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marmolita I feel like it's been forever since I posted here but it's only been like ten days. Probably because during that time I spent almost all of my free time either reading the FFVIII screenshot LP I mentioned last time or doing the ridiculously self indulgent RP I've got going on with dustofwarfare and freosan.
Now that I've reached the end of ff8, I feel weirdly bereft of the excitement of consuming a new canon. I think there were a lot of problems with it, especially in terms of pacing and character arcs, but man oh man the plot is one wild ride. I love everything about the universe -- it's so strange and such a mix of fantasy and scifi (as final fantasy usually is). There is so much implied badwrong stuff too, like the fact that Squall and Seifer have been child soldiers since age 5 (and Quistis since 10). The fact that Garden trained them to use GFs knowing full well that it would erase their memories, specifically because if the don't remember anything they won't have human attachments and will be able to kill even their closest friends. The fact that Ultimecia seduced Seifer into being her Knight with a combination of mind control and his foster mom's body. (yes I absolutely believe she slept with him in that body for maximal badwrong)
I think what frustrates me the most about it is not what actually happens in it, because I enjoy all of that, but what COULD have happened in it. How did Seifer go from commanding Galbadia Garden to tattered and broken in Lunatic Pandora? What does it mean to be a knight and could Seifer have used that role to stop Ultimecia? How close were they all when they were actually kids? Were Squall and Seifer really rivals or were they friends? I mean, out of everyone there, Seifer is the closest thing Squall has to a brother -- they literally grew up together without being separated at all. Like I know Ellone is his sister figure but he barely knows her, and he's spent his whole life with Seifer. How does that actually work? What about Rinoa? What was her childhood like? What actually happened between her and Seifer during their summer fling? How long has she been a sorceress?
In any case I feel like if you don't already know the plot you're not going to fully understand the wildness of this story without this key bit of worldbuilding information: there are monsters that kids on the moon, and sometimes they fall to earth in a giant mass. There's a space station to keep an eye on the moon. There's a giant city-sized device/ship/weapon that can artificially cause monsters to fall from the moon. It's fucking BONKERS.
Anyway I talked about it a bunch on Tumblr and Twitter but yeah, I have some feelings. (and now I am going to curl up in bed and try not to cough up a lung, being sick sucks)
Now that I've reached the end of ff8, I feel weirdly bereft of the excitement of consuming a new canon. I think there were a lot of problems with it, especially in terms of pacing and character arcs, but man oh man the plot is one wild ride. I love everything about the universe -- it's so strange and such a mix of fantasy and scifi (as final fantasy usually is). There is so much implied badwrong stuff too, like the fact that Squall and Seifer have been child soldiers since age 5 (and Quistis since 10). The fact that Garden trained them to use GFs knowing full well that it would erase their memories, specifically because if the don't remember anything they won't have human attachments and will be able to kill even their closest friends. The fact that Ultimecia seduced Seifer into being her Knight with a combination of mind control and his foster mom's body. (yes I absolutely believe she slept with him in that body for maximal badwrong)
I think what frustrates me the most about it is not what actually happens in it, because I enjoy all of that, but what COULD have happened in it. How did Seifer go from commanding Galbadia Garden to tattered and broken in Lunatic Pandora? What does it mean to be a knight and could Seifer have used that role to stop Ultimecia? How close were they all when they were actually kids? Were Squall and Seifer really rivals or were they friends? I mean, out of everyone there, Seifer is the closest thing Squall has to a brother -- they literally grew up together without being separated at all. Like I know Ellone is his sister figure but he barely knows her, and he's spent his whole life with Seifer. How does that actually work? What about Rinoa? What was her childhood like? What actually happened between her and Seifer during their summer fling? How long has she been a sorceress?
In any case I feel like if you don't already know the plot you're not going to fully understand the wildness of this story without this key bit of worldbuilding information: there are monsters that kids on the moon, and sometimes they fall to earth in a giant mass. There's a space station to keep an eye on the moon. There's a giant city-sized device/ship/weapon that can artificially cause monsters to fall from the moon. It's fucking BONKERS.
Anyway I talked about it a bunch on Tumblr and Twitter but yeah, I have some feelings. (and now I am going to curl up in bed and try not to cough up a lung, being sick sucks)
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Date: 2019-02-26 07:57 am (UTC)It's great to see someone getting freshly into Final Fantasy VIII! I love that strange mess of a game so much.
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Date: 2019-02-28 01:22 am (UTC)