The Figaro brothers, Edgar and Sabin, from Final Fantasy VI are memorable characters. Can you tell us how you designed them and the doujinshi you wrote?
Thank you. When the project started there was a list of playable class names, like "one thief, one gambler and two magitek knights". The staff used to bring along ideas to create stories, as my friends took a gambler, a ninja and a painter, I chose a monk and a machinist to design and write. Personally I really like desert landscapes, therefore they naturally became the kings on the sand.
I have a habit of coming up with ridiculously detailed ideas about characters backgrounds. Thankfully the company took open-minded attitude to the doujinshi subculture back then, so I put brothers tales of childhood that didnt fit in the game into a privately-printed booklet after the game came out. The most part I wrote in that booklet was just trivial things, though.