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Xenoblade Chronicles spoilers

5. Fiora

Series: Xenoblade
Nominator: Cody1153 (0/4 remaining)
Personal Familiarity: Yes
Attractiveness: 88 (11/145)
Personality: 80 (9/145 tie)
Girlfriendness: 80 (12/145 tie)
Overall Waifu Score: 82.6
Hair: Blonde (3/57 remaining)
Eyes: Green (2/22 remaining)
Race: White (2/61 remaining)
Age: 15-19 (3/62 remaining)
Medium: Video Game (4/85 remaining)

This may be a controversial decision, but I folded voice attractiveness into the general attractiveness rating. And Ill just say now that Fiora has the best voice of anyone on the list. I dont know what it is about her borderline Cockney accent, thats not an accent I would ever describe as especially sexy, but theres something to her that really works for me. I think its the same thing as Aerie from Baldurs Gate II, where the VA knocks it out of the park on the innocent, gentle girl voice. Except with Fiora, she also has cute mannerisms that are visible in her movements, whereas Aerie is a sprite so tiny that you can barely see her walk cycle.

I guess I should mention that for Fiora, Im assuming this is her human form and not her robot form. Everyone is free to complain about my rampant robophobia, but Im calling it here: normal human ladies are sexier than robots with a human head attached. Although, hell, even in her human form, her hair is like shoulder-length, whereas her robot form hair is only down to about her chin. My point here is that human Fiora > robot Fiora. I also really enjoy how of the three humans we see turned into robots, the other two get turned into hideous monsters, while Fioras head is the same except for a haircut. Also, gotta say, Fioras got a great I-dont-know-what-thing-is-called-that-covers-her-chest. According to the Wiki, its a bralette, which Im pretty sure is wrong. Do they not want to just say that Fiora is just wearing a fancy bra instead of a shirt? Because this isnt even in the top ten dumbest anime girl clothing Ive seen. I already talked about Alice from Zero Escape, right?

If were being really honest here, Fiora might be the flattest waifu left? She doesnt have a ton to her as a character, both compared to the other party members in her game, but also the other waifus on the list. Half of her character isnt even really her, its a weird ghost that possesses her. But thats not really a detriment if youre talking solely about the context of a dorky waifu ranking topic, so I mainly brought this up to laugh at Melia some more. Its shocking how Fiora is presented as the kindest, brightest girl ever, but is just completely unable to see that Melia is also pining for Shulk. Like, its funny when Shulk just doesnt notice the beautiful, intelligent princess has the hots for him, but Fiora is outside of that equation and has no idea. I guess this indicates that shes kind of oblivious or dumb, and her optional conversations with other party members sort of bores that out. Sharla is like dude Shulk has really changed after you came back to life and Fiora is like really? I thought he was the same, and its like Fiora, how would you know what Shulk was like when you were dead?

I guess what it comes down to with Fiora is that unlike a lot of waifus who have tortured pasts or really complex goals or whatever, shes pretty simple in what she is and what she wants. Even when the world is exploding around her and an insane guy is screaming about becoming a god and all of those JRPG climax things are happening, and Fiora herself is a key part of that and intimately involved in whats going on, her actual character and opinions are very straightforward. I know she worries about being a robot and running out of power and dying, or outliving all of her friends, but its all very abstract. Shes never like I need to end things with Shulk so he isnt hurt, shes only I dont want to bring up my concerns while were on a crazy adventure to save the world. Its kind of interesting, too, because the stuff that happens to her you would assume might change her, but shes still basically the same sweet girl at the end. And thats not bad! Like, Fioras overwhelmingly kind nature basically resolves any question of like compatibility with her.

And as for her Girlfriendness, Ill admit that I may have overranked Fiora here, but Im standing by it regardless. Sure, Im extremely hazy about what her job qualifications are, I dont think you can list ex-robot on a resume, but that aside, we know shes a killer cook, we know she knows how to take of injured people, and we know that she really loves spinning knives around after every battle. All of these are good things. Dunban is also one of the less stupid party members, so hes probably a cool brother-in-law. I guess Im expected to go on a crazy revenge mission if shes murdered, though, which is a serious downside.

Look, Im going to sum it up like this: Fiora is the ultimate simple village maiden + childhood friend waifu. You might be thinking that Im doing her a small disservice by calling her that, but its not really an insult, nor is it inaccurate. I just think shes done about as well as you can possibly do such a concept, but I also think that such a concept has a lower ceiling on waifu quality than certain other concepts. Does that make sense?

On an unrelated note, Ive never played the other Xenoblade games. They looked way worse than Chronicles. Am I wrong for thinking that? I just took one look at Chronicles X and thought it looked horrible, and Chronicles 2 and its sword girls and catgirls (one of whom is also a sword girl?) seemed like a parody of anime concepts.

Lastly, I couldn't figure out how to include this image in the write-up, so I'll just awkwardly include it here at the end.


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Started: July 6, 2005