#ovelia atkascha

[adalheidis]

Final Fantasy Tactics fanart I drew last year for @fffanthology

[snippity]

did you get your end in all of this, ramza?

[hazaelis]

[queenovelia]

late to the party but happy halloween!!! 🎃🧡🫶rk

[ethernalium]

[corpsebrigadier]

Whumptober 15. Embrace

Childhood Trauma: Painful Hug | Moment of Clarity | "I did good, right?"

Delita recalled, even after many years of bearing the crown and its weight, how little the attempt on his life had hurt. He had not point of contact flinched. His body was open to all of her embraces, even if this had been one bearing teeth. He had fallen into her arms enough times by them to lose his apprehension about it--to let himself feel the comfort of another body moulded to his own.

The bite of the knife had been too quick to feel until the moment had passed. It had been less painful in some ways than the first time her arms had been around him--that first moment when he had been made to experience the shock of being held once again.

As an old man, it was not the old wound that ached. His frame still felt the press of phantom limbs wrapped around him--the horror of a body and its beating heart pushed fast against his own. The first time it had happened, he had frozen at the first touch. To be held was to be a boy again, and he remembered always with terrible clarity what girl had held him last before Ovelia Atkascha had.

[venatohru]

I just think they're neat (and they should meet)

[autopotion]

Something I noticed about this scene during my current replay: The song playing here isn't Alma's theme (which played in the scene immediately prior to the fight with Zalmo), it's the first half of Ovelia's theme (the allegro section in F sharp). We don't learn that the Virgo stone arrived at Orbonne with Ovelia until a little bit later, so the song choice is a nice bit of foreshadowing for how Alma would even know this, i.e. through their friendship.

But now I also like to read this scene in parallel to the one where Ovelia laments her role as a princess.

Ovelia's theme plays in that one as well—specifically the andante second half in B flat. B flat major is an open and bright key, but also a contemplative one; that particular arrangement of Ovelia's theme, with its slower tempo and low woodwind carrying the melody, accentuates the latter trait. Ovelia misses the only friend she's ever had, and one of the rare few that she could be certain had pure intentions towards her. Her nostalgic reminiscence of Alma is tinged with longing for the past and anxiety for the future.

In this scene, on the other hand, where Alma reveals to Ramza that she's seen Virgo at Orbonne, Ovelia's theme in F sharp major is at its brightest and most optimistic. (In classical music, F sharp major is also considered a "triumphant" key.) The music selection is a good choice in general, because it characterizes Alma well—she's humorously teasing her much more solemn brother; she's manipulating the situation so she can stop feeling useless and actually do something, and her gambit works; the higher woodwind brings to mind Alma's chirping flute from her own theme—but when you consider to whom this theme belongs, it implies that Alma isn't just conveying a fact she knows. She's actively reminiscing about Ovelia.

The use of this half of the theme suggests to me that Alma's memories of their friendship are, on their surface, more straightforwardly affectionate. I think that's partially because Alma seems to take more things in stride than Ovelia does, but also, Ovelia isn't Alma's only friend. Tietra's friendship casts a much larger shadow over Alma. For obvious reasons, sure, but as to the framing, the immediate preceding scene had Alma inquire about Tietra by name, and express fresh dismay upon learning that she did not make the same miraculous recovery Delita did, and the music used in that scene was Alma's theme, placing Tietra much closer to Alma's heart (notably, the last scene Alma's theme was used was during Tietra's introduction, at Alma's side). Alma's friendship with Ovelia must seem so uncomplicated compared to what came after, it's almost a relief to get away from all this and revisit the monastery where she grew up.

You could also say, given the arrangement's faster tempo and the surrounding story context, that thoughts of Ovelia are what drive Alma into action. Ramza and Delita have both compared Ovelia to Tietra; it's not a stretch to consider that Alma might be doing the same.

However... as Ovelia is the loneliest character in the game, I don't think you can use her theme, even the lightest part of it, without invoking loneliness. At this point in the story, Alma has been dragged to Lesalia by her brothers, the ones she's not particularly close to, while they wage a war against her childhood friend. That would feel incredibly alienating, I think.

There are so few relationships between women in FFT, and while Alma is central to most of them, she never gets a moment to talk about a really important one. Alma's the invisible connective tissue between Ovelia and Ramza, and Ovelia and Tietra. It's nice to get these little musical hints to remind us of Alma and Ovelia's importance to each other—and also of Alma's thoughts and feelings, elaborations on which are frustratingly few.

[daily-rayless]

Happy Birthday to Princess Ovelia Atkascha from Final Fantasy Tactics. But who in that game ever gets a happy birthday?

[jkjones21]

I don’t expect this one to make much of a splash, but I do love Final Fantasy Tactics and wanted to try adapting a couple of Akihito Yoshida’s designs in my own style. I took coloring cues from the cel-shaded style the updated cut scenes use in the War of the Lions remake, although I think I’m incapable of doing a cel-shaded rendering. Anyhow, Lady Agrias is one of my original sword ladies. She’s great and sad and has lots of regrets that she failed to protect Ovelia.

[niratheraven]

The princess and her kinght.

[adalheidis]

A little Ovelia I drew for the ffladieszine's collaborative sticker sheet. Be nice to her, she's trying her best

[maiabomb]

Tactics sketches I did when I was watching a playthrough

[fictional-birthdays]

Happy Birthday, Ovelia Atkascha! (Final Fantasy Tactics)

[queenovelia]

sketches i did that I think are cool (?)

[cyberphuck]

Not gonna lie though if you REALLY think Orinus Atkascha is the True King of Ivalice then you’re a little bit sus. Friendly reminder that Orinus’s claim to the throne was shaky AT BEST because he was probably conceived through his mother’s infidelity (and again, it’s not WEIRD to tell married women, even in real life, that a child conceived with lies and betrayal by a wife whose womb belonged to her husband should have had no other destiny than to go cold in the crib).

Ovelia Atkascha had ALREADY been named heir BY THE KING (and if any of you had ever READ A BOOK then you’d know Kings have the divine right to rule over and make decisions for the lesser people of his kingdom, and that’s just as true in Ivalice as it is in real life) and the rumor that she’d been “switched at birth” was baseless hearsay anyway (AND people who lie burn in Hell for all eternity). SHE was always going to ascend the throne and if her female weaknesses made her an inferior ruler than a true trueborn son of the King would have been, at LEAST she was SUPPOSED to be there and wasn’t a BASTARD.

But by the grace of God she became the wife of Delita Heiral who, though he was of a much lesser House, was neither the fruit of a greedy mother’s cockle nor tainted with the unworthy blood of a commoner. Delita took Ovelia’s weak and confused womanly hand and ascended the throne as her husband and King, allowing her to fulfill a woman’s true purpose of bearing and nurturing children (and more people IN REAL LIFE should remember that, but they’re too busy liking gross and morally bad things like age gaps and incest).

Delita had come from humble but pure beginnings as the third son of a minor lord, but God saw his honesty and goodness and guided him first to the service of Baron Grimms, then to his ultimate destiny as destroyer of lies and corruption. He was a good husband to Ovelia, protecting her from all those that sought to harm her. And since he wore the Crown honestly, and not through lies and deceit, he was a good and just King.

And the TRUE King, if you even care, but I’m sure you’re too busy shipping Reylo (ugh) to understand how REAL LIFE works.