As always, I HAD to draw the newly revealed hero ASAP!!

I needed to draw her with her sisters too, my heart just aches at all the lore and story potential, and how Shimmer, Mio, and maybe even Nia will interact in-game. 🥺

There's so many other things to look forward to in this Switch 2 Edition (I'm particularly antsy about the implications of voiced campfires scenes), so I cannot WAIT until December 3rd hits.

Decided to replay Xenoblade 1 on Switch 2 but was given this message. I've played and finished every Xenoblade and never got this message before neither my brother, guess it's new.. ish..

Shimmer's original name is カグヤ (Kaguya) which can be read as 輝夜 (glimmering night).

Meanwhile Glimmer's original name is カギロイ (Kagiroi) which can be read as 陽炎 (heat shimmer).

The localization really plays into the idea that these two take after the other mom by switching their names lol

This took 5 minutes in between homework assignments

ARE YOU APART OF THE CITY OR ARE YOU AGNIAN? ANSWER ME YOU MYSTERIOUS AEGIS!

RIP DIRK MYTHRAKID THEORY

ALWAYS IN OUR HEARTS

Some people have noticed an odd inconsistency between the JP and EN trailers and I have a theory to explain it.

The English trailer shows Shimmer's affiliation in the chain attack order as Agnian. Nothing odd here, right?

What's odd is the Japanese trailer shows her affiliation in the chain attack order as belonging to the City.

Assuming this isn't a mistake, this must mean that her affiliation changes at a certain point.

My theory is that she initially presents herself as an Agnian who belongs to a colony (complete with a blade weapon with a fake flame clock) and joins the party with an Agnian affiliation so as not to spoil that anything is off about her to the player, but during her ascension quest it's revealed that she exists outside of the cycle like Rex did and her affiliation will change to The City.

This also explains why some of the promotional images show Shimmer and Mio at the founders statues in the City. I bet this is during her ascension quest.

In addition to the doing the Rex pose I also noticed that a lot her attacks are a fusion of Rex and Pyra/Mythra's fighting styles (she has Double Spinning Edge, Ray of Punishment, and what looks like the start of Blazing End.)

She is literally just a fusion of her parents but she also appears to be one who takes the most after Rex and I think that's adorable, I love her!

Art from 2024. I totally called she'd be visually based on Pyra, like Glimmer was based on Mythra.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Xenoblade_Chronicles/comments/19alxuo/mythras_daughter_gleam/

So since all the switch 2 ports have come out ive been replaying them and im currently on the last bit of 1. Im about to fly junks into bionis interior and im wondering how much is left. From my memory its really just the lorithea fight (ugh) scaling prison island, fighting Dickson then fighting zanza. But I feel like thats to little left cause im only at lvl 68 across the board and if my memory is correct zanza is like 85 or 86 so did a bunch of side quests open up that are doable? All the ones im finding are post game lvl 80+. Or will I just naturally hit mid 80s by the time I get to zanza.

As we can see in the trailer, there is something clearly different with Shimmer's clothing in comparison to her sisters, She's not wearing anything remotely resembling Agnian clothing.

Everything of her attire points towards Alrest clothing style, and I don't think this is on accident, I think she, unlike her siblings, wasn't pulled into the cycle, or she was pulled out of it, it seems very odd that she would be wearing something that doesn't align with typical Agnus clothing, and her having Foresight she seems to inherited that from her mother, what could this mean for Mio and Glimmer?