#RF Forte

[runefactorynonsense]

Spooktober - Day 22 - Bats

No spoopy for you.

#Spooktober #A very dumb idea that I liked too much. Forte doesn't care for your screeching you little rodents #Rune Factory 4 #RF4 #Rune Factory Forte #RF Forte #Margot's RF Art #I know I like to playfully rag on RF4 but Forte is a design and character I genuinely adore #Bats trying to be spoopy in the fog and dark? Forte has no time for that. She's got a smaller sword just for that. A bat sword #Part of me was tempted to put someone else off to the side going ''that's not very nice'' but this sketch turned out too good #so just imagine a snarky Illuminata or Margaret saying that just off frame #Also this was done v late in the day because this was the first Saturday in MONTHS that we had full staff and... #...I was so RELAXED when I got home. Oml. It took me forever to wake back up from nice napping #not stress/tired napping

[hysterical-ryu]

Part 9 of my RF4 child redesigning project: Forte!

For Forte we have twins Lucan and Jeanne!

The names are supposed to be something fitting for fighters, or give off the vibe of a warrior. Jeanne specifically is in reference to Joan of Arc/Jeanne D’Arc. Lucan isn’t specific I just liked the name and thought it fit the vibe.

They’re both fighters in different ways. Lucan would be the one who wants to become a knight, but for all the wrong reasons. I think he’d use fists to fight rather than a sword (but might have one just in case). He’s a little cocky and is very sensitive. He doesn’t quite get what a knight’s duty is, but thinks they’re super cool. Maybe one day he’ll mellow out.

Jeanne enjoys adventuring and fighting as well, but uses magic instead of weaponry. She also spends a lot of her time learning potion-brewing, so she is always there to help Lucan when he inevitably hurts himself. Jeanne is just as likely to get hurt, however, as she manages to find her way into places you’d never expect. She loves learning from everyone in town, and is determined to learn all sorts of skills like Lest.

They both run off together and get into trouble all the time. Uncle Kiel and Grunkle Bado accidentally tell them about cool places, and they immediately find a way to sneak off to find them.

Next up is Dolce (very excited for this one)!

#rf #rf4 #rune factory #rune factory 4 #rune factory 4 special #rf lest #rf forte #rune factory forte #rune factory lest #my art

[kingscribbles]

Happy Holidays @solterrano  ! I was your santa for the @runefactorysecretsanta this year! Looved drawing these for you, esp had a lot of of fun with the girls, I love the idea of Forte having a small selection of people she’s comfortable with relaxing a bit from work <3

#rfss2022 #rune factory #rune factory secret santa #rf barrett #rf forte #rf kyle #rf frey #rf margaret #fanart #digital art #2022

[durotoswrites]

First sentence game!

Forte and Vishnal shared a nervous look before the knight reached out and knocked on the closed door.

Forte and Vishnal shared a nervous look before the knight reached out and knocked on the closed door.

"You know they're not going to answer - Pico ran too far ahead, and there's no one else who is going to give us a friendly greeting," Vishnal pointed out with a laugh that came out far too shaky to sound playful.

"What's the holdup?" Frey asked, sheathing her weapon and jogging to meet them.

Before they could reply, she opened the door, charging ahead. The room was eerily quiet, and she instinctively held out her hands for her partners to hold as they all looked around the room of the manor frantically.

Forte relaxed a bit, giving Frey's hand a squeeze and letting go, wandering toward an object sitting by the wall. "That's a cute wooly doll..."

Vishnal joined her side, his eyes scanning the room. "It's not covered in dust like everything else here... but... why are there so many gathered in that chandelier ahead?"

Aged wood creaked under Frey's boots as she ran forward.

Her partners' eyes widened in horror.

"Frey, no!"

"P-Princess!"

Send me an ask with the first sentence of a fanfic and I’ll write the next five.

#writing games #ask box game #rf4 #rune factory 4 #rune factory #rune factory frey #rune factory forte #rune factory vishnal #rf frey #rf forte #rf vishnal #frey #forte #vishnal #vishnal x frey x forte #rf4 spoilers #beck-a-leck #thank you for playing! <3 #okay so i went over 5 sentences #but it helped! ^-^

[knightlysong]

she means business

#oodles of doodles #rune factory 4 #rf4 #forte #expect so much more rf fanart i forgot how much fun these characters are

[wisteriaparaphernalia]

my girl!!

#forte rf4 #forte rune factory #forte #rf4 #rune factory 4 #rune factory #rf #fanart #digital art #sketch #wisty art

[flovverworks]

imagine the amount of writing id get done if i didnt get obsessed with farming sims again

#stardust speaking ! #i SWEAR ill finish fatys starter.................cuz that one still makes me scream<3 hell in a starter #wait i should make a rf au to bother forte #anyway i think<3 obvious events would be 'kitty🥺 i cant have them. wait maybe i CAN im not in the city atm....but what if i go back & dont #have time again. oh well ill keep watching from afar' #THEN idk<3 but i want a l8r one with sitting at the beach at night setting cuz i still like those #talking about life before.....talking about feelings on life......the expectations held on u......the one in a crowd......... #I HAVENT SORTED MY THOUGHTS but i think about those kind of things in regards to akira a lot #i tyink. mhyk & akira to me. are about love. #but i tyink 90% of my posts are about that so LMFAO #'theres so many stars' typical stuff too..................esp w akira & stargazing...........T_T #i think stargazing as last event would be neat<33 even if other ones touches upon it too #sad i forgot about the other ones i thought of................ill rmbr them....one dat......maybe #this is the kinda stuff i think about |3[_]

[my-current-obsession]

Contemplating more Rune Factory “Special” changes/updates I’d like. In this case, things I’d like to see changed/added in a hypothetical, absolutely NEVER going to happen Rune Factory 4 Special+ (or Super Special, or Special 2, etc.)

Obviously since this game already has an updated rerelease, this isn’t happening. But there are still a few ways I think it could be brought even closer to perfection.

- So most of my wants for a theoretical “5 Special” came from 4 Special. Similarly there WERE actually several upgrades or quality-of-life changes made in 5 I’d love to see come back to 4 (or more realistically, maybe they’ll show up in 3 Special!).

- PLEASE let me just examine the stone/lumber box and add in all the materials I have instead of manually taking out stacks and putting them in. You can also do this for fodder bins and the fertilizer, which is nice, but the stone/lumber is the BIG one.

- Automatically picking up items as you run over them is great! I’d love to see that in other titles.

- Tabbing between storage options or categories when cooking/forging/crafting is super convenient. Hopefully that comes back, because after getting used to it in 5 I keenly feel its absence and get a smidge annoyed in 4 when I have to make something and then back out entirely to choose to make something else.

- Make Illuminata a romance option! It’s not clear if she was ever intended to be one and then scrapped, but personally I think she was. She is the only character outside the marriage candidates to have a swimsuit model & sprite, and she has several town events where she is a primary focus, similar to the events that are prerequisites for other bachelor/ettes. Plus she has lots of dialogue explicitly pointing out that she’s single and WANTS to find love. There’s really no reason NOT to make her a love interest other than her taking care of Amber, but if Amber is old enough to be romanced/married, then she’s old enough to live alone too. And Illuminata could continue to run her store after marrying the same way that every other love interest continues to do their job.

- I actually prefer the dragons in 5, but I know A LOT of people would love to see Venti as a love interest, and I’m not opposed to that. She’d be locked to a post-game romance, but she does have a human appearance and she seems to be into Lest/Frey (given her conversation where she blushes and starts to ask “If I were a human...”). Narratively she IS the person Lest/Frey cares about most so she’s got the role of a love interest already, kind of. It would be difficult to do since they’d need to add/change the story to allow her to change to her human form, and probably add a few town events for her, but it would be great if it happened. And perhaps including this would help the... abrupt ending to Act 3.

- Make it a little less ridiculous to romance Doug. I understand narratively why his friendship is INITIALLY gated at 3, but I think it’s ridiculous that it stays there until you’ve beaten Act 2 (which is basically the end of the story proper...). I think it would make sense to unlock the initial gate near the end of or after Act 1. After Doug comes around and basically decides to trust you and help Venti, or right after you beat Act 1 (saving Leon), I think you should be able to progress his friendship further. That said, it makes sense to keep his romance gated, so maybe until you’ve beaten Act 2, he stops progressing at LV 6. This way he won’t be SO far behind everyone else and if you want to romance him you’ll be able to do so almost immediately after he becomes available instead of taking several weeks just to get him from 3 to 7. As someone who dated multiple people in a run, Doug is at a HUGE disadvantage due to his late availability combo-ed with his affection almost surely being worse than everyone else. You either have to wait to date ANYONE to try and snag him first at LV 7 or basically give up in favor of dating others because it will only get harder to date him with every subsequent boyfriend and he will probably always lag behind in terms of affection, making any other guy easier to add to the harem by comparison. Literally all of this is mitigated by just raising his gated affection from 3 to 6 partway through the story. Depending on how long it takes you to complete Act 2 and whether you’re plying him with gifts, you might not even HIT the new limit, but even if you do, if you want to romance Doug it would be much quicker and easier now.

- Give players the ability to manipulate town events, at least a little. Technically players can already manipulate town events by determining when one happens and then just save scumming until they get what they want, but I want an in-game method that’s intended to help get the events you want. That said this IS an RNG system and I kind of like that. I wouldn’t want it to give you complete control. But I think something like adding “Orders” to the game at some point that allow you to, say, spawn “only town events involving [name]” would be GREAT. I won’t get into the particulars of how early the feature should be allowed (personally I think end of Act 1, but it could also be after Act 2 or an “Extra Order” reward for beating Act 3 and available from the beginning in any new game) or how much each Order would cost. I just think being able to force the game to only pick from town events involving a specific person (and including any mini-events) would be nice. Once you’ve seen all town events involving that person (excluding the marriage event, which has priority anyway) the order is automatically canceled. You could also cancel it yourself at any time. With this feature it would be MUCH easier to get the prerequisites for your intended spouse, but there is still some element of RNG considering everyone has at least a few events they’re involved in that AREN’T their needed events. This would also be great for trying to get mini events for characters you haven’t seen before.

- Some kind of weather forecast would be nice. With the exception of typhoons, people in town only comment on the weather that is currently happening. And you can still get taken by surprise if no one happens to mention the incoming typhoon or if you don’t talk to everyone. I believe weather is probably RNG as well, but if it was randomized and set like a week in advance, it would be nice if there was a way to check the weather for the next few days. Obviously this is most useful for making sure you KNOW a typhoon or snowstorm is coming and could wreck your farm. It also has other small uses - if you know a thunderstorm is happening you can remind yourself to go to the area that requires that to unlock. You can plan outdoor dates knowing the weather in advance. I don’t know about the airship or observatory but I KNOW there are variations of the lake date depending on the weather, so if you want to see them all you need the weather to comply. This way you’d know ahead of time and be able to plan for it.

- Lastly, either the game needs to be smarter about characters equipping everything they’re “given” or it needs to give players a way to directly, manually change other’s equipment from all the items they have. This is MOSTLY a problem with Kiel specifically since he has a reoccurring quest where he asks you to give him a weak shield and then he equips it EVEN IF IT’S SUBSTANTIALLY WORSE than whatever he had previously (and thus the better shield just DISAPPEARS), but in general I wish characters wouldn’t just automatically equip whatever you give them. If the system checked to be sure it was better than what they already had, that would be ideal. Of course, then you’d have to define what makes it better - which stats matter most, or is it the difficulty level of crafting/forging the item, etc. Alternatively, characters could have a stash of every equipment item you’ve ever given them and you can manually go in and decide what they actually equip (similar to the original .hack games, if anyone’s played those. In that game, characters did automatically equip “stronger” weapons/armor but you could manually change them to whatever you wanted that they had).

Overall I think 4 Special is an AMAZING game and I love it a lot. Most of my complaints are quality-of-life changes, compared to my more substantial issues with 5 (which is still like, but not as much. I like these games mostly for the social/romance aspect and that’s where 4 blows 5 out of the water even despite the RNG of town events making it way harder to actually marry who you want). In both games I long for more love interests, but that can’t be helped. Partly I just crave the extra content that would bring, though I do genuinely like and would want to marry some of those people if I could.

#rune factory #rf4 #rune factory 4 #for the record i will not be doing this kind of post for other rf games. simply because i haven't played any others #i mean i played some Tides of Destiny YEARS ago but i'm not familiar enough with the game now to suggest changes #maybe i'll revisit this topic when we get 3 Special (which will be my introduction to 3) #but anyway if i could make only ONE of these changes happen... i'd pick the town event manipulation #fun fact - i played lest my first run and was into margaret from the start. started dating her as soon as possible #in that file i have played over 2 full years & beaten rune prana. STILL haven't married her since i don't have all her needed events #(i decided i wasn't going to save scum for events. i wanted to get what i got and have relationships feel more organic as a result) #i did eventually cave and start dating other girls... and more girls... and am now literally dating ALL SIX of them #i've seen all but margaret and forte's marriage events. the only reason i DON'T have forte's is because i just recently started dating her #so i haven't gone on enough dates yet. but mark my words once that third date is done i'll get her marriage event immediately #leaving JUST margaret left. the girl i was MOST into as the LAST girl i marry. the RNG was not kind to me #my two frey runs have been much better by comparison but i am similarly struggling to get leon #so yeah as somewhat irritating as the other issues are and as nice as the QoL changes would be... #i would take more control over town events in a heartbeat. no hesitation. trying to get married in this game SUCKS

[candy-jinx-art]

Forte and Margaret from Rune Factory 4

#art #fan art #digital art #forte #margaret #rune factory #rune factory 4 #rf #rf4 #rf4 forte #rf4 margaret #upload

[runefactory-marriage-tournament]

RF Bachelorette Tournament - Side A Round 5 (final)

#rune factory 4 #rune factory #poll #bachelorette finals a #bachelorette round 5a

[courfeyracs-swordcane]

what is the difference between a brother and a sister in the ballad brothers universe?

Okay so this is tied to the lightly skewed gender roles I’m still figuring out but tldr families aren’t so much a thing, women are an indoor-outdoor cat, and the Ballad brothers themselves are by literally no definition actually brothers but I got attached to the alliteration

So family structure at least in the as-yet nameless city where this all takes place (there are different rules in other places) is pretty sibling-based— parents are around but no matter how many you have they work pretty much full time and days off aren’t likely to line up, so usually ppl have at least two kids so they can look after each other once they’re old enough.

The Ballad brothers themselves are a pretty classic example! (I mean usually ppl have somewhat more parenting than they do but it’s not too far from ordinary, there’s enough orphans that providing for them is built into city infrastructure) Sisters are tasked with Looking After the other siblings, keeping them in line, etc etc etc, and brothers get the more traditional eldest daughter syndrome shit— making sure there’s a fort to hold down and, since they’re usually younger (or at least Not The Eldest), looking after however much house the family has once the older kids start working. Which is how Kyrie and Alonzo worked for most of their childhoods! They’re both trans of gender but they always pretty solidly fell into Sister and Brother even before they swapped.

As a whole, though, gendered terms are a lot more about Duties and what role they fill rather than gender— I don’t think I’ve introduced the DeLuca family yet, (some of the Ballads’s childhood friends, also split down the middle by differing stances on the RF, one of them is essentially doing what Kyrie is trying to do irt rallying people to Take Those Guys Down And Out but it’s like actually working bc she knows what she’s doing) but they’re two sisters and a brother with the genders going the exact opposite direction, and there’s also Saint Beromia is she/her and very femme but 100% Miri’s little brother in terms of How She Functions.

TLDR. Possibly best described by an unrelated conversation w/ one of my partners in which I said something along the lines of “an uncle is a guy who drives you to the gas station and buys you a jerky stick”. That’s the foundation of familial gender roles in the Ballad brothers universe (almost entirely divorced from any actual genders at play)

#not sure how coherent this is! it’s 1am and I wrote half of this out while watching lord of the rings #ballad brothers

[anonymoushouseplantfan]

Does anyone know if it came out they were born via a surrogate what that would change in terms of LOS if anything? Apart from the obvious lies they would have all told which I'm sure she could swing with a whole a woman of a certain age/embarrassed I couldn't carry my own children poor me PR she could explain that away or like you said just blame the RF, I think she'd garner a lot of sympathy but I'm curious are their real life consequences to it coming out?

I think the kids get bumped off the line of succession, but that would come across as archaic so they’ll probably keep quiet about it.

But someone who is better at protocol should chime in. It’s not my forte.

The biggest consequence, imo, would be the loss of credibility, not just during their time with the brf but also afterwards. They’ve done several interviews, a documentary, a tell-all book…and they never said anything?

In that sense it could be devastating. She can spin it, but it’s still a lot of lying.

[coderedblood]

Rune Factory English Voice Actors/Actresses:

I’m a huge fan of Rune Factory. It seems sort of niche bc when I ask other gamers (I’m a casual gamer, don’t ask me to be on any teams 😂) about it they don’t really know what it is. One of the things I love about is is how they get these huge voice actors for the games, which seem so small (but I know it isn’t, it’s sold hundreds of thousands of copies)

WARNING: ONLY ENGLISH VOICES ARE COUNTED HERE. I’M DOING THIS FOR MYSELF AND WHAT I KNOW. I MAY DO A JAPANESE VERSION.

Raguna (Rune Factory and Rune Factory: Frontier) is Vash the Stampede, Ichigo from Bleach, Sabo from One Piece, and Nero from Devil May Cry

Mist (Rune Factory and Rune Factory: Frontier) is Haru from Persona 5

Bianca (Rune Factory and Rune Factory: Frontier) is Saya from Blood+ (I didn’t see that one coming)

Tabatha (Rune Factory and Rune Factory: Frontier) is Mima from Perfect Blue and Rem from Trigun

Iris (both of them, RFF) is Rukia from Bleach and Yuki from Haruhi Suzumiya

Anette (RFF) is Starfire (and Blackfire!) from Teen Titans and Princess Bubblegum from Adventure Time

Raven (RF3) is Amy Rose from Sonic Boom

Electra (Rune Factory: Tides of Destiny) is Annie from Attack on Titan (didn’t see this one coming either)

Bacchus (RFTOD) is Vampire Hunter D (and D’s left hand!) (loved this one)

Vishnal (Rune Factory 4) is Leonardo from the 2003 Ninja Turtles cartoon and Kappa Mikey

Clorica (RF4) is Shiki from The World Ends With You

Xiao Pai (RF4) is Jenny from My Life As A Teenage Robot

Doug (RF4) is Sasuke from Naruto

Margaret (RF4) is Hinata from Naruto, Kyrie from Devil May Cry and Orihime from Bleach

Forte (RF4) is Abbey Bominable from the first Monster High cartoon

Amber (RF4) is Morgana from Persona 5

Dolce (RF4) is Lust from Fullmetal Alchemist (this one actually makes sense), Maka Albarn from Soul Eater and the female protagonist of Persona 3

Frey (RF4) is Gaz from Invader ZIM

Ares (Rune Factory 5) is SwaySway from The Breadwinners

Scarlett (RF5) is Retsuko from Aggretsuko, Akko from Little Witch Academia and Ryuko from Kill La Kill

Lucy (RF5) is Loona from Helluva Boss and Emira Blight from The Owl House

Martin (RF5) is Louis from Beastars

Cecil (RF5) is Hunter from The Owl House and Remy from Big City Greens

Ryker (RF5) is Trebol from One Piece (also, also did not see this coming)

Livia (RF5) is Rebecca from One Piece

Misasagi (RF5) is Tatsuki from Bleach

Rudolph (RF5) is Mugman from The Cuphead Show!

Yuki (RF5) is Beauty from Bobobo-Bo Bo-bobo

Darroch (RF5) is Jelly Jiggler from Bobobo-Bo Bo-bobo (which brings back memories and makes actually a lot of sense)

Radea (RF5) is Reiju from One Piece (also makes sense)

Gideon (RF5) is Griffon from Devil May Cry and Scratchmen Apoo from One Piece

SHARED VOICE ACTORS/ACTRESSES

Lara (RF1 and Rune Factory: Frontier), Eunice (RFF) and Maerwen (from Rune Factory: Tides of Destiny) have the same voice actress (and are Kitana and Mileena from Mortal Kombats 9 and X)

Melody (RF and RFF) and Sonja (Rune Factory: Tides of Destiny) have the same voice actress

Carmen and Shara (both Rune Factory 3) have the same voice actress and is Triela from Gunslinger Girl

Rosetta (RF and RFF) and Beatrice (Rune Factory 5) have the same voice actress

Nancy (from RF4) and Hina (from RF5) have the same voice actress who’s also Kikimora from The Owl House

Ventuswill and Lin Fa (both RF4) and Selphy (RFF) have the same voice actress who’s also Faye Valentine from Cowboy Bebop

Micah (Rune Factory 3) and Bismarck (RFTOD) have the same voice actor who is also Ling Yao from Fullmetal Alchemist and Natsu Dragneel from Fairy Tail

Violet (RFTOD) and Priscilla (RF5) have the same voice actress

Lily and Sierra (both RFTOD) have the same voice actress

Pandora and Quinn (both RFTOD) have the same voice actress

James (RFTOD) and Leon (RF4) have the same voice actor who’s also Law from One Piece and Levi from Attack on Titan

Dylas and Bado (both RF4) have the same voice actor

Arthur and Jones (both RF4) have the same voice actor who is also Donatello from the 2003 Ninja Turtles cartoon

Father Gerard (RFF) and Heinz (RF5) have the same voice actor who’s also adult Gohan from Dragon Ball Z and Kiba from Naruto

Cinnamon (RFF) and Fuuka (RF5) have the same voice actress who is also Marinette from Miraculous Ladybug and Verosika Mayday from Helluva Boss

Simone and Julian (both RF5) have the same voice actress who’s also Ash from Pokémon and April from the 2003 Ninja Turtles cartoon

#long post #just for fun #rune factory #rune factory 2 #rune factory frontier #rune factory: tides of destiny #rune factory 3 #rune factory 4 #rune factory 5 #voice acting

[beck-a-leck]

What are your headcanon ages for the main character, bachelors, and bachelorettes from Rune Factory 4?

oh my gosh I started answering this like a week ago and then it fell through one of the swiss cheese holes in my brain. Sorry Nonny!

I don't really have any hard headcanons about the rf4 character ages, and really what I do have is just kind of a general age range for them. But if you're curious about how the characters read to me maturity-wise I'll tell you.

Frey/Lest - I think they're in their early 20s, somewhere between 19-23 at the beginning of the game. the amnesia helps them have a bit more of the "youthful innocence" that just comes as being that age. Like you can clearly tell they're grown and responsible enough to have been given the story-compelling mission in the first place, but that also have the energy and optimism of someone who still sees the world as completely open to possibilities without as much of the "i need to have my shit together" vibes an older 20-something might have

Amber and Kiel are the ones I headcanon as the youngest, and they both give me very strong late-teens/babey adult vibes. I don't see them any older than 19 at the beginning of the game. And depending on when in the RF world society would consider someone a Full Adult TM, it can change the lower end of that age range, so even to 16 or 17. They're not children, but they're still kids, if that makes sense. They both still have "parental" figures in their lives so they're not entirely independent as an older adult might be.

Forte, though I actually don't think is too much older than Kiel, she's maybe just a few years older than him. So about the same age as Frey/Lest, early 20s, no older than 25. I think given her family history and her general character she was definitely the girl who had to grow up too fast and has acted more mature than other kids her age needed to. So she can very easily be read as older, but I think there's enough clues in her dialogue and her character to show that she's younger than she wants people to perceive her as.

I get the same general age range from Vishnal and Clorica too, 19-25 though probably closer to college ages. Vishnal I think is the younger of the two butlers. Their roles as apprentices and the fact that they're still in training tells me they're probably still rather young adults. I imagine butler training of the caliber they're going through is a 4-6 year ordeal and I imagine they would have started in their late teens/early 20s, much like most people choosing a career path.

Xiao Pai and Doug are the last of the under 25s. It's hard to know Doug's precise age, given he's not human and dwarves are long-lived in the RF world. So while he might look and act like a hot-headed 19-22 year old, he might be 60-70 years old. They've never really spelled out the lifetimes of the non-human races. Xiao Pai I tend to read as on the younger end of her 20s, but given the way she acts and her general clumsiness (which are often associated with younger people) she could also be older than that. It's hard to say.

Margaret is another one of those ambiguously ages characters, being an elf, we don't actually know how old she is. But I definitely read her as an adult in her mid-late 20s. I think she's the eldest-coded bachelorette, so I could even see her as a 30-something. (I genuinely don't think any of the bachelorettes are supposed to be older than 30 because god knows the developers would have had them complaining about being an old maid and a spinster 🙄) She just reads as a character who has had much more worldly experience than the younger girls, and yeah, some of that can be attributed to the fact that she's had Decades more time and lots of freedom than the others, but she also feels more settled into life and adulthood than a younger character would.

Dolce I think is mid-20s. I can't really explain it, but she just gives me "I'm 25 and I've finally felt my brain chemistry solidify" vibes. I do think what she went through in her life, as well as dealing with an eternally youthful and chaotic spirit of Pico probably made her act more mature than she was, much like Forte, but I also do think she's just a little bit older than most of the other marriage candidates in town.

Dylas and Arthur I think are around the same age, mid-20s. Arthur I could push to late-20s, but there's something about his character that makes me go "oh no, he still has that independent streak of the young 20s" I do think his upbringing also forced maturity onto him at a younger age than would otherwise be expected, but he also took on responsibilities that people might not expect someone so young to do (he also shirked the responsibilities he didn't want to do, so again that independent/rebellious streak) Dylas I think acts younger than he really is, though he's really not all that old. I think he got to spend a several years living as an adult in his original time before becoming a guardian, though he didn't really see himself as 'grown' back then and that carried over to how he behaves in game (with additional traumas)

Which brings us to Leon as the last, I think. He's the one I could possibly see being the oldest of all the bachelors, late-20s to early-30s. In his life before becoming a guardian he has established a whole vocation and had been in it long enough to become a high-ranking priest. Even if he had started his vocational training as a young teen, I don't think he could have gotten as far without spending a good portion of his 20s working at it.

So the tl;dr list:

Lest/Frey: 19-23

Amber: 16-19

Clorica: 22-26

Dolce: 24-28

Forte: 22-25

Margaret: 25-30

Xaio Pai: 20-25

Arthur: 24-28

Doug: 19-24

Dylas: 24-28

Kiel: 16-19

Leon: 27-33

Vishnal: 20-24

#replies #anonymous #rune factory 4 #rf4

[durotoswrites]

Incorrect RF4 Quotes featuring my OT3

@beck-a-leck​ this is for you, but mostly me. 🤣 My love for them is growing too quickly, lmao.

#rune factory 4 #rune factory #incorrect quotes #rf frey #rf forte #rf vishnal #rf4 frey #fr4 vishnal #rf4 forte #these three share a handful of braincells and no one is going to be able to convince me otherwise #rf4

[knightlysong]

missed drawing this knight ❤️

#oodles of doodles #rune factory 4 #rf4 #forte #rf designs continue to be a struggle but a challenge i'll continue to accept