Cecil Harvey's Origins Explained ► Final Fantasy IV Lore + The After Years

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  @under_byte · 7 years ago

  You should do a franchise-wide Cid Origins video. Every Cid, every story, one video.

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  @operatorjuno5348 · 7 years ago

  Kain Highwind, his story is just as compelling as Cecil. He makes a great foil, rival and ultimately a mentor to Cecil's Son

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  @HewleyxAngel · 7 years ago

  Cecil is honestly probably my favorite FF protagonist, give his reserved and kind nature. His arc is really great and his relationships with the rest of the cast are interesting and relatable. I've been waiting on this video for a while and it was totally worth it, thank you so much for it!

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  @saramations · 3 years ago

  Cecil awakening as a paladin is such a great moment in ff4.

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  @Mopbrothers · 5 years ago

  Cecil is an important character in FF lore, because his problems are very difficult, but relatable and he fixes them.  He starts out as a depressed, angry, unhappy man and is able to overcome this by letting go of all his fear, hate, and doubt.   He heals his wounded soul early on in the game because he knows that he will never defeat Golbez as long as he lives as a dark knight.  The dude did his own pushups.  My favorite FF hero.

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• IT

  @itsChanandler · 6 years ago

  I love Cecil. He is not created over obsession with beautification and protagonists being good looking. I mean he's good looking but he doesn't follow the protagonist norms nowadays

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  @VampiricNoir · 7 years ago

  I’m so happy that Cecil’s origins is out. I find his story the best out of the final fantasy protagonists. His ups and downs, the amount of emotions in just the beginning of the story, and to only be followed by back and fourth tugging on thoughts and emotion.

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  @rickstevenson8249 · 7 years ago

  Please do kain highwind, after the after years addition his story grew so much but is a little hard to keep up with

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  @eckitronix · 5 years ago

  So you asked us to tell you what Cecil means to us as a character.<br>Oh boy. Here we go.<br><br>During 2017, I was in a dark place. My family seemed disappointed in me due to having failed Biology and therefore needing to go to a summer class for a long period during the summer. Their disappointment was due to expecting that I wouldn&apos;t take the class seriously, and would end up using the whole summer for it, the very same summer they&apos;d planned we all go to see our relatives from the other side of the country. After barely passing the extra biology class, I had a newfound sense of hope to temporarily stifle my sense of loneliness at 17 due to having few friends and being mostly ignored by my family due to their need to help the other siblings, one of which I and my elder brother were the higher functioning two of the four. Before I joined my family in the van for an entire month of August driving, my grandmother had purchased me a Nintendo DS Lite, as well as a copy of Final Fantasy IV Advance, as I knew the long trip would be difficult and I&apos;d had an interest in the series as a whole, even if Final Fantasy VI wasn&apos;t available at that store. I do think I enjoyed Final Fantasy IV more overall, and about an hour or so into Day 1 of the packed van, I booted up a new adventure to coincide with my own. I saw many qualities of Cecil that reminded me of myself; notably he too had inner demons that troubled him, and when he&apos;d done something regrettable, he&apos;d always want to fix it regardless of his capabilities. This character seemed to already have a love life and a couple of close friends as well, and was sent off on an interesting journey, only for a lot more to happen. Eventually I saw a lot of myself and how I could grow as a person, especially during Cecil&apos;s transition from a Dark Knight into a Paladin, which, honestly, took a lot of courage to do, and I can definitely say I too have taken a similar road. In November of 2017, after returning from the summer trip, I had asked my current girlfriend out, and much to my surprise, she accepted my request, and things have only progressed from there. I&apos;ve made it my life goal to protect her, as well as to just be a good person in the long run. It&apos;s definitely more of a goal than &quot;just get by and try not to feel sad&quot;, I&apos;ll say that! But Cecil&apos;s transformation of ways in that regard felt like he had purpose, a purpose I had a similarity with in protecting her from any harm, and I too tend to go a little overboard sometimes. Even stranger; during the August 2017 trip my family and I took, we were driving back home, and on that last day of driving, we were directly under an eclipse. The moon was already a central theme of Final Fantasy IV, but now these things felt even more symbolic. It&apos;s as if me having played the game and the moon aligning helped shape my life for the better. And sure, I&apos;m still struggling to grind my way up to the final boss despite having reached the moon in the game, I&apos;m not so sure I want to finish the story, and I worry it&apos;ll create a void within me. Regardless, it&apos;s the only other Final Fantasy game since clearing the first that I&apos;ve gotten so far in, and I&apos;m sure doing that will clear an emotional roadblock in my life and give me a newfound sense of reality. I personally believe Final Fantasy IV is what got me incredibly attached to the entire franchise, and I feel as if though Cecil may be an odd sort of conduit for myself, I&apos;m definitely the main character of my story, and I&apos;ll do everything I can to be a hero in it.<br><br>Boy, it&apos;s a good thing I can&apos;t cast Meteo with my keyboard, or we&apos;d be in deep trouble!

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  @Tifas-Revenge · 5 years ago (edited)

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o7OvAJrkCRs&amp;t=85">1:25</a> Please Do Rydia! Thumbs up if you want to see her!<br><br>Her story is similar to Cecil&apos;s as she is the only character in FF4 other than Cecil who goes through a transformation in the game. She is also almost exclusively featured in the FF4 Interlude on PSP, and has a major role that she plays in the second half of FF4 The After Years with the summons becoming possessed. One thing interesting is that her artwork for the game to be released initially in the USA was censored because they thought she was just too sexy for the American audience and also had to adhere to Nintendo&apos;s guidelines similar to how the Baron dancer girl did not strip off her dress before diving into the water. Minor details of what types of training she went through to obtain all her summons are included in her Postgame content of the GBA or PSP versions. She even gets a mini-game in the DS version as well as an exclusive Summon, Whyt. She is also the first uniquely named summoner and the first girl with green hair in all Final Fantasy signifying she is of a different race entirely of summoners lost to the world after Mist Village got burnt down at the beginning of FF4. Her best summons in the game basically take the player into 3 different optional areas in FF4: The Feymarch, The Sylph Cave, and Bahamut&apos;s Cave. These areas don&apos;t need to be visited in the main game, but there are a lot of hints telling you to go to at least the Feymarch by Rydia herself or Odin in Baron&apos;s Basement. <br><br>Outside of FF4, Rydia has also appeared in FF14, FF Record Keeper, Dissidia Final Fantasy Opera Omnia, and is made reference to in many different games such as Terraria getting patch 1.4.0.1 for their Summoner class to wield whips, but &quot;without the green hair included.&quot;

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  @supescape6323 · 7 years ago

  Ah yes 4. My first FF, I still remember when Cecil became Paladin and left his dark path behind. It was pretty amazing for me back then. Even though, these days I prefer 7 &amp; 12 more, I have a soft spot for this game and characters.

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  @jd_knight90 · 7 years ago

  Growing up, I felt a kinship with Cecil. When I played the game, a lot of his character was similar to how I felt with my problems. I would hide in Final Fantasy 4, avoiding things and pushing my feelings to the back until I was forced to show them. I felt like I knew how he felt, what his reasons were and how things went. Each time I play the game, I feel like I&apos;m reliving my life and discovering a new aspect. So, for me, this game is a total symbol of my childhood and my own growth. My own brother has been a rival since we were children, and he saw himself as Kain did. Always in the shadows, so to speak. I really appreciate the time you took to go though this origins video, it literally tells how much this game and others aren&apos;t just entertainment for some, but connections.

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