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* AlasPoorVillain: [[spoiler:Benedikta is no saint, but the game treats her descent into madness after believing Clive stole Garuda from her as rather tragic and pitiable, losing her sanity and awareness in the process of [[{{Irony}} fully awakening her powers, which never actually left her. Later details reveal Barnabas seduced her away from Cid by appealing to her multiple insecurities and has been emotionally manipulating her ever since by subtly preying upon said insecurities, constantly making her question the stability of her life, status and position]] In the aftermath of Clive butchering her as Ifrit, Cid lamentably wonders if the destruction and chaos was what she truly wanted or not.]]
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* AlasPoorVillain: [[spoiler:Benedikta is no saint, but the game treats her descent into madness after believing Clive stole Garuda from her as rather tragic and pitiable, losing her sanity and awareness in the process of [[{{Irony}} fully awakening her powers, which never actually left her. Later details reveal Barnabas seduced her away from Cid by appealing to her multiple insecurities and has been emotionally manipulating her ever since by subtly preying upon said insecurities, constantly making her question the stability of her life, status and position]] position.]] In the aftermath of Clive butchering her as Ifrit, Cid lamentably wonders if the destruction and chaos was what she truly wanted or not.]]
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** Ironically, attempting this with Barnabas is actually a form of control he holds her over. He uses it to emotionally manipulate her and stoke her insecurities while portraying himself as the escape from the sources of her insecurities, making her constantly seek his approval by having her question the stability of her status in his inner-circle and going to new heights of cruelty and desperation to prove herself to him.
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** Ironically, attempting this with Barnabas is actually a form of control he holds her over. He uses it to emotionally manipulate her and stoke her insecurities while portraying himself as the escape from the sources of her insecurities, making her constantly seek his approval by having her question the stability of her status in his inner-circle and going to new heights of cruelty and desperation to prove herself to him. True enough, the Inner Voice feature shows that her thoughts of Barnabas in her later scenes are encapsulated with the words "He'll abandon me like all the rest."
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* FemmeFatale: A vicious {{deconstruction}}. Benedikta is a deadly and beautiful female spy who is shown sleeping around with several lovers to leverage their power for her own purposes. The deconstruction comes in the fact that she's doing this out of a very deep insecurity around never wanting to be a victim again, after a traumatizing and horrific past. As a result she constantly jumps from one powerful man to an even more powerful one. She goes from the noble Cid, to the more powerful but opportunistic Hugo, to the even more powerful but utterly insane Barnabas. The deconstruction is revealed in her scene in Barnabas' bedroom which may initially be seen as her manipulating him, but in hindsight is shown to be him gaslighting her and preying on her insecurities. These nurtured insecurities render her unable to accept Cid's offer as he is unwilling to appeal to her insecurities and as an outlaw hiding in a blighted region fighting an impossible uphill battle, he cannot offer her the stability and status she has been made to crave and is blind to the virtues of self-sacrifice, integrity, pursuing the greater good and prevailing over hardship that Cid enshrines.
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* FemmeFatale: A vicious {{deconstruction}}. Benedikta is a deadly and beautiful female spy who is shown sleeping around with several lovers to leverage their power for her own purposes. The deconstruction comes in the fact that she's doing this out of a very deep insecurity around never wanting to be a victim again, after a traumatizing and horrific past. As a result she constantly jumps from one powerful man to an even more powerful one. She goes from the noble Cid, to the more powerful but opportunistic Hugo, to the even more powerful but utterly insane Barnabas. The deconstruction is revealed in her scene in Barnabas' bedroom which may initially be seen as her manipulating him, but in hindsight is shown to be him gaslighting her and preying on her insecurities. These nurtured insecurities render her unable to accept Cid's offer as he is unwilling to appeal to her insecurities and as an outlaw hiding in a blighted region fighting an impossible uphill battle, he cannot offer her the stability and status she has been made to crave and is blind to the virtues of self-sacrifice, integrity, pursuing the greater good and prevailing over hardship that Cid enshrines. Ironically, if she had joined up with Cid, the combination of both their Dominant abilities could have made Cid's battle a lot less impossible, as later on Clive and Jill basically do this exact thing to great success.
* {{Foil}}: To Jill. Both spent time as slaves, fell in love with heroic men who saved them, but whereas Jill stayed with the one she loved until the end, through good times and bad times, Benedikta's insecurities prevented her from staying with Cid. Ironically, the woman who stayed despite the hardship ultimately ended up getting pretty much everything she wanted, whereas the one who kept pursuing power and safety ended up with nothing.
* {{Foil}}: To Jill. Both spent time as slaves, fell in love with heroic men who saved them, but whereas Jill stayed with the one she loved until the end, through good times and bad times, Benedikta's insecurities prevented her from staying with Cid. Ironically, the woman who stayed despite the hardship ultimately ended up getting pretty much everything she wanted, whereas the one who kept pursuing power and safety ended up with nothing.
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* MeaningfulName: His surname Harbard (Hárbarðr, meaning "Hairy Beard") is one of Odin's epithets in Myth/NorseMythology, [[spoiler:signifying how in reality he and Odin (and by extension Barnabas) are one and the same.]]
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* MeaningfulName: His surname Harbard (Hárbarðr, meaning "Hairy Beard") is one of Odin's epithets in Myth/NorseMythology, [[spoiler:signifying how in reality he and Odin (and by extension Barnabas) are one and the same.]] Not to mention that his given name, Sleipnir, is the same as Odin's horse in Norse Mythology, [[spoiler:acting as further foreshadowing of him being an extension of Barnabas.]]
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[[center: [-[[Characters/FinalFantasyXVI Main Index]] | [[Characters/FinalFantasyXVIProtagonists Protagonists]] ([[Characters/FinalFantasyXVICliveRosfield Clive Rosfield]]) | [[Characters/FinalFantasyXVITheHideaway The Hideaway]] | [[Characters/FinalFantasyXVITheGrandDuchyOfRosaria The Grand Duchy of Rosaria]] | [[Characters/FinalFantasyXVITheDhalmekianRepublic The Dhalmekian Republic]] | [[Characters/FinalFantasyXVITheHolyEmpireOfSanbreque The Holy Empire of Sanbreque]] | '''The Kingdom of Waloed''' | [[Characters/FinalFantasyXVIEikonsAndNotableBeings Eikons and Notable Creatures/Beings]] | [[Characters/FinalFantasyXVIOtherCharacters Other Characters]]]]-]
