A Flare Star for the Dramatic

 [ let's go on a fun dungeon dive to grind some edelwood sunflowers into oil for lanterns ]

 

Shadowy poodles that only ever appear in pairs. Look for them on walls, in the surface of water, and also they will just pop up and be 3D Guys right when it would surprise you. They will parrot snatches of conversations characters have had around the Pasture to each other, snickering and barking about it in a way that feels distinctly like they're always making fun. It's not necessarily always just the linear conversation. They can kinda do the Michael Bay Bumblebee Thing.

At the end of the day before the sun completely sets and their shadows are no longer cast, Gossip Hounds are at their most common, replaying the day's Greatest Hits.

The vibe is 'Utena Shadow Puppets But Dogs.'

As Seth put it... they're the IC Screencaps channel.

 

 

 U"zazo you put him in ANOTHER memloss game"  yeah kinda <3. sort of. it's complicated.

kuja's canonpoint in sheep is cycle 013, aka the one where he's just had his memories put in a blender by kefka and set to pulse until the clown was like "yaayyyyyy kujie smoothieeeeeeee"

but like. what does that mean. we have literally no information other than whatever kefka did makes him be a good little soldier for team chaos again where in the last so and so cycles he's been a venti sized triple depresso shot sadduccino moping around being an absolutely useless teammate.

well
1) it makes him pvp enabled with zidane again
2) he still fucking hates team chaos so, so, so, so, so much, but less nonfunctionally so. has a lot more patience for clown antics. this wears down across 013; near the end with zidane, he's popping off like DON'T YOU DARE ASSOCIATE ME WITH THOSE ANIMALS
3) it seems like he has gut reactions wrt the other warriors, but doesn't remember them coherently; kefka is like 'don't you remember that loner yet?' at one point.. i'm gonna rule if he sees someone's face he knows they're familiar and reacts to them as if he understands who they are instinctively, but doesn't consciously.
4) so.. he doesn't remember his own interactions w terra and cloud, but NT has shown us he can/will. by the time he's dying in 013 there's a sense of something recovered, but, F, too late 
5) i'm taking him from after ultimecia tells him his memories are fucky wucky, so he knows this isn't All from coming to sheep.
6) however i am taking him from Before he goes HAHA CLINGING TO MEMORIES? FUCK THAT I DON'T NEED TO FEEL UPSET ABOUT ANY OF THIS

7) yes i know this is all just a retcon pull to make the prequel plot work but i don't care i think it's an interesting canonpoint