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✦ Episode 3: Part 2 - Oathbrand (cont.), Episode 4: Skyborne Paradise.
From here to here. Since this memory puts a lot of pieces together, I'm going to do a more in-depth write-up:
● Noel is someone who is traveling through time to change the future he came from. He feels strongly about protecting and saving others, while he is pained by those he fails to protect, namely Yeul. He is familiar with Caius.
● Snow traveling through time was an established fact, but he chose to become a l'Cie in order to gain the power he needed to change history. He is a big, dumb idiot who needs to be protected from himself, apparently.
● Yeul appears as a player and a lot of her back story is explained here! She is reincarnated through endless ages as a member of the Farseer tribe. As a Farseer, she follows a law that doesn't let her change history to protect herself, and it seems like she's very aware of even distant events around her.
● Caius also appears albeit it isn't the real Caius which begs the question of who he really is . . . Still, even as an impostor, this Caius is dangerous and capable of doing a lot of damage.
● Finally, the whole fal'Cie, l'Cie, and Cieth mystery is cleared up which explains a lot of Serah's anxiety about it from her past memories; this memory is the crystallization of why she was so scared. To become a l'Cie and end up trapped between either becoming crystal or becoming a Cieth is a cruel fate. The fact that the people of this world were doomed to become Cieth because she and Noel appeared there hurts a lot.
● Time-traveling also gets its first real appearance, too! Serah jumps from one world to another to another. This is later on the game, so they don't get bogged down in the mechanics of when they are, but it's easy to tell that there is a great difference in time between the worlds. She also starts to see the ramifications of her hopping around in the immediate sense, with the Cieth, but also in the long-term, with Yeul's death. Changes in the timeline ripple outwards, and it is a real test of her cause to see those effects and still push forward . . . It is a good thing she has the justification of saving countless lives on top of wanting to see her sister again, gosh.
But, really, this memory is mostly death on top of death on top of potential death . . . We're talking hundreds here, because the respawn rate in Academia 400AF is absurd.
Silver charm bracelet, Shareable, Six times.
From here to here. Since this memory puts a lot of pieces together, I'm going to do a more in-depth write-up:
● Noel is someone who is traveling through time to change the future he came from. He feels strongly about protecting and saving others, while he is pained by those he fails to protect, namely Yeul. He is familiar with Caius.
● Snow traveling through time was an established fact, but he chose to become a l'Cie in order to gain the power he needed to change history. He is a big, dumb idiot who needs to be protected from himself, apparently.
● Yeul appears as a player and a lot of her back story is explained here! She is reincarnated through endless ages as a member of the Farseer tribe. As a Farseer, she follows a law that doesn't let her change history to protect herself, and it seems like she's very aware of even distant events around her.
● Caius also appears albeit it isn't the real Caius which begs the question of who he really is . . . Still, even as an impostor, this Caius is dangerous and capable of doing a lot of damage.
● Finally, the whole fal'Cie, l'Cie, and Cieth mystery is cleared up which explains a lot of Serah's anxiety about it from her past memories; this memory is the crystallization of why she was so scared. To become a l'Cie and end up trapped between either becoming crystal or becoming a Cieth is a cruel fate. The fact that the people of this world were doomed to become Cieth because she and Noel appeared there hurts a lot.
● Time-traveling also gets its first real appearance, too! Serah jumps from one world to another to another. This is later on the game, so they don't get bogged down in the mechanics of when they are, but it's easy to tell that there is a great difference in time between the worlds. She also starts to see the ramifications of her hopping around in the immediate sense, with the Cieth, but also in the long-term, with Yeul's death. Changes in the timeline ripple outwards, and it is a real test of her cause to see those effects and still push forward . . . It is a good thing she has the justification of saving countless lives on top of wanting to see her sister again, gosh.
But, really, this memory is mostly death on top of death on top of potential death . . . We're talking hundreds here, because the respawn rate in Academia 400AF is absurd.
Silver charm bracelet, Shareable, Six times.