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- Jul 18, 2016
For fucks sake...I'm late to join in the Final Fantasy Sperging, but I've been streaming Final Fantasy 6, so fuck it. Let's Sperg, goddamnit.
Very few female characters exist in 6, and fewer still join your party. Terra, the main protagonist, is there from the start, but Lord does that game become a sausage fest. However, Terra has an incredibly female centric character arc that resonates with men and women alike, especially here in America, because we love seeing protective parents step up and take on incredibly powerful opponents to protect their children.
Terra, at first, is very confused about who she is and if she can even feel the same emotions a human does. Then, after Kefka blows up the world, she ends up running and protecting an orphanage of sorts, taking in kids that lost their parents. The first time you visit her, she says she's lost the will to fight, which was already tenuous in her case but lost even more now that she knows she has people relying on her.
It isn't until returning a few more times that a demon attacks the place and your party gets trounced utterly. Even though he's been driven away before, he's going all out, and Terra responds in kind, leading to a kick ass battle where she lays the smack down upon said demon using her Esper powers. After the fight, the children of the orphanage are scared of Terra, but eventually accept this dual nature of her. This gives her the inspiration to continue the fight, and rejoin the party.
Anyone who's gone through puberty understands what it's like to feel strange, conflicting emotions. Anyone who's been in charge of someone younger or weaker then them can relate to feeling a need to protect the weak. Anyone *human* can relate to these ideas on some level. But as this thread establishes...John isn't really human, more an elaborate joke, so of course the shittiest romance in all of Final Fantasy is what captures his interest. Fighter really liking swords was a better love story than Squall and Rinoa.
Very few female characters exist in 6, and fewer still join your party. Terra, the main protagonist, is there from the start, but Lord does that game become a sausage fest. However, Terra has an incredibly female centric character arc that resonates with men and women alike, especially here in America, because we love seeing protective parents step up and take on incredibly powerful opponents to protect their children.
Terra, at first, is very confused about who she is and if she can even feel the same emotions a human does. Then, after Kefka blows up the world, she ends up running and protecting an orphanage of sorts, taking in kids that lost their parents. The first time you visit her, she says she's lost the will to fight, which was already tenuous in her case but lost even more now that she knows she has people relying on her.
It isn't until returning a few more times that a demon attacks the place and your party gets trounced utterly. Even though he's been driven away before, he's going all out, and Terra responds in kind, leading to a kick ass battle where she lays the smack down upon said demon using her Esper powers. After the fight, the children of the orphanage are scared of Terra, but eventually accept this dual nature of her. This gives her the inspiration to continue the fight, and rejoin the party.
Anyone who's gone through puberty understands what it's like to feel strange, conflicting emotions. Anyone who's been in charge of someone younger or weaker then them can relate to feeling a need to protect the weak. Anyone *human* can relate to these ideas on some level. But as this thread establishes...John isn't really human, more an elaborate joke, so of course the shittiest romance in all of Final Fantasy is what captures his interest. Fighter really liking swords was a better love story than Squall and Rinoa.
