#final fantasy talk

[tifa-lockhartss]

Seeing someone say Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth will end at Cosmo Canyon/Nibelheim makes me insane

[namimikan]

here’s the thing about wakka. i liked him. a lot. he was the big brother to tidus, he was friendly and sweet, and so very admirable in a lot of ways. he was funny and calming, and he was integral to getting attached to the characters.

but i couldn’t stand him being racist, and it doesn’t help that i got stuck on the game roughly during that part, where he was so vehemently anti-al bhed/anti-machina. but it grew pretty organically, i was able to let it slide at first, and then it just blew up, and i could not.

bc rikku was al bhed and i liked rikku? yuna was al bhed, and i liked yuna? yuna never told wakka that she was half-al bhed and that revelation is... very quietly handled in a way that we never see wakka and yuna talk about that, we only get a line where wakka is like why did cid call yuna his niece...?

so i couldn’t really reconcile these two jarring things. where wakka has his virtues, and has his flaws.

so you play the game again, you get a bit further. and it’s like, oh, wakka wasn’t initially so devout to spira until his brother, who did use machina, died, so wakka’s hate grew and grew, because like, without machina, chappu would likely still be alive, chappu and lulu might be married. wakka actually... in his respect to the church (maestar seymour guado), we see him be so respectful and subservient. (i mean, he’s uncomfortable with seymore being like pretend you don’t see [the machina], but at the same time, his steadfast belief allows him to... be more comfortable with it, despite still disapproving)

and then the al bhed’s home blows up, and wakka witnesses that. makes a poorly timed joke, and has to rethink a lot. but after that, doesn’t hate the al bhed nearly so much. kind of can’t. the church has been shown to be corrupt, and wakka pulls away from that. do i wish ffx delved into it a bit more? sure, but you can practically see wakka deciding to rethink things instead of being so blindly devoted. 

and that’s why ffx2 is so great? for wakka and lulu to have a child, and name it vidina, meaning future in al bhed. bc hopefully it shows that wakka has let go of his prejudice. he’s paving the way one step of a time. and sure, it’s a bit shaky, but it’s a good journey.

but i understand him, even without ffx2. and wakka is so beautifully human. idc that being... idk, 11 or so, and not being able to grapple that people can and do have conflicting sides to them, bc it’s made me respect and appreciate the game later on. people do have flaws, and sometimes it’s like i can’t handle that, even tho i can, i just need patience!!!! like maybe i was too young to play the game, but i also liked playing ffx at that age bc i was super dense at getting the twist, and i kind of enjoy forgetting details so i can later go oh that was some foreshadowing here! how’d i miss that!

but i’m just saying that it took a long time for me to like wakka again, and being unable to finish the game contributed to that, for a time. but now i like wakka again, and i’ll never stop liking wakka!

[ironinkpen]

just had the funniest thought in the world which is what if the reason Kipperlilly Clerickiller first started hating Riz was bc she wanted Kristen as her cleric. like wanted her SO fucking bad. her type A ass 100% scoped out her classmates before the first day of freshman year so she could build the optimal party, and imagine her excitement when she found out! that they had a real live Chosen One in their grade!! she probably practiced the snobby little speech she was gonna give Kristen for HOURS, already mentally mapping out her path to valedictorian. meanwhile Riz walks in with a briefcase and a newsie hat and a missing babysitter to find and stumbles into Kipperlilly's Number One Draft Pick by accident in detention. how much do you think she lost her little fucking mind

[twinkle-art]

ephemeral is the flesh

[priceofreedom]

FF7 Rebirth 25 / ?

[tottallytoby]

theyre so dramatic

[tomatoart]

too much

[starspaceace]

[aeirithgainsborough]

Aerith Gainsborough FINAL FANTASY REBIRTH (29.02.24) dev. Square Enix

[tishawish]

sketch page i did a couple months ago to practice drawing prompto

[littleredborb]

melee & ranged job doodles

[namimikan]

i think tidus&lulu might be my favourite friendship in ffx?

like tidus has such great friendships with everyone but i like how much of a slow burn it is with lulu

[uinre]

Cocoon. A paradise crafted by the inscrutable fal'Cie some thirteen centuries past.

FINAL FANTASY XIII (2009)

[pine-needle-shuffle]

Something I haven't seen people talk about pertaining to Aerith's death is a) Sephiroth's intent of how it was to affect Cloud and b) how it failed

So Sephiroth killed Aerith partly because he knew that she was attempting to stop him. But another major motive behind many of Sephiroth's actions is revenge. He views others as being below him. Including Cloud. The one person who stopped him.

In turn, Sephiroth made it part of his plan to knock Cloud down a peg, make him regret stepping out of line. Killing Aerith was the most efficient course of action in this scenario. Sephiroth wanted to take from Cloud, as he felt Cloud had taken from him.

This is where Sephiroth's desired effect doesn't happen. Cloud doesn't view him killing Aerith as a slight against him. His entire reaction revolved around the fact that she was robbed of her life. Not that she was taken from him, or anyone else.

Aerith was her own person, she had her own dreams and desires, she lived life the best she could. And Sephiroth took that from her. Not from Cloud.

It highlights the difference between how Cloud views others and how Sephiroth views others. Sephiroth applies his own views and ideas of how the world works. How feelings work.

He claims Cloud has no feelings. That he's just a puppet. But that couldn't be farther from the truth. Cloud sees the people around him, Sephiroth sees tools. Just like how Cloud saw Aerith as someone robbed of her life, Sephiroth only saw a tool to hurt someone else.

[zoruathemageknight]

Lmao I’m only on Stormblood

[demeruart]

Vincent Valentine, Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth

Help I’m dying. Finally finished the game and I need to hype about it. Goddamn it hits me in a very deep spot within me.