Jiro
Average Jiro
Barret Wallace is a fascinating character. I want to talk about him a bit, so I'll raise a couple of points of interest and we can all have a lovely chinwag about it.
Barret is blamed by the people of Mt Corel for the complete destruction of their town, despite being literally the only person in Corel to oppose the reactor and Shinra. What gives here? Poor guy goes out of town for a couple days and they brand him the sole person responsible.
As far as parenting goes, Barret doesn't do too badly. He has some serious issues with abandoning the girl he's supposed to have adopted though. Come Advent Children, she's living with Tifa even, while daddy plays oil tycoon.
His gunarm raises a whole bunch of interesting questions. Who is the doctor who performed such an operation (and wtf was he smoking)? Who decides to get a gun grafted onto their arm? What are his weapons - the upgrades you can find in each town - actually meant to be: are they firearms repurposed for Barret's use or are they actually gunarm attachments (hinting at the possibility of more people with gunarms)?
Is it ever explained how he realises that Mako is actually the Planet's lifeblood? I assume it was from the guy in Cosmo Canyon, but Barret's knowledge of this does raise questions of how fucking posh does everyone else have to be in order to use Mako (seemingly) knowing full well the consequences? Of course you can say "but Jiro we still use fossil fuels and fight wars etc which is clearly bad for the planet etc" and I would say "well played sir or madam."
How does he come across Biggs, Wedge, and Jessie? They're unlikely to be old friends seeing as the handful of people who survived Corel are fucking assholes to him. Seems odd that Barret would just kind of show up in Midgar and hand out leaflets saying "join AVALANCHE" or whatever.
He seems to handle being toppled as the leader rather well after the initial post-Kalm sequence. D'you reckon it's the severity of the Sephiroth threat that gets his ego in check, or what?
There was probably something else I was going to mention but it's 5am and these thoughts are stopping me from going back to sleep
DISCUSS BARRET AND #^$&
Barret is blamed by the people of Mt Corel for the complete destruction of their town, despite being literally the only person in Corel to oppose the reactor and Shinra. What gives here? Poor guy goes out of town for a couple days and they brand him the sole person responsible.
As far as parenting goes, Barret doesn't do too badly. He has some serious issues with abandoning the girl he's supposed to have adopted though. Come Advent Children, she's living with Tifa even, while daddy plays oil tycoon.
His gunarm raises a whole bunch of interesting questions. Who is the doctor who performed such an operation (and wtf was he smoking)? Who decides to get a gun grafted onto their arm? What are his weapons - the upgrades you can find in each town - actually meant to be: are they firearms repurposed for Barret's use or are they actually gunarm attachments (hinting at the possibility of more people with gunarms)?
Is it ever explained how he realises that Mako is actually the Planet's lifeblood? I assume it was from the guy in Cosmo Canyon, but Barret's knowledge of this does raise questions of how fucking posh does everyone else have to be in order to use Mako (seemingly) knowing full well the consequences? Of course you can say "but Jiro we still use fossil fuels and fight wars etc which is clearly bad for the planet etc" and I would say "well played sir or madam."
How does he come across Biggs, Wedge, and Jessie? They're unlikely to be old friends seeing as the handful of people who survived Corel are fucking assholes to him. Seems odd that Barret would just kind of show up in Midgar and hand out leaflets saying "join AVALANCHE" or whatever.
He seems to handle being toppled as the leader rather well after the initial post-Kalm sequence. D'you reckon it's the severity of the Sephiroth threat that gets his ego in check, or what?
There was probably something else I was going to mention but it's 5am and these thoughts are stopping me from going back to sleep
DISCUSS BARRET AND #^$&
