Thread: [SPOILERS] Minfillia' Fate in 3.2

My take is that Hydaelyn has become so weak she cant even communicate without a mouthpiece. The Word of the Mother says right at the end "the crystal's power is all but spent". Hydaelyn is on her last legs and effectively out of the fight at this point. Still it seems rather a waste for her to expend Word/Minfilia just to pass that message.

That said, I am not sure I believe Word/Minfilia is infact dead. Between the echo and the fact she is tied to Hydaelyn now I suspect the loss of her physical form doesn't mean its lights out for her. After all we didn't see the Crystal dissipate. Interesting too that The Word didn't simply seem to be a possessed Minfilia but rather an amalgam of Minfilia and Hydaelyn. She seemed to switch between perspectives without knowing it, at one moment talking like she identified herself as Minfilia and at others as if it was Hydaelyn, without any apparent change on her part. Perhaps that means Hydaelyn cant even maintain sentience any more without a host soul.

Regardless, I doubt Minfilia's change is reversible wether she survives or not. That said with Alphinaud's final resolution (the kid scored major points with me for that) I think if there is a shadow of a chance to recover her we probably will try.

The other interesting dynamic at the moment is that the Scions are effectively leaderless. They are coordinating with each other but they are acting quite independent. I wonder if we will see any of them step up to take a leadership role. While in the current situation the current dynamic works and frankly I suspect the Archons still have some things to work out for themselves, eventually to work effectively as an organisation in any large scale someone is going to have to take the lead again and Alphinaud still feels to green to me to fit the role.

I think I'm more inclined to take the remnenta of The Omega Weapon and Summon a Primal into it to restore it.

Then take the Omega Primal and Blow Up Zodiark (along with the Moon if need be) all the while sapping the last of Hydaelyn's power and being rid of them both.

Like Caius Ballad in FF13-2 I'm getting a little sick of God's and Goddesses playing with mortals like toys then throwing us away when they are finished with us.

To that end, I would summon Bahamut Sin, The Omega Primal, and bring in an age without Gods be they primal, crystal, or otherwise.

Originally Posted by Kaiser-Ace

I think I'm more inclined to take the remnenta of The Omega Weapon and Summon a Primal into it to restore it.

Then take the Omega Primal and Blow Up Zodiark (along with the Moon if need be) all the while sapping the last of Hydaelyn's power and being rid of them both.

Like Caius Ballad in FF13-2 I'm getting a little sick of God's and Goddesses playing with mortals like toys then throwing us away when they are finished with us.

To that end, I would summon Bahamut Sin, The Omega Primal, and bring in an age without Gods be they primal, crystal, or otherwise.

Isn't the planet itself tied to/connected to Hydaelyn.

I mean, do what you feel ya gotta do, but I figure generally ushering in an age of something requires a place to usher that age in to.

They spoke of a Source. Perhaps that is what we are to seek in order for Hydalean to regain her strength?

Originally Posted by Berethos

Isn't the planet itself tied to/connected to Hydaelyn.

I mean, do what you feel ya gotta do, but I figure generally ushering in an age of something requires a place to usher that age in to.

<Shrugs> I seem to recall Hydaelyn being linked to the planet's Aether. No where do I recall her being nessisarry for the planet it's self to exist.

But things as far as "current existence" wouldn't be any more screwed than if Zodiark wins so all I'd really be doing is assuring the Ascians loose too.

And if Hydaelyn and Zodiark really are connected as implyed by The Voice, destroying one destroys the other anyway.

To me it seems more like they want to assimilate each other's Aether without the other's consciousness being involved. For all we know there was a being that predatet both that was destroyed when they seperated. I will however, grant Elidibus time to show his hand as it seems he knows something we don't. Something Uriange has one more patch to fess up about before I beat the answers out of him.

You can't just look in black and white, guys. She might have given herself willingly, but now feels as if it was too much. I don't believe anyone can be THAT devoted, as to give themselves up to this entity whose real nature is still not clear to us. Minfilila wanted to help, and is helping Hydaelyn, but how much of the 'Minfilia' she kept is really hard to say. I got the impression she was quite full of sorrow, but we can only guess how Minfilia feels, if she still really is Minfilia. If she gave herself up to the crystal, and if her life force was absorbed in order to give Hydaelyn her voice back, Minfilia is no more. Unless we somehow make Hydaelyn stronger, the crystal will absorb more lives to keep herself alive, I'd wager.