Thread:MMYP999/@comment-27109830-20190720105636/@comment-27109830-20190828192013

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Emmerson and Zeke are muscular ladies' men clad in black, brown and green who are always in the company of petite ladies with green hair and eyes that are unfailingly loyal to them. Both are extremely competent in what they do and provide some profound information at crucial moments thanks to their decades worth of experience over the blue clad hero, but are typically seen as men of theatrics and vice who'd rather spend their time with the ladies and travelling through the vast corners of the world instead of performing their duties as the next potential commander and king of their organization.

Both are also potentially related to great heroes of hundreds years prior (whether it truly is the case or not is left somewhat ambiguous in their game), which is a great source of pride to them but also caused a great deal of trouble for them over the course of their life, albeit for different reasons. As a nice touch, both also took heavy inspiration from preceding party members of the game that started their franchise (if you consider Xenogears to be a part of the "Xeno Series" of games).

In a bit of an amusing contrast, Zeke's feelings toward his partner Pandoria is completely platonic despite his affinity for the ladies, whereas it's implied but not confirmed that Pandoria may harbor romantic feelings for Zeke. In reverse, Emmerson is implied to have chosen Anne as his second-in-command out of a crush he has on her, whereas Anne's loyalty to him is confirmed to be based on a platonic sense of obligation because he was the first to appreciate and welcome her into the ranks rather than keeping her at arms' length due to her intellect.

In terms of fighting style, they could not be any more different from their partners and each-other; Emmerson is a gunslinger who exclusively uses his admittedly large crossbow to fight at a distance and excels at fighting a single foe, whereas Anne is a hand-to-hand combatant who decimates foes up close. Zeke, on the other hand, uses an absolutely massive sword combined with lightning-fast attacks that decimates foes up-close, in sharp contrast to Pandoria, who wields the hilt of Zeke's sword to attack at a distance by controlling the blade part or lightning-elemental Ether.