#arieth

Inktober Day 13: Final Fantasy VII (1997)

I love Tifa and Arieth as friends and as a pairing too! This painting goes out to my brother Matt, who read the entirety of Final Fantasy VII out loud to me.

So this has been bugging me for a while now. I know that it’s a weird question, but it’s one that really bugged me after watching Episode Ignis. So we see that Iggy and Ravus make it to the location where Noct and Luna are by the water. Luna’s clearly healed Noct, and Ravus freaks out because his sister is dead and he couldn’t save her. He spends time fighting with Iggy and then collapse in pain and tears over his sister’s loss. It’s a heartbreaking and dramatic scene. 

However...and this kind of bugs me...we’ve seen that Phoenix downs are a thing in XV. We even own them. They’re not that rare an item, and most players at this point would have one on Iggy. We know they can be used, so why, given Ravus’s story line, did they not have the option to use it on her? 

I understand that it’s for the story, and that like Arieth before, she is an innocent that we’re supposed to feel bad for. But that’s the weird thing about this. If this really is an option in this world, if the idea is that you can save someone from death by using it...then cure to heal them up, why then does Ravus, the one that desperately wants to save his little sister, not use that option when he finds her? 

Final Fantasy is not Fire Emblem where, once you’re dead you’re dead, it has ways of saving people, and that’s what’s frustrating here. 

So can someone please, please, explain to me -other than, “It’s for drama” why no one, not Team Mom Iggy, and not the brother that needs to save his sister and is willing to kill the gods to do so, is unable to use a phoenix down on her? 

Third time's a charm, right? This is my third attempt at making a wig for this guy. I think part of the problem is that my vision for him keeps changing.