If Your Character Could See Their Future Self

[Dat Oni]

So here's an idea I got, believe it or not, from Nostalgia Critic parodying the Got Milk ads of the old days. If our characters, when they were young, either a child or a teenager, were given a moment to look upon their future selves, or even, say, interact with them, how would they react? Would they like what they see? Or would they be terrified? What would they say?

 

Have at it! I look forward to your responses!

[Orlog]

Jacq would probably be pretty stoked. She was very sheltered as a child and didn't really see her life going beyond just having a steady job at the barge. It was simple, paid well and really demanded most of her time, so it was easy to get lost in her work.

 

But then her commanding officer came around, plucked her up for the war efforts and life has been one crazy roller coaster ever since. I mean, just the other day, she helped take down her very first dragon. How cray is that?

 

As for Bea? I'm not convinced she ever was a child. I think she came out of the womb a fully formed mad woman.

[SunTzu7]

Past Newton would wonder why she's now an Elezan. Seeing herself as a Lalafell would probably just break her frail little mind and lead to many awkward questions with few sane sounding answers.

 

In all honesty, she'd be proud because Future Newton has home, security and doesn't have to pick between eating and stealing from people. She would wonder when she got pretentious enough to go around wearing fake glasses all the time though.

[Erik Mynhier]

This actually happened to Erik before. After leading a squad of Flames against a mage fooling with illegal magics effecting time (never said time mage... but totally a time mage lol). Even though he and his men captured the mage, a day or two later what he thought had been a missfired spell turned out to be a curse of youth, reducing him in age to the age and mental level he was his first day in Ul'dah.

 

He would shift from being himself to randomly reducing in memory and experiance to his sixteen self. When he was in his lost memory mode those around him explained things to him. He was in total disbelief that he a weakling highlander halfbreed with soft hands and gentle soul could have grown to be such a cold soldier with his skills and responsibility.

[Asmodean]

Past Asmodean would have a mix of pride and fear. He'd be proud to see he's thrown off the bindings of his over protective father, proud to see he would one day would be an adventurer. However the scars, mainly the bone deep one on his face, along with the seemly uncontrollable anger at time would terrorize the boy.  

 

Things would only get worse if young Asmo saw the Calamity as his current self has and that's not even thinking about the darker half Asmo now has thanks to the blacked Warrior soulstone. 

 

If anything, seeing what he would become might very well put him on another path if not out right trying to avoid the version I RP for ff14.

[Darien Cadell]

Past Qhora would really wonder what the freaking hell happened. She'd find it difficult to believe at even the most basic level, that the person she was seeing could possibly be the same individual. There'd be just enough ties to her past existence to make her question her sanity, and then she'd end up on a mission to try and figure out and thus avoid the events in between.

[Martiallais]

If childhood/teenage Zarek saw himself...he'd probably be very shocked if not terrified honestly. He grew up as a momma's boy basically. She sheltered and taught her little half-n-half son a lot and with her gone he pretty much fell in with the wrong crowd (the Syndicate) and was raised as such.

 

If a childhood/teenage Martiallais saw himself....well he'd probably say he was a heretic for what he's done. >_>

[Kurt S.]

Kid Kurt would be terrified and very unsettled about how he would grow up. This guy, who just keeps on getting hurt by the people around him no matter what he does. 

 

Kid Ramona would wonder why she even calls herself Ramona to begin with. That's not her name.

 

Kid Nah would just stare at her current self in awe. So cool....

[Cliodhna Eoghan]

i'm fucking engaged?! to who?! and i ditched my job and home to move to the desert with him?! i made massive, uprooting, life changes for a guy?!

 

 

 

....well....i guess it's alright...

 

 

 

(for serious; clio would never in a million years she'd change so much of her life around and agree to a wedding just for "some guy" )

[TheLastCandle]

*frowns darkly* Are you suggesting I would abandon my land, the holdings of my father's father's father? For what? What could possibly be more important than--

 

 

o_o

[Kurt S.]

Just for the hell of it.

 

Young Kurt is just chilling in the Wench, getting used to life in Limsa when a random green eyed lady just approaches him out of nowhere.

 

YK: Who're you?

 

MS: I'm you.

 

YK: Me?

 

MS: Yes. Katrina Steel at your service...Kurt.

 

YK: If yo--

 

KS: You got thrown off the boat by mom when you were five, around the time you started learning how to use that axe on your back. I know for a fact you had no idea what you're doing here and you never really did want to leave home as much as mom kicked you out. 

 

YK: I...see.

 

And young Kurt sold all his meager possessions including the axe for a ticket back to Wineport. Just nopes out of the whole situation.

[Aaron]

Aaron would be perfectly ok with how he is.

 

Hell he'd probably ask his older self if he's beating up any thug that messes with him.

[shotgunbadger]

Super stoked. Drama and danger and all Zutoto went from being a girl who figured she'd be spending her life fishing or frying fish in the inn to an adventurer who uses her magic gifts.

[Cynel1]

Young Cyneler would Accept his Future self Being a Paladin.

[Kuro]

Young Zalikko would be terrified and go through trauma upon seeing what horrible, violent things (coughmurdercough) she'll have to do and get away with, in short, she'd go through existential crisis.

 

Poor little Zali never knew or had any aspirations to become what she is originally.

[Spethah]

Kid Septh would jump of a cliff.

[Jancis]

"Do not underestimate the determination of a quiet man."

 

 

Jancis within is deeply driven to survive with her intentions and dreams intact. To see a vision of herself either down or up would bring a huge drive of determination to either make it to that point or change it.

 

As a child growing up in isolation, seeing herself now surrounded by people and out in a society she could only watch from afar would drive the girl even harder to make such a future a reality.

 

Right now, seeing her future as an acquaintance to many would drive her to change it and become close to some and finding a like-minded person to intertwine a better future with. To stay loyal and invest her abilities into those already around her to support them. 

 

Determined to change such a future,

 

[Gegenji]

I'm... not entirely sure how young(er) Chachan would feel about where Chachan is currently.

 

On the one hand, he'd be super happy that he's a Free Paladin (once that got explained to him) who goes around helping people all over the place and has so many interesting friends of all shapes and sizes. Not to mention that he has a chocobo all his own and a little friend named Gran who he gets to play with all the time.

 

On the other, it's been more or less a given that Chachan's childhood was largely spent not only in training under this father, but also following around his older brother like a lost little duckling. To know that he would leave home against the wishes of his father, and that his brother not only abandoned the family too... but has turned into some vengeful thing that doesn't even recognize him? That would be a bitter pill to swallow.

 

So... I would likely have to go with Existential Crisis. Does he try to change what happens so his brother stays with the family (or at least go WITH him)? But then what would happen to all those friends that he made BECAUSE he left afterward? Would he still get to be a hero? Or would be end up staying at home being the simple smith his father wanted him to be?

 

That's a lot for a little kid to think about, let alone come to a decision on.

[Leanne]

Elated would be the word that would perfectly describe. Because Leanne did not only realize her dream of being an adventurer and explore new lands, she'd also be uber happy in knowing that she is very successful, becoming rich, wiser and getting to know a ton of people and places, regardless of any tribulations that she suffered through her current path. Aka, she'd think her future self is -awesome-.

 

"A-A-AH, WHY CAN'T I GROW UP FASTER!!!"

[Jessika Saphir]

I think...just learning about the calamity and the aftermath of that would terrifying enough.  But looking at the future future self (I have two possible directions for Jess's character to take with Heavensward) would be truly terrifying, a nightmare come true.  It'll be interesting just to get her reaction IC already to the events, let alone her younger self's.

[Brynhilde]

Young Brynhilde would be horrified to see what she had become.

 

If she were to glimpse herself as a 40 year old woman at the age of 18, just prior to the fall of Ala Mhigo, she'd be mortified that she wasn't married to a handsome, wealthy and strong Highlander man and proud mother to a small pack of strong Highlander children. And, of course, her beloved homeland would be gone.

 

If she were to see her 40-year old self a few years later, when she was caught up in the Resistance, she'd be utterly furious to learn that she didn't win Ala Mhigo back, and instead is living in Ul'dah and bedding a Roegadyn. She'd see adult-Bryn as a weakling and a traitor.

 

Either way, she would greet the vision with absolute disbelief.

 

Shortly before trying to kill whoever showed it to her.

[Telluride]

At first, Boy-Nathan would be happy to see that he'd found a charming young woman to be his duet partner, and that he'd have made so many friends, and was living the life of a bard, and making people happy...

 

But within seconds (insert double take) it would dawn on him that his troupe... his family... were all dead, and that it could have been prevented.

 

Enter a time-paradox in which a sixteen year-old boy begs and pleads with his troupe leader, the surrogate mother who taught him everything he valued, to avoid a certain village on a certain night, and call in the Wood Wailers. He might then start haunting Old Gridania looking for a certain someone, but Twelve know what he'd do to his own future to prevent the single atrocity that killed his past.

[Marisa]

Literally just that for hours. 

 

Followed by terrible confusion due to all the ret-conning.

[Kalooeh]

Kal would be like "Ok what the F happened to me and how the shit did I end up a pirate.  Did I take something, because holy shit I am huge?! I'm marrying a cat? Excuse me, what it going on here?"

 

Dheina she would be surprised/amazed that" wow, out adventuring! I get so brave!", but otherwise not too surprised about how her future self is/looks

 

Sam would probably be confused and terrified because future them has no clue who they used to be and wonder wtf happened to get like that (Assuming they also don't know about what happens with the calamity)

 

Armi wouldn't really be surprised how she turned out

 

Cardea would be like "Fuck yeah I'm a hot woman, take that you shits" and go around flipping people off in their faces

 

Samhain wouldn't really care much either way but may be a bit disappointed her muscles arn't bigger

 

Twin Rova wouldn't really be surprised either really

[Kellach Woods]

Kell seeing his future is... essentially, completely useless to the man. His whims are beyond the understanding of mankind and perhaps even Hydaelyn herself.

 

HOWEVER, regardless of what he would see, he'd accept it. He's always been a bit too accepting of things.