Question Regarding Final Fantasy Characters

[renghost]

I am interested in procuring a character - or characters - from various Final Fantasy games; however, to do so I'd need to know the back story of how those Final Fantasy games came into Kingdom Hearts.

For instance, when I was on this site before, I had Relm Arrowny from FFVI as one of my characters. Other people who had FFVI characters were able to tell me what they had decided for how all of them got into different worlds (namely, that instead of Kefka re-creating the World of Balance into the World of Ruin in the middle of the game, it was destroyed altogether by a combination of Kefka and the Heartless).

So I'd like the backstory on Final Fantasy VI, VII, and IX characters if at all possible. (For VII, since I'm looking specifically at Cissnei, any Crisis Core tie-ins would be helpful as well). I would very much appreciate the help, thank you ^.^

[13ulbasaur]

I think the best you can do is to search the forum for anyone (currently) playing an FF character from the world you want to do (e.g. someone playing Zidane if you wanna play Freya) and see what their history says.

If there are no other characters, then I suppose you juts make up what happens.

[Rook]

This is one of the many things the plotstaffers need to work on. There is no definitive story for Final Fantasy games/worlds/characters and how they were brought into the Kingdom Hearts universe. This was one of the follys the old staff made. There is no intent or proof that the FF worlds were supposed to be original as they were in game.

As close to canon as there is, there are NO Final Fantasy worlds. The characters are simply integrated into KH worlds, such as Destiny Islands, Traverse Town, Twilight Town and Radiant Gardan.

So if there is another player with a character from your FF game, be sure to check with them to see what sort of history they have laid out for their character, and match yours as you see fit.

[renghost]

All right, fair enough. I was just wondering if everyone had banded together and made a universal story, but it looks like that is not indeed the case.

I remember during my old times at this site, RPers had somehow integrated the FFVII and the FFVIII characters together in one warped plot to throw them into Radiant Garden, which always turned me off of getting an FFVII character (as I've never played VIII). I wondered if a similar thing was happening now, but once again, it looks like that's not the case at all.

Well thank you for the advice, both of you, I will do some researching throughout the site [:

[Zephiris]

Apologies, I'm travelling at the moment and cannot go into much detail from my phone, but I'd like to mention that many of the staff members had actually come together the week before I left to sort out most of this issue. We reached a solution regarding FF appearances in Kingdom Hearts that had been warped by Nomura.

As a slight correction of Rook, yes, all Final Fantasy worlds existed or exist. But like he said, at one point your character had to have transported to the KH worlds, and that's where some members get stuck.

Feel free to PM me with questions regarding how to fit a specific character in the KH worlds. Most of the time the characters' histories can remain intact, with a slight add-on to get the characters to the KH universe.

[Rook]

This is certainly something we'll need to formalize and adere to, then. The games specifically say that the FF characters hail from KH worlds. Allowing characters to be from original worlds opens the doors to a floodgate of other issues concerning timeline, events, openended plot discrepencies, nonlinear histories, etc. If FFfolk were from KH worlds, as canonically intended, there are built in restraints that keep that those kinds of things in check. It also allows for better player reimagining without forcing the character off it's origin.