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I would say...Terra's past-She was torn from her family at a young age, used by the Empire and forced to kill alot of people (Pre Dateing the game)

Shadows present-He has to live with the memory of leaving Baram, never being there for Relm (I never finished that quest. is he her father?)

Sad story? In VI? Get outta here!

Ahem. I have to go with the popular ones here. Shadow and Cyan.

Cyan lost his entire family. Not just that, but everything and everyone he held dear. He failed as a retainer to the throne, failed as a husband to protect his family. It killed me. He's easily 10x more angry then anyone else. Any mention of the Empire throws him into a raging fit. But beneath it all, he feels that frailty, the helplessness of himself. He needed everyone else's help to overcome that helplessness. But afterwards, he becomes freaking awesome.

I'm not a big Shadow fan. Oooh! Bad*** loner ninja!!! But when you think about him, he's much cooler. He always choose freedom from obligation. But is freedom from obligation that great? Shadow would say no. He was just running from his problems. It is in the ending that he becomes cool. He ran off from everyone else. Shooed Interceptor away. And disappeared. He wasn't on the airship, only character not on the airship in the end. He took responsibilty. The emotionless exterior was just a cover, otherwise he wouldn't have taken resposiblity. He couldn't live with the guilt and the regret from running from everything. Did it cost him his life? Course not, he's a bad*** loner ninja!

Sigh...I feel slightly dumber then usual.

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So if you're done reading this, you know I have nothing to say and you've wasted your time. Thank you come again.

Shadow didn't just disappear... he

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committed suicide

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Uwao. aooh! I'm Gau!
I'm your friend!
Let's travel together!

Sorry, Wind God Gau, but I have to disagree.

What would be the point in

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him dying? He would have lost the chance to rectify all the not-cool stuff he had done. He says he's going to start all over again. So his alter ego 'Shadow' has to die so the others don't look for him. I believe he escaped and started again.

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Agree to disagree perhaps? This is speculation, opinion and all.

This post has been edited by Kylerocks on 6th December 2005 02:27

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Really Random Quote of the Day: "Short of changing human nature, therefore, the only way to achieve a practical, livable peace in a world of competing nations is to take the profit out of war." - Richard M. Nixon

So if you're done reading this, you know I have nothing to say and you've wasted your time. Thank you come again.

Nah, he

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commits suicide. (unless Square decides to have him pull a Rufus.) He stays as the Tower collapses and tells Interceptor to go after Relm.

I believe the Japanese version doesn't have very much in the way of "I'm going to start over," etc. More Nintendo USA censorship.

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Ok, for the first time, I'll jump on the bandwagon and go with Shadow. While almost everyone had it hard their past, I particularly feel that Shadow's past experiences must've been extremely traumatic to kill his emotions. And even though he does not show any emotion, you know he has some anyway. After all, he went to get Interceptor out of the burning house and he still has the haunting dreams of the past. There is obviously some sorrow and a yearning to redeem oneself in tis man.

However, I also think Leo had a pretty sad one too. I always feel sorry for the warriors of a country whose leader lied to them so they would fight and then let them die in the end finally knowing the truth right before death. If I were Leo, I would've haunted Kefka and the Emperor until their demise for something like that.

But that's just me....

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"Knowledge is power.
Power corrupts.
Study hard; be evil."

I'm going with Terra. She forgot her past, was used by Kefka, forced to kill people, and then

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When the world was ruined, got stuck taking care of those orphans. Not that that is a bad thing, but think of how depressing it would be telling a half-dozen or so kids "mommy and daddy are not coming home"

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What if he shot you first instead of your secretary?

I suppose I'd have to catch the bullet, wouldn't I

I'd have to go with Cyan. While it probably wasn't elaborated on as much as it could and perhaps should've been, the guy lost practically everything. Not only that, however, but the way there's this sensitivity and helplessness we get glimpses of (The posing as a soldier and writing to his girlfriend, his fear of machinery) in an otherwise rather steadfast and reserved character, and I find his whole story rather heartwarming.

Mog had a sad story, I mean who wants moogles to die? They're so cute and helpful and adorable! ^^

Most sad story is Cyan, I mean come on, he watches his family and king die! I have to fight back the tears.

And why is everybody feeling sorry for Shadow? He should have thought before he started robbing trains!

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Cyan. I think having your offspring die trumps all.

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"That Light has bestowed upon me the greatest black magic!"

I vote Cyan and Leo, the two honorable warriors who lost it all to the same raving lunatic.

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I vote for Shadow, as having the saddest most tragic story. Very sad.

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"Hate... ...hate... ...HATE!!"

Ultros.

He had high aspirations of being a powerful boss, and even gave you a hard time in some of his appearances. Ultimatly though, he failed as a villain.

Try as he might, he never could seem to kill you. Poor guy. He even went as far as getting some weird pink floating sneezey cloud thingy to help him out a bit, to no avail.

Of course, the story had a happy ending, with him finding work at the colloseum.

Oh, and Cyan is close second.

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I'm not buyin' anythin'!

Shadow, by far. SPOILER WARNING!!
Try to think of it; to be asked to kill your (best) friend, leaving him to slow and painful (and certain) death and then killing off your emotions so that you never could be hurt that way again. Cause it must hurt!

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"One of these days, I am going to tell you about my ROMANTIC dream!" -Seifer, FF VIII
"Remember, in this world there are many like me who have killed their emotions. Don't forget that." -Shadow, FF VI

My god, I thought Celes was the saddest, she has nothing left! Well, if Cid dies, and he did in my case. I still haven't finished the game though. Locke, I don't have much pity for for some reason. Terra, well she's just confused. Cyan would be my second pick. All of them are kinda poor things. haha.

EDIT: As for shadow, I haven't heard anything of a story about him, then again he died in my game cause I didn't wait. (I didn't know shadow would die) I never really liked Shadow's combat skills anyways, and he is really flaky, always leaving and such. He is b.a. though. Kefka and Ultros are the funniest people in the game, I mean Kefka is a mentally insane dictator that dresses like a clown! He's basically a goofy hitler in a way. And Ultros is a big octopus but you gotta have pity for the guy, he feels the need to come back for more pain everytime.

This post has been edited by The Bum Rush on 25th February 2006 23:14

I am definatly going with my man Cyan.

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I think of it as.....he's 50 sumthin years old, and his child is VERY young. Who says it didn't take him his life to find love, then,in the midst of protecting his kingdom, and even feeling they won the victory, his family is killed. When he pulls his dead son out of the bed.... imagine how hard that must've been. He lost all the kingdom and his family right before his eyes.

makes me tear up just thinking about it!

anyway, Cyan would win my vote, for sure. Poor man.

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...That's General Leo.. He could be my friend if he weren't my enemy.      Sabin, Final Fantasy VI

Gogo, definitely. For all we know, he may have lived his entire life in the belly of a Zone Eater. And he has no identity, and no unique way to express himself. He can only do what others do! All of the other characters in the game choose their own path, and Gogo's forced to take a backseat to all of the other heroes and copy them, through no fault or choice of his own. He was probably born that way, and may even have been born inside the belly of a zone eater (with his parents possibly being killed while Gogo was young). I think I'd prefer the life of Gau who could actually roam the plains and go where he pleases than a guy stuck in a creature, may never have seen the outside world, and unable to get out his entire life until a group of adventurers find him. It's no wonder Gogo joined them. I'd bet they were the only entities Gogo met in there that weren't hostile.

Yeah, Cyan had a sad story. But did he have to live off of the digested remains of the ZoneEater's victims (and fight off the ones that the creature swallowed whole)? I think not. He lived like a king compared to Gogo.

This post has been edited by TheEvilEye on 27th February 2006 06:50

Cyan or Locke because Locke lost the one person he loved but Cyan lost everything his children,wife,home and his dignity

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All those are very sad stories, but it would have to be between Leo and Terra. Terra lost her parent at a young age, was controlled to do evil (against her will), she probably murdered a lot of people while wearing the slave crown, no one shows her hardly any love, she feels alone, and she feels like everyone has to depend on her and has a burden for the rest of her Esper/Human life. General Leo says to Terra in the game "I understand...I understand on too well", showing that he has been through a lot of what Terra has gone through. Always too busy to find love or someone you can count on to be there for you. General Leo and Terra are so much alike and if General Leo would have lived, in my opinion, they would have ended up together.

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Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Chrsit for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost

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Matthew 28:19
Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost

Cyan's story killed me. I'm not his biggest fan, but the poor guy had a rough time of it.

Celes, Locke, Shadow, and Setzer get honourable mentions.

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Come with me so I can show you how to live
Burning the candle at both ends
I’m gripping at the walls around me
Don’t complicate it
I’m addicted to this life
I’ll be your token of attention
All my lies come down to this
-Orgy, "Beautiful Disgrace"

Cyan

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Setzer's story is the saddest to me. It just made me feel really bad when he

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went to meet Daryl at the hill and she never came because she had been killed. Poor dude has had to live with the thought that there was nothing he could do to save her. Her body wasn't even found til a year later!

I don't really feel all that bad for Locke unlike the rest of the people here. Cyan's story was very sad; probably gets a second from me. Gau's doesn't upset me terribly, same for Sabin. I feel worse for Edgar than Sabin mostly because the fact that Sabin ran away and Edgar got stuck in the castle. Shadow's story is pretty sad too. I think that sums up my opinions quite well.

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Setzer's story is the saddest to me. It just made me feel really bad when he

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went to meet Daryl at the hill and she never came because she had been killed. Poor dude has had to live with the thought that there was nothing he could do to save her. Her body wasn't even found til a year later!

Actually, her body was NEVER found. The wrecked airship was found after a year.

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so many sad stories . . . . . . . celes and cid always got me, so did cyan and his family, locke and rachel, shadow and his mate. i also kinda feel sorry for the frozen esper though. couldn't have been much of a life. frozen for eternity, then defrosted so he could be fire 3ied to death and turned into magicite. so sad . . . .

It's gotta be Terra. Her parents were killed and she had a pretty sad life, then later on, she had to take care of those children.

the ghost on the Ghost Train was also a sad one..... it leaves you when you get to the boss....

Locke and Gaus. I mean,

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Gau was abandoned at birth and Locke gave his woman ammnesia

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Nowhere to run...
Nowhere to hide...

While there is enough tragedy in FFVI to give Shakespeare goosebumps, I have to pick Cyan.

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He watches his family and liege die at the hands of a dishonorable madman, loses them again when he gets off the Phantom Train, and joins a resistance movement that fails to stop that same madman from devastating the world. I'm almost certain that it crossed his mind that he never should have gotten off the train when he saw his wife and son boarding. He does come to terms with his demons eventually, but in my opinion it is the saddest story.

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"Getting upset over a trifle would indeed be unmannerly."

-Afra to Damia

I'd have to say Cyan's, for sure - it is heartbreaking, and there's no greater stress a person can go through than losing a child. It's seconded only by losing a spouse, and he got both. Especially at a first glance, it stands out the most. But truly, Edgar's (and Sabin's kinda) story strikes me deepest. I fell in love with him as a character the more the game went on.

I mean, this guy had it all. He lived in a castle, happy with his dad and his brother (I read somewhere that the canon is their mom died in childbirth), living as a prince and able to develop his interests as he saw fit. (The machines, for example.) I have a feeling he would have been kind of sheltered - that castle is in the middle of nowhere, after all, even Kefka says so. (Son of a sandworm!)

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But then everything gets messed up. His father dies, and instead of even being able to grieve, he has to support Sabin, and deal with all this who-takes-the-throne mess. In that same night, he loses his brother. I cannot even imagine the depth of love it must have taken, for him wanting freedom all his life, to flip that coin and doom himself to a golden cage, to live without the people he loved most, for possibly the rest of his life. He has to put his own feelings aside, as strong as I'm sure they are, and just...keep going.

Then, when they met back up, Sabin had changed, and there was too much to do to really talk to him. That's another example of that. And in the WoR - he still had to pretend he wasn't glad to see his brother and Celes alive and safe while he sought a way to sneak into his own castle, damned by Kefka, knowing that his own kingdom he was supposed to protect lays in ruins.

I don't know, I just really appreciate his strength. And he acts so happy, too, but he got a rough lot in life. But he's tough, even for being pampered; I admired that.

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This post made me think about it, and that is what I think is the saddest story in the game. Those poor orphans.

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At least they have those two young lovers (forgot the names) to look after them. Locke is young. He'll get over Rachel with a little help from Celes.

Cyan and Shadow are the worst for me. In that order. Whose gonna look after them? Shadow pushes people away and Cyan is old.

It's amazing that only Celes is suicidal.