What Was Emperor Mateus’ True Masterplan?
Thanks to Shihali for the inspiration! FF2’s thin dialogue leaves so much unsaid that I think most fans have little theories to flesh out the bones. My favorites are that […]
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Emperor Mateus Is A Woman
Emperor Mateus is the more…flamboyant of the Final Fantasy villains. Not as outlandish as Kuja, but way more metrosexually suggestive than Sephiroth. In fact, in Dissidia, Sephiroth decides to kill […]
When Final Fantasy Villains Became Sociopaths Instead of Psychopaths…
I’ve written about the tonal shift of Final Fantasy villains and how they changed from one-dimensional stock characters to having some type of pathos. But why did they shift this […]
All Final Fantasy Worlds Exist in the Final Fantasy I’s Stable Time Loop
Why do so many Final Fantasy games exist? The official mythos was that this game would be Sakaguchi’s “final” attempt to make a game, before returning to university. Of course, […]
Why Final Fantasy Villains are Twisted…
We’re all aware that the main villains of Final Fantasy are a little off. Obviously, they’re “evil”. But for the most part, their “evil” is based on irrationality. So what […]
Rinoa Heartilly Is an Alternate Reality Jenova?
Thanks to FutureHistory101 for the inspiration! This is another Final Fantasy VIII theory where someone dies during the course of the story. Only this time – it’s Rinoa! FutureHistory101’s theory […]
Final Fantasy II as a Story in Final Fantasy IX
Ramuh agrees to be Garnet’s summon, only after she undertakes a quest: Ramuh states that he has hidden five manifestations of himself in the forest and that each will tell […]
The Six Stages of a Toxic Final Fantasy Villainy
I found this post on Twitter, about the toxic stages of a fandom: I love this. I own this. I control this. I can’t control this. I hate this. I […]
Broken Reflections on Final Fantasy II: Soul of Rebirth
At the end of Final Fantasy II, Firion tells Maria and Gus: Well, we should get going too. This is only the beginning! So…then what I played wasn’t their real […]
Is This What Connects All Final Fantasy Worlds?
Thanks to Inner_Evil for the inspiration! To keep the text as unedited as possible, I left the post as a “wall of text”. So I was just sitting here thinking […]