Aight, I finally finished the Slasher route!

I’ve been really busy, so I haven’t played much, but I finally got the chance to complete this route.

As usual, spoilers beware.

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So in Xenosaga ODM (Xenosaga official supplementary material) I found some interesting section in their content, there's apparently "Gender" section where it's basically elaborate the concept of gender within Xenosaga's world. Naturally I am interested & tried to translate it through translation tool!
PS: My translation & text transcribe might not be accurate, so please take it with grain of salt & I would prefer if you didn't use it as reference.




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Okay, it’s been a while since I finished the Killing Game route (and I’m currently going thru' the Casual route), so I decided to write down my impressions while they’re still fresh. As usual, spoiler warning.


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Finally finished V'ehxness route and surprisingly it's very short, but I am enjoyed it so far & here we goo

SPOILER ALERT

 

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Okay, so I finally finished the Cult of Takumi route! I’ve already done both endings 41 and 42.

Spoiler warning!!!!!

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HNY everybody!
Anyway I am going to talk A LOT of handora in this blog because god it consumed my life.
I will give my thought on handora prologue later

I'm just doing egosa on JPs twitter and found some interesting interpretation regarding N's sword & Malos:

So basically the one who slay Na'el curse—who, having despaired over humans killing each other, was made into God's proxy—was the Sword of the End (Logos) held by N, right? And this is support Rex's answer when he said that both Pneuma AND Logos would save the world: that Malos, once Amalthus’s Blade, cut himself free from the chains of the past, became a new self, and chose to protect the world together with someone else moving forward.

This is honestly such a good interpretation omg. I feel like maybe Logos (Malos) was being “tested” in Aionios—the collective unconscious of humanity, facing the fear of the future—yet Malos still couldn’t move on from his past. After the lessons he learned in Alrest, he finally understood what his answer was and how to improve himself. He chose to ally with Noah because Noah’s view aligned with his own: that Aionios deserved to be destroyed and humanity should face an uncertain future together.

But then things changed: Noah became N, choosing instead to maintain the status quo. Then Alpha (Ontos) appeared, wanting to erase everything. Rather than fixing anything, Alpha just wanted to “dump” everything and ignore the problems, which is a big no-no. Alpha used Na’el’s hatred of soldiers and war to make her the perfect vassal for his plan. Pneuma and Logos disagreed. Pneuma’s disagreement wasn’t surprising, but Logos’s was, and it’s shown when N gives his power to slay Na’el’s core. Symbolically, that act represents Logos defying Ontos’s plan.

Maybe it’s coincidence, but what if N or Noah unconsciously agreed? Perhaps Malos believed Noah’s revolutionary side was still there, just… not the right time, or not the right version of Noah. This is also shown during the N vs. Noah showdown after the eclipse: when Noah’s Ouroboros form destroys N’s sword, it’s basically symbolic of Malos/Logos giving up on N. Malos doesn’t want to stay trapped in the “endless now” he wants to move forward.

fuck, I am crying, it just makes me excited about the possibility of Malos being in XB4....Takahashi please do not fucking disappoint me

I find it funny how people blame Xenoblade 3 for introducing the "multiverse" or "alternate universe" concept when Xenoblade 2 was the one that started the whole "different world, connected universe, and alternate universe" thing.

I just saw Xenoblade X's Chapter 13 ending, and somehow, I’m not surprised it went in that direction. It’s bizarre how people say they hate Xenoblade’s direction because of XB3 when XB2 was the one that pressed the button first. Xenoblade 3 is just the result of what XB2 set up. If you dislike how XB3 started making connections, then you should hate what XB2 did too—like introducing Klaus and bringing back the fucking Zohar.

Yes, the Zohar is the reason for this mess. I don’t know why anyone is surprised by the multiverse stuff when the Zohar is right there. The Zohar/Conduit’s existence and if Xenoblade follows Xenosaga’s worldbuilding—the whole Lower Domain situation is basically a recipe for alternate universes. I can’t imagine how anyone thought everything was linear when the Zohar is involved.

Trust me, I don’t usually like multiverse plots, but in Xenoblade’s case (or the Xeno series as a whole), it makes sense because they’ve already established lore that supports it, like, the Zohar’s function, the Upper Domain, multiple Lower Domains, the Collective Unconscious, etc. So I’m not mad if they go that route, especially after XB2 revealed that Alrest is fucking Earth and XB1’s world is just a different dimension.

I feel like people expect Xenoblade to be like Final Fantasy or Fire Emblem, where each entry is completely unrelated. But Xeno has never been like that. Ever since Xenogears and Xenosaga, the series has always been a continuous franchise with a shared universe. It’s basically like Star Wars or Star Trek. Takahashi and Soraya have always wanted their own sci-fi epic games in the vein of Western Sci-Fi.

I’m so glad I played Xenosaga before this discourse started, so I expected XBXDE to connect to the main trilogy. The next Xenoblade will probably be set after XB3 with returning characters (like Malos), so I know what to expect.

At this point, people should accept that Xenoblade isn’t "Nintendo’s Final Fantasy", it’s "Nintendo’s Star Wars Anime RPG."

Thinking that more or less confirmed Monolith soft pay attention to their fanbase meme and feedback. and Lucky 7 being Fiora is reference of Fiora nickname to not spoiling her identity. makes me wonder if Monolith staff or Takahashi is aware of Metsublade or Malos being menhera boy magnet meme in the community....
would be funny if Malos or Logos latched onto another mentally ill men again for the fourth time LOL.

This frustrates me because Xenoblade fans can be fucking weird. It’s really annoying whenever I see people trying to assign "age-coding" to Pyra and Mythra—like they’re supposed to be "teen-coded" or "adult-coded." Literally, who the fuck cares? They’re computers.

I know people do this because of Protestant moral panic—oh nyo, the Big Tits Computer Ladies are "grooming" a 15-year-old boy into being their husband, or they need to justify jerking off to Blade ladies by claiming they’re "adults." It’s such an asinine and shallow interpretation that amounts to nothing. These sword women are artificial intelligence, their age DOES NOT FUCKING MATTER!!! You can’t apply a normal human age perspective to them.

What’s also reaaaalllllly curious is how they only do this to Pyra and Mythra but not Malos. Somehow, Malos is defaulted to "adult," even though he acts more like a goddamn teenager than Pythra ever did. (As I’ve written before, Pyra and Mythra display far more emotional maturity and rationality than people give them credit for.)

I know I shouldn’t look into it too much, but it’s really fucking weird how they insist the female personas are "teen-coded." It reeks of infantilization. The series itself shows that the male persona (Malos) is far more childish than the female personas (Pyra/Mythra), yet I’ve never seen anyone call Malos "teen-coded." What’s frustrating is that people only label Pyra and Mythra as teens because they don’t want to be seen as endorsing "grooming" (which is fucking dumb—they’re not, even if they were "adult-coded"). Meanwhile, nobody calls Jin a groomer or manipulator toward Malos, even though Jin is technically much older and call the ship is abusive because Malos indirectly caused Jin’s suffering.

That aside, I don’t care if you ship Pythra/Rex or Jin/Malos—I couldn’t care less about shipping discourse, and they’re just fictional. But I do care when this happens to my favorite characters. People slap unnecessary labels and shallow interpretations on them just because they’re terrified of their Protestant moral values, as if their ship might "indicate grooming." or they dislike a certain ship because their low IQ think fictional shipping contribute to Real Life Criminal statistics.

Newsflash: The Trinity Processor doesn’t have fucking ages. They aren’t "teen/adult-coded" or whatever bullshit you’ve concocted. They’re AI, and their personalities are shaped by the humans who resonate with them. You can’t just shove human age categories onto them—their very existence contradicts that. They’re not human, figuratively, they’re more like deities.

People who insist on age-coding the Trinity Processors deserve to be shoved into a locker. I swear, these types are always the most annoying.