Driselle and Waya:

Driselle is a minor character but a consequential one.  She matters to both Rowen and Elize by giving both of them a new home and family.  She's pretty, kind and brave.  That's good enough for me, especially when the perfect song is waiting for her, 'A Merchant Town Full of Life.'  This fits as her theme song because she's the leader of the city that the song is literally about.  Hubert got a Tales of Graces song, 'Dance of the Unified Water,' because he's a Tales of Graces character.  Itsuki from Haruhi Suzumiya, who used to have Dance, was given Unused Track 05 from Air instead.

Waya is the handsome young Go player in Hikaru no Go who feels like what ordinarily would be the protagonist of the series.  He's friendly and well-liked and good looking and competent at his job.  I gave him the theme song 'The Second Element II' because he got second in the pro exam.

I test drove unison Karen in my critical penetration squad against the latest score challenge and for the first time ever got over 1.8 million.  The highest squad 31-A has ever  scored is 1.75 million.  This is objective proof that unison Karen is the real deal.  This is at level 0 limit break -- everyone in Squad 31-A is at max limit break level 4.  The reward for reaching 1.8 million was a bunch of title badge experience which got Karen, Risa, Inori and Jamie to title badge level 10, unlocking new skill slots for those four.  This one score challenge created more title badge 10 holders than everything I'd done before.

I've finished the original arc of Octopath Traveler 0, avenging the destroyers of my city.  It's a great game.  What impresses me most is how they reuse assets from the first two games, the layouts of all the cities, the music, etc., while still producing an original game with an original plot.  Maybe more games should use this model, in order to lower production costs while still producing an entertaining product.