20 Facts About Terra Branford

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Terra Branford, known as Tina Branford in Japanese, is a fictional character in the Final Fantasy series and the main protagonist of Final Fantasy VI.

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Terra Branford's appears in the spin-off fighting game series Dissidia Final Fantasy and the rhythm series Theatrhythm Final Fantasy.

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Terra Branford's has made small appearances in several other games in and outside the Final Fantasy series.

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Terra Branford is a 19-year-old young woman who is the daughter of a human mother and a father who is an Esper, a magical creature with the natural ability to use powerful magic.

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Terra Branford's was mentally enslaved by the evil Gestahlian Empire, who used her gifted powers to wage war on the empire's neighboring countries.

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Developers, who initially planned Terra Branford to be a young man, designed her character to start as a passive person in the first half of the game to show her growth throughout the story.

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7.

Terra Branford's character has received positive critical reception, with game journalists and fans alike praising her complexity and unique backstory.

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Terra Branford's has been on many lists of gamers' favorite Final Fantasy characters and is one of the most well-known video game characters to date.

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Terra Branford is introduced at the beginning of the game as a mind-controlled pawn of the Gestahlian Empire, who seek to use her destructive magical abilities for the Emperor's own ends.

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10.

Terra Branford is rescued by an anti-Imperial sympathizer named Arvis, who entrusts his friend, a wandering thief named Locke Cole, to escort her out of the city as the Narshe guards threaten to capture her for working with the Empire.

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An otherwise directionless Terra Branford accompanies Locke across the continent, eventually meeting with an underground resistance movement called the Returners just as they learn that Emperor Gestahl's second in command, a mad jester named Kefka, is moving to attack Narshe again.

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The town is attacked by a demon known as Humbaba, with Terra Branford finding herself to be too weak to stop it and requiring Celes's party to intervene and defeat it.

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13.

Shibuya and Amano originally designed Terra Branford as having blonde hair, a staple of the Final Fantasy series due to the color's exotic connotations in Japanese culture, however Shibuya instead chose to change her hair to a bright green when finalizing the game's sprites in order to better distinguish Terra Branford from the rest of the cast.

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14.

Terra Branford is the heroine representing Final Fantasy VI in Dissidia: Final Fantasy, a crossover fighting game featuring different characters from the Final Fantasy series.

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15.

Terra Branford is a playable character in Theatrhythm Final Fantasy, Final Fantasy Explorers, Final Fantasy Airborne Brigade, and World of Final Fantasy, where she is voiced by Yukari Fukui.

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16.

Terra Branford's is one of the randomly purchasable "Premium" characters in Final Fantasy: All the Bravest and a collectible character in Final Fantasy Record Keeper as well as Final Fantasy Brave Exvius.

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17.

Terra Branford was to be a partner and rival of the dark, mysterious Locke Cole.

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18.

Terra Branford reasoned that without her, there would be no female hero character in the game's roster.

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19.

Gameplay-wise, Terra Branford is Nomura's favorite character in Dissidia Final Fantasy.

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20.

Terra Branford was exactly what a maturing Final Fantasy series needed: a three-dimensional protagonist who is not a natural-born leader, but rather acquires compassion, focus and a genuine desire to make the world a better place as the game progresses.

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