Sunday, April 25, 2010

Neo Bahamut Eidolon

I have been thinking a lot about both Bleach and Final Fantasy 13. Whenever I hear a story, I like to put myself in the mix as a supporting character, sharing ideals and teaching a learning form them (normally I like being the stronger one and therefore the teacher but still on the same level as the main character). When putting myself in Both Bleach and Final Fantasy 13, they had Zanpaktou and Eidolon's which where reflections of what kind of person they were. The Summon that sticks out most in my head out of all the summons is the Neo Bahamut. This dragon goes into space and absorbs solar rays and energy to fire a devastating beam. I think that this summon reflects a noble and honorable creature that will fight even if it means his own death. I'd like to believe that that is what will best describe my values but that is not what this blog posting is about. This blog posting is on the successful implementation of the Neo Bahamut of Final Fantasy VII into a person (and also if possible a satellite). The Idea I have so far is to have a knight looking person with a large shield planted on the ground (made of Neo Bahamut's six wings) and a sword that revs up when the trigger is pulled (which will be it's tail). Now how this creature transforms from a human looking creature to a Bahamut is by first throwing his shield into the air. The head of Bahamut engulfs the hand (giving it an extra pare of teeth) and reveals a small grove opening, where the handle of the shield fits in and slides down to his back. This right leg becomes the right hand of the Bahamut and has the hand come out of the bottom of the knight looking foot (the foot ends up looking like a bracelet in the Bahamut form). His left leg becomes Bahamuts right leg, (this one looked more like a dragon styled armoured leg) and has the ends of it's toes open for claws. The right arm stays as the right arm, looking exactly like the left Bahamut arm, and the long hair of the man crosses over the back of his body and turns out to be the left leg of the Bahamut. Now the shape of the body was hard for me to figure out but now I have at least an acceptable shape. It's going to be in the shape of a triangle but with the edges round and the vertex concave in. It will have the head and the arm in the middle of the concave parts and will have the legs and arms corresponding. The human will look as though it has a really big chest and a linear body underneath. The right leg rises while the hair slides down the back. It fits through the grove in the waist at the last second and while the waist is twisting around to make the left leg right for the Bahamut. This makes all the libs in the right place while the wings slide straight into place and the human head becomes a cockpit for the Eidolon's master. The tail for the Bahamut gets placed in the pelvis of the human while it is spinning and becomes less rigid than it's sword form. In Bahamut form, it uses beams of energy from it's mouth and uses the edges of his wings as remote control guns like Prodclad from the series (see here). It also uses it's super speed as a weapon, smashing straight into people. Neo Bahamut will use physical and non elemental magic (and if brought back, holly magic). His final attack will send him into space where he will have his dragon head move to the center of his body while his legs and arms hold his head in place. His wing open and charge and when he fires, a large beam comes from his neck and millions of small beams come from his wings. The main beam makes the neck recoil, and after the main beam hits the ground, and the monster falls, the extra wing beams hit after and destroy all the rest of the enemies. I have been thinking about a second Final Fantasy 13 (I know, already, and there are three other Final Fantasy 13's coming out. How will that work?) and you would create your own character and through the decisions you make depends on what Eidolon you get. You would play as though the character takes care of small enemies while the Eidolon takes out the massive enemies, (like the bosses in the old one). You would first chose between Commando and Ravenger and then as the game progressed, you would gain access to two more classes. These three would allow you complete skill upgrade. the others you would get far latter in the game and would be far more limited in the skills acquired. You would also get to choose two elements for your type and those you would be able to strengthen to the most damaging attacks. My Neo Bahamut will automatically be a commando, sentinel and medic being able to use physical and non elemental magic, defences and healing. He can also learn haste as a synergist. The Paradigm system uses a combination of you and your Eidolon being able to single attack, combine attack, Gestalt attack, Single Gestalt attack. These modes allow for running fights and the new fights will have environmental advantages and damages. The TP gauge will allow for the mega attacks and will allow you to fuse with your Eidolon like Cid Rains. The game takes place during the Pulse and Cocoon war. With all the summons already around there will be lots of choices.

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