#While Joshua seeing how Jote was made to live a life where she have no freedom or life or future

[moonilit]

having so much emotions over Jote and Joshua I can’t even articulate, like

#Like I know it looks like this one side unexplored ship at first glance but once you give it a thought #Dear god #their situation is so complex and there is SO much work and healing that need to be done #Especially after you learn more about the undying and put two and two together to see what kind of environment - #- they both grew up in #They are at first glance the master and servant trope #Which isn’t so exciting imo #Until you learn that technically neither of them choose it #You can tell they are two kids who grow up together and ‘saw’ each other #Jote not wanting to let go of Joshua because she knows the burden he was forced to carry as the firebird #Knowing that this path would kill him and she want to save him save her dearest friend #While Joshua seeing how Jote was made to live a life where she have no freedom or life or future #Both wanting to save each other but were powerless against their situation #And at the first chance Joshua gets he let her go #Even though she was the only person who grew to see and love him for just him #Which is his most precious inner wish yet he give that up for her sake #Imagine when he thought for years Clive was gone the only person who saw him and believed in him as him #The loneliness of being a god and a deity and yet Jote came along and mended his heart again #Then he let her go because she deserve to be free #Im in tears #there are more layers then this but #I can’t write all of then in the tags aaaaa #Like do you understand me?? Do you?? #Jote #joshua #ffxvi #Like a big theme in this game is people wanting to carry the burden with their loved ones like come one im crying here

[xenodile]

Alright, here's my take on the FFXVI ending.

Clive lived but his left arm was petrified, just like Cid's. He inherited Cid's legacy after all. It took him a good while to make it back to the Hideaway, amidst all the chaos of Primogenesis dispersing and the world settling after Origin crumbles, and he was presumed dead.

Torgal is the first to react when he returns, not even completely pulled into the dock before the great wolf perks up and bolts, getting everyone's attention. Jill is the first to follow, seeing Obolus's boat on the horizon and realizing there's only one thing that could get Torgal so excited.

Clive receives a tearful welcome as more and more people catch on to who's pulling into the dock, all eager to thank him and express their joy for his return. Tarja insists on seeing him to the infirmary so she can examine his arm, of course, and Jill and Torgal don't leave his side.

Clive tells all, of how Dion broke through the wall to get their entry into Origin, then gave his life defending him and Joshua. How Joshua was slain by Ultima, and bestowed Phoenix upon Clive so he might have the strength to face Ultima alone. Of his battle with Ultimalius, the true nature of their foe, and the destruction of Origin.

He honestly isn't sure how he survived the fall, let alone releasing Ultima's power, but he does suffer the consequences. He's now completely indistinguishable from a Bearer, having the scar over his removed Brand and spending the rest of his life without the use of a limb to the Crystal's Curse. What's more, Ifrit and the other Eikons are gone, and Clive can no longer do magic.

Tarja says it's for the best. Knowing Clive, he'd keep throwing himself into danger to help others and exacerbate his curse if he still had powers. Gav reckons it's time Cid the Outlaw hung up his coat, seeing how the world's been saved and the Mothercrystals all destroyed.

And that's exactly what he does. Clive and Jill have done their part. They've given years of their lives to the cause, and at last their work is done. There's more to do certainly, and they help here and there around the Hideaway over the next few months, but they take the field less and less. The Aetherfloods stop, the Blight stops progressing, and the skies clear.

And finally it is time to leave. Jill and Clive pack up their things, and make for Port Isolde with Torgal at their side. They're going on a new journey, you see. A journey all their own, far from the Twins, just as Jill wanted. Clive is of the mind to tell the story of what happened that day, of how it all came to be. He would have a record of the sacrifices made, and what demanded them, that those lost would never be forgotten.

He consults with Vivian, Tomes, and Jote. He compiles everything he and Joshua learned about Ultima and how the Mothercrystals came to be, of the Blight and its baleful origins, and thevtragedy faced by Bearers and Dominants in the world Ultima created.

Clive pens the tale of a man who saw the injustice wrought by the Mothercrystals, and sought to build a better world. One where all men were equal, free to live and die on their own terms, free of the circumstances of their creation. The tale of Cid the Outlaw, the tale of Phoenix and Ifrit.

With some considered modifications of course. The last thing he wants is to spend his and Jill's remaining years being hounded for answers by all and sundry. He would need a pseudonym to publish the story. At one point he thought of using the name Underhill, but decided against it. Instead he thought of what name he would want to be tied to the story for all time. Everyone knew Cid the Outlaw, his own name having long been hidden from the public eye, but there was another fallen hero he would see remembered. A man who spent eighteen years searching for the truth, fighting Ultima before Clive was even cognizant of the false god's existence. The man whose own notes and findings now filled the bulk of his pages.

To the larger world, Joshua Rosfield had died long ago, if they even knew him at all. An ideal pseudonym for one wishing to hide the truth, and a fitting tribute to his brother, ensuring his name would be remembered for generations to come.

The world was enamored with the story of Cid the Outlaw and his merry band of miscreants, toppling the world's governments and upending the status quo, so no one payed any mind to an unremarkable couple and their hound, whose names were never even mentioned in the tale of Ifrit, Shiva, and Fenrir. And so Clive Rosfield and Jill Warrick quietly escaped from history's notice, free to live together, on their own terms. Just as Clive had challenged Cid to achieve all those years past.

#FFXVI #FF16 #Final Fantasy XVI #Final Fantasy 16 #spoilers