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* How can Terra not vanish with the other Espers at the end of the game? I mean, come on, she's half Esper... that's a whole '''half''' of her biology vanishing.
** That was the whole POINT of the ending. Everyone was worried Terra would vanish too, but again, Espers and their properties are magical in nature. It's not that she's ''genetically'' half-Esper, but that her inborn magic, inherited from Maduin, allows her to ''change into'' an Esper. But physiologically, her human side seems to be as human as everything but her green hair would allow. When magic around the world went poof, Terra's ''human'' side continued to exist because she chose to ''remain as a human''. Her Esper side, OTOH, DID disappear, as did all her other magical abilities she had access to while in human form.<br />Espers disappeared because of their strong innate connection to magic, not for any biological reason. Although Terra inherited an innate connection to magic from her father, she apparently inherited enough human biology from her mother to survive without that connection. Her genetics and biology didn't change with the ending, though without magic she probably can't morph into her Esper form anymore.
** But the real answer is: In the original ending, she did die, but it was too much of a downer for the test audiences, so they changed it. Also, Esper doesn't look like a cute monster girl to me. Least, here's the official concept art I found: [https://web.archive.org/web/20111110100413/http://images.wikia.com/finalfantasy/images/b/bb/Terra_Esper.jpg
*** "Original ending"? --sources, if you may. What test audiences? Terra's entire character arc wouldn't make sense if she had been "originally" intended to die all along.
* Terra also looks too human for a half-esper; even if her dad was a humanoid esper, she should at least have a more bestial appearance as a human.
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*** That's a shame. I actually prefer her with the Green hair. It's somewhat unique, since only [[Final Fantasy IV|one other character in the entire game series has that color]] while there are plenty of blondes, and even more Brunettes.
** My theory is that normally her hair is blonde, but when after she first transformed into her Esper form, she had green hair, and kept that color until the end of the game.
** Her hair was blonde in the [[
*** I could've sworn they couldn't pull off the proper blond in-game, so they made do with green.
** I tend to ignore Amano's artwork because it ends up looking ridiculous. Like official artwork of Bartz from FFV makes him look like more of a girl than Faris. So personally, I pretend it doesn't exist, and Terra has green hair.
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