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Im just gonna throw massive Xenoblade spoilers everywhere, just so were all clear.

7. Melia Antiqua


I have way more Melia images, but GameFAQs wouldn't let me put any more in a single post. It's not too much of a loss, though, because all of them are just Melia trying and failing to make Shulk-senpai notice her or seething at Fiora.

Leonhart said earlier that Melia is a better waifu than Fiora, and hes right. This is another lol categories situation. If Xenoblade had an option for who to go on a date with to the Gold Saucer, and your options were Melia, Fiora, Sharla, and Dunban, Im going with Melia every time. Unlike Shulk, Cloud actually ends up with the correct girl, so thats one advantage for him. Im actually shocked that both Xenoblade girls made it into the top ten. I can tell you for sure that Sharla would not have.

Is there any waifu who suffers more than Melia for basically no reason? I have to believe that suffering porn is the fetish of someone at Nintendo. Like, everyone else in the game is basically happy and carefree and things work out for them, and Melias life is just horrible tragedy after horrible tragedy for no reason. Her brother dies, her father dies, her people all die, Im probably forgetting more family members who die, the boy she likes doesnt care about her at all and it turns into a 4chan meme, she has to help rescue his actual girlfriend, her kingdom is destroyed, she's passed over for Shulk's final smash in favor of Dunban and Riki, and then her friend gets the chance to fix the world and doesnt undo any of those things. She suffers so much and its for no reason at all. Theres even a moment when Sharla is like go Melia, you can totally get Shulk to notice you, and then once Fiora shows back up, Sharla never mentions it again. I guess you can argue that its to examine how much pain she can take after being a princess her whole life, but it really feels like its more just so that someone in the game can experience drama after Fiora shows back up. So, I was surprised at how many people werent sure who the next up clue referred to, because I was afraid it was too obvious.

I am choosing to call Melias hairstyle the Leiatails. I dont even know how to factor in the head wings. Are tiny head wings the silliest thing you can give your bird people in a video game? I know that they had to mark how shes a bird lady in some way, but these wings arent even located where they would be for a bird. At least put them on her back or give her feathers on her arms or something. ****ing Samus makes more sense as a bird lady, and Samus doesnt even have any bird traits at all.

I should say that for purposes of this list, Im assuming that this is post-racism Melia, who freaks out when she sees humans. Im also only rating her based on the original Xenoblade, not the remake, which I know has a new epilogue for her. Sorry! I did look up the new version, though, and it factored into her attractiveness.

Im going to say that Melia and Fiora are the waifus who benefited the most in this list from having their game remade. Xenoblade on the Wii is a fun game, but its so, so ugly. Its one of the ugliest games of its generation. Freaking FFX from 2002 looks leagues above Xenoblade. Ive seen people complain that the new art is more generically anime, and thats absolutely true, but you cannot tell me that the old art looked as good. I bring all of this up to justify Melias extremely high attractiveness score because, to put it bluntly, Wii Melia is not getting a 75. Either way, she pulls off the graceful princess look very well, you glance at her and you instantly know shes the offensive wizard and the princess of the group. And it helps that since Xenoblade is about putting on silly gear and looking ridiculous, we know that Melia has zero problems running around in tropical hula wear and swimsuits. Thats only an advantage.

Ive gone into my problems with princess characters before, but Melia dodges a lot of them thanks to the development she gets over the course of the game. She actually starts off as one of the princessiest of princesses, but mellows out as she suffers and suffers and suffers. Ive got to say that again, the game ****s on her for just no reason, it becomes funny after a while. Anyway, the Melia of latter game is a top tier waifu in terms of personality for sure. I guess if you were going to define her main personality attribute, it would be determination? She just keeps going despite all of the crap that happens to her, all while maintaining her composure. Thats another thing about Xenoblade, I love the range of British accents. Melias got an RP one like Luna from FFXV, but less ridiculous. Too bad for her that its not quite as cute as Fioras, but well get to that later.

I was actually torn on how to rate Melias girlfriendness. Ill say immediately that shes not really an adventurer, so she again dodges any penalty for that. Basically, by the end of the game, shes not really a princess anymore, and shes now merely a rich, powerful, respected superwizard. Like, honestly, I cant imagine Melia not being the perfect girlfriend, because she's always attentive, dedicated, and empathetic (after her kingdom is destroyed). You cant even argue that her duties get in the way like most princesses, because all of her people turned into monster birds and got shot by lightning, and then her country was deleted and turned into a new planet. You know what, if Melias bad luck rubs off on me, Im docking her some Girlfriendness points, sorry. I also didn't factor in her species living to like 300 years old or whatever, that seemed complicated. Imagine your girlfriend remembering the founding of the United States.

So, anyway. Melia Antiqua. Quality waifu. Quality princess waifu. Im actually curious how often in RPGs the hero ends up with his childhood friend instead of the mysterious magical girl or princess he meets when the journey is already underway. Crono sure as hell has more going on with Marle than Lucca, that's for sure.

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Started: July 6, 2005