More FF9 Riddles

[Shinwa Tsuki]

Oh, boy.

Looks like a monster, is it a monster?

[Rantz]

It's not a monster.

[Shinwa Tsuki]

Is the rat referring to traitors? Or just the Burmecians and Cleyrans?

[Rantz]

The line has several meanings.

[Carl the Llama]

Prince Puck?

[Rantz]

Not Prince Puck.

[Shinwa Tsuki]

I am endless toil - a worker?

No comedian I - possibly referring to the answer's antics of being funny when not intending to?

[Rantz]

You've got the first one right. The second one could arguably be right, but there are two more important meanings to the line.

[Carl the Llama]

Is it the worker who is fixing the sign when Vivi trips over?

[Rantz]

Correct! Reasoning as follows:

I am endless toil - He works constantly, hammers away on his sign endlessly until...
Interrupted - down and up - Vivi trips, making him miss. He climbs down the ladder, then back up.
No comedian I - This is a reference to the signmaker's name being Dante, like the author of Divine Comedy. But sign maker Dante is no comedian - instead he gets angry at Vivi's little comical tripping.

Yet it somehow helps - But it seems that it helped, because though he worked eternally before...
Thrice more I strike, then punch out - When he returns, he only strikes the sign three more times. Then he "punches out", ie. leaves work.
Do I smell a rat? - A reference to Puck who arrives on the scene, who apart from being a rat is also up to no good, which the phrase suggests.

Your go!

[Carl the Llama]

I pass

[Depression Moon]

A bridge to azure light
Fiends of Foreign Nature
Self view

[Shinwa Tsuki]

Is it the Shimmering Islands?

[Depression Moon]

That's one part of it.

[Karifean]

Terra?