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| Topic | SaveEstelle/LeonhartFour in Different Houses: Remastered Edition [SELF] |
| LeonhartFour 09/30/19 10:07:17 PM #497: | Once they start discussing the plan to defeat Ultimecia, Odine enters the room. He explains that Ultimecia comes from the future and possesses the sorceress of the present day, meaning she leaves her body in the future and only sends her consciousness. It sounds exactly like how Ellone's power works. Odine's first guess was that there had to be someone in the future with a similar ability, but then he realized that it was done using a machine he began making in this time period. He made a pattern from the electric current running through Ellone's brain, and it was easy enough to mechanize. It's only a prototype now, but it's a fully functional machine in Ultimecia's time, called the Junction Machine Ellone. Odine is proud to know his invention is being used in the future, regardless of what it's being used for. Squall speculates that Ultimecia came to learn about Ellone from that machine because of its name, and so she became her target. Odine says that the only way to defeat Ultimecia is to kill her in the future. Final Fantasy VIII is a lot more blunt about it than some JRPGs are...! They don't say anything about "defeating" her. They outright say they have to kill her. Anyway, Odine says they can't jump to the future under ordinary circumstances, but they can use Ultimecia's plans to compress time against her. Odine asks what good it would do for the sorceress to compress time, and that there may be many reasons, but it doesn't matter. I mean, for practical purposes, you're not wrong, but inquiring minds still want to know! Ultimecia has to take over the body of a sorceress in this time, but the length of time it can travel back must have a limit and she probably needs to go further back in order to achieve time compression. Only Ellone can do that, which is why Ultimecia is so desperate to find her. There are two known sorceresses in their time between Adel and Rinoa. Adel is still in the process of awakening, and Ultimecia will probably want to use her when she does, which is the worst case scenario. Adel would use their combined power to destroy this era first, so they need to get Ultimecia to use Rinoa instead. The first step is to go to Lunatic Pandora and rescue Ellone. Then they need to kill Adel before she can fully awaken, leaving Rinoa as the only known sorceress. They'll wait for Ultimecia to possess Rinoa, and then Ellone will give her what she wants and send both of their consciousnesses back into the past. Once that happens, Ultimecia will use the time compression magic, and they'll start to feel its influence in the present. Once Ellone feels it, she'll cut Rinoa and Ultimecia off from the past. In the time compressed world, past, present, and future all get mixed together, and they can use that environment to travel to Ultimecia's world. It's a simple 9 step plan! Once Squall accepts the mission, Laguna says he wants to have the final briefing aboard the Ragnarok because the name sounds so cool (as an aside, the name of the ship in Japanese is "Ragunarok," which would be why Laguna thinks the name sounds cool...!). --- ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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