So, I certainly hadn't forgotten this big twist.
But, uh. Reading the update, I did realize an aspect I don't think I had before:
Quistis: I thought it was romantic love, but I guess what I was feeling for Squall was really just being his big sister, or trying to be.
Irvine: Hey, it's not like there's anything weird about finding your adoptive sibling as smoking hot as the white phosphorus she drops! [grins and winks at Selphie]
Irvine: ...Why is everyone looking at me like that?
Irvine: That's
not weird, right? ...Right?
Irvine: ...
Irvine: YOU KNOW WHAT HOW ABOUT WE ALL GO OUT AND SUMMON OUR GFS A WHOLE BUNCH UNTIL WE COMPLETELY FORGET ABOUT THIS CONVERSATION DOESN'T THAT SOUND FUN?
Omicron said:
She doesn't share the weird memory loss and she might have been able to help figure out what was going on!
...Actually. Actually, thinking about it, there's
another potential layer to The Time Irvine's been having. Namely, him wondering if
he's forgotten anything. Sure, he hasn't used GFs until very recently... so far as he
remembers. But he has firsthand experience that GFs (if it's GFs, not something else, and were it some unknown something else that'd put his memories even
more in doubt) can apparently make people forget
very significant parts of their lives. How sure can he be that he
didn't use a GF at some point, and then lose the memory of
that? How sure can he be that he and Rinoa
didn't know each other as children, when the others seem so confident that they didn't know
him?
And then he's sent to kill Matron, who has Seifer with her, except now Matron's taken over a country and murdered a major political figure in front of a cheering crowd, which
does not fit with his memory of her.
And he seems to be the
only one who sees anything odd about
any of this, and... what if that means that it's not that the others have all lost memories, but that
he has
false ones?
...So yeah I think Irvine may have been experiencing this game primarily as psychological horror so far.
SolipsistSerpent said:
Sadly, I'm leaning on the former explanation right now, but maybe I'll be proven wrong. Even if we say it's manipulation, what, did Cid realize he didn't have enough orphans from the orphanage in the Garden and bribe Zell's foster family to pressure him to become a SEED? It gets pretty convoluted.
...And that got me thinking along a path that eventually led to me wondering: how much can Ellone
see through time and space? Because she can send people's minds and to some extent their magic back from the present to the past, in a way people in the past can notice, either actually changing the past or enacting a time loop -- but how does she
target it? Most of what we've seen her doing with that so far has been sending one group of people she's not with back to other people she wasn't with at the time and doesn't seem to have been with in the present at the time she did the sending, either. So for that first time, for instance, how did she pick out the three on that train and the three in that forest? Does she just go by names and dates, and have no idea what the people are like or what they've doing beyond what she picks up by mundane means, or does she have some ability to scry the present and past? Is she even limited in that ability to the currently active timeline, or also other ways things
could have gone and the results thereof?
Omicron said:
...
And Rinoa's plan for dealing with Sorceress Edea was to...
Sneak in and see her privately, and give her a gift, which was supposed to seal her powers but presumably not further harm her and in fact be removable later.
...WELL NOW MY BRAIN'S
INTERPRETING THAT THANKS.
Every single post since my last update only gets more cursed.
...I mean, on the positive side, at least the Sorceress did pretty explicitly rebuff Rinoa, even in that interpretation? That's something?
EDEA(?): ...Kid I am literally old enough to be your mother and you are young enough where that is
not okay. I mean I'm about to publicly murder a guy, coup his country, and start sending my new army out to burn down towns of pacifists, but there are
lines.
Morganite said:
Wait, you say, we already know who Rinoa's mom is? Well, uh... look over there! *flees*
I mean, we
thought we knew who Zell's biological mother was, too, didn't we?
And they're not the characters who look the
most different from each other.
...Of course this speculation makes the immediately
above speculation EVEN WORSE. SO THAT'S GREAT, ISN'T IT?
