u/MasashiHideaki

This post is merely me rambling, and going crazy. TLDR at the bottom of the post.

P.s Image unrelated.

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Don't get me wrong, i am not saying this as if it's a bad thing. It's merely a common observation that i, including many others have.

But what makes this unusually weird is that, unlike the other MC's where we get to know their backstories and full context quicker, falcom are trying really hard to hide Van's story.

So my question is, why are they hiding it?

Is it because Van's story has a big plot/story significance that they wanna reveal in Horizon 2, that may have more consequences or ramifications in the arc after calvard? I am just bewildered by them doing this.

We got to know Estelle and Lloyd quite literally in their first game. Who their parents are. Are they dead? Are they alive? Any relatives? And so forth. We also got to know Kevin in the first game of HIS OWN game. Infact we know more about Kevin than we know of Van Arkride. Mind you, Kevin is part of the segregation of the church. Yet we know more about how he lived, what kind of parents he had, we even got a better look on his "childhood" days than we did for Van.

For Rean we got to know his full background or at least CLOSE to full after the end of cold steel 2. Mind you, with rean, we got to find out his family ties and so forth. We even got hints to that form of his, which gets fully explained down the line. But that form was the only needed explanation left.

For Van? We don't know his parents. We don't even know if he has actual zemurian parents. We don't know who the hell mare is. We don't even know why van was born with this power of his. We still have never gotten a full explanation about WHY THE HELL he was away from high school. The thing we get to know is that Van was afraid of his power yada yada, and bergard decided to train Van a little bit. However i do not remember if this was before high school or during the time he left high school without announcing that to elaine and kincaid. To make matters worse, he has a sharp nose that even yun ka fai is using for his benefit.

Even if it has been explained by many people. It's still odd that a master of 8 leaves wanted an opinion of someone with a "sharp nose". Because clearly this tells us that we still do not know whats up with Van's nose. He downplays his own nose, but yun ka fai is contradicting Van.

We know Van is connected to the higher element/dimension because of his powers, but there are so many mysteries to this. The only vague comparison or example we got is that Van reminds them of McBurn or they share some similarities, but are fundementally different.

The biggest offender or biggest added mystery is also the fact that grandmaster just decided to officially introduce herself for the FIRST TIME TO THE MAIN CHARACTER.

Grandmaster didn't show herself to Estelle. She didn't show herself up to Kevin. She didn't even show up to Rean, she didn't show up to Rufus, BUT NOW OF ALL TIMES, she shows up to VAN? WHY VAN? It bothers me so much. What exactly makes him special and why would she only now show up?

So basically. I hope i am not crazy when i say this and i hope you guys agree, but is Van possibly the only main character in trails series where Falcom are trying so hard to keep Van's background a secret? This isn't just dripfed. There are barely any droplets from the rain.

So one of my copium is that the reason why they are hiding so much from the player about Van is because it's gonna have the biggest reveal related to "Beyond The Horizon" as well as having Van as a connecting tissue between calvard and the next arc.

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TLDR below:

So to condense my question: Is it crazy to think that falcom is intentionally hiding more about Van's story than the other MC's?

There are so many scenes in FC, like comedic moments that are executed well in this remake. Some of the scenes plays with the camera to show a different view of a characters expression and feelings, or even scenes where characters move a lot in a scene to punch up a joke.

Like how in the original game in grancel when Mueller forcefully grabs olivier, but the thing is the game is isometric, so you never really get a proper look on a characters reaction when it goes down. There is also the fact that the character sprites do not really have a mouth in the original games.

Yet in the remake when Olivier cries because of losing the opportunity to go on a banquet, we see a more up close reaction of him getting taken away back to the trails in the sky.

There is another moment in grancel near the tournament arena when olivier bugs estelle. In the original game olivier is standing still i think? While in the remake he moves to each side of estelle, while estelle looks very annoyed at the idea that olivier exists as a person in zemuria.

That's why i am so excited to see more trails games getting remake treatment. Because it will more than likely elevate scenes that existed in the original games, to higher highs.

Image unrelated, just wanted an excuse to post this about this wandering bard.