High Scores: Terra’s Theme

James Davis

December 29, 2020

That “Terra’s Theme” disappears from the game in the World of Ruin (the game’s second half) does not diminish the importance of her character. In fact, by examining how “Terra’s Theme” and its leitmotifs dominate the World of Balance (the game’s first half) but localize in the WoR, we can see how Terra’s story is, in fact, the story of FFVI. To cast Terra as less than the protagonist is to miss the game’s central themes, narratively and musically.

I’m fragile but not that Fragile

Sammi Bryan

December 17, 2020

It’s been miles since

and still, little pink,
you shed amber

glow in my palm,
gurgle-chirp

in your cradle
of nebulous honey.