Suspending Realism

[Makoeyes]

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.

I actually buy lightnings Gunblade, because it transforms between the two. It's never both at once.

And I can buy a young child being able to handle death, especially considering how early it happened, and how much. It's a bit of a stretch, but within the realms of my suspension of disbelief. (Not that I like Eiko, mind you).

And eh, I recall the Gunblade being a SeeD signature, though it's not really relevent one way or the other.

The fact that it transforms though would make it rather flimsy. A collapsible weapon would not be able to block a giant sword like that. Again, if they said they were enchanted, or made with some kind of super-metal, then it would make sense. Kingdom Hearts never actually pushed my suspension of disbelief because magic is coming out the wazoo in that series.

I actually liked Eiko. I know people found her annoying, but she never bothered me. Another unrealistic thing about Eiko is that at one point, if you leave all the magic users behind at Kuja's palace when you go to Oeilvert, she actually leads the party, despite being a six-year-old girl.

It may have been all the years of transformers growing up, but changing and retaining functionality is well within my ability to buy it.

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

With Transformers, it makes sense to me. I'm not well-versed in Tr. lore, but based on what I know the Cube basically has borderline magical powers, giving life to machines. So it makes sense that their transformations don't entirely follow the same rules. With FF though I don't think there's ever an explanation for the weapons. With my fanfiction that I'll probably never write, it was explained that the weapons are inherently magical, because they have bits of Magicite in them. They're also made of a super-metal that was lost to mankind until recently. But I don't think we ever get an explanation in the games.

I'm pretty sure that at one point in one of the games, the protagonists actually try to use PDs to bring back a dead character in a cutscene, which didn't work because they're dead-dead and not KO'd.