[quote=@Shoryu Magami] [@Raddum] I don't know if we want to keep up this 'put our responses in hiders thing', but I'll do it again and let you decide to do it or not depending on whether you've got responses to give after that. 'What if' concepts are always interesting so long as they remain in canon, which makes sense in this case due to how unstable Zidane was before his friends pretty much snapped him out of himself. I've been planning on playing with the idea of romance with Terra - whether or not any of the characters present do or don't end up becoming the object of her affections is another story entirely - since it was actually a plot element that was explored frequently with Terra in the game, what with her trying to understand love and asking people about it, feeling it inappropriate for her due to not being 'normal' until it finally cultivated in her acceptance of the concept and building up enough courage to express it (as illustrated in my opening quote for her in the CS). Having someone flirt with her just allows me to explore that more. [/quote] I think Gohan probably saw him by now, since he was here; So we can stop the silly hider stuff. Regardless of Zidane's flirting, he'll end up stopping once his memories return: Or, at least he'd keep his perverted thoughts to himself. While, for the moment, he doesn't remember Garnet; Once he does he'll stop entirely on any possible advances on the female cast due to his devotion to Garnet herself. But that'd require him to remember pretty much everything, so it'd be late into the plot. Which, depending on what happens, could be extremely awkward since his feelings for Garnet will end up being pointed towards Terra herself. But awkward in a good sense, you know? He'd probably end up feeling pretty bad about it once his memory returns; It's impossible to, as of the moment, explain exactly what would happen aside from Zidane feeling like a bit of a scumbag and being extremely apologetic. [quote=@Shoryu Magami] I think I understand the whole circling quest comment, but feel free to clarify if you want to avoid possible misconceptions. As for the whole concept of them manipulating him through information about Terra, I probably should ask you to be more specific about what memories or information he [i]does[/i] have. Is it just that the name 'Terra' is significant to him, or is there more information? At any rate, I agree with you about the idea of Zidane projecting since it makes a lot of sense and works well. I was imagining Terra projecting a little onto people as well. My biggest reservations with bringing over Kuja stemmed from a lack of counterbalance character (Freya is sort of someone he's indifferent towards) and also due to concerns that my ideas for him would be too similar to what The Emperor will end up doing, so this does open the door for me to be interesting if I get the inspiration for it. You've brought up some of what I could do with it, assuming I find a timeline version of Kuja I want to roll with. [/quote] "If you do this, I'll tell you more about this! But to finish telling you about this, you must also do this." And so forth. He'll be curious about what exactly they know; But he isn't going to do a bunch of bullshit for the information. They can tell him, accept monetary payment, or piss off. As far as what he knows, he basically just has flashes of the revelation by Garland; And nothing else to go on but his instincts. He has an idea of what he's capable of; But he'll take a bit to regain the entirety of his skillset, as well. He'll mostly return to being a full-powered Zidane after he manages to enter Trance for the first time; It'll spark his abilities back into his mind, and allow him to use his slightly improved EX-BURST. All that Zidane knows is he was told he was fated to destroy 'Terra'. He doesn't know that Terra is actually a planet from his own world, rather than the woman of the conveniently same name on the opposite side of this current conflict. Once he actually meets Terra he'll question himself, and become uncertain of why he's actually supposed to do it. I felt sort of at home putting Zidane on Chaos not just because of the ideas I have for him, but also because him and Freya were friends before the rest of the cast; And she's one of the most likely characters to be able to kick his ass for what he's doing. Due to how the groups are split; They might not actually meet for awhile, meaning there's time for Zidane to be on his personal hunt quest before his memory comes back a little; If not only to his days of being a little thieving rat. As for countering Kuja, I agree: There's no good character to oppose him. Freya has plenty of reason to hate him late-game, but she's just one of Zidane's followers to him; Nothing special. All-in-all, it might just be a good idea to leave him out of this cycle. It brings a sort of irony; Kuja always sees himself as 'superior' to Zidane, but Zidane is chosen by Chaos as a Warrior instead. It might just be to spice things up with the lineups, but still a little something to use as an excuse, possibly.