Quote Originally Posted by corncracker View Post
I really dought That Garland had the power to Create Necron.
And let's say that he really was created by Garland, what possible reason would he have for lying ot you at that point by saying he is eternal? When you can come up with a logical answer to that, then we'll talk SoS's theory.
SoS Theory:

*Point: Necron says "I am eternal" when defeated. Would this not immediately disprove Necron as being the central mechanism of the Iifa Tree, seeing as how Garland created it?

*Response: Not necessarily. Necron says "I am eternal" upon being defeated, yes, but that does not necessarily mean that Necron was saying "I have always been and always will be." "Eternal" is ambiguous. It CAN mean "Always has been and always will be," but it can also mean "Having no end." In other words, Necron might have been saying "I will never perish." This certainly isn't a foreign declaration to villains upon their demise. For that matter, Zeromus, the final opponent of Final Fantasy IV, and the incarnation of Zemus' hatred, made a similar declaration at the moment of his own death:

(Zeromus' final words.)
Zeromus: I will not...perish...so long as evil...dwells in the hearts...of
mankind. G...gh... GRRRAAGH!

(Necron's final words.)
"This is not the end."
"I am eternal..."
"...as long as there is life and death..."


However, there's little question as to whether or not Zeromus was simply making a boast before his death, something which he did not anticipate.
Something else to keep in mind is that Final Fantasy IX was a game designed to pay tribute to past Final Fantasy games. The ending boss battles of Final Fantasy IV and IX are very similar in that in both the party is wiped out, only to be brought back from defeat by other party members lending their strength. Also in both cases, the defeated final foe declares their self-proclaimed eternal nature, despite all indication and the context of the situation suggesting it to not be the case.

For that matter, it should be noted that Soulcage, the Mist distributing
function of the Iifa Tree, also boasted that it would not be defeated by
Zidane and the others, despite it being destroyed when it actually fought them:

"I have seen the end of my thousand-year life, and it is not now."
'You cannot stop me."
"It is futile even to try."


While one might argue that it's a different situation because Soulcage's boast came before its battle with its killers, there's the obvious fact that such statements as "I am immortal! This cannot BE!" come from defeated villains on a regular basis, whether it be in stories outside of the Final Fantasy series or within it. A good example of such lines being used within the Final Fantasy series is Final Fantasy: Tactics, which uses such lines no less than four times during the course of the game:

(Note: These are all the dying words of the characters in question.)

Queklain:"I'm immortal...how can I be losing....? It's impossible. I can't... die...until he resurrects..."


Velius: "Whooooah!! They're just humans....!"


Elidibs: "This can't be happening... I'm not supposed to lose..."


Balk: "I'm...dying? I thought I'd risen over 'death'..."