Quote Originally Posted by Makoeyes View Post
I always thought why they never used phoenix downs was because party members who fall in battle are "only mostly dead" instead of dead-dead.
"Your friend here is only mostly dead. There's a difference between mostly dead, and all dead. All dead, there's only one thing you can do."

"What's that?"

"Go through their pockets and look for spare change."

And yeah, they are not dead, they are KO'd, or Knocked out. Basically it revives in the same sense that Smelling Salts would. ;P
They even work the same way. You wave them under the affected person's nose. Only it's not the smell, it's the tickling that gets to them.