Alright... after the 22th time I heard it, I am going to say it.
Chapter 10, Veyle stealing the rings isn't a plot hole nor a contrivance.
People are being like "but how could Veyle steals them ? just because Alear had turn her back ?" welll...
rewatch the cutscene .... and pay attention
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Look at Veyle. When Alear is preparing to Engage, the camera goes back to Veyle and ...
Look... right there... the ring is there ...
and then she does this
...
pay attention... to what game says.
Also, friendly reminder that Veyle in Evil mode as teleportation power and that she steal a time rewind crystal, meaning that even if Alear and the other noticed her stealing the Dragonic crystal, she could have just rewind using it anyway... only the one using it is aware of it usage, that's how rewinding works, so even if it happened, Alear wouldn't know it anyway
as convoluted as it's sounds, or as dumb as it sounds, it's still is explained that she sneak it back while Alear was being distraught by Zephia and while it seemed like eternity to us due to the cutscene being long, them presenting themselves must have tooken like what ? a few seconds ? How she does it has been ridiculously overthought when you can literaly answer " a wizard did it" in the context of Fire emblem.
I agree that it's a clumsy scene when it comes to the stealing part but when Veyle can literaly use her magic power to do that, overthinking "but how could she steal the dragonic crystal without Alear noticing it ?" is dumb since it can literaly be explained that way. And I doubt Veyle would write a long expose as to how she stole it.
The older I get the more I admire people who are earnestly, genuinely into whatever their thing is. I know it sounds like an annoying cliche but unless you're being cruel or hurtful there is really no need to be normal about things. The dude with the bad fake accent at the renaissance faire is having the time of his life. The people having photoshoots with their fashion dolls are loving it. The old lady with a yard unreasonably full of tacky ass lawn ornaments is having a blast, HOA be damned.
Don't waste your time being too cool to have fun, y'know?
northern hemisphere babes we made it to the longest night of the year. we made it. for the next 6 months, every day will give us a little more daylight than the last. let's go. take my hand. climb out of the darkness with me
if you donate one single us dollar to the unrwa, you will have donated more money than you would have by clicking that stupid arab.orb link every day for four and a half years. yes, they do actually donate money to the unrwa, but even with tens of thousands of clicks, most of that money is the baseline $90 they send every quarter. from 2023 quarter 4, half a million clicks turned into $380.57. maths out to six hundreths of one cent per click. just donate to unrwa.
the thing that bothers me about dragon riders is that the dragon absolutely does not have to let you climb on its back. your ability to 'ride' the dragon is entirely dependent on the dragon allowing you to do that. it could fly just fine without you sitting there. which means you are not a dragon rider, not really. that beast is not your pet. you're the dragon's pet. you're its trophy wife.