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about
Final Fantasy VI is among the first Final Fantasy games I played. I didn't get to play the game until many years after it had been released -- and, strangely enough, after I'd already played the next two in the Final Fantasy series -- VII and VIII. When the Super Nintendo and Sega Genesis systems were battling it out for superiority in the hearts of gamers, my parents decided they'd had enough of Nintendo for a while (we'd already gone through two NES' by that point) and opted to buy my brother and I a Genesis. This is in no way a complaint: I love my Genesis to beans, and I don't know what I would have done if I'd have missed it. But I did lose out on one generation of Nintendo lovelies, including such RPG unmissables as Chrono Trigger and Super Mario RPG. I already knew about the game -- how could I not? Not just by concluding there must be IV if there was a VII and VIII, I'd been travelling the web in the late nineties, in particular gaming sites, and discovered that there was actually a game that some people felt superseded Final Fantasy VII -- in my mind, a preposterous proposition if there ever was one! After the initial disbelief fizzled away, I decided to see what was so great about Final Fantasy VI. I acquired the game by special means (and you know what I mean by special, I'm sure) and set aside a few days to play it. And of course I found it amazingly awesome (though perhaps not as awesome as its successor, but whether that be because I didn't play it first or because it just wasn't as good, I can't say). It became a game I'd go back to every year for a play-through; it's just one of those games that has an inherent nostalgic aspect that doesn't seem to run out over time.
The best part of the game, in my humble opinion, was the characters. Not only how many characters there were, but how unique and well-rounded each of them was, and the fact that each had
his or her own story which in the best of times criss-crossed with other characters' stories. I adored Locke as the not exactly typical When Final Fantasy VI was re-released for Gameboy Advance, I grabbed it up and set to playing through the beloved tale for yet another year. I decided it was high time I make a fansite for one of my favourite characters in the game, and thus Trust Your Heart was born. name"Trust Your Heart" came about quite randomly. I was trying to come up with a name, and Googled "two worlds" (from the fact that Terra is of both the human and esper worlds) to see if anything inspiring might come up. What I got was the lyrics to Phil Collin's "Two Worlds". In Google's text preview, something immediately stood out: the lyric from the third line, "trust your heart". I thought this was perfect for Terra, who struggled through most of her tale in believing that others cared for her and just what exactly that strange thing called love was. Terra eventually comes to "trust her heart", thanks to the love the child orphans she cares for in the World of Ruin give her.
Content and layout copyright © Aeryvae. Terra Branford and all other items pertaining to Final Fantasy VI copyright © Yoshitaka Amano and Square-Enix Co., Ltd.
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