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'''Gau's father''' {{J|じじい|Jijii}} is a minor character in ''[[Final Fantasy VI]]''. He is, of course, [[Gau]]'s father, but his identity is not revealed until the [[World of Ruin]].
 
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'''Gau's father''', referred to as '''Aged Man''' in dialogue, is a minor character in ''[[Final Fantasy VI]]''. He is [[Gau]]'s father who abandoned him on the [[Veldt]] when his wife died in childbirth. The trauma of these events evidently drove him mad, and he believes he never had a wife or son. [[Gau's father's house|Living alone]] north of [[Doma Castle (Final Fantasy VI)|Doma]], he is avoided by most who regard him as an insane but harmless old man.
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== Profile ==
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=== Appearance ===
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Gau's father uses the same generic sprite as most "old man"-type NPCs. He wears a blue coat over white clothing, a blue hat, and has white hair with a long beard.
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=== Personality ===
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Gau's father is entirely insane and detached from reality. He mistakes the party for a repairmen whenever they visit and give them instructions to repair various things around his home. He believes that he never had a wife or son and they were merely a dream he once had, but he becomes irate when the topic of children is brought up and threaten to throw [[Sabin Rene Figaro|Sabin]] "out onto the Veldt, too", showing he retains an emotional response to the idea. When Sabin later tries to explain to him that Gau is his son, the man becomes briefly lucid and talks candidly about having his "dream", but still regards it as only a dream.
   
 
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When Gau was born, his mother died in childbirth, and his father abandoned him on the Veldt. The man came to live north of Doma and degenerated into an eccentric, crazed old man. He came to believe he had never been married and had no son, regarding the events as a dream in which a "demon child" killed his wife, and he fled to the Veldt with it. The story was known the people of [[Nikeah]] and [[Mobliz]], and they assumed that the baby the man abandoned died.
The trauma of losing his wife and being Gau's father, who he sees as a demon child, drove him insane. An old woman in [[Nikeah]]'s pub, when spoken to, will say that she helped deliver Gau thirteen years ago, and expresses sadness that he was thrown out onto the Veldt, believing him to be dead.
 
   
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In the [[World of Ruin (Final Fantasy VI)|World of Ruin]], Sabin concludes the crazy old man is Gau's father, and the party dresses Gau in fine clothes and teaches him table manners before taking him to see him. When Sabin presents Gau to him, the man denies having a son and relates the story of his dream about a demon child. However, he compliments Gau on being a fine young man. A frustrated Sabin makes to strike the man, but Gau stops him and leaves. Sabin apologizes to Gau for his error, but Gau is happy to know his father is alive regardless of his condition.
Gau's father lives [[Gau's father's house|north of the Veldt]], and seems to think all his visitors are repairmen of some kind. If the player returns to his home in the World of Ruin with Gau and [[Sabin Rene Figaro|Sabin]] in the party, a scene will be shown of the party dressing Gau in fine clothes to present him to his father as alive. At this point, Gau's father gives his warped version of the events surrounding Gau's birth.
 
 
By his father's account, Gau's mother died in labor, giving birth to "a demon child". Terrified, Gau's father carried the child to the Veldt and abandoned it there, fleeing in terror. In the present Gau's father believes this to be a dream: he does not know Gau is his son, and seems to have forgotten he was ever married. He claims to still have nightmares about the "demon child", but compliments the well-dressed Gau on being a fine man. Though his father does not know him, that knowledge that he has a father makes Gau happy in spite of being rejected.
 
 
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Revision as of 22:40, 22 October 2020

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Gau's father, referred to as Aged Man in dialogue, is a minor character in Final Fantasy VI. He is Gau's father who abandoned him on the Veldt when his wife died in childbirth. The trauma of these events evidently drove him mad, and he believes he never had a wife or son. Living alone north of Doma, he is avoided by most who regard him as an insane but harmless old man.

Profile

Appearance

Gau's father uses the same generic sprite as most "old man"-type NPCs. He wears a blue coat over white clothing, a blue hat, and has white hair with a long beard.

Personality

Gau's father is entirely insane and detached from reality. He mistakes the party for a repairmen whenever they visit and give them instructions to repair various things around his home. He believes that he never had a wife or son and they were merely a dream he once had, but he becomes irate when the topic of children is brought up and threaten to throw Sabin "out onto the Veldt, too", showing he retains an emotional response to the idea. When Sabin later tries to explain to him that Gau is his son, the man becomes briefly lucid and talks candidly about having his "dream", but still regards it as only a dream.

Story

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When Gau was born, his mother died in childbirth, and his father abandoned him on the Veldt. The man came to live north of Doma and degenerated into an eccentric, crazed old man. He came to believe he had never been married and had no son, regarding the events as a dream in which a "demon child" killed his wife, and he fled to the Veldt with it. The story was known the people of Nikeah and Mobliz, and they assumed that the baby the man abandoned died.

In the World of Ruin, Sabin concludes the crazy old man is Gau's father, and the party dresses Gau in fine clothes and teaches him table manners before taking him to see him. When Sabin presents Gau to him, the man denies having a son and relates the story of his dream about a demon child. However, he compliments Gau on being a fine young man. A frustrated Sabin makes to strike the man, but Gau stops him and leaves. Sabin apologizes to Gau for his error, but Gau is happy to know his father is alive regardless of his condition.

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