#posting this little teaser thingy as i'm fighting for my life

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Just wanted to repost my rant I posted as a reblog of Celes vs Rumi, so you can put it as propaganda on Celes vs. whoever she goes against in the second round:

Please vote for Celes guys, my ultimate blorbo and I want to rant about my FF6 retelling/rewrite I have a very long outline for and how I have developed her character in it but I'm not sure if anyone would want to hear it, so I will be a little brief. But as a teaser for you in case everyone is interested (especially whoever it was who submitted her to the bracket):

I have been obsessed with her for like the last 3 years. At least my interpretation of her I've seen different ones in fanfics and such, and I expanded on her character a lot in my fanfic thingy than a game that had limited space for content and dialogue for how long ago it was written and was juggling a ton of character could. The way I write her, she sets herself up as someone impossibly prideful and dignified and ruthless and intimidating, someone whose identity is built on being a Heroic General who is above normal human life, something frighteningly pure, and that's probably because that's the kind of stoic, militaristic idea of greatness that a kind of empire like the one she grew up in would value, and I se this as because of deep-seated guilt - of course she has to cling onto this "great man" emblem of being something more than human and not able to connect to other people besides as allies reaching the same pragmatic goal because the realm of history and "heroism" accepts horrible cruelties as long as the overall story is one of glory and nobility, by the standards of a human being she is horrible and deserves none of this, and it isn't lost on her that having betrayed the people she is fighting for means her past actions were unjustified and for nothing. And that's the flip side of this, she is also less than human in her mind, part of the romance of stoic heroism is the acceptance of death and knowing that your life doesn't matter for any inherent value (that would be cruel, how could you value yourself who have done so many horrible things and your pathetic personal happiness and friendship and having fun over those who are actually good people, that's self-indulgent and cruel) except for what it achieves. I definitely write her as someone with a contrast between just how young she is and how she acts, but at the same time for all her pretenses she is still has an intense romanticism about the world typical of her age that makes everything all or nothing, she is in the end a performer trying to create an image of herself even if she would say performing is below her dignity.

AND THE SECOND HALF OF THE GAME - the isolation from humanity as the world literally crumbles around her and with it any framework in which she could live with herself or justify her actions, one big chance I made in my "retelling" story is that the first half of the game now takes place over a timeline of like 2.5 years or so, and so this is not about thinking you will always have hope and you can come back from this but that even if she can't justify her own existence, even if it would be neater to just die and let it all be over, she can't abandon those she has fought with and grown to love to a twisted and mangled world. There's no hope, no victory, to retreat from her guilt and shame, just the compassion and love she has for her friends that pierces through the world like the song she sang at the opera long ago, that tells her she won't just leave them and makes her the most human of all despite her attempts to deny all semblance of humanity for herself.

I could go on a lot longer... but please vote for her and if anyone is interested in the outline I wrote (it's basically a "retelling" of the game but with more depth to the characters, story and themes and also taking place in sort of its own world where everything has different names like a serial numbers filed off OC to give me more freedom for world building).

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