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Just some quick speculation based off of a cool observation fans have discovered in throughout the demo (with some minor assistance from the datamine), and some good old-fashioned fan theorizing. Basically, fans have theorized that all three routes in Three Hopes are somewhat canonical, as they all seem to be happening around the same time. I won't go into specifics, but there is some evidence of this based on what's happening in the game and within certain demo chapters. A fan on Reddit was asking about a scene with Edelgard as well. In the latest trailer, it's possible to see a mysterious magic-imbued person behind Edelgard when Dimitri attacks her. I have a wild theory that ties this together with several of the scenes shown in the three major trailers. Of course, this doesn't account for everything and I'm sure the game is hiding a LOT more, but it's fun speculation for now. (I'm also probably wrong, but hopefully I can look back on this and laugh.) The TL;DR - Edelgard will be controlled by someone from TWSITD near the battle of Garrag Mach, and this will lead to all three lords teaming up in pairs while laying the groundwork for all three to work together at the end of the game. There's a moment in the first trailer at 1:29 where Edelgard has a hand on her head and looks like she might be in pain. Maybe that moment leads to her being controlled by TWSITD, which leads to her fighting Dimitri in the scenario above? The main problem I have with this theory is that the background/lighting seems to be off. Maybe that scene happens beforehand, and then it leads into Dimitri fighting Edelgard here. Maybe Edelgard gets her headache slightly before the battle at Garrag Mach. During the battle itself, Claude and Dimitri team up for a bit, providing the back-to-back scene before Dimitri runs off and Claude holds the army back. (Announcement Trailer 1:11 and Awakened Rivals Trailer 1:36). At the gates of Garrag Mach, Dimitri sees Edelgard. He sees someone controlling or talking to her, and he approaches, knocking Dark Magic aside. (Mysterious Mercenary trailer 2:20-2:22.) Dimitri rushes the mysterious controller and goes to attack, but he is beaten back by Edelgard. (Awakened Rivals trailer 1:37-1:39.) The level begins in earnest, and players must reach Edelgard (if on Scarlet Gleam) or Dimitri (if on Azure Moon), or hold back the Imperial army while the battle rages on (if on Verdant Wildfire). From there, Edelgard is taken out of her stupor and attacks the person who controlled her, with Dimitri weirdly being worried about her. (Mysterious Mercenary trailer 2:26.) Both are beaten back, although I think the details of this particular scene are determined by which route is taken. After the fights, Claude talks to Edelgard about what happened or her view of things, and all three lords go their separate ways, gaining a great deal of information yet left with even more questions, and not able to come to a long-term agreement or truce. (Announcement trailer 1:10.) They all meet up on the battlefield later during the game, only to be stopped by Claude instead of incurring another Gronder Field battle. (Announcement Trailer 1:12-1:13.) From here, the three lords team up, and the game travels to its conclusion. But of course, that doesn't answer everything. We see Rhea in her Seiros garb, Flayn and Seteth still have roles to play, and Shamir's scene needs to take place. Besides, I'm probably wrong anyways. EDIT: Bonus points if this scene is caused by [MASSIVE SPOILERS FOR THREE HOUSES BLUE LIONS' ROUTE AKA AZURE MOON]

It means that I'm such a Sanderson fan that when I dream about books, even the logical stuff like a potential delay and then a potential release date are apparently taken into account. Anyways, I'm betting that if Stormlight 5 is delayed to 2024, the date is going to be May 14, 2024. Because why not?

Turn them into some sort of anti-weapon, or something. Not sure, it was just a thought from a month ago. Eh, it was a month ago, but both I think. Unmake the Dawnshards and then use them to make an Anti-Adonalsium. Or use the Dawnshards, create an Adonalsium-like being, and then Unmake it. Take either or both. It was just a thought.

Nice! I've been enjoying the stuffing out of it as well. I have an Azure Gleam M!Shez/F!Byleth playthrough which is my primary one, and a F!Shez/M!Byleth Verdant Wildfire playthrough as a secondary one. Weird builds I've tried: Priest Dimitri - Thunder is great, and I think this will help him become a Holy Knight down the line. (Cavalier Dimitri is fun also.) Priest Ingrid - Her Magic was higher than her Strength, so I put her in the Mage/Priest line...and then she gained no Magic for her final two level-ups...either way, I want her to go Dark Flier if that class is in the game, and Holy Knight at some point if it isn't. Mage Sylvain - He learns Bolganone, which is GREAT. I'm gonna try and teach it to Felix later down the line when the game releases, since I want Felix to go Mortal Savant. Priest Rodrigue - He learns an ability that only Mercedes learns currently, but he may be a little better than her since he also learns a good offensive spell in Thunder and Fortify. Still, he's going Holy Knight while Mercedes will probably go Gremory. Brigand Ashe - I was really torn on Ashe, since for the longest time his Magic was higher than his Strength. Turning him into a Brigand actually evened the two, and he's wrecked shop since. I've heard good things about Thief Ashe, but I don't want to go that route for head-canon/characterization reasons. (Ashe is ashamed of his past as a thief, it feels wrong to turn him into one. Granted, this could be him taking agency over it, but I'd rather see who else may become a thief.) Mercenary Lysithea - She's kicking but and taking names! I may make her a Mortal Savant later down the line, which is why I have her in this class. It was either her or Marianne, and I feel like Marianne may be a better Holy Knight...depending on what happens to her Relic. Constance will be my Gremory, so I'm not too worried about having a position missing. Pegasus Knight Leonie - She wrecks shop, 'nuff said.

When you have a dream about Brandon announcing the date of Stormlight changing to May 14, 2024...and then you look it up when you wake up, and it's a Tuesday.

Ay Three Hopes Demo! What do you think of it so far? What house/route did you choose? Any interesting builds?

I regret to inform fans of Fire Emblem: Three Houses and fans looking forward to Fire Emblem: Three Hopes, that Billy Kametz, the voice of Ferdinand Von Aegir, has passed away due to Stage 4 Colon Cancer. Billy's role as Ferdinand is all I really know him from, but he brought that character to life in so many ways, as I'm sure he did to every role and character. Though he may be gone, through his work he'll live on. In our hearts and the hearts of thousands if not millions of future players and viewers of his work, he will continue to live on. May he rest in peace and in power, and may his family be granted peace.

A four chapter "prologue" demo is out, and the Ashen Wolves are in!

Shows: Person of Interest with my dad Elementary with my mom Superman & Lois (Season 2 by myself, Season 1 with my mom on occasions) Movie-wise, I've seen quite a few movies, but my Top 5 First Watched This Year* movies so far in no particular order: 007: Thunderball Karate Kid (original) The Batman Everything Everywhere All At Once Encanto (by sheer value of needing to fill out the Top 5 slot)

Alternating between Digimon Cybersleuth, Fire Emblem Fates: Revelation, and Pokemon Legends Arceus. I caught three shinies over the course of 3-4 days, which has been GLORIOUS. The last time I saw a shiny was roughly 15 years ago. It was a Shiny Zangoose in the Safari Zone...I didn't catch it in time...part of that still haunts me to this day, but far less so.

I'm liking the Pokemon revealed for Scarlet/Violet so far! Gen 8 was a big letdown after Gen 7 IMO, but PLA was a great game. I'm excited to see how this turns out, especially since a past/future-themed Spain-themed region was something I've had in my head for years.* My one fear is that the game will be one of those online exclusive games, like what Destiny was at the beginning I think, and what Anthem tried to be. I don't think that will be the case because Nintendo doesn't role like that, but the focus on community and communication in Pokemon still echoes out from time to time, and I fear it'll make a resurgence here. *In my head it was called Pokemon Steel and Pokemon Stone. Steel would see the players enter a giant man-made island academy with various biomes who house great scientists desparate to find the next big future step for Pokemon. Here players would be able to add types to their Pokemon or change types of certain Pokemon. Stone would be the classic kid on a Pokemon journey after being rejected from the academy. Here they would find a cave where Pokemon with ancient forms from the past would have been kept, and they could capture these Pokemon and have what others couldn't. (This would also lead into the third game, which would be more like a sequel. It'd take place a few years later, and it would be a trainer from the cave area venturing out into a - to them - highly technological world, and how one deals with an everchanging world. (The key is to find something to ground you and others, and in the Pokemon world, that'd be battles.) The themes I toyed with in my head is somewhere between "nature vs nurture" and "where you come from doesn't determine your success" I don't remember the evil team's names, but right now I'm calling them Team Vision and Team Vulture. One houses futurist ideals taken to extremes but never dealt with the consequences due to their own privilege; the others are Darwinists and nostalgia-bound but frankly capture the worst and opposite of their ideals.

I'd like to say Honor, Valor, or Virtuosity, but I'd probably go Odium and try to direct my hatred towards unjust things. (And then try to fuse with either Honor or Valor to create a version of Vengeance...and then create an Avatar that is Invested with an Invention-based magic system so I can be Batman...)

I've heard of it, but I can't remember from where or why...I feel like there was a Mass Effect armor based off of that game in ME 2 or ME 3 and that's why I know it, but I can't say for sure. (EDIT: I just checked, and it's an armor set in ME 3. Apparently, KoA:RR has an armor set in its game that's based off of Shepard and N7 armor!) Anyways, I'm not playing it, but I'm watching a playthrough of Fire Emblem Warriors in preparation for Fire Emblem Warriors: Three Hopes. I'm very tempted to buy and play FEW now, but I also want Three Hopes to be my first Warriors/Musou game, and I can't have it both ways. So wait I will. (Watching FEW has also given me some incredibly controversial and disliked opinions about potential DLC in Three Hopes.*) I've also been selling some old and unwanted books at Half-Price Books (very few Sanderson, quite a few ASOIAF**) and found a $12 copy of Mario + Rabbids, so I bought that. I also found a $20 Best Buy gift card. I was planning on using that to shave off most of the costs for FEW, but no Best Buy (or even Target) around had a copy surprisingly, so I impulse bought Digimon: Cyber Sleuth Complete Edition. I've seen a little gameplay and have heard it be compared to Persona 5 in some ways, so I'm game. Besides, I'm an old-school Digimon fan (Digimon Tamers is the GOAT) and am looking forward to Digimon Survive later this year, so why not buy it? (I also wanted to buy something cheap. I wasn't looking to spend $30+ dollars on a game today, so Persona 5 Strikers, Rune Factory 5, and any other potential games were out of the question.) I should also buy the Switch version of Dark Deity...eventually. There are also a few Steam games I may buy in the foreseeable future: Chroma Squad - a tactics RPG about producing and filming a Power Rangers like show. It looks fun, and I'm a fan of Power Rangers, so why not? Old World - A 4X game that's marketing itself as a cross between Civ IV and Crusader Kingdom. I'm willing to give it a try. Nexomon - A Pokemon-esque game. I was going to buy this before they announced Scarlet/Violet. I still may buy it before Scarlet/Violet come out, but I'm not sure I'd play it before then. Coral Island - The game isn't out yet, but when it does come out, I'll probably buy it. I also need to buy X-Com 2: Ultimate Edition at some point... And since the Nintendo 3DS eShop is closing down, I'll be spending a lot of money on eShop cards so I can make sure I have all of the 3DS Fire Emblem DLC things. (The first thing I tried to do was use my Best Buy gift card to buy eShop money, but BB treats the eShop money as gift cards, and you can't use a gift card to buy another gift card in their system.) Ultimately, my gaming list and library are growing, and that's a good thing, I think. My friends always complain that I play the same set of games over and over again. Frankly, they're not wrong. With next year seeing a few sequels making their way into my possession, building up a library of new games to play until then may help extend any potential droughts. In theory. *Basically, I think Lianna and Rowan would make for a fun and unobtrusive crossover in Three Hopes, which could be fun to see and beneficial for the characters. They wouldn't be the most unobtrusive crossover, but they would be quieter than other potential options (that I also would want). Does Three Hopes need crossovers? Not at all! But I find them fun in nearly everything, when done well and discreetly. I think here it could be similar. **This is a side-eye glance at GRRM, yes, but Martin's on a whole different level of popularity than Sanderson; it stands to reason that more of his books would have been bought and then sold.

It's only at 10% now, but this is BIG NEWS in my opinion. I personally thought we wouldn't be seeing this until later in the year, if this year at all. Seeing it here gives me 2-3 potential possibilities for what's going on: Possibility 1 - Dark One will take the place of Stormlight 5, and Stormlight 5 is being delayed until 2024. Brandon has been pretty consistent about having us know that he will delay SL5 if need be. I think this is a way of easing us into the idea that we may have something there in the meantime, or at least preparing something in the case that it's needed. Dark One could also work as a November release, given how November is relatively close to Halloween, and Dark One will most likely be a dark fantasy book. Heck, he could have the Mini-Con be the last week of October to coincide with this change. (I doubt it, but still.) Possibility 2 - Brandon has looked out at his schedule and decided that he wants to get ahead of this particular project. Collaborations like this take up less effort, and Brandon getting this off his plate now may clear him up next year for Stormlight revisions next year. Possibility 3 - Brandon wants to have a dual release with Dark One Vol 2 next year. There's no confirmation that Dark One Vol 2 will arrive next year, but I have a good feeling about it. It will have been three years since the original release of the first one, and we've officially known for ten months now that Vol 2 has been in the works. 2-3 years of good work should produce some results, I think. Regardless of the reasoning, I think this is a sure sign we'll see Dark One next year. All Hail the Dark One!

Stormlight 5 Draft 1 at 7% still. Secret Project 1 Final Draft at 100% still. Wax & Wayne 4 Final Draft 100%! Dark One (novel) Brandon's Draft at 10%

So, I know I said I'd do updates weekly, but I got busy and the FEW Twitter had very bad daily updates. They ranged from restating information to reminding us of release dates and specialty items we can't get in the West to...well, really nothing updates honestly. But that changed this week and most certainly today. We'll start with the Big Thing first. We have a new trailer! It's a quick teaser of the Blue Lions houses and their new designs, but hey, everyone's there! That means that every member of all three houses is all but guaranteed in the game! (Including Flayn since she was spotted and heard in the trailer.) Watch the trailer and see your favorite Lion! Fire Emblem Warriors: Three Hopes - Kingdom of Faerghus trailer - Nintendo Switch - YouTube Of the newly released designs, I think that Annette is easily the best looking. Felix and Ingrid aren't bad, but they certainly threw me for a loop and will take some getting used to. (The lighting we first see Felix in made me think he was a different character altogether!) Sylvain and Ashe look like true mid-evolutions in terms of design, and while I'm not sold on it, I do think it could be much, much worse. Eagle-eyed viewers also noted that Felix is dressing like his father Rodrigue, which may hint at the hand that we see in the second trailer at 2:24 is probably Felix's not Rodrigue's. Other viewers have made notice of the fact that most of the Blue Lions have elemental attacks, which will circle back to the tweets this week before exploring what that means. As I said earlier, the FEW Twitter's daily tweets changed this week. They started dropping bits of information about the House Leaders and their retainers in terms of class and combat that we hadn't fully known before. The first major piece of information was that each character may have a preferred set of classes instead of just one this time around. The tweets only mentioned one per character, but I'm sure there will be more. Edelgard and Hubert were mentioned first. Edelgard's class is Armored Lord, and her attacks induce flames that deal continuous damage. Keep attacking enemies and they'll explode as well. Hubert's class is Dark Mage predictably. This class's attacks will imbed opponents with spikes that can be detonated at the player's discretion to trigger an explosion. Dimitri's class is High Lord, and his attacks do Thunder damage that shock enemies and allow them to be knocked back and shock even more enemies. (This makes me think of the electric stunning in the Insomniac Spider-Man games.) Dedue's class is Armored Knight, and he has two abilities it seems. The first is a damage reducer that extends to allies up to a certain range, and the other is a charge up explosive knock-back ability. Claude's class is Wyvern Master attuned to Wind attacks. His attacks induce a status called Shredded, which makes it so that when the Shredded foe is attacked, it'll create wind blades that attack other nearby opponents. Hilda's class is Brigand, and her elemental attribute is Thunder, allowing her to draw in opponents like a magnet before unleashing powerful blows. While these elemental attributes are cool, I'm a little torn about them. I'm pretty sure they all fit the character's Reason spell lists or in-game attributes, but some weird to me. Yes, Dimitri does learn Thunder and Thoron in Three Houses, but the attribute of Thunder doesn't feel right for him, at least not to me. With his Crest being the Grim Dragon Crest, and the prince's own arcs, I feel as if Light or Dark would do better for him than Thunder. And yes, I get it, this balances out the House Leaders with each type of Anima or "base" magic, it doesn't fully fit for me. But that's a side-point. Anyways, as I said earlier, eagle-eyed fans have noticed that most of the Blue Lions seem to have some sort of affect around them: Mercedes seems to be light-themed Annette has musical notes (and gets to have multiple magic types for her abilities, alongside a Thunder Axe or possibly Crusher). Sylvain may have a Light/Dark combination going on. Ashe may have wind Ingrid has ice/water effects Felix is the only one fans couldn't figure out, which is weird to me since I thought that he'd be the go-to Thunder user while Sylvain could be the go-to Fire user for the Blue Lions, but that doesn't seem to be the case. This all could change, however. Anyways, that's all I've seen and spotted for now. I'll probably do another update when the next House is released...which could be anywhere from today to Monday to next Friday. ...yeah, next Friday is probably the most likely time... https://serenesforest.net/2022/05/13/three-hopes-character-class-profiles-from-twitter/

I'm not the biggest fan of Legion (really enjoyed the first two and really disliked the last one), but I'll be getting it to listen to some Sanderson stories regardless.

I saw the movie again yesterday, and my feelings are more or less the same as they were yesterday. The movie is good, but I do think it was a tad narrow in scope for something called The Multiverse of Madness. Maybe it's just me, but when I think of multiverse madness, I think of Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse or No Way Home or even the DC CW crossover episodes. DS2 reminded me of The Rise of Skywalker in certain ways, although I'm left with a far better taste in my mouth with this movie than I am with TROS. I liked America, and I liked Strange's journey. The cameos suffered from the same problem that WandaVision's cameos did, and I'm not happy with that. Overall, I think this was a good movie that was well-paced, well-acted, and overall fun, but it could have been better for me at least. My personal revision coming later on. (At this rate probably Monday.) This will be someone's favorite MCU film, but it's not mine.

What if the Night Brigade are trying to Unmake the Dawnshards? In my theory, they're trying to get all of the Dawnshards in order to unite all of the Shards back into an Adonalsium-like being or Adonalsium himself/itself, and then Unmake it from there. I have no idea why they'd want to do this if they did, but it's just a thought I have in my head I want to get out. That's all, carry on.

I saw it last night and liked it but didn't love it. I'll be seeing it again this afternoon and will hopefully have just as good if not a better time, and will write up my feelings on it afterwards. As a preface, I'm going to talk a lot about things I would have changed and a revised storyline/movie after discussing general thoughts and feelings from my first viewing and any changes upon the second one.

When you go into a Barnes & Noble store just to organize their Sanderson section. Not even as an employee, just as a fan. (Although I did work at a B&N for a short time, so I know about face-outs and how, when, and why to implement them.) And not just the SFF section, but the YA section too.

Finished up my upteenth playthrough of Fire Emblem: Three Houses on the Goldeen Deer route a week or two ago. My friend promised to play the game this summer, so I wanted to have a fresh profile ready so we can play together. ...I may have assumed she'd pick Blue Lions (...because I may try to have her play that house first...) and started up a new profile anyways. Regardless, my latest playthrough saw me accomplish most of the goals I set out to do. Several characters reached S or S+ in various skills, and several build that I started this playthough eager to try out were very successful. Dark Flier Marianne was fun. She didn't always get the stats I wanted when leveling up, so she spent a good chunk of the game switching between Holy Knight and Dark Flier, but she learned everything I wanted her to learn, and got to S+ in Riding. Valkyrie/Dark Knight Hilda was surprisingly successful. This was the second time I had to train Hilda to get Bolting, but hopefully the last as well. Unlike last time, though, Hilda wasn't completely useless the entire game. She got pretty RNG-Blessed in terms of Defense, Speed, Strength, and Magic, and was able to S+ both Axe and Armor. Putting her in the Dark Knight class at the end of the game made her a very fun and surprisingly capable mixed attacker. Wyvern Lord Ferdinand. I had never tried it before, but now that I've done it, I'm never going back. War Cleric Lysithea. Fist-Sithea was a hoot. Trickster Ignatz. Iggy trained most of the game so he could become my prime debuffer, and he was good at it by the end. Between the Dark Mage, Dark Sage, Sniper, and Trickster classes, Ignatz was a solid all-around pick. If I needed someone sniped, he was there. If someone needed just a quick touch up on their health, he was there. If I just wanted to debuff an enemy for another ally, he was there...unless he got a crit and took out the enemy himself. Overall, this was an incredibly successful playthrough, and I already have plans for what to do next. Wyvern Rider Leonie - I meant to do that this playthrough but I forgot... Wyvern Rider Sylvain - I did do that this playthrough, but I want to succeed at getting Sylvain to Wyvern Lord Wyvern Rider Annette - I plan on giving her a Bolt Axe for standard use and an Iron/Steel/Killer/Silver Axe for her magic Combat Art on other turns and see how it turns out. War Monk & Bow Knight Felix - I really don't like how he looks as a Trickster or a War Cleric, but I want Felix to max out his Fists this playthrough. I've also heard great things about Bow Knight Felix so I want to try it out. Dark Flier/Falcon Knight Lysithea - Because Flysithea is Funsithea War Cleric Marianne - Because her Blood compels her! Trickster Dimitri? - I actually like Holy Knight Dimitri, and at this point I think War Master Dimitri would actually be a better goal to work towards, but we'll see. Granted, I don't plan on doing all of this before Three Hopes comes out. My goal and hope (pun intended) is that my friend and I can start Three Houses by mid-to-late May and I'll play along until we finish the route or until Three Hopes comes out. Ideally, by the time she finishes as much of Three Houses as she wants to, she'll be looking for more, and I'll be able to drop the knowledge of Three Hopes on her for maximum surprise, as well as recommend a good starting route for her. Outside of that, I really do need to get back to Triangle Strategy. Rune Factory 5 will have to be bought with birthday money, since I've seem to have misplaced my Best Buy gift cards and my GameStop gift cards. They'll show up eventually, but until then, I don't mind waiting.

Stormlight 4 Draft 1 at 7% Secret Project 1 Final Draft at 100% Wax & Wayne 4 Final Draft at 0%

I'm quite aware of what the word means and how to use it. It can mean "unable to be thought of" as well as "being contrary to what is reasonable, desirable, or probable." I chose "desirable." Subbing it out in the sentence, "...just in case the 'undesirable' happens..." or "just in case 'what is contrary to is desirable' happens..." makes sense, but it's far more...indelicate. It gives the sentence a potential selfishness as an undertone, and doesn't fully grasp the gravity of the situation, at least to me it doesn't. "Unthinkable" and "unimaginable" aren't always used in the most literal of senses, but also when talking about something that can be and has been seen as in poor taste to talk about. Yes, I've thought about Brandon's death and what that means for the Cosmere, but I'm still going to try and be respectful about how to address it when I can be. But if you want to really call me out for what seems to be a pretty silly thing when you clearly understood the point of my message, go ahead.

Happy Friday! Last night I had a dream that there were secret characters in Three Houses that we were all forgetting about, and that these characters would make an appearance in Three Hopes alongside the new characters and now-playable NPCs, bolstering the roster to the 50s. Alas, it was just a dream. Still, we have two more bios and an update from me. With the bios, since they seem to be the same as with Three Houses (and the minimal traffic on this thread), I'll just be linking the pictures unless there's new information in the bio. So for now, enjoy the new time-skip pictures of Dedue and Hilda! Both have some nice quality art, and Hilda is looking cute as always, but I think Dedue's beard wins it for me. I have no idea what has happened, and if the rumors that this story actually takes place in 3-4 years instead of 5, I'll find it hilarious that Dedue looks OLDER with less time passing. Our boy has been through some things! It's like they forgot he was 18/19 in the first game and just channeled his inner middle-aged man. Granted, he still looks old in his previous time-skip design due to his scars, but that beard is really making him look even older. If y'all want, I'm willing to put the old and new time-skip designs side-by-side so it's easier to see which you may like better. I'll do so in the spoiler section for now, but let me know of y'all want it that way going forward every time I can also probably shrink the pre-timeskip, new-timeskip, and post-timeskip pictures down to being side-by-side so we can see some Pokemon-esque evolution going on. Lastly, the update. Since the bios for old characters aren't giving us new information, I may just save all of the new pictures until the end of the week and put them on here then. Of course, if there's another trailer, different stills, or even a demo* then I'll upload the pictures with those updates, and then relay how or when I'll upload the rest of the week's pictures. For example, if we get another trailer this upcoming Tuesday, then I'd upload the Monday and Tuesday pictures with the trailer and analysis, and then wait until Friday to upload the rest of the pictures. If a trailer drops on Wednesday, then I'd upload the Monday-Wednesday pictures, and wait until the next Friday to upload the Thursday/Friday pictures. But it also depends on the characters. If we get new characters with new information, then bios may go up daily. We'll just have to wait and see. That's it for now though! Next week we should have some new pictures, so I'll see y'all next Friday! Bonus: Since I like to speculate, I think we'll see Ferdinand or Dorothea on Monday, Felix or Mercedes on Tuesday, and Lysithea on Wednesday. The Black Eagles we didn't get on Monday will appear on Thursday (well, either them or Monica), and on Friday we'll get Felix, Ingrid, or Mercedes. I think the game will want to give us the new photos for confirmed characters first, but they can only really do that partially for Black Eagles with Monica and Ferdinand (if the speculation about his hair appearing in the trailers is correct) and for the Blue Lions with Mercedes. Sure, they can give us a bio for Flayn or any of the members of the Church, but they've been going in the order of houses at this time, so I think they'll save the church for last. *Age of Calamity had a demo release about a month before the game's launch. If Three Hopes does also, we'd see it launch next month. However, Persona 5 Strikers didn't have any sort of demo release for American/Western audiences, so who knows. Then again, the game was out for a hair over a year in Japan before it came to the states. Age of Calamity had a global release like Three Hopes, so maybe we'll see one!