Board 8 > I rank the Trails series characters (from Sky until Reverie) (spoilers)

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152. Elise Schwarzer
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She said it first, so it's okay.

Elise is a bit of a weird one. I generally like her personality, but then there's the whole, I want to fuck my brother thing that kind of puts a damper on the whole situation. Estelle and Joshua do have the same scenario, but it feels less weird (still weird but I'm kinda over it at this point) in that case because they did meet much later in life, and Joshua was in a particularly vulnerable state, so anyone showing him any kind of affection turning into a romantic relationship kind of makes sense. For Elise and Rean though, as far as I know Elise has been living with Rean since she was born, right? Maybe like 1 or 2? Young enough that like, every semi-conscious moment of her life, Rean was her brother. It's just weird, man. I can't see any kind of romantic relationship forming in that context. There's like, evolutionary biological blocks in the way for that kind of thing, man. I don't know all the science but I know that shit just don't work like that. But like I said I can like ignore that to some extent, I think she's a fine character if I just put a mental wall around that part of it. (It's optional, it's optional *rocking back and forth in my chair*). I do think they kind of implied Patrick was starting to make a move on her in CS4, so let us pray that works out and she can leave Rean behind.

Moving on...she's one of the many characters (but few named ones) that have received training from my girl Aurier, so good for her. She was kind of fun to use in battle in Reverie, I made her just a speed demon and she would go around poking and prodding and healing constantly, which was pretty useful every now and then. I think that does factor into her being ranked a little higher, because I grew to like her more during Reverie cuz of that. As far as the plot goes, she kind of goes from damsel in distress to someone vaguely doing 'Noble-things' in the background, back to damsel, then ends up being one of many characters on board the Courageous. Nothing too exciting. The main benefit of her presence throughout the Erebonia arc was her relationship with Alfin, since it gave Alfin a good opportunity to act more like a 'normal girl' instead of a stereotypical princess. She was pretty adept at switching between those two roles, which was fun to see. I don't know man, I want to like Elise a lot more but...Falcom just really wants to scare away people with healthy libidos.

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I do think they kind of implied Patrick was starting to make a move on her in CS4, so let us pray that works out and she can leave Rean behind.

Fun fact, I think that's only true if you don't choose Elise for the final CS4 Bonding Event where Rean is like, "sure let's go for it." But yeah, Rean actually relents at the tail end of CS4 and decides he'll let Patrick shoot his shot. Probably.

At least, when I did brief save/loads on my 1st playthrough to see any NPC reactions in the immediate aftermath of the final bonding event pretty sure Patrick's stuff changes in that particular case.

Rean being creepy with Elise is one of his worst aspects too. It's a shame they had to add that to both of their characters. Patrick x Elise is definitely a good ship.

Patrick x Elise really is the perfect ending for his redemption arc.

Maybe this says more about me, but if a character is basically just "nice, smart, good manners, and well-respected" and that's basically it, I don't care if they get shot into the sun. they gotta have something weird, funny, or dark about them in order for me to care.

I feel like a lot of Japanese media thinks differently than me though, because I consistently see characters like this

that being said, their one "weird thing" about them shouldn't be incest because yeesh