What is the meaning of gil? Is it just some nebulous currency whose form is spotted everywhere in many different worlds within Final Fantasy? Or does it speak of the human condition, that life-saving potions must be purchased at market price? More insidiously, gil can typically only be received through the inexplicable hunting of monsters, whose internal organs appear to turn into gil the moment of its death. The wounded traveller, faced with grievous wounds and even more grievous prices, is left with no choice but to venture out once more to slay more monsters to scrape together enough money for a potion.

Healing magic may go some way, but even that must be replenished eventually through ethers, again sold for an even more exorbitant price. Even when gil isn't used for healing, it is instead used to purchase the weapons of war: swords, guns, staves. Gil funds a perpetual cycle of death and destruction, when in turn provides more gil for even better swords and even better magic.

Gil is tainted in the blood of monsters, fiends, call them what you will. When will the people of Final Fantasy realise to stop this cycle and prevent the marketisation of life-saving medicines? Down with big pharma! Down with our capitalist overlords!

... but Edward probably has more gil, though. I mean, dude's a prince.



My question! What happens when I combine a small child with a speeding truck?