History WMG / FinalFantasyIX

[[WMG: Hades was supposed to Garland's OneWingedAngel, and named [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyI Chaos]].]]

There is concept art, where Hades is the final boss, instead of Necron. Hades's trone and sword have the blinking eyes, which also appear on Terran structures, and the eyes are also present during the battle with Necron. It's possible that such transformation would be triggered by the Terran souls possessing Garland after Kuja wounded him lethaly.

* It would technically be more correct to say "Edward is Zidane in an AU", since FFIX was released before FMA began publication (2000 and 2001, respectively), but I may be just nitpicking here. There's actually MUCH more to it than that. Besides the obvious similarities in their appearances and personalities, there are multiple instances where the link can be made: Edward has been called a "monkey" (by Nr. 48, in Laboratory 5) and "thief" (by Mustang when he lends him money), and both have a little brother figure (Vivi and Al), whose relationship with them kind of echoes each other. Their differing behaviors can easily be explained by the setting they live in, the way they were brought up, and what hardships they've gone through: had Zidane been more used to HeroicBSOD-inducing situations, like Edward is, he would've shrugged that whole "I'm actually from Terra" business much more easily (and he still does it rather quickly). Not even in the English version of Dissidia are they immune to the "link": sure, Zidane is not voiced by Creator/VicMignogna, but rather by Creator/BrycePapenbrook. Now, Bryce has done a character in the ''Manga/DotHackLegendOfTheTwilight'' anime, named Shugo, who, in Japanese, was voiced by JunkoMinagawa, who is often mistaken for Romi Paku... And guess who she voiced in the radio drama of FMA? ...I'm actually thinking of writing a whole paper on this, because it's just too blatant and I'm that crazy.

Explained here: http://katehughesart.tumblr.com/post/44007469949/kates-super-crack-final-fantasy-headcanons

[[WMG:Final Fantasy IX takes place after Dragon Ball GT]]

* It would technically be more correct to say "Edward is Zidane in an AU", since FFIX was released before FMA began publication (2000 and 2001, respectively), but I may be just nitpicking here. There's actually MUCH more to it than that. Besides the obvious similarities in their appearances and personalities, there are multiple instances where the link can be made: Edward has been called a "monkey" (by Nr. 48, in Laboratory 5) and "thief" (by Mustang when he lends him money), and both have a little brother figure (Vivi and Al), whose relationship with them kind of echoes each other. Their differing behaviors can easily be explained by the setting they live in, the way they were brought up, and what hardships they've gone through: had Zidane been more used to HeroicBSOD-inducing situations, like Edward is, he would've shrugged that whole "I'm actually from Terra" business much more easily (and he still does it rather quickly). Not even in the English version of Dissidia are they immune to the "link": sure, Zidane is not voiced by VicMignogna, but rather by BrycePapenbrook. Now, Bryce has done a character in the .hack//Legend of the Twilight anime, named Shugo, who, in Japanese, was voiced by JunkoMinagawa, who is often mistaken for Romi Paku... And guess who she voiced in the radio drama of FMA? ...I'm actually thinking of writing a whole paper on this, because it's just too blatant and I'm that crazy.

C'mon, ChaoticGood mid-teen short blonde with a preference for shorter bladed weapons in non-magic combat and long hair tied back voiced by RomiPaku? Yeah, there's the whole "FFIX is SD" thing, but I've noticed that several characters are taller than Zidane by more than just "He'll grow" standards. (And in Dissidia, Kuja seemed of comparable height to the rest of the characters who aren't wearing horned helmets.)

[[WMG:Zidane was resurreccted/reincarnated by Makoto.]]
Zidane died in the Iifa tree. Makoto and the other Genomes simply grew a new Genome body

buried at ground zero of a world spanning disaster, and why Makoto was at the Iifa tree at all in the closing cinematics,despite living on the other side of the continent...

Modding that would be pointless for Garland, since Garland is more than powerful enough to simply kill
Kuja if he became a nuisance.

*** According to Ultimania, after Garland's failed attempt to merge the two planets into one, some of the loctions from Terra ended up on Gaia, Mount Gulug being one if them. So it IS the original Mount Gulug from Garland's homeworld.

*** According to Ultimania, after Garland's failed attempt to merge the two planets into one, some of the loctions from Terra ended up on Gaia, Mount Gulug being one if them. So it IS the original Mount Gulug from Terra.

[[WMG:Adelbert Steiner is an {{Expy}} of PatrickWarburton.]]

There are no more natural saiyans, the genomes were an attempt of creating an indestructible army of clones of one of Goku's ancestors by Garland, but since that ancestor had less than 1/10 of Saiyan blood the clones created didn't have the same abilities as a Saiyan.
* Gaia is actually the planet where most of the Dragon Ball story unfolds, but it was gradually destroyed after being hit with so many overpower attacks.

[[WMG: Necron is...]]

!!Necron is the Iifa Tree

The final boss of ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyIII'' is the Cloud of Darkness. In ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyIII'', if the Balance between Light and Darkness gets messed up, whichever power is stronger will overwhelm the other and destroy the world. During the course of the game, you learn that in the past, the Warriors of Darkness defeated an out-of-control incarnation of the power of Light (which would have burned the world to a crisp). This time, Darkness has become too powerful, and your party, the Warriors of Light, eventually end up having to battle against the Cloud of Darkness, which is going to return the world to nothingness. The literal translation of Necron's Japanese name is "Darkness of Eternity", and it wants to do the same thing as the Cloud of Darkness: turn the world into a state of nothingness. Again, it's one of Final Fantasy IX's many [[Main/ShoutOut ShoutOuts]] to earlier games in the series.

The resemblence is all there in the boss battle: Necron is (pale) blue, bald, and the humanoid half of his body is certainly muscular enough. So obviously, after leaving Earth, Doctor Manhattan spends many centuries refining his powers before setting forth on his mission to create life: in this respect, he creates life of several formerly barren planets- two of which are Terra and Gaia. He also gives several of his engineered species latent supernatural powers in the form of magic, before retreating to the Crystal World, the replacement for the totalled Glass Palace left back on Mars. However, after watching his creations war and kill over the next several million years, he begins to lose faith in life again. By the time Kujah's SuicidalCosmicTemperTantrum comes to a close, Doctor Manhattan is ready to obliterate all his old work in the new galaxy and focus on something different. However, his defeat forces him into yet another epiphany, and he decides to give his creations another chance.

As in The Grim Reaper. Anthropomorphic Personification and all that Jazz. The fight against him happens for EVERYBODY when they die, which happens to the heroes after Trance Kuja takes them down with him. The reason it doesn't happen to you earlier in the game is because you couldn't possibly win against him up until the Endgame. The reason he acts like Zeromus is to trick the heroes into wanting to fight him; since they're clearly good people who really don't deserve to die, he decides to not give them a choice as to whether to take the test to come back to life.

[[WMG: Necron is Ash's Father]]
[[WMG: Forgoing Necron, Zidane is an alternate universe equivalent to [[Manga/FullmetalAlchemist Edward Elric]].]]
C'mon, ChaoticGood mid-teen short blonds with a preference for shorter bladed weapons in non-magic combat and long hair tied back voiced by RomiPaku? Yeah, there's the whole "FFIX is SD" thing, but I've noticed that several characters are taller than Zidane by more than just "He'll grow" standards. (And in Dissidia, Kuja seemed of comparable height to the rest of the characters who aren't wearing horned helmets.)
* It would technically be more correct to say "Edward is Zidane in an AU", since FFIX was released before FMA began publication (2000 and 2001, respectively), but I may be just nitpicking here. There's actually MUCH more to it than that. Besides the obvious similarities in their appearances and personalities, there are multiple instances where the link can be made: Edward has been called a "monkey" (by Nr. 48, in Laboratory 5) and "thief" (by Mustang when he lends him money), and both have a little brother figure (Vivi and Al), whose relationship with them kind of echoes each other. Their differing behaviors can easily be explained by the setting they live in, the way they were brought up, and what hardships they've gone through: had Zidane been more used to HeroicBSOD-inducing situations, like Edward is, he would've shrugged that whole "I'm actually from Terra" business much more easily (and he still does it rather quickly). Not even in the English version of Dissidia they're immune to the "link": sure, Zidane is not voiced by VicMignogna, but rather by BrycePapenbrook. Now, Bryce has done a character in the .hack//Legend of the Twilight anime, named Shugo, who, in Japanese, was voiced by JunkoMinagawa, who is often mistaken for Romi Paku... And guess who she voiced in the radio drama of FMA? ...I'm actually thinking of writing a whole paper on this, because it's just too blatant and I'm that crazy.

[[WMG: Zidane died when he tried to save Kuja]]
The lines proceeding the last FMV and the FMV themselves are a delusion of Garnet's. Afterwards, She and Tantalus had tea and a good laugh about it, but she never was the same. [[PoisonOakEpilepticTrees Even if I don't want to believe this and sincerely hope it isn't true.]]
[[WMG: Kuja is a Red Mage.]]
Kuja can use both White Magic (Holy, Curaga), and Black Magic (Meteor, Flare). Furthermore, his hair is pale like all of the Red Mage [=NPCs=] one sees on the streets. Maybe that's why he isn't blond like all of the other Genomes - the process of becoming a Red Mage changes the hair pigmentation. Being a [[ShoutOut ShoutOut]] to previous series, all of the party members are based (in combat) on the various classes from the earlier Final Fantasies, so it makes sense to have the villain follow that pattern as well.
* I always put down Freya as a liar about her class, she may be able to jump, but she has the "Dragon" skills that are kinda-magic (Even if the only ones I ever used were Rei's Wind and Lancet) White hair, [[NiceHat Awesome Red hat with decoration]]...

*** Ear covers then since they're in the exact same spot as the ears are on every other burmecian.
[[WMG: Tied into my previous theory in regards to ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist'', Terrans aren't orignally from Terra, they're from Amnestris]]
Father won, The world's doomed, Father adopted the name "Garland", and Zidane was just randomly lucky and got Ed's soul in the process. This was more based on the fact that after one-too-many viewings of "Breaching the South Gate" to figure out the exact musical sting that accompanies the blink-and-you-miss-it cut that makes FFIX page pic, I realized Vivi had a transmutation circle under him. (Okay, they're normal run-of-the-mill InstantRunes, but I still went "Hocrap! Human Transmutation!" when re-watching it) Also, we've got two kinds of Homonculi here, the Genomes and Black Mages. Father managed to improve on the original designs of Homonculi, and thus ended up with one that could do Alchemy, who then stole the plans and mass produced these Alchemist Homonculi. Only risk was the shortened life, even without a soul. And now I'm not certain I want Zidane to go back to Gaia afterwards in that fanfic I'm writing...
[[WMG: Qus are actually [[EloquentInMyNativeTongue Eloquent In Their Native Tongue]].]]

[[WMG: Amarant is Eiko's father.]]

[[WMG: The party came closer to beating Beatrice than she let on.]]
The way she keeps Stock Break in reserve, and the fact that when you get her its a very high MP cost attack, indicates that she was using it as a last resort. The party might have literally had her on her last legs before she swatted them. She's not almighty when you get her as a party member, and the fact that she gets stronger as the battles go on indicates she may have been doing a bit of {{Level Grinding}} herself. Her sparing the rest of the party may be as much respect for how much fight her opponents put up as contempt for said opponents.
* Makes sense, though she had no need to level grind seeing as she spent quite a while slaughtering her way through a few civilizations before she switches sides, XP gain just makessense.

[[WMG: Baku is a legendary hero from Lindbulm's past]]

[[WMG: Garland created [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII Jenova]] ]]
He said that Terra had absorbed many planets before in an attempt to survive, but first they needed to be weakened. So what's to say he didn't construct an animal variation on the Iifa tree and send it to Cloud's world to consume the lifestream and then replace it with Terra's

[[WMG:Zidane and Makoto (and the other Genomes(except Kuja)) are immortal.]]
Or at least unaging once at the adult stage,since Genomes were intended to receive the
souls of the Terrans, who unlocked the secret of immortality,and whose whole plan is too live forever.

Plan 1 was Terraforming, which is what turned the waterworld Gaia into a world with livable landmasses. On a related note, all Gaian land life is the result of this process, thus explaining the similarities between summoners,humans, and genomes - including the ability of a single drug to affect all of them roughly the same way. Plan 2 was the thing with the cycling of souls and such, which was turned to when the constructed ecosystem began to behave in unexpected (and to the Terrans detrimental) ways.
* Nah, the Terrans wanted to merge with planets that had "pure crystals," which I assume means no life (as the crystals govern souls). They didn't ''want'' life to develop there. If Terra had been eying Gaia since before there was even any land on it, they'd have had plenty of time to fuse the planets before entire civilizations were developed on Gaia. Granted, maybe their sense of time is a bit off considering how long they "live," but I wouldn't think Garland would go thousands or millions of years before noticing, "Oops, Gaia has people now. When did that happen?" Rather, what probably happened was Terra stumbled upon Gaia long after life had developed and it was just their only option. As for why the Genomes are so much like humans... I'd say that these specific Genomes were designed by Garland to mimic humans after observing life on Gaia, and that Terrans actually used to have some other form. Only problem with that is the giant stone faces in Oeilvert look human.... Summoners, presumably, just branched off a little from humans some centuries back.

This explains why Kuja doesn't kill Zidane despite numerous opportunities to do so,even after Zidane becomes an actual problem for his plans.

Reasoning:The play "I want to be your canary" contains a minor character named Zidane.
Main PC Zidane is named Zidane. Unlikely coincidence...unless they were both named by the same person:Garland.

** Presumably, its really New Gulug, named after the original Mount Gulug during that time back in the depths of history when Garland had Terra invade Gaia conventionally. Presumably the name stuck after the Terrans retreated, but the Gaians dropped the "New" part of the name because they didn't know about the original.

If this game had voice acting(or if he appears in the next ''{{Dissidia|FinalFantasy}}'') it's pretty obvious who'll be voicing him in the English version.

[[WMG: Kuja is an alternative universe version of Franky from One Piece]]

[[WMG: Concerning Vivi's children..]]

[[WMG: Terra is what happens when the [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyI Light Warriors lose their first fight with Garland.]]]]

In theory, that is an alternate way to break the FF1 time loop. It removes the need to send Garland back in time, and the Four Fiends' origin. But because evil won in the end, the world turns out darkly. The Lufenish retain their supertechnology, but the crystals are still drained for reasons no one is capable of seeing.

The desparate Lufenish develop dimensional travel and soul manipulation, and eventually put together the Terran's plans as seen in Final Fantasy 9.

[[WMG: There was a Zeroth Angel of Death used during Garland's first assault on Gaia.]]

[[WMG: Cid and/or Hilda are sterile.]]

[[WMG: [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyV Exdeath]] is [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyIX Necron]].]]
Necron came [[GiantSpaceFleaFromNowhere literally out of nowhere]]. What is the Void again? Yeah... It's nothing. Exdeath created a metaphysical placed of nothingness. After Bartz destroyed Exdeath, he tried to turn into his OneWingedAngel form, but failed and instead became Neo Exdeath. Then, he was left into the Void, and absorbed with Necrophobe. Necron is a combination of Exdeath and Necrophobe.

[[WMG: Eiko will marry Zidane and Garnet's son.]]

[[WMG: Zidane's HeroicBSOD wasn't caused just by Garland's revelations of his purpose]]
Right after the revelation Zidane seemed shaken, but still valued his friends and home in Gaia and was ready to kick Garland's ass over it. Garland then knocked him out with a comment of having to turn him into a regular Genome and we're treated to to a scene of Zidane descending into a emo, before being woken up seated in a weird chair. What was the difference between Zidane and the other Genomes? Zidane was given a soul, the chair was a device Garland was using to take out Zidane's soul and turn him into an empty vessel. Good thing the others went after him.
* ... Is this really Wild Mass Guessing?

[[WMG: Fat Chocobo is an Eidolon]]
Eidolons are born from legends and myths to serve as guardians of the planet. The whole chocobo subquest shows that at least this time, chocobos are a fully sapient race. Therefore, they would have their own legends for the crystal to create an Eidolon from. This Eidolon would resemble the chocobos who's legends birthed him, and would then take on the role of the chocobos' guardian deity like in those same legends. He could hypothetically form a pact with a Summoner, but he's not inclined to do so, and Garnet and Eiko, if they even went into Chocobo's Paradise with Zidane, didn't realize his nature and so didn't ask.

Garland was lying about limiting his lifespan...there would be no reason to bother.
As a genome, Kuja's immortal,since he was originally meant to serve as a vessel for a Terran soul.

[[WMG: Ruby is the real Princess of Alexandria.]]

[[WMG: Forgoing Necron, Zidane is an alternate universe equivalent to [[FullmetalAlchemist Edward Elric]].]]

[[WMG: Tied into my previous theory in regards to [[FullMetalAlchemist FMA]], Terrans aren't orignally from Terra, they're from Amnestris]]

[[WMG: [[FinalFantasyV Exdeath]] is [[FinalFantasyIX Necron]].]]

[[WMG: Zidane's [[HeroicBSOD]] wasn't caused just by Garland's revelations of his purpose]]

[[WMG: Terra is what happens when the [[FinalFantasy1 Light Warriors lose their first fight with Garland.]]]]

For added drama, let's say that the five warriors were caught in limbo when the time loop ended, locked outside of the reincarnation cycle, until the Terrans rescued them. [[FinalFantasy9 Garland]] is [[FinalFantasy1 Garland]]'s reincarnation, and his three angels of death are three of the four Light Warriors (Most likely Black/Red Mage, Thief, and White Mage).