#desch

[ephemerle]

desch and princess salina (ffxiv designs)

[superthatguy62]

I'm on anon because im shy but I'm really curious about that cut ff3 ds stuff about the rotation of the sun and earth getting reversed. :o what do you think they were cooking with that? I don't think there's any indication of that being a thing in the pixel remaster version

Hi, thanks for the ask.

The whole "Earth and the Sun" thing ties back to Xande's motive in the remake. The original game (which the PR is based on) was vague about what Xande's overall goal was beyond flooding the world with darkness. The 3D remake gave him a more explicit goal of stopping time as a means of delaying his now-mortal death.

So within the cosmology of the remake, it seems that the world and the sun have some sort of relationship. Desch's unused dialogue in the Village of the Ancients (t09) implies that a similar time stop may have happened during the flood of light? At the very least, the sun stopped moving whereas one of the Warriors of the Dark describes what Xande did as:

The really interesting bit is that it's heavily implied that it had to do with the Warriors of the Dark. The game doesn't explain how the Warriors of the Dark stopped the Cloud of Darkness previously other than "at great cost". This is in sharp contrast to the Warriors of the Light, who couldn't even scratch it until the Warriors of the Dark sacrificed themselves (and, if you want to count Opera Omnia, it doesn't matter how many light-aspected folks you throw at it). The Cloud of Darkness' Brave Exvius descriptions state that it was sealed away by both the Warriors of Light and Dark, but the game itself never mentions a prior group of Warriors of Light to my knowledge.

So, how did the Warriors of the Dark stop the Cloud of Darkness?

And seeing as how there's no mention of the Warriors of the Light changing the relationship between the Earth and the Sun, it probably wasn't as simple as beating up the Cloud.

But, in conclusion, the cosmology of the DS remake is roughly as follows:

The earth and the sun have a link: The Wrath of Light caused the sun to stop moving and the Wrath of Dark severed the link between them (which the Floating Continent dodged by being in the sky and having two crystals)

The imbalance also summons the Cloud of Darkness, an entity which requires both Warriors of Light and Warriors of Dark to force back.

The Warriors of Dark fought the Cloud of Darkness during the Wrath of Light. There is no indication that there were Warriors of Light in that period, although Brave Exvius raises the possibility. The Dark Warriors defeat it at great cost.

According to Desch and Doga, the Sun used to revolve around the Earth. After the Wrath/Flood of Light, the Earth now revolves around the Sun.

A 1000 or so years later, Xande - presumably remembering the effects of the Flood of Light - triggers a Flood of Darkness as a crude means of nullifying Noah's "gift of mortality"

[the-storm-chaser]

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Headcanons

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//Prepare for cringe.

Her original name when I first made the character was called Nitro Valiant...but I quickly changed it realising it just didn't fit.

Before settling in the League-verse as her main home, she was originally written as a FF7 oc, being a member of Soldier and originating from Junon with her brother, Desch. (She did have a KH verse too) (Yes I shipped her with Seph but honestly thinking about it these days...Genesis would have made more sense....)

3. There have been points in her history where I did write her with siblings. The main sibling she had at one point was Desch, a purple-haired blacksmith who was the equivalent of a dragoon in combat...he didn't stick around considering he was just a carbon copy of Desch from FF3...

....but his influence remains! *points to Yoshiro and DnD verse with the heavier focus on her Smithing history* (Jesus I got a lot of Sky Inspo from FF3, didn't I?)

There was also a sister at one point, but she disappeared real fast (Nikki I believe she was called? *shrug*)

[serenedash]

desch ff3 I am putting you in a bag and shaking you violently

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[ankhnu]

Desch

Redraw (2024)

[basicallyanotherwitchesthing]

Carter Brown - Der Vampir - Desch - 1967

[deathflare]

*holds my head* desch again