Character Spotlight: Vivi

[charliepanayi]

Vivi was an interesting concept done very badly. They tried to use him as a vehicle for whatever existential message they were pumping, but ended up turning him into this wristslitting emo kid who did nothing but whinge and moan about not being real or some for the majority of the first half of the game. The dialogue in the Gizamaluke's Grotto and Burmecia segments just make me want to give him a slap.

Vivi, wristslitting emo kid? I must respectfully disagree. Actually I just plain disagree as I think that's a load of nonsense. the 'emo' term (usually a vague term anyway) is used way too easily for many FF characters (Cloud and Squall especially). Most of them are not emo, and Vivi certainly isn't. There's a big difference between being introspective and being emo. Vivi's journey through the game to finding out his origins and coming to terms with his mortality is one of the best parts of FFIX, and one of the reasons why he's one of the best characters in any FF game. And presumably this emo Vivi is the same one who throughout the game never shirks what he has to do but always stands up and fights. If these are your standards for defining self-pity and someone being annoying, you have absurdly high standards.