Context for the Perversion of Canon tag: Nowi's backstory in canon is that she was purchased as a slave by a group of men she describes as "more despicable than you can possibly imagine" who... forced her to do tricks in her dragon form for their amusment. Suuuure, a group of guys wealthy and immoral enough to buy a scantily-clad nubile young manakete (who are an endangered species and also, y'know, slow-aging, near-eternally beautiful and youthful, and are presumably more durable than any human girl) girl would TOTALLY do so just to make her do tricks and not to use her as a sex slave or anything. Definitely just doing something family-friendly like that instead of violating her petite body to their hearts' content or, ah, "helping fix her race's declining population" IYKWIM. Obviously.
Y'know I expect that kind of stuff in Octopath Traveller who didn't shy away from grim stuff, or from thin doujins, but not from an actual Nintendo game. Next you'll tell me that Pikmin's Olimar is really a slave driver or something like that.
Y'know I expect that kind of stuff in Octopath Traveller who didn't shy away from grim stuff, or from thin doujins, but not from an actual Nintendo game. Next you'll tell me that Pikmin's Olimar is really a slave driver or something like that.
Nah, not Olimar. Fiddlebert tho? That guy's diabolical.
oh yeah the subtext is pretty obvious; especially assuming they gave her the outfit she wears when you meet her
Yeah, she's wearing her default outfit the whole time. There's even a gag in her intro mission where they mistake Gregor for a rapist/pedo since he's chasing after her, so the devs 100% knew what they were doing The "sold as a slave... to do tricks in her dragon form" thing is an intentional bait-and-switch joke, but what you're supposed to think she was purchased for is still obvious
Y'know I expect that kind of stuff in Octopath Traveller who didn't shy away from grim stuff, or from thin doujins, but not from an actual Nintendo game. Next you'll tell me that Pikmin's Olimar is really a slave driver or something like that.
A lot of the Fire Emblem games have pretty blatant lines from bandits when fighting the player army about keeping the women alive, and there's Valter's entire character in Sacred Stones lol; like it is still a Nintendo game at the end of the day but they do a decent job making it clear about horrible stuff that happens lol; and not even getting into the stuff Kaga had in his games
A lot of the Fire Emblem games have pretty blatant lines from bandits when fighting the player army about keeping the women alive, and there's Valter's entire character in Sacred Stones lol; like it is still a Nintendo game at the end of the day but they do a decent job making it clear about horrible stuff that happens lol; and not even getting into the stuff Kaga had in his games
I really should return to Awakening, if I can find the cartridge again. Lost it ages ago, sadly. Whomst've Kaga and what game did he star in? Is he some Rance wannabe? And sadly, yeah, now that I remember, a lot of games have "fun" lines about "keeping the women alive and killing the rest" (which is why I love to play a female character in these games to murder everything). Final Fantasy XIV is surprisingly pretty upfront about it. And then there's Dragon Dogma. We don't ask why some monsters fight harder when there are women around. We just don't.
I really should return to Awakening, if I can find the cartridge again. Lost it ages ago, sadly. Whomst've Kaga and what game did he star in? Is he some Rance wannabe? And sadly, yeah, now that I remember, a lot of games have "fun" lines about "keeping the women alive and killing the rest" (which is why I love to play a female character in these games to murder everything). Final Fantasy XIV is surprisingly pretty upfront about it. And then there's Dragon Dogma. We don't ask why some monsters fight harder when there are women around. We just don't.
Shouzou Kaga is the creator of Fire Emblem who was lead dev up until FE5, leaving afterwards and working on spiritual successors such as the duology of TearRing Saga and its distant sequel Berwick Saga and the recent Vestaria Saga series TearRing Saga has highlights like you getting the only Dancer in the game by letting a teenage girl get drugged and kidnapped by a fat ugly human trafficker and forced to work as a scantily-clad dancing girl (with the implication she was raped offscreen). The human trafficker in question not only survives but there's an optional scene later on where depending on your choices one of two other playable teenage girls nearly has the same happen to her, only to get saved by her love interest (which instantly maxes out their Support level). In general, his games tend to have stuff like forced marriage (sometimes resulting in children with the obvious implication of marital rape), rapey bandits/villains, incest, mind control/corruption, etc as plot threads, which FE kept even after his departure
Nowi and her backstory are strange. My assumption when I played the game was that she was part of a circus/freak show and made her clothes herself, though I can understand the Kagaesque version where she was kept as a sex slave and kept wearing her stripper outfit afterwards for some reason. In Heroes, they seemingly changed her backstory to her having been captured by the Grimleal, presumably as a sacrifice.
and are presumably more durable than any human girl
If I recall correctly Manaketes in their human form are actually weaker than humans.
TearRing Saga has highlights like you getting the only Dancer in the game by letting a teenage girl get drugged and kidnapped by a fat ugly human trafficker and forced to work as a scantily-clad dancing girl (with the implication she was raped offscreen).
Y'know my friends mock me for playing a kid's game but I really prefer how you get dancers in FFXIV: just find a bloke that's a bit athletic and hand him a crystal as mentor. Sure, dancers in FFXIV aren't as fun as they (probably) are in TeaRing, but at least I won't feel like I signed a contract with O'Dimm.
Nowi and her backstory are strange. My assumption when I played the game was that she was part of a circus/freak show and made her clothes herself, though I can understand the Kagaesque version where she was kept as a sex slave and kept wearing her stripper outfit afterwards for some reason. In Heroes, they seemingly changed her backstory to her having been captured by the Grimleal, presumably as a sacrifice.
the Heroes thing isn't a retcon, the ending of her recruitment chapter in Awakening implies she was purchased by Grimleal from her previous owners and that's why she's running away from them (and presumably also why Gregor betrayed them and helped her escape, since I doubt he's the type to approve of human sacrifice)
If I recall correctly Manaketes in their human form are actually weaker than humans.
that's the case in Elibe, but I don't think there's any canon info on if Archanean manaketes are any stronger or weaker than humans
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