History Headscratchers / BravelyDefault

** It's probably a good thing to remember that, in the Japanese version, Ringabel/Alternis is only eighteen. Personal appearance is hardly stable during one's teen years. Alternis's journal also implies that he wears the armor almost constantly enough that going plainclothes is uncomfortable for him, so it wouldn't be a surprise if Edea hadn't seen him out of it for at least a couple of years.

*** Probably the giant dragon at the end of the line that is destroying entire worlds for power.

** Maybe the Tiz we played and seen in the AR is the only Tiz that actually died and saved by the celestial, the player while the other world's somehow had him survive by luck. That, or there are actually celestial's before the player that had done the same with the help of Airy's Sister but failed as Airy killed them.

* In Chapter 6, if you do the Yulyana optional bosses, you learn that the main character from that world died and you meet all the people affected by it (i.e. Alternis, Braev, Til, Olivia, etc.). Yulyana gives the characters the option to stay in that world and live peaceful lives with their loved ones, which they refuse in order to continue their journey. Then Yulyana asks them if they want him to erase the memories of those they encountered, but Tiz says no because it will give them "a spark to keep them going." Or it could leave them in even worse shape then before, spending the rest of their lives searching for lost loved ones or wondering why they were abandoned in their time of need.

** It's fairly clear from early on that while the Eternian Forces actions are terrible, that there is something else going on. Edea's black-and-white view is dangerous because it prevents her from thinking about the bigger picture. On the face of it, this seems to be a shallow justification for war when we see Kamiizumi involved in Eisenberg's civil war, but further investigation reveals that while their methods are indeed abhorrent their goals are good ones. Only when Edea discovers the reality of the situation, and the more reasonable motivations of at least some of the characters (primarily Braev and Kamiizumi) is she able to mitigate the damage done by the whole mess. It doesn't justify the Duchy's actions, but the party do what they can. Edea ultimately avoids making the same mistakes as her father, whose similar attitude leads him in multiple realities to crush Crystalism without considering the consequences. Not only does this ruthlessly punish innocent people (he seems to have utterly ignored Yulyana and DeRosso), but it's counter-productive in terms of Braev's actual goals; obtaining ''either'' ending requires a Vestal with knowledge of the Crystals.

*** The Celestial is not Airy's sister. The end fight with Ouroboros has him reveal that he intends to invade the Celestial Realm, which shows behind him in the final battle and ultimately turns on the 3DS camera to show the player's face behind it. The Celestial keeping Tiz alive is YOU, the player

*** In other words, Tiz dies...[[FridgeHorror BECAUSE OF YOU!]]
**** Using one of the AR cards shows Tiz dying after climbing out of the Great Chasm, only to absorb a bright light drifting down. Shortly after, you start controlling him and he's perfectly fine. In other words, Tiz lives, saves the world, falls in love, and makes all of these friends and allies across the world... [[HeartwarmingMoments because of you.]]
**** Somewhat undercut by the fact that Tiz survives in Ringabel's world (level -1?), before the player got involved.

*** It could be that rather than 'our' Ringabel being unique and an anomaly in the worlds the player/Tiz goes through, he is simply an example of yet another case of how the events in the parallel worlds can differ according to circumstances. It would rely on a whole series of events playing out to result in the circumstances recorded at the end of D's Journal. As we see from Alternis's Journal the events may not always differ all that much, yet a single choice - Alternis/Ringabel choosing to go to Eisenberg - can make all the difference.

*** But time travel ''didn't'' happen; it never did. The "Angel" was an Agnès from another world, not a different time. There's nothing to indicate that there's a stable time loop in place at all, except [=DeRosso=] making an IronicEcho.
**** I got the idea [=DeRosso=] locked Ouroboros' immortality into his past self to keep it out of his reach. He only asked his past self because he knew he'd say yes.

*** It flat out says it in D's Journal in [=DeRosso=]'s entry if you start a NG+, and he theorises that that was the case during chapter 4 when doing his sidequest.

** Even when done first the Bad Ending has the characters seem somewhat shocked at the developments, even when a series of flashbacks spell out that this is what they had suspected for some time thanks to Yulyana's knowledge and Ringabel's memories. There's no real need for it to be as ambiguous as it is about what the characters ''should'' know from the main storyline (things like DeRosso and Yulyana's history is subplot). However, if it is possible to trigger the Bad Ending before knowing the full story (perhaps from Chapter 5 when Ringabel first confesses to Tiz that he is Alternis Dim) then it may be that this vagueness is intended to cater for those players who genuinely wouldn't have known what was going on. That said...the ending of Chapter 6 makes little sense if you go through the Pillar having ignored Yulyana's heavy hints about breaking a crystal. The party concludes they do it knowing they're being deceived - referring even to a 'greater enemy' when they definitely ''don't'' know about the BiggerBad if they haven't already done the Bad Ending, and Ringabel is quietly angry about the whole thing. In fact, considering both the end of Chapter 6 and the Lying Airy finale chapter, I think the player is 'intended' to trigger the Bad Ending during Chapter 6, specifically after Yulyana's revelations.

** Even when done first the Bad Ending has the characters seem somewhat shocked at the developments, even when a series of flashbacks spell out that this is what they had suspected for some time thanks to Yulyana's knowledge and Ringabel's memories. It's a lot more ambiguous with regards to what the characters ''should'' know from the main storyline (it's not like DeRosso and Yulyana's backstories which is a subquest) than it really should be. However, if it is possible to trigger the Bad Ending before knowing the full story (perhaps from Chapter 5 when Ringabel first confesses to Tiz that he is Alternis Dim) then it may be that this vagueness is intended to cater for those players who genuinely wouldn't have known what was going on. That said...the ending of Chapter 6 makes little sense if you go through the Pillar having ignored Yulyana's heavy hints about breaking a crystal. The party concludes they do it knowing they're being deceived - alluding even to a 'greater enemy' when they definitely ''don't'' know about the BiggerBad if they haven't already done the Bad Ending, and Ringabel is quietly angry about the whole thing.

* How is it possible that after being told, explicitly, that Airy is evil and killed everyone, the ''whole party'' is floored when Airy reveals herself to be evil and tries to kill them? As in, even Ringabel is stunned when she starts in with the EvilGloating about how gullible they all are, and he's the one who ''told them all this''. (This on top of the information they have from de Rosso and Yulyana.) It's facepalm-inducing when Tiz goes around saying that it's nobody's fault and they couldn't possibly have seen this betrayal coming, because they saw it coming from literally worlds away. Is it different if you do the Bad Ending first?

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