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Enhasa Halls - Chrono Series Analysis => Characters, Plot, and Themes => Topic started by: frogrules on July 28, 2006, 05:36:46 pm
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If kids a clone of schala er whatever. Why does she have blonde hair?? Does using your magical powers in Chrono games affect your hair color? Or did she simply highlight it?
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It's hair dye, mate.
In the japanese version of CT, the Zealians say they use hair dye.
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It's not hair dye. The Japanese version says nothing about Zealians (the correct term is "Enlightened Ones") using hair dye. It can't be hair dye anyway because Schala's eye color has changed also (from flash green to ocean blue, and I doubt the Japanese version says something about colored contact lenses).
Kid is blonde because Schala is blonde, at that point in time. As for why Schala turned blonde... there are some possible answers here: http://www.chronocompendium.com/Term/Schala_%28Appearance_Changes%29.html
Basically, the fact that Lavos and she were merging to create a totally new being probably influenced the color change (Lavos wasn't red in CT, either).
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Aww, I distinctly remember bringing up the point that Schala's hair colour, eye colour and body had changed because of Lavos draining her of her DNA, or changing it around T.T
I mean, she does also look pale as. And Kid isn't as pale, and Kid also has orange tipped hair.
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A blonde Schala...that's hot. I remember posting a green haired Schala once.
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Lavos could simply be absorbing her pigments along with...life energy, or whatever.
Or Schala used her bitchin' cosmic powers to change her appearance to break the shackles of her Zealian past and thus start anew. Meh.
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Lavos could simply be absorbing her pigments along with...life energy, or whatever.
The game doesn't really say that Lavos absorbs Schala. It says that Lavos and Schala are merging to form a new being. Lavos absorbs as much Schala as Schala absorbs Lavos.
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Aww, I distinctly remember bringing up the point that Schala's hair colour, eye colour and body had changed because of Lavos draining her of her DNA, or changing it around T.T
I mean, she does also look pale as. And Kid isn't as pale, and Kid also has orange tipped hair.
I always thought about the Magic Drain theory since Janus, Schala and Queen Zeal are all blue haired. But true, that doesn't make sense since Schala's eye color changed too.
I like your theory but what about Schala's dress, which turned purple to white ?
Lavos absorbs as much Schala as Schala absorbs Lavos.
In terms of energy, most certainly. But can we say that Lavos was "dominant" since Schala's mind was corrupted by Lavos hatred ?
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Like everyone, I had once said that Schala was wearing her undergarnment in the DBT, but my own idea was that she wrapped Kid in her purple clothes and sent her out in the crib. The FMV shows the blanket to be white, but heck, she could have wrapped it inside out and the inside of her dress could very well be white.
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I have a few ideas on this one...
1. Schala's DNA was altered to match her "sound within". There isn't really any motive for the Time Devourer to give Schala cosmetic changes by altering her DNA, but if the Frozen Flame can recompose a person's DNA based on "the sound they generate within", it's likely contact with the Time Devourer could have the same effect. So Schala got blond hair and blue eyes because she wanted them (maybe because they're traits common to the Earthbound Ones?) or because they're somehow a reflection of her personality (or some other interpretation of "sound inside").
Probability: Probably better than the explanations that follow.
2a. Schala is albino (blond hair and blue eyes can be signs of albinism). If this is the case, it could give the Zeal royal family a reason to alter Schala's hair and eye colour (possibly through some kind of cosmetic magic). The problem here is that Kidd doesn't display other symptoms of albinism (such as light sensitivity).
Probability: Not very high.
2b. The Time Devourer altered Schala's DNA to make her albino.
Probability: Worse than 2a.
2c. Her DNA was altered and she became albino because it was a reflection of her "sound inside".
Probability: Didn't happen.
3. The developers went "Hey, let's change something obvious and see what kind of explanation fans come up with to make it look like we had really deep reasons for doing it."
Probability: I could totally see this happening.
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It could be that they made Kid blonde so it wouldn't be TOTALLY OBVIOUS that Kid was a clone of Schala.
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It could be that they made Kid blonde so it wouldn't be TOTALLY OBVIOUS that Kid was a clone of Schala.
It wouldn't suggest that she's a clone of Schala any more than Serge having blue hair suggests that he's a clone of Magus (which, of course, he isn't.) More likely Kidd's appearance is intended to match her appearance in Radical Dreamers, and so Schala's appearance had to be altered in order for Kidd to be Schala's clone.
Alternatively, Kidd being Schala's clone could have been a late addition to the game (made after the CT rerelease), and so Schala's hair colour had to be altered because Kidd is shown in the CT ending movie as having blond hair. That's highly unlikely though since Kidd has the pendant in the CT ending movie, and it also wouldn't have required a change in Schala's eye colour.
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It could be that they made Kid blonde so it wouldn't be TOTALLY OBVIOUS that Kid was a clone of Schala.
Well, since we don't see Schala till the end of the game, it wouldn't really matter anyway. Kid, if she had green eyes and purple hair just wouldn't suit a theif. Those darker colors like blue and white are reserved more for the righteous and highly magically potent characters. It's a Square Enix thing.
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Yes, sorta like how having a character named Cid in every Final Fantasy Game is a Square Enix thing.
I would think that Schala's conversions could be explained by the simple mixture of the alien Lavos and Schala. It's not that hard to believe that a few small changes would come of that.
As for Kid... I doubt that the two clones would develop exactly the same, particularly since Schala's high amount of exposure to the Mammon Machine probably ticked her DNA anyway.
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As for Kid... I doubt that the two clones would develop exactly the same, particularly since Schala's high amount of exposure to the Mammon Machine probably ticked her DNA anyway.
Schala's exposure to the Mammon Machine was way before she cloned herself though. If the Machine had ticked her DNA, Kid would have inherited the same ticked DNA.
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Sort of off topic . . .
The CC theme to unite the universes and Schala's theme from CT are very similar. Has this been pointed out yet?
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Not to my knowledge. I doubt that the similarity between two music numbers actually has anything to do with Schala's hair color (or, indeed, anything else). Square works in more obvious ways than that
As for Kid... I doubt that the two clones would develop exactly the same, particularly since Schala's high amount of exposure to the Mammon Machine probably ticked her DNA anyway.
Schala's exposure to the Mammon Machine was way before she cloned herself though. If the Machine had ticked her DNA, Kid would have inherited the same ticked DNA.
Perhaps she did, and Schala's gene didn't... manifest.. ehh... I have something here, I'm just not sure what.
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I heard somewhere thats its a Zealian Royalty thing. Note that Magus hair is blue also. I mean, he probably just kept up his hair blue while trying to appear less human. Same thing. Schala just didn't dye her hair in the DBT (seeing as she had bigger worries with Serge, Lavos pieces, The FF, Electrical Storms, Dragons, and the eventual Time Devourer she would become). Why is Kid blonde? She's a clone and hair dye isn't built into one's DNA.
Now you could just call me crazy through all of this, but it makes sense when you consider A)Blue haired before CC and) Blonde afterward along with her clone.
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But everyone in Zeal has blue hair, not just the royal family.
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Actually, only the women and Janus have blue hair in Zeal. The men all have blonde or white hair.
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I've noted this before, but no one pays attention. That hair on the males and the females seems to be wigs. If you look closely at the males, the hair isn't connected to them, but it's on a rim of some sort. Like a band. They're either wearing head bands, or those are hats. Kinda like those soviet hats for the men. Women, it could be veils.
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I've noted this before, but no one pays attention. That hair on the males and the females seems to be wigs. If you look closely at the males, the hair isn't connected to them, but it's on a rim of some sort. Like a band. They're either wearing head bands, or those are hats. Kinda like those soviet hats for the men. Women, it could be veils.
Or.....it could be just the way it was drawn. "Hey lets make them look weird."
I'm willing to bet its a Zealian hair dye thing....unless you can explain better why she has blonde hair? They probably just changed Kid to blonde hair to not alert EVERYBODY that she was really Schala and invented some minor plot detail (like hair dye) to explain it later.
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or "El Oh El Lavos Magickz."
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I also read something about just "living in the Tesseract" that could have made her become Blond.
And as Marle is already blond, we haven't seen such a difference when she gets saved at the start of CT.
Well, that's just some stupid theory. Oh yeah and remember that Radical Dreamers' Kid is already blond, and that Masato Kato made her blond on purpose, so there must be something...
Or maybe it's just to make fans brainstorm. And that works in fact.
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well in zeal most likely her hair was colored blue by her power, and with lavos sucking power from her it would probably change her hair color to the base color of blonde. also you notice time devourer looks blue(purple) when you fight him.
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Schala obviously has uber power if she's alive, Lavos has to keep draining her to sustain itself, and that she could rip a hole in time to send out Kid (who required further energy).
Also, if her hair was dyed, firstly, hair color just doesn't fade. Remember, the DBT is pretty much a stand still. Second, if her hair faded, her hair would have grown considerably, it did not.
It's just a case of Masato or whomever going "Kid looks hot blonde so lets make Schala blonde".