#ziggurat 8

[linnaealyn]

just some misc sketches. may artblock never take me into its cold embrace

[andoryuanzuru]

XENOSAGA EP 1: Side B

Happy 22th anniversary to JR, MOMO and Ziggy

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[gh0stfactory]

i couldn't help myself

[anleva]

The game is like 20 years old, is there a reason for slaking on this meme?

[dapling]

This is pretty much what I see when I use Zebulun!

[h-worksrambles]

A while back I started playing through the Xenosaga trilogy, got up to the halfway point of Xenosaga 2 and then never got round to finishing it. I recently picked it up again and I was instantly hit with a flashback to how much Ziggy and MOMO’s dynamic gets to me.

Not just the fact that they come into each other’s lives just as one misses her father while the other is grieving his child. Yay! Angsty surrogate father/daughter feels! But how they each tie into the games’ dichotomy of human and machine. But in a way that is strikingly different from Shion and KOS-MOS, who you’d think would be the obvious example of that in the story.

Ziggy was converted from a human to a cyborg against his will after his death (which is an incredibly screwed up and nightmarish loss of autonomy but discussion for another day). MOMO, as a Realian, was a synthetic being constructed to replace Mizrahi’s deceased daughter, Sakura. Two people who are brought together by circumstance, yet both wish for the exact opposite things. Ziggy would rather become more of a machine, to forget his grief for his family by abandoning his human identity, to the point that he has completely discarded his old name. MOMO, meanwhile, to at least some extent, wants to be human. She still somewhat relates herself to Sakura. She thinks of Mizrahi as her father, and Juli as her mother.

And that’s just the conundrum they pose when we first meet them. That’s even without going into how they develop. But that contrast is brilliant right off the bat. The way they blur the lines of human and machine while also being fantastic foils, AND having a really sweet dynamic. It’s really terrific stuff.

(Disclaimer, I’m probably missing some context or got some stuff wrong as I haven’t beaten Xenosaga 2 yet, nor have I yet looked into Pied Piper which gives Ziggy’s full backstory. I just wanted to comment on how much these two make me think and give me feels as I make my way through the games).

[magistera]

Chaos, Ziggy & Jr.

[ittybittypearlygirly]

I've only seen three and a half hours of the first episode of this series but I'm already in love with this dad-shaped friend