This idea is referenced from the movie Chronicle by Josh Trank and Brightburn by David Yarovesky.
I know it may be cockeyed with most people. But so far, I don’t feel anything so wrong about it. I want to get it out of my head, so I am posting it here
I have watched a brief video of FF16 storyline since I don't have time to play the game. But the brief only shows a part of the story for about 30 minutes, and the next part hasn't come in yet, so some information about this idea story may be incorrect.
I know the game is so good that it may not need to make a DLC or something to be better, even a sequel or prequel, which is different from the medieval time in the game. Anyway, it’s just an idea. You can consider it or laugh at it for fun when reading it. I also welcome all your comments if you want to do that.
The introduction of the story is a quote from Nietzsche: “You yourself will always be the worst enemy you can encounter; you yourself lie in wait for yourself in caves and forests.”
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The background is set in a modern time, in a far future from the story of FF16.
Currently, seven characters in the game (except Cid) are friends. They are younger than them at the origin of the story. After the rich kid’s party, they discover a source of Crystal resources that gives them the power of Eikons. This prologue is the same as Chronicle.
The main characters are also brothers like Clive and Joshua. The elder also loves one from the group of friends who looks like Jill. Together all of them learn how to control their Eikons. Then, they are used by their family for the game of politics, especially Joshua (who is older than him in the game's origin). This is the same as the prologue of the FF16 story.
Joshua always tells his brother he wants to be a rap music singer, but their family always thinks it’s stupid. They want both to follow the family business, serving the country in all duties.
Jill dreams of being a journalist, going everywhere who is poor or dangerous to collect information, but she is a shy girl, so she can’t make it come true until she gets the power of Shiva. When all the friends celebrate a ceremony that marks Joshua's accession to manhood, she performs a Shiva dance in front of them at night. Her dance attracts Joshua and Clive (because Phoenix is also Fire power as Ifrit), making them struggle to pass through their “hot” passion.
Dion is a cameraman. He’s the only man who is patient with her whenever she looks awkward in front of the camera. So he and Jill are in each other's pockets since the director always shouts at her on the scene. His struggle for the gay and lesbian community inspires her to become a journalist.
Unlike the others, Hugo, Barnabas, and Benedikta want to take over from their family to be leaders in the country. Hugo wants to become a General, while Barnabas and Benedikta dream of being President.
Although all seven are best friends, their families are opponents in a deadly game of political brinkmanship. Clive and Joshua’s mother plays a key role and becomes the most effective. She knows about the power of all seven, so she convinces the military to bring them to all the battles and countries considered threats of terrorism. She introduces all of the six (without Jill) in front of all the journalists to take a very cool picture before going on their mission outside the country. Some people worry about taking on the task without using guns, swords, or heavy weapons. Still, she believes in their success by using their Eikons' power only, emphasizing that her husband’s party is following society's limited weapons ownership program, attracting people around the country. When people ask about a song or a slogan for propaganda, Joshua thinks about a rap song by Ye with the sentence: “No one man should have all that power,” but Clive understands it means no one is stronger than them. Hugo rethinks and proposes another song named “Stronger” to be simple. His idea is approved by the team.
Before appearing in the press conference, Benedikta called Hugo “you cook” in the toilet room… When all journalists are taking the photo of the team, he wears dark glasses and hugs her while she makes a brilliant smile. No one knows about their relationship.
In the mission, some jet fighters report about a group of terrorists from another country preparing for an attack. The military orders them to withdraw so all Eikons can join the game. Joshua feels slightly nervous since this is their first time coming out from the training, but Clive tries encouraging him. After that, Hugo/Titan opens the “Stronger” song up to let everyone feel that they are listening to boss music (as he thinks).
The group of terrorists is annihilated brutally. All the cameras shoot the whole mission for the communication network and propaganda, but the gore caused by the team is removed to win the hearts of people in the country and worldwide. Joshua feels afraid due to his first time killing people. He wants to quit, but his mother persuades him by sending Benedikta to come to him… when he’s alone at night. Meanwhile, Jill goes back to Clive from the battlefield, telling him that her first article cannot gain enough viewers since the team's success is spread everywhere. He comforts her and asks her to join the team, but she refuses.
Since then, the team has continued to do more missions. With the solid social network and propaganda, the world knows them as heroic people. Meanwhile, Jill can’t do her job because all the soldiers on the battlefield have no work to do, leaving nothing for her to report. The newspaper proprietor threats to fire her. Feeling so helpless, she calls Clive by video call, then sees he’s busy doing a mission with Joshua and Benedikta. He only talks to her briefly. She wants to hear Clive say he loves her, but the only man who can say that is Joshua since he becomes more confident. After listening to that, Benedikta, who has slept with him and some men on the team before, feels jealous of Jill.
Jill feels angry with Clive. Since most of her friends are too busy to serve their families and country except Dion, she has called him. Dion takes her somewhere for entertainment and participates in his community’s parade. They both feel happy when secretly using their Eikons’ powers to help people from the riot police.
Both of them sit on the chop of the highest skyscraper. There, Dixon tells Jill that he has researched the history of all their friends’ families relating to conflicts and wars. Now he, Jill, and the others are best friends, so he feels happy, but since they have returned to Dominants, he's afraid that the friendship will be no longer, especially when they all do the black missions that no one knows. Feeling to trust her, Dion decides to send her all photographs of the team, hoping that one day, the world will know about them as friends and comrades on the battlefield. Jill asks him if one day she can post them on a social network to spread their friendship around the world quickly and keep it forever. He says that's a good idea.
After the night with Dion, Jill thought about Clive’s invitation and put all those photographs aside. But one day, they have gotten into her family's hands. Because they desire a place in modern politics, they send them to the newspaper proprietor to fight against the party of Clive’s mother. Jill is surprised when she is promoted the next day.
Due to Dion’s photographs, the party’s approval rating is decreased, making Clive’s mother has to deal with public opinion while finding a way to dispose of Jill. She bribes the newspaper proprietor to send Jill to a crime land without protection. There, Jill is kidnapped by offenders. One of them presses her cheek to the table while taking her camera. Looking at Jill’s body, that guy improvises a poem. He says his name is Sunny, but he likes his friends called him “Sun” because he has a “hot big gun” making him feel fun. At this time, the Shiva inside Jill awakes, allowing her to move her cheek while it’s still pressed by that guy’s hand. Then she says that he’s unlucky because she’s feeling too cold to hate anything so hot, like Sunny’s gun. Then she freezes his “hot gun” and kills all other offenders.
Then she, with Shiva, frees all the women and innocent people captured by the offenders. She is considered the heroic lady in that country, but those offenders are mafias of the government relating to the party of Clive’s mother. Getting Jill’s camera, which was stolen by the offender, showing the way she transforms into Shiva and then gets the fight, they immediately claim that Jill is a monster and a terrorist and asks Clive’s mother for help. She sends the Eikons team there except Clive after ordering him to help his father during the election season. Since Barnabas's party is investigated for extreme actions guiding people to follow the energy of Crystal Resource for building a fantasy world, his father quickly takes a chance to replace Barnabas's party to control and train people to come to Crystal Resource, and Clive is the best candidate since he is the best hero in the country.
Jill can’t fight against the team. After she has been struck down, Hugo and Benedikta intend to kill her following the order of Clive’s mother, but Joshua stops them. There are internal conflicts among them. Finally, Joshua kills Hugo accidentally since he’s mocked and sees that guy will surely kill Jill. The government’s army attacks them, so they have to disperse. Joshua takes Jill back home. During the way, she goes off into a faint on Joshua/Phoenix’s back and repeatedly talks about Clive…
After taking Jill to her family, Joshua comes to meet his brother, but his mother meets him first. She gives him photos snapping Dion and Jill. When he sees one of them portraying Dion as giving Jill the images of the team, Clive's mother tells him that Dion is the culprit who has pushed Jill into danger. Feeling so angry, Joshua flies to search for Dion in the community. Because they hide Dion from him, he intends to burn all of them. While the community is standing hand in hand to take on Phoenix's wrath, Dion appears and uses Bahamut's body to block the fire. After that, he tells Joshua: “Stop! You are killing… people”. But Joshua never wants to stop fighting though Dion tries to convince him to abandon the Dominant since this power can’t change the world into fantasy. Joshua says that he will abandon it only if Dion abandons it too. Because no one from them does this first, they return to the fight… Before defeating the Bahamut, Joshua calls Dion gay and so never becomes a God. Listening to that, Dion laughs and bashes his head against Joshua before disintegrating into pieces.
Meanwhile, Clive and his father are in Crystal Resource with a crowd of people, and suddenly a group of terrorists ambushes them. They claim themselves as ultra-nationalist people sent by Barnabas’s family. Clive is surprised when his father’s bodyguards are killed very quickly. It seems that someone has revealed their plan to those terrorists. He has to turn himself to Ifrit to protect everyone. Barnabas appears and kills all those terrorists who are never worthy opponents of Clive. Although he doesn’t realize them, he agrees that Clive’s family is contaminating Crystal resources to build a fantasy world of their own, so he can’t let Clive’s father leave. Clive gets into fighting him while trying to open a way out for his father.
Benedikta comes to meet Joshua to propose a truce. She emphasizes that they are still friends and more than that since their night. She wants to help him and Jill, and then they will leave all the duties and responsibilities behind to live together and build a fantasy world for both. Joshua agrees with her, except he isn’t like her Hugo. When Joshua accepts her without taking any precautions, she ambushes him, but she hasn’t known that he can absorb every of the Dominants’ powers yet. So he can stop her attack easily and then defeats her in a fight. After trying to crawl to escape from Joshua, who is slowly walking behind, she tries to return to Garuda again, but Phoenix’s fire diminishes her power. While Joshua grabs her, she smiles and tells him his mother is also a whore. Realizing her word’s meaning, he’s so angry and decides to finish her. Before dying under his hand, she mocks that “bird” thing of Joshua is so short that stopping their love from becoming perfect. He only smiles and replies: “Okay then… let's kill this love,” Then he burns her eyes...
After Clive’s father escapes the battle near Crystal resource, his wife comes to pick him up. She then assassinates him after failing to convince him to let her and Joshua out of the game. Right after she has left, Joshua appears and tries to cure his father, but no use. This disappointed him since he always thought he could save everyone with the energy of the Eikon. He carries his father to the hospital far from their location, trying to call help on the way, but people only take photos of him. His father dies before getting to the ambulance, while the title is like “The Phoenix hero fails to help his father. Isn’t that power fake?” flooding the social network. Due to that, Joshua loses his control and comes to find his mother. After defeating Barnabas, Clive runs to his father and brother’s place but too late. Then a group of policemen comes to arrest him. Because of not wanting to hurt anyone, he decides to surrender.
The policemen take him to a field. One of them shot Clive. He can survive easily due to his Eikon power, but the policeman says that the bullet is made not to kill him but to abort his power. The policemen reveal they are agents getting a mission to capture Clive and Joshua. Then they get Clive, who is completely weak, out of the car. They torture and ask him about a man named Cid, but he knows nothing. One of them thinks that Clive has lost his mind, so he reminds of Cid. It turns out that Cid is a scientist following the tradition of the family researching and warning the world about Ultima. He also created a weapon absorbing all the Eikons' powers. The agent says the government plans to eliminate the Eikons team by using that weapon right after completing the plan of making an army of Ultima. Thanks to Clive's mother's information, they can limit the victims during the experiment and so get better results. Even their plan with the Eikons team can be finished sooner and easier since every team’s members have fought among themselves. So the government decides to end Cid, but he has already escaped from them.
Feeling angry that Clive is so stubborn, they turn on a monitor showing a worldwide live stream of Joshua/Phoenix holding his mother in the sky. Although wounded, she still says that she loves him more than Clive. This time, Joshua has to fight the Eikon in his mind not to kill his mom. If he fails, his Eikon will turn to the Dark Phoenix. This is the bad ending.
The bad ending:
All people who are streaming him are terrified while Clive falls entirely. Before the agents prepared to end him, Jill, Torgal, and Gav appeared to save him. One of the agents takes the bullet, which was used to shoot Clive before, out of his pocket, revealing it as an injection. He uses it to turn him become Ifrit and then fights Jill/Shiva and her two. After the fight, the three are exhausted, but that man with Ifrit still stands up and prepares to a finishing. Suddenly, Clive jumps on that man and absorbs Ifrit. The fight ends completely, but he must control himself back to normal. Jill takes his hand and asks for help. This time, there are two choices:
Choice 1: If he chooses to let Jill help him. She will give her Eikon power to him so he can be less hot. Due to their power absorbing together, they kiss each other.
Choice 2: If he refuses to Jill’s help, he has to fight the Eikon inside his mind.
After that, the agent man lying under the ground changes his voice to Ultima. He says that creating humans is the biggest mistake since they never overcome all aspects leading the Ulima to end. He confirms that everything that happens in this time, like all the same as far years ago, has demonstrated that as the unforgivable sins of humans. So they will never give up destroying all humanity to save the planet. Clive disagrees that humans will never destroy the planet worse and quicker than Ultima did with their world. But that man Ultima only smiles and says: “We shall see,”
With the guidance of Gav, the three go to Cid’s location. Jill meets the magician there, who performed for her and Dixon in the street. He reveals himself as a Bearer. After all the time since all Crystal resources had been destroyed and humans had to know how to live without using magic, those people still exist. Still, they all assemble in the Cid's location to avoid the government's experiment. The TV shows that the plague in ancient times has returned from the Crystal resource. Cid notices it’s because a secret lab is putting under the resource, and that place must be destroyed. He confirms that Joshua has been imprisoned there, too. So Clive agrees to do Cid’s mission to rescue his brother. Jill, even lost her Eikon power or not, chooses to stay with Bearers.
After defeating all opponents in the lab, including the Eikon army, Clive and Cid approach Joshua in prison. However, that isn’t Joshua, only a man with an Eikon power to disguise himself as everyone. Meanwhile, a man in Cid’s location reveals himself as a descendant of the Iron Kingdom. Since that place was destroyed by the Eikon team led by Clive in a black mission, he is the only man who survives. Vow vengeance, he makes a plan to destroy all relating to magic. After revealing this, he shoots everyone on site and does not forget to live stream his sin to let the world know. Jill has to use her power to stop him. In case she loses her power, more people will be killed, and it will be more difficult for her to save people from the shooter. Anyway, all the children will be protected.
Before being defeated by Jill or Bearer's protector, the shooter will destroy the system to open the main door. Joshua enters and kills everyone. He asks Jill to go with him to make a new world, but she refuses. With Shiva's help, she can survive, although she will be heavily wounded after the fight. She will surely die if she loses her power, but Torgal appears, sacrificing to fight Joshua to save her. Meanwhile, the camera of the shooter still works, recording everything that happens. The number of viewers keeps increasing rapidly.
Cid, Gav, and Clive returned to the location but too late. Clive has no choice but to fight his brother. The battle of the two is the same as in medieval times…
In the end, Jill is in the hospital. Cid informs her that the Crystal resource has been destroyed to stop people from using it. Then the plague can be prevented. But she will be put in jail as a partaker in guilt. There’s a secret that the government is planning to build an artificial Crystal in the future. So he will help Jill out of the hospital after she can walk again. A video tap is sent to her, showing that Clive is alive. The video was also recorded by himself. He says that he feels a lot of regrets since he has finished his brother, who has caused death and suffering to their friends and relatives. He even listened to Joshua’s voice in the battle, calling him for help. Now he is on the way alone to find the Origin, but he has found a particular book named Final Fantasy, which mentions all about magic. He hopes to find a part of controlling Time from the book to stop everything happening all the time before to save all their friends and relatives. He calls Jill his lover and promises to return to her one day.
In the good ending, Joshua completes stopping the extreme power inside him from killing his mother. Then, he and she are arrested by the agent. They try to catch their hand when pressed down but cannot. Then both of them are tortured in the lab, and the mother is forced to witness her son suffer. Clive and Cid go to rescue them and destroy the lab. In the Cid’s location, everything still happens as the bad ending, but Joshua goes there on time to stop the shooter, so Jill doesn't need to go to the hospital, Torgal won’t be dead. Meanwhile, the camera of the shooter still works, recording everything that happens. The number of viewers who press heart to Joshua keeps increasing rapidly.
After everything has been done, Joshua convinces his mother to give herself to the police. He also negotiates with the government to let his family safe and alone. But then, he is wanted by all the police in the world.
Clive and Jill return to their normal life. A videotape is sent to them, showing that Joshua, with a mysterious Bearer woman, is on the way to finding the Origin. He says that he feels a lot of regrets since he has caused death and suffering to their friends and relatives. He calls Jill his sister and also thanks Cid for helping him and the woman during the way of hiding the Interpol. He is so surprised when finding out about the book Final Fantasy which the author has the same name as him. He promises to fix everything since he read an assumption about controlling Time. Then he will finish the rap song name Final Fantasy with Clive and all his friends.
Whatever the ending is, both Clive and Joshua understand the meaning sentence: “No one man should have all that power.”
End the story with a quote: “Today you are you, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is youer than you.”
An example of camera shooting shows an experimental man who has the ability of the Rosfield brothers to absorb some Eikons (Titan, Phoenix, Odin, etc.). Some soldiers with a Chocobo try to escape him (I really love the way Chocobo overcomes the fire):
The way humanity gains consciousness in FF16 reminds me of this song.
The shooter faces with Jill and defeats her. While he mumbles that all who are anti-religious must die, accuses her of being a witch, and prepares to shoot, Joshua appears and uses his Phoenix fur to destroy the shooter’s bullet. This looks like:
I know it may be cockeyed with most people. But so far, I don’t feel anything so wrong about it. I want to get it out of my head, so I am posting it here
I have watched a brief video of FF16 storyline since I don't have time to play the game. But the brief only shows a part of the story for about 30 minutes, and the next part hasn't come in yet, so some information about this idea story may be incorrect.
I know the game is so good that it may not need to make a DLC or something to be better, even a sequel or prequel, which is different from the medieval time in the game. Anyway, it’s just an idea. You can consider it or laugh at it for fun when reading it. I also welcome all your comments if you want to do that.
The introduction of the story is a quote from Nietzsche: “You yourself will always be the worst enemy you can encounter; you yourself lie in wait for yourself in caves and forests.”
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The background is set in a modern time, in a far future from the story of FF16.
Currently, seven characters in the game (except Cid) are friends. They are younger than them at the origin of the story. After the rich kid’s party, they discover a source of Crystal resources that gives them the power of Eikons. This prologue is the same as Chronicle.
The main characters are also brothers like Clive and Joshua. The elder also loves one from the group of friends who looks like Jill. Together all of them learn how to control their Eikons. Then, they are used by their family for the game of politics, especially Joshua (who is older than him in the game's origin). This is the same as the prologue of the FF16 story.
Joshua always tells his brother he wants to be a rap music singer, but their family always thinks it’s stupid. They want both to follow the family business, serving the country in all duties.
Jill dreams of being a journalist, going everywhere who is poor or dangerous to collect information, but she is a shy girl, so she can’t make it come true until she gets the power of Shiva. When all the friends celebrate a ceremony that marks Joshua's accession to manhood, she performs a Shiva dance in front of them at night. Her dance attracts Joshua and Clive (because Phoenix is also Fire power as Ifrit), making them struggle to pass through their “hot” passion.
Dion is a cameraman. He’s the only man who is patient with her whenever she looks awkward in front of the camera. So he and Jill are in each other's pockets since the director always shouts at her on the scene. His struggle for the gay and lesbian community inspires her to become a journalist.
Unlike the others, Hugo, Barnabas, and Benedikta want to take over from their family to be leaders in the country. Hugo wants to become a General, while Barnabas and Benedikta dream of being President.
Although all seven are best friends, their families are opponents in a deadly game of political brinkmanship. Clive and Joshua’s mother plays a key role and becomes the most effective. She knows about the power of all seven, so she convinces the military to bring them to all the battles and countries considered threats of terrorism. She introduces all of the six (without Jill) in front of all the journalists to take a very cool picture before going on their mission outside the country. Some people worry about taking on the task without using guns, swords, or heavy weapons. Still, she believes in their success by using their Eikons' power only, emphasizing that her husband’s party is following society's limited weapons ownership program, attracting people around the country. When people ask about a song or a slogan for propaganda, Joshua thinks about a rap song by Ye with the sentence: “No one man should have all that power,” but Clive understands it means no one is stronger than them. Hugo rethinks and proposes another song named “Stronger” to be simple. His idea is approved by the team.
Before appearing in the press conference, Benedikta called Hugo “you cook” in the toilet room… When all journalists are taking the photo of the team, he wears dark glasses and hugs her while she makes a brilliant smile. No one knows about their relationship.
In the mission, some jet fighters report about a group of terrorists from another country preparing for an attack. The military orders them to withdraw so all Eikons can join the game. Joshua feels slightly nervous since this is their first time coming out from the training, but Clive tries encouraging him. After that, Hugo/Titan opens the “Stronger” song up to let everyone feel that they are listening to boss music (as he thinks).
The group of terrorists is annihilated brutally. All the cameras shoot the whole mission for the communication network and propaganda, but the gore caused by the team is removed to win the hearts of people in the country and worldwide. Joshua feels afraid due to his first time killing people. He wants to quit, but his mother persuades him by sending Benedikta to come to him… when he’s alone at night. Meanwhile, Jill goes back to Clive from the battlefield, telling him that her first article cannot gain enough viewers since the team's success is spread everywhere. He comforts her and asks her to join the team, but she refuses.
Since then, the team has continued to do more missions. With the solid social network and propaganda, the world knows them as heroic people. Meanwhile, Jill can’t do her job because all the soldiers on the battlefield have no work to do, leaving nothing for her to report. The newspaper proprietor threats to fire her. Feeling so helpless, she calls Clive by video call, then sees he’s busy doing a mission with Joshua and Benedikta. He only talks to her briefly. She wants to hear Clive say he loves her, but the only man who can say that is Joshua since he becomes more confident. After listening to that, Benedikta, who has slept with him and some men on the team before, feels jealous of Jill.
Jill feels angry with Clive. Since most of her friends are too busy to serve their families and country except Dion, she has called him. Dion takes her somewhere for entertainment and participates in his community’s parade. They both feel happy when secretly using their Eikons’ powers to help people from the riot police.
Both of them sit on the chop of the highest skyscraper. There, Dixon tells Jill that he has researched the history of all their friends’ families relating to conflicts and wars. Now he, Jill, and the others are best friends, so he feels happy, but since they have returned to Dominants, he's afraid that the friendship will be no longer, especially when they all do the black missions that no one knows. Feeling to trust her, Dion decides to send her all photographs of the team, hoping that one day, the world will know about them as friends and comrades on the battlefield. Jill asks him if one day she can post them on a social network to spread their friendship around the world quickly and keep it forever. He says that's a good idea.
After the night with Dion, Jill thought about Clive’s invitation and put all those photographs aside. But one day, they have gotten into her family's hands. Because they desire a place in modern politics, they send them to the newspaper proprietor to fight against the party of Clive’s mother. Jill is surprised when she is promoted the next day.
Due to Dion’s photographs, the party’s approval rating is decreased, making Clive’s mother has to deal with public opinion while finding a way to dispose of Jill. She bribes the newspaper proprietor to send Jill to a crime land without protection. There, Jill is kidnapped by offenders. One of them presses her cheek to the table while taking her camera. Looking at Jill’s body, that guy improvises a poem. He says his name is Sunny, but he likes his friends called him “Sun” because he has a “hot big gun” making him feel fun. At this time, the Shiva inside Jill awakes, allowing her to move her cheek while it’s still pressed by that guy’s hand. Then she says that he’s unlucky because she’s feeling too cold to hate anything so hot, like Sunny’s gun. Then she freezes his “hot gun” and kills all other offenders.
Then she, with Shiva, frees all the women and innocent people captured by the offenders. She is considered the heroic lady in that country, but those offenders are mafias of the government relating to the party of Clive’s mother. Getting Jill’s camera, which was stolen by the offender, showing the way she transforms into Shiva and then gets the fight, they immediately claim that Jill is a monster and a terrorist and asks Clive’s mother for help. She sends the Eikons team there except Clive after ordering him to help his father during the election season. Since Barnabas's party is investigated for extreme actions guiding people to follow the energy of Crystal Resource for building a fantasy world, his father quickly takes a chance to replace Barnabas's party to control and train people to come to Crystal Resource, and Clive is the best candidate since he is the best hero in the country.
Jill can’t fight against the team. After she has been struck down, Hugo and Benedikta intend to kill her following the order of Clive’s mother, but Joshua stops them. There are internal conflicts among them. Finally, Joshua kills Hugo accidentally since he’s mocked and sees that guy will surely kill Jill. The government’s army attacks them, so they have to disperse. Joshua takes Jill back home. During the way, she goes off into a faint on Joshua/Phoenix’s back and repeatedly talks about Clive…
After taking Jill to her family, Joshua comes to meet his brother, but his mother meets him first. She gives him photos snapping Dion and Jill. When he sees one of them portraying Dion as giving Jill the images of the team, Clive's mother tells him that Dion is the culprit who has pushed Jill into danger. Feeling so angry, Joshua flies to search for Dion in the community. Because they hide Dion from him, he intends to burn all of them. While the community is standing hand in hand to take on Phoenix's wrath, Dion appears and uses Bahamut's body to block the fire. After that, he tells Joshua: “Stop! You are killing… people”. But Joshua never wants to stop fighting though Dion tries to convince him to abandon the Dominant since this power can’t change the world into fantasy. Joshua says that he will abandon it only if Dion abandons it too. Because no one from them does this first, they return to the fight… Before defeating the Bahamut, Joshua calls Dion gay and so never becomes a God. Listening to that, Dion laughs and bashes his head against Joshua before disintegrating into pieces.
Meanwhile, Clive and his father are in Crystal Resource with a crowd of people, and suddenly a group of terrorists ambushes them. They claim themselves as ultra-nationalist people sent by Barnabas’s family. Clive is surprised when his father’s bodyguards are killed very quickly. It seems that someone has revealed their plan to those terrorists. He has to turn himself to Ifrit to protect everyone. Barnabas appears and kills all those terrorists who are never worthy opponents of Clive. Although he doesn’t realize them, he agrees that Clive’s family is contaminating Crystal resources to build a fantasy world of their own, so he can’t let Clive’s father leave. Clive gets into fighting him while trying to open a way out for his father.
Benedikta comes to meet Joshua to propose a truce. She emphasizes that they are still friends and more than that since their night. She wants to help him and Jill, and then they will leave all the duties and responsibilities behind to live together and build a fantasy world for both. Joshua agrees with her, except he isn’t like her Hugo. When Joshua accepts her without taking any precautions, she ambushes him, but she hasn’t known that he can absorb every of the Dominants’ powers yet. So he can stop her attack easily and then defeats her in a fight. After trying to crawl to escape from Joshua, who is slowly walking behind, she tries to return to Garuda again, but Phoenix’s fire diminishes her power. While Joshua grabs her, she smiles and tells him his mother is also a whore. Realizing her word’s meaning, he’s so angry and decides to finish her. Before dying under his hand, she mocks that “bird” thing of Joshua is so short that stopping their love from becoming perfect. He only smiles and replies: “Okay then… let's kill this love,” Then he burns her eyes...
After Clive’s father escapes the battle near Crystal resource, his wife comes to pick him up. She then assassinates him after failing to convince him to let her and Joshua out of the game. Right after she has left, Joshua appears and tries to cure his father, but no use. This disappointed him since he always thought he could save everyone with the energy of the Eikon. He carries his father to the hospital far from their location, trying to call help on the way, but people only take photos of him. His father dies before getting to the ambulance, while the title is like “The Phoenix hero fails to help his father. Isn’t that power fake?” flooding the social network. Due to that, Joshua loses his control and comes to find his mother. After defeating Barnabas, Clive runs to his father and brother’s place but too late. Then a group of policemen comes to arrest him. Because of not wanting to hurt anyone, he decides to surrender.
The policemen take him to a field. One of them shot Clive. He can survive easily due to his Eikon power, but the policeman says that the bullet is made not to kill him but to abort his power. The policemen reveal they are agents getting a mission to capture Clive and Joshua. Then they get Clive, who is completely weak, out of the car. They torture and ask him about a man named Cid, but he knows nothing. One of them thinks that Clive has lost his mind, so he reminds of Cid. It turns out that Cid is a scientist following the tradition of the family researching and warning the world about Ultima. He also created a weapon absorbing all the Eikons' powers. The agent says the government plans to eliminate the Eikons team by using that weapon right after completing the plan of making an army of Ultima. Thanks to Clive's mother's information, they can limit the victims during the experiment and so get better results. Even their plan with the Eikons team can be finished sooner and easier since every team’s members have fought among themselves. So the government decides to end Cid, but he has already escaped from them.
Feeling angry that Clive is so stubborn, they turn on a monitor showing a worldwide live stream of Joshua/Phoenix holding his mother in the sky. Although wounded, she still says that she loves him more than Clive. This time, Joshua has to fight the Eikon in his mind not to kill his mom. If he fails, his Eikon will turn to the Dark Phoenix. This is the bad ending.
The bad ending:
All people who are streaming him are terrified while Clive falls entirely. Before the agents prepared to end him, Jill, Torgal, and Gav appeared to save him. One of the agents takes the bullet, which was used to shoot Clive before, out of his pocket, revealing it as an injection. He uses it to turn him become Ifrit and then fights Jill/Shiva and her two. After the fight, the three are exhausted, but that man with Ifrit still stands up and prepares to a finishing. Suddenly, Clive jumps on that man and absorbs Ifrit. The fight ends completely, but he must control himself back to normal. Jill takes his hand and asks for help. This time, there are two choices:
Choice 1: If he chooses to let Jill help him. She will give her Eikon power to him so he can be less hot. Due to their power absorbing together, they kiss each other.
Choice 2: If he refuses to Jill’s help, he has to fight the Eikon inside his mind.
After that, the agent man lying under the ground changes his voice to Ultima. He says that creating humans is the biggest mistake since they never overcome all aspects leading the Ulima to end. He confirms that everything that happens in this time, like all the same as far years ago, has demonstrated that as the unforgivable sins of humans. So they will never give up destroying all humanity to save the planet. Clive disagrees that humans will never destroy the planet worse and quicker than Ultima did with their world. But that man Ultima only smiles and says: “We shall see,”
With the guidance of Gav, the three go to Cid’s location. Jill meets the magician there, who performed for her and Dixon in the street. He reveals himself as a Bearer. After all the time since all Crystal resources had been destroyed and humans had to know how to live without using magic, those people still exist. Still, they all assemble in the Cid's location to avoid the government's experiment. The TV shows that the plague in ancient times has returned from the Crystal resource. Cid notices it’s because a secret lab is putting under the resource, and that place must be destroyed. He confirms that Joshua has been imprisoned there, too. So Clive agrees to do Cid’s mission to rescue his brother. Jill, even lost her Eikon power or not, chooses to stay with Bearers.
After defeating all opponents in the lab, including the Eikon army, Clive and Cid approach Joshua in prison. However, that isn’t Joshua, only a man with an Eikon power to disguise himself as everyone. Meanwhile, a man in Cid’s location reveals himself as a descendant of the Iron Kingdom. Since that place was destroyed by the Eikon team led by Clive in a black mission, he is the only man who survives. Vow vengeance, he makes a plan to destroy all relating to magic. After revealing this, he shoots everyone on site and does not forget to live stream his sin to let the world know. Jill has to use her power to stop him. In case she loses her power, more people will be killed, and it will be more difficult for her to save people from the shooter. Anyway, all the children will be protected.
Before being defeated by Jill or Bearer's protector, the shooter will destroy the system to open the main door. Joshua enters and kills everyone. He asks Jill to go with him to make a new world, but she refuses. With Shiva's help, she can survive, although she will be heavily wounded after the fight. She will surely die if she loses her power, but Torgal appears, sacrificing to fight Joshua to save her. Meanwhile, the camera of the shooter still works, recording everything that happens. The number of viewers keeps increasing rapidly.
Cid, Gav, and Clive returned to the location but too late. Clive has no choice but to fight his brother. The battle of the two is the same as in medieval times…
In the end, Jill is in the hospital. Cid informs her that the Crystal resource has been destroyed to stop people from using it. Then the plague can be prevented. But she will be put in jail as a partaker in guilt. There’s a secret that the government is planning to build an artificial Crystal in the future. So he will help Jill out of the hospital after she can walk again. A video tap is sent to her, showing that Clive is alive. The video was also recorded by himself. He says that he feels a lot of regrets since he has finished his brother, who has caused death and suffering to their friends and relatives. He even listened to Joshua’s voice in the battle, calling him for help. Now he is on the way alone to find the Origin, but he has found a particular book named Final Fantasy, which mentions all about magic. He hopes to find a part of controlling Time from the book to stop everything happening all the time before to save all their friends and relatives. He calls Jill his lover and promises to return to her one day.
In the good ending, Joshua completes stopping the extreme power inside him from killing his mother. Then, he and she are arrested by the agent. They try to catch their hand when pressed down but cannot. Then both of them are tortured in the lab, and the mother is forced to witness her son suffer. Clive and Cid go to rescue them and destroy the lab. In the Cid’s location, everything still happens as the bad ending, but Joshua goes there on time to stop the shooter, so Jill doesn't need to go to the hospital, Torgal won’t be dead. Meanwhile, the camera of the shooter still works, recording everything that happens. The number of viewers who press heart to Joshua keeps increasing rapidly.
After everything has been done, Joshua convinces his mother to give herself to the police. He also negotiates with the government to let his family safe and alone. But then, he is wanted by all the police in the world.
Clive and Jill return to their normal life. A videotape is sent to them, showing that Joshua, with a mysterious Bearer woman, is on the way to finding the Origin. He says that he feels a lot of regrets since he has caused death and suffering to their friends and relatives. He calls Jill his sister and also thanks Cid for helping him and the woman during the way of hiding the Interpol. He is so surprised when finding out about the book Final Fantasy which the author has the same name as him. He promises to fix everything since he read an assumption about controlling Time. Then he will finish the rap song name Final Fantasy with Clive and all his friends.
Whatever the ending is, both Clive and Joshua understand the meaning sentence: “No one man should have all that power.”
End the story with a quote: “Today you are you, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is youer than you.”
An example of camera shooting shows an experimental man who has the ability of the Rosfield brothers to absorb some Eikons (Titan, Phoenix, Odin, etc.). Some soldiers with a Chocobo try to escape him (I really love the way Chocobo overcomes the fire):
The way humanity gains consciousness in FF16 reminds me of this song.
The shooter faces with Jill and defeats her. While he mumbles that all who are anti-religious must die, accuses her of being a witch, and prepares to shoot, Joshua appears and uses his Phoenix fur to destroy the shooter’s bullet. This looks like:
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