whats up with neckron

the last boss, after you beat kuja. i haven’t played the game in a while, but even when i did, i still don’t get what the hell is up with him. why’s he just come out of no where, how is he relevant to the story. It seems like "hey were gonna make kuja the main bad guy, and then once you beat him were just gonna throw this other guy in after him for the hell of it"

Tokiko made a very good post on this a while back in another thread.

Kuja was not controlled by Necron. Not a puppet of Necron.
Necron was nothing more than the personification of destruction or oblivion, an entity or rather, a force, with the only purpose of destroying the world entirely. Necron’s appearance needed a trigger, and that was Kuja’s desire to end all existence. Necron explained it himself: Kuja’s wish to destroy everything was taken as proof that living things strive for being destroyed, and therefore.
This destruction is Kuja’s wish, not Necron’s. Necron doesn’t use Kuja to reach this goal. Necron has no goals. He’s not a person. He’s more like a mechanism.

It is kind of funny that no one complains about the final battle in FFV, although it is essentially the same, though there are differences. The Void, holding powers that the main enemy would like to harness, consumes him, turns him into its own incarnation, and then announces that it would now destroy the world, all existence, and then itself. Everything. To complete the analogy, both of these final bosses uses the Grand Cross attack.

It’s odd that people fail to complain about this one, but also go on about Necron. Because if anything, FFIX introduces Necron, or rather, the oblivion he stands for, rather nicely into the game’s THEME. The theme is memories, and the gist is that as long as anything exists, you also live on in the memories of the world. Total destruction, what Necron stands for, is exactly what the characters in FFIX do not want.

By fighting Necron, by clinging to life, and probably also by Kuja’s realization near the end, they prove Necron’s deduction wrong: People still want to live, and want the world to live, and do not long for being destroyed.

It’s more a metaphorical battle, and works very well with the game’s theme.

Tokiko made a very good post on this a while back in another thread.

cool thanks, a lot of the reminds me now, its just been a while. I get what his purpose is and everything. but it just seems kinda out of the blue that he exists at all. Kuja did destroy the crystal right? I could see why that would trigger the appearance of neckron, but i don’t remember any mention of anything like that throughout the game. is there anything during the game that alludes to him appearing if the crystal were destroyed. its been too long since i played to remember.
I plan to replay it soon just for the hell of it. I have disks 2 3 and 4, but somehow dont’ have the first disk, so as soon as i can borrow it from my friend i’ll get on it