/jp/ - Otaku Culture

>>18356790
Well, carnivorous plants are not that easy for FKG, since many of them are not represented in the language of flowers. There are only two girls (Devil's Claw and Oxygyne, both from the LNs) in the game with no associated flower meanings so far, while it plays strongly into the design and personality of other knights: Lavender's "distrust" makes her a yandere, Dendrobium ("selfish beauty") has a kit full of personal buffs, Easter Cactus ("resurrection") has a phoenix and a revival ability, Nazuna ("I offer my everything to you") was chosen as the assistant knightmaster, Maple ("important memories") cherishes her deceased sister, Water Dropwort ("virtuous in poverty") comes from a poor family and sends back most of her income to them, Dusty Miller ("supporting you") never takes center stage and assists you from the shadows and so on. It's hard to find any flower knight without some reference to the language of flowers, and there are some nice twists too, like how Apple ("to the fairest") lusts over beautiful women rather than being jealous of them.

Still, there are three other more-or-less carnivorous plants in the game: Nepenthes (who shows up as an enemy in the first LN and gets befriended into oblivion thanks to Solar Drive), Catchfly (who captures and dissects pests for that reason) and Nazuna herself (as shepherd's purse has seeds that plug the mouthparts of insects with mucilage, killing them to nourish themselves). Some of the plants you mention also have established flower meanings: sundews get "duplicity, dishonesty, insensitivity" (but also "surprise" and "a serenade", and the plant once enjoyed a much better popular image: before Charles Darwin showed that it ate bugs, Erasmus Darwin called it a queen and compared its sticky droplets to a crown or halo, and even the Big C himself is on record for saying "at this present moment I care more about Drosera than the origin of all the species in the world"), "deceit" and "caught at last" for Venus flytraps, and "doubt, distrust" is sometimes mentioned for bladderwort. Carnivorous plants in general are popular for obvious reasons too, the chances are good that we'll get some more in the future.

Also, Sarracenia's art looks very good to me - I like how her design contains both a name pun (she's carrying heishi sake vessels, since another name of the plant is essentially "heishi-wort") and plenty of botany references, and her personality is top-notch too. Definitely consider getting her in the future, if you haven't already.

>>16811105
She has a fun garden animation too. Honorary Traptrix.

Even her being a heavy drinker makes sense, since there's evidence that at least some Sarracenia pitchers intoxicate their prey to make them fall in faster, and JP wiki notes that the local name of the plant is derived from heishi sake vessels (so that's what the weird-looking pitchers she's holding are).