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Lani. You know her. The beautiful huntress that's Amarant's partner in crime and that Zidane shamelessly flirts with before fighting. But how well do we really know her?

Lani is a secondary character, and thus easily overlooked. But, personally, she's pretty cool and has a development that people don't notice but should. So let me tell you all about her!

The player first possibly hears of her during the Festival of the Hunt in Lindblum. She's a participant, and also stayed in one of the rooms of the inn and complained about the moogle keeping her up all night.

She's first seen and properly introduced when Queen Brahne hires her and Amarant to retrieve Garnet's Silver Pendant and kill Vivi. With this instructions, she attacks Zidane, Garnet, Vivi and Quina in Fossil Roo, but is defeated. She then follows them all the way to Madain Sari where she seizes the opportunity to conduct her mission.

She works alongside Amarant, and refers to him as "Red", but they have different moral approaches to their methods, since Amarant disapproves of her taking Eiko hostage. After Amarant turns against her, she is forced to release Eiko and flee. Instead of going back to the Mist Continent, Lani stays on the Outer Continent and seemingly has a change of heart, noticing the error in her ways.

Lani settles in Madain Sari with the moogles, starting a new life. When the party next visits her, she says she tried to go back, but Fossil Roo was blocked, and the Alexandrian fleet was destroyed right before her eyes. She become weak and wandered the Outer Continent until the moogles rescued her. Thankful for their help, she realizes she was wrong her whole life and states that living with the moogles is wonderful. She hasn't even thought of money for a second! She finishes by saying she's glad she lost their last fight.

During the epilogue, when Tantalus is going to perform I Want To Be Your Canary in Alexandria, Lani accompanies Amarant to go see the play.

And that was it for Lani, I hope you enjoyed. Stay now with more facts about her:

She's 19 years old.
She has brown hair and seemingly blue eyes (at least from what I gather).
Her name means sky in Hawaiian. Its yet another reference to the place where the new Square Enix studio was, and where most of FFIX was made.
When fighting her, she priorities attacking Garnet and then Vivi, likely due to her mission.
Of the Black Magic that she uses, Scan and Water are the only spells that aren't second tier.
The party doesn't victory poses after her fight.
She's a Tetra Master player, both in FFIX and in the PlayOnline version.
She's also a playable character in Brave Exvius.

Quon. You know him... Probably. That one sidequest guy from Type-0 that loves magic and hates Nine. Surely you know him. But how well do we really know him?

Odd pick, isn't it? But when I watched the game I loved him so much, so bear with me. I really have something for narcissistic characters.... Anyways, he is just a sidequest character so he can be easily overlooked, but I find him worthy of talking about. So buckle up because here we go!

Quon is an Akademeia student from Class Third in search of the "ultimate magic". Thus, he's very knowledgeable in magic, even more than his instructors, and believes himself superior to others, earning him a reputation; not a good one though, because he is very rude.

He can be mostly found at the Crystarium, and it's here Queen and Nine first encounter and approach him. He acknowledges Queen due to her intelligence, but has no respect or wish to interact with Nine given his lack of intelligence.

One of his many research interests is phantoma, and Class Zero can run into him in the Sorcery Division where Quon will ask for them to keep watch while he ransacks Dr. Arecia Al-Rashia's office for an artifact to help his study. He comes empty-handed, however (all that for nothing).

After we return from Ingram, Queen and Nine can come across him in the Crystarium again. Nine is angered he's being ignored and accuses Quon of having no friends. Queen, in an attempt to difuse the situation, inquires Quon about what he's reading, to which he reveals he's reading a 100-book long series on magic for the sixth time (talk about love for literature.... Or magic). As for Nine's remark, Quon gets a little offended to be told he has no friends, as books are all the friends he needs (honestly, same).

Later on, Quon will ask Class Zero to give the accessory he so desires, a Jeweled Ring. The cadets comply, and his opinion on them changes, as he's grateful for their cooperation.

After Rubrum invades Concordia, Quon can be found outside Class Zero's classroom, wishing to join them. Queen and Nine are surprised and ask why he wants to join. He reveals his research has lead him to the knowledge that phantoma is the mystical life energy, the "souls" of every living being, and that Class Zero are the only ones that harvest it. They are shocked he is privy to such confidential information and accept his request to join, under the condition of Queen's supervision, reminding him that joining Class Zero could cost his life.

His extense devotion to magical research comes from his belief that "Agito", the legendary savior, would be an individual with mastery over all magic. Finding all of his knowledge useless against the Rursan Reavers that have come with Tempus Finis, he loses heart and believes Agito is nothing but a fantasy created so people wouldn't lose hope and despair at the end of times. When Eight and Deuce attempt to bring the fight back to him, Quon reveals that even the Vermillion Bird L'Cie Zhuyu has fallen to the Rursus and remains convinced Tempus Finis will end all of Orience.

Ah, yes. Nothing like seeing someone's hopes getting completely crushed. Anyways, that was it about it Quon, I hope you enjoyed. Here are more facts about him:

He is 18 years old.
He is 6'2"/188cm tall.
He has long black hair and seemingly blue eyes (hard to tell)
As a student of Class Third, he wears a purple mantle, that he uses in the form of a scarf.
An artbook of Final Fantasy Type-0 shows his book was apparently meant to be his weapon, suggesting he was meant to appear in battle at some point (he never does, despite saying he might come help Class Zero on the battlefield). The book design is the same as the one he constantly has whenever he's found in the library. Characters using books as weapons was previously seen in past Final Fantasy games (and personally, sounds and looks pretty cool).
Just like other supporting Akademeia students, Quon will join Class Zero after a few sidequests are done for him.
When he becomes convinced there's no Agito, he calls it a "final fantasy" made to appease the public's fears.
Quon is voiced by Ryōtarō Okiayu in the Japanese version, sharing voice actors with Nero the Sable from Dirge of Cerberus, Setzer from FFVI in Dissidia Opera Omnia, as well as in the Kingdom Hearts series, alongside Terra from the latter. He is voice by Chris Carmack in the English version.
He appears in Final Fantasy Trading Card Game as Lightning-elemental backup cards.