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So I come back after a few days, and apparently I've finished the chapter...or sub-chapter, or whatever. 100%! Inb4 hidden quests.



As everyone else is standing around ready to leave, Toval and Claire went off to "check on Ymir's defenses." Mm-hmm, is that what they're calling it these days?...Actually, those two might make a cute couple. Okay, I'm on board this ship.



And we're going to Nord over Legram. Dammit. I'm not surprised. It follows the order of the first game. And I liked the Highlands. I bring Elliot, Fie, and Claire. Claire and Fie finish a battle and Fie's response to Claire telling her she really knows how to handle herself is "Yay!" Uhh...what? Fie would never say "Yay!" And certainly not to that.

Anyway, Noble Alliance is out here. Soldats fighting imperial tanks. Looks like they're having just as much fun here as everywhere else. I'm barred from approaching the nomadic settlement, and I got stuck in a loop for several cycles being told I can't approach the watchtower...which apparently is an invisible wall slashing across one whole side of the highlands that I kept getting repulsed into it.

I've noticed the hit-circle-hit strategy on the map with Rean doesn't work any more. His hit recovery's too long. And I don't have Laura to club them over the head instead.

The Noble Alliance is working with Calvard. Joy. Not that the general wants our help. He's all like, I don't expect you to bring the divine knight into this. It's our fight...and you're totally about to go down in flames on that ship, buddy. But yay, horses. Wait a sec. I don't want horses! I wanna fight everything in my path! The one thing the Highlands is good for is grinding the crap out of everything in the way.

I think it's hilarious how the anteater enemies are called brutal infants. Also, I'm totally slaughtering them from horseback.

Pro tip: Don't enter any story location, even one that's supposed to be friendly -- ESPECIALLY one that's supposed to be friendly -- without full health. Just got wiped by a group of jaegers in Gaius's town because they got to ambush me and one-shot me. Easy fight, too.

Holy shit, Gaius just charged in here like fucking Lu Bu....or Guan Yu, anyway. But the bad guys get to leave, because of course they do. And Gaius is acting like them being there is no big deal and like he's seen them for hours. "It's just settling in that it's really you."



:bruh:

Gaius's mom is really good-looking. I remember everyone here having tan skin and brilliant blue eyes, but it's funny to see everyone at New Yurtville when everybody else in Erebonia so white.

Off to explore the great northern beyond. Funny how all the enemies are the same, including the creepy sheep, but they're now much tougher. Who told the devs the world should level with the party? Didn't they learn that was annoying in Oblivion? Also, I now have two characters over 10k hp.

Apparently the art team decided they wanted to make a mole look as scary as possible. They did a good job.

Predictably, we find Millium and Alisa just as they're being attacked by a horrible monster. Uhh...Gaius, I appreciate the save and all, but how come you didn't go with them earlier? Also, I love how it completely changes my party so the only person in this fight that I had before was Rean. Tough fight, too. Might have been nice if you hadn't taken my actual healer and two other people who were just standing around because game mechanics dictated it!

Millium's super happy to see Claire, and they have almost the same shade of blue hair. Hmm...I don't think Claire's old enough to have a teenage kid, but we know literally nothing about Millium, so I'm not ruling it out. Oh, man, Claire's getting all kinds of headcanon today. Also, apparently Alisa is "blond-haired girl" after the game already revealed her name. And I guess she's no longer worried Rean has cooties, because she is literally wrapped around his mid-section like a kid who doesn't want Mom to leave. And things are getting a little awkward, but at least Rean doesn't give her the headpat treatment.

Whoa, whoa, what's this about a promise?



Game, you can't force the canon romance on me when I didn't pick it earlier. I even saw this scene before with the correct girl in the frame. Predictably, as soon as she brings it up, though, Alisa instantly takes it back. Also, apparently she's permanently blushing throughout this sequence.

And leave it to grandpa to make it (more) awkward.

Ack, Millium to the face!

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