungeon right before the boss area until my lowest level person gains two or three levels, which only takes about about half an hour for me usually). Like, when I finished Hikari's route first, I had to run laps before the miniboss to get my two lowest team members to lv. 40, but Ochette was already lv. 52 at this point, and Hikari was about 42 or 43, I think. But I haven't needed to run any laps for any of the other bosses so far.

Also, I feel like Octo2 is a lot more balanced when it comes to stats/subjobs, and you can get away with doing a lot of weird things that work out in the long run so long as you're familiar with the battle mechanics and passive skills and how to make them work for you (which was true for Octo1 too, but I found myself almost always having at least Tressa and Therion in my team so I could get free money and open the purple chests w/out needing to backtrack, which limited my team compositions a lot more than Octo2, where no one character has a field-specific skill that makes them more or less useful than another).

General Overarching Strategies

I do have some general preferences. I like to have a at least one cleric and one apothecary in the party, and they can't be the same character (unless there's multiple clerics or apothecaries) just in case I need one of them to revive the other. This is mostly bc I like having the option to heal all, heal single, cure status ailments, or revive on hand at all times (as a result, if I'm using these as subjobs, they usually end up on a character who isn't my main damage-dealer, but even then it depends on the damage-dealing character).

I also like to have a merchant so I can use Collect bc I like having money, and giving the merchant subjob to certain characters is really helpful bc of the Rest skill being able to restore SP and cure status ailments. Generally I also like to have a hunter for Leghold Trap, or Agnea with Windy Refrain (gained by visiting Sealticge's shrine in the Leaflands) so I can manipulate when the boss attacks. Aside from those classes, I end up being really flexible depending on what I think I need. (As a side note, Leghold Trap + A Step Ahead from the inventor job can be really useful if you go in knowing a boss's weaknesses ahead of time, since you can break the boss and deal a lot of damage before they even get a chance to act).

Oh, but as a general rule, whenever I notice a character start to hit the 9999 damage limit output, I go and get DMD from the warrior class for them, because I love seeing big numbers go boom by optimizing my damage output. I also switch around subjobs a lot depending on what I think I'll need, and if I die during a boss fight I will go and rearrange my jobs or skills before I try level-grinding.

I also don't use any stat-enhancing nuts until the optional superboss, but I really don't think they're needed for any of the character story final bosses anyhow. If you've used them already that's fine though, I've totally mismanaged my nuts in both Octo1 and Octo2, and it's nothing a bit of level-grinding won't solve when it comes to the post-game bosses.

Character Preferences

Here's an outline of how I like to use all the characters. Keep in mind, everyone has their general preferences for how they like to use each character, and there's no right or wrong way to use a character, this is just what works for my playstyle.

Ochette

General: I use Ochette mostly to break enemies quickly with her Provoke monsters ability, and to output a lot of phys. damage. She's one of my main damage-dealers, and I rarely use her for support.

Latent power notes: She has one of the best latent powers for dealing damage, since the damage of her attacks scales with her level. I use her latent power as soon as the boss is broken, and I'll save Ochette's BP to use it at a full boost. Generally I use Beastly Fangs, but if the boss has multiple enemies that need to be taken care of (i.e. Partitio's final boss fight), then Beastly Claws is excellent as well. I don't really use Beastly Howl because there are better options to achieve the same effects that don't require Ochette to drain her latent power. I always use Ochette's latent power before I use divine skills or legendary beasts, since the latent power will refill throughout the battle and it doesn't cost SP.

Favorite subjobs: My primary subjob for Ochette is warrior, since it gives her access to Brand's Blade which is a good alternative to Beastly Fangs, and the warrior stats buff her already high physical stats. Alternately I will use her in merchant, but specifically for the optional superboss so she has access to Hired Help's Beastlings in case she has to use them (notes on that in the boss section below).

Notes on monsters: In general you can have whatever monsters you enjoy using for Ochette's Provoke ability, but I highly recommend having at least one monster that can deal axe damage twice to all enemies (any level, even the highest level "2x axe (all) monster" will only deal 1 damage to the postgame bosses, so choose whichever monster you like best), and a monster that can deal either dagger, axe, staff, lightning, or light damage to all (recommend getting a 9/10 strength monster for this, as they tend to have additional effects to their attacks such as debuffing the enemies or buffing the party; the Peek-a-boo from the area around Timberain tends to be a favorite because it debuffs enemy phys. and elemental defenses). Those two monsters will be the most useful for clearing the optional superboss, and a lot of bosses in general have a weakness to axes.

Castti

General: Castti works well as either a damage-dealer or support, so I tend to change her subjob depending on the rest of the team.

Latent power notes: I refuse to use concoct unless I have her latent active so that I can save on the ingredients. The only time I use concoct without the latent is during the two postgame bosses. I managed to get through the final boss fight my first run with only one pomegranate leaf thanks to her latent power (I uh, forgot to stock up at the secret market, but if you need more rare ingredients for concoct, the merchants that show up at night in the area to the west of Healeaks will sometimes sell stuff like pomegranate leaves).

Favorite subjobs: If I'm using her as a damage-dealer, than warrior and armsmaster are my go-to. For support, I tend to stick with inventor or merchant.

Notes on concoct: I use it almost exclusively for healing and buffing the team, and the ability to give everyone BP is super useful for setting up other damage-dealers and support characters.

Throne

General: One of my main damage-dealers, one of the best damage-dealers in the game. I was able to hit the 99,9999 damage limit with Throne thanks to the fact that Aeber's Reckoning scales with speed and seems to take the phys. attack stat into consideration as well. Optimize her speed and give her a high-damage dagger and she's golden for dealing wild amounts of damage.

Latent power notes: I don't have a particular pattern for how I use Throne's latent power, since how I use it depends on the battle situation. Sometimes I use it so Throne can act as temporary support, and sometimes I use it to set up Armor Corrosive and then use Aeber's Reckoning. Really, whatever I need a double-turn for, this power comes in handy for.

Favorite subjobs: Hunter for sure, it gives Throne an excellent boost to speed and evasion while also buffing the phys. attack stat nicely. Dancer is a decent subjob as well bc it gives her even higher speed/evasion stats than hunter, and access to Dagger Dance which is a nice aoe attack when level-grinding, but overall Dancer!Throne is kind of glassy for my tastes, and I like having Leghold Trap as an option for Throne's debuff repertoire in boss fights. I don't mind using merchant for Throne either, since Rest and Collect are useful skills for her to have.

Osvald

General: One of my main damage-dealers, magical edition. He's very squishy though, a true glass canon, so I have to either patch up his defenses with equipment and passive skills, or have someone dedicated to healing on the team.

Latent power notes: Love his latent power, it's especially good if you stack it with the buffs from either Advanced Magic (or the Stone of Truth, which just provides the 2x spell buff from Advanced Magic permanently), or Alephan's Wisdom. I would recommend using this at a full boost for optimal damage output. Like Ochette, I use this as early as I can so it an refill as the battle goes on.

Favorite subjobs: Cleric. Osvald's base stats make him an excellent healer, and the extra magical stats do him nothing but favors; plus having access to Holy Light is useful when his latent is empty since it'll typically deal more elemental damage for less SP than one of his aoe spells, and Mystic Staff can restore his SP. Alternatively though arcanist will grant him the best magic stats possible. I also didn't mind using him as an apothecary high elemental defense means good healing, and he can be a decent support when he's not blasting enemies off the screen.

Partitio

General: I tend to use him mostly as support, but he can deal decent damage when he's not supporting. Mostly he's a main support character for me though.

Latent power notes: Very useful for getting extra BP whenever you need it, and it tends to refill pretty fast so I use it liberally whenever I need BP.

Favorite subjobs: I tend to have Partitio mainly as an apothecary because it gives him a nice buff to his physical stats and more support skills to use (he doesn't make a bad healer either, especially with access to lots of BP from his latent). It also gives him access to a decent aoe attack (Sweeping Cleave) and Poison Axe, which are both handy to have. Alternatively, Paritio does okay as a warrior, thief, or hunter if I want to boost his damage-output, and inventor or dancer are good jobs to give him for extra support options (although I really only use dancer for the optional superboss). I'm thinking of trying him in the conjurer job for a while in my current run to see if the extra magic stats make Bifelgan's Bounty more useful for Partitio, since he seems to lean more physically for me than magically. (I hardly used conjurer except to get SP Saver my first run bc I couldn't figure out how to use it effectively, but I know it's gotta be useful somehow).

Other notes: If it wasn't obvious, the merchant job is one of my favorites as a subjob, and it gives Partitio a really nice set of skills. I don't actually use Sidestep that often and instead focus on things like Donate BP to boost my main damage-dealers in a pinch. Collect is a great skill bc I like having money.

Agnea

General: Main support, and a secondary magical damage-dealer. I tend to focus her on supporting, but her high elemental attack (especially paired with the Mooneater dagger) puts her almost on par with Osvald. She also has access to Windy Refrain which moves ALL enemies' actions to the end of the next turn, which is super useful for turn manipulation (and like Leghold Trap, very powerful when paired with A Step Ahead).

Latent power notes: Honestly I rarely use her latent power. Mostly I use it in general battles when I have her subjob set to scholar so she can use a boosted Analyze on all enemies. It is useful for using Collect or Steal on all enemies as well, but again, there's very few bosses with multiple enemies that you can Collect/Steal from. I think I might be able to use the latent with the apothecary's Rehabilitate which would be very useful on occasion, but I've never tried it bc Agnea is so optimized for magic that the phys. aspects of the apothecary subjob don't seem to fit her. Might have to try that out at some point though.

Favorite subjobs: I tend to have her as a merchant (Bifelgan's Bounty is a very nice powerful single-enemy elemental attack for her), but she does well as a scholar (excellent stat boosts to her magical stats) or thief (nice boosts to speed/evasion). She should technically make a good cleric as well, but I've never tried it out since I usually have another cleric present when Agnea's in the team.

Dance session notes: Dance session comes into play any time you use a dance skill, including Dagger Dance, so if you have the right follower, you can really benefit from Agnea's dance session. For most of the game I've been dragging along an NPC from Cropdale who offers Calming Rhythm (restores 500 HP and 40 SP to the target), but there's a dance session called Celestial Chorus which grants 1 BP to the target, which is super useful in boss fights since extra BP means more boosted attacks. The Allure page on the Wiki (here) has a full list of the dance sessions, and potential NPCs who offer them. Dance session boosts the power of the support dances by granting extra support bonuses beyond buffing stats, and Agnea's probably one of the strongest support characters as a result.

Temenos

General: Like Castti, I use Temenos half as support, half for dealing damage, but unlike Castti who I tend to rely on more for support, I rely on Temenos more for damage.

Latent power notes: His latent power is wickedly good for his Coerce path action, especially when paired with Sixfold Strike from the armsmaster job, and technically you could use it the same way in boss fights to break shields quickly, it's just...armsmaster is better on other characters in boss fights for the physical stat buffs it offers as a job (although Temenos did hit the 9999 damage cap when I had him as an armsmaster in one of the side dungeon boss fights, so Armsmaster!Temenos isn't entirely useless as a phys. damage-dealer). But Temenos's latent power + armsmaster + Full Power from the merchant class makes Coercion much easier.

Favorite subjobs: I tend to move Temenos around a lot in subjobs depending on what I need. He makes for a decent scholar due to the magical stats buffs, and dancer offers him decent stats as well and more support options, but my favorite subjob for Temenos is arcanist because it gives him access to light and dark elemental attacks, making the most of the Sunshade staff, and most importantly Reflective Barrier. See, my favorite thing to do with Temenos is have a dancer use Sealticge's Seduction on him, have him use Prayer for Plenty at full boost (hopefully on a team that's at full HP) to boost everyone's HP (up to possibly 9999), and then use Reflective Barrier and/or Sacred Shield at various levels of boost so I can yeet spells back at their caster(s) or otherwise cut down damage for a little while. Also arcanist offers really nice magical stats, and gives Temenos a good boost to his total SP pool, which is handy for when I do try to use his personal EX skill (bc of his personal EX skill, you will want to have something equipped that lets him regen SP, bc he can drain his SP really fast otherwise).

Hikari

General: Main damage-dealer. Makes for a sturdy backup support when you need one though, but I focus on his high phys. damage stats.

Latent power notes: Very useful and somewhat similar to Ochette's latent skills. Depending on Hikari's SP and available skills, I either use Hienka at a partial boost, and then follow up with Brand's Blade, or Tenretsuzan at full boost. Alternatively, if I need Hikari to do some backup support or use another skill, I'll use Hienka at full boost, and then use his bonus action for whatever. Sougetsusen isn't bad as an aoe attack when you need it though. Like Ochette and Osvald, I use Hikari's latent early in the battle so it can refill and be used later.

Favorite subjobs: Hikari does great as a merchant because of the access to Rest, which makes his Challenge path action easier to use without using all your healing items. Also Rest restores SP, which is super useful for Hikari since he can burn through SP really quickly between his warrior skills and Learned Skills. When I don't have him as a merchant, I like to use him as my armsmaster bc it gives him the best phys. stat buffs, and giving Hikari a Blessing in Disguise with the armsmaster subjob means you can use a lot of high-power equipment with negative effects without suffering the negatives (you can do that for any of your armsmasters by the way). When I don't have him in those two jobs, he makes for a decent apothecary (not as good at the healing though) or hunter.

Notes on Learned Skills: Like Ochette's monsters, you can more or less have whichever Learned Skills you enjoy using, but I like holding onto Divine Dual-Edge from the Ch3 fight with General Rou since it's a useful aoe attack, and picking up Limb from Limb from the Sanctum Knight in Stormhail (enter the Sanctum Knight HQ, go down the left hall and knock out the guy standing in front of a room, then go into the room and the guy in there is the one you can learn Limb from Limb from). Limb from Limb offers a powerful 4x sword attack on a single enemy, and was the main skill used in the guide I found when I needed help with the optional superboss. You can find a list of Learned Skills on the Wiki as well (here).

Notes on Bosses

Most of the character story final bosses are pretty easy, or if they're tough it's bc of their stats and not battle gimmicks, so it's just a matter of chipping away their health. Here's a few battle gimmicks I'd keep an eye out for though:

Castti's final boss has an ongoing battle condition where the entire team's max HP is reduced every turn. You can bypass this with the Sealticge's Seduction + Prayer for Plenty tactic, but it's still risky (Angea ended the battle with a total of 5 HP on my current run). It's best to just try and finish this battle quickly. (Your team's HP will return to normal after the battle).

Throne's boss has the ability to lock the party's main job's skills (so Throne won't be able to use thief skills) until broken so subjobs are very important, and this boss can summon all of her previous bosses (not all at once, but over the course of the battle), so this can be a tough fight. There's a few other gimmicks this boss can access (I think subjobs can be blocked until the boss is broken at one point as well), so paying attention to what's happening in the battle and having a flexible battle plan will help. Either bring a lot of healers, or find a way to output a lot of damage so you can skip the prev. boss summons and gimmicks.

Partitio's final boss has three enemy units you have to defeat before the armor on the main boss's shield fall off. Dealings lots of aoe damage is useful for the first part of the battle. A Step Ahead + Agnea's Windy Refrain is probably useful as well (for my current run I did not have A Step Ahead equipped, and had to do quite a bit of healing in the first half of the battle).

Hikari has the most stages to his final boss. You have to fight a miniboss (which you can save after), the final boss part 1, then there's a cutscene and Hikari has to fight a battle via the Challenge path action, and then the final boss part 2. So just be prepared for like, a lot of battle segments.

(I also seem to remember something being kinda tricky about Ochette's final boss, but hers was the first story I completed on my first run, and it's the story I'm saving till last on my current, so I dunno if my troubles with her boss were "this was the first final boss I fought" or if there's actually something weird about the battle).

As for character levels, for my current run I started with Hikari's final chapter, then worked my way to Castti, Osvald, Throne, Agnea, Partitio, and I plan to do Temenos and Ochette next. As I noted earlier, Ochette, my starter, was at lv. 52-ish during Hikari's chapter, with my lowest level team members being at about 38-ish and I had to do some laps to get them to lv. 40. Right now, going into Temenos's final chapter, Ochette's level is in her mid-high 60s (which probably will be closer to or over 70 bc I want to explore some dungeon areas on the Sundering Sea before I head to Toto'haha), and my lowest level characters are like, 51 or 52, which is well above the rec'd lv. 45. So again, I don't think you have to level-grind for the character story final bosses, because just by fighting them and travelling to their locations, your characters are going to get stronger.

As for the two postgame bosses...

If you do want to level-grind, I would suggest the Infernal Castle, as it's the highest level area of the game at lv. 55. There's also ways to optimize the amount of exp and jp you get via passive skills and equipment, so make sure to move that around before you level-grind. Also I found bumping the game speed to x2, and using powerful aoe attacks made the grinding go so much faster (I only spent maybe 4-8 hours grinding total my first run? on a file where I put somewhere between 180-200 hours into, so basically no time at all for grinding). I would not rely on Bewildering Grace, Agnea party-wiped the team more often even than the optional superboss killed me, so it's just not a safe skill. Also if you fight the Infernal Castle's miniboss, it can show up as a random encounter, and I personally found that the exp gained from fighting it again wasn't worth the time spent. I gained more exp per minute just entering minor battles, smacking the enemies with a double-boosted aoe attack (from Step Ahead and Boost Start from merchant), and then moving onto my next battle (courtesy of Vigorous Victor from apothecary). It's tedious, but it does work.

I would suggest completing all the side quests before beginning the final chapter, as there's a lot of nice accessories and equipment you can get. Keep in mind that fighting the optional superboss is actually one of the side quests, so while you can track your completion of side quests by area in the Journal, one of the areas will be incomplete until you kill the optional superboss (you do not have to fight the superboss to complete the final chapter, and the ability to complete side quests opens back up after you defeat the final boss). The optional superboss is absolutely meant to be more difficult to defeat than the actual final boss.

Also there's technically four bosses in the postgame. Two minor bosses during the final chapter segments, the actual final boss, and the optional superboss. The two minor bosses are easy though, they're no stronger than the character story final bosses (although for my first run I had fought the optional superboss first, so I was waaay overleveled for the final chapter segments; still the two bosses couldn't do anything fancy as far as I could tell).

For the Actual Final Boss, I accidentally steamrolled this dude my first run bc I fought the optional superboss first and had misused my nuts and therefore had to level-grind to make up for stats. Half my characters were at lv. 80 and other other were at 74 or 75. I didn't even have my passive skills optimized bc I was expecting the "dungeon" the final boss is in to be an actual dungeon, not a flight of stairs with no enemy encounters. All the characters were in my preferred classes for them (Warrior!Ochette, Inventor!Castti, Hunter!Throne, Cleric!Osvald, Apothecary!Partitio, Merchant!Agnea, Arcanist!Temenos, and Armsmaster!Hikari, but not in that order bc I didn't optimize my party order either).

A few guides online list the recommended level for the final boss as being 72-75, but I wouldn't know bc again, lots of level-grinding (I plan to fight the final boss before the optional superboss for my current run, just to see the difficulty differences). You will get to use all 8 characters though, not in the same way as how the Galdera fight works in Octo1, but you will need all 8 characters for the battle, so keep that in mind. Overall I haven't heard/read about too many people having trouble with the final boss, so you should be fine using whatever your preferred battle strategies are with a full team that's at least in their low 70s level-wise.

The optional superboss is a terrible jerk, I hate this boss so much, and despite being Pretty Good at the game I had to eventually look up a guide. The guide I used is here (major spoilers obviously), although I will say I modified this person's strategy (for example, I optimized Osvald's critical stat, had Castti as a merchant, small changes like that). I will note this person manages to output enough damage to skip one of the mid-battle phases of the first half of the boss fight, and that the Hired Help Beastlings skill from the merchant class is needed for this mid-battle phase if you can't bypass it (if I'm being too vague and you don't care about spoilers, I can actually go through this entire boss fight stage-by-stage and explain the logic behind the guide and my adaptations to the guide). I'm thinking of modifying the strategy here further on my current playthrough, but overall this is the superboss for a reason. Extremely gimmicky, very high stats, very annoying, but also possible to beat in like, 10 minutes with the right setup.

#I don't have a link to a list of monsters for Ochette #bc I haven't FOUND any good lists that include 9/10 and 10/10 strength monsters and their skills #but otherwise I really do stand by the ''mechanics are flexible do what works best for you'' mindset #I've seen some insane builds from other people that I never thought would work that do so this really is just my preferences for things #anyhow here's some thoughts #I didn't realize I had so many thoughts about Octo2 mechanics #youcantencryptyourface #I still don't have an ask tag #octopath ii #also sorry if there's weird typos I've read through this like 10 times but I'm bound to miss something here or there

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