In the world of Metaphor: Refantazio everyone's status is determined by their tribe. The hierarchy of this world the tribes on the higher end would be the Clemars, Roussaintes, Ishkia and Rhoag tribes. And on the lower end of the totem pole would be the Nidia, Mustari, Paripus and on the bottom of the rung, the Elda. And unfortunately for our protagonist, the young boy named Will he had the misfortune of being an Elda. Due to simply being born as an Elda, Will would grow up being discriminated against so he chose to stay in the comfort of his village. Unfortunately even his solace in his own village couldn't even last as on one tragic day Will's village would be burned down to the hatred of his tribe. Thankfully Will was able to escape from this attack and live on and even more luckily he encountered The Prince of the Kingdom of Euchronia. And The Prince took such a liking to Will that he ended up convincing his father the King, Hythlodeaus V to take him in. So with being taken in by the royal family, Will would end up growing a close friendship with The Prince, with the Prince even sharing a book with Will that they would read together about an ideal world where everyone was united and no one was discriminated against simply for the circumstances of their birth. And The Prince wanted to make the country of Euchronia like that fantasy novel when he became king, which was a goal that Will wholeheartedly supported.
Though even this time would be cut short as there would be an assassination attempt on the Prince's life. Though this attempt did fail it still resulted in the Prince being inflicted with a slow acting curse that would eventually take his life. So when the curse got really bad and he was no longer responsive, a resistance to free him was formed with Will joining in order to free his friend. So he was entrusted a mission along with his Fairy guide and companion Gallica to infiltrate the state army to relay a message to another member of the resistance known as Grius. So Will enlisted in the army and even met a new friend from a fallen house of nobles Leon Strohl de Haeliatus or just Strohl for short. Though everything immediately went wrong as soon as the new recruits were dispatched on their very first mission. The recruits were attacked and all killed by a monstrous figure simply known as a Human. And for whatever reason, instead of running away from it Will and Strohl decide to fight this monstrous being, though it doesn't go well and they're almost killed for it. But on the brinks of death Strohl tells Will to run away while he distracts the enemy but Will's heart wouldn't accept that and he awakens to a power that the Hero Kings of legend once utilized, Archetypes. With this new power Will killed the human and saved Strohl and even Grius showed up after. With Will and Gallica giving him the mission to kill the man who slew the king and allegedly cursed The Prince, Louis Guiabern.
And since Will was The Prince's friend he wanted to join in on the mission to help his friend, and his new ally Strohl also joined up, with Strohl even awakening to his own Archetype. So the trio went back to the Royal Capital Grand Trad for the King's funeral where they planned to strike and kill Louis, with the plan of Will and Strohl causing a distraction while disguised as soldiers with Grius using the distraction to cut a clear path and kill Louis in a single strike. However this would all turn out to be in vain as before he was slain the King used the Royal Magic to declare how the next king would be selected by whoever was the most popular candidate by the Day of Heroes. And since Louis was near the top of the rankings the King's Magic held Grius held in place as it protects the candidates from assassination attempts, and Louis promptly killed Grius. Louis then had his right hand man Zorba attack the Grand Cathedral to steal the Royal Sceptre for him to gain tremendous power with Will and Strohl deciding they had to stop him as well as their new ally, Eislen Hulkenburg joining them to help avenge Grius. And after the trio defeats Zorba they then have to fight against a massive human that he resurrected with his powers as a necromancer. Though with the power of their Archetypes they take down the human and save the Royal Capital. And a couple days later the news of the Tournament for the Throne was announced where anyone could enter a competition to win the Throne for themselves. With Will deciding to enter it in order to get closer to Louis to figure out how to either cure the prince or kill Louis. And in order to participate in the Tournament Will has Hulkenburg reach out to a man named Neuras and they end up using a gauntlet runner custom made for The Prince.
The first task of the Tournament was to bring the head of a monster to the city of Brilehaven. But instead of seeking out a monster head, Will has the group go after a notorius child kidnapper in order to get into Louis's good graces. So Will goes to the city of Martira and actually learns that the alleged kidnapper, Heismay Noctule was framed and the actual criminal was the chief of the city and Sanctoress of the Sanctist Church, Lady Joanna. Who would kidnap children and feed them to a human as a result of her grief of losing her own child. And with Heismay's help they kill the human and free Lady Joanna from her insanity and bring her to the Exhibition. And with this stunt Will finally gets Louis' attention and even joins his rank. After Louis has Will swear fealty to him he invites him to his soiree where he would have an important announcement, though that was still a long ways away, which gives Will a bunch of time for his current goal of infiltrate Louis' gauntlet runner and find the formula of the spell that cursed The Prince to find a way to cure him. And after securing a route to Louis' private quarters Will would be formally introduced as a new member of Louis' ranks. After that he initiated his plan to sneak of from the party to infiltrate the Gauntlet Runner to steal the formula for The Prince's curse. Although as soon as he finds the formula he's spotted by a member of Louis' team Juani Cyguns better known as Junah. But Will and Junah both realize that they're after the same thing and are actually on the same side. But another member of Louis rank's Iadeus Glodell, realizes that the two of them are traitors and Will and Junah fight him and are able to win, with Will's stunt from the Exhibition even protecting him from a blindside assassination attack meaning Will was near the top of the rankings now.
After this Louis gives Will and his crew their first mission to obtain the divine relic Drakodios, as the next task for the Tournament was to find and present a divine relic to the Sanctist Church in Montario. With this task Will and his group which now includes Junah went to the far off land of Virga Island to find and obtain Drakodios. Though he would be monitored to be actual right hand men of Louis, Fidelo and Basilio Magnus, as they suspected that Will had a hand in Glodell's death. So off Will went to Virga Island where they learned of the Mustari's tradition of sacrificing the priestess to tame their Dragon God. But when the chief Edeni and the priestess who happens to be his sister Eupha went to the dragon temple, they ended up attacked by monsters and get separated, with Edeni fleeing back to the village and Eupha proceeding further into the temple. And with Edeni not wanting his sister to die he makes a deal with Will that if he saves his sister and brings her home he'll lend him Drakodios. So Will ventures into the dragon temple and finds Eupha, with her leading them to the bottom layer of the temple where Drakodios lies, though she still insists on sacrificing herself as the tradition, but Will ends up convincing her there's more to that tradition. As both Will's group and Eupha learn that the tradition is actually that the priestess was supposed to help the Dragon God rather than give her life away. Especially when they reach the Dragon God and notice it's being controlled by a Human and that's why it's attacking everyone as it's not in it's right mind. With this revelation Eupha awakens to her own Archetype and helps Will's crew free the Dragon God from the Human's possession. And she even has the Dragon God take it's rightful place in Drakodios and formally joins Will's ever growing posse. After receiving Drakodios and learning that Louis planned to use the lance to kill the top ranked candidate, the Sanctifex Forden. So Will tests out Drakodios by having Strohl try and attack him with it, with him having to deflect the blow as the lance bypassed the King's Magic. With the knowledge that Will now possesses he comes up with the idea to hae Neuras use his skills as a craftsman to make a fake Drakodios and use the real one to kill Louis for good. So on the day of the presentation Will and his gang give Louis the fake Drakodios while keeping the real one.
And during Junah's performance Will throws the lance at Louis and gives him a fatal injury but doesn't manage to kill him. Once Louis realizes that Will was the traitor he confronts him on the roof of the Opera House now having Drakodios, but gives Will the chance to challenge him to a duel which completely nullifies the King's Magic and allows them to both harm each other with Louis even throwing the lance to the wayside. And since Will had both the numbers advantage and had already struck Louis with Drakodios he ends up winning the duel, but Louis power still manages to briefly overwhelm him. And right as that's happening Eupha uses her powers to throw Drakodios at Louis but he dodges. Though Will catches the lance and stabs it right through the tyrant and seemingly kills him. After the party seemingly kills Louis they rush to the inside where Will explains that the lance was their relic that bypasses the kings magic that they used to kill Louis in order to avenge the king and prince. And once that was all over Will checks on the status of the Prince but still sees his curse afflicted him, and thus learns that the one who cursed him wasn't Louis with him suspected Forden of the crime instead. So Will goes and confronts him for this with Forden technically denying it as though it was his plan, he had someone else perform this curse for him. Just as that happens it's revealed that both Zorba and Louis are still alive and Louis uses Drakodios as he got it from Zorba to bypass the King's Magic to kill Forden.
And in a fit of rage and defiance Louis shoots a beam of magic from Drakodios at the spectators of the competition. Which the Magnus brothers block as after spending time with Will they've come to appreciate the value in friendship and protecting the weak with their own strength. But Will witnesses another tragedy caused by Louis as Fidelio pushes Basilio out of the way of the blast and lets himself be killed to protect his little brother. And after this Louis leaves, and Basilio even awakens to his own Archetype and formally joins Will and gives him the idea to boost his popularity even further by having him pretend he's the Prince as they look virtually identical. So Will does exactly that and even finds and confronts the one who actually cursed the Prince and defeats them, finally freeing The Prince from his long slumber. Unfortunately for them Louis had Zorba spy on them and both parties rushed to the Eldan Sanctum to get to the prince first. But sadly Louis' faction got there first and killed the Prince. With Will and his group getting there to go see his body, and once he sees the body of the Prince, Will realizes something and that something is that he and the Prince are actually one and the same. As Will was functionally a living Archetype made of The Prince's will and desire to travel the world and since he is The Prince Will merges back with His Highness and finally becomes complete and unlocks his most powerful Archetype, The Prince.
With this new power Will returns back to the Royal Capital to confront Louis one more time and vows to defeat him. Especially after hearing of his plan to use the anxieties of everyone to turn them into Humans and see who comes out on top. So Will and his party have their final battles against Louis and his many forms and though it seems like Will killed Louis for good this time, he still kept coming and even developing the ability to fly after fusing with his Gauntlet Runner. So in response Will's Prince Archetype fuses with his own Gauntlet Runner to create the Ultimate Archetype, The King. And in one mighty swing of his sword he finally puts an end to the tyrant of Louis Guiabern. And the next day was the day of his coronation as king with Will addressing the public and promising to do his best. We then pick up about a year and a half later where Will is neglecting his paperwork to go out in the city to hear the complaints of the citizens on a street level. With most of the problems of the country being fixed but since Will can't fix all of them he decides to go on another cross kingdom adventure with his crew now known as the King's Six Partisans. With Basilio even bringing Grius' daughter on for the adventure. Just know that as long as Will is the king he'll do his best to make fantasy reality and help anyone in need.
Maelle
In the city of Lumiere lives don't typically last very long as under the rule of The Paintress, once she paints a number that she counts down from on her massive monolith every year, the people that age simply die as they turn into dust. As such some people choose to not bring children into this doomed world but just like in real life, sometimes life has other plans. And these other plans would bring the woman named Maelle to life. Though due to the fact that her parents were already old by the time of her birth, her time with her parents didn't last very long. And as a result she would pass around from foster home to foster home until one day she was taken in by a man named Gustave and his sister Emma and the three of them would become a proper family of sorts. Though not all seems lost in the apparent doomed world as every year after the annual Gommage an Expedition sets off to take down the Paintress and free everyone. With Gustave joining in on this years Expedition and even creating new inventions to help out, and even though she was still years away from her own Gommage, Maelle joined the Expedition as well. So after the Gommage, Expedition 33 set sail to the fractured Continent to hopefully defeat The Paintress.
Though this hope didn't last long because as soon as the Expedition touches land they find a strange sight. An old man who wasn't affected by the Gommage, and that old man casually slaughters almost every member of Expedition 33. So Maelle runs with Gustave hoping to survive but a blast comes there way and they end up being separated. With a mysterious man coming in to save Maelle and take her to a strange manor where she woke up at. And upon waking up at the manor she meets another strange man known as The Curator who while he looked hostile, he was actually very friendly and even helped train and care for Maelle. So Maelle stayed with him for a bit until Gustave and Lune, another surviving member of Expedition 33 came to get her to continue on the Expedition. And so Maelle rejoined the crew where they would even find another surviving member of the Expedition in Sciel. With the crew of four then continuing on their journey to enlist the help of Esquie to help swim across the sea to reach the Monolith where The Paintress lies. But first Maelle and the Expeditioners had to go find a rock that increases Esquie's lifting strength so that he can actually carry the crew while he swims. And once they find the rock Lune and Sciel jump onto Esquie's back but Maelle convinces Gustave to throw rocks like they used to do in Lumiere as a mini celebration. However this was a decision that she would come to regret as the old man from before came back and shot a sword beam straight through Gustave's torso with Gustave telling Maelle to run. But when she didn't run Gustave had no choice put to put her in a protective bubble where Maelle had no chance to help and witnessed her brother and father figure be killed by this man.
Just after that she is able to break out of the shield bubble but is too late to help Gustave. And just as she reaches his body the man tries to attack her and claims that one day she'll understand why he had to do this, but his attack is intercepted by another person. With this Maelle takes the opportunity to jump on Esquie's back while the two men clash. And once Maelle joins Sciel and Lune, Esquie swims to the nearest island to help them escape. Once they escape and reach the island Esquie senses Maelle's sadness over Gustave and gives her a much needed hug. After a couple hours on the island the man that saved Maelle joins them to explain who he is, a man named Verso, who joined the first ever Expedition, Expedition 0 over 67 years ago. Though the reason he's still alive is due to the fact that The Paintress made him immortal and he's tired of watching all his friends die and living a life he doesn't want. So he joins up with the team at Maelle's behest, and Maelle even gives him the armband of Expedition 33 to make him an official member. And Verso tells them that if they are to defeat The Paintress they should recruit one his oldest friends Monoco. That way they could get to her through Old Lumiere without having to go through the Monolith as they could strike directly at her heart instead of having to pierce the barrier surrounding the Monolith. Once the gang successfully recruits Monoco they journey to Old Lumiere where the citizens use to live until an event called the Fracture happened. And once they get there Maelle and Verso end up being separated from the rest of their crew but they marched on until they reached an incredibly familiar looking manor. And when Maelle looked around to tell Verso about this he disappeared from sight. So Maelle had no choice but to press on by herself until she reached the manor. Where a girl who looks just like her and the heart of The Paintress open the door for her and just as that happens Verso reappears to challenge her only to be met with the old man.
Where the old man reveals to Maelle that Verso hadn't been telling the whole truth about who he was, as Verso just so happens to be his son. Though Verso tries to reassure Maelle that the two of them had been estranged for years and that he wants to defeat the old man, now known as Renoir. And right before Maelle and Verso start to fight Renoir the rest of the expedition joins them to help them out with the fight. After the group successfully manages to survive Renoir's onslaught Maelle and Verso try to reach the manor once again, but are unsuccessful and the manor teleports to a different location with The Paintress, the Maelle look a like and Renoir all disappearing with it. As a result of this Verso gets insanely angry as now they have to try and defeat super powerful enemies known as Axons to get their hearts in order to have The Curator craft a weapon capable of breaking the barrier around The Monolith. After the group is successful in defeating the Axons Maelle presents The Curator with their hearts and he crafts a weapon for her that should be capable of destroying the barrier. So the next day Maelle and the rest of the Expedition travel to the Monolith where Maelle uses her new weapon to shatter the barrier and allow her and the rest of the team entry into the unknown area. After delving deep into The Monoltith the group is once again approached by Renoir, with Maelle determined to kill him for what he did to Gustave. So the group has their final fight against Renoir with them finally being able to defeat him with even The Curator coming to help out Maelle, the two of them actually manage to kill and even seemingly Gommage Renoir.
With him out of the way the last obstacle that remained was The Paintress herself. And once Maelle reaches her she is struck with a vision of her face being lit on fire with The Paintress even calling her Alicia. The name of the Maelle look a like who also happens to be the daughter of The Paintress and Verso's sister. But Verso reminds everyone that this conflict is what the Expeditions were created for. And after a long and tiring battle Expedition 33 finally manages to defeat The Paintress with the massive number on her Monolith disappearing with it as well. So the Expedition flies back to Lumiere to celebrate both the success of Expedition 33 and the end of the yearly Gommage. And while everything seems fine at first, Lumiere is then hit by a massive wave of Chroma that Gommages the entire city even though The Paintress is gone. With Maelle being one of those people but that wasn't the end for her. As Maelle wakes up in the real world and regains her memories of her true identity of Alicia Dessendre. As it was revealed that the world Alicia spent 16 years in as Maelle was actually a Canvas world painted by her older brother Verso. But due to a tragic event which led to a house fire Verso sacrificed his life to save his younger sister. And in order to cope with her grief Alicia's mother Aline took residence within Verso's canvas and painted copies of all her family members as well as human life from within. And with that going on Alicia's father, Renoir wanted to bring Aline out of the Canvas before it kills her, which led to a struggle that persists in a stalemate. So Alicia's older sister Clea has the idea of helping out Renoir by having Alicia go into the Canvas in order to destroy it. But once she enters the Canvas she becomes overwhelmed by Aline's Chroma and is instead reborn as Maelle.
After recovering her memories Alicia goes back into the Canvas and strolls through the empty streets of Lumiere and finds Verso sitting alone. So Alicia goes up to talk to him and Verso reveals to her that he knew this would happen the whole time and that he's not really Verso nor is she Maelle. Though Alicia still says she prefers the name and still calls herself Maelle while within the Canvas. And soon Verso and Maelle are approached by Maelle/Alicia's father, the original Renoir. Where he says that Alicia did an excellent job in expelling her mother from the Canvas but that they still need to destroy it in order to make sure no one gets lost in it ever again. But Maelle doesn't want to destroy Verso's canvas as it was the last remaining piece of his soul that the Dessendres had left. Which led to another city wide Gommage caused by Renoir now revealed to have been The Curator which even Verso was affected by. But thanks to Maelle remembering her powers as a Paintress she was able to repaint Verso. And after the two pseudo family members escape from Renoir. And Maelle tries to repaint Lune and Sciel but wasn't able to at first. But with a little help from Verso, Esquie and Monoco she was able to bring back her friends. After bringing back The Expedition Maelle talks to Verso about finding a letter that Painted Alicia wrote for her that Verso threw away. And wants to talk to her in order to thank her and ask her why their mother kept her scars from the fire.
So Maelle convinced Verso to take her to meet Alicia at the top of a massive tower like structure. Where at first she would only talk to Verso but ended up sharing a vision with Maelle and the two of them seem to have bonded. And Alicia has one last request for Maelle as she challenges her original version to a duel. After Maelle defeats Alicia, Maelle decides to give Alicia a new beginning and Gommages her. Which has Verso incredibly angry at her as she killed the last of his family, though Maelle insists that Verso still has Expedition 33. But Maelle does still apologize as even though the Gommage is what Alicia wanted she didn't let Verso have the chance to say goodbye to his sister. But Maelle also learned that Verso let Gustave die and that he could have saved him from Renoir so both of them have basically killed the others sibling, making them even. After that revelation Maelle resolves to defeat her father in order to force him out of the Canvas so she can stay. So Maelle uses her powers as a Paintress to make her own army of fallen Expeditioners to counter Renoir's own army of Nevrons.
After completing her army Maelle led the Expedition back to Lumiere to challenge her father for one last duel, which results in Renoir taking on the form of The Curator once again. After a long battle Renoir summons the Axons to help him out as he was the one who painted them in the first place, giving him a massive advantage. That was until Aline managed to find Verso's canvas again and infiltrate it to help out her daughter in her fight against Renoir, and the two teams start their fight once again. And after a truly long and exhausting conflict, The Expeditioners finally manage to defeat Renoir. With Maelle telling him that she will come home from the Canvas soon, but she would like to stay in it for just a bit longer. And while that does convince Renoir to live with Aline, Verso sees this for the lie it actually is and jumps to the core of the Canvas to try and convince his originals soul to stop painting. But Maelle decides that she needs to stop Verso from destroying Verso's Canvas, which leads to the two of them having one last fight over the fate of the canvas. This leads to one of two endings depending one who you play as. And since this is Maelle's story I'll talk about her ending. Once Maelle confronts and defeats Verso in their duel, she refuses to unpaint her pseudo-brother even though he desperately begs for his life to end. After this seemingly many years pass and it's revealed that Maelle was able to repaint the enitrety of Lumiere, including Verso who is now able to age. Though Verso still realizes he's trapped in a life he doesn't want before starting his show at the Opera House and sees that Maelle is sadly showing signs of a slow death due to her overexposure to being in the Canvas. But to Maelle that doesn't matter as she finally gets the happy and comforting life she's wanted since the fire.
Skill & Experience
Will
Maelle
Arsenal & Equipment
Will
Various Weapons
Will has one of the most extensive arsenals that I've ever covered on these blogs. Given the fact that Will can use any Archetype, he can also wield every single weapon. But in order for me to retain my sanity I'll only briefly mention the types of weapon he can wield with every Archetype. With the Seeker/Prince Archetypes he wields one handed shortswords and with the Warrior Archetype he wields massive greatswords. The Mage lineage of Archetypes has him wielding magic staffs and the same goes for the Healer Archetype but with magic rods with even the Summoner lineage using magic rods. When using The Faker lineage he wields daggers he can throw and with the Knight lineage he wields lances. With the Gunner lineage he can use crossbows and with the Thief Archetype lineage he uses swords built for assassinations. With the Commander lineage he wields semaphores and with The Masked Dancer he uses fans. And finally with the Merchant lineage he uses abacus's and with the Berserker lineage he uses massive Axe's. Although Will's weapon of choice is usually the sword Dragon's Legacy, given to him by his mother the Eldan queen. And this sword comes with the power of turning it's normal swings into Almighty damage, meaning that it cannot be blocked.
Maelle
Rapiers
Maelle's primary weapons of choice are her various rapiers as she has a fencing type of fighting style. Maelle has a plethora of these that she can use all with their own unique elements and effects. But her main weapon of choice is the weapon she received from The Curator in order to destroy the barrier around the monolith. Called Barrier Breaker this weapon deals Void damage meaning that it'll do damage no matter what and cannot be blocked.
Abilities
Will
Archetypes
The power once utilized by the old Hero King's of legend, that Will awakened to in order to protect Strohl. While at first he could only channel the Seeker Archetype, Will can channel and utilize every Archetype in the game, with the sole exception of the Royal Archetypes of his party members. But to make up for that he has his own unique Archetypes that he can use as well.
Seeker
The original Archetype that Will awakened to in order to save Strohl. This Archetype is a jack of all trades type as it's efficient in wind skills, healing skills as well as being able to cast buffs and debuffs. Though one downside it has is that as a jack off all trades it's still a master of none. The Seeker also has two evolved variants with the Adept version being the Magic Seeker and the Elite variant being the Soul Hacker.
Mage
The Archetype that represents Will's Fairy Guide and companion Gallica. As you can probably guess by the name this Archetype specializes in dealing damage with elemental magic. With it's main elements being Fire, Ice and Electricity. It also can evolve further into the Adept variant of Wizard and the two Elite variants of Warlock and Elemental Master.
Warrior
The Archetype that represents the heart of Strohl. This Archetype specializes in dealing out physical slash damage that can target a singular or all enemies. It also has evolved variants with the Adept variant as the Swordsmaster and the Elite variant of Samurai.
Knight
The Archetype that represents the heart of the royal knight Eiseleen Hulkenburg. This Archetype specializes in tanking hits and all out defense. It even has a unique skill that makes all enemy attacks target the caster instead of any other party member. Like usual it too has evolved variants with the Adept being the Magic Knight and the Elite being split into the Dark Knight and Paladin.
Thief
The Archetype that represents the heart of Heismay Noctule. This Archetype specializes in dealing out physical dark damage with chances to insta-kill. As well as dealing out single target slash damage. Its Adept variant is the Assassin and its Elite version is the Ninja.
Masked Dancer
The Archetype that represents the heart of the songstress Juani Cygnus. This Archetype is a more unique one as it's specialty is changing it's affinities and abilities depending on what mask is equipped. Another specialty it has is that it can give enemies a weakness to virtually every elemental type in the game, It's basically a massive reference to Personas and the Wild Card users. This is further proven by it's Elite version being the Persona Master.
Summoner
This Archetype is a representation of the heart of Euphausia Etoreika. This Archetype specializes in summoning as the name suggests. It can even summon the gods and demons from various mythologies and religions. Like the Masked Dancer this Archetype is also a reference, but a reference to mainline SMT rather than Persona. This too is further proven by its Elite variant of the Devil Summoner.
Berserker
The Archetype that is a representation of my boy Basilio Lupus Magnus. This Archetype specializes in dealing out incredibly high physical strike damage. And it can even increase that damage with the use of the skill Charge which multiplies the next physical attacks damage output by 2.5 times. It's evolved variant is the Elite, Destroyer.
Gunner
The Archetype that represents the heart of Neuras Corax. This Archetype specializes in dealing out long range pierce damage that also causes various status ailments. Like all Archetypes before and after it that I listed it too can evolve further into the Adept Sniper and the Elite Dragoon.
Healer
The Archetype that represents the gentle natured soul of Maria Alces. As you can probably guess by the name, this Archetype specializes in party wide healing. Whether it be healing wounds or alleviating status ailments, the Healer can heal all. It's even stronger versions are the Adept Cleric and the Elite Savior.
Brawler
The Archetype that represents the heart of the bounty hunter Catherina Grann. This Archetype specializes in dealing out physical strike damage. Although it's unique in the fact that rather that using MP to casts it's skills it uses Will's HP instead. It's evolved variants are the Adept Pugilist and the Elite Martial Artist.
Commander
The Archetype that represents the heart of Elphas Bardon. This Archetype specializes in physical fire damage as well as support and formation skill. And it's one of the few Archetypes to switch it's specialty when it evolves as the Adept General focuses on Ice attacks rather than fire. But the Elite Warlord goes back to focusing on fire attacks.
Merchant
The Archetype that represents Brigitta Lycaon. This Archetype specializes in dealing Almighty damage with skills that cost the in game currency of Reeve. And it's unique as the Almighty attacks also have a very high chance to land a critical hit. It's evolved variant is the Elite Tycoon.
Faker
The Archetype that represents the swindler Alonzo Crotalus. This Archetype specializes in debuffing enemies and removing the enemies buffs. It's evolved variant is the Elite Trickster.
Prince
Will's true and exclusive Archetype he gained after re-merging with the body of The Prince. This Archetype specializes in dealing out physical Slash and Almighty damage as well as magic light damage. The Prince Archetype can also be used as a substitute for any other Archetype in the game when it comes to using Synthesis skills. And with The Prince equipped Will resists every affinity type in the game.
King
The Archetype Will awakened to after merging his Prince Archetype with his Gauntlet Runner in order to match Louis after he did the same thing after he turned into a human. This Archetype comes with a massive power boost as he was able to kill Louis with a single slash from his sword in this state as well as the ability to fly from the wings of the Gauntlet Runner. Although you could argue that this Archetype is nonstandard as Will would usually need his Gauntlet Runner for it, I still included it for the sake of completion.
Synthesis Skills
Synthesis Skills are practically the ultimate abilities in Metaphor. Although Will would usually require the help of a party member to cast these skills, that's more of a gameplay thing than a lore thing. And even if it wasn't, Will would still ultimately be the one casting them so I think they're fair to include. Will has a plethora of these for each Archetype he can use but in order for me to stay sane I'm only going to mention the ones I think are the most important with each Archetype they can be used under, similar to my Dan Vs Gingka blog.
Seeker Lineage:
- Horse Drawn Carriage: Will summons an actual Horse Drawn Carriage that then slams into his enemy and does heavy physical Strike damage.
- Rider of the Blade: Will throws his Seeker sword into the air before jumping on it and riding it like a rocket propelled skateboard and divebombs his enemy, dealing heavy physical Light damage.
- Fireblade Rider: Does functionally the same thing as Rider of the Blade but instead of heavy physical Light damage, it instead does an extreme amount of physical Fire damage
- Soulblade Rider: Basically the same thing as Fireblade Rider and Rider of The Blade but it deals severe Almighty damage
- Winning Horse: An upgrade version of Horse Drawn Carriage which does the same thing but deals severe physical Strike damage.
- Cyclone Slasher: Will surrounds himself in a massive cyclone and uses it to rush forward at his enemy before performing a slash that deals severe magic Wind damage to his target.
- Trial of the Seeker: This skill does an extreme amount of magic Almighty damage to all enemies, and it recovers Will's MP a small amount per hit.
Mage Lineage:
- Meteophor: Will summons a massive meteor like he's Madara which does a severe amount of magic Fire damage to one enemy.
- Skyfall Bolt: Will rides on his staff like a witch on a broom up into the clouds and then calls down a bolt of lightning that naturally deals a severe magic Lightning damage.
- Precipice of the Abyss: Will basically recreates Moses parting the Red Sea in order to do a severe amount of magic Almighty damage to all enemies.
- Netherworld Tree: Will summons a tree of darkness that does an extreme amount of magic Dark damage to all all enemies.
- Child of Death: Will conjures an evil looking baby and drops it on his target to deal an extreme amount of magic Dark damage.
- Lost Wall: This skill applies an enemy with a one time weakness to Fire, Ice, Electric, Wind, Light and Dark damage.
Warrior Lineage:
- Bamboo Splitter: Will jumps up high to gain momentum before bringing down his sword to deal heavy Physical slash damage.
- Peerless Stonecleaver: Will spins an absurd amount of times before delivering an attack that deals severe physical Slash damage to one enemy.
- Vorpal Blade: This S.S. does an extreme amount of physical Slash damage to all of
- Phantom Swordswarm: This does medium physical Slash damage to one enemy and hits anywhere between 4 and 6 times.
- Wind Blade: Will coats his blade with Wind and delivers a slash that deals
- Crimson Moon Sword Art: Will rotates his blade before unleashing a slash that does an extreme amount of physical Slash damage to all enemies present during the battle.
Knight Lineage:
- Jump Thrust: Will jumps up and comes crashing back down on the enemy to deal medium Pierce damage and lower the targets Defence for 3 turns
- Hammer of Justice: This skill does heavy Pierce damage and also inflicts the enemy with a one time weakness to Pierce damage.
- Magic Knight's Hammer: An evolution of sorts to Hammer of Justice where instead of dealing and making the enemy to Pierce damage, it's Electric damage instead
- Crusader's Hammer: Does the same thing as the other Hammer skills but deals and makes the enemy weak to Light damage.
- Peerless Sanctity: Will summons an army of other Paladin Archetypes to hit all his enemies with severe magic Light damage.
- Peerless Shadow: Will summons an army of other Dark Knight Archetypes in order to hit all enemies with severe magic Dark damage
Brawler Lineage:
- Meteoric Fist: Will unleashes a flurry of punches before flying through his enemies to deal out weak Strike damage to all enemies that hits 1 to 3 times
- Energy Ray: Will gathers what seems to be holy energy or light before firing it out to hit his enemy with heavy Physical Light damage
- Boltburst Fist: An evolution to Meteoric Fist where Will deals out medium physical Electric damage that hits 2 to 4 times.
- Ultimate Energy Ray: An evolution of Energy Ray where Will gathers blue light in before firing it out in a beam that does severe Physical Light damage to one enemy
- Bodhivista's Palm: Will summons two massive fist and brings them together before bringing them together to slam his target with to deal Severe Strike damage that also inflicts them with a one time weakness to Strike damage.
Healer Lineage:
- Magical Injection: Will forms a barrier of magic that nullifies an attack that would inflict a status ailment for him and his allies.
- Divine Punishment: Will summons lightning from the clouds to deal out severe magic Light damage that also inflicts the target with a one time weakness to Light damage.
Gunner Lineage:
- Wild Barrage: Will rains arrows down on his enemies that does medium physical Pierce damage to all enemies 2-3 times. This skill also has multiple evolution variants as well.
- Mania Bullet: Will shoots a massive bullet bill looking thing to hit one of his targets. This skill also inflicts them with a one-time weakness to Strike/Slash/Pierce damage. It also has multiple evolved variants
- Bullet Barrage: Will uses his gun to shoot out multiple bullets that hit the target for severe Pierce damage, and also ignores enemy resistances.
- Dragoroa: This does extreme magic Fire damage to one enemy with a chance to inflict Burn.
- Coldragoroa:This does extreme magic Ice damage to one enemy with a chance to inflict Frostbite.
- Thunder Fang: Does extreme magic Electric damage to all enemies
- Draco Ray: Does extreme magic Light damage to one enemy and ignores enemy resistances.
Thief Lineage:
- Phantom Tracer: Deals extreme Slash damage to one enemy and removes buff effects.
- Godkiller: Deals extreme physical Dark damage to one enemy with a high chance of instantly killing the the target.
- Fire Art: Deals extreme magic Fire damage to one enemy with a chance to inflict Burn.
- Ice Art: Deals extreme magic Ice damage to one enemy with a chance to inflict Frostbite.
- Bloodrain Twin Ninpo: Deals severe Slash damage to one enemy and removes status, repel and buff effects on the enemy as well.
Faker Lineage:
- Debilitate: Decreases one enemy's strength, defence and speed stat all at once for 3 turns.
- Free Juggling: Deals weak physical Almighty damage to all enemies without using any MP.
- Miracle Cirque: An evolution to Free Juggling where it deals extreme physical Almighty damage to all enemies.
General Lineage:
- Blubberblast Maneuver: Deals extreme magic Fire damage to all enemies and decreases their agility for 3 turns
- Megido: Deals medium magic Almighty damage to all enemies.
- Icewolf Offensive: Deals extreme magic Ice damage to one enemy.
- Megidola: Deals heavy magic Almighty damage to all enemies.
- Megidolaon: Deals severe magic Almighty damage to all enemies.
- Eureka Moment: Deals extreme magic Fire damage to all enemies and ignores resistances, with a chance to inflict Burn.
Merchant Lineage:
- All Reset: Removes all beneficial effects and buffs from the target.
- Fortune Slots: All hits do Critical damage but hits very rarely due to the low hit rate.
- Money Power: Increases all stats by three ranks for three turns and instead of costing MP it costs money.
- Golden Soldier: Deals extreme magic Almighty damage to all enemies.
Masked Dancer Lineage:
- Hellfire Dance: Gives all enemies a one time weakness to Fire damage and ignores if they resist it or not.
- Ice Blue Dance: Gives all enemies a one time weakness to Ice damage and ignores their resistances.
- Sable Dance: Gives all enemies a one time weakness to Dark damage and ignores enemy resistances.
- Dance Macabre: A skill with a high chance to instantly kill all current enemies.
- Masquerade Charge: Dramatically increases his and his allies physical attack damage.
Summoner Lineage:
- Summon Lizardman: Will summons a lizardman that deals extreme physical Electric damage to one enemy and lowering their defence for 3 turns.
- Summon Undead King: Will summons a lich that deals extreme physical Dark damage that has a chance of insta-killing the target.
- Summon Eagle Lion King: Summons a Griffin looking thing that deals extreme magic Wind damage to all enemies.
- Summon Dragon God: Summons the Dragon God of Virga Island, Eht. Eht then does severe magic Fire damage to all enemies that removes their buffs.
- Summon Guptauros King: Summons the Guptauros King that deals medium Strike damage 1 to 3 times.
- Summon Kishin: Summons the God of Thunder, Thor to deal medium magic Electric damage to one enemy 2 to 4 times.
- Summon Deity: Summons the Hindu God Vishnu to deal out extreme magic Light damage to all enemies with a chance to inflict Daze.
- Summon Fury: Summons the Hindu Destroyer God Shiva to deal extreme magic Strike damage to all enemies. It also decreases their attack and defence stat for 3 turns.
- Summon Tyrant: Summons The Lord of The Flies, Beelzebub in order to deal out severe magic Almighty damage to all enemies with a chance to inflict Hex
- Hadean Icecrag: Deals extreme magic Ice damage to all enemies.
Berserker Lineage:
- Rampage Slash: Deals extreme physical Slash damage to one enemy and ignores enemy resistances.
- Wild Bore: Deals heavy physical Pierce damage to one enemy and gives them a one time weakness to Pierce.
- Wanton Destruction: Deals heavy physical Strike damage to one enemy and gives them a one time weakness to Strike.
- Battlecry Tackle: Deals heavy physical Strike damage to all enemies and hits 1 to 3 times while ignoring their resistances.
- Deadly Eraser: Deals severe physical Almighty damage to one enemy and removes status, repel and buff effects on the target.
Prince
- Royal Sword: Deals severe magic or physical Almighty damage depending on whether Will's strength or magic stat is higher to one enemy. It does even more damage against Humans.
- Armageddon's Final Sire: Will's ultimate attack. It simply does the most amount of damage you can do being 9,999 of the Almighty element to all enemies.
Maelle
Parry
An alternative to dodging in order to avoid taking damage, Maelle can choose to try and use her weapon to block and parry attacks instead. And should Maelle be able to parry every attack in a combo she'll answer back with a counter that deals insane damage of Maelle's weapon's element.
Stances
Maelle's unique form of combat revolves around her 4 stances that she can be in depending of the skills, weapons, Pictos or even regular attacks she uses. Her default stance is ironically enough being Stanceless with no positive or negative effects. There's also the Offensive Stance which increases her damage output by 50% but also increases her damage taken by 50%. Her Defensive Stance reduces her damage taken by 50% and increases her AP by 1 every time she dodges or parries successfully which is helpful since AP is what she needs to use her skills. And finally Virtuose Stance dramatically increases her damage output by 200%.
Skills
And speaking of Skills, Maelle has a plethora of skills that she can use all with their own unique effects and elements. Though most of her skills do use the element of her equipped weapon, there are also a myriad of skills that already have a dedicated element. Her skills are also able to switch her Stances depending on how they are used.
Offensive Switch
One of Maelle's three default skills. This skill does low damage of whatever element Maelle's weapon is and applies the Defenceless status condition on her enemy. This skill also switches Maelle's stance to Offensive after the skill is used.
Spark
This skill does a low amount of single target Fire damage and only hits once. It also applies 3 Burn to her enemy but if its used in Offensive Stance it applies 5 Burn instead. After the skill is used Maelle's stance changes to Defensive.
Swift Stride
This skill does a small amount of single target physical damage that also changes Maelle's Stance to Virtuose if her target is burning. It also recovers her AP a small amount.
Percee
This skill does a medium amount of single target Physical damage that does extra damage to the target if it's Marked. This skill normally costs 5 AP but if it's used in Virtuose Stance the AP cost is lowered to 2. This also changes Maelle's stance to Defensive after it's used.
Fencer's Flurry
This skill hits all enemies for medium damage of the element of Maelle's weapon 1 time. It also applies the Defenceless debuff to her enemies and switches her stance to Offensive after the skill is used.
Fleuret FuryThis skill does high single target Physical damage 3 times. If Maelle uses this skill while in Virtuose Stance, she'll stay in it rather than switching Stances. But if it's used in another Stance she reverts back to her Stanceless state.
Breaking Rules
This skill does a low amount of single target Physical damage with 2 hits. It also completely eradicates the enemy's shields and Maelle gains 1 AP per shield destroyed with this skill. Breaking Rules changes Maelle's stance to Offensive after its use.
Burning Canvas
This skill does a high amount of single target Void damage and hits 5 times. It also applies 1 Burn per hit with the damage increasing the more burned her target is. After using this skill Maelle's stance changes to Offensive.
Combustion
This skill does a medium amount of single target Physical damage and hits twice. It also can consume the Burn on the enemy up to 10 in order to increase its damage output. After the skill is used Maelle's stance switches to Offensive.
Degagement
This skill does a low amount of single target Fire damage that only hits once. After this skill is used and the target is hit, the target of the skill will become weak to Fire Damage for two turns. Also after it's used Maelle's stance changes to Offensive.
Guard Up
This skill applies the Shell buff to Maelle and her teammates, reducing the amount of damage she takes dramatically for up to 3 turns.
Guard Down
This skill applies the Defenceless debuff to all of Maelle's enemies for 3 turns. It also changes Maelle's stance to Offensive.
Gustave's Homeage
A skill that Maelle developed as a way to honor Gustave. This skill does a high amount of single target Lightning damage and hits 8 times. It also does significantly more damage to the target if its Marked and even keeps the Mark on the enemy. After the skill is used Maelle's stance changes to Virtuose.
Last Chance
This is a more risky skill as it reduces Maelle's health all the way down to 1 in order to gain her max amount of AP being 9. It also changes Maelle's stance to Virtuose after the skill is used.
Mezzo Forte
This skill reapplies Maelle's current stance in order for her to stay in it longer and also gives her back a range from 2 to 4 AP.
Momentum Strike
This skill does a high amount of single target damage of Maelle's weapons element and hits once. It also does increased damage to her targets if they have a Mark. After the skill is used Maelle's stance changes to Virtuose.
Payback
This skill does a high amount of single target Physical damage that hits 1 time. Normally the skill would cost the max amount of AP being 9 but the cost is reduces by 1 AP per the amount of times she successfully since her last time. After the skill is used Maelle's stance changes to Defensive.
Phantom Strike
This skill does a high amount of Void damage that both targets all of Maelle's enemies and hits them 4 times. It also gives a massive 35% increase to the Gradient charge for Gradient attacks (more on those later). After this skill is used Maelle's stance is changed to Defensive.
Pyrolyse
This skill does an extreme amount of single target Fire damage and hits 3 times. It also applies 3 Burn to her target per hit of this skill with a maximum amount of 15 Burn applied. If the skill is used while Maelle is in Offensive Stance the Burn applied per hit will be increased by 2 making the maximum amount of Burn will instead by 21. After the skill is used Maelle's stance changes to Defensive.
Rain of Fire
This skill does a medium amount of single target Fire damage and hits twice. Every time the skill hits it applies 3 Burn to her target for a max amount of 6. Although if it's used while in Defensive Stance the Burn applied per hit increases by 2 for a new max of 10 Burn. After this skill is used Maelle's stance changes to Defensive.
Revenge
This skill does a high amount of single target Fire damage and only hits once. As the name kind of implies this skill does extra damage for each time Maelle got hit during the previous turn. After using the skill Maelle's stance changes to Defensive.
Stendhal
This skill does an extreme amount of single target Void damage and only hits once. It also removes the shields on Maelle's own Health but as a trade off it applies the Defenceless debuff to her target. After this skill is used Maelle reverts to her default state of Stanceless.
Sword Ballet
This skill does an extreme amount of single target damage of the element of Maelle's weapon and hits 5 times. Every time Maelle lands a critical hit with this skill it'll do double the damage instead of the normal 1.5 times increase. After using this skill Maelle's stance changes to Defensive.
Gradient Attacks
Gradient Attacks are ultra powerful skills that Maelle can only use when the Gradient Counter is filled up. The max amount of charges she can have is 3 but each level of her Gradient attacks takes up the appropiate amount of charges. With her level 1 taking up 1 charge, level 2 takes 2 charges and level 3 takes up 3 charges.
Virtuose Strike
Maelle's level 1 Gradient Attack. This does a high amount of single target Physical damage and hits them 5 times. As the name implies, after this Gradient Attack is used Maelle's stance changes to Virtuose.
Phoenix Flame
Maelle's level 2 Gradient Attack. This applies 10 Burn to all enemies and revives Maelle's allies with 50 to 70% of their health back. Though the revival aspect isn't useful in a 1v1. After using this Gradient, Maelle's stance changes to Offensive.
Gommage
Maelle's ultimate ability that she gained after remembering her powers as a Paintress and her level 3 Gradient Attack. This skill will instantly kill anyone substantially weaker than Maelle. And if it lands a killing blow the target is functionally erased from existence as they're removed from the Canvas. Although even if the skill doesn't kill it will still do a massive amount of Void damage and hits once.
Gradient Counters
Basically an enhanced version of Maelle's parries to normal attacks, Gradient counters parry the Gradient attacks used by other combatants. It can also counter abilities meant to insta kill like Renoir's vanishment or Osquio's world destruction.
Paintress Powers
Forms
Will
Magla Will
The form that The Prince of Euchronia's will and dreams took on in a physical form made of magla thanks to his mother, the Eldan Queen. This is the form that Will spent most of his journey in as he had his memories messed with to not remember being The Prince. And in this state he looks almost identical to The Prince with the main differences being his hair being blue rather than white and his eyes being two different colors.
The Prince
This is Will's actual body that he lived in as The Prince until he became incapacitated by the slow acting curse which resulted in his desires being made into a physical being. Not much is known about The Prince which isn't already known about Will, with the sole exception of him being a hybrid between a Clemar and Elda although he mainly has Elda traits.
Prince Will
After Magla Will recovered his memories of who he truly was and merged back with The Prince, this was the result. His body inhabits both the spirit of who he was before the merger and the old spirit of His Highness The Prince. This is basically Will's true form and his strongest as he awakened his true Archetype of The Prince after achieving this form.
Maelle
Alicia Dessendre
Maelle's true form is the youngest child of the Dessendre family of Painters, Alicia Dessendre. This was what Alicia was supposed to be like in Verso's canvas before being overwhelmed by her mother's chroma. As Alicia, she has the powers of a Painter/Paintress but none of the combat ability she gained as Maelle. And if Verso's ending is chosen then this becomes the official state of Maelle. No longer Maelle but just Alicia Dessendre.
Maelle
After being overwhelmed by Aline's Chroma, Alicia Dessendre was reborn in the Canvas as Maelle. This is the state she spends most of the game in and 16 years of her Canvas life in as she had forgotten all about her previous life as Alicia. This is also the form where she gains most of her combat ability as well. And due to the fact that she had technically become a painted being, she was able to be effected by Renoir's Gommage.
Paintress Maelle
After being evicted from Verso's canvas, she woke back up in the real world as Alicia. And after reentering the Canvas with all her memories as Alicia she was able to achieve a form that was functionally a fusion of Alicia Dessendre and Maelle. She has all the combat ability and then some that Maelle did, as well as the powers to manipulate a Canvas that Painters and Paintresses have.
Feats
Will
Overall
- Technically cured himself of his own curse
- Reawakened himself as The Prince
- Became respected across the entirety of Euchronia even though he's an Elda
- Stopped Louis's plan of turning all of Euchronia into Humans
- Became the youngest ever King of Euhcronia
Power
Speed
Maelle
Overall
- Was the youngest member of Expedition 33
- Helped force her mother out of Verso's Canvas
- Defeated her father Renoir
- Became the Paintress of the Canvas in her ending.
Power
Speed
Durability
Scaling
Will
Louis Guiabern
Will was able to match Louis multiple times throughout the story and was even able to kill him with a single slash from his sword after awakening to his King Archetype, so he should be able to scale to any feats Louis has performed.
Almighty Magic Scaling
The Size of Verso's Canvas
My Verdict
While this category normally seems like it should be a clean sweep for Maelle I believe that there's a bit more debate and nuance to this topic. Starting with strength feats their capable of performing themselves, Will can summon massive meteors and recreate parting the Red Sea coming in at 5.37 Gigatons. Compared to Maelle who can parry her father's black hole coming out to 1.75 FOE which is Large Star Level at the high end. So going by that Maelle obviously outclasses, where things get interesting is when we factor in the weapon statements that I think Will should get due to he himself outputting more damage than the weapons he uses. So when factoring those in he can match Maelle's black hole feat with the Astral Saints Fists statement of crushing stars, and can go even further with two of his weapons stated to be able to destroy the universe. And even more impressive is that Maelle can still keep up with these Universal ends with scaling to Verso who created a whole universe with his Canvas and being able to parry Osquio's canvas destroying attack. So in strength they end up evening out. Although speed is a bit of a different story, at first it seems even due to both combatants being able to dodge lightning. It actually ends up with a decisive victory as though Will can use a lightspeed attack in the Ultimate Energy Ray, scaling him to Louis dodging it only comes out to 42% the speed of Light. And compared to Maelle who can outright dodge or parry Simon's lightspeed attack combo, meaning she has to have been moving faster than light obviously. So with all these things considered Maelle should take stats.
Another category that seems like a clean sweep for one combatant but I still think there's merit to discussing. Both Will and Maelle have a frankly insane number of weapons and skills at their disposal with most of them all being unique and accomplishing different things. But even considereng all of that, Will still just has too much for Maelle to reasonably catch up, with both his variety of weapons which he can switch out just like his Archetypes and when he switches them out not only does he completely changes his skills and affinities. So this category should belong to Will.
This category is a pit more peculiar so let me explain for a bit. What I mean with this category is which off the two combatants has ways to harm each other or get around them. And while the title of it is a bit weird this is by far the simplest category to get a result for. That being a tie as even with the various elements they can both use, Maelle doesn't have a conventional weakness and can shield herself and with The Prince Archetype Will resists all affinities other than Almighty, with him also being able to form barriers. Luckily for both of them they can still hit each other through those barriers with Void and Almighty damage as both are still capable of hitting through barriers, like Maelle destroying the Gommageing barrier around the Monolith with Barrier Breaker which does Void and weapons that do Almighty damage like Drakodios piercing through the King's Magic. So this category results in a draw.
Abilities
For the final and most important category I have how their abilities stack up on each other. And for the most part they're pretty even with both of them having ways to harm each other no matter what the other does and holding their own advantges with Maelle being faster and Will having far more variety in his abilities and arsenal. Where this gets a bit more interesting is when we compare their one-shot existence erasure abilities, with Maelle's Gommage and Will's Almighty attacks. While Almighty attacks are definitely more spammable then the Gommage, should they hit and erase Maelle, she could still come back. Like she did after being hit with Renoir's Gommage. While that's technically because she can re-enter a Canvas in order for her powers to work that's where this fight would have to take place in anyway. On top of that due to being faster than Will, Maelle could simply dodge the Almighty attacks. But unlike Maelle being able to return to the fight after being erased, Will has no meaningful way to return from being Gommaged. So the final category would go to Maelle.
Conclusion
Will
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Advantages:
- Significantly more versatile with his weapons and Archetypes
- Matches Maelle in strength with their high ends
- Can always harm Maelle due to Almighty attacks
- With Almighty attacks that one-shot and kill, can technically erase Maelle...
Disadvantages:
- Slower than Maelle
- Significantly weaker than Maelle without their high ends
- Can always be harmed through Void damage
- Has no ways to come back from being Gommaged
- ...Maelle can come back from being functionally erased
Maelle
Advantages:
- Stronger than Will without using both their highest ends and still matches with Will when using both their highest ends
- Faster than Will
- Can always harm Will through Void damage
- Can come back from being erased through Almighty damage
- Can erase Will far more thoroughly than Will can to her
Disadvantages:
- Is significantly less versatile than Will
- Can always be harmed due to Almighty attacks
- Can be erased for a short period of time
Overall, this was a very fun matchup to do research for, especially since both Metaphor and Expedition 33 are some of, if not the best RPGs to come out in recent memory. Seriously if you've read this far without playing them for some reason go do that. But back on topic due to her superior stats, being unable to be blocked through Void damage and straight up erasing Will through her Gommage, The King would end up being painted over by the ruler of the Canvas. The winner is Alicia Dessendre, AKA Maelle
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