I recently started learning some of their songs after falling back in love with them through Clone Hero. While learning This Will Get Better and St. Veronica, I was shocked. I'm not only stunned at the more complex chords, but the speed at which they move their fingers for such complex manipulations. It's very impressive.
Today, I commented on a post discussing my thoughts on Necron being one of the most all encompassing final bosses. And it got me thinking. What are your interpretations of the fight? I've had years to think about it and some of the oldheads here might remember a hella long Gamefaqs article that was essentially a book explaining all the connections that FFIX has to the rest of the series. Here are my thoughts.
Kuja: Well...my time is almost up. Time to die, everyone!\"
Even before the final fight against Kuja, there is a clear ring going around the crystal. This, to me, is an obvious representation of Necron before we fight him. There are also the two colored rings, representing Terra and Gaia. This, I think, is the crystal showing a sense of understanding or will. Kuja is the red that Bran Bal would have become, and Zidane and his party are the blue of Gaia.
Once Kuja sacrifices everyone and everything to destroy the crystal, the party are sent to the end of time. A trope in FF games since the first game, and a nod to another boss from another game, that I'll point out in a minute.
Necron: You stand before the final dimension, and I am the darkness of eternity...
Now, I've always considered Necron to be heavily inspired by ExDeath from FFV. Both villains are nihilist and desire the erasure of existence itself. ExDeath seeks to send all to the Void, Necron to the Zero World. Both have a heavy tree motif; Neo ExDeath is literally part tree, while Necrons defeat leads to the Iifa tree finally collapsing. They also have similar color motifs, but I think that's mostly a coincidence. And finally, they both have a signature Grand Cross attack.
Before going on, I am aware Necron was added late and the meta of it all is that he doesn't have any real representation in the game. But at least it makes thematic sense to have a character that represents nothing when the entire game focuses on life and death, and what possibly comes next.. or doesn't.
In the end, my interpretation is this:
When Kuja destroys everything, the Crystal doesn't break. It sends the party to the end of time to literally stop the end of everything. But Necron was always waiting for it. The antithesis to the crystal: The Ring.
So the Crystal having will, sends them and they appear on the Hill of Dispair where Necron tells the party that Kuja's actions show it. So the ring being there means he literally saw what was happening. So the same way the ring has a personality and desire for nothing, the Crystal must have the same thing. Yin and Yang.
Necron: Why defy your fate? Is the will to live that powerful...?
After the party defeats Necron, as I mentioned, the Iifa Tree collapses and Kuja is shown to have survived. I think this HAS to be the Crystal's doing since there's no way he could have survived everything after trying to end it all.
In the end, the party conquers all of their fears once having literally faced the end of everything. Vivi is still frightened by death, but is accepting it as a part of life. Amarant understands Zidane's philosophy, as does Freya. Quina has tasted everything and developed true friends after being a loner their entire life. Steiner openly accepts Zidane as the one for Princess Garnet. Dagger and Zidane are the only ones who have it in the air so we get the grand finale. Thus wrapping everyone's story up in a neat bow.
I hope you'll all share your interpretations or theories as well.
OH! and I know Necron is also HEAVILY inspired by Cloud of Darkness from FFIII, but I am not as well versed in that game, having only beaten it once many years ago. Please let me know what you guys think and thanks for reading.
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