FFIV

[mimi_sardinia]

So, I am venturing into a new FF, one of the older (pre-7) ones too!

Already got a nice fill of the FF theme (the one that's in the credits of FF8, AC and the Revenant Wings trailer), plus the Crystal theme (the Prelude from FF7).

I have come across my first problem - how do you take the characters seriously when they have such cute little sprites?

Also, does anyone know of an icon with Kain and Cecil in it, with the caption "Stop staring at my butt, Kain" - or something along those lines? Seems I never saved a copy but now that I'm going to be playing FF4 I want that icon and the one person who I thought has it doesn't.

Comments

[blueshinra.livejournal.com]

I have come across my first problem - how do you take the characters seriously when they have such cute little sprites?

Wasn't a problem for me... or maybe I'm just old school. At any rate, FFIV has one of the most angsty and dramatic stories in the entire damned series, so I'd be very surprised if you don't end up taking the characters at least a little bit seriously!

As for the icon, I see it at Fandom Wank every once in awhile... may want to browse there.

[mimi-sardinia.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I once I actually get into it I supose I'll get over it - it's just a somewhat flipant initial thought, not a small part caused by the fact that I really am a "new school" FF fan - having started with 7, then going onto 8 and 10 and currently otherwise wishing for 12 to turn up here in Aus.

Maybe I'll have to go looking for FF wanks to find the icon - I figure those would be the most likely.

[blueshinra.livejournal.com]

I started with FF7 myself, but had been gaming (in general) on and off since the '80s; also, I'm not much of a graphics snob.

Also, if I run across that icon before you do, I'll let you know.

[mimi-sardinia.livejournal.com]

Well I'd hardly call myself a graphics whore either - it was only a bit over a year ago that I played FF7 for the first time and I just thought the sprite in it were cute.

Then again, my all-time favourite game is around the same age as FF7 and FF8 - Baldur's Gate - and it's very sprite based too.

Anyway, I've had a bit more play since I first made this post and I'm growing attached to Cecil a bit - and wondering if there's any cute fluff fics that include Rydia (because cute fluff that involves child characters is... cute).

I'm reading old wanks at the moment - I'm in a FFXII one at the moment, reading all the fangirling is kinda fun.

[anrixan.livejournal.com]

I LOVE FFIV. It is the first FF game that I have ever played... and it still remains in my top three. Actually... it's my second favorite, close behind FFVI. Kain Highwind is <3.

[mimi-sardinia.livejournal.com]

So question: what are your thoughts on Kain=Bahamut? It's a pet idea in the back of my head for my pet AU.

[anrixan.livejournal.com]

What do you mean?

[mimi-sardinia.livejournal.com]

Guardianverse - my pet AU - has several of GFs (it's mainly FF8) with more human identities behind their "battle avatars". Diablos is Vincent Valentine, Pheonix is Shelke/Lucrecia, Squall becomes Griever, and there's several non-canon GFs that are other FF7 characters.

Bahamut however is older than almost all of the other GFs, having lived through more than one world crossing. He is, in my mind, the weaker of the three FF7 Bahamut materia, having shared the name with older incarnations of the Dragon.

His human form is also a dragoon, and I have been idly wondering if Kain Highwind would fit into the role.

[anrixan.livejournal.com]

Hmmm, that actually does make a lot of sense... but there is a Bahamut in FFIV. But if you're thinking for an AU universe, that would fit pretty well.

[mimi-sardinia.livejournal.com]

Actually, I have a reasoning to make my way around that as well - Summons don't stay the same from aeon to aeon, world to world. They can get old and when they do, some new soul comes along - often human - and takes over the role. So the Bahamut of FFIV got tired and Kain took over the role.

I was thinking over something and I actually think now that he wasn't the weakest of the three materia, but probably Neo Bahamut - with the Bahamut that was before him being Bahamut ZERO and plain Bahamut being FFX Bahamut instead. I don't know however what happened to him, he might have been the unfortunate who became Tiamat (a very big point in Griever's life, as he gave himself over to Ultimecia to protect the rest of the GFs from suffering the same fate as Tiamat).