Friday, April 24, 2009

Tina Branford FFVI


Tina Branford (ティナ・ブランフォード ,Tina Buranfōdo?) is the first character introduced in Final Fantasy VI. She's a girl of mysterious origins and was born with the power of magic. In the Japanese versions of the game, her job class is given as "Magic Fighter"; the GBA version gives her class as "Magitek Elite". Although Yoshitaka Amano designed Terra with blonde hair, the hair color was changed to green in the game itself. Amano has stated in an interview that Terra was his favorite character to design.
Terra is the daughter of the Esper Maduin and a human mother, Madeline (Madonna in the original translation). Her heritage as a magical being is the source of her powers. Terra was raised as a soldier of the Empire after Gestahl's forces attacked the Espers' home and captured several of the creatures. Her potential was quickly realized, and it's said that she destroyed fifty Magitek soldiers in a single exercise. When the game begins, Terra is wearing a Slave Crown that suppresses her free will and gives the Empire complete control over her. An encounter with the frozen Esper, Valigarmanda (Tritoch in the original US translation), in the mines of Narshe breaks the Crown's control over her, but leaves her as an amnesiac. She is rescued by Arvis, and later, Locke, both members of the Returners, an underground anti-Empire resistance movement, and eventually joins its ranks.
After the destruction of the Floating Continent, Terra finds her way to Mobliz, and has lost the will to fight. She looks after the orphaned children with the teenaged Duane and Katarin, until one day when Humbaba (Phunbaba in the original translation), a monster that had defeated her before, attacks; she assists the party in defeating him once and for all, and joins them. Although she is expected to fade along with the rest of the Espers when magic disappears from the world, she is told by the Magicite remains of her father Maduin that she can choose to leave her Esper side behind, and she does.

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