ITT: Neutral Good

I believe the book lady who maintains the world is actually slowly killing Mewt and all of the real world folks to maintain the false Ivalice

It's not really a battle between good and evil I think; but one of philosophical conviction.

Marche valued truth and reality in and of themselves; so even the fantastic joyful nature of the illusory world failed to sway him.

I think it was partly this; his clinging to what he knew was real and true that gave him the will to overpower his two friends, who had given themselves to the dream; because fleeing from the harshness of reality is an indicator of a less robust will.

In the end, right and wrong in this case are more or less up in the air.

Marche's victory was simply a triumph of the will to truth.

I'm more worry about Montblanc and other Ivalice denizen who agree to help Marche destroying their own world.

They were shadows without a true will of their own, I think.

Marche, having the greatest will of those trapped within the world gathered those shadows to him, and imposed his will upon them without truly realizing what it was he was doing.

Ritz did similarly with her own clan, but was enraptured with the world; Mewt was himself entirely under the thrall of the thing masquerading as his mother, and his will was suppressed, for it was weak to begin with.

And this is why the plot of FFTA is so good.

That's been a fan theory for years, but it's never stated in the game, actually.

That's a fairly complicated issue, I think. The people of new Ivalice seem have personality, emotions and self-awareness, so at that point it becomes a question whether their existance has less merit than Marche's desire for truth.

>a question whether their existance has less merit than Marche's desire for truth.

Obviously so. :^]

Honestly, FFTA's plotstraddles the line between clever and stupid.
Clever on account of even well over a decade later people still discuss the morality and inherent problems in its plot as well as the more subtle points of character motivations. Stupid because the creater didn't intend any of it and actually goes into full REEE-mode whenever this is mentioned.

I'm not a postmodernist, but this is a case where it's a really good choice to invoke the Death of the Author.

Marche is not Neutral Good. Whether he is Good or Evil is up for debate, but he is definitely Lawful. He has strong convictions about absolute reality and truth, and he sticks by and defends those convictions. It's his mission to reinstate the true Order of the world, to make the world once again as it was meant to be, to impose his standard of truth upon the world.

And that's why I like to give him the Paladin job when I play the game.