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Yippie ki-yay, motherfucker!

Yeah, that's pretty much how this felt. I had thought I was just testing the waters on this, but then I saw it, and the answer dawned on me. Somehow, Raines was both buffing himself and debuffing me! So THAT'S why his attacks packed so much punch all of a sudden. It wasn't just one - it was both!

I solved this by changing to two Saboteurs to get rid of his buffs, then had Esuna-casting from Vanille and Lightning take care of the debuffs.

Anyway, before the fight, Raines went and explained everything that had happened. We're tools, the Fallacies couldn't destroy Cocoon because it would break their oath and defy their nature, and all that. They wanted to restore the Maker so they set up a party of capable people to do this. They needed Serah to lure both Snow and Lightning into their trap, as those were two of their chosen ones, even though Loverboy is an idiot who naively thinks it's okay that Raines is there even though Fang realizes it makes no sense unless he'd betrayed them.

Raines himself is a l'Cie and his Focus was to set us on the right path, but seeing us fight the Sanctum revived an old dream of his, to reimagine a better Cocoon for the people... and for some reason fighting us, despite our unwillingness to actually complete our Focus, will make that happen? It makes no sense, at least not until I kill him and he says he just wanted to sing "Still Alive" just this one time! "This was a triumph..."

But yeah, I kill him, and he crystallizes swiftly despite apparently not have completed his Focus in its entirety. I don't know what to make of this since it HAS been a while, but at least this was the first scene I rewatched because it was a nice refresher on a lot of things.

Should be able to play more tomorrow.