I just realized Shadowbrinbers and Lightning Returns have a very similar recipe. Has someone pointed this out before? Because rn I'M IN SHAMBLES. two of my favorite game colliding ohmygod.
Well, mainly this is about Hope and G'raha. Like they both went to sleep stasis, one to the future, one to the past. They both are loved community leaders. Both ended up living in a dying realm and tried to fix it, but one failed and became God's pawn while the other thrived but was consumed by the crystal. They both did all these things for someone they looked up to.
Lightning and WoL objectives are different but they both are guided by their 'God' with the side reward of rescuing Serah and the Scions.
The Exarch reveal? It's similar to when Hope revealed his actual self and said he's not afraid anymore because Lightning was there 😭 In the end, they reunited with the person they longed for.
Angst with happy end my favourite trope 😭😭
Not to mention Caius and the Ascians (especially Emet) have a somewhat similar motivation too. Caius wants to stop time because he can't stand seeing any more Yeul die while Emet wants his 'world' and friends back. Both just want to protect and see the people they love but have to become villains in someone else's story 😭
I'm sue there are more other parallels but this is all I can think of for now. I can only take so much angst in an hour.
Also I can't unsee Snow as Vauthry lmao. Yusnaan is literally Eulmore (somewhat).
Edit: And Ardbert is Lumina 👁👄👁
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To Lead Time Straight.
Depending on their place of birth, their name had changed accordingly.
In their very first Incarnation, they were Byakuyakoku Crea-Yeul.
In another life, they were Liyue Karst-Yeul.
They never explained fully why they named themselves the way they did, but no one dared ask.
One day, they sat amongst the grass, and someone approached them. They wore dark purple garments, and a very severe expression.
"Hello, Teyvat." you greeted. "Or, shall I call you something different?"
"...Caius." they replied. "Caius Ballad."
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You expected it, and yet it still surprised you, on that day.
As the sword sliced through your neck, and your eyes flashing of possibilities, Focalors had already tried to heal you. Unfortunately, your fate had been sealed.
Caius walked over, eyes stormy as they held their sword.
"Yeul." they said simply.
"Caius." you replied simply.
You never forgot Focalors' expression as Caius' sword met your heart.
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It was your very next life that you decided to visit Fontaine.
You already knew Furina would be incredibly sorrowful, but even now it surprised you.
Endless apologies, one linking into another, ended as you softly sighed. "Deity of Water, you needn't apologise. It was my fate."
"No, please listen to me!"
"Nay, you listen to me: I cannot change my fate. Even now, my end is that of being slain once more. Not by your hand, however."
Focalors still seemed highly disturbed. "But, surely, there is another way...?"
"No," you answered shortly. "There is that. As others say, 'That's life'."
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etro foolish? her decisions unreasonable? oh so you don't understand women. the capriciousness of young girls. lonely, desperate daughters scorned by their fathers for resembling their mother just a little too much. between vanille, serah, lumina, and yeul, ffxiii not only explores strong maternal gubernatorial roles in lightning but also approximates the complex and forgiving psyche and pain of young girls. and if you missed that i don't know what to tell you.
holding etro responsible for yeul’s fate, saying she "deserves what happened to her" is crazy considering yeul is canonically her narrative embodiment and a vehicle for her continued self-harm and suicidality in the wake of her father’s inattention and cruelty.
and so bhunivelze’s violence towards women ricochets through the ages! caius exists because etro chose him to be the father she never had, the same way she chooses lightning as her mother.
etro is capricious as yeul is. yeul who refuses to let caius go as a young girl clings to her father. etro who siphons lightning away from her family to serve as her own, drawing her father’s eye.
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