nosimpleway
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Digging through old stuff on FF6 for that other thread reminded me.
When you fight Ultros for the first time on the Lethe River, Ultros ducks back underwater to escape. Sabin leaps into the water after him, because Sabin is hotheaded and kind of an idiot. This separates Sabin from the remaining party of Edgar, Terra, and Banon... and the raft.
Sabin floats down the Lethe until the start of his own scenario. During this time, he drowns. Sabin is dead. Sabin is a ghost, but since he's kind of an idiot, he doesn't realize it. He meets Shadow, who may or may not also be dead. He meets Cyan, who totally died along with the rest of Doma when Kefka poisoned everyone. No other reason is given for Cyan's survival, and presumably he drinks water like everyone else. (Even moss drinks wate-- wait, wrong game.)
The two, perhaps three, wandering spirits then go to the Phantom Forest and board the Phantom Train, as ghosts are supposed to do. Then, because Sabin is a bit of an idiot, he suplexes the Phantom Train, making himself such a nuisance that the train shoves him off and tells him he and his friends get to live, just don't come back. Sabin returns to life, and brings Cyan and perhaps Shadow with him, because he is simply too stupid to die.
It is at this point that Sabin goes "Well, I'm functionally immortal, now that the psychopomp who ferries the souls of the dead to the afterlife refuses to have anything to do with me. I could do the most reckless things imaginable -- continue to do the most reckless things imaginable, I suppose -- and suffer no consequences for it. The world is my oyster." At least, he could, if he weren't an idiot. What Sabin actually goes is "WOOOOOOO" as he leaps headfirst over a waterfall.
When you fight Ultros for the first time on the Lethe River, Ultros ducks back underwater to escape. Sabin leaps into the water after him, because Sabin is hotheaded and kind of an idiot. This separates Sabin from the remaining party of Edgar, Terra, and Banon... and the raft.
Sabin floats down the Lethe until the start of his own scenario. During this time, he drowns. Sabin is dead. Sabin is a ghost, but since he's kind of an idiot, he doesn't realize it. He meets Shadow, who may or may not also be dead. He meets Cyan, who totally died along with the rest of Doma when Kefka poisoned everyone. No other reason is given for Cyan's survival, and presumably he drinks water like everyone else. (Even moss drinks wate-- wait, wrong game.)
The two, perhaps three, wandering spirits then go to the Phantom Forest and board the Phantom Train, as ghosts are supposed to do. Then, because Sabin is a bit of an idiot, he suplexes the Phantom Train, making himself such a nuisance that the train shoves him off and tells him he and his friends get to live, just don't come back. Sabin returns to life, and brings Cyan and perhaps Shadow with him, because he is simply too stupid to die.
It is at this point that Sabin goes "Well, I'm functionally immortal, now that the psychopomp who ferries the souls of the dead to the afterlife refuses to have anything to do with me. I could do the most reckless things imaginable -- continue to do the most reckless things imaginable, I suppose -- and suffer no consequences for it. The world is my oyster." At least, he could, if he weren't an idiot. What Sabin actually goes is "WOOOOOOO" as he leaps headfirst over a waterfall.