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A FanlistingA fanlisting is a group of people who like something; ie a group of people who like Wolves. All a fanlisting is is a list of fans to do with that particular person, item, or object; it joins together people with similar interests.
Final Fantasy
Final Fantasy is an ever expanding series, with most of the games appearing on the PS/PS2/PS3, with a few branching onto other consoles. XIII is the thirteenth game in the linear series, focusing centrally on Lightning, but also the characters of Snow, Hope, Vanille, Sazh, and Fang, who all become l'Cie, enemies of Cocoon. What starts out as a mission to rescue Lightning's sister, Serah, goes drastically wrong when the lead heroes become l'Cie, and are thus outcast from Cocoon. They must fufill their Focus, or they face a future as a monster, a Ci'eth. Lightning and her friends decide to go against their Focus of destroying Cocoon, eventually learning the motives of those around them and the corruption of Cocoon itself along the way.
Sazh and Vanille
Both two of the main characters in Final Fantasy XIII. Sazh is a forty-ish ship-flyer, and has a son, Dahj - however, Dahj himself was turned into a Cocoon l'Cie, naturally causes problems due to the fact that one, Sazh is a Pulse l'Cie, and two, Dahj's focus could never be found out, so he was doomed to becoming a Ci'eth. Vanille is a nineteen year old girl who gets swept up into the trouble at the start of the game: it is eventually revealed that she is from Pulse, and she was looking for her partner, Fang.
At the start of the game after the characters are turned into l'Cie, Hope, Lightning, Sazh and Vanille travel together briefly before splitting off in their seperate ways, as Lightning is determined to strike against Eden whilst Sazh doubts this. He eventually decides to run with Vanille in the opposite direction, to Nautilus, the city of dreams. Along the way, they get to know each other and the problems each has; though there's a lot more to those problems than first meets the eye, and the possible involvement the other has in them.
Upon getting to Nautilus, these problems come to a head - I won't go into details as the game is still fairly new, but for me, it's some of the most heartbreaking few scenes in the game and made me really appreciate their friendship, for what it was, what it was then, and what it was, after.
Either way, they eventually get caught and taken to the Leviathan, where Lightning and her group come to rescue them; afterwards, they don't talk to each other as much, but Sazh is seen protecting Vanille on occassion - always supportive, and true friends.
Why
When the groups split off at the start of the game, I immediately looked forward to playing as Hope and Lightning, since I had a previous attatchment to them - but, I eventually found myself equally looking forward to Sazh and Vanille's trip together. By the time they got to Nautilus, I really loved their friendship together and just the undercurrents of something that would possibly break it in the end. When they confront each other in the end of the chapter, it's truly heartbreaking - I was on the verge of tears - it's been one of the only times I have. I really, truly, felt for them and their struggling friendship, and as the chapter drew to a close and we later see them together again, they were definately cemented as my favourite relationship in Final Fantasy XIII.
Running to Dreams
Sazh and Vanille, when they team up together, decide to run to Nautilus on Vanille's simple suggestion that they run as far away from danger as possible. Nautilus itself is known as the 'City of Dreams', hence the name of the fanlisting. However, there's also a subtle edge to it - they are both running away from their problems, seeking refuge in dreams. They're not dissimilar in that respect.
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