Let's Play the BEST GAME EVER!!! (FFIX)

[Pumpkin]

Alrighty, we head back to Madain Sari to see what happened
(SPOILER)

Seeing that she's upset, Zidane tells her she can cry if she wants to

Six is pretty grown up

Nah I'm not trying to sell her short, she is pretty grown up for her age. But at the end of the day, she's still a small child. Poor thing

She wonders if it's her fault because she left the village and broke the seal on the Iifa Tree. Zidane comforts her

Eiko agrees and reiterates that she was not going to cry because she's a grown up and grown ups don't cry. Tell that to me when I play a sad game.

After she leaves, Zidane puts the moves on Dagger and tells her he always has a shoulder if she feels like crying

And so he starts teasing her again

What a goof. But before more flirtatious shenanigans can happen...

Uh oh

Sure enough, our old friend is back

Zidane tries to get Mog to help him with an Eiko rescue plan but Mog is too much of a coward, so we have no choice but to confront Lani head on.

Lani has since drugged Eiko with some sleeping weed since she was so rambunctious. Zidane gives Garnet the side eye

Lani says this is too good of an opportunity to pass up however. She came here trying to get Garnet's pendant and found one just like it here. She asks Garnet where her pendant is now and Zidane confesses to having it

However, sensing that Zidane is up to no good, she tells Vivi to bring it to her, which he reluctantly does.

BUT THEN

A mysterious hero comes to our rescue, opposing the dastardly Lani

Who is this mysterious man??

Lani asks him what his shedealio is and why he's betraying her like this

It's super embarrassing

And so, not wanting to take everyone on, she takes off threatening to collect his bounty some day

As for our hero

SURE

So after we beat him up with just Zidane, pretty easy fight, he asks us to kill him because it's what you do when you lose a fight

Zidane doesn't really care about that though and just wants Eiko's treasure back

The dude is still all like WHY HAVE I NOT BEEN KILLED YET

At this point the guy is just a broken record

And now Zidane is just tryna sound cool

So the dude leaves and Eiko demands Vivi follows after her when she goes back to where the treasure was being held

We also follow after Eiko to see how she's holding up

Friendship is hard

Eiko is struggling with a tough decision

But she wants to travel with us

It doesn't matter what you say though because-

Yeah

Aww Vivi. Too presh for this world

Mog is worried that Eiko is mad at her

But at the end of the day, they're both still besties

Not only are they besties, but they're like sisters

They even have matching ribbons they made for each other

She asks Zidane if he'll dance with her when that day comes

Smooth

Later on, Zidane finds Garnet in a little boat under Eiko's house

Muehehe

But before long it goes to more serious talks

Zidane says that they did all help, but they also each had their own paths to walk

OH YAY IT'S STORY TIME

After venturing together so far, Ipsen asked Colin

And the answer?

D'awww :3

As the boat drifts out to sea, Garnet hears the song she sings that no one else knows

And finds some of her memories triggered

And so we see a memory of Madain Sari undergoing a disaster

And a small girl and her mother escaping on a boat

So Garnet tells us some more about her past

And before then...

Garnet wants to ask Dr. Tot more when she gets home about who her mother was, how she got to Alexandria, and why she doesn't have a horn

With that, Eiko makes up her mind to join us on our quest, which surprises Vivi the next morning since he slept through all of this

But before we can leave, our friend comes back

OH MY GAAAWWWWWSSSSHSHHHHHHHHHHHH

And that's a good idea said no one ever

"Human"

And so we get our last party member.

Next time, we finish up disc 2!

Stay tuned~