What is it, in summary?: You play as the Luminary, who's on a hero's journey to find his destiny and save the world! Complete with a lovable cast of characters and a colorful world bundled into three acts.
What do you love about it?:
{spoilers ahead!}
Look at this boy.
Now tell me you don’t at least think he’s cute or are slightly interested in his Hero’s Journey across a land that eventually succumbs to crippling darkness but through the power of friendship and found family is saved, with the hero going back in time at the end of the second act to prevent the darkness from happening in the first place.
DQXI is full of a cast of lovable characters, each with their own unique voice and appeal. (Even the 30-year-old men get some love!) The game has a lot of lore, fun character dynamics, and potential for worldbuilding. (IF you can overlook the mindf*kery that is the world map.)
The man, the myth, the fabulous legend.
Sylvando is probably at least 50% of what makes this game great. He’s a lot of people’s favorite character, and who can blame him? He might initially come off as a gay stereotype but spend some more time with him and you will rapidly fall in love with his energy, kindness, and humor. It’s like they took everything LGBTQ and put it into this one precious little character. Give him different pronouns, let him be a literal clown, have him be your party’s Emotional Support Parent. It’s all up for grabs when Sylv’s around. (Or Sylvia, if you prefer~)
Lastly, the shipping. The longer I stick around this fandom, the more brain worms I have accrued, to the point that I don’t think there’s any (reasonable) ship that I would not enjoy. There are so many possible pairings that have yet to be explored, and don’t even get me started on friendships!
Missing scenes, fix-its, and canon diverge are popular mainstays for this fandom and there is a lot of canon material you can twist, tweak, and tamper with.
What sort of things are you likely to request for it?: Canon divergence, time traveling nonsense, and post-canon aus. I'm also interested in events happening before canon, and during canon, and anything you can think of, really. I'm most in love with luminerik but am chest-deep in the minutae of this fandom and would happily devour fanfiction about anything, from an obscure NPC's perspective of act 3 to slice of life.
Content warnings: non-explicit past child abuse, implications of sexual assault, child death/main character death.
Dragon Quest XI: Echoes of an Elusive Age
Title: Dragon Quest XI: Echoes of an Elusive Age
Media: A JRPG-style video game released in English in 2018
Approx length: ~85 hours
Important note: You do not need prior knowledge of the other 10 games to enjoy this one!
Where to find it: Youtube playthrough (with commentary) DQXI on steam Youtube 'movie' of the game (5-part edit of cutscenes)
What is it, in summary?: You play as the Luminary, who's on a hero's journey to find his destiny and save the world! Complete with a lovable cast of characters and a colorful world bundled into three acts.
What do you love about it?:
{spoilers ahead!}
Look at this boy.
Now tell me you don’t at least think he’s cute or are slightly interested in his Hero’s Journey across a land that eventually succumbs to crippling darkness but through the power of friendship and found family is saved, with the hero going back in time at the end of the second act to prevent the darkness from happening in the first place.
DQXI is full of a cast of lovable characters, each with their own unique voice and appeal. (Even the 30-year-old men get some love!) The game has a lot of lore, fun character dynamics, and potential for worldbuilding. (IF you can overlook the mindf*kery that is the world map.)
The man, the myth, the fabulous legend.
Sylvando is probably at least 50% of what makes this game great. He’s a lot of people’s favorite character, and who can blame him? He might initially come off as a gay stereotype but spend some more time with him and you will rapidly fall in love with his energy, kindness, and humor. It’s like they took everything LGBTQ and put it into this one precious little character. Give him different pronouns, let him be a literal clown, have him be your party’s Emotional Support Parent. It’s all up for grabs when Sylv’s around. (Or Sylvia, if you prefer~)
Lastly, the shipping. The longer I stick around this fandom, the more brain worms I have accrued, to the point that I don’t think there’s any (reasonable) ship that I would not enjoy. There are so many possible pairings that have yet to be explored, and don’t even get me started on friendships!
Missing scenes, fix-its, and canon diverge are popular mainstays for this fandom and there is a lot of canon material you can twist, tweak, and tamper with.
What sort of things are you likely to request for it?: Canon divergence, time traveling nonsense, and post-canon aus. I'm also interested in events happening before canon, and during canon, and anything you can think of, really. I'm most in love with luminerik but am chest-deep in the minutae of this fandom and would happily devour fanfiction about anything, from an obscure NPC's perspective of act 3 to slice of life.
Content warnings: non-explicit past child abuse, implications of sexual assault, child death/main character death.