Étiquette : meta

skystones:

vaan’s anger is not a petty joke. it is important not to forget the occuria were literally pondering between ashe and vaan in terms of who to use in their agenda… which is why, again, he also saw ‘rasler’ in the tomb of raithwall. even then his anger was still tempting to the occuria. it rivaled ashe’s, until after jahara, where he could not see rasler at the stilshrine of miriam during his second appearance. there’s a lot of hate in this little heart that learns to fade once he accepts the truth from basch, learns relief that his brother was not part of the betrayal, and finds purpose in helping ashe alongside penelo and two supercool sky pirates.

Oh I didn’t remember that Vaan was a potential candidate =o During those last years I would try a new game again and again without playing very far (maybe until Lushu’s mine?) I don’t remember most of the game. Thanks for clearing that out !

I should sleep but I’m thinking about Bushi!Ashe and why I think it suits her. I am no expert, but Bushi were warriors dedicated the protection of a family clan. The term samurai appeared only later, and the function and social status are not exactly the same. Actually, in the Japanese version, the name of the job is mononofu, which is an even older name and function. But still it is related to a warrior and protector.

Bushi/mononofu are often compared to the european knights. So we might think Basch would be best suited to get the Bushi job. However Knight is also a job and I think his character suits the western vision more.

Bushi were wealthy and their social status is (close to?) nobility. In the game, Ashe is royalty, but she still need to get back her official function. Like a Bushi, her duty is to serve and protect. She serves her Kingdom, and it is her duty to protect the people of Dalmasca.

This is also why the presence of Vaan and Penelo is essential to Ashe and the story. They are the people of Dalmasca. She is fighting for their freedom.

skystones:

vivisucre:

WIthout knowing, Gods is such an important theme from the beginning. I’m not sure who or what the statue is the embodiment of. Is it Kiltia ? I don’t have a screenshot but what the statue is holding in her hand is also painted everywhere on the walls of the palace.

idk but rabanastrans sure like their fuckin pots and urns huh

So I’m a bit of a maniac and I actually went back to the palace with a previous save. I exaggerated and it is not 

everywhere on the walls of the palace at all. It is painted on one corner lol but the thing held by the statue and the painting are similar right ?

finestfantasyxii:

shula-valya:

And then...I'd miss my brother. I'd say stuff like

"I'm gonna be a sky pirate", or some other stupid thing.

Just anything to keep my mind off it.

I love this quote. We might think Vaan’s dream to become a skypirate was just a way to run away from his grief.

But this game is also a journey where we see Vaan growing. He grieves and he learns to live without Reks. He allows himself to be happy, and his dream to be a skypirate becomes a real ambition.

I think about Reks so many time, I headcanon-ed stories for so long, I don’t even know what’s canon or not anymore.

Was he tortured ? Like, physically ? For a long time I didn’t quite understand what happened to him exactly. I didn’t understand why or what forced him to completely shut down his mind.

To become completely uncapable of/unwilling to move, speak or react anymore, he must have endured a hell of psychological or maybe physical torture and pressure.

He was just a boy

babyflutterb:

gizensha:

prokopetz:

There are a lot of games that stick you with a male viewpoint character as the nominal protagonist even though the story is really about a woman, but Final Fantasy X stands out to me as the only one where the fandom has just collectively decided to address that by talking about the game as though the woman in question is the player character. If you were to casually follow contemporary discussion of the game, you’d never in a million years guess that Yuna isn’t the player character – we’re all just “we recognise that the game thinks Tidus is the protagonist, but given that he’s a stupid-ass protagonist, we’ve elected to ignore him”.

See, I’m not sure Yuna would work as the player character. She’s absolutely the protagonist of the game, sure, everything important that happens is done by her, even if she wouldn’t have done some of it if she wasn’t friends with a ghost and an imaginary boy, but…

…That world? Kind of needs a reason for it to be explained to the player, which is easiest to do by making the player character a fairly minor character Not From Around These Parts, but instead a more traditional fictional universe. Which happened to be the imaginary boy who’s utterly irrelevent aside from him coming from the dream to the real world helping trigger Yuna’s realization about how to end the cycle of someone sacrificing themselves every ten years to… Buy another ten years of peace… and stop Sin once and for all.

It’s world is a step beyond your vague steam punk medieval fantasy of FFIX, or even your full on steam punk of FFVI, dystopean corporate magi-tech future of FFVII, and …whatever… of FFVIII, is what I’m saying. But yeah, under no circumstances does imaginary boy qualify as a protagonist, he’s just the player character so that the game can explain the world to the audience.

Honestly? I love Tidus as our eyes into Spira, because he’s reacting as we would’ve reacted to the strange new world. Don’t get me wrong, I adore Yuna and her story, but seeing it through the eyes of Tidus brings it to a whole new level of drama. Imagine playing as Yuna and already knowing where you’re going, what you’re doing, and what needs to be done. However with Tidus he’s completely oblivious: promising to see the pyreflies at the moonflow after they beat Sin, talking about how he wants to show her the Zanarkand where he grew up. When Rikku finally tells him what will happen when Yuna summons the Final Aeon, you can pinpoint the exact moment where his heart stops. I dont know about any of you, but I sure as hell didn’t see that coming the first time I played FFX

TL:DR; while I would adore Yuna being the main protagonist, Tidus is the kind of perspective we need to be immersed into this game.