Lack of Oracle’s powers in Kingslglaive and this whole nonsense with Ring can be explained by the fact that during production Luna wasn’t Oracle. Moreover, Luna wasn’t Luna. Look at the pictures of early Kingsglaive footage, see something familiar? Say hello to Stella.
Third picture is the game CGI models lined up with the preproduction version of Nyx’s CGI model. Tabata’s team had Stella’s model working on Luminous Studio engine! It wasn’t simple port from Versus build, it’s new model. And for some idiotic reason they decided to cut off existed character with finished model and replace with new one.
Many people noticed major difference between Luna’s personality in game and movie. Now answer is obvious - Kingsglaive’s original script was written with different main heroine. It doesn’t automatically mean that Lunafreya in movie is what Nomura’s Stella (Versus XIII Stella had the same powers as Noctis and could’ve kick Glauca’s ass easily) supposed to be, but she is definitely closer to Stella from Versus trailers than to her FFXV incarnation. She was more morally ambiguous in Kingsglaive, she acted more casual and her fireworks scene with Nyx is recreation of Stella and Noctis first meeting in Versus.
Lunafreya in Kingslglaive was intermediate character between Stella and current Luna.
Perhaps after Tabata get rid of Stella, Kingsglaive team continued to work with some abstract “Princess of Tenebrae” concept. They didn’t give her any powers, because they didn’t know her actual role. According to Roberto Ferrari (lead concept artist) FFXV writers changed plot every 3 months. I would not be surprised if Oracle’s story, Starscourge and Astrals all this nonsensical crap was added into last minutes, because team needed something to replace original Fabula Nova Crystallis mythology.
@anheiressofasoldier here is something for you.
P.S. Anon with Noctis ask, I`ll answer you a bit later (it’s going to be quite big post, which I’m afraid to fail with my awful English).
have YOU read the sleeping realm theory yet?? i did and i lost my mind
I hope I see you soon, Noct…
@loveiscosmicsin you asked I give
○ Noctis Lucis Caelum + Stella Nox Fleuret || Nyx Ulric + Lunafreya Nox Fleuret ○
Deus dormit Et liberi ignem faciunt Numquam extinguunt Ne expergisci possit Omnia dividit Tragoedia coram Amandum quae Et nocte perpetua In desperatione Auroram videre potest Mane tempus expergiscendi.
I love Kingdom Hearts for all the “it makes sense in context (or maybe not even then)” things it lets me say, like:
The antagonist of the second game went up to a week-old kid and was like “join my cult!”
Clayton from Tarzan shot his shotgun at a teenager, with intent to kill.
In the first game, Sora stabs himself in the heart. This act, arguably, makes him the father of twins.
It is implied that Great Britain exists in at least three different planets.
It has been established that data and computer programs can also have hearts and personalities. An important character from a recent game is a character from an in-universe video game. He’s pretty explicitly not one of those data beings. Because fuck you.
The Fairy Godmother from Cinderella can apparently casually visit the afterlife whenever she wants, and bring at least two “guests” with her.
If you really think about it, the games kinda imply that Santa Claus (yes, the Santa Claus) either has a spaceship, a keyblade, or access to the powers of darkness.
The island the protagonists live on is surrounded by an ocean that apparently leads straight to the KH equivalent of Hell.
THE BORGIAS costume appreciation: 9/∞ (costume design by Gabriella Pescucci)
Don't explore the fact that Daemon lost both his mother and Laena to childbirth and Rhaenyra's premature labor probably triggered him. Don't explore the fact that his parents were very much in love, and his father became a shell of man after he lost the love of his life to childbirth, and Daemon suddenly has to contemplate living the same loss while raising seven children and defending his son's birthright, and he froze because fighting he can do, strategizing, planning attacks and defenses, that he can do. But raising seven children on his own while grieving the love of his life, that he can't even fathom. No, instead have him choke her out of nowhere, that makes sense.
Don't explore the fact that Aemma died in pursuit of a boy, and Rhaenyra's only daughter died before taking her first breath.
Don't show Rhaenyra's reaction to losing her boy, the one who was always attached at her hip, the one who hadn't even learned how to stop holding her hand yet, the one she sent to the closest ally so he wouldn't be gone too long, the one she had just promised she wouldn't abandon to his responsabilities without making sure he learned all he needed to, the one whose death literally started the war.
But a torn up paper from a book nearly two decades ago, from a woman who abused and humiliated her in front of her entire court, who chased her out of her own home, who usurped her throne and her birth right, who's currently conspiring against her, her children, and her husband, that was important to show.
had an epiphany tonight
in Luna’s death scene, Noctis says “All I wanted was to save you.” I thought for the longest time that that line was… sorta BS. He didn’t know she was going to die until she did, or he would have paid more attention to her during the Leviathan fight, or sent the Chocobros to guard her, or something. He had never really shown that saving Luna was an important goal to him during the game. All I saw was his mixed feelings for/disinterest in marrying her. I didn’t see him as having any real goals for himself aside from getting to Altissia for the wedding and short term things like carrot farming.
But then I realised, saving Luna was Noctis’s goal all along! But not in the way that is immediately obvious. All their lives, Luna has been living under the control of the Empire, and that must have weighed on Noctis as he wrote letters to her. I think that the reason he wanted to marry Luna yet was so seemingly unenthusiastic about it when questioned by Prompto is because he thought that by marrying Luna, he could save her from the clutches of the Empire. It wasn’t to save her literal life, it was to save her from a life of captivity. Of course her dying counts as him failing that mission, though, so that’s what makes “All I wanted was to save you” a true statement.
This is also why Noctis’s emotional state goes to shit after Altissia, not to mention gives relevant context for his argument with Gladio. He felt like he failed his biggest and most important goal, with drastic consequences. Probably the worst consequence he imagined was being unable to get Luna out of Altissia, not her straight up dying. And, I don’t think he had any other goals for himself. It’s the player who chooses where to go and what to do in the game, not Noctis - he just goes along with it…
I would bet that Noctis’s original, unstated plan for the first half of the game was to go to Altissia, marry Luna, and take her back to Lucis where it was “safe”. Of course, the fact that the Empire took over Insomnia is a bit of a wrench in the plan. I don’t know if Noctis mentally accounted for this. Maybe he thought that he and Luna had a better chance of reclaiming Lucis together.
This theory totally fits with my “Noctis wasn’t marrying Luna for love” theory, by the way. It was never about love, it was about responsibility, maybe heroism. So when Prompto was talking about Luna’s personal attributes as reasons Noctis should be excited to marry her, it meant nothing to him. Another reason he perhaps did not want to talk about the marriage is because he saw it as a rescue mission and thinking about it in light of Insomnia falling gave him anxiety. That’s also a weak justification, but it does add some depth to the way that Noctis is so avoidant to discussions of Luna and his upcoming wedding in the game.