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00:00Listen to my story.
00:04This may be our last chance.
00:07Welcome to Mojo Plays, and it seems that if you don't have a dramatically tragic and dark backstory,
00:13you have no business being in a Final Fantasy game.
00:16But even by those standards, these are by far some of the most devastating in the entire series.
00:22Good day to you, Mother.
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00:40Cloud Strife, Final Fantasy VII.
00:43This one here.
00:46Intriguing.
00:47Most intriguing.
00:49He'll make a fine test subject.
00:52While the argument could be made for Sephiroth's fall and some would say justified villainous turn,
00:58we think Cloud has a much more tragic backstory.
01:01Cloud always felt like a bit of an outsider with other kids,
01:05but thought he finally found his purpose within Soldier.
01:08But after being unable to make it into the esteemed program,
01:12Cloud, his new friend Zack, and Cloud's entire hometown of Nibelheim,
01:16came under siege from Sephiroth's wrath, and Cloud was left gravely injured alongside Zack.
01:21Cloud and Zack were then experimented on by Professor Hojo for years,
01:26leading Cloud to suffer from severe Mako poisoning.
01:29After a year on the run from Shinra,
01:31Zack was killed and, due to Cloud's broken psyche from all the experiments,
01:35believed Zack's life to be his and took up the mantle of a former soldier first class turned mercenary,
01:42with only the events of the rest of the game finally restoring his true memories.
01:49Cloud.
01:49Cloud.
01:51You did it.
01:54VV Ornateer.
01:56Final Fantasy IX.
02:05Although the humble little mage is optimistic, albeit very shy,
02:10VV's tragic origins would be enough to break a weaker mage.
02:14As Queen Brawn's aspirations for power grew,
02:17she and her weapons dealer Kuja used the mist to manufacture Black Mages,
02:22hollow drones with incredible magic powers to attack the neighboring kingdoms.
02:26As production grew, more powerful Black Mages were created,
02:30leading to the prototype which would become known as VV.
02:33This smaller Black Mage was designed to be intelligent and autonomous,
02:38capable of independent thought compared to the other Black Mages.
02:41VV was originally intended to be sent directly to Alexandria,
02:45but fell from the ship and was eventually found by Quan,
02:48who took him in and raised him as his own.
02:51VV would eventually discover not only his origins,
02:54but other Black Mages who had also awakened,
02:56but unfortunately had a limited lifespan,
02:59likely including his own.
03:06Barrett Wallace, Final Fantasy VII.
03:09Practically the whole damn town came out to crap on him.
03:12Someone tell me why I'm the only one who's pissed here.
03:20I told you I can take it.
03:23We can't talk about tragic and disturbing backstories
03:26without mentioning Barrett's own overlooked origins.
03:29Barrett was the driving force in his town accepting a deal with Shinra,
03:33only for the organization to naturally betray everyone and destroy the town.
03:37Barrett joined the fight against them alongside his friend Dain,
03:41but the forces of Shinra was too much,
03:43and while Barrett was injured during the assault, losing his arm,
03:46Dain fell to his apparent death.
03:49Barrett returned to what remained of his home
03:50and found Dain's young daughter Marlene.
03:53In his guilt, Barrett adopted the young girl as his own
03:56and left his town behind,
03:58searching for a better life for Marlene and himself.
04:01He eventually found it in Midgard with Tifa and Avalanche,
04:04but never lost his hatred for Shinra
04:06and what they had done to him and so many others,
04:09leading him to fight back against the megacorporation.
04:13There's a whole lot of blood on my hands, too.
04:18Prompto Argentum, Final Fantasy XV.
04:20You're just gonna have to push her all the way.
04:23I've already pushed myself to the brink of death.
04:28You'll get up.
04:29Given his fun and carefree demeanor,
04:31you'd be forgiven for not realizing
04:33just how upsetting Prompto's origins truly are.
04:36Much like Vivi, Prompto was born from a cloning program
04:39meant to increase the Niflheim army.
04:41However, Prompto was kidnapped and brought to the Crown City
04:44where he grew up as an orphan,
04:46his barcode marker as a clone ostracizing him
04:49from the rest of the kids.
04:50Without friends, Prompto's only true passions
04:53were taking pictures and food,
04:55leading him to become slightly overweight.
04:57After inadvertently helping Lady Lunafreya's puppy,
05:00he was introduced to Noctis, another loner,
05:03and promptly made a fool of himself.
05:05Undeterred, he became motivated to lose weight
05:08and reintroduced himself to Noctis,
05:10eventually becoming one of his closest friends.
05:13A happy ending to a tragic beginning.
05:16It took me a while,
05:18but I finally found my answer.
05:21Seymour Guado, Final Fantasy X
05:23I am Seymour Guado.
05:26I am honored to receive the title of Maester.
05:28Much like Sephiroth,
05:30some villains are born due to circumstances
05:32outside of their control,
05:33and that's exactly what led to the rise of Seymour Guado
05:36as the main antagonist of Final Fantasy X.
05:39The son of a human Anaguado,
05:41Seymour was condemned as an abomination
05:43compared to the rest of humanity,
05:45and despite his mother's best efforts,
05:47was never truly accepted by either race.
05:50Seymour's mother would then attempt to become a faith,
05:53giving Seymour the opportunity to defeat Sin
05:55and hopefully find some acceptance in the world.
05:58However, Seymour had no interest in saving the world
06:01or defeating Sin,
06:02and eventually he became secluded from the world,
06:04his hatred only growing more ferocious in his isolation,
06:08which he would eventually unleash on the world that had shunned him.
06:11Don't you ever give up?
06:13Sin has chosen me.
06:15I am part of Sin.
06:17I am one with Sin forever.
06:20Clive Rossfield, Final Fantasy XVI
06:23This is it then.
06:25Time to prove yourself.
06:28Wishing on a star.
06:29While others had horrible situations put on them,
06:32Clive Rossfield of Final Fantasy XVI was born into it.
06:36As the firstborn son,
06:37Clive was expected to become the dominant of the Phoenix,
06:40but because he was born without the gift,
06:42became despised by his own mother
06:44and treated like a commoner in her eyes.
06:47Once his brother Joshua was born as the dominant of Phoenix,
06:50Clive dedicated his life to protecting his younger brother,
06:53only for even more tragedy to befall him and his family.
06:56Betrayed by his mother over her desire for more power,
06:59his kingdom is raided and his father is murdered.
07:02To add even more misery,
07:04Joshua's powers fully awaken,
07:06and he becomes the Phoenix,
07:07which awakens the latent dominant power within Clive as well,
07:10becoming the dominant of Ifrit.
07:12Driven by incomparable grief,
07:15Ifrit and the Phoenix clash,
07:16leading Clive to believe he killed his own brother.
07:19Joshua!
07:22No!
07:28TIDUS
07:29Final Fantasy X
07:30Listen to my story.
07:34This may be our last chance.
07:37As the star Blitzball player in Zanarkand,
07:40TIDUS always lived in his father Chet's shadow.
07:43During a game,
07:44the entity known as Sin attacks Zanarkand,
07:46laying waste to the entire city.
07:48TIDUS is saved alongside his mentor Oron
07:50and is supposedly transported 1,000 years into the future to the world of Spira,
07:55where Sin continues to be a deadly threat to the world's inhabitants.
07:59Throughout his journey,
08:00TIDUS not only discovers his father Jet didn't abandon him all those years ago,
08:04and was instead transported to Spira as well.
08:06Somehow during Jet's original pilgrimage,
08:09he became Sin,
08:10and through the destruction of Zanarkand,
08:12created the Dream Zanarkand,
08:14created by the spirits killed by Sin as a memorial to the lost souls.
08:18This means TIDUS never truly existed,
08:21and by defeating Sin,
08:22he is erasing his own existence.
08:37Princess Garnet,
08:38Final Fantasy IX
08:51Princess Garnet Till Alexandrios,
08:53the 17th,
08:54or better known as Dagger,
08:55had her original life tragically taken from her.
08:58A summoner living a peaceful life in Medane Sari,
09:02her village is wiped out by big bad of Final Fantasy IX,
09:05Garland,
09:06Dagger and her mother narrowly escape the devastation
09:08on a little boat,
09:10only to get caught in a storm,
09:11and her mother perishes protecting her.
09:13Found washed ashore in Alexandria,
09:16Dagger is adopted by Queen Brawn
09:18to replace her recently deceased daughter Garnet.
09:20Queen Brawn removes Dagger's summoner horn,
09:23and due to the traumatic events of her youth
09:25and journey to Alexandria,
09:26Dagger loses her memories of her fellow summoners and Medane Sari.
09:30All the while,
09:31her adoptive mother Queen Brawn,
09:33aware of her powers as a summoner,
09:35was merely biding her time
09:36until Dagger's powers awaken to use her
09:38as part of her scheme
09:39to conquer the surrounding kingdoms.
09:49Tara Branford,
09:50Final Fantasy VI
09:51Tara's tragedy comes from a lack of choice.
09:54Born as a half-esper,
09:55a being capable of wielding magic,
09:58her human mother is killed,
09:59and her father is taken to the Castilian Empire
10:01for experiments,
10:03along with Tara herself.
10:04Her entire life,
10:06she is used as a weapon,
10:07controlled by a slave crown,
10:09and forced to obey the Empire's every command,
10:11no matter how horrific.
10:13Eventually,
10:14Tara is freed from the Empire and the Crown,
10:16but given this had been her entire life
10:18since nearly birth,
10:19she is completely naive to the world,
10:21and has no memories of her entire life,
10:24leading her to become a tool of the Returners
10:26to fight against the Empire.
10:27Although she would eventually regain her memories
10:30and her independence,
10:32almost her entire life was against her will.
10:35Arden Azunia,
10:36Final Fantasy XV
10:37Consider it your allowance.
10:40Huh?
10:41Yeah.
10:41And who's allowing us?
10:45A man of no consequence.
10:47Born to be the first Lucian King,
10:49Arden traveled the world,
10:51healing his subjects of the Star Scourge disease,
10:53absorbing the demonic scourge into himself,
10:56making use of his healing powers
10:57given to him by the Crystal of Eos.
11:00However,
11:01this selfless act would be his undoing.
11:03Despite all his sacrifices,
11:05the Crystals and the Astrals
11:07deemed him too corrupted,
11:08and his brother lured him back to the kingdom
11:10to kill him.
11:11But,
11:12during their conflict,
11:13Arden's fiance was killed by Somnus,
11:15attempting to save him.
11:16Arden,
11:17overcome with grief,
11:18unleashed the demonic Star Scourge kept within,
11:21and although his brother attempted to kill him,
11:23the Star Scourge combined with his healing powers
11:25made him immortal.
11:27So Somnus locked him away on an island,
11:29and erased his existence from history.
11:32Arden would remain hidden on the island,
11:34and forgotten for over 2,000 years,
11:36and was eventually driven mad,
11:38trapped with all those demons over the two millennia.
11:41Why do the gods deny me my revenge?
11:44Because thou hast been chosen to serve a different purpose.
11:48To spread darkness throughout the world,
11:52is thy tomb calling.
11:54Whose tragic origins in the Final Fantasy series
11:57filled you with heartbreak?
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