Do Emerald and Ruby Deserve Their Fate?

[BG-57]

I was thinking recently since Ruby and Emerald are additional optional bosses, they are avoidable fights.

That would explain why they don't advance the plot the way Ultima, Diamond, and Sapphire do. But since the other three attack cities, you could understand the cities and party defending themselves.

Emerald and Ruby don't bother people; you have to pick the fights with them. So do they deserve to be killed? Certainly the prizes are nice.

[boys from the dwarf]

suppose if you put it that way neither of them do.

[SadisticStreetSoldie]

I think they did since one day they've could have just gone psycho and started attacking everyone and everything like the other WEAPONS did

[TurkSlayer]

Ruby does. You can just tell it's sitting there, waiting for the right moment to crush Golden Saucer. Ruby... The weapon I never beat. I swear Ruby, someday, your life will be mine!!!!

[-N-]

I thought Emerald Weapon sunk the Gelnika? Or was that Sapphire?

[SadisticStreetSoldie]

I think it was Sapphire because Ruby and Emerald don't do anything in the FMV of the weapons waking up, except for walking off

[Squall of SeeD]

I thought Emerald Weapon sunk the Gelnika? Or was that Sapphire?

It was probably Sapphire, seeing as how Emerald wasn't present in the original Japanese release of the game.

[Lord Magician]

Emerald Weapon was hard to beat, BUT RUBY WEAPON!!!!!!!!!!!

HE IS IMPOSSIBLE TO DESTROY!!!!!!

Only my friend beat him. But sooner or later, he will die!!!

[Del Murder]

Yes they deserved to die and I hope they burn in hell!

[boys from the dwarf]

but think about it though.they both get attacked by you all they do is defend themselves but turkslayer has a point about ruby destroying gold saucer sooner or later he will.wait a minute.i should change my vote.when you go underwater to fight emerald he chases you instead of you having to find him so hes evil i tells ya.and ruby weopon well he gonna attack teh gold saucer.so both of them deserve it. i wish i could change meh vote.

[Carl the Llama]

I think youll find that if you fly above ruby he will attack you automatically but... I thought they were being controlled by Sephiroth I cant remember the details much as its been a long time but if he didnt have control of them I believe that they shouldn't have died as they were weapons of the planet so basicly they were only trying to do what was best for the planet... dont forget that they did wipe out humans at the end of the game so the reason they attacked us in the first place because they saw us killing the planet they were trying to defend so in other words I dont believe any of them (Diamond/Ultima etc) deserved thier fate.

[boys from the dwarf]

they all deserve their fate but there just gardians i suppose so they might not but them just killing to protect the planet makes them sound like robots because there incapable of indpendent thought.

[ThroneofDravaris]

Ruby and Emerald are just like Vegnagun in FFX-2, they are too powerful to be allowed to exist (in story terms, obviously Vegnagun is a wimp compared to these guys).

Maybe they didn’t deserve it as much as the other WEAPONS, but it was necessary for them to be destroyed for the survival of humanity.

[Squall of SeeD]

I thought they were being controlled by Sephiroth I cant remember the details much as its been a long time but if he didnt have control of them I believe that they shouldn't have died as they were weapons of the planet so basicly they were only trying to do what was best for the planet

They weren't being controlled by Sephiroth, no. They were trying to kill all living things, as Hojo states before their awakening. When they awakened, their objective was to annihilate everything. This was likely to send that extra Spirit Energy back to the Lifestream so that it could be stronger when facing whatever ordreal lay ahead.

... dont forget that they did wipe out humans at the end of the game

Are you talking about Holy? If so, it doesn't wipe out Homo Sapiens.

so the reason they attacked us in the first place because they saw us killing the planet they were trying to defend so in other words I dont believe any of them (Diamond/Ultima etc) deserved thier fate.

It really wasn't a matter of "Homo Sapiens are a threat to the Planet. We must kill them." They were literally trying to kill everything. Ultimate even blows up an entire forest. That lake it hovers over late in the game that looks like a crater? There was a forest there on Disc 1. Ultimate has pulverized it. There's also a crater under the sea near Emerald WEAPON. It was possibly taking pot shots at the marine life.


Personally, I think the WEAPONs' fate was a fair one. They may have been protecting the Planet, but the Homo Sapiens had every right to defend themselves. Besides, some among them were looking for a way to stop Meteor themselves.

[boys from the dwarf]

Just say humans DR Science.and vegnagun on FF X-2 was a joke of a main enemy and shuyin please stop takin the piss out of tidus hes using all of tiduses moves but at maximum suckiness.