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Daenerys

Daenerys

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After reading an interesting post in the FFVI section it made me realise something.

In most FF games you walk around as a guy but the main character is really a girl - then the second main character is the guy you walk around as - it seems to be that way from FFVI onwards :

FFVI - could walk around as anyone but the main characters were Terra and Celes

Reasons why Celes and Terra are the main characters :

Terra - you start off with her, shes the first character you get to control in the WoB and most of the first half of the game revolves around Terra and the espers.

Celes - You start off with her in the WoR, shes one of the most developed characters in the game, and the second half of the game is her recruitng her friends again and defeating Kefka.


FFVII - you walk around as Cloud but the main character is Aeris

Aeris - The first disk pretty much focuses on Aeris - we learn a lot about her and her past before we start to learn about anyone else, shes involved in the story alot more than the other main characters. AFter Disk one it is still about Aeris as her sacrifice saves the world - basically without Aeris FF7 wouldnt have ended happily or even had a story XD

FFVIII - You walk around as Squall but the main character is Rinoa

Rinoa - She is the first character to show emotion, shes the one who Squall is assigned to obey, shes the one who brings out the best in the party, and she has the whole sorceress thing going :P
Yeah....FFVIII isnt my strong point.

FFIX - you walk around as Zidane but the main character is Garnet

Garnet - Its fairly obvious that Garnet is the main character, its her story they focus on more than anyone else - it shows her develop from a timid princess into a confidant leader - Zidane doesnt even get a story until the end of disk 3, while the first two disks are about Garnet trying to stop her mother and being afraid of her own summoning magic, even after zidanes story takes over in disk 3 Garnet is still very important - like when she cuts her hair shows that shes no longer afraid.

FFX - You walk around as Tidus but the main character is Yuna

Yuna - FFX is Mainly Yunas story told through Tidus' eyes. Its HER that will save the world its HER thats the most important and most of the plot twists revolve around HER.

FFXII - You walk around as Vaan (in towns and stuff anyway) but the main character is Ashe

*only in the henne mines so bear with me here*

Ashe - its all Ashes story, she is the character that gets focused on the most she is the groups Leader, all the villains want to kill her.


Ok well some - if not all - of those summaries suck, it does make a valid point. In FF games the Men are the people you walk around as while the women are the most important storyline wise - this way there both equal and fair. well IMO anyway lol

Does it make sense to you?

Discuss?
 
Well in Final Fantasy XII, you're right. Vaan is defnitely not the main character. The story has a lot more to do with Ashe than anyone else but for the rest of them I disagree. I think that the hero and the heroine both play extremely important roles in the storyline of the game... but the person you play as is typically more important. The heroine is used for a lot more plot twists than the hero... but the focus of the story is still about the hero.

In Final Fantasy VII, Aeris is a very important part of the story. Without her you wouldn't be able to stop meteor or any of that... but the story is still about Cloud. It's all about him and the events that occured over the last ten years.

Final Fantasy VIII, who knows. He goes back in time and becomes his own grandfather or something.... Don't know. WHo cares

In Final Fantasy IX, Garnet is very important. A lot of the story revolves around her and her kingdom... but the bigger ordeal is more about Zidane and his role with Kuja and Garland in Terra. THat's the story that you discover, the more important story.

The same is true for Final Fantasy X. Yuna is a very important character but when you discover the truth of the story, it's apparent that Tidus is much more vital. That's even further underscored by the fact that his father is Sin and all of that. I mean they only say "this is my story" about a million times.
 
Yeah I don't think i agree with the first post about who's the main character. In X especially, yes, Yuna is the one who's going to 'save the world' but the story is told from Tidus perspective and is about him, and things wind up different in the end anyway.

In FFVII I never got the impression Aeris was the main character. Even in the first disk it didn't feel that way o_O Like Aztec said, she was a pivotal role in Cloud's overall story, she wasn't the main character.

Once again in VIII, I don't understand at all how the 'main character' is Rinoa. You're always Squall (except when....you're Laguna), and on a couple of occasions you have save Rinoa's life, and in the end it isn't Rinoa who goes up against Ultimecia by herself is it?

IX....same thing. It follows Zidane around, you're always him, and once again, there are a couple of times he even has to save her, and in the end, same as VIII, no one defeats Kuja or Necron all by themselves. Plus, all the characters seemed to get a healthy amount of screen time from what I can remember o_O


Just cause another character is important to the overall story or has a pivotal plot point, doesn't make them the 'main' character.
 
I think everybody sort of has their own opinions on who is the main character. While I feel Aerith DID play an extremely vital role in FFVII, and even after disk 1, Cloud was still mentioning her in disk 2 and she did save the world, it was all Cloud's story. Cloud was without a shadow of a doubt the main character in FFVII.

In FFX, this is where it lies for me. I feel that the story makes both Tidus and Yuna the main character. I think they are both equal in this aspect. Why do you ask? Well of course we start out as Tidus, we play as Tidus, learn all about his story, his life, what he is and what his fate is, but at the same time we're going on a course of Yuna's life, what she is and what she's destined to do, so really the storyline revolves around both of them, making them both IMO, the main characters.
 
Unghhh I love how you mentioned this.
The only one I dissagree with is FFVII.
Cloud's whole personality dissorder, and his thing with Sephiroth and Zack...was just too depthful...The story was all about him, him, him. =x
 
ok maybe on some i did go OTT but i was kinda trying to show that the Girls are allways extremely important to the plot - without the Girls the FF games wouldnt be as interesting or complex, so in Each FF game the girl gets the big plot twist tanf the boy is the main character/the one you walk around as - does that sound equal or not? o_0
 
Rhea said:
Unghhh I love how you mentioned this.
The only one I dissagree with is FFVII.
Cloud's whole personality dissorder, and his thing with Sephiroth and Zack...was just too depthful...The story was all about him, him, him. =x
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Yeah =/ that was kind of the point though Rhea. Cloud is a major character, the main one in FFVII so of course his story would be depthful with Sephiroth, Zack and all that. Cloud is the main character, whether we like it or not.
 
Good point there! I realized this not that long ago, either. Hmm, although I have to agree with the majority here that Cloud is indeed the main character of VII. Second would be Aerith, IMO.

As for VIII, I didn't really got the impression that Rinoa was the main character. >.< I knew Squall was because it focused on his past. (Although you made a good point about the whole Rinoa-sorceress thing.) Squall was Rinoa's love interest (vice versa), so maybe that's why it made her seem like the main character, but I still think that the storyline is based on Squall...with sorcery added to the package. ^_^

With IX, I did have a feeling that Garnet IS the main character...but that kinda changes towards the end when we find out about Zidane's past. So basically, it's all a mixture of the hero and heroine's past/character. I believe that Square makes it so that there are atleast (usually anyway) two main characters in the game. That ties in with X as well. Yuna and Tidus are both the main characters simply because of their character interaction with each other and what is going on in their world.

Now, I have to agree with you that Vaan does not seem like the main character. (In fact, I'm starting to believe he isn't the main character in the first place. We just see the world in his eyes.) Ashe is. And Balthier. :) The only impression I got from Vaan was that he just wants to seek revenge for the death of his brother. Understandable. Hence, the reason why he's in your party. But I really don't understand why it's him that we have to control and not Balthier, when it's so obvious that Balthier (and Ashe) leads the party as soon as he joins Vaan on the journey. Vaan would have few inputs here and there, but that's all.

Well, of course...this is entirely my opinion. :)
 
FFVII:Cloud is the main character.It's all about him.

FFVIII:No matter how much I hate myself for saying this,Squall is the main character.I never got the idea Rinoa was the main character.

FFX:Tidus and Yuna are the main characters.It's easy to tell that.

FFXII:Vaan IS NOT THE MAIN CHAR.He even said he was going along.
 
Actually...it could be argued that each and every character in FF7 had an equal level of influence on the plot...
If you know each of their histories well enough, you'll see that none of them really outweigh each other...

Even the underestimated Cait Sith has a large influence and relevance towards the story...
I also think...what a lot of people skim over is the fact that Yuffie is a princess...and her materia stealing plot goes much farther than just pretty orbs...

Alas...I think this theory holds true to FFs like IX, X and XII.
 
well, in FFX Tidus IS the main character, in the beginning Tidus says "this is my story..." and it starts, somewhere near the end he says it again "this is my story..."

that just says it's about him, and if you ask me, Yuna might be the one who saves the world, but did she use the final summoning? no the guardians all fought directly against Sin, with Tidus as the main fighter and leader(well... he tried anyways)
so in fact, Tidus was the hero in FFX, while not really Yuna, since the only thing she had to do was summon Aeons, which the guardians had to fight too,
 
females are most often considered the main characters of these stories, but really a lot needs to be said of the male counterparts, the heroes, without them, sometimes a heroine's fight would be in vain.
 
Right.
Aerith would have never realized Sephiroth's plot in time, had she not been accompanying Cloud...and she would have probably never left Midgar.

FFVIII is a stupid story, and Rinoa would have wound up dead with all of her random brainfart ideas.

Garnet probably wouldn't have succeeded in running away from Alexandria if it weren't for Zidane.

And Yuna would have sacrificed herself and died if not for Tidus.
 
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