Hey everyone!
This post is about the AO3 Bravely Default fandom tag. For years, the tag has been "Bravely Default (Video Game) & Related Fandoms".
When Bravely Default II released, several works were tagged with "Bravely Default II", as the work was only about the BDII characters/setting. However, if you click on the tag for "Bravely Default II", it takes you back to the "Related Fandoms " one.
I've put in a support ticket asking if Bravely Default II can be its own, separate tag, due to the different setting and characters with nothing shared except the very basics of the combat system, and the response I've gotten is that the series is connected enough that it'll remain the way it is.
Meanwhile, Octopath Traveler and Octopath Traveler II are different fandom tags that aren't connected, despite the setting in those two games being arguably more connected than Bravely Default II is to the other main BD games thanks to the shared gods. (Final Fantasy games are also disconnected, even though BD is literally a FF offshoot.)
To me, this just doesn't make sense, and it's not consistent treatment, even if Bravely is a much smaller fandom than Octopath.
All this to say that if you, like me, feel that the Bravely Default II tag needs to separated from the Bravely Default and Related Fandoms tag, please put in a support ticket politely requesting that this change take place! Maybe if enough people take noise, they'll finally listen to the fans.
Hey everyone!
I made a Bravely Default Tumblr community, if anyone would like to join please let me know and I'm happy to send out invites!
** it is for all three mainline games, as well as any of the mobile games (and PB) !
I noticed a couple of comments about the Bravely Series on Twitter last night that made me realize some folks didn't know some of what I consider common knowledge of the series (like why the ba'al theme wasn't on the Bravely Default soundtrack).
Contains spoilers for all three games. Also this got longer than I thought, thanks in advance if you make it to the end and find something you didn't know! I'm sure most of this seems obvious to long timefans.
Here is a compilation of what I know that may or may not be common knowledge to newcomers?
I had to split this into three parts because of Tumblr's character limit and I'm honestly too tired to fix the numbering so:
Great list! Adding on to this with one of my favourite rarely known Bravely facts. It's very story related and a bit spoilery but my fav rarely known fact(s) is that for BDII the "P" in the credits' "Thanks to the players" message is highlighted (it lingers on after the rest of the letters disappear) because the idea is you take the Twin Ages chapter (ch5) title and add the P to become "Twin Pages" aka chapter 7 (true ending).
"AGES" are the initials of the Heroes of Light both past and future. Adelle, Gloria, Elvis, Seth + Aileen, Godric, Emma, Sloan. In that order.
Adding the P of the player helping (the common Bravely series "meta-trick", as the devs call it) is how our heroes could succeed.
All this explained by the devs themselves in the BDII Famitsu interview! (They wondered if anyone figured that out themselves hah)
Yes, I am well aware of that fact! (I think I didn't add it because I considered it a gameplay/story fact that can be figured out by playing the game because I figured it out by playing the game.)
It also fits with the naming of Twin AGES and Twin CAGES (AGES being both an "age"/time and the initials of the Heroes of Light, and 'Cages' hopefully being a bit more noticeable, esp since Elvis outright mentions the cages that they're being locked up in, in his speech to Adelle).
I thought it was pretty self-explanatory when I played it the first time, but later on some people in Discord mentioned they'd actually had no idea about the P (and Cages, I think), so maybe I should have included it in the list, especially since I strongly believe that had the dev team decided to go with a subtitle for the game, like many fans feel they should have, Twin Pages would have been it. (The devs decided not to because it would have been expected and so many people might figure out the twist too early.)
I also actually google-translated that interview from the magazine version of Famitsu, which also included the survey results with graphics.
ADDING MORE because I was running late to work earlier:
Twin PAGES would have been a very suitable subtitle for Bravely Default II given how strongly the theme of a 'book' there is in the game. In the end, the devs do mention somewhere in an interview that they decided not to use a subtitle as it would have been 'expected', and I think they thought people would have figured out the meaning behind it, and thus ruining some of the ending of the game. I do recall when End Layer first came out how many theories there were about Send Player being the subtitle, and thus the twist, due to the emphasis on SP during FTS/Second, so it's a valid concern.
There is a recurring 'book' theme in Bravely Default II - contains spoilers:
I noticed a couple of comments about the Bravely Series on Twitter last night that made me realize some folks didn't know some of what I consider common knowledge of the series (like why the ba'al theme wasn't on the Bravely Default soundtrack).
Contains spoilers for all three games. Also this got longer than I thought, thanks in advance if you make it to the end and find something you didn't know! I'm sure most of this seems obvious to long timefans.
Here is a compilation of what I know that may or may not be common knowledge to newcomers?
I had to split this into three parts because of Tumblr's character limit and I'm honestly too tired to fix the numbering so:
Great list! Adding on to this with one of my favourite rarely known Bravely facts. It's very story related and a bit spoilery but my fav rarely known fact(s) is that for BDII the "P" in the credits' "Thanks to the players" message is highlighted (it lingers on after the rest of the letters disappear) because the idea is you take the Twin Ages chapter (ch5) title and add the P to become "Twin Pages" aka chapter 7 (true ending).
"AGES" are the initials of the Heroes of Light both past and future. Adelle, Gloria, Elvis, Seth + Aileen, Godric, Emma, Sloan. In that order.
Adding the P of the player helping (the common Bravely series "meta-trick", as the devs call it) is how our heroes could succeed.
All this explained by the devs themselves in the BDII Famitsu interview! (They wondered if anyone figured that out themselves hah)
Yes, I am well aware of that fact! (I think I didn't add it because I considered it a gameplay/story fact that can be figured out by playing the game because I figured it out by playing the game.)
It also fits with the naming of Twin AGES and Twin CAGES (AGES being both an "age"/time and the initials of the Heroes of Light, and 'Cages' hopefully being a bit more noticeable, esp since Elvis outright mentions the cages that they're being locked up in, in his speech to Adelle).
I thought it was pretty self-explanatory when I played it the first time, but later on some people in Discord mentioned they'd actually had no idea about the P (and Cages, I think), so maybe I should have included it in the list, especially since I strongly believe that had the dev team decided to go with a subtitle for the game, like many fans feel they should have, Twin Pages would have been it. (The devs decided not to because it would have been expected and so many people might figure out the twist too early.)
I also actually google-translated that interview from the magazine version of Famitsu, which also included the survey results with graphics.
I noticed a couple of comments about the Bravely Series on Twitter last night that made me realize some folks didn't know some of what I consider common knowledge of the series (like why the ba'al theme wasn't on the Bravely Default soundtrack).
Contains spoilers for all three games. Also this got longer than I thought, thanks in advance if you make it to the end and find something you didn't know! I'm sure most of this seems obvious to long timefans.
Here is a compilation of what I know that may or may not be common knowledge to newcomers?
I had to split this into three parts because of Tumblr's character limit and I'm honestly too tired to fix the numbering. A much more readable version can be found on Google Docs here.
