In which one player (suspiciously) has two characters that wield whips...

[sylvan]

Hello! I'm Bea, player of Quistis (nagyka) bringing with me Rydia from Final Fantasy IV. She's from just after Cecil's coronation & wedding, but before Interlude.

Rydia is a summoner that uses Black Magic and is mostly really sweet, incredibly tolerant, and very forgiving. She is outgoing, friendly, and also has awesome hair. She'll be at 1472 with the other adopted princess-summoner, Garnet! :)

Feel free to add me on Plurk at esuna or IM me at instructor fourteen!

Comments

[makoeyes]

you already know how much i support this decision but

yes

good

[tilleul]

i can't wait to explain her adopted parents icly

oh yeah dad's a giant sea serpent and he swallowed me and brought me to live with him
mom's just a normal lady
with three heads and six arms

you know how it is

[makoeyes]

my closest childhood friend

is this giant naked guy in a loin cloth that causes earthquakes when he stomps on the ground too hard

rydia your life is so weird

[sylvan]

my current best friend is a marshmallow with a face and bow tie
sometimes it dresses like my friends?

don't judge
chocobo butt

[makoeyes]

oh does she have whyt... so she's exclusively the ds version of rydia then, huh

it's okay he has no right to judge anyone
i don't think anyone has quite approached cloud's issues in this series yet

[sylvan]

no he'd have to be a reclaim
and i generally include all the versions mentally, for the most part?
though with her i think dialogue was better in the ds version
for like, kain i think he was better off in gba/psp. got a little of his black humor and sarcasm in those. cecil was a bit more well-rounded, too. in general i feel the ds version has better dialogue that feels more natural, i guess?

but also whyt is cute as hell and i like the floofy hair. what can i say? i'm shallow.

no he doesn't
well, they are pretty vast and wide
much like the grand canyon

[makoeyes]

that makes sense...
but yes whyt should be her first summon regain anyway
and she can play weird minigames with her housemates to strengthen him up for some reason

cosmo canyon can't hold all of cloud's issues

[sylvan]

i always make sense (except when i don't)
chocobo comes next because why would she choose anything useful?
the reason is it keeps making cute noises at them and you can't resist it.

oh snap!!
he got told. meta told.

wow, we're like. super charming, huh?

[makoeyes]

that is definitely a true statement
as much as i love my mega flares, bahamut is definitely not cute
though come on when he turns around and blasts a maenad is like the best part of tay

now he'll get even more sad and brooding...

the charming-est.

[sylvan]

i'm p flattered
haha, oh man. somehow it was the one thing that was enhanced by being a sprite.
i was losing that battle pretty hard tbh

don't forget how he's alone and like the only person talking to him is seifer almasy, god. he lives a super thug lyfe.

pretty much, yeah.

[makoeyes]

i haven't gotten to that scene yet in the ios version
but i'm looking forward to it
so very very much

...wow that is depressing

[nagyka]

i hope they do it the exact same way, with him just completely turning around in the blink of an eye
and his mouth just opening and
pew pew pew

his life is truly the most tragic

[makoeyes]

sweet sweet revenge
doesn't make up for all the annoying shit the maenads do all game
but it almost does

and yeah that's basically what they were going for... let's make ffvii a weird depressing mindfuck. and then they kind of stuck with that ever since... except for like 9 and maybe 12.

[nagyka]

or how awkward the final boss looks
even for an ff final boss

rassler
longing stare
you cannot hear the wood any longer!!!!!!! you're not welcome here!!!!!
people dying
12 year old emperor without any friends and like a billion older brothers that killed each other
(rassler)

[makoeyes]

i'm going to need to screencap what he looks like in 3d
that should be special

thus the maybe for 12
because despite all that
its still not as bleak and weirdly depressing as 7 8 or 13...

[nagyka]

i hope it's literally the worst thing you've ever seen

yeah it's definitely not as depressing as tactics
also um excuse you how is this depressing!!!
that is a very obviously real and not sarcastic please kill me now smile ok

[makoeyes]

wow

okay tactics is its own special game where literally everyone you care about dies
and okay 8 had a kawaii ending i'll give it that
avoided yet another weird inconclusive open ended ending that just leaves you feeling unsatisfied
you just have to dredge through all that time compression nonsense to get there......
i'm pretty sure that entire sequence was the result of some squaresoft acid trips

[nagyka]

i'm helpful!

or becomes a villain and takes advantage of you and breaks your heart, don't forget that part.
x was pretty okay until the ending but i'll still take that ending over dragging my ass through x-2?
so i guess yes, ix is the only happy one huh.
as i've said before, viii is basically them putting forth an effort for one disc and then grabbing everyone in the office to write fanfic about that first disc and smashing all that together to create the next three.
flawless.

that being said screw them and their lack of ffviii character development

[nagyka]

haha shit. i'm glad someone else still says squaresoft, even if at the moment it is valid

i feel like i'm the only one sometimes (ollllllllllllllllllld)

[makoeyes]

i had to stop and consider that but
it was squaresoft back then
so yeah
it works

and yes that sounds exactly like what happened with ffviii after disc one. you can make a case for that happening with vii too, but to a lesser degree. they always start strong, and then they get weird..................

[nagyka]

tbh i was still calling it that by reflex up until maybe 2-3 years ago lmkasdg

yeah, vii at least is still kind of cohesive? there will always be plotholes because screw that shit, that takes effort!! DID HOJO PUT VINCENT IN THAT COSTUME OR DID VINCENT CHOOSE INTENTIONALLY TO DRESS LIKE A WEIRDO RIGHT BEFORE GOING TO SLEEP IN A COFFIN
DOES HE GET BORED
DOES HE SOMETIMES LEAVE TO GET BOOKS OF SUDOKU (NEW HEADCANON, CAN'T STOP ME)

so i'm off of work and this is what i do when i get home
what a loser

[makoeyes]

the old habits, they are hard to give up

and yeah oddly we get an entire game about vincent's back story
yet it still feels like we know nothing about him
the nature of all weird ff spin off titles i guess

its okay this is what i do even when i am at work. i'm pretty sure that makes me worse.

[nagyka]

it's true. i can't wait to see how long i type/write "2013" next year!

i rage-quitted that like, 1/3 of the way through
so i assume it reveals that he is secretly a vampire and enjoys scaring children like a lonely middle-aged man might on halloween
and then chuckling to himself before retiring to his coffin to sulk about how lonely he is

square, please feel free to hire me. i have many more ideas!!

we're really good rpers and also people.

[makoeyes]

i think that's better than anything it actually does reveal
so let's pretend that's canon
and just...
not acknowledge anything else...........

square could use it at this point. idek what's become of their stories.
stares sadly at lightning returns
shakes head and goes back to playing old ffs

[nagyka]

uncomfortable loli sideplot 8(
lady in a furbodysuit 8(

i think they could use dumb, fun moments. all i want is barret in a sailor suit and i don't think that's too much to ask, is it?

still playing psp ff4
poorly