Seiken Densetsu: Legend of Mana - The Teardrop Crystal Episode 11 Discussion

DrMondaiNashi said:
Sappho goes as far as to call Florina a "suteishi" which is a word I haven't heard before in the lore, I guess that makes her even more worthless than we presumed her to be within Jumi society before she got promoted to the Clarius? this is interesting.

As for Blackpearl's development, there's this small detail that has to do with how pearls are produced, these stones are made of layers, and as time passes more layers are added on top and they increase in size, so when her core got hit by Alex's card in Duma, the sheer force of the blow exposed the old layers that were hidden, meaning that she was essentially always Pearl, deep within, beneath the hardened, darkened exterior that was Blackpearl her original and most pure form is Pearl herself, this being also the reason why Blackpearl can regress into Pearl but Pearl herself doesn't know how to "go back" to Blackpearl, because Pearl is actually intact, while Blackpearl is missing part of her being, she can't fully exist, because her "layer" is fragmented ... sadly won't get to see that facet of her character shown in here.

Also, the physical property of chrysoberyl being pleochroic explains why Alexander can appear as a male or a female depending on the light that gets projected onto its core, such as how he was a male while serving under Blackpearl, but in the game it adopted a female form exactly at the moment when its perception of Blackpearl changed, which means its "light" as in its "mind" had changed at that very moment and turned into a different color, same with Diana turning into stone and "closing" her heart, you notice that when Alexander is with Florina, it becomes a he again, and this always seemed to me as a subtle hint that he has feelings for her, as the male is the form that it will adopt when he looks up and/or holds people in high esteem.

Funny a lot of these things can be explained by the physical properties of jewels and crystals, it was maybe one of the most creative parts of the Jumi race in the original work, as in, you could explain their behaviour and mindset by analysing the physical properties of the real jewel.

This is the beginning of Teardrop Crystal, but obviously the pacing is taking a huge blow and it's getting obvious at this point.

Kamirura said:
I have already seen the explanation of Sandra/Alexander but never thought about Pearl/Blackpearl's story. So Blackpearl was just Pearl but learned how to fight to protect the jumi and hardened her heart (she has a more cold personality than Pearl) while she let her Pearl's self intact as who she was. I think it's a cool concept.