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When you fight Venam, Valerie, Amber, Adam, Melia (a Normal gym leader with Azumarill, Aegislash, Mimikyu, Togekiss, and Hydreigon, btw), Ryland, and Saki for the badge you fight their serious team, there's nothing left for interpretation there, Adam even goes as far as rigging the random field selection, and the only confirmed instance of a trial team is Crawly's, but his serious team isn't much stronger, and to even get there you have to beat Rorim B., which I can guess was serious (he has the same mons when he gets mind controlled by Odessa's Manaphy), but he's just not too much of a battler. Since Texan just wanted to kick MC and Aelita out of Sheridan Village, I doubt he went out of his way to give them a fair chance by using a trial team, if he could have stomped them he would have, especially since it wasn't even a battle for the badge, so, whatever league rules there are for it (apparently not many, see Melia's case) simply would not apply. Texan is simply a more complex character than a lazy asshole in search of money and fame.

In a save file, I've started as Alain and then switched to Aevia as soon as I've seen her secondary outfit on the Wiki, and all the story events that feature MC's additional souls have starred Aevia, but I did that before the School of Nightmares, it might not change if you've already committed there, idk.

I'm talking about the Ana quest, where V, the antagonist, turns out to be an interceptor that didn't make a contract with Variya, at least if we have to take V's words at face value. This means there are who knows how many interceptors that aren't connected to Variya, the only two we definitely know are are Crescent and MC, so, we can conclude that one big reason why Variya makes interceptors is to protect herself against other interceptors. And I'm not talking about saving Vivian (her sacrifice is necessary, after all), but saving the world where you did save her. While you do have free will, you will use it to decide to save Amber, to be nice to people, to do side quests, to be angry at Madam X saying you didn't do your job and eventually discover that you can save that world by doing absolutely nothing, to save the rift pokémon, etc. You might have free will on paper, but it only accounts to something if you have enough knowledge to not be lead like a puppet anyway, and that's what Variya counts on. Then you press the world reset button over and over again until you eventually go Renegade, maybe just to know what would happen at that point, and maybe Renegade won't work either, actually it has no chance of creating a good end by itself because fighting for oblivion is fighting for no future, but at that point you have the knowledge of both routes. In gaming terms, I think you have to play a route, then new game plus into the other route, and new game plus again to get to the true ending. The thing is, from Melia's backwards dialogue, we know that MC "new game plussed" countless time, plus MC has also the power to exchange information with countless other versions of themselves deep inside the Zeight, so it might already be set up for you without you having to manually go trough two new game plusses, so, the ignorant MC that Variya made into an interceptor wouldn't be Paragon MC, but a past version of it.

We know from V that a contract with Variya isn't the only way of becoming an interceptor, so, we can assume that Variya simply needs interceptors on her side of the board, that's why she gave Crescent free will just to punish her for not using it the way she wanted, And notice that MC's soul got shoved in its new body before the soul conglomerate became an interceptor, it agreed before getting free will, then MC's memory of what happened got cleared, making an interceptor that can't tell left from right and will do Variya's game without knowing it, which is the Paragon run until you awaken that dude, and you are in the Paragon run by default: you have to actively oppose your gamer's instinct AND be a psychopath by not doing side quests, not saving Amber, not get Espurr and Growlithe, not replaying the Vivian didn't sacrifice timeline to save that world, etc. to even have the option of doing a Renegade run. Nobody would do that before playing Paragon first.

I think that that's a given, since there has been a Team Xen way before the colonization of Aevium. I think we won't get far until we get the connection between present Xen and past Xen, the problem is that we don't have any idea of past Xen's motives, all we know is that it was lead by a dude and that it's responsible for the disaster that caused everyone to migrate to Aevium in the first place. This is wild, very, extremely wild speculation, but Madam X's body suit really looks like MC's interceptor form, we know from Madam X's very mouth that her mother sacrificed herself to save her, Madam X is implied to be and interceptor by the chess pieces, and we know that MC can appear both as male and female depending on which soul is perceived by an observer, it is possible that future MC could master that trait and choose which soul to get the appearance from instead of being randomly(?) picked by each individual observer, so, it might be possible that both past Xen and present Xen are lead by renegade MC. Of course, that doesn't even begin to explain the mass-produced Madam X body suits. But Nim later said that overlapping has no such side effect and that that Melanie is just a figment of Melia's imagination. Imagine if overlapping did have that side effect, then MC would have not just another MC, but two Axel, two Aevia (etc.) in its subconscious since they got overlapped as well, and we would have likely seen that during the battle with Crescent in the Zeight.

Before the day out to befriend Crescent, I've got a duplicate of the .Karma quest line telling me to re-enter the Zeight that's stuck at stage 6/6, I've tried that at several points and nothing happened. I have no idea if this is a bug or if I'm missing something.

Thanks for making me notice that Meowstic does in fact have Prankster. What I've done is deleveling it all the way to 12 so that it could learn Light Screen again, I won the double battle with the usual strategy, and for Manaphy I've let Cinderace die, sent Zebstrika to take care of the first health bar, then Mewstick to set up the Light Screen, and Wood Hammer sweep Trevenant and Abomasnow. It went down at the second try.

I'm playing at normal difficulty, with this as my main team: - Cinderace - Mawile - Meowstic - Aevian Leavanny - Zebstrika - Pangoro And my main benchers: - Talonflame - Runerigus - Trevenant I'm at the point at the end of route 6 where Odessa swaps you back and you have fight first a double battle and then Manaphy. The way I usually deal with boss fights, but of course that doesn't work here because Take Heart is busted, and it doesn't help that in the battle before Cinderace, with its grand total of 178 speed, still gets outsped by Scolipede, so I can't just mindlessly Pyro Ball the double battle: if I want to save Zebstrika for Manaphy, I need to lead Cinderace and Mawile, Pyro ball the Scisor, leet Mawile die, send Meowstic to Fake Out the Scolipede so that I can Pyro Ball, and sweep the Oricorio and Ludicolo with a 2vs1 Pyro Ball and Psychic. I tried with speccing the rest of my team to beat Manaphy: Zebstrika, Trevenant, and an Abomasnow I leveled just for this fight, but it's not good enough, I got it down to the last health bar, but no more.