History Headscratchers / FinalFantasyVI

** Her hair was blonde in the FMVs for the Anthology version. It's more than likely just a way to distinguish her from Celes in-game.

*** I took it upon myself to check the CG ending on Website/YouTube, and, unfortunately for you and your theory, the fridge is still wide open due to a couple of unfortunate details that you appear to have overlooked. The main one being that the CG ending in FFVI is a recap montage of earlier events in the game, (like Terra invading Narshe, Locke rescuing Celes down in the basement in South Figaro and Setzer [[JustForPun dealing]] out some destruction to some imperial fliers,) meaning that the sequence you're referring to is from when Shadow, Sabin and Cyan were on board the Phantom Train.

* When Figaro Castle is trapped underground there is still an exit from the cave,which "Gerad" uses to get in. Why doesn't he lead out the suffocating people of Figaro?

** Some espers look entirely human. Ramuh, for instance, was able to pass as a human for years (he specifically mentions this.)

* Why does the game treat Cyan's accusations against Celes as unreasonable? When you first meet up after getting both, he tries to attack her, and Locke gives a speech about how "the Empire is evil, but not ''all'' of its citizens are!" Except... Celes isn't just a random citizen, she was an imperial general who committed specific war crimes (Cyan says that she was the one who 'torched Miranda', and she doesn't deny this, though she does totally ignore it. Then Locke gives his speech about how not all the Empire's citizens are evil. Yes, Locke, but the people who burned down cities probably ''are'' evil. Cyan isn't attacking her because she's an imperial, he's attacking her because she has committed specific, horrific war crimes for which she expresses no remorse.) It's entirely reasonable for Cyan to hold her responsible for her past crimes, even if she's now changed her mind, especially when one of those crimes is ''burning down a city''. Yes, sure, maybe she deserves a chance to strive for redemption, but the game treats it as if Cyan's accusations are outright unreasonable and as if Celes has nothing to try and redeem, when he is able to accuse her of specific straight-up atrocities against civilian populations back when she was an imperial general.

** For what it's worth, the GBA translation (which is generally more accurate) actually makes this worse; in that version, Cyan specifically says that Celes is ''personally responsible'' for the decemation of Miranda.

* Celes is both an extremely well-known imperial general ''and'' a dead-ringer for a famous opera star. Yet outside of a tiny number of cases where people recognizing her is required for the plot, you can bring her into random towns (including random towns in the empire!) and nobody recognizes her. You can even take her to Miranda, the town she supposedly was personally responsible for decemating, and neither the civilians nor the imperial troops notice her. What gives? Was Cyan just particularly familiar with what the imperial generals look like?

** It is most likely both. Honestly if this one ever got a 3D remake we should be seeing Celes having nightmares of the Airship cracking apart followed by her fall into a sea of burning fire during a hurricane of building fragments. She had front row seats to the end of the world then she wakes up a year later and doesn't have nightmares or trauma? No, SNES just was just far too limiting for the grand scale of [=FF6=]'s story. If there was one game from the 2D era to pick to be remade into modern FF style, it would be this one.

** "Seems"? You can't really tell where Kefka was stabbed thanks to the sprites, so he may have been stabbed somewhere that can still leave him jumping around as he did. [[FinalFantasyVIII But then again, people wondered why a mercenary didn't die of an ice shard hitting around their shoulder and a 3D cutscene...]]

* We see Gestahl and Kefka approach the Gate to the Esper World. We then have a cutscene where the continent lifts up out of the ground. Then we see Gestahl and Kefka on the continent in front of the Warring Triad statues. Were the statues originally in the Esper World, and Gestahl and Kefka did something to them to bring them into the World of Balance? Were they in the World of Balance to begin with? I had thought the game implied the later because of the part where Espers talked about something in the World of Balance giving them a rush of power when they passed through the gate. Also, if the Traid were the source of all magic like they say a few times, it would make sense that they were located in the World of Balance, since people can cast magic there. This also explains why the Espers in the Esper World were able to be captured so easily when Gestahl attacked years ago, when he captured Terra. Their magic was weak since the Triad was in the other world. Though, if the Triad statues were in the World of Balance, I'm unclear why there was a shot of Gestahl and Kefka in front of the Esper Gate.

*** Ramuh gives no indication that he's weakened, no. He specifically says that he "narrowly avoided" the fate of having his powers drained; and when he kills himself, he specifically says that it's to give you his power. At no point does he suggest, or even remotely hint, that he has been weakened, injured, or is dying in any way shape or form, and in fact he more-or-less states the opposite (that, unlike the other espers, he's totally fine until he decides to sacrifice himself.) The magicite he gives you also isn't particularly amazing - nowhere near as valuable as his knowledge and expertise would have been later in the plot. On top of this, when he does move to kill himself, the characters react with horror and try to stop him, implying that this may actually just be a psychological difference between humans and espers (ie. to him, dying by becoming magicite isn't a big deal.)

*** Ramuh gives no indication that he's weakened, no. He specifically says that he "narrowly avoided" the fate of having his powers drained; and when he kills himself, he specifically says that it's to give you his power. At no point does he suggest, or even remotely hint, that he has been weakened, injured, or is dying in any way shape or form, and in fact he more-or-less states the opposite (that, unlike the other espers, he's totally fine until he decides to sacrifice himself.) The magicite he gives you also isn't particularly amazing - nowhere near as valuable as his knowledge and expertise would have been later in the plot.

** [[WillingSuspensionOfDisbelief Haha]] you guys. In the same manner of breathing underwater in a capsized row boat, they alternated, keeping the helmet upright. There was no corresponding [[HandWave air supply]] so I can only assume Magicite/Magitech or some such. Enchantments be damned in FF6 it seems.

** It is most likely both. Honestly if this one ever got a 3D remake we should be seeing Celes having nightmares of the Airship cracking apart followed by her fall into a sea of burning fire during a hurricane of building fragments. She had front row seats to the end of the world then she wakes up a year later and doesn't have nightmares or trauma? No, SNES just was just far too limiting for the grand scale of FF6's story. If there was one game from the 2D era to pick to be remade into modern FF style, it would be this one.