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Line 9: Shut up, its [[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming\|heartwarming]]. >:O Plus, it's a classic {{spoiler\|[[Heroic Sacrifice]]}} scenario combined with {{spoiler\|[[And the Adventure Continues...]]}}. Also, ''Dragon Quest Battle Road'' shows IX's Hero as {{spoiler\|a Celestrian}}, so you could always reason that {{spoiler\|he eventually earns his full powers back}}. And who's to say this isn't exactly what the hero wanted? He has [[OC Stand -In\|no stated motive]], but he's often described as being pure of heart. He may have enjoyed his job protecting mortals more than the perks of his position, and come to love the "wander the Earth as a hero" bit even more. {{spoiler\|And since it was a Fygg that made him mortal, he could have theoretically used the post-game Fygg to become a Celestrian again. Instead, he just wished to be able to see the Starflight Crew again.}} * [[~~AFGNCAAP~~Featureless Protagonist\|The hero is the player's avatar]]. ''I'' wanted to {{spoiler\|[[Ascend to a Higher Plane of Existence]]}}. Though I suppose the postgame spelunking and legacy bosses and whatnot are pretty badass. * Now how in the heck do your partners travel with you when you're on the Starflight express? They apparently catch up to you after you land... "Your friends come into view". Maybe they just ride in the caboose, though. [[Peter Pan\|Or Stella can do the whole pixie dust thing]]. Line 41: Might have been the point, seeing as the construction of sentences in Batsureg seems a bit odd and stilted. Maybe the joke is that there is no joke? * [[Lazy Backup\|What was the rest of your party doing]] during the first fight with Corvus? That plot point just falls apart when you consider that 75% of your party isn't being held back by an inherent disability. Corvus hadn't regenerated his Halo either, so it's probably not that they couldn't see him. Canonically speaking, for plot purposes the rest of your party is supposed to be your own alternate universe equivalents from alternate universes, aka three other players, who, as alternates of the hero, would also have the same problem. Why they can't fight when they're the less canonical [[Player ~~Mooks~~Mook]]s can be chalked up to [[Cutscene Incompetence]]. There's also a WMG that they're ghosts bound to physical form by your celestrian power, giving them your own limitations. * Maybe the [[Player ~~Mooks~~Mook]]s are ''also'' alternate universe versions of you just like multiplayer partners, and they [[Silent Protagonist\|can't say anything to the player]]? It's not like multiplayer partners say anything in-character... ** ....Where the ''hell'' did you get the idea that every party member besides the player canonically comes from the Raportal?! * The fact that they can't attack Corvus, for one. The fact that they're wholly customizable and the game is explicitly made to encourage multiplayer as much as possible, for another. As far as I can tell, you're ''supposed'' to play with your friends, but the [[Player ~~Mooks~~Mook]]s system was put in just in case, the way fighting games are made for a minimum of two people, but have AI just in case. The fact that they're so generic in a series that usually has [[Troperiffic]] sidekick characters, combined with the fact that you design them in the exact same way as the hero, indicates to me that they're just placeholders. Maybe they were distracted by seeing what ''you'' were going through? Or intimidated? Or [[Genre Savvy]] enough to recognize a [[Hopeless Boss Fight]] when they see it? ** Maybe when he flared black everyone got blown away except you because you're a Celestrian? Or he whacked the other guys away when you undid the chains? Line 82: {{reflist}} [[Category:Games/Headscratchers]] [[Category:~~Dragon Quest IX~~{{BASEPAGENAME}}]] [[Category:~~Headscratchers~~{{SUBPAGENAME}}]] __NOTOC__