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I've been replaying FFIV lately and I've come to the conclusion that Cecil has some serious abandonment issues by the end of the game. Like there's so many people that come along for the ride, and then they just leave. Even worse, almost all of them leave via an event that makes everyone think they're dead! I think that'd weigh very heavily on a person after a while. Even if damn near all of them don't end up dead, I feel like Cecil is pretty sensitive about sacrifice after all of that. Like if someone tried something like that again he'd 100% flip his shit because he's seen enough of his friends suddenly have an intense desire to become a martyr. Do you guys get me?

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On the Border

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So I sketched/colored Anji like a week ago and forgot to post it so here

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Nightfall

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Hope with freckles, because he deserves it <3

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Idk why, but I imagine Kain to be the type of kid growing up who was mostly good but had the occasional chaotic neutral toxic friend vibes. Like 12 year old Cecil is talking about how some kid keeps calling him a failure knight and Rosa is like "Don't listen to him, you're a perfectly capable fighter" then Kain is just "Judo flip him onto the ground in front of all of his friends, that'll fucking show him"

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I've got one of those "came to me in a vision" headcanons. I feel like Hope was one of those "gifted" kids. Y'know, all A's, taking a million honor classes, probably reads academic textbooks for fun, the whole nine yards. Massive science nerd. Lightning, meanwhile, was the type of kid who considered a C- to be a record. She was probably more interested in kicking someone's ass in gymnastics than she ever was in studying.

I feel like at one point Hope started to talk a bit about some science related things, and Lightning just kinda let him because he's 7 years younger than her, she can understand whatever he's talking about. Then he just starts discussing quantum particle psychics or some shit and she's just standing there with a blank expression realizing that she can't remember what the hell the laws of motion were in the first place, much less whatever he's talking about. This just kinda becomes a recurring thing because she doesn't have the heart to tell him that she never understands a thing he says

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Hope's character development is amazing because he goes from screaming at basically anything and everything that can hurt him to jumping onto a goddamn grand prix racetrack while there's a race ongoing, looking at a mech that's trying to kill him dead in the eye, and just saying "hey there" like it's an average Tuesday. Say what you want about him but holy fuck did he grow a spine

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Fuck it, goth Lightning

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Looking back on FFIV, I realize that Cecil's biggest flaw (aside from not having a spine for the first part of the game) is that he's gullible as shit. He just casually believes he's delivering something harmless to Mist despite the fact he was literally just ordered to steal a crystal and slaughter anyone in his path. He believes that Baigan, a man who clearly doesn't like him much and sells him out to the king with zero hesitation, wants to work with him with no strings attached. He forks over the Earth Crystal to Golbez without even thinking about if he's being lied to about Rosa. I love Cecil to death but let's be real here he'd 100% look up if he was told the word gullible was written on the ceiling

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FFXIII is one of those games where like 70% of the cast just has queer vibes. Like I am completely certain that Lightning is a lesbian. How am I so sure about this? Idfk man she's got the vibes

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The inconsistent character design in FFIV is going to be the death of me. Like everyone generally agrees that Cecil's hair is supposed to be white but it's been shown to also be blue and blond, Rydia's eyes somehow went from green to blue when she grew up, Kain has been depicted with at least 3 separate eye colors, and that's not even getting into how many outfits changes the entire cast has been given throughout the different re-releases. Seriously, pick a design and stick with it this is driving me INSANE

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PSA: Barthandelus is an overpowered bootleg pope bastard who deserves to burn in hell along with his face things that keep bombarding my party with magic. It should be illegal for him to be able to cast Doom on my already struggling party leader. Bitch.

(Yes I fought him today. Yes he killed me several times. I need to vent.)

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So I found a group of posts involving headlines from articles from The Onion and I knew I just had to do it with the XIII crew

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Within Leviathan's Domain

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So I gave Cecil a royal(ish) outfit because he deserves to wear more than his armor

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So. Hear me out. We all know about Cecil's Dark Knight Shenanigans™ gradually sucking the humanity out of him, but what if he slowly lost the light in his eyes as time went on? Like, someone looked at him without his helmet on and got creeped out because his eyes look more like a doll's than a person's? And when he became a paladin suddenly his eyes had joy and sparkle in them again, and people weren't so apprehensive toward him anymore, because of that among other reasons?? People do pay attention to the look in other people's eyes, so

Like???

Maybe the brainrot is getting to me, who knows. But I think it's a neat idea