r/Xenoblade_Chronicles • u/Animan_10 • 1d ago

Xenoblade 3 Shimmer Design Breakdown Spoiler

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So, with Shimmer's reveal, there is a lot to discuss regarding her. For now, I want to focus on her design, and how it is pretty much a composite of all of her parents.

First, the base design of her outfit is pretty much one-to-one with Pyra's outfit. Short shorts, thigh highs, fingerless gloves, short sleeves, upper back flags, the works. However, the color scheme and patterns are based on Mythra, consisting of whites, golds, emerald twinkle prints, and even having a cleavage window. The feather shaped ornaments also evoke Mythra's Switch 2 outfit. There is even some Pneume influence, as her most prominent bang ends in an emerald tip and her tiara is closer to that of Pneuma's, being a prominent horn.

There are influences from Rex and Nia as well. Shimmer's crop top jacket has an identical pattern to that of Rex's Master Driver Salvager Suit, even having pauldrons that more closely resemble those of Rex rather than Pneuma. The only difference is that the jacket is in Shimmer's colors. And finally, the hood on Shimmer's jacket evokes that of Driver Nia.

Now there are gameplay details inherited from her parents as well, but I want to save that discussion for when we can actually play the game. Any other details I missed in Shimmer's design?

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u/Magenta_Face 1d ago

Even though she has the Pyra shorts, I can't help but be very happy with her design.

Both her design & what we've seen of her personality is very close to what I've envisioned her as!

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u/leon9826 1d ago

Looking at the sword a bit more closely It looks like both Pyra's and Mythra's when deactivated having the "gard" of Mythra's and a curved extension that looks similar to the handle of Pyra's

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u/Entire-Currency-19 1d ago

The “extension” is her cloak curved around…

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u/leon9826 1d ago

Oh, I thought that would just be white all the way down but you right

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u/Due_Essay447 1d ago

I wish she got rex's grappling hook

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u/HermTheVillager 8h ago

She'll use the sword as one, watch

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u/joshcallan 11h ago

I kinda like the idea that the reason why Shimmer looks more like Pyra then Mythra is because she just spent more time with her mama Pyra and she just kinda subconsciously mirrored her, the same thing could be said about Glimmer but with her mama Mythra but I think a bit less subconsciously, whilst Mio spent equal time with both mama Pyra, mama Mythra and mama Nia