Twentieth Entry
Cid Raines betrayed us! There are no words to describe the torment his betrayal has brought upon my teen angst ridden soul.
Just kidding!
I have no idea who Cid Raines is, but he betrayed us so I pretended to look just as shocked and hurt as everyone else did. Cid confronted us and revealed that he was a Sanctum l'Cie. He told us the fal'Cie and Barthandelus's real plans. They're trying to bring back the Maker, the being that created us all. But in order to do that, we have to destroy cocoon as a sacrifice. Even though the fal'cie can probably destroy it with just a thought, it won't. I think it's because it doesn't want to get its hands dirty so it wants us to do it instead.
After we defeated Cid, he turned into a popsicle. He went against his focus, which was to aid us in the destruction of cocoon, and turned into crystal. Snow said that Cid wanted to save Cocoon in his own way and that his turning to crystal is a sign that we don't have to follow our Focus. That maybe we can save Cocoon and not turn into monsters. He made this big speech about making his popsicle girlfriend proud. He was all 'Serah would want' this and 'I made a promise' that.
The speech didn't bode well with Fang. She didn't want us to risk going against our focus and turning into Cie'th. So she summoned her Eidolon, Bahamut, because that's how we win arguments apparently.
After he was tamed we took a short break. Fang finally came around and now we're going along with Snow's plan of going against our fate.
I wanted to point out that Cid turned into a crystal not because he went against his Focus, but because he unknowingly fulfilled it. His focus was to aid us in destroying Cocoon and he did so by going against it. Fighting us was his undoing, his defeat made us stronger as l'Cie. He fulfilled his Focus trying to stop us from doing ours.
But at the risk of Fang flying into a white hot rage and summoning Bahamut or worse, becoming Ragnarok, I kept my mouth shut.
Our next destination is Gran Pulse. I'm told it is very pretty in a 'oh my god, it's full of large beasts and dangerous blood thirsty animals' so of way.