#incorrect dissidia

[daiourage]

Final Fantasy x Texts From Last Night pt. 2!

Same as last time → Warning! Vulgar!

Part 1

[asheanon]

So, uh... I stated over on the Xitter how I wanted to go on a Dissidia (personal story/fanfic - yes, it includes OCs and original material. This is Ashe writing this, after all) tangent so badly, but hate fighting with text limitations with these sorts of things, so here I am, hopping over to Tumblr to go on said tangent. 🕺

(Tangent placed beneath a cut. Proceed with caution! Maybe.)

⚠️ Disclaimer for those who have played the game: I'm still experiencing the game. I'm not going to know everything. I just can't help but feel the inspiration blaze through me at certain points throughout the Dissidia OO experience, which compels my mind to take off with thoughts galore (whether or not I want it to. I can't control this brain of mine; it's like a wild animal sometimes, trust me!) I am inspired af, but please keep in mind I could be incorrect about certain bits of lore and still have a lot to experience - and I am fully aware of that even in writing this out.

Also, no spoilers. NONE. Furnish me with the informations only if I ask. If I'm wrong about something, I promise I'll concede that when I later find out about it. For now, this is just me having fun. Let me have fun. I'm just getting all these thoughts out of my head before they drive me crazy...! Hahaha!

Anyway, sorry. That disclaimer may or may not be longer than the tangent itself. Onto the actual tangent!

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So...! 🤔 Given how there's a tiny bit of "wibbly wobbly timey whimey" stuff going on with how characters are brought in, if you will, I can't help but to think about some wacky situations that may make for some neat story potential…

I'm going to start with the more "conservative" thoughts. Thoughts on characters from the same world being pulled in from different parts of their own respective timeline, so you have different sections of experiences and memories to play with.

Particularly (spoilers): Sal experienced the deaths of some particular characters who are not only alive, but they were brought in from a time where they had not died. She has a lot of memories about them that they have yet to experience.

When all of this is over, she's going to return to a world where they're no longer alive. And she has that good ol' fun time looming over her. : )

Which, as tragic as that is, I do dig that kind of narrative - I mean, to boot: I dig it, but I started realizing that it was one I'd worked with before, even... it was one she experienced in The Anomaly (FFVII x Original fanfic.) Of course, the moment I realized that, I was like "how original, Ashe. Good. Guess we'll do this song and dance again because you can't resist it, clearly." Haha!

BUT... it was then that I had the less "conservative" thoughts... Namely: since all this "wibbly wobbly timey whimey" stuff is happening anyway, what if... I didn't just inject Starlight (FFIX x Original) material in this, but also injected The Anomaly material? What if both of those stories were allowed some agency in this?

And by extension, what if the Sal (the Sal, you read that correctly) that is brought in has only experienced one of those stories (Starlight, because I'm biased at this time) while the characters from the other story (The Anomaly) experienced a different version of her than what is present? They met her (some rendition of her.) She never met them (that version of her never did.)

Again, reminder: Sal is a world hopper. For her to be part of any given FF world in this type of FF scenario is really just a matter of chance. Technically speaking, she has experienced at least two of those worlds - in different timelines, but given that there is only one Sal present... I was utterly delighted by the oddity of just picking one rendition of her to have amidst the wild and random chance that the renditions of the FFIX and FFVII worlds/characters have characters that both experienced her and didn't.

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It's so weird and self indulgent on my part, I know. I get it. (It's also my own little Dissidia-esque excuse for being able to include some FFVII OCs and story beats from various perspectives, haha!) I literally cannot resist thinking about it in all of its weird and self indulgent glory, though. I cannot be stopped. 🥴

Even if I don't use the idea, I'm still going to think about it, you know? And talk about it too, apparently. Haha!

All of that being said, though, I have entertained the thought of Sal's actual "world" (the original one - not just her inclusion in fanfics) being included in Dissidia as well. This would include characters like Nat, Tsuniah and, well, Vance. This guy.

I'd talk more about what makes the inclusion of Vance and different timelines + funky memory loss stuff going on especially fascinating (to me) here, but it really... wouldn't make sense to the rest of you. It's all original stuff; story I know and have yet to tell the rest of the world, so... yeah. 🥲 But there's potential in that too that I'd love to play around with!

In that respect, between the Dissidia shenanigans and Fall To The Moon ones, should I ever actually manage to write out some story stuff for them, I may yet instill some intrigue in regards to who he is along with these other OCs of mine. Create my own Dissidia effect - basically, compel people to want to get to know them outside of AUs and fanfics (because Dissidia OO makes me want to get to know characters I have yet to get to know, let me tell you. Haha!)

Anyway... Lawdy, I'd say that's a good ol' tangent right there. That'll do it, for now. To anyone and everyone who stopped by to read this... madness... thank you. I hope it was entertaining, otherwise, sorry I wasted your time...! 😅

Until next time.

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-Moonwalks back into The Twilight Zone.-

[laqueus]

nsdfhsdfdsjfsdjfdsjfsdjfsd RIP TO THE GANG I AM SO SORRY 4 UR BODYWOES

THE INCREDIBLE POWER OF INFODUMPING! if it’s any consolation, do not get me started talking about octopuses because I will. not shut up about their weirdass biology

I think the funniest thing for me was that I got into ff2 via a really weird route??? For some reason I was watching videos of the various story routes in dissidia? and I was like “hm, I should check out a character from an older title”. i chose firion and at some point he has a line that’s like “There is no meaning in strength only used to hurt others!” and I was like

and firion became my beloved son and i promptly dove into ff2 that way lmaooooo

I think its part of ff2’s charm that people just go a bit nuts over it but are also like “I would never inflict its gameplay upon anyone”. but at the same time it seems unfair when people just brush it off, because, like, it was the second one! and it did well enough to prompt more games in the series! and now the series is truly gigantic and it wouldn’t be that way without humble ff2. our beloved.

a proposal:

also the forklift looks like this:

it’s v. interesting to take oral teaching into account! it reminds me of reading about how the oral tradition of aboriginal australians, (in tasmania I think?) stretches back over 12,000 years. oral teaching/tradition can be a really solid & long-lasting thing! OOOOH THOUGHT. perhaps mysidia has an especially strong focus on oral tradition, and so that’s why they’ve got an especially good lock on magic. if you live in mysida, then you’ve had spells drummed into your head and you could probably recite them in your sleep

plus I am going into the magical real of headcanon here, but maybe spellcasting in ff2 relies both on hand positioning, and also language tones (such as in mandarin/cantonese, vietnamese etc. where the tone is esp. important). you’ve gotta have the proper inflection matching up to the proper hand position, otherwise thunder isn’t going to work that well. don't get me wrong, you could still get a bit of a zap out of it, but it’s not going to be that powerful or level up. Kinda like having proper form when you’re running, where you can do it any old way, but 1. you’re not going to win any races, and 2. You’re probably going to wreck your body doing it like that. So if you’re strict with oral tradition, then that’s not really going to be a problem, and you end up with magical mysida. however, without the proper teaching/tradition, you’re gonna end up magic where there’s a base idea, but its splintered off into 200 different versions (kinda like how there are similar folktales/fairy tales/myths in different parts of the world, because the stories have travelled and changed)

and so you end up with a scenario where it’s like trying to learn a language on your own; without the help of a tome (which has the proper hand signals combined with the proper tone), you’re going to have a harder time learning it, or learning a slightly altered, incorrect version of it. Plus it’s a way mysidia can physically ‘export’ their, er, product I guess?? I have gone on a weird tangent here I hope it all makes sense orz

FSUFHSFHD WHY DID ULTIMA GO TO HEAVEN?? just like the homophobic car in the supernatural finale lmao. tho tbh, I always just assumed that the tomes… crumbled to ash in your hands once you’d read them? But that doesn’t really makes sense story-wise EXCEPT FOR ULTIMA WHICH IS INCREDIBLY ANCIENT. it makes sense for it to fall apart once it’s been read because it’s just so old and brittle/frail, but as for the others, er, oops, idk

minwu walkin through machanon like. hm. really wish I had ultima abt now, only to see the ultima tome with a halo and a little pair of wings flapping towards him. WAIT THOUGHT – maybe one of the ancient people who created it ended up making the ultima tone in heaven because they could? like they had the correct formula/tones/hand symbols and just did it for funsies. Because it’s heaven! no one in heaven is gonna do something bad with it! [Light Emperor Mateus has entered the chat]

SPEAKING OF, YEAH MATEUS IS SO FUNNY AS A CHARACTER JUST BECAUSE OF HOW STRAIGHTFORWARD HE IS. In that sense he’s almost like a mirror of firion in that way, given what you said about him in the final paragraph. Like our boy just no thoughts head empty goes and does stuff to fix whatever problem is in his way in the fewest steps possible. MEANWHILE ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THAT COIN, MATEUS IS DOING THE EXACT SAME THING BUT EVIL. and like firion, he has the skills to back it up! (these powers brought to by today’s sponsor: the literal devil) fhsufh just imagining the emperor on his throne, leaning on one hand like “man this place sucks. i’m gonna go take over the world”. plus his outfit the entire time is a slay. like yes. live your evil dreams looking like glam butterfly david bowie. I know he’s made cameos in other games and each time he’s like “well, time to take over this place”. The man has one goal and it is to rule everything. he’s just evil for the sake of evil. fun! you are so right about him and i am once again shaking your hand

YES!! FIRION’S RED CAPE!! I have a soft spot for his GBA/PSP design, simply because… I guess it’s the one you spend the most time staring at in-game lol? plus you speak the truth. he’s way too blue in dissidia and now his blue dissida form is everywhere sob sob. his psp/gba armour is so iconic to me that i stole some of it when I was drawing my d&d character lol. firion needs more colour, dammnit

biting and scratching and crying thinking about deumion, like. LIKE you don't want to kill but your skill means that you're now 1. immortal, 2. alone, 3. forced to kill anyone who reaches you (if you're unlucky.) HE'S LITERALLY SHACKLED TO DEATH ITSELF my man cannot catch a BREAK 💔 on a lighter note, leila is so fun! how did she escape the leviathan? who knows! but what I do know is that I have no choice but to stan. I am gently holding all the ffii characters in my hands. except for borghen.

IT MAKES ME FUCKING CRAZY. hes so young. one of the last things he hears before he leaves to be stuck in isolation for millennia is his mother wailing behind him, desperately crying out his name. hes just a KID THEYRE ALL JUST KIDS ITS NOT FAIR. to be forced (ITS STILL FORCED AND YOU KNOW IT. YOU CANT PUT ALL THAT ON A KID AND EXPECT HIM TO SAY NO) to hold the weight of the future on your shoulders without ever even getting to see it. to be able to do nothing but hope that mankind survives with your sacrifice. everyones futures in exchange for your own and youll never even get to see it.

LIKE. he doesnt know that the shit w mateus was going down!! he has no idea how the outside world is doing! its just him and his ouppy and the arcane labyrinth and eternity. AND THATS THE GOOD ENDING. ETERNITY FOREVERMORE ALONE AND FORGOTTEN BY THE GREATER WORLD. THIS IS NOT A GOOD ENDING DAWG IM CRYING!!!!!!

BUT HIS. HIS DESPERATION AS HE CRAWLS AFTER YOU, DEFEATED BUT UNABLE TO LET GO BECAUSE WHAT WAS IT ALL FOR IF HE FALLS HERE. IF HE RELINQUISHES DESTRUCTION TO A STRANGER HE COULD NEVER KNOW. and even then, all the others he himself had slain to fulfill his role, as someone who loves humanity so deeply that his love is all he is anymore.

HES A KID.

cough. erm.

smiles at u. leila. girlbossing it up in here. TBH even without a ship youd have to imagine shes prepped as a swimmer + leviathan would have no reason to attack her after swallowing down firion and the crystal rod plus the tower is otherwise surrounded by that ring of land. so as unlikely as it would seem, i wouldnt say its outside of the realm of possibility for her to make it to land, esp w leviathan fucking w the currents. the biggest obstacle aside from the open water would be the monsters, but then again, it's not like she doesnt come default w thunder (i have so many thoughts abt magic and mysidia and i would LOVE to hear what someone else thinks abt it if ur ever up for that). so its unlikely, but i cant say its impossible for her to make it out of there... her other obstacle would be making it off the isles Also without a ship but tbh if she swam out of the bay i think she can make it across that channel also. to be quite honest.

ff2 characters 🥰 paul my good friend paul. finally, my chance to live up to my blog title has arrived.

[incorrect-strife-quotes]

Cloud: Good night.

Squall: Mm, night.

Cloud: I love you.

Squall:

Cloud:

Cloud: Bitch, I said I love you.

Squall, looking up from his papers: Oh sorry, I love you too.

[ff-incorrect-quotes]

Zidane: I think I'm immortal.

Vaan: Why?

Zidane: I haven't died yet.

Tidus: Holy shit.

[square-incorrect]

Warrior of Light: I really like this whole ‘good guy, bad guy’ thing you guys have going on.

Kain: It’s not an act, it’s just that I’m mean and Cecil isn’t.

[thekingwhereitallends]

Sephiroth:This world shall no longer exist.

Sephiroth:I have every single right to...

Sephiroth:(looks back) ???

Terra:(touching sephiroth's wing,laughs like a curious baby) Don't mind me.

Sephiroth:...

Sephiroth:You pathetic dullards may live another day.

Kuja:Why?

Sephiroth:She won't let me.

Kuja:But you're stronger than-

Sephiroth:You're in no place to question the decisions i make.

[incorrect-squall-quotes]

Squall: How the fuck do people just stay motivated their entire lives? What drives you? I got out of bed once and I’ve been exhausted ever since.

Cloud: You need to hate life to the point where you want to get revenge on existence itself. 

Noct: Best advice ever.

[queen-of-hoshido]

Lightning: Is it hot in here or is it just me? 

Cloud: It's you. 

Lightning: What? 

Cloud: What? 

[incorrect-noctis-quotes]

Lightning: 30 day free trial of being ok.

Noctis: Wheres the link

Cloud: Wheres the fucking link

[daiourage]

Final Fantasy x Texts From Last Night

Warning: vulgar!

[incorrect-final-fantasy]

Mateus: So if you saw God, would you kill them, fuck them, or become the new God?

Sephiroth: Kill them

Ardyn: Yes

Cloud of Darkness: You'd kill god too, Izunia?

Ardyn: No, I'm saying I'll do all three things. Fuck God to death, which then establishes my dominance as the new God

Cloud of Darkness: Oh my God

Ardyn: Exactly

Sephiroth: Don't encourage him

[tenebraetrash17]

How Luna Should Be Introduced Into Dissidia

Terra: So, do you think that new life will ever spring from this barren ground?

Y'shtola: The possibility exists for certain.

Lightning: ...I guess that maybe, one day...some flowers might-

*warp portal opens up, Luna is yeeted out*: Did you say flowers need to grow? Bitch, Imma master, stand back.

[incorrect-strife-quotes]

Cloud: Wait, is 'exacerbate' the correct term?

Vaan: Uhh.. I don't know. I'm illiterate.

[ff-incorrect-quotes]

Bartz: Why is everything so expensive?! I swear nothing in this world is free.

Zidane: Man, everything is free if you can run fast enough.

[square-incorrect]

Warrior of light: We need a distraction.

Cloud: I've got this you guys sneak around.

Cecil: Wait cloud what are you planning to do?

Cloud: I'm going to kill them that should distract some of them.

Warrior and Cecil: Cloud no!

Cloud: Why not?

Warrior: You can't kill them all in one hit and we don't need to make a commotion.

Cloud: But it's the only logical way.

Tifa: We could try one of the illogical ways.

Cloud: Like what dressing in drag and doing the hula?

Tifa: *evil grin*

Cloud: No.

Tifa: Yes.

Cloud: No!

Tifa: Yes!

Cloud: Fine but I'm not doing it alone this time.

Cloud: C'mon Zidane.

Zidane: Why me?!?

[Five seconds later]

Cloud and Zidane in grass skirts and leis: Luau!