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[FF] sooo for a long time my favourite thing in Advent Children is Cloud's line during the final battle - "there's not a thing I don't cherish"
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and I love this because it feels like a valid bit of character growth that is genuinely new to what he goes through in the OG - in the OG he specifically doesn't ever get over himself to become a protector of the Planet
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in fact, his big speech at the end of the game is about him deciding that none of them actually care about the Planet! they're all fighting for something else!
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it's very new and i like it. anyway, i somehow ended up reading the wikipedia page for Miyamoto Musashi, who was Nomura's inspiration for Cloud
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before Musashi's death, he wrote a list of precepts and one is: "Do not give preference to anything among all things."
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i suspect that line might have been a reference to that
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fighting for myself includes the planet because I live here
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well, that's his argument
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i feel his line in AC indicates he's learned to think on things on a higher level, though, and considering how close to death he came it feels appropriate
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i do get a sense of that kind of samurai-ish detachment from the sequels' version of Cloud
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thinking cid is the only human character who's actually fighting for the Planet and can fit it into his mind
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he saw the Planet from space and saw how small it was
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cloud, on the other hand, just noticed how small he was.