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What would we find?
Fluff or flesh?
Are the Black Mages organic? Are they dolls? Are they mechanical?
Do they have circulatory systems or circuit boards?
We know that they are manufactured en masse, and Square Enix clearly explores the same tropes seen in Blade Runner (and a lot of science fiction) since some of the Black Mages become self-aware (particularly Vivi, though not exclusively) and express themselves just like any organic lifeform.
I believe it might be stated somewhere that they are a bit like dolls, but I’m not sure if that relates to their appearance, their artificiality, or if it is literally a case of them being manufactured as dolls and then magically brought to life through enchantments.
Are they robots underneath? Are they made up of materials which resemble flesh and bone (like the Replicants in Blade Runner)?
Thoughts?
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And yes! I was inspired by last week's Drawgust prompt.
Fluff or flesh?
Are the Black Mages organic? Are they dolls? Are they mechanical?
Do they have circulatory systems or circuit boards?
We know that they are manufactured en masse, and Square Enix clearly explores the same tropes seen in Blade Runner (and a lot of science fiction) since some of the Black Mages become self-aware (particularly Vivi, though not exclusively) and express themselves just like any organic lifeform.
I believe it might be stated somewhere that they are a bit like dolls, but I’m not sure if that relates to their appearance, their artificiality, or if it is literally a case of them being manufactured as dolls and then magically brought to life through enchantments.
Are they robots underneath? Are they made up of materials which resemble flesh and bone (like the Replicants in Blade Runner)?
Thoughts?
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And yes! I was inspired by last week's Drawgust prompt.