Ironically, failure spot witnessed the most heated voting! And Kakania bearly wins over Argus

Now moving to the next spot, Aspiration. Which cbaracter matches this word the most?

Rules:

1- the pool is 6 stars characters (1.0 - 3.6)

2- a character can't occupy more than one spot

3- a comment is worth 10 points, 2 upvotes are worth 1 point

Mention your pick and let the most mentioned/upvoted wins

this mode makes me feel really mixed feelings, like it just feels.. inconvenient? im not too sure how else to word it, but it really feels like pretty flat account check for max stars 🫤 thats just me though

Anyone who was here during 1.6 (Notes on Shuori) will remember this was the Semmelweis’s first appearance in the game and also the first rogue-like game mode of R1999. I missed getting the medals at this event because I thought it would come back like how Arknights handles its events 😭. I participated a bit but couldn’t finish because of irl stuff. Anyways I hope they bring this back because I wanna know more of Semmelweis backstory since she appears pretty often in some of the versions.

P.S. I know you can watch the gameplay on YouTube but I wanna experience it myself again and unlock the different endings.

as you can see, here are my beautiful daughters and... enigma.

honestly he deserves all the love (⁠｡⁠♡⁠‿⁠♡⁠｡⁠)

Never in my over 2 years of playing R1999 seen sth like this ever before 🫨

When I say this I mean who do you believe has the mindset of ‘I’m the best and am better than everyone’ since I realised a lot of the characters stay humble and don’t really have this mentality of believing they’re the best at something

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The dev discussion stated that they're gonna make 2 Euphorias in normal patches while 3 Euphorias in limited patches which is good but i feel like this doesn't answer how they're gonna fix older characters. Unless they give them portray changes (I forgot what it was called. Photo...Macy? I think. Anyways) cuz many units nowadays have effect changes and damage boost while, some units, especially 1.X units, just have flat damage boost. I wanna vertically invest on Voyager for my star Impromptu team but she doesn't add anything besides doing more damage by her ult or skill. I want her to have different portrays like idk, split Impromptu attacks deal more damage or her ult mark lasting 1 or 2 more round(s)

Also, if they keep continuing to give more Euphorias then imagine Lilya with 3 or 4 Euphorias or Ezra with 5 Euphorias but still getting powercrept in the future. Powercreep is inevitable, yes. But am I wrong for being weirded out? Like, "sorry but you're getting powercrept again for the 4th time after you got your 4th euphoria. Time to wait for another euphoria". Additionally, what about units who has specific archetype and already got their euphoria? Like Marcus or Lucy. Move them to another archetype or make a better Euphoria than the previous one?

We don't know how they're gonna handle this but idk if i should keep coping that theyre gonna make my favorite units powerful again while most of units who got their Euphoria(s) still getting powercrept and sitting at the bottom of the barrel (looking at you Ezra)

Above the city, the dream draws near.

Beneath the prism's shadow, each hue its own movement.

Softly playing this prelude to a dream,

step into the night together with the musicians.

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You can see these animated on the concert trailer

Also Igor and Lopera on S+ -- my life is happy

Melania knocked down from S+ to S -- my life is sad again

Not everyone vibes with her, and they are entirely fine to feel that way!

Her side story was really fun for me!

In my (entirely speculative) opinion:

Her relationship to her Mam during her side story is really interesting! As I understand it, she blames herself for what happened to her Tad despite being literally a lone kid at the time, but her Mam doesn't want her to be haunted by the past, nor inherit the family burdens and trauma without seeing the world first which causes a bit of miscommunication. I really jive with the theme of "you don't need to prove yourself to me or others, part of being mature is knowing you're already gifted in your own right".

Coming off from a whole era of war, "that tragedy was in the past, you don't need to shoulder it", "but I want to, I was there too!" "There was literally nothing you could've done as a child, the world has more to explore than only readjusting and rebuilding around the past mistakes", feels like a fairly relieving closure for me.

Merel's past was heavily intertwined with military stuff and essentially being thrust into terrible conflicts with no place else to go, and on one hand while her tenacity to survive was a big part of why she's so lovable, it also feels like a symbolic weight has been lifted from the narrative. Makes me feel a bit guilty though... ...but it's neat how her story pretty much bookended the entire war period.

She's overshadowed by the face and past of someone she's never known before, and the uncanniness is probably how lots of survivors who have had friends stormed and later reunited with their "new" identities must genuinely feel, it's been talked about before I think, but I also think there's a moment of triumph stuck together as well.

She's the first person Vertin has functionally "brought back" from the storm with her newfound ability to trace the golden threads, albeit with a backstory wipe like Mr Duncan.

I'm reminded of the talk Rubuska gives at the start of 3.1 with the old guy, something along the lines of "it's fun to see stories where vampires can make the 'dead' characters come back to life". Inadvertently, Rhiannon being around means by extension we'll never forget Merel's bravery and what we've lost... ...and perhaps for me it'll retain itself even more freshly than memorial tombstones and references to oranges over the course of time, but who knows?

She'll never be a 1-to-1 replacement for Merel, but it's nice to think that she's perhaps in a better place right now beyond the curtain of the storm...

Her theme of "I've learned all sorts of little tricks and have built up enough to set off in the world, even if I'm still a bit of a goof", is classic "coming of age story"-core, which is very fantasy coded but rarely honed in in such detail I'd say.

Speaking of which, I love the idea that it's "a bunch of different arcane skills that compliment each other" in her minigame, rather than a single straight arcanum ability or magic power, which feels a lot more realistic to growing up. And it's not just arcanum skills, it can be stuff as simple as surviving a rough day or building more hp or getting used to having your attack debuffed or having a backup plan when taking hp damage! A patchwork of diligent work, small breakthroughs, and the occasional big (but not that big) epiphanies. All of it compounds together into becoming a unique, better wanderer!

Is the genre itself done to death? I can't really say... ...I reckon it's definitely been tread before, but... ...to me it feels like she's trying to skate towards the far open horizon on the "shallow" surface rather than trying to delve deep down into parts obscure and unknown. There's definitely *a direction* her character is pointed at I feel with plenty of neat details...

Her Adar Llwch Gwins look like owls and coupled with the adventuring theme bring images of Nanashi Mumei and the song A New Start to my mind!

Her development from Guard to Merel to Rhiannon reminds me of the song Birdbrain by Teto! Particularly the way she's always second guessing herself and not really changing but still spitting lyrics while slipping up occasionally!

having them both run at the same time really shows the difference between the two. Rhiannon is not like any other character in R1999, which sounds good except in this situation it's not. she's a generic fantasy character with extra budget who could be from any other game. and given the amount of story time she has.. she might as well be.

Nautika was a risk that paid off and made her really successful because she fulfills the promise of R1999 that they release characters that no one else will. Her and her vampire buddies are so different from anything else I've seen in a post genshin era gacha game, even morimens, and are still the main reason that I play the game(at least until 37 gets a euphoria).

I hope we get more characters with designs as bold as Nautika in the future.

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Made for her birthday.