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Revisiting Old Friends, Part Four
Setzer is very gay in this one, just a big walking bisexual disaster.
It’s hard to find a voice for Setzer that isn’t inspired by someone else’s fanfic, so I’m writing him as a version of Balthier, if Balthier were a few years older and not still an insecure child at heart. This is not to hate on Balthier, because I love Balthier and appreciate the subtleties of how he’s written. Rather, I’m trying to be sensitive to the difference between someone in his early twenties and someone in his late twenties.
As a side note, this is exactly how I’d like to write the character Melchior in The Demon King – as someone who’s not super into adventure but sticks around anyway for the drama. He may not be the leading man, but he’s a strong support character and not-so-secretly everyone’s favorite.
For the record, Locke doesn’t appear in this fic. He’s not even mentioned. I’m afraid that, along with Tidus, Locke is one of the very few fictional characters who actually annoys me. I genuinely respect and enjoy the fan versions of the character (both characters, in fact) that people have created, but this is my story and I do what I want.
Meanwhile, I'm writing Terra as being very strange, sort of like a combination between Luna Lovegood and Bjork.
It’s my headcanon that, until she becomes human, Terra is most definitely not human. Not only does she have an uncanny appearance, but there are also significant differences in the way she perceives the world. Like, she can see colors outside the visible spectrum, sure, and then she can also see time. No one would ever know about any of this unless she says something completely bizarre and out of place, which she manages to do infrequently enough that everyone is surprised when it happens.
I wrote earlier that I couldn't say why FFVI in particular has been able to inspire such a large and active fandom community; but, if I had to guess, I would say that it probably has something to do with the richness and diversity of the characters. Every combination is a lot of fun.
It’s hard to find a voice for Setzer that isn’t inspired by someone else’s fanfic, so I’m writing him as a version of Balthier, if Balthier were a few years older and not still an insecure child at heart. This is not to hate on Balthier, because I love Balthier and appreciate the subtleties of how he’s written. Rather, I’m trying to be sensitive to the difference between someone in his early twenties and someone in his late twenties.
As a side note, this is exactly how I’d like to write the character Melchior in The Demon King – as someone who’s not super into adventure but sticks around anyway for the drama. He may not be the leading man, but he’s a strong support character and not-so-secretly everyone’s favorite.
For the record, Locke doesn’t appear in this fic. He’s not even mentioned. I’m afraid that, along with Tidus, Locke is one of the very few fictional characters who actually annoys me. I genuinely respect and enjoy the fan versions of the character (both characters, in fact) that people have created, but this is my story and I do what I want.
Meanwhile, I'm writing Terra as being very strange, sort of like a combination between Luna Lovegood and Bjork.
It’s my headcanon that, until she becomes human, Terra is most definitely not human. Not only does she have an uncanny appearance, but there are also significant differences in the way she perceives the world. Like, she can see colors outside the visible spectrum, sure, and then she can also see time. No one would ever know about any of this unless she says something completely bizarre and out of place, which she manages to do infrequently enough that everyone is surprised when it happens.
I wrote earlier that I couldn't say why FFVI in particular has been able to inspire such a large and active fandom community; but, if I had to guess, I would say that it probably has something to do with the richness and diversity of the characters. Every combination is a lot of fun.