#if I decide not to bother making and ffix verse I'll probably delete this post tbh

[immoralraigan]

Been thinking a little more about what an FFIX Verse would be like for Farus. This is what’s been stewing in my head:

I would much rather keep all Farus’ personality traits and motivations intact, as well as the unfiltered,  half-psionic nature of his magic. Without all that he lacks the intrigue that endeared me into writing him and building on those things in the first place. But in requiring this, I’m basically raising the difficulty in translating him into an FFIX verse.

At the very least, the nature of Gaia AND Terra’s history is vague enough so one can fill in the gaps as they so choose. Genome is indeed a fitting species for Farus, not only because he’s blonde, but because of his connection to being created artificially for some Great Purpose.

In Lennus 2, Farus was created to play the role of a living “switch” to activate the union of two satellite worlds to become a single demon-star, “Soa”. My headcanon there goes a bit farther than that, that he and Granada were created as part of this grand ultimatum concerning planet Raiga’s future. He, being the only Acti-Raigan left, would be needed to set off a final switch found within planet Raiga itself. But after defeating Granada and traveling to Raiga, Farus learned something about the overall intent of planet Raiga that he morally disagreed with, abandoned his duty and fled.

Now, let’s imagine that Raiga was actually Terra, and maybe Farus didn’t succeed in fleeing. 

I would have to change the context of his reason��for wanting to run quite a bit, but even with how it goes for Terra it would still be enough to render Farus cynical, fearful and chaotic in the end. Either way, Terra is/was known to gobble planets in attempt to keep its crystal alive and allow its circulation of souls to continue. Garland’s Genomes actually game many centuries after that whole process started out, but maybe-- just maybe there was a “proto-Genome” of sorts created to kick off the process and, oh I dunno, act as a living battery for the planet.

Maybe Farus was that “proto-Genome”. Maybe he had been forced into a suspended sleep for over 5000 years after succeeding in the mission he was unwittingly forced through, acting as a battery for Terra’s selfish assimilation endeavors until the final failed (or semi-successful) attempt with Gaia finally pulled him out of his centuries-long slumber and freed him. Maybe what he awakened to was all the more disheartening and embittering. Maybe he would have set out into Gaia to not only learn about this world, but what happened to finally stop Terra from assimilating planets and maybe find a way to prevent letting something like that ever happen again.

OR...

Maybe it would be just as good to keep Farus’ origin planet as a separate entity entirely. My headcanon for Planet Raiga’s intent, its ultimate goal which has Farus so rattled and fearful and angry, is a really juicy one that I frequently enjoy ruminating over, and there are some FFIX characters that I feel would certainly have a word to say and be choosing sides on the subject if they knew.

It’s just REALLY hard to sacrifice the plot device that there is an entire planet, imbued with self-awareness and that likely used to be a mortal human being of sorts, that wishes to grant all things-- every single organic in the entire universe-- immortality similar to that of Raigans. The caveats to this planet’s wish are many, and the ethical, moral dilemma behind this endeavor is mind-bending.

So uhhh yeah I’m kind of struggling to decide which I really wish for, if I want to even have an FFIX verse. I could combine the two, though... Should I combine the two? Should I plant an extra deep-dive headcanon that Terra would be seeking out a long-term goal of some day granting all living things immortality? Hmm...

Very tough decision to make. I might not bother.