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The thing that I really liked the most about ff6 was the story. It was very interesting and emotional and I found that I really cared about the characters, almost all of them. That's probably because they were very well developed and each one had something they were struggling with.

I'm thinking back on it now, and I'm wondering what were the main struggles that each individual character had, and did they overcome that thing? Some of them are fairly easy, like Gau

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struggling with his father not loving him,

learning how to live on his own with the animals, then gaining a sense of family again with the other heroes of the story. Terra's struggle was being different because

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of being part esper and part human, being raised in an unloving environment by the Empire, then trying to learn how to love, and finally learning how to love people enough to fight for them, which meant that when Kefka died and magic passed away, she could remain with those she loved as a human being.

Some of the personal struggles, though, are more obscure, like Mog, Relm, or Strago. What were their struggles? I didn't really catch them. With others, you know they went through hard times, but it's hard to place your finger on exactly what their struggle was. Like with Setzer,

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his friend Daryl died,

which was a tragedy that affected him, but how exactly was he struggling with that? Or Locke, who

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felt like a persona failure because he wasn't there to help his friend Rachel, and somehow this affects his ability to have relationships with other women,

but I didn't quite understand how that was exactly, though I got the sense it was somehow a lack of self confidence.

So yeah, what were the personal struggles that each character had in FFVI, and how did they deal with them? Which ones overcame their struggles? Which ones didn't and why?

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Well, Locke turned sad because

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Rachel was right there next to him when she died and Locke felt like he could have saved her. He thinks if he has relationships with other women that they might somehow die while he was there too. At least that's what I think he thinks. Does that make any sense? Oh well.

Cyan had some issues too, with his wife and kids and how they died. He couldn't get over it so he sent flowers to a girl in Maranda who lost her fiance.
Shadow had some problems too.

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He couldn't get over leaving Baram to get caught by imperials so he killed all his emotions and stuff.

That's how he fixed his problems I guess.
Mog didn't have problems because... he had no significant part in the storyline. Relm + Strago did I guess, having to do stuff with being the

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descendants of the Magi

or whatever. Gogo and Umaro didn't have any background story either.

dont forget celes

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she had to get over the fact that she had been a part of the empire's plan. also, she had her relationship with locke, which was hard on her.

other than that everything said previously sounds pretty accurate. each of them had their own, individual struggles, but all of these struggles were united against kefka.

now for how they were solved.

locke (with help from that pheonix face sidequest) learned to forgive himself and to move on from rachel, but without forgetting her.

setzer learned to move on after daryl's death.

terra didn't know if she could continue to love or if she could be loved. the children at the orphanage helped her realize that she could love them, but also that they could love her, even knowing who she was.

shadow (through his dreams) forgave himself for what he did (or better said didn't do) to baram.

strago didn't really have a problem, but he did defeat (another sidequest) that one enemy that he had been trying to kill all his life. quite the acheivement.

i did nothing with relm, so i dont know if she had much of a struggle or not, but she was pretty young.

cyan, in his dream sequence/doma castle sidequest, he learned to deal with the death of his family, and, in the final battle, to avenge them.

again, i didn't do anything with gau, so i dont really know how his struggle was resolved, but he did become accepted by friends, which might have been it?

mog, umaro, and gogo didn't have any struggles that were specified.

celes, of course, wanted revenge on kefka personally, since he and gestahl misled her, but also she was in a relationship with locke which was quite rocky. she solved her problem with locke when he opened up to her.

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was anyone sad when Gau was rejected by his father

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i never found the Gau part with his father, i've looked a little for this in the walkthrough but i don't know where to look.

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Quote (Death Penalty @ 18th July 2007 09:31)

i never found the Gau part with his father, i've looked a little for this in the walkthrough but i don't know where to look.

In the WoR, take Gau and Sabin to the crazy guy's house (the one that thinks you're a repairman) and everything will happen after that.

Gau kind of resolves his problems because he got to hear his father tell him that he was a fine young man (even though the man wouldn't believe that his "demon child" was Gau). Gau said he was happy, anyway.

Did Edgar and Sabin have any problems? I know they did, I just can't pinpoint it. I think it had something to do with the chat they had at Figaro Castle.

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Quote (King Eddy @ 22nd July 2007 20:10)

Did Edgar and Sabin have any problems? I know they did, I just can't pinpoint it. I think it had something to do with the chat they had at Figaro Castle.

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Sabin had a little beef with Vargas and Duncan. Edgar had issues with holding down a good woman. That's about it.

Oh, and also their father's assassination and Edgar's sacrifice to take on the responsibilities of rule, thus inheriting the ludicrous responsibility of fighting the Empire's expansion without a military to match, thus entering a shadow partnership with the Returners and holding up the burden of offering Doma to appease Gestahl.

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Did Figaro really offer Doma as appeasement to the Gestahl Empire? I was under the impression that they were both independent sovereign nations that didn't have any special relationship with each other. They probably had a peace treaty, but I didn't think they had an alliance or anything. I was under the impression that Doma was a stronger nation than Figaro.

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Yeah, I didn't think that Doma and Figaro were connected either. Wasn't Doma just in the way of the Empire? The two places are practically on opposite sides of the world from each other.

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Quote (onelowerlight @ 22nd July 2007 23:23)

Did Figaro really offer Doma as appeasement to the Gestahl Empire?  I was under the impression that they were both independent sovereign nations that didn't have any special relationship with each other.  They probably had a peace treaty, but I didn't think they had an alliance or anything.  I was under the impression that Doma was a stronger nation than Figaro.

Keeping in mind that the following is purely conjecture, here's my analysis of the events:

We know that Edgar has actively worked against the Empire. He knows Locke and Banon doesn't bat an eye when the King shows up knocking at his door.
We also know that Edgar's known about the Empire's treachery since his crowning, considering in a flashback we see Sabin openly declare that the Empire assassinated their father.
Finally, Edgar declares that Figaro and the Empire are allies, and has maintained this illusion up until his and Terra's escape from Figaro Castle.

So Edgar's being covert, working behind the scenes against an Empire (he detests) while doing his best to maintain a treaty with the Empire. Considering the exchange between he and Kefka, to say relations are strained would be an understatement. But even then, he kowtows and brownnoses his way through that meeting. He really is doing everything in his power to keep his true alliances hidden.

Now, we know that Edgar's well aware the Empire's been expanding aggressively ("Looking for more cities to destroy?", Edgar), that he would be ignorant of Doma's situation is unlikely. Later, we see that he (technically Banon and Arvis) persuades Narshe to fight openly, something he was unwilling to do until meeting Terra because "We can only fight Magitek enemies with Magitek weapons..." (Edgar).

Thus, Edgar sat out of the Doman War on purpose, maintaining allied relations with the Empire even though one of the few non-Imperial kingdoms was being ground to dust. Whether or not he could've won is immaterial, by maintaining friendly relations with the Empire while Doma was being attacked, he purposely ignored the Doman plight.

This is the very definition of Appeasement.

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