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People keep harping on about how weird Quina is, but for my money the oddest looking FF9 party member is this guy. I mean look at him, he's like a ginger Bob Marley mixed with Garrett from Thief. Plus he has arms like Popeye. Also I'm not sure if I ever saw his eyes during the game; does he even have any?
So anyway, who do you think is the oddest looking character in the odd-looking character parade that is FF9?
FFIX is certainly full of oddball characters...
I'm actually of the (not-so-serious) opinion that none of the main playable cast are truly human. Like, everyday humans with no major physical differences.
Freya, Vivi, Quina and Zidane are non-human by default. But how about the others?
Eiko and Garnet are both Summoners - they have extra organs and brain structures that regular humans lack.
Steiner, unlike other 'human' characters, has no philtrum - the depression in the middle of the top lip - and his mouth doesn't actually have any lips at all. Similarly, his eyes are completely lacking irises.
Amarant - like Brahne, he has blue skin. Actual humans simply don't have blue skin. Then there's the aforementioned gargantuan forearms, which make his gait resemble a gorilla sometimes.
:p So, no-one who could be considered a 'regular human' in that bunch. Though in Steiner and Amarant's case, I think we're just seeing the side-effects of having several character designers working separately, rather than one consistent style for the final in-game designs. Pity, really - Amano's concepts were bloody fantastic.
Eiko naturally stood out as being rather different due to her horn, but the summoner job class in FFV had a horn as well. Admittedly I didn't notice that at the time because I played IX before I played V, but it was something I noticed later on.
I suppose the only playable characters that are properly human (and not discounted for various reasons as Big D pointed out) are the temporary ones. And even then, the only vaguely normal looking one is Beatrix. I always thought Marcus looked a bit like a goblin, I can't quite tell if that is make-up on Cinna and Blank clearly cosplays as Cyclops from the X-Men.
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Brahne ftw! She's big and blue, sort of looks like a man.. and that hairdo is just.. I'm not even getting into that. She's just all-around wicked ugly, and such also odd looking.
Oh yeah, Brahne's also got Steiner's absence of irises.
Considering the number of different advanced species in the FFIX world, it's possible that a lot of the characters had an ancestor from a different species... like, maybe Amarant and Brahne both had a distant predecessor from one of the blue-skinned species, explaining that trait... same goes for Steiner and Brahne's eyes...
No. Just no.Quote:
Originally Posted by Breine
If she's a man, then I'm gay.
Oh, and Steiner isn't human. He is God. We're all made imperfectly in Steiner's image. Jesus, did none of you study religion!?
steiner rocks!!!!!!
probably the most skillfull combatant in the entire series
I still think Quina is the most out there. Quina eats your choices for breakfast! Hahaha... ha.. ugh.
A toss up between these two gentlemen, maybe?
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When the game came out and i saw that Amarant picture i also thought he looked like a chicken:p
But i like the way the characters are designed, makes them more unique.
...that looks nothing like a chicken.
This is a chicken:
http://www.nextnature.net/research/w.../chicken3~.jpg
Beatrix has unrealistic hair, if I may add that. NO ONE'S hair is that pretty or bouncy or curly at the ends.
Of the entire playable cast, I would elect Amarant. He could use a smaller head of hair.
He could use a smaller head to reduce his ego's size, too. The oddest character I can think of is probably that half-fish, half-man abomination that runs the Alexandria hotel. Don't even want to know what type of stunt nature pulled to give him breath. Although...the game wouldn't be half as whimsically delicious without these goofy guys.
This whole topic the main downfall of this otherwise wonderful game - THE CHARACTERS LOOK FACKIN' RETARDED.