I took a spin on translating the Terence & Dion pages from the Ultimania as I was mostly seeing summaries and mtl floating around. The translation has been beta read and edited by @falathren.
Hopefully this can be of use✨ I just love teredio 😭❤️
i love how ff16 is filled with a lot of interesting lore and characters, but my main takeaway from it was the 5 min tragic love story between the dragon prince and his knight
Terence and Jote should have a secret handshake. As a treat. As comraderie to a fellow knight devoted and in love with their liege. As smth that NO ONE would believe the two capable of doing. Their own hula hoop lesson, if you will the B99 reference.
As an unintended way to make their bf's lightly jealous bc why don't WE have a secret handshake
Idk how it goes but I feel it ends with them crossing their hands at eachother so that it makes wings bc both of their eikons fly and then they just. Go about their day. Like the icons they are. Befuddling all who witness.
I kindly asked Stewart Clarke ( Dion Lesage's English VA) on Cameo "How he thinks Dion's first flirting with Terence would go ?" And this was his answer! Sharing because it meant so much to me AND for the perfection of that answer. You can BET I will draw that scene for sure!
I posed these the day before ultimania released, but in retrospect I imagine it could be after Dion has recovered, and Terence has a hard time letting go, so thankful Dion is still with him. They're young and in love, your honour.
Replaying through FFXVI and I have to wonder if Dion had originally intended to be the romantic partner of Joshua, or if they were just going to get the ‘hinting’ treatment that Fang and Vanille got. Terence is notably absent from a lot of Dion scenes and he only briefly interacts with Joshua - the type of writing you give a character you made at the last minute, as he doesn’t interact with any other character, and his VA is largely uncredited. It really looks like the devs had to go back and insert Terence in already rendered scenes. Ran’della is the most obvious of these scenes as he sort of just appears but doesn’t meaningfully interact with Byron or Eugen. I personally think Terence is part of what makes Dion such a fantastic character, and he himself is a great - if very minor - character; but it’s just interesting to think of what may have been.