My full piece for @xenobladetravelzine !!!! I haven’t posted much about it here yet lol but the xenoblade series, esp the first game, is so very special to me; I was thrilled to be able to draw my favorite location from the series for this zine!! 💖
you guys ever think about how Xenoblade 1 tells us "hey, you've all got your own Monados — you just have to find them" and doing so means we can realize our full potential and seize our destiny but then Xenoblade 3 chimes in and says "you know what, you've all got a little bit of Moebius inside you too" and it actually FUCKS how these two messages, from the finales of the first and last games no less, not only perfectly parallel each other but also beautifully cap off everything this trilogy stands for???
like yes human potential is boundless and we are capable of anything when we work together and put our minds to it but also we're just lil guys in a great big world that never stops changing so of course we're gonna get scared! and it's okay to be scared because it's only human to fear the unknown, to want to cling on to the things dear to us when the future is so vague and full of uncertainty. moving forward is very hard and it can be downright fucking terrifying but what choice do we have when forward is the only way?
but you know what? it'll be okay. nothing may ever be the same again but you'll be okay. i'll be okay. we'll all be okay.
"xc3 melia has long hair and blue toned wings" you simply don't understand that her short hair and her warm toned wings from xc1 are part of her cuteness.
So this is a picktish stone, which was made by the Picts in 6th-9th century Britain. There's no translation for the stones, and sadly it's a culture that's been mostly lost to history.
But when I stumbed on this picture honestly my first thought was "omg that looks like Zanza," and since the Giant culture in Xenoblade 1 was also lost and only has really old ruins it also just makes sense?
Anyways I was excited and now you can be too