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[radhaz]

Maybe I'm just thick, but what clues? The overarching amnesia that is in the storyline in 2.0?

Based on the few clues we've been given about him so far, amnesia makes the most sense.

[Anonymoose]

Maybe I'm just thick, but what clues? The overarching amnesia that is in the storyline in 2.0?

If I remember correctly (no promises)

Biggs and wedge claim he's been missing for a while, and if Catapult's ear for German can be trusted as well as I remember, the Crystal's Call trailer has Cid saying something more along the lines of, "I remember now..." than "In case you'd forgotten, Gaius..."

[NoloeTazier]

If I remember correctly (no promises)

Biggs and wedge claim he's been missing for a while, and if Catapult's ear for German can be trusted as well as I remember, the Crystal's Call trailer has Cid saying something more along the lines of, "I remember now..." than "In case you'd forgotten, Gaius..."

Honestly the fact he left the Garlean Empire because of the Bozja Citadel incident to me means Cid does not want to see innocent life be destroyed anymore. He came to the City-States to help them prepare to defend themselves, helping us Adventurers to stop Nael van Darnus. In the End of an Era CS Cid is present near the battlefield, he's seeing what his research has brought down upon Eorzea...the Meteor Project. Only it turns out Bahamut was inside and unleashes all kinds of carnage. It may have been too much for him and he looked for isolation or repentance, after all he's at a church taking care of the dead. Sometimes a beard on a man in stories is a man who has given up hope, like mountain men who left the big city to be isolated from people only to be discovered by teenagers in need who warm his icy heart and make him believe in people again (man I'm awkward sometimes). Maybe he left because he knew the Garleans would come after him if they knew where he was.

Amnesia seems to mimic the current 1.0-character storyline along the lines of people not remembering us. I'm not sure if SE would double-dip on that, why make him forget even more things. Unless of course the explosion made him hit his head.

Also Marques...Cid Del Norte Marquez...similar~

[Anonymoose]

Sometimes a beard on a man in stories is a man who has given up hope

That's also very possible. 1.0 made him out to be a bit of a guilt-ridden manchild looking for his place in the world, to begin with. This was especially highlighted by the "adoptive" father/son relationship with Gaius that was a dialed back a bit in English, but clearly hinted at when they were arguing in "Alive." If that's the case, though, I'd be a little disappointed in him. He fled the Empire to make his own choices and was finally becoming who he really was. To think that he remembered everything and chose not to help Eorzea any longer... /sulk

[Catapult]

If I remember correctly (no promises)

Biggs and wedge claim he's been missing for a while, and if Catapult's ear for German can be trusted as well as I remember, the Crystal's Call trailer has Cid saying something more along the lines of, "I remember now..." than "In case you'd forgotten, Gaius..."

Roughly translated, he says:
"I have never been more proud to name my ship the Enterprise. Now I recall everything once again. I am Cid Garlond."

My personal theory is that the "Fade to White" influenced his memory much like everyone else. But because he was so tightly involved with the heroes of light right through all those early and final moments, it also scrambled him far worse than most. Where others simply forgot the heros, he was left with a gaping hole in his memory.

And we will quest to get it back for him.

Thal (Catapult)'s got great screenshot of himself with it (which Mjollnir has in turn made into a meme of whereby he makes it say say conspiracy theories. "Don't tell me you've not heard Louisoix is Odin!", etc.)

If you insist...

[radhaz]

Ah, I recall that scene with the Iron Works guys now. Thanks for the re-clues~

If I remember correctly (no promises)

Biggs and wedge claim he's been missing for a while, and if Catapult's ear for German can be trusted as well as I remember, the Crystal's Call trailer has Cid saying something more along the lines of, "I remember now..." than "In case you'd forgotten, Gaius..."