I've wondered why Lightning was such a miserable cunt during the events of FFXIII, characterised by her standoffishness and being highly strung, with her only positive trait being her protectiveness toward her sister.
Think about that last part; she is obsessed with her sister, to an almost unhealthy degree. Her sister who is getting married. Now recall the game's group. Two dykes, a nigger, two blonde boys and her. Yet I can't recall a single interaction she has with the dykes or negro. She interacts almost exclusively with the two pretty white guys, yet is bitter and acerbic to both. Why?
Because they both had other women on their minds; Snow with fiancée and Hope with his mother. When alone with the latter, Lightning tries to position herself as a more sexualised version of his mother, but Hope is too traumatised to take explicit advantage. After that, Lightning returns to being cold to him.
So my argument is that she is a metaphor for unhappy career women, who see their lives go by unfulfilled as other "domesticated" women begin families and live happily.
Fair enough
Anthony Hill
You're thinking too deeply about this. Japan just loves girls who are huge bitches half the time.
Luke Parker
well Claire used to be a normal girl like Sarah but then her parents died and she had to look after her sister so she became "Lightning" she was like that for so long that now it became her.
the reason she didnt like snow is because snow is an idiot and a dumbass who deserved to be smacked but over the course of the game he does become better .
as for hope and light there is definitely something going on there
Anthony Hall
Well there was that one segment where Lightning was forced to partner with the tall dyke, and the tall dyke tried to make her take her top off.
I think Lightning's just a siscon in denial, she's pissy at Snow because he stole Serah before Light got a chance to mark her property. As to why she's so gooey for Hope, he's the only one of the group young and inexperienced enough for her to take care of and play "Onee-San" to, and he has the prettiest face.
Robert Richardson
Forget Lightning, her sister is WAY hotter.
Aaron Collins
I doubt many people here are braindead enough to have played more than few minutes of this trash
Luis Parker
It's my fetish. Not exactly MILF or Christmas Cake, just an older girl. Sadly most of the hentai I've seen for it have the guy being a tiny manlet twink and the girl a giant lard beast
Colton Lewis
I want to lick her armpits with the back part of my tongue right after she gets out of the shower, when her hair is still all matted up from being dried and her skin is nice and warm.
Asher Carter
Why did we need to know that?
Tyler Smith
I just felt like sharing
Liam Cooper
threadly reminder
Cooper Thomas
it's a perfectly normal thing to share in a lightning thread
Owen Jenkins
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Adam Reyes
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Evan Gomez
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Julian White
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Dominic Nguyen
What's the most sexually depraved thing you'd do to pink Cloud?
Ryder Lopez
I'd make her dress up like her sister, and have her call me Daddy. Point out the fact she's such a bitch to Snow is because he reminds her of her father, and she's jealous that her sister gets to fuck "a guy like dear old dad."
Make her admit all this while fucking the hell out of her, and then once I'm done I'd spit in her face and remind her she's trash and that's why she'll always be alone while Serah will live a happy life.
Christian Brown
make her gain a few pounds so I'm not fucking a spooky skeleton
Robert Hughes
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Parker Clark
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Austin Cooper
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Matthew White
It's true, in XIII Lightning literally does not have anything under her skirt where an ass would be. To be honest I only really think she's beautiful from the waist up. Her spider legs gross me out.
Asher Williams
i would forget about her.
Cameron Nguyen
they didn't bother modelling her ass you tard. if you looked up the skirt of any normal female game character you'd see the same thing. No point in modelling it if it's not the focus of the game, unlike shit like senran kagura.
Nicholas Harris
She has a vag000 tho.
Carter Powell
why do SFM modelers always make the character look like a man? The same thing happened to Quiet, shit pisses me off
Jeremiah Anderson
I don't think she does.
Ayden Collins
That looks like she is the one with the dick
Daniel Lopez
Something about SFM makes all of the edges on a character really jagged or something. I've never seen any SFM porn where the girl looks soft.
Elijah Howard
Im gonna need some sauce on that pic, user.
Ian Richardson
So Lightning/Claire is into bestiality or why is she fucking a gorilla?
Caleb Perry
Lightning's character is proof that one dimensional objects are feasible.
Isaac Sullivan
I'd talk mad shit until she cried
Aaron Miller
I'd chew on her delicious hair
Zachary Brooks
Not nice, mang. Unless you want her to be with one with the dick?
Isaiah Cruz
Im not into loli shit, but damn. Lumina is top tier waifu
Carter Rogers
Yeah man, just like big league chew
Jeremiah Young
Berate her and make her cry for getting my order wrong.
William Murphy
well Lumina is how Claire was before she became Lightning
Brody Carter
Wut? I never played the last one. I thought Lumina was just possessed, evil Serah or something?
Anthony Howard
No, she's Lightning before the world went to shit
Xavier Powell
I never played the game either, i just enter these threads for lumina, i have no idea what she is
Adrian Ortiz
Huh, that makes a few doujins read differently.
So, why is babby Lighting alive and evil?
Lincoln Cook
Have her beat me up and then nurse me back to health ONLY for her to repeat over and over.
Also, let her turn me into her trap sissy.
Owen Rodriguez
Jinx Come on Shoot Faster or something by Ganmarei, judging by the art style
what is it with all the fan art of her doing ordinary work? shit confuses me
Austin Moore
if you played persona then lumina is lighting's shadow. if you dont know what that is then lumina is a side of lighting that has taken form and wants lighting to accept her
Josiah King
I requested all of it (including your pic) over many moons
I'd be lying if I said there wasn't some fetishism involved.
That well-written, huh?
Also, [Checked].
Alexander Price
They bash you over the head repeatedly and tell you, so the game isn't at fault in this instance
Elijah Nguyen
Is she literally Lightning's personality? I remember people joking at the time that they gave an actual in-universe reason for Lightning's lack of charisma, charm and anything else likeable.
Okie doke
Kevin Howard
don't tell me you run /light/ or whatever, do you?
i should learn how to draw
Benjamin Mitchell
yes it's exactly that
Gavin Perry
she's got no ass, but she's tall and slim so i'd fuck her, porn of her is pretty good
Justin Phillips
No, I just like seeing he in degrading situations. Having a shitty job is one of those.
So before she became a dry bitch, she was a cheeky little slut?
Carter Anderson
I was on board until you requested her to become a generic stripper. C'mon son.
Liam Jones
minus the slut part
Jason White
That was a boring request, sure. Here's a different tack.
Shame.
Jonathan Price
No, she wanted some TOBLERONE
Tell me about Asuka! Why does she wear the eye patch?
Angel Cox
here you are sir
Anthony Taylor
either a genius or a madman
Easton Lewis
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Brayden Cook
whores should look like whores
Kevin King
Glad ya like.
I just requested it; I didn't draw it, but…
Exactly.
Samuel Torres
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Adrian Allen
Who the fuck is stapling? Are they fucking in an office building?
Grayson Ortiz
Every time.
Colton Hill
kek
Logan Thomas
Nice, isn't it?
Landon Young
I've one for this, too.
Christian Gomez
Who is that artist?
Adam Price
Makes sense. And for these reasons, she was a shit MC and led to a decade of shit FF's being produced.
Hudson Turner
I believe, after playing all three parts, that Lightning is the artist's vision of himself as a woman and how unhappy that he can not pass properly as a trap hence the unhealthy obsession with the sister and pedo attraction to Hope, whom his desires range from ideal attraction to murderous intent. Basically, Lightning has a benis and is unhappy about it, and the player is made to suffer alongside the developers thru three strange installments while listening to solid musical score.
Alexander Smith
Daily reminder. Lightning has no ass
Lucas Flores
Because she's Toriyama's waifu
Luis Anderson
I hate whenever a character who's supposed to be super strong is given noodle arms. She doesn't have to be some grotesque roid user, but she shouldn't be a twig either. I know it's a fantasy game where everybody's a superhuman compared to real people, but she should at least look stronger than the average woman in her own universe.
That has to be an edit. Not even a man can have an ass that flat.
Camden Phillips
Ryujinmaru.
She could have had a benis and ass and hips.
Nathan Moore
He had muscle tone in XIII but her entire body was sanded down to a twig in LR
Jayden Ortiz
With you there.
Robert Edwards
christ she was way fuckable as all hell in 13
Wyatt Rodriguez
Will summer never end?
Caleb Scott
Christ, she looks really unhealthy in the second pic.
Matthew Ramirez
Its not an edit.
Grayson Ortiz
Yeah, she looked more like Cloud then.
Isaac Campbell
I don't know if I should call you my nigger, or convince a therapist to talk to you.
Connor Scott
She'd fuck her sister if anything I mean if you were to lock those two in a room together Lightning would make the first move.
Gabriel Gray
I don't understand the mechanics of her legs. There's no space in her ass for the muscles needed to operate them.
Parker Flores
She's a siscon, all right. I just think she wants Serah all to herself, but also to have guys fawning over her when she wants it too.
Robert Sanchez
Toriyama just has a flat ass fetish.
Liam Cook
Yeah who wouldn't want to fuck their hot younger sister
Levi Perez
Serah reminds me of a then-underaged cousin I had the hots for. I had to stop using Serah's bikini in XIII-2 because the boners were distracting.
Eli James
Serah > Lightning
Jackson Wood
I made this thread as an excuse to post Lightning lewds.
Certainly not Claire.
Luis Clark
have we started the fire?
Liam Lewis
Yesh.
Owen Nguyen
Something something armpits
Ryder Baker
Lightning a shit and is only good for porn. She burnt our crops, poisoned our water supply, and brought a ten year plague upon our vidya.
Robert Brown
Fuck the crops
Easton Clark
Is that negtart walking
Why does Arino have such bad taste in woman
Angel Flores
Final Fantasy XIII is a shit game Lightning is a shit character Every FFXIII and/or Lightning thread is shit The opinion of everyone who calls FFXIII a good game is shit
Connor Robinson
I didn't notice it was spelled wrong until now, but fuck, it made me giggle.
Ryder Harris
she punched the hot dyke once
also your obsession with some gook's videogame waifu is unheathly, you should seek professional help
She might be way fuckable if her body had any kind of shape.
Caleb Hill
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Landon Gomez
I don't want shota or milfs, I want a younger guy with an older girl, not some 40 year old woman molesting a 6 year old
Dominic Hill
Try looking through incest tags - particularly ones with older sister or step-sister storylines.
Jace Turner
we need a black version of FF called final FAMtasy
Bentley Robinson
I need more humiliated Lightning in my life.
Ayden Long
Yep!
Angel Garcia
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Tyler Hernandez
aren't you a picky cocksucker
Thomas Rodriguez
Pretty sensible to me. Shota sucks but milfs are okay.
Luke Harris
remember user, if a girl says no she means yes. and lightning definitely wants the D.
too bad lightning is A SHIT.
SHIT
Isaiah James
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Mason Jones
Gas yourself, kike.
Jonathan Gray
gas the l'cie! RACE WAR NOW!
Anthony Edwards
It's more that she threw away any and all of her weakness so that she could take care of Serah, becoming a huge bitch in the process since she never really learned to deal with her personal emotions. The obligation of needing to make sure Serah was safe and happy caused her to wall everything that wasn't Serah out of her mind. With Hope, she sees someone who also lost a close family member, and a mother nonetheless, and even though she tries not to get involved, she can't help but do so. It's basically muscle memory for her to protect little babbys whose parents are dead.
Liam Lopez
Was that in the in-game encyclopedia?
Connor James
Just what I inferred from the events after replaying it recently.
Fuck, I don't blame anyone for not playing through it. If you don't get sucked in by the story, the game's a bore until Barthandelus, because of how fucking dumb the pacing is.
Tyler Thomas
I forced myself through the first one, mostly out of a sense of obligation. I had no interest in the second one when it became apparent if was just Tales of Symphonia 2 Final Fantasy edition, but based off of a much worse game.
That they thought bringing Lightning back for the third one would solve all their problems illustrated how they misunderstood their audience.
Anthony Roberts
and whats worse is they go from left side to right side.
WHAT HAVE THEY DONE TO MY LIGHTING!
Isaiah Ward
the third one is the only one that's even slightly good
Camden Anderson
Lightning is a good character in XIII.
The rest is a tragedy that shouldn't be spoken of.
Ian James
Maybe, but after two shit games, I was hardly going to give them the benefit of the doubt.
Maybe she'd have worked better as a support character. But as the MC, her uptight, humorless shtick became really old, really fast.
Jaxon Cruz
The only time I've seen a more blatant insert of the creator's waifu was Elizabeth.
Julian Sanders
what do you think about the scenes with hope and vanille? do you think that fang and vanille are dykes? fang was originally written as a man. also what is with this random scene in pulse? this scene is not part of the story and you have to go out of your way to get this place with it takes place
Camden Thomas
Vanille wanted to feel like a kid, so she attached herself to Hope somewhat. But at the end of the day, she has the same mental level as Fang, but she, in her own words, is a liar.
Without question.
Pretty standard for an RPG. It only stands out because there's so little of this in FFXIII.
God, I forgot that Vanille's voice was so annoying.
Lincoln Barnes
Holy shit it's like an aussie hag trying to sound like japanese idea of english schoolgirl by forcing high pitched vocal fry
Thomas Cook
No.
Leo Bailey
all this 13 talk kind of got me interested in replaying it but then i saw this video and remember how shity it is
Charles Jones
Please fucking stop, you absolute redditor. Regardless whether it's an objectively bad game, the whole "x sins" genre needs to be fucking killed off because it's not an actual review, it's faggots getting nitpicky and encouraging an "IHE/H3H3/Leafy" line of thinking where EVERYTHING simply MUST be bitched about. The fact that you actually linked to it gives me fucking cancer alone. Kill yourself, for the love of god.
Tyler Evans
i dont even who that is. it just showed up as recommended when i searched that video i posted earlier
Lincoln Parker
still fuckable, IDGAF. pre-ass reduction lightning was pretty hot, and she's not even my 'type'
Michael Watson
God I know right? It's not even like nitpicky or unreasonable critiques of entertainment media is even something that people don't bandwagon on with glee; it's just that the "Sins" format is so fucking anal, obnoxious, and self-obsessed.
None of them even actually have the restraint to focus on objectively poor or questionable design choices. They all will just bitch and moan about how a game or movie used a trope or element that's perfectly legitimate, well-executed, and in keep with the story, but isn't one of their preferred taste. And I can promise you that if you watch two videos by the same maker, any two at all no matter who it is or how big their backlog is, 100% of the time he will bitch about a thing being in one game that he then bitches the other game out over because it didn't have it.
And again, it's nothing other than standard practice, but something about the format and presentation style literally every single one follows, just makes it come out as unjustifiably entitled and demanding of media to cater to their specific unyielding standards.
John Thompson
That's the only family she has left. She stops being bitchy a few hours into the game. She's only upset with Snow and blame him for his sister being fucking crystallized.
They were brought together by circumstance. It's not exactly like they have personal connections outside of that. That, and they literally spend half the game separated. It's not too surprising to find that they don't interact that much.
Hope happened to be around her the most, and she's actually related to Snow to some extent.
What?
Lightning actually takes to Hope quite well. She's pretty supportive of him throughout the game. Not sure what you mean by this.
William Thomas
:3
Grayson Wright
My younger brother played like 30 hours of it and never finished it. I said to him '30 hours? That's pathetic. Lend me the game, I'll finish it'. He let me borrow it, I played it for about five minutes and said 'Oh god, fuck this shit'
Xavier Hall
i wonder if square realizes that 13 is not good
Hunter Scott
Wait, does she have a… nurse's hat?
Andrew James
Not all blacks are niggers and not all lesbians are dykes, dumbass.
The latter slurs are explicitly for degenerate retards.
Connor Gomez
Agreed.
Christopher Allen
Wait, you're not the Holla Forums I know.
Liam Walker
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Nolan Lewis
Don't you call the best character in left 4 dead 2 a gorilla.
Easton Wright
wait a minute are you the user on the light thread who said he was working on a story that was about hope kidnapping lightning and mind breaking her?
Carter Torres
No. I wasn't even aware /light/ existed until this thread.