So I'm back again thinking too deeply about game characters. But, I think in the case of Blazblue it was intended, cause it has a very deep storyline, unlike 90% of fighters out there. I commend it for having such interesting and yet distinct characters apart from GG. Also, for having such pairings/relationships between main characters which is not really explored in GG, other than maybe May/Johnny, or an imposed Ky/Jam. In Blazblue, however, the characters are all intertwined and have stronger bonds with each other, such as Litchi, Taokaka, Tager, and Hakumen. The most interesting possibly romantic relationship in the game is actually Jin/Ragna, which is unusual for any game, even an anime based one. Nu has a similar relationship with Ragna, which makes it an even more twisted. The game seems to revolve around these odd, incestuous, affairs. Although it cant be proven that Jin and Ragna and Saya are blood siblings, they seemed to be raised as such.
*I think most of Jin's obsession with Ragna stems from a childhood of neglect, the dominance of Terumi, and the influence of the Yukianesa. His theme song is also called, Lust SIN, as the name insinuates, I think Jin has an obsessive lust for Ragna, a twisted lust that would allow him to take pleasure in killing his own brother. He seems to be possessive too, and although it isn't clear that he disliked his sister, Saya, whenever he sees Noel, who is probably Saya, he says he can't stand her face. I don't think this stems from hatred though, more like regret and pain of loss, and the wanting to forget what happened. It is this reason he is so distant from Noel.
*On the other side, Nu has the same twisted romantic interest in Ragna that Jin does, but only because she is programed as such. Her whole purpose in life is to meet up with Ragna and sacrifice them both to the cauldron to summon an ancient evil. (or something) She also is a clone of Saya.
*Poor Ragna, he always seems to be caught in the middle of things. He's really not evil, just street hardened i think. He has everything taken away from him, and then the ones he loves are turned against him in odd and devious ways. Jin turns out to be an icy bastard who has an incestual love for him, and Saya assumes a new identity as Noel who wants to arrest him. Ragna seems to ignore Jin's odd love for him, mostly because they are fighting all the time...What for? I have no idea. I think Jin starts it, something about he wants to kill him again. Noel and Ragna don't have much interaction until the end, but they seem to have a friendly, platonic relationship.
*Noel and Jin don't seem to get along much, they have very little interaction too, Noel simply wants to carry out her orders, and only slightly worries about Jin being so aloof and oddly abandoning his post. They also share a more cold, but platonic relationship.
Thursday, October 22, 2009
Wednesday, October 21, 2009
Dissidia Maddness
Dissidia is fun. Adicting and fun. I should be asleep right now, but I've got thoughts to sort. Trying to make sense of Garlands story....I havent unlocked all the Chaos reports, but from what Ive read on the interwebs....So FF1 deals with Garland lusting for power, like most villains...and kidnapping Cornelia, ransoming her in exchange for the kingdom of which he got tired of being a mere knight. Ok. Warriors of light come along with their darkened crystals and nearly kill him cause he kinda sucks at that point (or cause the crystals still have remnants of power, its irrevelant).
-Breaktime
Fastfoward to the near end of game, fiends are responsible for the darkening of crystals power= destruction of elements/world. WoL defeat fiends, and crystals light restored.
-Stop
Ok. Rewinding a little bit, Garland while sucky makes a pact with the fiends to send him back in time 2000 years for some reason...There, he becomes Chaos and also gains immortality because of a never ending time loop.
----question 1: Pact: It might have read along the lines of... In exchange for my {garlands} life, I will give you my body as a conduit of your power. The fiends, wanting to be undefeated/live forever agreed and sent Garland back in time.
Back to story. WoL go back in time using crystals, and defeat Garland/Chaos. Breaks time loop, but does not kill Garland. He is still waiting for them, destined to fight them as long as they survive/fight. End Story for now...
[Problem1: The main problem. Time loops and mechanics. Without getting into detail, if you were born in 2000, ask a time mage to send you back to 1974, you will create a time loop. You will never age because everytime you are born, the cycle will reset itself. The game gets around this by Garland never dying after the capture of Cornelia. So as long as Garland never dies in this cycle or is killed, time will repeat itself over and over.]
[Solution1: Just as with time loops, there exists a bit of randomness in all instances. The WoL are that instance. The future can be altered even though it has already happened in this sense. By defeating Chaos, the WoL have broken the time loop so they think, but Garland is still alive, and they are transported to the time before he made the pact, before the time loop.
************Interjechtion********Because Garland was merely an avatar for chaos, and not originally chaos himself, his human form is spared, while the demon is destroyed. This explains partly the end of the time loop, Garland no longer can become chaos because that ends in his demise, but! Garland is free again to choose his own path, because his human form was technically never killed. None remember what they had done, however. Time was reset.
*Story continued*
With dissidia, Garlands story is further explained/confused. Apparently, he was an orphan, adopted by Cid and his wife. But, he was taken away by some evil scientists who infused him with generic energy and did experiments on him to make him a better warrior. It worked, but left him mentally scarred and thin. His adoptive mother risked her life to save him, but failed when they were spotted escaping. Somehow.....Garland unconsiously summons the void, and gets sucked into it. What happens after is a mystery.
------Interjechtion------- Garland accidentally summons the void. One, what was this guy injected with?? Essence of Exdeath? How do u unconsiously summon the void? Whatever. Looking past that, this story can work, doesnt matter, but the important part is after he was consumed by the void. He might have been transported to the world of FF1 by it, since the Void is merely a limbo-like place....it transports matter into other dimensions, not eradicates it from existence. He might have met chaos, cloud of darkness, exdeath, or anything else for that matter, though i doubt it.
Ok. So, Garland has some serious mystical powers even before the time loop. Doesnt change much. Putting it altogether, i think...Dissidia interrupts at some point before the death of Chaos and the resetting of the time loop in FF1. Or perhaps Garland continues this time loop somehow after his defeat. He has dormant mystical powers after all. But, he makes several refrences to how Chaos, while being a separate intelligent entity, does not have any memories---he merely is plopped there, and has a dream about Cosmos and is infused with memories and direction by Garland. He still think and operates by himself, but his origin is not elaborate. Because Chaos did not exist until the four fiends gave him their power, and furthermore, until Garland transformed/served as a body for him. This would explain the closeness of Garland as a servant, yet he addresses Chaos more as a brother than servant/master. The fact that Chaos is merely a phase of Garland that has manifested itself is unknown until the near end and is even unknown to chaos himself, but he suspects it.
Finally, Garland as a char, like most ff villains is scarred, flawed, or messed up in some way that alters his actions in the future. There are very few villains that are simply straightfoward evil. He is bitter because it is unknown how many millenia he has waited before he was separated from the time loop fate, but because of this he is also wise and more reserved. The extent of his corrupted mind is unclear, but he seems to have an obssession with time loops are cycles, as well as conflict. He references himself as the embodiment of conflict, as he will always survive due to the time loop. Even if that world was destroyed, chaos, and garland would be reborn in another where there was conflict according to the great will. He almost seems to want the cycle to end though, and dares WoL to end his looping fate if he can. Ultimately, Chaos would destroy reality with Shinryu the reaper, who follows the instruction of the great will, and is therefore exempt from time laws. It would be in essence, Chaos killing himself, which leads to nothing but a rebirth somewhere else. The WoL would need to kill chaos for the cycle to end, because it is fate from someone else's hand---a random card.
This is it, my thoughts on garland. This is not to even scratch the surface of the dissidia world and mechanics within that world. Another time perhaps.
-Breaktime
Fastfoward to the near end of game, fiends are responsible for the darkening of crystals power= destruction of elements/world. WoL defeat fiends, and crystals light restored.
-Stop
Ok. Rewinding a little bit, Garland while sucky makes a pact with the fiends to send him back in time 2000 years for some reason...There, he becomes Chaos and also gains immortality because of a never ending time loop.
----question 1: Pact: It might have read along the lines of... In exchange for my {garlands} life, I will give you my body as a conduit of your power. The fiends, wanting to be undefeated/live forever agreed and sent Garland back in time.
Back to story. WoL go back in time using crystals, and defeat Garland/Chaos. Breaks time loop, but does not kill Garland. He is still waiting for them, destined to fight them as long as they survive/fight. End Story for now...
[Problem1: The main problem. Time loops and mechanics. Without getting into detail, if you were born in 2000, ask a time mage to send you back to 1974, you will create a time loop. You will never age because everytime you are born, the cycle will reset itself. The game gets around this by Garland never dying after the capture of Cornelia. So as long as Garland never dies in this cycle or is killed, time will repeat itself over and over.]
[Solution1: Just as with time loops, there exists a bit of randomness in all instances. The WoL are that instance. The future can be altered even though it has already happened in this sense. By defeating Chaos, the WoL have broken the time loop so they think, but Garland is still alive, and they are transported to the time before he made the pact, before the time loop.
************Interjechtion********Because Garland was merely an avatar for chaos, and not originally chaos himself, his human form is spared, while the demon is destroyed. This explains partly the end of the time loop, Garland no longer can become chaos because that ends in his demise, but! Garland is free again to choose his own path, because his human form was technically never killed. None remember what they had done, however. Time was reset.
*Story continued*
With dissidia, Garlands story is further explained/confused. Apparently, he was an orphan, adopted by Cid and his wife. But, he was taken away by some evil scientists who infused him with generic energy
------Interjechtion------- Garland accidentally summons the void. One, what was this guy injected with?? Essence of Exdeath? How do u unconsiously summon the void? Whatever. Looking past that, this story can work, doesnt matter, but the important part is after he was consumed by the void. He might have been transported to the world of FF1 by it, since the Void is merely a limbo-like place....it transports matter into other dimensions, not eradicates it from existence. He might have met chaos, cloud of darkness, exdeath, or anything else for that matter, though i doubt it.
Ok. So, Garland has some serious mystical powers even before the time loop. Doesnt change much. Putting it altogether, i think...Dissidia interrupts at some point before the death of Chaos and the resetting of the time loop in FF1. Or perhaps Garland continues this time loop somehow after his defeat. He has dormant mystical powers after all. But, he makes several refrences to how Chaos, while being a separate intelligent entity, does not have any memories---he merely is plopped there, and has a dream about Cosmos and is infused with memories and direction by Garland. He still think and operates by himself, but his origin is not elaborate. Because Chaos did not exist until the four fiends gave him their power, and furthermore, until Garland transformed/served as a body for him. This would explain the closeness of Garland as a servant, yet he addresses Chaos more as a brother than servant/master. The fact that Chaos is merely a phase of Garland that has manifested itself is unknown until the near end and is even unknown to chaos himself, but he suspects it.
Finally, Garland as a char, like most ff villains is scarred, flawed, or messed up in some way that alters his actions in the future. There are very few villains that are simply straightfoward evil. He is bitter because it is unknown how many millenia he has waited before he was separated from the time loop fate, but because of this he is also wise and more reserved. The extent of his corrupted mind is unclear, but he seems to have an obssession with time loops are cycles, as well as conflict. He references himself as the embodiment of conflict, as he will always survive due to the time loop. Even if that world was destroyed, chaos, and garland would be reborn in another where there was conflict according to the great will. He almost seems to want the cycle to end though, and dares WoL to end his looping fate if he can. Ultimately, Chaos would destroy reality with Shinryu the reaper, who follows the instruction of the great will, and is therefore exempt from time laws. It would be in essence, Chaos killing himself, which leads to nothing but a rebirth somewhere else. The WoL would need to kill chaos for the cycle to end, because it is fate from someone else's hand---a random card.
This is it, my thoughts on garland. This is not to even scratch the surface of the dissidia world and mechanics within that world. Another time perhaps.
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