AH NO SORRY my post was just referencing a meme LOL. figaro’s location gimmick involves manipulating the emotions of the wizard you’re training, which. is very figaro LMFAO. essentially, a regularly successful turn gives you a boost to the money you make at the end of a training session; a failed turn gives a boost to the amount of rank exp you’ll make; and a great success will give a boost to both these things. you also get a +100% boost to card exp if you go thru all 4 rounds of training, which can be useful for grinding card stories for mana stones. sometimes you’ll get little pop-ups indicating that your wizard should be in a particular mood — if you manage to train them in that mood at the same time, you’ll get a bonus to the relevant boost. hopefully that makes sense…

i’ve attached an image to demonstrate what i mean — the circled green flower is what you use to change the mood of ur wizard! it’s random, tho, so it relies a little bit on luck

AH sure lemme go thru it :3

full disclosure b4 we start a lot of the information i’ve given here is likely also in This (https://tsuchidaruma.dreamwidth.org/8374.html) guide because it is what taught me how to use granvelle castle effectively in the first place LOL so if my explanation is too confusing (and it can be hard to understand without pictures) i’d recommend reading that instead. but i think my method has deviated from theirs some in the time i’ve been using it, + that guide is for all-999 which is the old chibi limit, so. basically just go with what works for u best

BUT TO BEGIN the most important thing for granvelle castle is that u have at least 4 wizards with the card skill “at the start of a new round, there’s a chance of adding 50 points to [their attribute]”. this is important because consistently getting all-1200 at granvelle requires the player to bring along 3 big cookies (the ones with the faces and the blue filling) which multiply any attribute gains by 6, turning that 50+ points into 300. this also means you need all of your wizards to consist of different attributes so the point distribution is even — that means one passion card, one happiness card, one relaxation card, one coolness card, and one pride card. i personally like bringing as many cards with a “great success” chance boost as their secondary skill, because this helps raise points a lot faster + gives out traits, usually gold ones, which are hard to obtain otherwise if ur cards aren’t lvl 100, and raise your chibis overall power level. having at least one card with a stamina boosting secondary skill is ideal, though — this is why i was very excited to get anni5 murr, because his skill combo is “at the start of a new round, there’s a chance of adding 50 points to coolness” + “when 3 or more members of your party interact, there’s a chance your stamina will be raised accordingly” which is a Really good skill combo for the granvelle method specifically. this is what makes doing this method so hard, though, because it’s difficult to guarantee you’ll have the very specific combination of card skills and attributes needed… if you’re trying to make a specific chibi then i’d recommend filling the fifth slot in your party with someone else’s card of the chibi you’re trying to make — i’m making an all-christmas-mithra team, for example, so i have someone else’s lvl 100 christmas mithra card in the fifth slot. now, that card hasn’t got a 50 point boost skill, but that’s where having those great success skills comes in handy, and i’ll explain why below

to summarise so far:
bring 5 cards of different attributes. have at least 4 of them give you 50+ to their attribute points at the start of a round. have at least 3 of them with the great success secondary skill. ideally have 1 with a stamina-boosting secondary skill, but it is possible to do this without, just more difficult. have the card you need in your fifth slot if you’re trying to make a specific chibi, or otherwise just fill that slot with another 50+ point bonus skill card

an important thing to know about granvelle castle also is the mechanic of the location itself: once 5 wizards have interacted with your party leader, it allows you to raise the level of an attribute by a certain amount. this is useful because the higher the level is, the more points you’ll gain in that area while training. it also simultaneously raises the friendship meter between your party members and leader, which makes activating their skills easier. this is another reason why bringing along 1 wizard of each attribute is important: you can only raise the attribute level of the wizard associated with the attribute, so if you have a team without a passion card for example you won’t be able to use granvelle castle’s gimmick to level passion up At All. anyway with that all said:

• start training! during round one you’ll want to focus primarily on using the location gimmick as much as possible in order to get affection up quick and have your attributes decently levelled. this mostly just comes down to how lucky you get with the interaction rate

• once round 2 starts, you’ll want to try and build up attribute points rather than use the location gimmick. that being said, high affection makes it more likely for your party members to give you the 50+ bonus at the start of a round, and more likely to make their great success skills activate, so it’s not a bad idea to use the gimmick once or twice still. by the end of round 2 you should ideally have all your attributes around level 4

• round 3 is the most important round, and therefore the one where you have to pay the most attention. atp you shouldn’t need to use the location gimmick at all — just focus on getting your attribute points up. ideally by the end of round 3 you should have them all at an A-rank, S-rank if you’re REALLY lucky. once you get to turn 2 of round 3, you NEED your stamina to be in a good place — if it’s low, rest. if it’s middling, better to rest as well. if it’s full or close to full… use your better judgement on whether or not you think you need to rest or not. if you have a card w a stamina-boosting skill with you that can come in clutch, but it’s safer not to gamble on it. once you hit turn 1 of round 3, IMMEDIATELY use all three of your big biscuits. remember when i mentioned earlier that you can get away with only having 4 50+ skill cards so long as you have multiple cards with great success skills? well, here’s where that comes in handy: big biscuits give a huge boost to attribute point scoring, and if you can get one of the great success skill cards to activate during this final turn, it’ll more than likely make up for the 300 point boost it’ll miss out on afterwards. because christmas mithra is a pride-attributed card, i always use my final turn on pride, which typically fills up completely if i get lucky with the great success skills

• once you’ve done the above, round 3 will end and round 4 will start. if you’ve done everything so far correctly, then your 50 point bonuses should turn into 300 point bonuses, which ideally should bring your attributes around the middle of an S+ rank. now all that’s left is to train until every bar is full!

andddd that’s it LOL with any luck it’ll have worked out and you’ll have the all-1200 chibi you desired. there’s a lot to it all and i don’t know if i explained it very well, but i hope it helps u even a little bit JDBSJXN

HMMMMM!!!! whifi alone is lower on my preferred ships compared to snofi alone also, but i do enjoy them greatly still… i think honestly both of these ships are less sexually violent to me than some others HDBSDJSB like i’m never gonna say oz or white are Incapable of violence because that’s obviously not the case, but. i do think white would go easier on figaro than snow would. and i also think that oz holds very little against shylock… murr he might fuck up in bed LOL but shylock? less so. i can definitely see the horny appeal of it tho… oz pulling shylock’s hair… nodding along. feel free to tell me ur interpretation of them tho anon i’d be interested to hear what u think!!

LOL it’s definitely the most abstract of the 5, huh… i think an east-focus oshi would be able to answer this question better tbh, but imo it’s a song primarily about the ways eastern country laws and people treat its wizards, and the way those wizards have to shield themselves from said treatment…

A story of a girl; Finding someone just like her” = the “girl” in question is hypothetical, probably a young witch coming across another witch or wizard

“A decaying piece of fruit; Hung under the roof; Marking our nest (etc)” = feels closest symbolically to faust and the wards/curses he probably set up around the valley of storms to try and keep trespassers and anyone else who might bother him away

Don’t you love the silence?; Can’t you see it at this moment?; My heart is spilling from my hand to your hand/Yes I love your silence; I can see it at this moment; Our love is swimming from my hand to your hand” smth abt how eastern wizards instinctively understand each other and their respective need for quiet and emotional distance — fiercely loyal and protective towards each other, but it’s an unspoken affection, for better or worse

“A bunch of black hair; Pink ribbon; Tied on a rose” = going back to the assumption that the song is about a young witch, it’s possible that this is supposed to reflect what humans in the east sometimes do to wizards — that is, kill them… perhaps the girl died, or someone else died, but all that’s left of them is their hair

“You followed my path; Then unlocked the door; And that’s when you saw; A monstrous face on a body in red” = the general implication of this song is that wizards/witches are meant to be the “monsters” in question, which means that the “monster” in this verse is likely just a wizard or witch with poor self esteem… viewing themself as little more than a beast, “in red” perhaps because they’re coated in blood? i’d say this verse reminds me of shino the most

“Everything inside me is nothing but a memory” = the eastern wizards we know are strongly defined by the memories of their pasts — faust is weighed down by what alec did to him, nero weighed down by what he did to bradley. shino and heath are constantly caught up in the memories of their childhood together, as well as the difficulties of who they were before that point, and who they’ve become now… it’s hard for an eastern wizard to have a truly defined sense of “self”, i feel

that’s kinda all i have to say abt it 😭 again i’m not rly an eastie scholar so i could b misinterpreting this stuff, it’s all just personal conjecture!! i hope it helps a little tho :3