This entry was actually ready a few days ago, excuse my laziness to take screencaps.

“oh hai littel gurl, i fixed ur dawl lol”

I guess Jade puts up his facade very well, because there hasn’t been any indication of his supposed “true” nature Nephry warned about save for the brief excahnge with Legretta prior to reaching Akzeriuth. While it’s good to know some of his backstory, there are a few things one’s left wondering about: how the hell did a 9-year-old grasp or come up with the concept of using fomicry? Jade being a “genius” doesn’t really offer a viable explanation, unless the concept was already thought of in the past, and Jade somehow miraculously found that missing component that makes it all possible, which even then sounds a bit half-assed. Also, seeing as how Seventh Fonon Artes so far have been related to healing magic and putting people to sleep, I’m not sure what kind of spell Jade was trying to cast that made an entire house blow up, but it clearly demonstrates the notion that one has to be born with the ability to use the Seventh Fonon and it can be otherwise fatal to attempt to without the gift. After Jade learns that replicas have no memories of who they were, it seems like he’s finally learned his lesson to accept that “People die when they are killed,” but why does Nephry still feel the need to warn Luke about the tragedy of Professor Nebilim happening again? I would think those should be more directed towards Dist rather than Jade, since Dist might be trying to create a replica of Hod for Van, but since Jade has apparently “gone back to the way he was before” (What, killing animals for fun, blowing up houses, and replicating dolls? When did he start doing those again?), what is she trying to warn Luke about? Safest bet would be Jade’s still trying to create a replica WITH memories of Professor Nebilim, and in a sense becoming an actual “Necromancer,” but those like many things are guesses based on tuition.

Guy’s history reveals that he, like Tear and Van, originated from the island of Hod, under a noble family nonetheless: Gailardia Galan of the house of Count Gardios, whose estate was attacked by Duke Fabre during the Hod War on the day of Guy’s 5th birthday. It seems like Guy barely escaped with his life with an old man who looks suspiciously like the gardener from the Fabre mansion, and entered in the Fabre service in order to exact revenge, but established a big enough friendship with Luke and Natalia to not carry it out, or at some point found executing the plan meaningless. It also establishes the old man at the mansion to potentially become an enemy or at the very least a sabuteur later on, though I honestly doubt that’ll happen. The only thing left to wonder is Guy’s exact relationship with Asch back in those days, as well as what the sword on the wall he stared at during his time at the Fabre mansion.

Evidence A:  Non-Physical resemblance of  “mother.”

Decisive Evidence:  Cradle-robbing grandmother

I’m not sure if this is all just a gigantic lie staged by Mohs or not (I don’t know if it’s the Nanny’s character, or because the seiyuu decided to approach the role like this, but that was the worst example of serious crying I’ve ever heard in an anime), but Natalia’s revelation of her birth does have enough evidence to say that she wasn’t born from the Queen if she doesn’t look like her. And yet I ask you: was the royal family that retarded to not question the fact that Natalia looked nothing like her mother until the moment Mohs decided to bring it up? Did they just accept the whole “recessive genes” theory until someone said “hay gaiz! i dun’t thnk Natalia be ur daughter lulz,” and immediately take action on that? And what kind of grandmother steals her own daughter’s kid away just to make the Queen happy? Hell, what kind of grandmother reveals the truth of her granddaughter, knowing full well that she’s going to die because of it? I honestly hope that the game has a better explanation for this nonsensical shit, at least the whole replica ideas are somewhat plausible. On top of that, I’ve said before that Largo seems to have some history with Natalia, but maybe he’s also one of the few people who knew who she really was; in that case, who does that make him? Come to think of it, Largo has green eyes too…

You can’t see it from here, but Largo’s eyes really are green.

I guess the God-Generals don’t seem to be in sync with each other (I’m so witty), because they always seem to have conflicting ideals even now: Asch’s sudden rescue of the group isn’t so surprising, and his tattling on Dist’s leak of information to Mohs in opposition to Van could just be so that Largo will be on his side, but what’s Dist being offered so much that he’d betray Van, since the information on Hod should’ve been collected by him in order to go along with Van’s plan? (A better question: exactly what information did he give Mohs that was so important?) Largo seems to have hesitation in killing the group during Ep. 13 when an episode ago, he was gleefully swinging his halberd at Luke, but it might just be because of his earlier acquaintance with Natalia.

…No Luke…no you don’t…

-_-

Although Luke’s definitely become more tolerable now that he’s received his attitude change, there’ve also been a few times when his over-humbleness has annoyed me: first off, his whole “I can relate” talk with Jade about Jade’s previous endeavors with fomicry just seemed a bit ridiculous, since I honestly don’t know how he could possibly relate to that; a few episodes later, he screams at Guy that he doesn’t understand his feelings about reconstructing St. Binah because “I was the one who destroyed Akzeriuth!”, which made it feel a bit contradictory. When Guy’s past is explained, it’s understandable that he would want to apologize since he doesn’t know if Guy started to hate him because of a selfish action he caused somewhere in the past, but I’m tired of listening to Luke put himself down as the person who destroyed Akzeriuth for the 50th time; yes we know he did it, and we know he feels guilty and is trying to take responsibility for his actions, but enough is enough: by the time Mohs pointed out “You destroyed Akzeriuth,” I was more surprised (positively) that Luke didn’t get butthurt and instead proceeded to call Mohs a jerk and a liar. Granted, nobody should really know why Akzeriuth collapsed and that he was the cause, but he’d honestly be better off hiding that fact…

Well, moving on…

And we’re given a little bit of TearXLuke action since Luke cut his hair, with Tear becoming emotional support. Not very obvious, but it was pretty sweat (It’d be better if Mieu wasn’t there making annoying sounds though. >_<)

PREVIEW

Now that the war is broken out, and Natalia and Luke’s credibility tossed out the window, there doesn’t seem to be any way of negotiating the fighting to stop. Van’s back ever since Akzeriuth’s destruction, though it seems he’s only making himself seen to Guy, and there’s no hostility involved either; could Van be trying to recruit him by offering Hod’s replication? More bits of Guy’s past are shown, including the women he saw falling earlier when Anise hugged him talking to him, perhaps his sister. Ion’s reading a Fonstone, and most importantly, Arietta’s back. ^_^

“oh hai littel gurl, i fixed ur dawl lol”

-Jay