Anima Sola

[BG-57]

I knew my love of ghost stories would someday pay off. I was watching Gothika when suddenly there was a major revelation about a character with a tattoo of Anima Sola (lonely soul), the chained woman in purgatory wreathed in flames.

It starts to make more sense now. Most discussions about Anima involve the meaning of just the word itself. Looking back at the design for the Aeon, the membranous wings have flame-like edging, as do the spines in her upper head. The other parts of the image, chains and a woman in purgatory, fit the Fayth and Aeon very well.

I found an article discussing the symbolism here.

EDIT: Looks like others made the same discovery on this forum.

[Jessweeee♪]

O:

[Pete for President]

Interesting stuff

[Goldenboko]

Neat! Good to know they weren't just making a weird looking monster I guess! xD

[Jiro]

There's always some link to real life mythology, figures that Anima would have one too.

[qwertysaur]

Cool discovery. Fits really well too

[Marshall Banana]

Anima is so creepy.

[BG-57]

Agreed, although her Fayth is so sad. Like many of the best fictional monsters, she is ultimately to be pitied. I guess I'm a sucker for that sort of thing since she's my favorite summon.

[Darkswordofchaos]

I never new that i always figured theat anima was out of some japanese dudes head but definatly the coolist looking summon

[trancekuja]

Anima sure looks mighty cool but I have a soft spot for Bahamut which no other summon can take...One of the most important reasons why I fell in love with FF was it's link to mythology. I really like Scandinavian mythology and since FF 7 was my first FF , I enjoyed encountering terms like Odin , Midgardsormr , Sleipnir , Ragnarok and many other references to myth...

[Darkswordofchaos]

Anima sure looks mighty cool but I have a soft spot for Bahamut which no other summon can take...

I agree bahamut is my alltime favorite summon in final fantasy runner up is odin