Part 101: Marluxia

Next on the list is Marluxia. All of his weapons' names follow an obvious pattern. See if you can spot what it is.



None: Fickle Erica

Here's a hint: Erica is another name for heath.



Skill Gear: Jilted Anemone.
Technical Gear: Proud Amaryllis
Duel Gear: Mad Safflower
(Transforms your weapon and boosts your Magic to give it more power.)

Safflower, even though it sounds like a combination of saffron and flower, actually has nothing to do with each other. The more you know



Loaded Gear: Poor Melissa
Chrono Gear: Tragic Allium
Phantom Gear: Mournful Cineraria
(Transforms your weapon and allows you to string together faster, longer ground combos.)

Look, an unintentional Hotel Dusk reference!

Also, the Loaded Gear is pretty much just a recolor of the default/Zero Gear.



Lift Gear: Pseudo Silene
Nimble Gear: Faithless Digitalis
(Transforms your weapon into one with much higher Strength.)

Digitalis is actually a flower. It's also known as Foxglove. I have no idea how or why it's called Digitalis, but I'm pretty sure it has no relation to digital.



Wild Gear: Grim Muscari
Ominous Gear: Docile Vallota
(Transforms your weapon into one that performs very well in midair.)

Looks like all weapons that performs well in midair is blue. Sure, why not.



Valor Gear: Quiet Belladonna
Fearless Gear: Parting Ipheion
Prestige Gear: Lofty Gerbera
(Transforms your weapon, enabling your attacks to reach a wide area.)

Valor Gear is just a recolor of Skill Gear.



Crisis Gear: Gallant Achillea
Omega Gear: Noble Peony
(Transforms your weapon into one that offers high Magic and ground combo speed.)

These two are just recolors of Technical and Duel Gear. I suppose the developers still put some among all the



Hazard Gear: Fearsome Anise
(Transforms your weapon into one that offers high Strength and combo reach.)

This is a recolor of Nimble Gear.



Rage Gear: Vindictive Thistle
(Transforms our weapon and allows you to string together longer ground and aerial combos.)

This is a recolor of Phantom Gear. It kinda looks like Xigbar's arrowguns viewed from the side.



Champion Gear: Fair Helianthus
Ultimate Gear: Solemn Magnolia
(Transforms your weapon and lets you perform longer ground combos with wider reach.)

These are recolors of Fearless Gear and Prestige Gear. The just keeps piling up.



Pandora's Gear: Hallowed Lotus

At least the rest is different. This one looks like Vexen's shield.



Zero Gear: Graceful Dahlia

For some reason Marluxia chooses to use the least extravagant weapon as his main.



Casual Gear: Stirring Ladle
Mystery Gear: Dainty Bellflowers

No, ladle isn't secretly some kind of flower.

And according to Google, dainty means:
1. delicately small and pretty
2. fastidious or difficult to please, typically concerning food

I don't think we know anything about Marluxia's appetite, and is he fastidious? He's definitely not small nor delicate, though.



For Marluxia's limit, we need to press A to start the ring and then press A again when it's pink to actually attack. The attack is stronger if we start the ring while in Final Limit.

If we press A while the ring's black the attack will be weak. Probably. I couldn't trigger it even if I button mash, so who knows



This is Marluxia's victory pose. You can be forgiven for thinking this is his battle pose.



And here's his withdraw pose. Here's my question: What happened to his face?