Seymour's Reasoning

[Anno Domini]

:evilking:I not even gong to lie, i would love to be Sin. I don't blame Seymour. Sin is an extremely powerful entity that can vaporize a village just because it feels like it. Flying around through spira, keeping the people oppressed like a dictator. Crushing those who oppose me like a tank running over grapes:sophia: !


Discuss. What do you think about seymour and his reasoning? Would you want to be sin?

[Tavrobel]

If you want the power of destruction and ravaging the world while being more or less something akin to a mindless drone controlled by an octopus-like entity, sure, go on right ahead.

His logic is a dangerous flow of rationale taken to an extreme. Then again, the thought processes of the dead are generally of despair or hopelessness, as shown by the patterns of Yunalesca, Seymour, Mika, and even Kinoc. Though admirable on a certain level, his continued persistence to explain or seek vengeance for his suffering is far from optimal.

Nah. I'd rather be the octopus-guy. Why be the brawn when you can be the brains?

[Anno Domini]

you wanna be a bug?

[rubah]

he used to be a man!

[Tabris]

I don't agree with Seymour's reasoning, but I sure do understand it.

[Renmiri]

Meh... I never enjoyed hurting things, not even bugs. But breaking down sandcastles on my sandbox was fun

[Goldenboko]

I felt Seymour's reasoning homage to Necron, and Garland of FFIX

[Anno Domini]

never played FFIX.

As far as the op goes, it is human nature to want power. all of us connect to this universal fact at some point. im a blatent supporter of sin, renmiri just like to have power over the landscape, but we all feel it.

[BG-57]

Seymour reminds in some ways of Delita, the main antagonist of FFT. Both are motivated in part because they have been cruelly treated by those in power and seek power to dominate others in turn. This of course makes them as bad as those that they despise.

What I found much more sympathetic was his denial of his matyrdom as a Summoner. He's grown up as a persecuted half-caste and he's supposed to sacrifice himself to save Spira, which includes some of the same people who tormented him? While such a choice would of course be noble I fully understand his reluctance to do so.

[Anno Domini]

i thought that the soul reaso he became a summoner was to control his mother. he had never mentioned "saving spira" as high on his priorites short of destrying it.

[cally777]

I think the desire to smash things like Renmiri's sandcastles is very human. Thats one big reason why vid games are so popular. So fine if its fantasy.

But its different when you are smashing up real people and their homes (not in a game). And are faced with the result of dead and injured that you have caused. Like the little kids playing in Kilika. Or Vietnam. Real evil.

[Garnie]

seymore was totally tapped in the head! the only reason he could find was that he wanted to end spiras suffering by killing a lot of people! imo i think that Aeon could have given hope to people js in them selfs but.....igronance is unfortunetlythe best way people cope with there problems. Any way seymore was totally tapped in the head. and your gonna be that way with the childhood he had too cope with i suppose.

[Anno Domini]

i dont think any one of us could feel the way seymour did. that childhood is just tooooooo unhappy. this is why i feel that if a sane person were to become sin, they could have better control. jecht didnt want to be sin and he began to phaze out. would if someone wanted to be sin.

Apart from destruction, think of what sin could do! as a beast of burden, as transportation, as a holy symbol, or even a domestic weapon. Sin COULD do a lot of good! if i were sin i dont tink i would want to be a beast of burden, but there are the occasional self-sacrificers. :-[

[scrumpleberry]

Personally, I can understand Seymour, but I would rather be a random massacred villager because

1. Guilt

2. Loss of intelligence - "UG BERRY SMASH"

3. Constant slashing and rebirth by a bunch of summoners

[Anno Domini]

well, we know that if sin dies, that summoner goes away to the farplane. jecht got sent. but at least you can understand his mind. "UG BERRY SMASH!" lolz!