History VideoGame / AtelierMeruruTheApprenticeOfArland

* PlayingHouse: When Sterk ends up having to entertain the 8-year-old Rorona for a day, he's told that they look like a father and child, something that's ''really'' awkward for him since he's implied to have been harboring feelings for her as an adult and would very obviously prefer her that way. Meruru twists the knife in further by offering to go on a shopping trip with him with herself as the mom, Sterk as the dad, and Rorona as the kid, which makes him so uncomfortable that he hastily declines and flees.

* RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething: Meruru's charm and main point of being. Instead of going by her father's aim of letting the nation get peacefully absorbed into Arland's border, Meruru later wants to use alchemy to bolster Arls condition. Throughout the game, her efforts will be rewarded by the sight of the map becoming crowded with representation of Arls' growth

** Out of universe, Astrid's belief that nobody would want to see Rorona in her thirties came directly from the devs themselves, extending all the way into the original version not having a ''single'' ending where she would be anything but young and cute even with damaged memories and a reversal of her hard-earned CharacterDevelopment. Needless to say, fans across the world were ''not'' amused, and Gust took the message that people really did want to see Rorona in her thirties to heart enough that they never made that mistake with her ever again: after quickly releasing a calendar with her at a proper age, they created a new ending for ''Plus'' (and, in the original Japanese version, a retroactive [=PS3=] patch as well) that depicted what led up to it, went all-in depicting Rorona as a mother with a child in ''[[VideoGame/AtelierLuluaTheScionOfArland Lulua]]'', and added two extra scenes in ''DX'' that make ''sure'' you know that Rorona is an adult and the new ending is the canon one. Any future attempts at showing younger versions of returning characters kept squarely to [[MirrorSelf alternate universe versions]] or TimeTravel.

** Out of universe, Astrid's belief that nobody would want to see Rorona in her thirties came directly from the devs themselves, extending all the way into the original version not having a ''single'' ending where she would be anything but young and cute even with damaged memories and a reversal of her hard-earned CharacterDevelopment. Needless to say, fans across the world were ''not'' amused, and Gust took the message that people really did want to see Rorona in her thirties to heart enough that they never made that mistake with Rorona ever again: after quickly releasing a calendar with her at a proper age, they created a new ending for ''Plus'' (and, in the original Japanese version, a retroactive [=PS3=] patch as well) that depicted what led up to it, went all-in depicting Rorona as a mother with a child in ''[[VideoGame/AtelierLuluaTheScionOfArland Lulua]]'', and added two extra scenes in ''DX'' that make ''sure'' you know that Rorona is an adult and the new ending is the canon one.