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VeryInsane posted...

Interesting choice. What do you like so much about Seymour?

It's the kind of villain I enjoy. The tragic and twisted villain molded by traumas in his life. He's a half-breed, forced into exile as a child because Jyscal mistakenly thought that by fathering a child with a human that he could bridge the gap between their cultures. Instead, the disgust for it at the time was so bad that Seymour couldn't even live among either of the cultures. Then his mother has the idea that Seymour will be accepted more if he can possess a powerful aeon unlike others to battle Sin with. So as a young child Seymour has to go through the trauma of being an outcast without anyone to turn to but his mother, and then that person effectively kills herself in front of him.

I just really like that arc, and I like his views on life and death in Spira. He really believes he's doing the "right thing" for Spira, and unlike most Final Fantasy villains he's not really a power-seeker or would be conqueror. His only desire for power is so that he can fulfill his goal of ending suffering, by ending life, because there was no way to stop Sin's rebirth anyway so he believed. He's one of the few villains in these games I feel has a real motive behind what he's doing that actually makes some sort of twisted sense to it. Plus he has a fantastic voice actor and I like his design.

pjbasis posted...

If FFX didn't treat Seymour like a joke he could have been way more popular.

One of the most disappointing plotlines in how it amounted to nothing. Seeing his face before enter Sin got me so hyped back then.

Eh, the game doesn't treat Seymour as a joke at all. I mean was I let down by that final encounter? Maybe, but not because of Seymour. That's just how the game is written. I mean, I don't think he's meant to be viewed in any sort of joking manner because he has one of the most difficult storyline battles there is and he always feels like a credible threat to the party. To me, he feels like THE threat because you don't know what he's really up to until you've played the game. Sin is just this big destructive thing, you know what's it up to really. Not to mention he has an incredible boss battle theme I think everyone can agree on.
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