Ramza is so cute

[Fynn]

I honestly cannot agree with anything you said, Sky

EDIT: I’ll just copy and paste what I said in Discord because I feel it merits discussion here as well

As for the Ramza thing, it’s like saying “if I were there and had a gun nobody would have died”. Like, when you look at it from the game’s perspective, Ramza had zero reason to kill Delita. Whenever they met, they just talked. And his machinations were so complex that Ramza couldn’t know what to think of them, and there were far more important things for him to focus on. And up until he stabs Ovelia (which was done in self-defense, since she stabbed him first and he probably bled to death right after that anyway), the only people he kills are corrupt church officials and politicians who were much worse for Ivalice than him. Was it because you grew attached to Ovelia that you make out Delita to be a much bigger bastard than he actually was? Or is it a need for a clear human villain in a story where there is none and the only pure evil comes in the form of demons, because the story’s conflicts parallel real life issues where there never are clear good guys and bad guys and just killing what you consider a bad guy never really solves anything? I’ve said it once and I’ll say it again: Delita’s methods were manipulative and backstabbing, but how he got to that point was understandable and tragic. Though he dirties his hands a lot, aside from making himself king, he did make Ivalice a better place by disposing of the most corrupt individuals (and yes, by Vagrant Story the Glabados Church has weakened in power significantly). FFT is not a tale of a hero disregarding the real villain. It’s a tragic tale of two friends drifting far apart from each other due to clashing ideologies and different reactions to trauma. I think nothing is more telling of that than the very end where Delita sits there, wondering if Ramza got all he wanted. Because Delita did. And he still feels hollow. So reducing such a complex, nuanced, human character into a sociopathic villain is completely missing the point of the whole story. And while I’m at it, so is framing Marche as the villain