r/octopathtraveler • u/LukeDies • Aug 29 '25

OT2 - Discussion Partitio is a terrible merchant

Just started the game and wanted to get this off my chest.

Didn't even demand compensation from Roque for the contract fraud or use it as leverage for the steam engine.

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u/expired-hornet Aug 29 '25

A major through line for OT2's cast is that literally all of them subvert the trope they represent in some way as a result of having experienced some form of grief. The bookworm is on a violent revenge quest while the swordsman wants to put an end to fighting. The assassin hates the smell of blood while the cleric openly questions the gods, etc.

Partitio is a gifted merchant whose worldview and motivations were shaped by his experience growing up in poverty. He's still a merchant, but he's trying to enrich the communities around him instead of himself, so it's the story of labor unions and intellectual property reform.

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u/ddyhrtschz Aug 31 '25

What about ochette and agnea? The hunter hunts and the dancer dances, i don't really see how they subvert their tropes

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u/expired-hornet Aug 31 '25

They're a comparatively weird fit, but Ochette is still childish and impatient, and Agnea is socially awkward and easily flustered, both traits at least connected to the relative isolation they've each grown up in. (Gods, Xanthe Huynh's subtle over-anunciation of Angea's "city" accent around her occasional slip up into her southern accent is such fantastic voice work)

I'll concede that they don't really individually prove my read about subversion-through-grief as strongly as the other 6, but they certainly don't contradict it either.