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Valvalis ([personal profile] aero_dienamic) wrote in [personal profile] melodiesmods 2015-01-09 10:22 am (UTC)

Re: REVISIONS REQUEST

(I'm not wholly sure how I should format this so I'm just going to rock it right here. I'll update the app afterward!)

Even before the beginning of Val's story we have Golbez. Golbez plays the largest factor in this AU in that rather than Zemus and the Creator giving life to the Elemental Archfiends, it is HE (Golbez) who creates them from a mix of his own power and that granted unto him by Zemus over time. Though Golbez is mostly driven by Zemus's will, he is not a man without feeling. While the Archfiends are his right hand at taking the crystals and aiding in the destruction of the world, they too are HIS creations, and are treated with care. These are what bring the lines of thanks and forgiveness from The After Years, and are the foundations for what would become Valvalis's sense of family that would be explored in her extended time in Luceti.

And this isn't saying Valvalis was the 'favorite' of the Archifiends, but she is the only one not sent out to perform a task. Rather, she's kept at their 'base' of the Tower of Zot where Rosa is captured, where we see a couple of cutscenes where Golbez berates Kain for his repeated failures in handling Crystal business and Cecil. With Milon and Kainazzo both felled at the hands of Cecil and party, it's not until after Golbez is wounded by Tellah that we see Valvalis at all, even when she's supposed to be watching Rosa. I presume that he is there protecting his minion, rather than letting her fight, and the same fate befall her that had the prior two. At any point he could have moved on to other tasks and simply left Valvalis to handle the not-trade of crystal for Rosa. Of course, Golbez pays for that by eating Meteo. Between Kain's "betrayal" of Golbez and his defeat, Valvalis arrives to take revenge upon them.

Unfortunately, Valvalis doesn't live long enough to actually explore this connection with Golbez until she's pulled into another world and another RP. It only barely plants the seeds of a sense of 'family' and a bond with Golbez, the person who created her and her Archfiend kin, as well as accepted them for what they became. One does not always get to control what their creations, their 'children' in a sense, look like. Val was the only one feminine in appearance, and the closest thing to looking entirely human, with Rubicant a close second. Much in the way that that Scarmiglione (Milon) thanks Golbez for accepting him in TAY, Golbez accepted all his creations as his own sort of family.

Though it doesn't appear to be much of a change during the course of the game itself, it greatly influenced the way that Valvalis changed afterward. When she met up with Golbez again at Luceti, they were able to have spend time as an actual family, rather than simply being a reformed warlock with no further use for his minion(s).

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