Cosmos (Dissidia)



Cosmos is the goddess of harmony that opposes Chaos in Dissidia Final Fantasy. She is the only completely original character to appear in the game, and is voiced by Sumi Shimamoto and Veronica Taylor (credited as Kathleen McInerney) in Japanese and English, respectively.

She is set to return, along with the other characters from Dissidia, in Dissidia 012 Final Fantasy.

Story
In the Cosmos and Chaos Reports, it is hinted that Cosmos is a being created by the Lufenians in the form of Cid's unnamed wife as an alternative means to soothe Garland. This is present as Chaos had a dream where he knew true happiness, ruling an ordered world with the Goddess at his side. In one of the previous conflicts, after being protect from Gabranth/Dissidia by Shantotto, Cosmos gains the Warrior of Light as her champion among her warriors.

Dissidia 012


After the events of the first eleven cycles of conflict, Cosmos finally devised a way to put an end to it by giving her warriors her own energy which would manifest into Crystals after enough victories. However, as a result, Cosmos deliberately weakened herself as her plan was ultimately derailed by the appearance of the Manikins and Jecht's conversion into a Warrior of Chaos. Furthermore, Cosmos is shocked to learn the Warrior and Kain were forced to take out the rest of their allies to save them from the Manikins before those remaining are led by Lightning to close the portal to stop more Manikins from entering. Though she lost Lightning, Kain, Tifa, Laguna, Yuna, and Vaan, Cosmos gained new warriors in Terra, Cloud, and Tidus before sacrificing herself to save the Warrior from the horde of Manikins he was protecting her from.

Destiny Odyssey
Revived after the previous conflict, Cosmos finds herself severely weakened as Golbez appears and reminds her of the Crystals she entrusted to her warriors. With that, her resolve still strong as before, Comos transmits the message to her warriors to obtain the Crystals if they are to stand a chance against Chaos. To ensure they succeed this time, Cosmos presents herself to each of the Warriors of Cosmos whenever they are in need of her guidance: Giving Onion Knight advise to follow his heart in a way to save Terra from the Cloud of Darkness, advise  Cecil to fight with his own power and by his allies' side rather than solely relying on them, encouraging Zidane to believe in his friends as they believe in him, and gives Firion the will to follow his dream. However, after Golbez reminds her that her gambit would ultimately result in the heroes' true demise, a concerned Cosmos appears before the Warrior of Light to have him stop. However, surprised by the Warrior's bravery and vow to save the world, Cosmos makes a promise as well, to believe in her friends until the end.

Shade Impulse
After the ten warriors retrieve their Crystals and return to her, Cosmos tells them that the war has been decided and they will know true darkness. Cosmos teleports the warriors to the Edge of Madness, Chaos's realm. Chaos incinerates the goddess, and the heroes begin to fade. However, the power of the Crystals bring them back, allowing the heroes a chance to strike back at Chaos. During the encounters with the villains in Shade Impulse, it is revealed by Exdeath that the Crystals contain Cosmos's power, and making them shine weakened her so she could be destroyed. Cosmos, and the villains who guided the heroes to the Crystals, knew this. Cosmos allowed herself to be destroyed due to her faith in the heroes, and her belief that, with the cycle of war broken, they can defeat Chaos at last.

However, Cosmos reforms as she proceeds to talk to Cid about how it would seem the conflict was to continue, Cosmos turns down his offer to leave the slowly failing world and wishes to remain as she bids him farewell with no ill will for the cycles of conflict he subjected her through.

Music
Cosmos's theme is titled "Cosmos". The band Your Favorite Enemies performs the song for the game.

Etymology
Kosmos, is the Greek word that denotes an "ordered world", the antithetical concept of Chaos.

Trivia

 * Although Cosmos's official artwork depicts her facing to the left, as the artwork of the other heroes do, her in-game character icon faces to the right, as the artwork of the villains do.
 * Cosmos and Cid of the Lufaine are the only characters who appear in the game who are neither playable nor fought at any point.
 * Cosmos can be seen at the very end of the opening FMV, if only at a glance.
 * Cosmos is the only original character in Dissidia. Nevertheless, while Warrior of Light, Onion Knight and Cid of the Lufaine are not original to Dissidia, their personality is practically created from scratch as the original versions were generic characters.
 * In one of the initial trailers for Dissidia, Emperor Mateus, Garland, Kuja, and Ultimecia told Firion and Squall that Cosmos's true nature was a Goddess of Death, suggesting that she was not as benevolent as she appeared to be.
 * Just as Chaos is related with fire and earth, Cosmos seems related to air (by the cloud form she adopted in the opening FMV) and water (because of her sanctuary).
 * Mostly coincidentally, the Warriors of Light who Cosmos doesn't appear to during their respective Destiny Odyssey in Dissidia Final Fantasy, respectively Terra, Cloud and Tidus, all appear as Warriors of Chaos in Dissidia 012 Final Fantasy.