Thread:MMYP999/@comment-27109830-20170315162439/@comment-27416494-20170315174743

These JRPG protagonists are arguably the strongest heroes to grace their respective franchises, but they weren't always known as the stuff of nightmares. They used to live relatively normal lives, free of excessive strife until one tragic/apocalyptic event forcefully stripped them of both their humanity and their old homes. Upon that day, they would be forced to become two of the most feared species their worlds have ever known (a L'cie and a half-Demon hybrid to be specific), which would grant them a large array of supernatural powers that they would be forced to master in order to survive in a harsh new environment.

They would not know it yet, but the journeys they were about to embark on would decide the ultimate fate of the universe at large. From that point onwards, they would steadily gain more powers until they eventually grew strong enough to kill the Godlike beings responsible for bestowing these powers to begin with. Both of them would eventually go on to fight God himself (or at least the closest analog the FF13 world has to God in Claire's case), but their motivations for doing so are completely different. While the both of them are looking to change the shape of the entire universe as they see fit, The Demi-Fiend's goal is to collapse The Great Will's old multiverse to prevent it from ever reincarnating again, while Lightning is actively looking to replace her universe with a new one.