Headscratchers / Dissidia Final Fantasy: Opera Omnia

• If the world is supposedly barren of people and towns, where did Golbez get enough people to man the whole airship fleet he commands against the party at the end of Chapter 8? Is it the humanoid-ish enemies such as those knights? An army of manikins? Do manikins control Kefka's magitek armors as well?
  • Someone hasn't played Final Fantasy IV. In that game, monsters could interact with doors and were seen in airships. Seeing how the world of Opera Omnia is composed of the worlds of every Final Fantasy, it's not too much of a stretch to assert his airship works according to that law.
  • This is eventually answered by the Reality Warper powers granted to everyone by applying their strength of will.
• If Materia only wants to erase the unpleasant memories from her warriors, how come Squall has all his memories up to the end of FFVIII but Zell and Quistis don't? There are a couple instances of weird memory gaps like this that aren't consistent across the board and it's unclear as to why. Furthermore, the entire cast of VI has memories of the World of Ruin, which is pretty traumatic, but they were allowed to keep them anyway.
  • Materia's recent declaration of this also contradicts the characters' realization that they erased their own memories, so perhaps it's up to what the character considers unpleasant?
• In Act 2, Chapter 10:
  • The Dark Manikins make it a point to say that only their counterparts from the World of Light can take their brilliance. But how come Kefka was able to steal the brilliance from the FFVI cast's Dark Manikins in Act 2, Chapter 5, in order to create a new Blackened Will?
    • Maybe it's because the manikins are from the same world as him. That, or the Dark Manikins weren't telling the exact truth.
  • A much less important nitpick, but at one point Alisaie asks Fran if she's the same race as the rest of the party. Not only has this already been covered in previous scenes, but the world of FFXIV already has Viera, so Alisaie should know.
    • The Doylist answer is that these scenes were written prior to the release of Shadowbringers which introduced Viera to XIV. Alisaie wouldn't know about Fran's race because on a meta level they didn't exist in Hydaelyn yet.

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