ZIN TO THE RESCUE I'VE MISSED YOU- and oliver's here too

not joshua being called fangboy?!

eugh you look weird, and what a coward you are for not fighting us head on

as expected the bad guys are controlling the earthquakes, fun

fancy seeing you here cassius, you're still acting the same old dad

agate seems to be a bit nicer to tita now

got tita back on the squad so we're running an all-girl party right now. schera you got dirt on oliver that you're not sharing with the rest of us...

this is fine, oliver be a hero my dude

wooo fighting against coronel cid was quite fun. was nice to hear the tournament music return too

oliver no, don't give smut to a child dude

yooo that's a neat looking boss there

ghost turns out to be some bozo-looking guy but he is from ouroboros...

ahh hans talking about how joshua would light up talking about estelle and living with her... and thinking he couldn't hold onto that kind of life forever....

aww it's kinda sweet that nial and dorothy know about the joshua situation and trying to cheer up estelle

i'm glad oliver came to us in a boat

it's you... the purple-haired child. what's gonna happen to this family huh

deadly panda...

ahh so kloe told matron theresa about joshua huh... "i'm all too familair with now it feels to lose someone important."

can't escape oliver no matter what

well now the ravens have portraits, anyway time to beat them up

decided to pair up with schera cause i prefer her moveset over agate's. wonder if i would have gotten quests at bose rather than ruan... branching paths?

agate: "it's ok to ask for help because you're a woman"
agate that isn't the right angle for this pep talk- ok right you're also calling men stubborn idiots ok

oh no not the dead-looking eyes... joshua mentioned karin in this scene so i'm wondering if that was his sister...

dang kurt this whole thing was just training huh

wow night vision goggles ok game this is new

sorry robert they indeed smashed the phone

ohh ok kurt is rank B, zin we know is A, and anelace is rank F as a bracer

ok fast forward from estelle being commited to bringing joshua home, we're doing bracer training and gotta rebuild our quartz collection cause we can't use our old ones from the previous game lol

budget vash is here...

get his ass schera

estelle: "you're saying we should abandon joshua"
cassius: "even five years ago, when i took him in, i knew we would someday reach this moment. he swore something to me, that first day he actually accepted he could be part of our home. the moment he became a burden or a threat to us... the moment the society contacted him or pursued him in any fashion... he would disappear from our lives. 'like a shadow dispelled by the sun,'
estelle: "you knew that joshua might leave us someday and never said anything to me or did anything about it..."
read the room cassius you fool

i was expecting some time to pass from the first game but no, we're starting right from the ending of FC. ouroboros huh...