#i want ff9

[xkuja]

VI  VII  VIII  IX

#artwork #these were done in half a month somehow #for the convention I just did... #ultimecia was the most popular~ #final fantasy #final fantasy ix #final fantasy vi #final fantasy vii #final fantasy viii #ff6 #ff7 #ff8 #ff9 #now that its all done i can keep adding to them if i want #polish them some more maybe #kefka #sephiroth #ultimecia #kuja

[goldgargoyles]

random chimp event

#mint art #ffix #ff9 #final fantasy ix #final fantasy 9 #zidane tribal #adelbert steiner #some twit rqs that i wanted 2 fulfil

[green-ray-blog1]

Dagger being a weird white mage

Back when I played FF9 for the first and second time, I was annoyed at how Dagger's a pretty clearly inferior white mage compared to Eiko. Eiko gets full life, esuna, dispel and holy, all awesome spells that Dagger just can't learn. I guess the idea is that Dagger has the more offensive summons but even then it's not like Eiko's summons are bad, and her final one is pretty op.

But replaying the game again, some of that is making sense to me. Dagger's pretty cool, really, and she's kind of a mess.

Like okay, the trope of the white mage who actually kicks grown men's asses appears in other Final Fantasy games. Aerith roughs up some dudes in Don Corneo's house, and I'm pretty sure I remember Yuna knocking out some goons offscreen in FFX. Dagger doesn't seem to hit the same notes, though.

I don't think she ever physically overwhelms another character during the game, which doesn't stop her from jumping from towers or ditching half of the party when they don't want to take her along. She also doesn't have the same kind of enthusiasm about her that the other two try to project. When I used to play FF9, I didn't pay enough attention to her name. She was just Garnet with a fake name, but it's more than that. Aerith and Yuna want/try to be world saviors, but Garnet, for half the game mostly wants to save her mother, and it doesn't go well. I think she feels overwhelmed by Brahne's dedication to go commit worse and worse crimes. So she needs to become something more than the princess bound by her social role. She needs to become something dangerous, like a dagger. Someone who will poison the fuck out of her buddies and run ahead if they don't take her to the frontline. Obviously, Zidane's into that edgy shit, I mean look at Blank (lots of potential slash I previously had no clue about with this one btw).

Dagger's also kind of entitled, for a while ? Which, duh, she's royalty. There's the whole poisoning incident, of course. But during said incident, she doesn't poison Steiner because she knows he'll do what she says, even if he might protest at first. Worse case she can just put her foot down and shut him up. She really does take Steiner for granted. And again, what I find really cool is that it ends up being pretty subtly written (maybe in part because it's often played for laughs but not just that). Steiner doesn't mind being taken for granted. It gives him purpose, even when it's tedious as fuck. It's interesting that they're never really that close and their relationship is mostly a power dynamic.

The first trip to Treno might have lots of layers. Both Dagger and Steiner are having some personal crises. Dagger gets really into the whole plot to rob someone to save Blank (she gets to be dangerous and edgy and rub elbows with bandits, and she doesn't even need Zidane anymore hah), which is a sidetrack from saving her mother, but it does feel right too (and at least that one is successful). Steiner keeps trying to convince himself that Queen Brahne must be right and he shouldn't think too hard about her motives, but gets stung by Baku calling him out for having no thoughts of his own. In French, he asks himself "Am I a puppet?", which feels more direct than the english version. And yeah, dude, maybe you are ? You're also being roped into all sorts of business you wouldn't do because you're at Dagger's beck and call. So when they're back in Alexandria, when he finally opposes Brahne, shortly after, he also decides to stop following her to stay and fight with Freya and Beatrix. In retrospect, maybe that was a well earned vacation for the guy.

But yeah, all in all, maybe I shouldn't be surprised Dagger isn't an S tier white mage, and is more into the big damage summons, including the horrific robot from another planet with a completely excessive animation that does darkness damage.

#ff9 #garnet ff9 #dagger ff9 #who would have guessed that the girl who names herself after a knife would be kind of edgy #hey zidane can you pass me your stabby weapon for a bit i want to name myself after it #Dagger/Zidane #otp

[cakesdown]

a collection

#I wanted to wait until I had more of these but idk when I’ll get around to it so. here’s what I have so far #amarant coral #garnet til alexandros #zidane tribal #eiko carol #vivi ornitier #ffix #ff9 #sol scribbles

[kujazine]

Kuja Stained Glass Keychain 

A desert palace inspired holographic keychain! The stained glass part is transparent and captures the light. Comes with a mini print. 

4" tall

acrylic

holographic

beaded

free 4x6 print

Grab it here - https://ko-fi.com/s/f2f805f30b

#merch #kuja #final fantasy ix #ffix #final fantasy 9 #ff9 #final fantasy #keychain #i always wanted to make one so i did

[rotomicity]

playing ff9 for the first time (i'm at the ice cavern so still very early on. no spoilers pls!!) and i just noticed the "game boosters" in config,,,

#i-is this allowed #aren't these literally just cheats?? IS THE GAME ENCOURAGING U TO USE THEM??? #tbh pretty cool ff9 allows u that option but at the same time i'd feel bad abt using them hhsghs #esp since im playing this game for the first tine so i want to get a hand of the ropes + full experience

[captainhysunstuff]

Had a burning need to draw L in Garnet/Dagger’s coronation dress, in no small part because I typecast him as her.  Thus, I can’t help imagining him in it from time to time.

Had to draw Light reacting to it.  Maybe it’s a disguise for a mission or something, lol.  (To be clear, Light here normally finds L attractive, but the dress really enhances it~)

Part 2 (some suggestive dialogue)

#drawn by me #my fanart #crossovers #Death Note #FF9 #final fantasy ix #L #Light Yagami #lawlight #I imagine him with longer hair in the game because there's an important scene regarding it (spoilers) getting cut #he usually ties it back #princess #prince #lol he straightens his back when he's playing up a royal role #oh lord is that an adam's apple?! I don't usually do those lol #I admire those who do draw them well so much~ #her dress is so pretty~. I hope I did it some justice. #even with my simplifications #I just wanted to color something #man my scanner really doesn't like light purples...

[shalmonsdraws]

forgot to share my teeny tiny 1x1 inch inktober thing in my planner calendar results were hmmmmm & some feel too much like redraws of the reference, but still kinda fun to see them all there lol (i did fandom word association & tried not to dwell on it, so i ended up with a few things i'm not actually that into, and some conspicuously absent faves😭)

#i hear tumblr recognizes as many tags as you want now #so i guess i may as well tag each thing lol #kirby #spiderman #the pathless #the matrix #little nemo #golden sun #dbz #toad mario #bubble bobble #ds9 #otgw #torchic #pokemon #star wars #castlevania #ffix #ff9 #evangelion #yyh #tloz #my neighbor totoro #batman beyond #chain chomp #the simpsons #itchy and scratchy #animal crossing #mp100 #cowboy bebop

[fruitsofhell]

Random observation while listening to the FF9 OST. The track Eternal Harvest that plays over that scene of Freya joining the Cleyrans in their protection ritual is absolutely gorgeous, but I wish my memory of it wasn’t that awkwardly mocap-ed scene and was a cinematic instead. It had the potential to be a lot more powerful if given the weightiness of a cinematic, and ofc is Freya had been more fleshed out instead of having her arc come to a dead stop in the middle of the 3rd disc.

Freya and Garnet are both great conduits to explore the devastation that Kuja left in his wake on a personal level. But while Garnet is through the eyes of a young woman struggling as a leader against such incredible odds, Freya had the potential to be a great exploration of the more personal and cultural aspect of that destruction. Her people are already appeared to be a somewhat disliked minority, which is what made them an easy first target for Brahne compared to her in-laws in Lindblum. And unlike Alexandria and Lindblum where despite their state, it’s implied that the kingdoms are still fit to rebuild, the Burmecians are really fucked over. Their country was the first to be attacked and therefore didn’t have time to prepare, and then the other Burmecian state of Cleyra where most of the refugees fled to was DISINTEGRATED.

Like Freya might be the character with the most baggage to explore. After witnessing the ruins of Burmecia she comes to this ancient bastion of her people, and despite not fully respecting their distinct way of life, she partakes in their ritual, hoping it will be able to protect the last of them. And then not even an hour later, right from under her that citadel is literally wiped off the face of the earth. It’s haunting to think about, and I deeply wish it could have been explored beyond just a bit of her grieving before launching into more shenanigans.

Not that her being forced to so quickly move on isn’t powerful in itself, but I wish there was more EMPHASIS. Emphasis that could have come from a beautifully directed cinematic of that ritual she performed in vain. Able to visually represent that fragile, majestic hope the track accompanying it conveys.

#final fantasy IX #ff9 #freya crescent #shut the heck up #tag talking #me when i listen to a song from a game and get blindsided by how much i love it #despite its flaws #besides a few core characters there are so many poorly executed arcs :(( #atleast i have the best character ever written (kuja) and those 3 people who really really hate him #actually i love every villain in ff9 #and zizou garnet and vivi are just really good at supporting them #the rest of the cast......... #well no i love eiko too but i also remember feeling like she could have done more #i just love her relatinoship with garnet its so sweet #see if garnet and eiko can have arcs about exploring their identity/race why couldnt freya? #shit even zidane and vivi get that ghdkfgjsdkfs #i want to talk about freyas ethnic pain

[mindflayer-inc]

Final Fantasy IX characters are being charged with crimes…

#FFIX #final fantasy #Zidane #vivi #Quina #ff9 #I actually like the game but wow do ppl forgive some messed up stuff #Beatrix #I didn’t forget Garnet and Steiner illegally crossing the border I just don’t want to smell like pickles

[xkuja]

"A pleasure, your majesty."

#artwork #i rlly wanted to draw them together haha #queen brahne #kuja #final fantasy ix #final fantasy 9 #ffix #ff9 #final fantasy

[goldgargoyles]

genomez

#mint art #ffix #final fantasy ix #ff9 #final fantasy 9 #zidane tribal #mikoto (ffix) #i wanted zidane to have a dynamic pose.................

[ungarmax]

thinking about them (quina quen)......

#i've been playing ff9 lately #for the first time in about 20 years #i left quina in madain sari for some reason #i want them back!!!!!!! #i want to eat things!!!!!!!!!!!!! #shut up zack

[aerois]

Playing FF9 for the first time and I am living for the fact that, once it becomes known that Kuja is Zidane’s brother, Kuja makes a point of “sarcastically” telling Zidane he loves him… not once. Not twice. But THREE TIMES

#idk man feels kinda sus #you sure you don’t actually crave some affection there bud? #ff9 #ff9 spoilers #ff9 kuja #kuja is a lonely theater kid with a god complex you cannot TELL ME he wouldn’t absolutely thrive at the thought of a doting little brother #i mean yeah he yeeted zidane onto gaia but that was something he did out of fear #i am thoroughly convinced kuja just wants some unconditional love deep down

[crystalis]

i feel like i probably wont beat paper mario origami king before friday bc im not getting sucked into it enough .. i like it but not enough to think about when im not playing it you know what i mean

#i like finding toads...theres so many toads in every crevice #when im thinking about video games lately i just think about hyrule warriors age of calamity and dragon quest 11 but #those are all ive thought about for like 2 years now #but thats been like severe autism fixation #my brain has also been in totk mode and just wanting to pass time for when totk comes out #and it feels hard to introduce new things #i wish i couldve got into okami / ff8 / ff9 when i bought them a few months ago but the same thing happened #eventuallg will try again

[danthekickingman]

Space Vessel Detected

#~ form ~ (art) #I had a dream where Dan was a space pirate #and it wasn't exactly like this but I wanted to draw the concept regardless XD #in the dream he was working with other people to find these magical gems #and one of the people was Garnet from ff9 for some reason #and they weren't in space much