Am I still going to do this in he midst of my 30 Day Video Game Challenge? Yes Yes, I am, but since we just had a question that dealt with the same thing across the scope of video-gamedom, I’m not going to use the same response, and I should make a caveat that no one else can either, but I think only Cheap Boss Attack picked the same character I did (“the” Tama ughhhhhh), and he’s a resourceful guy who’s played more Final Fantasy and Squeenix games than I have anyway So this week’s question is…
Who is the most annoying character?
As much as I love Final Fantasy IV, it has some of my least favorite main characters. I’ve already expressed my disgust of Edward, rolled my eyes at Edge, and applauded Porom for whacking her brother Palom upside the head numerous times.
I forget whom I was in a conversation with (a common occurrence), but we were discussing how difficult it is for child characters not to be annoying, and it’s true. I don’t find children particularly annoying, no more so than I find particular adults, but child characters are either overly precocious, overly hyper, or a combination of both. It’s difficult to write children/youths, which is ironic since all of us who are adults have lived through that experience. Because we view that age through the lens of (often) rosy nostalgia with a mind more mature, it’s harder to put ourselves back in that place.
I’ve written a few child characters. One in my original novel whom I’ll admit now is very annoying and lately in the Northern Lights flashback with Sephiroth and Aeris. With the flower girl, I did some observation of three year old behavior and asked some of my parent friends, so I’d like to think I portrayed her as more than an annoying, little brat.
So on the subject of annoying, little brats, whom do I find to be the most annoying character…
Ignore the fact that this is an awesome picture by an awesome artist, Yuffie annoyed the fuck out of me. It wasn’t even that she stole all your materia; it was more she had that overly hyper, manic pixie dream girl motif going on without anyone to expend it on. To top that off she was a princess whose father was trying to control her to make it even more cliched (no wonder Disney and Squeenix worked so well together). The only, and I repeat only situation where I found myself liking her was my favorite (FFVII) fanfiction Slumbering Mountains by mihoyanagi, but since that’s not canon, it doesn’t really count in this regard.
Tidus from FFX is a really close second, but he’s passing fair in a fight whereas I rarely if ever used Yuffie. I guess I do kind of like the Yuffentine ship even though it’s kind of creepy with him being so much older than she is. I don’t actively seek out that pairing, but it’s a side ship in Slumbering Mountains (the main of course being Aeriseph), and I like the double unity of opposites it represents.
So what character would you like to yank off the stage with an overly large cane? Since this is a bit of a “negative” question, be nice to each other in the comments, though you’re all pretty excellent with that 🙂
The Shameful Narcissist Speaks 
At least you never had to hear Yuffie’s voice though. That made Tidus the worst for me.
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This…is true. His voice made me want to kick him. I was so annoyed that the very first Final Fantasy with voice acting had him sounding like that. Ugh, I’m sure it was way better in Japanese.
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True, and now that you mention it, I probably wouldn’t have thought as badly of those outlandish costumes if they were Japanese, which I guess is probably vaguely racist somehow? Eh, whatever.
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I will have a LOT more to say about those outfits in a later FF Friday, don’t you worry 😉
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Tidus: HA HA HA HA HA!
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Noooooo, how dare you bring that to my blog D:
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Oh no…I’m not falling for this LMAO.
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There is a 97.2145% chance my answer is still Fi from Skyward Sword… There’s a great spoof on her on YouTube by Dorkly and it just sums up my thoughts on her so well (sums up in a hysterical manner… I know my post sums up my distaste, too haha).
I don’t know Yuffie, but judging from this (admittedly great) picture (by a very talented artist), she is not the type of person I would want to spend time with, either…
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She was kind of creepy especially the parts when she sang. Like Navi was annoying, but Fi had the creep factor going for her. I’d hope the spirit that live in the sword would be…better somehow. Not quite so soulless.
The official Squeenix picture is even more telling.
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Yeah, she was not what I expected a sword spirit to be.
Just checked out the official picture. Yeah. Wow.
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Lightning!
Just kidding. Tidus is annoying, but for me Hope from FFXIII irritated me even more. He came across as so whiny all the time!
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Unless your “Lightning Shelter” is complete, you best tread carefully there, my friend 🙂 But OMG Hope is SO damn annoying… The whiny little kid, Tidus, and Zell are tied for me.
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I’d avoid the Thunder Plains if I were you :p
Hope just looks annoying. I am definitely getting that whiny kid vibe from him. Oddly enough Zell didn’t bother me too much! I don’t know if it was because he had to be pretty bad ass to get that face tattoo or his overzealous, almost puppy nature reminded me of Zack, though I don’t really like Zack, so this makes no sense lol. I wish Tidus would drown, but that f**ker can hold his breath for a really long time *grumbles*
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I don’t hate Hope (he has a good reason for being whiny) but he still annoys me greatly. If that makes any sense at all, haha. I like Zell’s face ink, I just don’t like his personality. It’s hard to drown the Blitzball guy, but there has to be a way lol
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If it wasn’t for Yuna, I’d be glad he was just a dream. She really loved him, and she’s such a sweet, innocent soul that it’s hard not to wish for her happiness.
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Hope is the worst.
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Is he more annoying than Tidus? How is that possible??? Wait, is Hope both annoying and inept in a battle? That would be worst than Tidus. At least he was okay in a fight.
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My mind immediately went to Yuffie too, but also Cait Sith. I never really got him – he’s Reed, a Shinra businessman, but he spoke bizarrely and his moogle was weird. And by the time Advent Children came around, why did Reed still need Cait Sith? Is he a closet furry? So many questions!!!
Also, all the citizens of Zozo 😥
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Sorry, Reeve 😄
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Lol, I knew who you meant :p You’re right though! We knew he was controlling Cait Sith in Advent, sooo wy was CS still around except maybe because he has Cloud’s initials. Maybe he was planning on replacing him o.O
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I’m sticking with my “closet furry” theory.
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I mean, I can’t DISPROVE it. Just don’t leave poor Red in the same room with him D:
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Is it bad that I find Red XIII so forgettable? 😓
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Poor Red! He’s a very quiet, docile member of the crew..unless you get into a fight. I still can’t decide if he’s more cat-like or dog-like. I’ve seen him drawn more cat/lion-like and he does have that mane.
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The moogle was weird looking, and I have a theory about that. There are no moogles in VII or VIII, and VII is such a dystopian world. Well during VI the entire world was broken and the moogles pretty much went underground. You found that one cave where there were a bunch of them and you could get Mog. So maybe Reeve built the moogle based on the limited knowledge people still had for them. That’s just my crack theory hehe. I pronounce Cait Sith weirdly because I found out it’s Celtic for “magic cat” and it’s said “kett shee,” but again I’m a werido :p
That whole town was annoying. If we have to have a town where it’s raining all the time, I much prefer Burmecia. They may be rat people, but at least they weren’t trying to kill you or rob you blind.
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I the-think I the-also said the-the the-Tama and I the-stand by the-it.
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Ughhhh, it’s like Squeenix felt the need to take every annoying character they’d ever created, mash them together, and make them a chibi fox with a high voice and ridiculous speech pattern. I’d honestly rather have that dog from Duck Hunt as your self-imposed guide in WOFF than Tama. I mean sure he’ll laugh at you every time you miss an enemy, but at least he wouldn’t insert random “thes” where they don’t belong.
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I wouldn’t mind Tama in Duck Hunt. Wouldn’t be taking the place of the dog though. 😛
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That’s no clay pigeon!!
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