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Something that's been on my mind....

Thinking about how each Xenoblade entry focuses on one of the Trinities, where the narrative and story revolve around how the Trinity behaves, it feels so much like a reflection of human "fantasies" about "female" and "male" fantasy. It's hard to explain, but take XB2 for example, where the main focus is Pneuma. Pneuma's personalities (Pyra & Mythra) behave a lot like what the "ideal" woman looks like from a male point of view. People often think Pyra and Mythra’s demeanor is for Rex, but I digress — I think there’s some meta-commentary in the story. Their portrayal wasn’t meant to titillate Rex, but rather the player (at least that’s what I think). Pyra and Mythra's personalities follow popular female character archetypes or tropes that are well-liked by male audiences in Japanese media. Pyra being the Yamato Nadeshiko (Ideal Wife), while Mythra is the tsundere, adding moe and cuteness, one of the most popular archetypes in many danseimuke media.

It just makes me think that the Trinity Processors were really designed to appeal to, and incorporate, many tropes that players like. In XB1, Ontos feels like a character designed for both male and female players, like Ontos is a combination of both. Though personally, I feel Alvis was more catered to female audiences, hahaha.

As for Logos, we don’t know yet because we haven’t had a Logos-focused game (and no, XB3 doesn’t count, Logos doesn’t play an active role there). But we can guess that Malos seems designed with male audiences in mind, maybe because his resonator was a man (Amalthus). So in a way, Malos or Logos  tailored his personality to appeal to male sensibilities.

Damn, I’m rambling, but I wonder if the Trinity behaves that way based on which human they resonate with? Pneuma resonates with men, and Ontos resonates with both women and men, so their personality and demeanor are tailored to be an idealized version of the gender their ''resonator" represents. Since Logos also resonated with a man, maybe he's also tailored to appeal to males fantasy?

Hmmm... I wonder which gender the XB4 protagonist will be, and who they'll resonate with — Logos, perhaps? Just makes me curious.

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.

NGL, the reason why I am in my Xeno fixation is because Malos.
I am so crazy about him and he really my most favorite character , I get sad when he's dead but that's to be expected he's the main villain.
so I hoping trinity processor will get expanded in the next game & I was so hyped when XB3 got announced expecting we will get Logosblade but then it didnt happen, so I just...bummed.
like I dont expect Malos will be appeared but just maybe Logos will be relevant or we get new Logos instantation.
but then FR happen & I kinda have slight hope but don't wanna get cockblocked again.
then the artbook releases where Takahashi hinted that Malos could be relevant in the next game. Like that's the best part for me!
I almost got high dopamine from that revelation alone & since then I become full Xeno brainrot.
Malos really do make me care so much about this series.
maybe because I just got ''trauma'' (lol) but maybe more got mindbroken seeing one of my most favorite character, Loki (GBF) got such shitty treatment that I tend to have lower expectation lol. especially when Malos is dead.
but im glad Malos stuck in BETTER series with creator who actually gives a fuck about him. thanks god.
also because of this revelation it makes me excited to do meta! it just like old days where's I overanalyzing everything

Okay, this seems random, but I need to get this out of my head.

I just had a random thought cross my mind: "Hey, don’t you think Malos and Homura would get along well?"
You guys probably think that’s bizarre as hell, and I don’t blame you, lol! But while it sounds bizarre, I don’t think it’s that far-fetched.

Hmm, let’s see..... While Malos and Homura have different motives in their respective stories, they both share a deep hatred for the world.
Yeah, sorry, but I cannot see someone like Homura actually loving the world itself, she merely 'tolerates' it. The only reason she does what she does in Rebellion is because of Madoka’s love for the world. The TV series already made it clear that she knows the world is a wretched place and hates it because it demands Madoka to suffer and sacrifice herself. She despises it because, essentially, the world took Madoka away from her. Rebellion makes it crystal clear that she hates the world—she only "fixes" it so Madoka can live a normal life.

This is very similar to Malos. While his misanthropy and motives are influenced by Amalthus’ deep hatred for the world, in some ways, Malos also hates the world on his own terms, especially after learning what happened to Jin. He realizes that if the world weren’t so cruel, Amalthus wouldn’t have ended up the way he did, Amalthus wouldn’t have awakened him, the Endbringer, and Jin could have lived a happy life with Lora.

It’s interesting how both of them hate the world because it made someone they deeply cared about suffer.
Honestly, Malos and Homura should meet tbh. I feel like Malos could offer some advice to Homura, and Homura could offer some form of consolation to Malos. If these two ever met, I genuinely think they’d get along well, despite their different "purposes," they share a mutual disdain for the world.
And what a coincidence that they’re both so gay (heh).

If the next Xenoblade game gives us a female protagonist or if Malos ever got a "human" Driver, I’d love for his partner to be someone like Homura. Guess Malos is just naturally compatible with mentally broken people, regardless of gender. lol. Truly Menhera Whisperer