NEXT: PURGATORY

FFXII Week: Anniversary Edition- Pirates

I didn't even realize it, but FFXII is now 20 years old. So to celebrate, I decided to draw my favorite cinematic attack from Dr. Cid.

Today's Best Girl of the Day is:

but i also love how her weighing revenge versus letting go is framed -- reddas comments that, should she choose revenge, her woe shall be her own, but he doesn't pressure her. he says, essentially, "you do it and you'll have to live with it." not any comments as to her character, or as to the morality of the decision, or what's right or wrong, simply: if you choose that path you will have to suffer the consequences of it. he speaks from experience, but he doesn't condescend.

nobody in the entire game ever tells ashe that her rage is somehow unjustified or wrong -- only that it will consume her if she doesn't let it go. everyone agrees that she has every right to hate the empire and every right to want to see them destroyed. nobody ever suggests that she ought to forgive; forgiveness is impossible. there can be no forgiving. but she needs to let the rage go before it eats her alive.

i have never understood the ambiguity in the fandom over who the main character of ffxii is -- like, it's obviously ashe? like, this whole story is about ashe? her rage, her burning desire for vengeance, her character arc as she comes to realize that no amount of revenge will raise her husband from the dead, her path back to the throne, to retaking her country. most of the characters have their own arcs, and some of those arcs -- most notably balthier's and basch's -- heavily impact the plot, but like. ashe's character arc is the plot. It shapes and molds the plot. it is driven by her.