[@Gohan][@Raddum]
Emperor Mateus, Firion, and Terra are all completed and moved over to the character tab. I've added a few extra details about Emperor Mateus, but I'm still avoiding spoilers outside of hints.

As for getting Raddum up to date -- if we're only counting things that were directed at you (so you can respond to them ) then I think everything I'll be mentioning in this post should be all or most of it. I won't be including random discussion about Final Fantasy games we like or other chatting, so if you want to read any of that then look back and do it when you've got time.

I had some thoughts regarding Kefka, since you bringing him up in response to Emperor Mateus was our last discussion point:

[hider=My thoughts on Kefka]
[quote=Shoryu Magami]As for Kefka himself, I'm actually imagining the fact that The Emperor is proficient in advanced weaponry development could result in them working together -- he could contribute to Magitek weaponry development, something which never came into play during Dissidia. With that said, The Emperor's personality means he wouldn't actually like Kefka, but he's manipulative enough not to let that show [i]until[/i] your aforementioned 'turn everyone to dust' moment.[/quote][/hider]
I also mentioned that possibility of Exdeath coming over, since his presence would help to move the plot I have in mind for The Emperor forward. I didn't want to have him come over just to be a plot device though, so I might wait until you decide on Galuf first -- no pressure to use Galuf though, since Exdeath won't be essential to my ideas. There was also discussion about me possibly bringing over Auron at some point to counterbalance Jecht (if I use Jecht), regardless of whether you bring over Tidus or not. Cecil and Golbez are still high on the priority list too, and I discussed how I've got other possible characters I'll bring over but didn't name them all.

We've discussed having the heroes split up into a few groups - due to a plot reason that you don't need to worry about but feel free to read back if you want to know what I had in mind - in order to prevent them all being in a single place at one time, while the villains start together. Due to another plot reason I contributed, new heroes and villains can appear over time instead of the usual cycles where they're all summoned right from the start. Whenever we post IC we'll be 'segmenting' our posts (we post multiple characters in one post, but separate the content) when they're not in one place, in order to avoid confusions. There was also discussion about how the heroes should be the priority of the narrative - not the villains - but I felt that Marche could probably be the reader's 'eyes' on the villain side since he's not a 'proper' villain completely and is still technically the main character of a game.

Gohan asked me which characters I thought would work best for the parties initially as some of the heroes started meeting each other shortly after they appear whenever they get summoned to. I responded with the following recommendations (which we wanted your opinion of) based off an analysis of their personalities, role-players, and other factors:

[hider=Party Recommendations]
[quote=Shoryu Magami][list]
[*] [b]Firion:[/b] If you've read Terra's profile, you'll know that I personally believe that Firion bears an uncanny resemblance to Locke -- something I will undoubtedly play with if/when Firion and Terra encounter each other. It doesn't need to happen immediately (I've got a plot idea for Terra to occur down the line that could force a meeting), and these two shouldn't be together needlessly to avoid me role-playing with myself constantly instead of with you guys. With that said, I'm not entirely certain who would be the ideal paring for him -- I believe I could adapt to anyone, but - outside of Kain possibly thinking Firion's personality resembles Cecil's (his resolve, willpower, passion, virtue, et cetera) - there isn't too many options for a foil.
[*] [b]Kain:[/b] As stated earlier, I think he would probably think Firion bears some resemblance to Cecil, at least in terms of his personality. Besides this, he might have an interesting balance with several characters. His serious and troubled personality could balance well with more than just Firion -- he could actually work well as a foil to Layle's personality from what I could tell (but this is a bad idea since you're both characters) and could also be interesting with Terra due to how timid, gentle, and withdrawn she is; in fact, she might even remind him of Rosa. Whether he works well with Ritz or not sort of depends on how much their serious personalities clash.
[*] [b]Terra:[/b] I think her personality is in stark contrast with at least the 'tough' part of the personality of Ritz, though not so much the more sensitive half. Nevertheless, there's possibility for them to foil each other, but putting the two females together could make the parties lack gender diversity. I've already stated that I want her to encounter Firion, but it doesn't need to happen right from the beginning. I think I could make Terra interesting regardless of who she ends up pairing with out of this lot, since Terra's personality always worked around a very dynamic party in her own game.
[*] [b]Ritz:[/b] As I stated earlier, we may or may not want to stick both of the female characters together. Doing so could stifle diversity, but at the same time I'm getting a very 'Tsundere' vibe from how I read her profile and this makes me think she's a noticeable foil to Terra. Otherwise, Ritz might work best with Layle due to him seeming like a bit of a troublemaker from his profile -- this indicates he would be a good foil for her. The latter option might be best to avoid lack of diversity in the genders of the parties.
[*] [b]Layle:[/b] As suggested above, I think Ritz might be his ideal foil to make things interesting. Otherwise, sticking him with any serious character should balance out his more mischievous personality. The other characters are all serious in one form or another. It might be a good idea to have Ritz and Layle together, then Firion or Terra join them if we have an uneven number of people or choose to do groups of three instead of groups of four.[/list]
With these thoughts in mind, I recommend these parties (if we start with five characters -- my thoughts will change if either you, me, or Raddum introduce more heroes before we start or plan to shortly after starting): Firion/Ritz/Layle and Kain/Terra, or Firion/Kain and Terra/Ritz/Layle.[/quote][/hider]
Lastly, we had this discussion concerning the person who would role-play Chaos (Gohan is playing Cosmos):

[hider=Role-playing Chaos]
[quote=Shoryu Magami]I've decided to bring this up since we haven't gone into it completely yet. Gohan mentioned not wanting to play Cosmos and Chaos at the same time, due to not wanting it to feel like he was 'playing chess against himself' from what I can tell. With this in mind, I suggest Raddum playing Chaos - unless he doesn't want to - because I'm sort of considering The Emperor as a third faction of sorts given how he isn't loyal to Chaos at all and could very realistically become a serious threat to him as the story progresses.

If Raddum doesn't want to play him, I'll take him on - just be warned I might have a difficult time being unbiased with it -- unless you guys don't care about that since Chaos (who is mostly a plot device) is unlikely to be as interesting of a villain as The Emperor will be.[/quote][/hider]