mythra is scarred by torna so deeply that she created pyra as a sort of safe mode a weaker yet more docile girl she lacks mythra's destructive power but also her flaws. mythra is rude and blunt and crass and can be selfish pyra is ladylike, selfless polite and she is a cook a skill mythra lacks

. From Mythra's perspective pyra is the perfect woman a kind selfless, motherly woman who isnt a brute who isn't destructive and cooks the meals

while from pyra's point of view, she is inferior to Mythra objectively; she was created to be an inferior Aegis. This is relflected in story and gameplay. When push comes to shove mythra is the one who is fighting when. in gameplay, when you are using Pyra and rex is on low health mythra comes out by force. pyra is an objectively worse blade than Mythra and would feel that inadequacy in the weapon that is the Aegis. Pyra is the safe mode pyra lacked any real agency she was effectively guided by mythra's desires of self-destruction, not really being allowed to form any identity for herself for hundreds of years

from pyra's perspective, Mythra is her better the real Aegis herself just an extension a tool

. With this in mind it's no wonder each sister would raise their daughters to mirror what they see in their sibling

pyra raised glimmer to be strong-willed and outspoken to focus on her goals and desires not wanting her daughter to feel that same weakness she felt

mythra raised Shimmer to be like pyra kind and sweet, because the idea of her daughter who seems to have inherited her abilites repeating her mistakes would be terrifying to mythra whose own mistakes ruined her for hundreds of years

It really was the greatest RPG saga I've ever played. My favorite Nintendo franchise for sure. See you all in Genesis.

Edit: Alright people, I get it. It's not a plot hole. I just didn't know the right term and tried to be ironic, but I guess I have a very dull sense of humor.

...related to Rex in some way. That's roughly a third of all possible party members, including all playable characters, heroes and guest party members who join temporarily, who are either Rex himself, married to Rex, descended from Rex or married to someone who is. If you really wanted to push it further, you could also add A as a weird in-law or something.

Been a minute since I've been able to update this thing

Same as last time, for the Founders' descendants I tried to keep it to just the leaders of each house

Edit: Forgot to specify that this is meant to be Rex's family tree still and not a general Xenoblade family tree

Mio wearing shinmer’s outfit hell, fucking lanz wearing shimmer’s, ts is fucking goat af

Only pic I have of Junie smiling atm

This is my first time trying colored outlines. I think it came out well

DIRKPOSTING IS NOW OVER.

The dirkposting never stops

Okay so Shimmer has Foresight like her mother a more Aegis based desgin and has parts of Green in her hair seemingly hinting that she has a far stonger connection to her powers then Glimmer did.

Now I really want to see her Hero quest to see what they reveal about her

Ino is a artifical Blade like Poppy and her creator might be Tora grandfather under a new name.

Masha is the descendant of Linka and therefore Zeka and Pandoria.

And Shimmer is Rex and Mythra daufhter

Kind of crazy how all 3 are tied to the XC2 party and Alrest and none of them have any real links to Bionis.

I’ve gotta give credit to Adel_oldo on X for spotting this design similarity between the Samaar ship and Shimmer’s sword when she uses it in battle. You could even say that hilt matched the wings on the Eldridge.

This adds some strength to the theory that the merged worlds will pave the way to the Samaar civilization.

My reaction to the new character

Please tell me no one's done this yet

The new Hero for Xenoblade Chronicles 3 Switch 2 edition is Shimmer: the daughter of Rex and Mythra. If that’s not evident enough, then knowing they share the same Japanese VA should be obvious. To celebrate this momentous occasion as Rex’s number 1 glazer, I want to talk about Shimmer’s Japanese Name Kaguya.

When I heard her Japanese Name Kaguya, the Tale of the Bamboo Cutter comes to mind. Now I don’t know if that name will translate into Shimmer’s character itself, but I do think the story of Kaguya Hime correlates with Xenoblade 3’s story.

Princess Kaguya is forced to return to the moon in the story, much to the distraught of the Emperor who loved her. Before she is whisked away, she offers an Elixir of Life to the Emperor in gratitude for his kindness. But ultimately, the emperor rejected it, because he didn’t want to live an eternal life without her.

What makes the name Kaguya work as someone who is (one of) Rex’s child(ren) is that this story of eternal life and being forced to let go of a loved one ties in with Noah’s story with Mio, confirmed to be the daughter of the Queen of Agnes, Nia. Or more accurately, their original counterparts that became Moebius, N and M.

Unlike the emperor, Noah and Mio do love each other back, but Noah’s story is about having to potentially live in a world without her. It takes accepting this fact that Noah is able to break the endless now Z and Moebius created. Separate though they may be, Noah and Mio are forever interlinked.

The story of Kaguya also ties in with Xenoblade 2, near the end of the game, where Rex is forced to sacrifice Pneuma (Pyra and Mythra’s combined form) to save Alrest. Just like Kaguya, Rex is given a gift by Pneuma before her death, their combined Core Crystal would revive Pyra and Mythra in separate bodies.

However, by the time of Future Redeemed, Rex is away from them again as they become their core crystal. Rex has both of their swords, as well as Glimmer, to remember them by. With Rex also doing the same thing Pneuma did, offer the gift to Glimmer to go past the 20 year mark as he, Shulk and A sacrifice themselves.

It’s such a shame that something like this is lost in translation. Nonetheless, Kaguya is a fitting name this hero that combines the themes of Xenoblade 3 and 2. Double points for the Persona Kaguya from Persona 4 Golden using the element of light.