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Pharoh Amon Khan III
Calm down shorty....
Okay, here we go... Time Compression was the attempted and failed achievement of the "Everlasting Moment".
Just to get this out of the way, you are expected to support your interpretation with evidence, preferably in the form of in game quotations, screenshots, Ultimania, or similar materials.
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Ultimecia was attempting to compress moments of the past to the present she resided in (ergo the "future" that most of you cling to) in order to find that moment that she would no longer be persecuted. (cue music to "One Moment In Time).
This flies directly in the face of her scan info, which states she wished to compress all time in order to remake reality as its ruler. She did seek to no longer be persecuted, but she definitely sought godhood as well.
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Essentially, she could only compress moments of the past, NOT the future because that was what she was trying to avoid. What sense would it make to include the moment of her defeat and demise? Hence she sought out Rinoa and Ellone so that she could gain access further back in time past Adel's rule and Sorceresses preceeding her. I find it strange and oddly convienant, that era of Rinoa was as far as she could go.
I find it logical and perfectly ironic. Logical in that she's using a machine which must have a limit, and ironic in that her using it pissed off the past enough to make it come kill her.
Your first point -cannot absorb because she wishes to avoid it- is speculation, and assumes that if she absorbs any chunk of time, she is subject to her status in that given chunk of time. This would mean that should she absorb her teen years, she would go through purberty again, or if she absorbed her twilight years, she would become menopausal. Actually, following this logic, if she absorbed a time when she was not yet born, she would cease to have started being. It simply does not follow.
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But also, it's possibly because Sorceress Edea was her Successor that she was able or only able to access this time period.
Or more realistically, it was the absolute limit of her machine and she wanted to be as far back as possible.
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Anyway, the Sorceresses that the Fated Children were destroying while HITCHING a ride through Time Compression were the very Sorceresses that Ultimecia was seeking in order to aquire their power to ultimately achieve Time Compression. With each Sorcersses the Fated Children slew Ultimecia OR Rinoa absorbed these fragments of Sorceress Power.
Then the sorceress power should suddenly vanish for a gaps in history, as Squall et all do when they jump forward in time. It does not. It would also render her absorbing time rather moot if their power alone was her goal and Squall et all killing them gave it to her.
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My explaniation of Time Compression goes as such...
Let's look at this like "Dominoes" all set up ready to be knocked over in succession...
I I I I I I I....
Now as time goes each on of these dominoes or 'events in time' will fall over in succession connecting or 'knocking over' the next series of events...
I I I I\\\\\\
Understand.
Ultimecia, probably somehow knowledgeable of the fated prophecy set by the Fated Children knew that she was the Final Sorceress and did not want to die...
I(Ultimecia's Death) I I - (attemp with Time Compression)- I I I \\\\\
Let me know if I'm not explaining this clearly enough.
Let me know when you reconcile this with her scan info, or support it with anything more than your assertion. Thus far, while easy enough to understand, this explanation has nil support.
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The fact of the matter is, is that time is immutable. You can not change it. This is why she sought to not so much as change time but to escape it in the moment between an event in time.
Except her scan info says she was absorbing time in order to change it.
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And here leaves the questions... If all the Sorceresses that were defeated where the Sorcersses of the past...
HINT: KEY WORD= IF. If not, the following is groundless. Any conclusion based on a conditional is only valid in the circumstance that said conditional is fulfilled. If they were instead the sorceresses of the future, which is just as valid- if not more so- than your conditional, then your big issue below is rendered entirely moot.
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Where is Rinoa's successor?
::Randomly points at map:: Scranton.
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Exactly, there isn't one. It is possible that Rinoa will eventually become Ultimecia...
It is only slightly less possible that Irvine or Selphie will become her. It is simply not plausible for the party to become Ultypoo.
