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more final fantasy posting, now a xiii doodle/wip dump 👐

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Turns out the game acknowledges this by playing Defiers of Fate over the Attacus fight.

I feel like we don’t talk enough about the Undying Cie’th and how they, too, are defiers of fate. Cie’th are meant to eventually wither and turn to stone, mired by eternal sorrow and regret, but something inside the Undying will not let this be.

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vanilleee

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Lightning and her gunblade ♥

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What gets me about Fang's "don't be shy" line is that there was no line in Japanese. She says nothing there. The localization team went out of their way to make her say that.

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ffxiii girlies

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He wants the big, cool sword to kill Snow with it so badly.

FINAL FANTASY XIII (2009)

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tear the whole world down, tear the whole world down

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Wait, genuine question: is today's fandom unaware that the original ship name for Lightning/Fang/Vanille was Neapolitan?

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fangrai sketch 🙈

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fanille doodles

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I love how when Fang's eidolon comes out you can see Lightning in the back rushing to stop Vanille because she KNOWS she's going to run towards Fang.

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Thinking about Elude again and I just think the gameplay decisions behind this move for Lightning are interesting. Despite being the career soldier of the group, she has the second lowest HP, because otherwise Elude would be an utterly busted move, but they could have balanced this differently if they'd wanted to?

They could have opted instead to increase her HP but lower Elude's dodge rate. Because 50% is a lot, and conceivably they could have lowered this to, I don't know, 25% - 30%. But they didn't. They kept her HP low and leaned into the evasive tank fantasy. Cool as fuck.

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I still don't really understand why Raines wanted to stage a coup at all anyway.

The datalog states that his position in the army has "afforded him an unobstructed view of the blind obedience the government shows to the fal'Cie," and to Fang he cites a recording of Dysley calling the people of Cocoon "cattle," but not once are we given a tangible reason for why he wants to remove fal'Cie from the government.

Because it seems like fal'Cie hegemony works pretty well. There is no poverty on Cocoon. All people, even orphans, are well cared for. The fal'Cie protected Cocoon during the War of Transgression. Prior to the Purge, we would have had no reason to believe that fal'Cie hegemony wasn't the ideal way to run things. Dysley calling the people "cattle" just tells me that he's an asshole politician.

It would have been good to know exactly what radicalized Raines.

The reveal that Raines was a Sanctum l'Cie is always so funny to me. Not in a funny "hahah" way but in an incredulous "What did you think was gonna happen, my guy? You curated your entire military division to be full of anti-Sanctum dissidents. Of course someone was gonna notice" way.