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Aversione/Reversusque/DREAMS/Reality

A Celebration of Noctis

Reality must be a world where 物 and 物 interact. But for 物 to act, they must negate themselves, cease to be 物. But to think of 物 as parts of some totality means that there are no more acting 物, that world becomes static, that Reality ceases to exist.

This is a fantasy based on Reality

Yes, as life approaches death we feel our ephemeral nature, as if in a Dream or Fantasy. Yet from that contradiction of being, the awareness of our absolute end, Reality flows. The spiral of life, death, and DREAMS.

A celebration of Noctis Lucis Caelum's Birthday using Dreams by The Cranberries.

The narrative is a reflection of Reality as the self-determination of Absolute Nothingness, as Absolutely Contradictory Self-Identity, Ever-changing.

Who was Noctis before? Who will he be? I reference iterations of the character, seemingly discontinuous - yet bearing the same Heart - in that way continuous. I also expand the "ground" or "space" so to speak to include "Final Fantasy". I’ve been inspired by Mr. Nishida’s logic ~ and the more obvious inspirations, like Mahayana.

How can that help us understand Noctis, his creators, or his players better?

Well, Reality, as a world of absolutely contradictory self-idenity must be a world of movement from the made to the making, the made to the maker.

In what world does FF15 not exist?

I appreciate this series, Final Fantasy 15, and Noctis.

物 is what 物 is where 物 is when 物 is

A world of the Versus epic means Nothing and Everything. What is the difference between understanding and knowing? Knowing nothing, we understand nothing?

物 is not what 物 is not where 物 is not when 物 is not

Again, I appreciate this series, Final Fantasy 15, and Noctis. What I experienced, though I may not understand it all, I know it. My perspective vs others.

物 is 物

物 is not 物

Therefore 物 is 物

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『ファイナルファンタジーXV』のストーリーはこれまでの『ファイナルファンタジーXIII 』とか『ファイナルファンタジー零式』のような「ファブラノヴァクリスタリス」という世界を継承はしているんですけども. 基本的には神話が根付いていつつもかなり現代に寄った思想になっているので神話が表立ってない世界ですね. その中で人間関係が交差して FFらしい物語の展開になっていくかなと思います

The story of "FINAL FANTASY XV" like "FINAL FANTASY XIII" and "FINAL FANTASY TYPE-0" inherits the world of "Fabula Nova Crystalis" It's basically a world rooted in mythology, but because it's a very modern way of thinking, it's a world where mythology doesn't stand out. Human relationships intersect So, I think it will develop into a FF-like story. - Mr. Nomura on FF15

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This is why I ask what is FF15 without FFv13, FFv13 without FF, or FF without Koshinto and Mahayana?

The answer is still FF15. Noctis. This series. 物.

Happy Birthday Noctis~ Congratulations!!

To your Father, MoM, and everyone else.. well, what can I say, you guys are the best…

-Obin’ya Chizoret

#final fantasy #nishida kitaro #noctis #final fantasy xv #ff15 #noctis lucis caelum #square enix #spoilers #ffxv #Youtube #the cranberries #dreams #regis lucis caelum #lunafreya nox fleuret #tetsuya nomura #kingdom hearts #StandpointofFF #NNUT

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obinya · 10 months

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I think Final Fantasy is less “Fighting Fate” and more "Fighting the Fantasy there is Freedom of a Will Without Cause".

I’m confused about how some are contrasting Noctis and Clive. I think they are the same, not antitheses.

Shedding a body or absorbing soul parasites to escape mortality is not being in the World, causation, Reality. Power that entails Self-affirmation via negation qua the Absolute Other is being in the World; opposition to an antagonist that would subsume all others, is being in the World.

— where are we reading difference? The use of the word God? One Protagonists sided with gods and the other didn't? What do you think God is? Fate?

My friend asked it like this: "What if the True King’s Power had a 50% success rate?"

"How/Why does that change our perception of Noctis’s Will?"

I ask: "When was Susanoo and Amaterasu’s Ukehi誓約 decided?"

"What do you think goes into FF15’s Ukehi誓約?" (The Oracle's role is to bind wills to the King's will.)

誓約 x 啓示 -> TK’s Providence(Other)

Meaning, The Oracle's heart/will is bet on the King's who commands Others including the Six. This "Will" is revealed via Providence. Providence is both Noct's will and the Planet which birthed the Crystal, whose power, Soul, Noctis held. Yet, this holding is not a subsuming of Will - the Bro's and Regis still appeared with Noctis; The Kings and Six still appeared; we still pressed the button.

Noct's power is a function of others just as Clive's. Clive's bonds weren't bondage either...

#ff16 spoilers #ff15 spoilers #noctis #clive rosfield #Nishida Kitaro #Final Fantasy

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obinya · 11 months

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I fell down another (the same) rabbit hole.

But, I think I might get the contrast between Ultima’s “Age of Reason” and Logos.

The author is going to describe the primacy of reason=logic in western philosophy leading to a subject/object division. Then go to the root of the word logic to show “reason” and it’s dichotomy is not necessary. Then move on to Nishida’s stuff.

Logos < lego < 1) To collect, gather or pick up. 2) to count, tell, say, or speak.

“Thus, logos is that which carries meaning and reflects reality. Most importantly, by collecting words in phrases and sentences, logos produces new meanings—a meaningful unity which enables us to discuss reality surrounding us.”

“…logos is clearly established as a mediation between reality, language, and thought (reason and truth).”

Thinking about what I’ve read on Nishida, the issue is the primacy of reason over emotions and sensation. Mind vs matter… where reality is all and the above and actually experienced before these divisions.

Uhh like faith isn’t reason but Clive used faith to defeat “God”… there’s an explanation for that; that’s not original to FF but characteristic of FF. I’ve just gotta find the words.

I think the fanbase is confused. Protags do not defeat a transcendent God. Transcendence does not exist.That awareness is what is supposed to be impressive.

#NUTT #ff16 #spoilers #final fantasy #Nishida Kitaro

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obinya · 1 year

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Reposting my Ardyn stuff for his birthday.

Here’s most of the Ardyn stuff I have dating back a year+ to the present.

To Die or Not to Die Complete

Did Ardyn see his immortality as a curse?

Did he desire death?

My answer is No. I provide interpretations of his lines and developer interviews. I conclude with my thoughts on Ardyn’s misunderstanding of the Light and Truth (referenced in Magna Insomnia). Perspectives on the Truth (of the True King) include: “You are not alone” , “The Reality of Death-Life”, and “ You are Empty”.

Complete refers to the added page on the Kimya/Ardyn allusion.

I have since had more thoughts on Ardyn’s use of “mottainai”, the “waste” is the lost potential due to Ardyn’s rejection. It’s worse!

Ardyn is Not Saved (Part 1)

The title refers to Terada’s vision of EPA. I have many thoughts about Episode Ardyn and Dawn of the Future. On one hand they are incongruent with Final Fantasy XV, on the other they underline the thrusts of the main story.

Dawn of the Future is not Revelatory, it is Illusory.

This piece covers some observations on the imagery in EPA that work as visual foils with FF15 proper, contrasting Ardyn with Noctis, underlying his villainy— his radical evil. For whatever reason this is ignored.

I conclude again with my thoughts on the Truth of the True King, with an excerpt from Religion and Nothingness (What is Religion?) by Keiji Nishitani. Absolute vs Relative Nothingness::Noctis vs Ardyn.

I’ve since tried working through Kitaro Nishida’s work. The field of bonds, I guess, is like the field of Absolute Nothingness in that contradictory identities are unified there… as is Reality. Removing the contradiction by saying the two are only one or the one are actually two stops short of Reality. The contradiction of many are one and one are many has to remain. I think the image for this is the Night Sky. Nishitani wrote about Overcoming Nihilism by going through it, I visualize Ardyn as stuck in the darkness of the night sky. Like each star is now the one light, one oppressive light, the predicate of King is cruel and cunning and no different from Bahamut - despite the choices of each star... ? Idk. It’s complicated.

But not as complicated as how Dawn of the Future contradicts established FF15 plot while seemingly contradicting FF15 story and themes until you snap out of it— Oracles speak to Messengers not the Crystal given to Lucis. They speak to exchange the Wills of mankind and the Six, necessitating 1.) the existence of both and 2.) a unity. FF15 is the story of the True King not a Prisoner of Fate.

Ardyn Lucis Charlie Complete in 8 Tweets

Commentary of my old Ardyn music video using Charlie Big Potatoes by Skunk Anansie with a bit of Nishida’s Inquiry into the Good and some of my NN Unitary Theory.

Basically, Ardyn’s a hedonist. That’s not good enough.

I still missed actually doing a play-by-play of the scene and shot choice… but I did include a mapping of Axis Memorae! The twitter version has an alternate Turks ending… maybe I’ll upload to YouTube someday…

I see EPA as a 4th wall breaking troll by Ardyn… a bored dream where he tells us what we want to hear… which isn’t what he already told us.

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#final fantasy xv #ff15 #final fantasy #square enix #noctis lucis caelum #ardyn #episode ardyn #hbdardyn

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obinya · 1 year

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I’ve done more ‘essays’ but am too lazy to post them.

I have unfinished stuff too.

I think I will organize the FF stuff and try this weekend.

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obinya · 2 years

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obinya · 2 years

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#final fantasy xv #final fantasy #ff15 #noctis lucis caelum #square enix #ffxv #lunafreya nox fleuret #nnut #aera mirus fleuret #kingdom hearts #shinto #nothingness #amaterasu #amanouzume #ukei #Youtube

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obinya · 2 years

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Ardyn Lucis Charlie Complete NNUT

https://youtu.be/yU_ifvdHgnk

*Added a page on Kimya’s dialogue that I think alludes to Ardyn.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/116F_QCmPh6k_OdX4NBAfgVFbqVEz2Z9M/view?usp=sharing

To Die or Not To Die

Ardyn wanted to kill Noctis, the True King, the Hope of Lucis and the World. Period.

I go through game dialogue and developer comments and conclude Ardyn did not wish to die or truly see his relationship to the scourge as a “curse.”

I still missed some, namely the lines related to Kimya and Izana.

Ardyn is one of my favorite characters ever. However, impression of Ardyn is not the same as Mr. Terada and Mr. Osanai who both led the development of Episode Ardyn and Dawn of the Future. My impression is closer to Mr. Tabata and Ms. Itamuro who directed and led the scenario team on Final Fantasy XV.

I need that early interpretation, because there’s something about how common, how human Ardyn’s grievance is. How profound the role of the True King is. I think Ardyn and Noctis are foils because of their opposing conclusions as they begin in a similar place. In my opinion, neither Ardyn nor Noctis should begin pious.

The long shadow of death cast in XV - and even Final Fantasy. I think XV is the epitome of FF’s iterative spiral of Life, Death, and Dreams. The answer it gives to a certain feeling of loss and hopelessness is so simple.

The difference in the way Ardyn and Noctis face death, the nihility grounding reality, the darkness seeping from underfoot, is profound. The way one of them affirms life, especially. (Along with the UX developed to drive that home over hours of gameplay.)

I concluded this look at XV’s dialogue a bit of distance away from it. A conclusion based in head-canon and a novice’s reading of Keiji Nishitani.

There’s a lot for me to learn.

Keep reading

#finalfantasy kingdomhearts FFXV FF15 Ardyn

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obinya · 2 years

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Ifardyn #NNUT Preview

Imagine there’s a bottomless flowing well of concepts. Essences rise to the top and when they crack the surface, the edge of creation, they manifest. Some Essences are inexplicably tied to others. Entangled.

Now, imagine the Episode Ardyn: Final Fantasy XV characters: Ardyn, Somnus and Aera were reduced down to a few keywords.

Brothers, Jealousy, Founder, Legacy, Lover, Lack of Respect, Rebel, Red, Blue, Scars, Memory...

I scanned, Google Translated, Ctrl-F’d and replaced EPA:FFXV names into the text of Kazushige Nojima’s novella Final Fantasy X-2.5 ~The Price of Eternity~, published in December 26, 2013.

Kush to Aera. Velm to Somnus. Summoner to Lucis Caelum. Ifarnal to Ardyn.

Did the scenario seem plausible given the characterization we have for the XV crew? Maybe a little... What if it were intentional?

This was one of the last stops of my journey. My appreciation for Final Fantasy XV grew after I played Final Fantasy Type-0 then the Kingdom Hearts games leading up to the release of Kingdom Hearts III. I see the marks of these games’ creators throughout. (How heavy of a lift is ‘Creative Producer’)

I do not subscribe to the idea that Mr. Tetsuya Nomura is “salty” or “angry” about his lost vision. Rather, I see evidence of an ascension of sorts. A Noct-off like Yozora is not evidence of aggrievement when examined alongside Leslie Kyle. Alongside Noctis and Sora. Alongside Ignis and Riku. Alongside Ravus and Thancred. Alongside Elidibus, Kazusa and Zexion. Alongside Cait Sith, Prompto, and Xion. Alongside Rindo and G’raha Tia.

Alongside Ifarnal, Garland, Izana, Ardyn, Axel, and Reno. My journey’s beginning.

The beginning of my Nomura-Nojima-Unitary-Theory.

Axis Memoriae

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Some Notes:

Unused Dialogue for Final Fantasy XV has Ardyn describe his past rejection as following his attempt to upend his perceived lack of respect by his siblings.

I'm your ancestor. [...] I was supposed to be [a kind-hearted king]. I had horrible brothers who didn't respect me, and you have their blood in your veins. [...] I wish I'd been chosen to be a special king. The stone treated me like a carcass... so much so that if I touched it, I'd get popped... and you must think black must be an important color... because everyone wears black. However, the crystal was originally blue, but when I touched it... it turned black with rage.

Episode Ardyn could have featured a love-triangle, but Mr. Terada and Mr. Osanai thought that would be too much.

Osanai: In the initial scenario for the anime, we made Somnus a pretty good guy. But that made it difficult to understand why Ardyn hated the royal family so much. I thought that Ardyn couldn't hate the royal family unless there was a strong antagonistic structure, so I settled on the current form.

Terada: On the other hand, there was a time when it was worse. He and Aera were in a love triangle (laughs). (laughs) But that was too much for me, so I asked them to make it milder, and that's how it is now.

Apparently, “Izunia” is the Polish equivalent of “Elizabeth.” Elizabeth Arden sounded familiar... hence the divinity of beauty/Ifarnal/Elizabeth Arden joke. Whose name was “Arden” though?

btw, I don’t like EPA and see it as sort of a bastardization, yet NNUT shines through. I hope to put something together on the full Keiji Fujiwara crew soon.

#ardyn izunia #Final Fantasy #final fantasy xv #final fantasy x #spoilers #square enix #kingdom hearts #final fantasy type 0 #neo twewy #final fantasy xiv #ff15 #ff14 #ff10 #nomura #nojima #nnut #ff7r

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obinya · 2 years

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Thoughts on XV’s Omen Trailer

Thoughts, Observations, Fanfiction, Versus?

(Hint: The Truth... is love. XV is a love story.)

「I SHARE THE DREAMS OF MILLIONS OF OTHERS | ALL THE PAINS, THE HOPES, THE ERRORS | OH AND I SHARE MY LOVE」

The Omen Trailer works as Noct’s nightmare, and I commend its later use during XV after Jared’s death. I’ve always gravitated to that part of the description. At the time the Omen Trailer dropped we knew Noctis slept heavily and had the Platinum Demo in hand, so Noctis suffering in the trappings of his own dreams and nightmares seemed to work well. (Scenes like the opening of Dissidia NT, the Terra Wars Collab and Luna’s Death ended up adding to that impression.)

The last line in the trailer’s description, however, about how it depicts some sort of vision given to Regis… I’ve always found it weird.

It just didn’t add up to me. The catastrophic future seemed to simply reflect what happened in the plot; what exactly needed to be avoided? The most tragic event in the episode, Luna’s death, in a roundabout way, is necessary for the happy ending we achieve in XV. Then we get the question of who gave Regis the omen and why….

I was always ready to just interpret most of it as an extension of Noctis’s survivor guilt and dismiss the weird conversation between Regis and ????? who has the cadence of Ardyn(?!) but is speaking from the Crystal (?!).

Well, I came across the JP version today. Yes, the only audio features the English cast, but the Japanese captions say different stuff!

Something sort of clicked for me finally. If this is a nightmare shared between Noctis and Regis, I don’t think Regis acted to prevent only a twisted reflection of the reality we get by sending Noct away with his friends as opposed to alone. Like trying to tweak things here and there…

Rather, it is simpler, maybe Regis just didn’t want Noctis to fulfil his mission… and naturally, Regis failed.

#Final Fantasy #FF15 #FFXV #final fantasy xv #noctis lucis caelum #regis lucis caelum #kingsglaive

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obinya · 2 years

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Light Behind the Veil

Who is stronger Lightning Farron, (dress-up-daughter of Mr. Motomu Toriyama) or Noctis Lucis Caelum (son of Mr. Tetsuya Nomura pbuh)?

Simple Question, Simple Answer.

[Yes, the title is a reference to the games battle themes and FF ontology - or at least the Nomura-Nojima Unitary Theory ontology I will eventually propose.]

#final fantasy #final fantasy xv #final fantasy xiii #ff15 #ff13 #ff13 lightning #ffxv #FFXIII #noctis lucis caelum #lightning farron #NNUT #square enix

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obinya · 2 years

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To Die or Not To Die

Ardyn wanted to kill Noctis, the True King, the Hope of Lucis and the World. Period.

I go through game dialogue and developer comments and conclude Ardyn did not wish to die or truly see his relationship to the scourge as a “curse.”

I still missed some, namely the lines related to Kimya and Izana.

I concluded this look at XV’s dialogue a bit of distance away from it. A conclusion based in head-canon and a novice’s reading of Keiji Nishitani.

There’s a lot for me to learn.

On Ardyn’s fundamental misunderstanding of the Light – and of the Truth.

Within Eos and XV’s world at large, creation shares an origin in spirit. Because all creation shares an origin in spirit, spirit can dwell within many different aspects of creation. In Eos this spirit is known as Light. This spirit manifests as light, for example when Noctis gather’s a Royal Arm – the sword glows resonating with a light from his chest or heart.

The Truth is ineffable. A truth is, “You Are Not Alone.” Another truth is the reality of Death. If Life is real, so is Death as Life’s absolute negative. Life without Death is almost meaningless and certainly unreal. The same goes for Death without Life. Yet, it is also when Life approaches Death that Life seems to begin to lose its certainty and importance - like a fleeting dream or fantasy. It is normal to question the transience of all things that come into being and pass away in the world of our reality. It is normal to feel a pain as well, a pain of losing a loved one forever, a pain wherein rests a fundamental uncertainty about our own existence. A pain that can lead to suffering. For the living this ultimate negation is awakened to as a layer grounding reality and everything in it, a layer of nihility – the absolute negative to being. To become aware of this nihility is to become aware of yourself, the limits of your self-existence. What if everything you thought you were was in fact False or the blessings afforded you by a benevolent God were naught but an illusion or trap by a malicious daemon. Perhaps, it does not matter because as long as you “think,” you “are”?

Ardyn faced death. As a Lucis Caelum, their magic was tied to quickening death’s approach. As a Lucis Caelum, he would be allied with an Oracle and the Six who again rely on the approach of death. Ardyn himself died. Ardyn saw his fleeting dream end only to give way to a waking nightmare within a nihility grounding a very real existence outside of himself, a reality he refused to reconcile. When Ardyn woke from death, he lost the mercy of impermanence; yet he fell deeper into unreality – a Life without Death. Whatever he thought… did he exist? He “was”, but he “wasn’t.” His person, real and imagined, what he thought was true and false, was gone, yet he remained. Ardyn refuses to accept that he is Empty. Ardyn retreats into himself, deeper into the darkness of nihility. There is nothing from which he can derive himself other than himself, or his self-centered assertion of his own realness; everything else in the natural world appears as bearing no living connection to him or his internal solitary self – everything and everyone else is cold and lifeless: tools with which to leave his mark.

Another truth is, “You are Empty as Emptiness”.

Nothing is what it is, in and of itself; Everything is what it is, dependent on other things - on every other thing.

We are Empty in that we are not what we are in and of ourselves. Behind our “person” is the entanglement of many things. Emptiness grounds even Nihility. For Japanese Buddhist, Emptiness - Sunyata – Ku, is written with the kanji for sky. “The sky is an eternally constant empty space with unlimited depth and endless width,” which is why it has been useful as a visual metaphor for Emptiness. Emptiness grounds the highest heavens and the lowest abyss, the benevolent God, and the malicious daemon; it is like an unending sky above and below. Emptiness is like an absolute nothingness that opens up to all things, by virtue of emptiness everything can arise. Emptiness is like potential. It is an absolute affirmation of things that are not things.

Noctis sacrificed the joy of living but not his life that was lived. What is life without death? The reality of death affirmed his life as it negated it. Noctis also saw fit to retrieve Ardyn from the darkness of his nihility, of his solitude (minus points from the English localization for using ‘emptiness’). Forgiveness of the accused is an affirmation of the evil that occurred, even as divine love negates the evil. Noctis was self-emptying (again, minus points from the English localization for not externalizing the position of the Light), bringing him closer to a realization of his true self connected to others.

JP Gather together, power.

FR The light... is with me!

GER Give me your power!

ENG Power...of light!

Yes, Noctis utilized the Light of the Star, but his power was the ability to gather it and not bury it. An absolute mediation. This is in opposition to Ardyn who filled himself, then others with Darkness. Daemons would know peace, assimilated under Ardyn’s thumb, but that is a sort of stagnation. The truth of the True King is a chaos and harmony actively emptying itself bringing forth possibility. Ardyn’s perception of himself, his persona, was shattered, however the potential within the emptiness within was not lost. He had a choice. We are more than what we think of ourselves because we are not alone. When are our expectations aren’t met, we face uncertainty. This great doubt is not comfortable, but our reality is not grounded on certainty; it is grounded in possibility. We can choose Hope.

Ardyn was not wrong, or at least if he’s like other red-haired or Keiji Fujiwara-played Nojima characters his starting home-ground was closer to the Truth before his utter rejection. I think Ardyn did what he did with the scourge to protect his loved ones, even if it broke some rules. Ardyn probably prioritized his connections with others over anything else. One issue he may have though, is that he doesn’t know other people. He can’t. I’m not sure why he was betrayed, his proximity to the scourge, the jealously of his brothers, or his own jealously. Either way Ardyn’s reaction was to wrest control away from the damned cosmos - no matter the cost. The reality, of course, was that he was no closer to controlling those he did not know, he was only retreating deeper into himself and cutting out those around him. He could only dehumanize and make mindless daemons of others, creatures without the independent will of the human heart. He is not unlike FF villains of the past aside from is very personal goal. He wanted desperately to kill one man. That goal was Ardyn’s meaning for life after falling into nihility. In a twisted way, he was bringing himself closer to those that rejected him and turned him away. His redemption could not be earned if he died, if he accepted defeat, accepted the loss of himself and those he loved – those he hated. Ardyn chose Hate.

He would have no expectation that Noctis whose default state was almost apathetic depression in the face of loss, would actually dive into and through the nihility that found himself buried in. A Father who abandoned his son to die in battle, a Lover who abandoned her fiancé to be willingly consumed by nature, a Brother who would strike down his own flesh and blood for the sake of peace, a Sister who rejected happiness for love…?

How can someone Trust in a world like this? Who can suffer the pain of bonds like chains?

Although we cannot know each other as we know ourselves, and the selves that we know are not true in this ever-changing world grounded in possibility - we can meet in this emptiness. We can meet and depart. As disparate and distant as we seem, we are connected in the entanglement of being and nonbeing. Beneath the nihility grounding our reality is a tapestry of light, like stars against the night sky. Constellations connected by invisible strands permeating from the empty through the nihility into being and back again.

Noctis Lucis Caelum, the True King, wielded these invisible bonds, across time, through space, and brought light back to his world.

#final fantasy xv #ffxv #ff15 #square enix #noctis lucis caelum #ardyn lucis caelum #ardyn izunia #ardyn #noctis #nishitani keiji #sora #final fantasy #NNUT

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obinya · 2 years

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Answer for the Oracle

Here’s the rub: The Oracle can do more than simply Hear.

Yes, that’s a Hamlet reference. Yes, this is about the roots of FFXV.

The Japanese Lore roots.

I read a bit about Shinto, namely the origins of Ukehi - the term localized to Covenant. XV is a realm of mirrors when it comes to JP lore references, but this one really hit me. I approached this topic before XV’s launch then engaged in writing in order to rebut “Bahamut is the True Villian” takes a few years ago.

That matters little now. Still I appreciate the roots of XV and FF so much more after diving in. I have more thoughts on these Japanese roots - but let’s start with the Kannagi.

I’ve linked to the essay on my google drive.

btw, Harmony is Realized was a tagline for a certain game way back when...

#final fantasy xv #ff15 #lunafreya nox fleuret #square enix

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obinya · 3 years

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Luna Erasure

This was a post I put together to express why I do not prefer some changes made to Final Fantasy XV through patches.

One of my favorite visual allusions during my playthrough is now gone.

The petal falling into Noctis’s hand represents Lunafreya’s actions and role within XV’s narrative. This allusion was removed by inexplicably mirroring the scene, so the petal no longer falls in the same hand Noctis awakens with the ring in. Effectively erasing the idea that Luna delivered the ring to Noctis. This patch was released in preparation for Episode Ignis wherein Ignis wears the ring - that circumstance was added to the plot during Ep.I.

This same patch “added” more Lunafreya screen time. Playing a montage of the 99 seconds of screen time already in the game is not an addition; especially if it is followed up by a line that erases the point of that original footage (This is mainly a problem in the English localization.) Basically, Noctis made a simple promise to ‘follow through’, complete the task, not let [Luna] down. From the attack on Tenebrae until the conclusion of XV Noctis is trying to make that happen, but is unable to. The new dialogue having Noctis resolve to see Luna again doesn’t make sense - she’s dead. Noctis still has a duty to fulfill in order to fulfill his childhood promise that shapes their entire relationship within the narrative. I hope the irony of this retcon isn’t lost on everyone.

Most instances of Luna ‘additions’ take away to me. This is because the focus on what she actually during the plot is not explicated, rather it is overlapped for the sake of fanservice. For example, Gentiana’s line during the Royal Pack Ch.14 retcon that Luna’s voice had been heard muddles the fact that the presence of the Six since Chapter 4 has been due to Luna’s voice being heard and Noctis completing the Revelations. Luna’s voice being heard isn’t something that occurs only so the Six can take down a nonsensical Firewall around the Citadel - Luna’s voice binds the light so that Noctis can become True King - and fulfil his childhood promise that colored his relationship with Luna.

And don’t get me started on Aera... a character I’m not a fan of for a variety of reason.

#final fantasy xv #lunafreya nox fleuret #noctis lucis caelum #final fantasy

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