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petroniaOpinions plz:
1) Is "the Dark" in Vagrant Story just... the same thing as "Mist", or what? It would explain something that's always confused me about VS's worldbuilding, namely that not nearly everything mystical-powered in Lea Monde was Dark-aligned - which is what I'd expect if it were a sink of literally-Dark energy like everyone in-game said it was. Kilteans in FFXII don't seem to engage in more necromancy than average ahaha, and as for the Iocus priesthood... there are Light spells in VS too. :x If you collapsed the lot and did sums (i.e. the end of the game) you'd get a Dark alignment overall, I guess, but there are uh. Several historical cities' worth of dead people down there.
It just seems suspiciously easy to map onto the pattern whereby a patriarchal monotheistic religious institution enters the picture and suddenly all signifiers of previous religious/mystical beliefs/practices go from neutral to demonic evil. I don't think there's any such thing in VS as magic that doesn't draw on the Dark.
...I'm not sure if this means Ashley is really a bipedal piece of nethicite, or what. XD;
2) Does this look like Basch and Ashe to you?
It's so hard to tell when they're twenty pixels tall. *squints*
1) Is "the Dark" in Vagrant Story just... the same thing as "Mist", or what? It would explain something that's always confused me about VS's worldbuilding, namely that not nearly everything mystical-powered in Lea Monde was Dark-aligned - which is what I'd expect if it were a sink of literally-Dark energy like everyone in-game said it was. Kilteans in FFXII don't seem to engage in more necromancy than average ahaha, and as for the Iocus priesthood... there are Light spells in VS too. :x If you collapsed the lot and did sums (i.e. the end of the game) you'd get a Dark alignment overall, I guess, but there are uh. Several historical cities' worth of dead people down there.
It just seems suspiciously easy to map onto the pattern whereby a patriarchal monotheistic religious institution enters the picture and suddenly all signifiers of previous religious/mystical beliefs/practices go from neutral to demonic evil. I don't think there's any such thing in VS as magic that doesn't draw on the Dark.
...I'm not sure if this means Ashley is really a bipedal piece of nethicite, or what. XD;
2) Does this look like Basch and Ashe to you?
It's so hard to tell when they're twenty pixels tall. *squints*
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Date: 2007-02-14 03:54 am (UTC)That's about as Basch and Ashe as pixels can get, yeah.
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Date: 2007-02-14 04:14 am (UTC)I see the catastrophe that turned FFXII into Tactics and then Vagrant Story as strengthening and, well, rendering even more malevolent the Mist. Also, the faiths that crop up between XII and VS are the whitewashing kind, that dismiss anything remotely magical as, well, the opposite of light. I can see the term "Mist" collapsing with antiquity when whatever catacylsm comes, and "Dark" being the one applied when it is "rediscovered".
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Date: 2007-02-14 04:39 am (UTC)"For a change, in this screencap we have Balthier being a dick and Fran laying the smack down."
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Date: 2007-02-14 04:43 am (UTC)Fran's wisdom is sage.
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Date: 2007-02-14 04:52 am (UTC)(Balthier's flipping someone the ole two fingers.)
Game's about five seconds away from HIGH SCHOOL AU levels of arbitrary. I do like that Vaan's LPC (Loyal Pirate Crew) is made up of his street homies. YES EVEN THE SURFER CHICK.
Didn't Ba'Gamnan die horribly? I watched it happen. Twice even, because I like that part.
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Date: 2007-02-14 05:01 am (UTC)Didn't Ba'Gamnan die horribly?
Funnily enough I said that about Tseng and Rufus.
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Date: 2007-02-14 05:08 am (UTC)"I ducked."
"YOU WERE DEAD!"
"I was fine."
Vaan's all huffy too. Ashe and Basch have these ...Is this a bad time? poses.
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