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I'm too lazy to make a proper introduction untl probably later, so:
The pink shade getting more saturated and stronger with the affinity, and the flame growing with it.
And his birthday event:
And now I want to yap about his birthday card... And make insane leaps with his Sea god cards being pink stellactrum and Abysswalker being purple... 😭
I like challenging myself with different things, I have total of 3 accounts for now and one of them is a "Rafayel standard cards only" (and then I couldn't resist pulling for Sea god) account where I only level Rafayel's cards and ignore everyone else. I'm pretty stuck with his Fire orbit and Open orbit still, so I'm thinking about doing all the other guys' orbits but without leveling their cards and trying only with good protocores and see how it goes. I did this challenge on my main with Caleb and got to 40 orbit before I had to level him up.
Is anyone interested to see the progress on that? 🫣👀I'll post only about interesting/difficult orbits.
Raymond dies during Chapter 7 after suffering weird symptoms for several months. We know that Rafayel's painting was the reason for the symptoms, but did he really kill Raymond?
Spoilers for the entire game's story as I refer to several parts of the lore relating to Rafayel and Raymond.
Why Rafayel has a bounty on his head and who is behind it? I'll explore all we know about his bounty from Chapter 7 and the possibilities behind it. Spoilers for the entirety of Under Deepspace, Land of Secret Flames and Long Lost Treasures World Underneath story as well as mentions about Long-Awaited Revelry.
I'm so, so glad I saved the guarantee from his birthday and he made up his brattiness then 😭😭 The guarantee came in 20 pulls and the second card came in with another 20 with early 50/50 win 🥰 The 3rd card took me total of 160 pulls then since he took me again on hard pity and lost 50/50 to Zayne and I filled it up with the crate. I was left with 302 diamonds 😂
I recorded all my pulls for him so I might edit those to a pull video. 🥹
So back during Rafayel's birthday I was really struggling with FOMO with his first years birthday card. It took me 110 pulls to get this years memory, and I put another 110 to his old birthday memory and I was at 8k diamonds crying how I was going to miss out on his first year birthday card. Yes, he took me 3 times to hard pity and lost both 50/50s.
Then I decided to make a priority list for myself since I only pull for Rafayel and realised I really should keep my pity for whatever is coming next for a rerun.
I have watched all of these on Youtube, but of course I want to own them all. But this list put everything to perspective for me - I can't miss Sea God. I realised that card was probably the lowest priority for me out of all his memories, so I stopped at 26 pity with guarantee for the rerun banner.
A lot of FOMO can be fought off with some planning - determine what cards are the most important to you and why. and how willing are you to miss out on those cards. For me, the old cards actually hold more combat/collection value rather than I would want them for the story. Of course this could be different for you, and that's okay! As long as you can make your own list and priorities, it's easier to shift your focus on the cards you find important. The FOMO will suck as always, but hopefully this would make it easier to skip certain banners you don't need at all.
Thank youuu Infold even if it was late... Now Rafayel, you know what to do.... 🥰🫣 I'm so glad I saved my quaranteed pity from birthday event when I was around 25 pulls away, this would have killed me 😭😭 I hope we get the couples pose as well, it's the only real cute pose for Rafayel 🥹
Have you ever wondered why Rafayel wanted to go to Hat Island in Chapter 7? I wanted to make a more open-ended analysis of this chapter, but eventually maybe found one possible reason why Rafayel wanted to go to Hat Island - and then ended up yapping about this way too much.
Contains spoilers for Chapter 7, Chapter 8-1 and Gem Affection, as the explanation might be right there. Also small mention about Sea God myth.
Someone pointed out in Reddit that Rafayel hid something from MC during chapter 2 when he was trying to look for his "collection log".
Spoilers for the Chapter 2, brief mention to chapter 8, Addictive Pain anecdote and some later mentions about Ebb and Flow and other memories.
I legimately have way too many thoughts about this game... I've been replaying the story with my IRL boyfriend and even though I am the first person to have a monologue how diverse character Raf is, I still needed the reminder that we still don't have any idea what Rafayel was doing in the nest, what was the thing he needed and why he had the black glass himself. I do have my theories on that, but I really wish my drafts list wouldn't grow much longer.... What's a one more unpublished post that will linger in there for several months 🫣
Happy birthday to my dearest fishie!! 💖This event has been so beautiful and sweet, I absolutely love it 🥹
Also I really enjoy all the love that the EN VA is finally getting and people realising how amazingly talented he is. He really immerses me into Rafayel's emotions and I will never stop singing my praises to him.
And I'm forgiving you sucking up 220 pulls from me and only giving your new memory once...