>>9904773there could have more about him and the Black Mages, quote from the review fic: “ Vivi is tormented by existential problems yet is resolved by one elementary remark: cogito ergo sum. (I think, therefor I am) All the chatter about the fear of death is solved by an equally banal answer about the need to "leave your mark on life, to make a difference". Okay, let them live a year or two, and other people - forty times more, but I digress because this is irrelevant considering truth about the Mist and how pretentious this whole thing is that I'll be talking about once we get to the Iifa Tree and see the Soul Cage.”
“The Black Mages are made from the Mist, which is actually the souls of deceased Gaia inhabitants, this means that the Black Mages are actually dead people resurrected (if only for a short while) into artificial doll bodies, which should actually all be very interesting stuff, but unfortunately the game doesn't really take advantage of this and instead cheaply opts to rip-off "Blade Runner", which doesn't even fit. With Blade Runner it had androids that gained sentience, but here with IX, the Black Mages are literal "Ghosts inside the shells", which makes all their ramblings about death pretentious and melodramatic when they are technically already dead, they just couldn't return to the crystal and be properly reincarnated.”
