5.03 SIX DEGREES OF FINAL FANTASY

[toffeethesnob.livejournal.com]

For those of you unfamiliar with the concept of 'Six Degrees of Separation' let's just fill you in: the idea is that anyone can be connected to someone else via a chain of contacts, usually about six links apart. (Some of you might have played the acting version: 'Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon')

So we're going to play around with that idea and have ourselves an FF version! The goal here is to take any FF character and link them to another FF character in several steps. (In the interests of gameplay I'll set 3 as the minimum number of steps inbetween characters.)



You don't have to restrict yourself to using only FF characters for the steps, you can use spells, jobclasses, weapons, personality traits, hair-colours, actors, designers, games, just as long as you can use them to connect the two. Here's a little example:

Hojo ---> Doctor Odine ---> Rinoa Heartily ---> Sorceress Edea ---> Terra Branford ---> Kefka Palazzo ---> Kuja ---> Garland

(Beginning) Professor Hojo is the most notable scientist in his game
(1) Likewise Doctor Odine is the most notable scientist in his game
(2) Rinoa Heartily uses an Odine bracelet (designed by Doctor Odine) in an attempt to suppress the powers of 'the Sorceress' and is taken to see Doctor Odine when she receives Sorceress powers
(3) Rinoa received her powers from Sorceress Edea, a maternal woman blessed with magic powers forced into using her powers for cruelty against her will
(4) Terra Branford was another woman with magic powers who was controlled against her will and had an affinity for raising orphans
(5) Kefka Palazzo controlled Terra Branford for a while in events before FFVI and Dissidia [duodecium]
(6) Kefka also manipulated Kuja by altering his memories in Dissidia [duodecium] after he'd freed Terra from Kefka's mind control
(7) Kuja was created by Garland who ironically considered Kuja defective because his will was too strong to be an effective servant.


With that in mind the goal is to create 3 different chains (though additional chains can be made they won't be rewarded) using any trivial connections you can think of. Be creative and remember: HAVE FUN!


It's 10 points per chain and the max number of chains you can earn points for is 3 so there's 30 points up for grabs!

Deadline: November 26th 11:59 EST (November 27th 4:59AM GMT)

Comments

[toffeethesnob.livejournal.com]

Questions go here! :)

[glacialphoenix]

Is this supposed to be screened?

[toffeethesnob.livejournal.com]

No, initially this was going to be a puzzle and I was going to provide chains to be solved but this was changed so that everyone can make up their own chains so there's no need for screening.

[etsplanations.livejournal.com]

Are we supposed to list the names like you did for the steps, or is this meant to be more of a guessing game?

e.g. START: Hojo END: Edea

(1) Hojo is a psychopath, and Kefka fgh;lh;df HELP ME
(2) All three used to be court mages with a jester theme at some point.
(3) Two pairs of magical twins with rhyming names.
(4) They are small and cute mages.
(5) They were prototypes for magic-fuelled mass destruction.
(6) Powerful magic users who devoted most of their lives to helping orphaned children.

Am I supposed to list all the links in between or is leaving it open-ended okay so long as it's legitimate? :)

[toffeethesnob.livejournal.com]

(Sorry for taking so long to get back to you!)

Leaving it open ended is fine so if you want to create things for people to guess then by all means please go ahead. It's creating the chains that earns the points as opposed to whether people get them or not. :)

[etsplanations.livejournal.com]

Alrighty! :) I'll post the other two, then.

START: Barret END: Lightning

(1) Their weapon of choice is the gun.
(2) These two ladies' men are voiced by the same VA.
(3) They own their own private airships, and (surprise!) neither is named Cid.
(4) They play with magical, pain-inflicting dice.
(5) Both of them wear flowing red capes in their signature outfits.
(6) After joining up with the main party, they got to battle against minions and other agents from their ex-company.

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Instead of start and end points, the number of letters in their names will be given.

(1) They are both named after weather phenomena. (5, 6)
(2) They both have a singular scar on their face. (6, 5)
(3) Their characters have a 'noble swordsman' theme. (5, 7)
(4) They have often questioned the common sense of the party leader, but begrudgingly follow anyway. (7, 4)
(5) They are fathers who have at some point lost both their wife and son. (4, 5)
(6) They are loud and energetic men who sport conspicuous tattoos (5, 4)

[glacialphoenix]

*coughs*

(1) WoL
(2) Cecil: both silver-haired Cosmos warriors seriously obsessed with The Light
(3) Kain: both served in the Baron military
(4) Locke: both serious cases of Please Just Get The Hell Over Her Already
(5) Zidane: both flirtatious thieves
(6 ) Squall: both male halves of the Could It Be Any More Obvious Romance Plotline In A PSX Game
(7) Lightning: both victims of S-E's obsessions with naming characters after natural phenomena (/yes, I know, hypocritical. Shush.)

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(1) Zack
(2) Tellah: I see two dead people They're both characters who died in the course of their story.
(3) Galuf: Old men with amnesia. (Who also die. I guess more than two dead people?)
(4): Cid Pollendina (at least of FFIV: TAY): ...no amnesia, but noisy grandkids?
(5): Cid Highwind (because we need more than one Cid in here, obviously)
(6): Setzer: both airship owners
(7) Cait Sith :both gambler characters.

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(1) Firion
(2) Beatrix: both associated with roses
(3) Celes: both lady generals who initially worked for the villains
(4) Garnet: both female protagonists who have briefly been on stage for purposes of Getting Kidnapped
(5) Tifa: they both have black hair
(6) Jessie: both female members of AVALANCHE
(7): Wedge: both redshirt NPCs destined for death. ;_;

[shinkirou-hana.livejournal.com]

Start: Zidane
End: Tidus
1) Zidane is a blond-haired thief.
2) So is Rikku! Rikku is also very peppy.
3) As is Yuffie. Yuffie has a lot of mopey party members.
4) So does Rinoa. Rinoa is affiliated with the colour blue.
5) So is Kimahri.
6) Kimahri's main protagonist teammate is Tidus.

Start: Tidus
End: Kefka
1) Tidus has a friend named Lulu.
2) Lulu looks dark but turns softer over the course of the game.
3) Vincent does this as well. Vincent wears a cape.
4) So does Zidane, at the end of FFIX. Zidane's off-and-on enemy is Kuja.
5) Kuja is known to be a super powerful Mage.
6) As is Kefka.

Start: Sephiroth
End: Rydia
1) Sephiroth has long silver hair.
2) Kuja also has long silver hair. Kuja can trance. suck it, Garland
3) Zidane can also trance. Zidane has blond hair. what do you mean "stop relating everything to Zidane and/or Kuja"
4) Terra can also trance and has blonde hair. Terra was used as a mindless weapon.
5) So were the black mages from IX, except for Vivi. Vivi is a child/very young and can use magic.
6) Rydia started off as a child, and she can also use magic.

Bonus!
1) Cid from FFI
2) Cid from FFII
3) Cid from FFIII
4) Cid from IV
5) Cid from V
6) Cid from VI
~same name~ for all of them!

TEAM: Dragoon~

[lady-supernova.livejournal.com]

Tifa to Cyan

1. Tifa has long dark hair like Rinoa
2. Rinoa used to date Seifer
3. Seifer has a coat that's similar to Snow's
4. Snow has a positive attitude as does Tidus
5. Tidus's teammate is Auron
6. Auron is a samurai like Cyan

Rydia to Shera

1. Rydia and Terra both have green hair
2. Terra can turn pink in battle, just like Zidane
3. Zidane was originally up to no good, but ended up helping save the world. Same thing happened with Vaan
4. Vaan travels with Balthier
5. Balthier has an airship like Cid Highwind
6. Cid eventually marries Shera

Squall to Penelo

1. Squall tends to speak in "..."s like Vincent
2. Vincent is in love with Lucretia
3. Lucretia ended up in a crystal like Serah
4. Serah is Lightning's sister
5. Lightning teamed up with Vaan in Dissidia
6. Vaan is best friends with Penelo

[rayiroth.livejournal.com]

Let's try.

Freya to Paine, the FF player character version.

Freya always wears a hat, just like Vivi.
Vivi is a specialised black mage, just like Rydia.
Rydia is a woman caught in time rift, just like Lightning.
Lightning doesn't walk, she flips everywhere. Just like Tifa.
Tifa has dark red eyes. Just like Lulu.
Lulu has a unique Gothic dress style that do not fit with anyone else in Spira. Just like Paine.

***
Gysahl Green to Admantine, the FF items version.

Gysahl Green can only be used in certain locations, just like Tent.
Tent recovers HP as well as MP, just like Elixir.
Elixir is (likely) taken by mouth, just like Potion.
Potion has been marketed as a meatspace thing. Just like Perfume.
Perfume can be dismantled from Nirvana, just like Trapezohedron.
Trapezohedron is a pain in the arse to get, just like Adamantine.

***
Freelancers to Samurai, the FF class version.

Freelancers are not in every game, just like Berserkers.
Berserkers are heavy physical damagers, just like Monks.
Monks are of Wind Element, just like Black Mages.
Black Mages are MP heavy, low HP magic users, just like White Mages.
White Mages tend to go hand-in-hand with Summoners
Summoners are damn cool looking but often of rare actual use, just like Samurai