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>>1697903
I really just want to leave this argumentI don't know why you put the word in quotations, what we and the anon from >>1697052 had WAS an argument as it is, I'm really tired of debating this with you, but god damn it I need to prove the(obvious) point that the characters of FFVI are fleshed out and interesting. Do all of them have deep, sweeping arcs of development? No, but do some core characters at least go through an arc where they change? Yes, they unarguably do.

First, I have to say that your idea of character development(as well as how it is presented) is extremely basic. You look at it as "Character X has Y thing happen, and once he overcomes it his personality changes into Z." In many cases that does happen, that is more or less the textbook definition and layman's idea of a character arc. However, that doesn't mean that that is the only way to show character development. Take for example Watchmen: in the book Dr. Manhattan goes through a character arc, he realizes that humanity isn't as bad or hopeless as he believed it to be, and returns to Earth. However, the way he acted on the outside didn't change, the way he interacted with everyone stayed the same, yet we know he grew as a character because he realized something that he didn't before and his actions changed in accordance with his new ideals. This is another way that character development can be presented; show that the character has changed subtly, without the help of dialogue or exposition. It shows that the reader(or player) is paying attention to the story and understands the characters well enough to know they have changed.