Yggdra Union/Headscratchers

We love Yggdra Union, but sometimes its plot points just bug us.


 * As much as the Magnificent Bastard is,.
 * Seriously, here's an example of how it could have turned out.


 * The problem with this situation, though, is . Kiyudzuki does make a good case of how he could have made it so that Yggdra couldn't wait to get rid of the thing in one of her Omake 4koma.
 * Once has it,
 * This is still hard to do, considering that the Royal Army has by this time . The point he actually got hit with the Idiot Ball was . The only semi-logical explanation for this is that Love Makes You Dumb--and that's if the fangirls are to be believed.
 * It doesn't matter
 * The thing is that since the only people around are the Royal Army, And if he went around killing someone who wasn't evil, he'd have the Royal Army after him anyway. I stand by his having gotten Idiot Ball'd in Battlefield 18; everything would have been way easier for him if he'd joined them then.
 * Why, why, WHY did the Imperial Army have to kill Monica and Canaan's militia? At this point they're strong as all hell, and the militia consisted of merely civilians. Milanor even stated that it felt more like a slaughter. So, being as strong as they are, couldn't they have merely subdued them? Knock them out, disarm them, break their arms, tie them up, SOMETHING.
 * As weak as the militia is, it can still stall the Imperial Army long enough for strong empire soldiers to arrive if left unchecked. Note that Emilia arrived just few moments after the militia is annihilated. Even if you tie them up or disarm them, the Imperial Army still needs someone to check on them and that's a liability that the Imperial Army can't afford.
 * Yggdra also didn't expect the Royal Army to actually have to kill the kids--the going theory was that Monica and company were inspired by Bronquian propaganda instead of real nationalism and loyalty to Gulcasa, and would scatter once they saw what battle was like. The path to Flarewerk is bottlenecked so that any army must go through Bardot and Drominos to get there, and given that Monica and Canaan would continue to attack them if left ignored, they didn't have much choice. Yggdra was probably also too proud to turn back after having shot her mouth off to Kylier in front of everyone else--and then there's also the fact that Monica is enough of a rallying point to the people that she would have become very dangerous if left alone. There are loads of reasons that the Royal Army had to go through with it, even though none of those reasons really justify killing half-trained villagers who only want to protect their Emperor and their lands.
 * Why didn't Russell tell ANYONE about the existance of ? ESPECIALLY after.
 * Who said Russell knew at all? I don't recall Russell explicitly fighting alongside the Valkyries at any point in the story, so he'd have no reason to know.
 * This makes sense, and even if he did know the truth, according to Yggdra Unison he can't tell them apart, so he might still have thought that it was always.
 * Has anyone ever wondered about the other unit members, and what their stories are? Especially ones like Yggdra's unit, since Yggdra supposedly was the only one who was found by Milanor, and she's supposedly one of the only ones that could travel into the holy land, but her unit is allowed to follow her in.
 * Good question, and yeah, it's a bit odd. Probably just Gameplay and Story Segregation, though. I've read at least one fanfic where her troop specifically were used as minor characters, but haven't seen anyone try to explain that odd bit in the holy land.
 * The first one, specifically. Why didn't she just instead of  ? I recall the Fantasinians turning another magic cannon to their own use earlier in the game, so it just seemed like a waste to me. Then again, maybe I just resent the game for taking away such a useful unit.
 * Probably because the gate itself still would have been there to break through otherwise, and it's so well-fortified that even during the Bronquian revolution, Gulcasa chose to bypass the problem of breaking it down by making friends with the general in charge of keeping him out and getting the guy to just let him through. The method most conducive to keeping Milanor alive would be to take out the gate itself, not just the bombardment crew on top. (Also of note is that the cannons the Royal Army usually commandeers are ordinary ones, and the cannon in this instance is magical. The character attacking isn't a magic-user and might not have been able to work it.)
 * How in the world did manage to revive/recreate ? I remember him trolling Yggdra and co. about the number of corpses and "spare body parts" they had left behind, but he would have needed at least a bit of --the head, most likely--to start with, and the character in question died in an explosion that obliterated a fairly large stone structure. There couldn't have been much for him to work with.
 * Good for the perpetrator that he has logic-defying magic, right?