History Fridge / TalesoftheAbyss

* The Isle of Feres. Not so much the island itself, not within the realms of the universe, but everyone's reaction to and especially Jade's comment about it: "A floating island? That's physically impossible!" and yet... this is long after he learns the truth about the whole Outer Lands ordeal, where the entire world is floating. Admittedly they're two different concepts, but honestly, knowing that it's possible to make the entire world float would make it a lot more believable for a tiny island to be floating. It's just a little peculiar that everyone is so quick to be shocked that a single island is floating, even if the mechanisms used to make the world float no longer work. They're acting like they've never seen anything like it. It's just a little... weird.

* While some people who saw the game in Japanese (and weren't native speakers) didn't catch it, the casting is FridgeBrilliance too. Why do [[spoiler: Ion, Sync, and Florian have the same voice actor? And Luke & Asch? Cause they're clones.]] This makes a case of TalkingToHimself less of a Trivia entry and more of an actual invoked trope.

*** Everybody: They thought they were {{Nakama}}. Add in Luke's glory hounding and adamant refusal to accept ''any'' responsibility and he's already got emotional flak coming his way. This makes it easy for any and all additional baggage to head his direction.

* Even the intro has a bit of brilliance in it. During the scene where Luke and Asch are battling, Asch jumps over Luke and attacks. Luke then turns away and runs. He runs up the pillar, then uses this advantage in height to fight back. [[spoiler: It's all a metaphor for the game itself. At first, Asch is better, and easily conquers Luke. Luke then begins to run away from his troubles, but with the help of his friends, he becomes a better person, and rises above Asch, and in the end, faces his own problems.]]

* As noted on the main page, MagicAIsMagicA aka the rules of the verse results in a FridgeBrilliance style ChekhovsLecture in the case of Luke. Early on, Luke's ignorance is used to explain what Aggravated Sentiences are; collections of pure fonons with an intelligence and a specific fonic signature. Lorelei's is 3.14159265359 and that's later revealed to be Luke fon Fabre's fonic signature as well. [[spoiler: Then Luke is revealed to be a replica, which is ''pure seventh fonons'' like Lorelei. And then Lorelei flat out calls Luke "my other self" in the core.]] This explains any possible question as to why Luke is able to take down the Score at the end and is in fact implied to be the ''only'' one capable of doing that [[spoiler: as since Lorelei is the one that built and sustained the Score, of course you need Lorelei to take it down...or the ''[[GodInHumanForm other]]'' one.]]

* A lot of Luke's {{Jerkass}} actions and words in the first arc make more sense when you take into account [[spoiler: he's actually seven]], his [[NoSocialSkills lack of social skills]], ''extremely'' sheltered upbringing, and the circumstances around them. For example, not wanting to save Engeve from the ligers? Luke doesn't know how important Engeve is and his only experience with the place was "rude people who wrongfully accused me of being a thief" meaning he doesn't see any reason to help them or the cheagles who caused the whole problem in the first place. He's also a massive jerk to Tear because, frankly, she's a cold person and was "introduced" to him via trying to kill his ParentalSubstitute. Luke's approach to people pre ImportantHaircut is very "do unto others as they do to you".

* A lot of Luke's {{Jerkass}} actions and words in the first arc make more sense when you first take into account [[spoiler: he's actually seven]], his [[NoSocialSkills lack of social skills]], ''extremely'' sheltered upbringing, and the circumstances around them. For example, not wanting to save Engeve from the ligers? Luke doesn't know how important Engeve is and his only experience with the place was "rude people who wrongfully accused me of being a thief" meaning he doesn't see any reason to help them or the cheagles who caused the whole problem in the first place. He's also a massive jerk to Tear because, frankly, she's a cold person and was "introduced" to him via trying to kill his ParentalSubstitute.

** Before some people learned of the twist, a common theory was [[spoiler: Luke and Asch were actually ''twins'' and one of them was raised in secret]]. This actually made a lot of sense if one used only the information available at the time.

* Compared to most SquishyWizard characters in most VideoGame/TalesSeries games, Jade is one of the few that has very few Novice level spells. In fact, after he gets hit by the fon slot seal, he's pretty much ''useless'' until you level him up enough. The brilliance comes in the fact he's a ChildProdigy; as that, Jade had no trouble using advanced level fonic artes and it shows in his arte list there. He only has two novice level fonic artes because he had no need to learn more than those two before he could switch to the higher and more ''interesting'' spells.