I once went to a castle in Ireland. But before I went, and knowing nothing about it except the address, I attempted to make a painting of it. I just painted what I saw in my mind.
Then I went there.
You know the rest. I found myself standing in my painting. It's an old story, and you can believe it or not, but I know it's true. This post is for the believers. I will now attempt to perform the same magic again, but for the ending to Final Fantasy 13, which I suddenly a got vision of today.
As with the castle, there was at least some logic to it. Lightning's obviously like Cloud in many ways, that much I noticed a while ago. The face is the same, the hair is, kind of, and the name, Cloud, which lightening comes from. Then there's the government. They made a space station to keep the people away from the planet so they don't acquire magic abilities the planet would otherwise give them. Sounds a little restricting. Almost like another government I've heard of in a game before. Shin-Ra had its eye on space too, remember. Then there's the ad art of the abandoned world covered in vegetation. Now where have I seen that before? The Red 13 ending, of course. As in 13. Final fantasy 13.
That's the logic, now for the vision!
It was a normal day. Not really though, there's been a heatwave here in Maine, and for once it was cloudy and cold. No wonder my Brain Elements (see The Nightland, by William Hope Hodgeson) have started working again, for lo and behold, at the height of my wakefulness today, I suddenly got the vision, as clear as a movie in a theater! Enough suspense?
Lightning, after spending most of the game in the space station, and maybe elsewhere, but not the planet, will finally defeat the oppressive government and return the people to the planet. She will lead them, walking across the great plains, surprised to find there's just nothing there, only plants and animals. Then, coming up over a slight rise, the people a little ways back, her eyes open slightly at something she sees up ahead at the top of the rise. She runs up. There, stuck in the grass is an extremely rusty sword, crumbled to almost nothing. The handle's gone except for the metal underneath, and the blade has giant holes in it like a shipwreck. Two of the holes however seem strangely perfect, like they were there before it rusted. Just as she's noticing that, her eyes open much wider at what she sees in the distance. The people have now reached where she is, and they see it too. The camera then rises to show what's there...
Midgar 500 years later.
Then I went there.
You know the rest. I found myself standing in my painting. It's an old story, and you can believe it or not, but I know it's true. This post is for the believers. I will now attempt to perform the same magic again, but for the ending to Final Fantasy 13, which I suddenly a got vision of today.
As with the castle, there was at least some logic to it. Lightning's obviously like Cloud in many ways, that much I noticed a while ago. The face is the same, the hair is, kind of, and the name, Cloud, which lightening comes from. Then there's the government. They made a space station to keep the people away from the planet so they don't acquire magic abilities the planet would otherwise give them. Sounds a little restricting. Almost like another government I've heard of in a game before. Shin-Ra had its eye on space too, remember. Then there's the ad art of the abandoned world covered in vegetation. Now where have I seen that before? The Red 13 ending, of course. As in 13. Final fantasy 13.
That's the logic, now for the vision!
It was a normal day. Not really though, there's been a heatwave here in Maine, and for once it was cloudy and cold. No wonder my Brain Elements (see The Nightland, by William Hope Hodgeson) have started working again, for lo and behold, at the height of my wakefulness today, I suddenly got the vision, as clear as a movie in a theater! Enough suspense?
Lightning, after spending most of the game in the space station, and maybe elsewhere, but not the planet, will finally defeat the oppressive government and return the people to the planet. She will lead them, walking across the great plains, surprised to find there's just nothing there, only plants and animals. Then, coming up over a slight rise, the people a little ways back, her eyes open slightly at something she sees up ahead at the top of the rise. She runs up. There, stuck in the grass is an extremely rusty sword, crumbled to almost nothing. The handle's gone except for the metal underneath, and the blade has giant holes in it like a shipwreck. Two of the holes however seem strangely perfect, like they were there before it rusted. Just as she's noticing that, her eyes open much wider at what she sees in the distance. The people have now reached where she is, and they see it too. The camera then rises to show what's there...
Midgar 500 years later.
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