u/AbstruseKelp

At the end of 3.7 Rhiannon mentions having a mother who is apparently a powerful arcanist. In her character story we get to see her mother and her father (surprisingly both of them have icons with eyes). Interestingly Rhiannon shares both her eye and hair colour with her father and not her mother.

>!It's just her and her mother now though since the rest of their family was killed by poachers when Rhiannon was 12. Technically an improvement over Merel's situation.!<

I think we will be seeing more of Rhiannon's mother in the future, her character icon looks] relatively detailed and it seems like we will be seeing more of Rhiannon in the future so I think we will get to see more of her mother as well, possibly with a live 2d model. Maybe she will even be playable in the future.

In any case it's nice to see a character having a positive relationship with a family member, Rhiannon's mother seems to genuinely care about Rhiannon, worries for her safety, doesn't want to put too much on her shoulders, and verbally acknowledges that she's proud of Rhiannon.

I started playing this game when Showdown in Chinatown was running so now that the rerun is here I get to see the teams I was using back then (Balloon Party used to be my dedicated sustain for a while).

Lavender came back in 3.7, if you remember from 3.2 she took over the position of Student Monitor from Matilda in her anecdote (Some other info from there: Lavender is the Valedictorian, is disciplined, and has the surname Dale which is a surname of English and Nordic origin).

Matilda's outfit doesn't look like an SPDM uniform which is probably because she had graduated from SPDM already so wearing an outfit that doesn't look like an SPDM uniform helps communicate that fact to faculty and students.

Lavender's outfit although different from a standard SPDM uniform still shares many elements with it that make it clear that she is still a student: the shoes, outer sleeves, and grey inner skirt are all the same plus it's almost all white. The sleeve cuffs have the star design that appears on some of the other foundation outfits like Sonetto's. Her orange tie seems to be the same one that she was wearing in Matilda's anecdote.

It's possible that it's a variant of the school uniform for older students like how the younger students have a slightly different uniform.

The hat's too large to fit snugly on her head so it's in danger of falling off or blowing away in the wind. It's a miracle she hasn't lost it.

Paulina shows up in the 3.7 song, she still has her polka dot scarf. Interestingly her left hand which is the only part that survived the second storm has been replaced by a prosthetic. We know that the storm can't recreate you in the new era if you aren't there and apparently the same applies to appendages. If someone's leg was reversed but the rest of them was in the safe zone would the storm put the leg somewhere in the new era or does a reversed body have to contain their soul to be recreated?

Her appearance in this song does seem to disprove the theories that her storm variant is Regulus or any other character we know as she seems to be a ww1 nurse here.

I wonder if we will ever get an event story set in the past before the second storm where we meet the original Paulina (and maybe see Madam Hofmann again). Or maybe it could take place as a flash back of a storm survivor who knew Paulina and meets her storm variant in the new era. It would be funny if J was there too because knows Paulina as his younger sister and if storm variants keep their ages (which I think they do, Paulina looks like she's in her 20s here) then Paulina's storm variant would be older than him.

This lady showed up again in the 3.7 story and her appearance is a bit jarring. Bluepoch's improved a lot when it comes to designs for NPCs and it becomes very apparent when they are put next to the newer NPCs especially since she has a L2D model so it makes her lack of eyes much more visible.

I think SPDM will feature again in future patches so if they could update her model or replace her I think that would be nice.

No hate to Bluepoch, yes hate to her, stop putting kids in rooms full of shamir worms.