Board 8 > Save My Favorite Final Fantasy Characters XXI: Final Results [smfffc]

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Grimlyn posted...

https://i.imgur.com/p3WO9yP.png

hell naw i'm not stuffing my creation at the bottom of a page
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Lopen posted...

What makes something a character?

Is it a name? Is it dialogue? Is it a unique look? Are Mog's moogle buddies in FFVI not characters because there are like 10 of em and they look the same? The Red Mage can be named, just like any other main character in a FF game.

There are a defined four warriors of light in the story of FF1. It's not like a later game where you can swap classes on the fly or they modify an existing character. The Red Mage is what the Red Mage is and can't change. What little lore the game gives you in the form of art and whatnot highly implies no repeats too-- repetition is possibly mechanics. Of course that means two of the six are "non canon" warriors but that's okay, they're still characters.

But I would say he's more of a character than Warrior of Light because he's more distinctive, personally. Back in the NES days design was everything. I personally think the Red Mage is more of a character than like, Josef, to be quite blunt, given the tools to work with on the NES I could tell you more about what the Red Mage is about than Josef. Not to run down FF2, but yeah. Warrior of Light is just Josef with a voice actor in terms of being memorable.

A character has to be a specific entity that plays any kind of role in the story. The four warriors of light ARE characters, despite being officially unnamed and having no dialogue. Any or all of them can be Red Mages, or fighters, or whatever else.

It's exactly the same as FFV, except Bartz and friends have names and dialogue so they're easy to distinguish/care about.

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IMO, to be a character they need a defined name, appearance, and personality. Otherwise they're just a sprite/model.

FF1 job classes don't actually qualify by those rules, but the grandfather clause means they're here to stay. (If we're being technical, there's an official novelization that comes out in a couple months in the US, but there isn't a Red Mage in that one anyway.)
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