It's interesting how ffxiv is also rated T but I can think of at least two instances of a character taking their own life by falling to their death. Granted, both examples are from expansions that came out in 2013-2015. The newer ones definitely don't have scenes like that.

Yes, that's so good! While Hojo and Fuhito are motivated by different things, there are also obvious similarities and in a way, they both end up using a woman's body as an incubator for their ambitions.

That's an interesting take. We know Fuhito studied in Cosmo Canyon under Bugenhagen but that doesn't necessarily mean he's from there for me. My hc is that he was taken there as a refugee and found comfort in the teachings of planetology (before twisting them into death cult ideology).

being an average guy who was just radicalized but also fits in with them in the sense that he's another monster Shinra created; explicitly through Rufus' funding, implicitly by being radicalized by the trauma they caused him.

Yep, they are two distinct takes on the Mad Scientist archetype. It's easy to read Fuhito as simply a 'crazy' extremist but he's an exploration of how those extremist beliefs can infiltrate well-meaning movements (ecofascism in environmentalism in his case). He both stands out among FF7 villians as-

he's defeated, it's at the cost of losing Shears, not to mention all the lasting damage he's done - especially to Elfe. Arguably Fuhito is also a consequence of Shinra - both their wars (his name implies he's Wutaian) and Rufus funding Avalanche.

Exactly. Zirconiade is the Final Boss the Turks have to defeat but it's more the atomic bomb set up by the villain that needs to be dismantled. The emotional climax of the ending is the fight against Fuhito. He was the one who manipulated, betrayed, and used everyone to reach his goal, and even tho-

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