Hope and Lightning are quite possibly two of my favourite video game characters ever, and I don't just mean from the Final Fantasy series. When I started to play Final Fantasy XIII, I hated them both. Lightning was trying to be Cloud which was annoying and Hope was a whiny little brat that I wanted to strangle.
So what made this transgression from hate to love? In a game where character development was pretty poor, both these characters did develop. Hope went from being a little prick, to being the one at the end who stands up to the final boss and urges the other character to do the same. Lightning mellows and develops her own personality. She goes from being a bit of an asshole to being a genuinely caring person. And together they are awesome.
The part of the game when you are playing as just the two of them, was one of my favourite bits. They both started to wear down the defences that the other one had and they seemed to genuinely care for each other. The fact that Lightning hugs him, only ever seems to smile at him strengthens my view that they are indeed in love (or in the stages of falling in love) So to have him in the new game, when he's clearly going to be older (read that as legal lol)I'm really looking forward to it. I can't wait to see how he reacts to Lightning, or how Lightning will react seeing that he's grown up :) Soooooo excited.
This has also given me an idea to do a post about my favourite game couples.....hmmmm or maybe just characters in general.
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