Current Events > I think FF9's Final Boss is no longer a mystery (spoilers)

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I think the confusion comes from people assuming Necron is the villain of the game. He's not. Necron was not behind any of the events in the game at all. Kuja still remains the main villain.

Necron is simply a god that oversees all of creation and the crystal. After Kuja gave into depression and decided to end all of existence, Necron figured that living beings would be much happier if they never existed at all. That way they would never have to experience the fear of death.

I believe the fight against Necron represents the will of living beings to continue to exist despite all of the pain and suffering they experience. Throughout the entire game every one of our heroes has a moment where their identity and purpose for being is questioned. Vivi and the Black mage puppets, Zidane and the Terrans, Garnet and her role as Queen, Amarant and the question of altruism, Steiner and a life of fealty, etc.

Necron is the final test our heroes face to prove that they now have the confidence to shout "I" in the face of nonexistence and mortality. In the end Kuja realizes what it means to live and rescues the team by teleporting them out of the battle. Necron is immortal and is not defeated either. He just leaves once he realizes Kuja repented. He was shown that living beings would still rather exist in pain than not exist at all.

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Necron is the embodiment of Anti-Life, or as some call it, the Void, and is effectively the opposite of the Crystal. While the purpose of the Crystal is to create existence, the purpose of the Void is to return everything to non-existence.

This is not a new theme in Final Fantasy. Manifestions of the Void appear in Final Fantasy III (Cloud of Darkness), Final Fantasy V (Neo-Exdeath), and Final Fantasy IX (Necron, called the Darkness of Eternity in the Japanese translation). Each of those games, if you notice, also feature the Crystal(s) and emphasize the Crystals' importance to maintain existence.

In the case of Final Fantasy IX, Kuja's attempt to destroy the Crystal was what attracted Necron's attention, who then decided to show up to finish the job, only to be confronted by Zidane and his companions.

(Posts pulled from Steam) ^

To me this makes a lot of sense, I hope this puts the whole theory about Necron to rest finally.

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i mean he says as much before the final encounter

it only took 20 years for the code to be cracked

Kaiganeer posted...

i mean he says as much before the final encounter

Yet a good chunk of the fanbase didn't really understand for years, and simply chalked it up to bad writing.

Lost in FF themes I guess?

FF9 was a celebration of the old games.

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Reis posted...

it only took 20 years for the code to be cracked

It was simply in their face honestly; the fanbase was just being ignorant about it.

Which sadly isn't a new thing with the fanbase.

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It is a silly thing to pull out of nowhere, but FF9 is still god-tier.

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Its a weird boss that operates on a conceptual level compared to a mostly straightforward story before it so I dont blame people for feeling flabbergasted by it. The character themselves arent a mystery, its just a weird departure to have you fight a narrative personification is giving into the fear of death that the rest of the game is about. I just wish they handled it better than having him show up with little foreshadowing and exposition dumping all over you

it honestly reminds me of an smt game or something

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Apparently he was almost going to be Hades. Wonder if that would have helped. >_>

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