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Kuja (Final Fantasy)
Kuja is a fictional character and the main antagonist of the 2000 video game ''Final Fantasy IX''. A member of the same race as the protagonist, Zidane. He exhibits narcissistic and egomaniacal traits, with his plot at first being to overthrow his creator, and then to destroy all life. He appears in other games, such as ''Dissidia Final Fantasy''. His concept art was created by Yoshitaka Amano, which was later reimagined by Toshiyuki Itahana. Kuja has been the subject of commentary from both critics and fans. In particular, his sexuality and gender have been discussed, since his outfit and mannerisms are effete. Despite him not being shown to be gay or transgender, he has been interpreted as a queer character, particularly through the lens of queer people being villains. His fear of mortality was also the subject of discussion. Concept and creation Kuja was created for the video game ''Final Fantasy IX''. His concept art was designed by Yoshitaka Amano, whose work was eventually ...
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Dissidia Final Fantasy
is a 2008 fighting game developed and published by Square Enix for the PlayStation Portable as part of the campaign for the ''Final Fantasy'' series's 20th anniversary. It was released in Japan on December 18, 2008, in North America on August 25, 2009, and in Australia and Europe in September. It was then re-released in Japan, based on the North American version, as ''Dissidia Final Fantasy: Universal Tuning'', on November 1, 2009. The game features characters from different ''Final Fantasy'' games and centers on a great conflict between Cosmos, the goddess of harmony, and Chaos, the god of discord. The two summon multiple warriors to fight for their sides in their thirteenth war. During the story, the player controls the ten warriors chosen by Cosmos, the protagonists from the first ten ''Final Fantasy'' games, in their journey. The game's English and international versions give access to other features such as an arcade mode. ''Dissidia'' originated from '' Kingdom Hearts'' d ...
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Garnet (Final Fantasy)
Garnet Til Alexandros XVII, alias Dagger, is a character in the ''Final Fantasy'' series and one of the main cast of ''Final Fantasy IX''. She is the princess of the kingdom of Alexandria and one of the lead characters. In this game, she is trying to escape her kingdom and joins with her kidnappers, including protagonist Zidane Tribal, to do so. She assumes the pseudonym Dagger and cuts her hair, at which point the writers began to treat her as a different character while writing her. In time, she discovers herself adopted, having come from a village of summoners. Her original concept art was created by Yoshitaka Amano, while the final version was handled by Toshiyuki Itahana, as well as Shukou Murase and Shin Nagasawa, who handled the in-game version of the character. Her design was meant to strike a balance between realism and a comic-like style, taking inspiration from the characters in the film ''The Dark Crystal''. She appears in multiple other ''Final Fantasy'' games, inclu ...
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LGBTQ And Video Games
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Final Fantasy IX Characters
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The Daily Dot
''The Daily Dot'' is a digital media company covering the culture of the Internet and the World Wide Web. It was founded by Nicholas White in 2011, and is headquartered in Austin, Texas. The site, conceived as the Internet's "hometown newspaper", focuses on topics such as streaming entertainment, geek culture, memes, gadgets and social issues, such as LGBT, gender and race. In addition, an e-commerce arm produces branded video for advertisers and sells items from an online marketplace. History ''The Daily Dot'' was established in 2011 by Nicholas White, whose goal was to cover Internet communities such as Reddit and Tumblr in the same manner as hometown newspapers cover their own communities. White's family has been in the newspaper business since buying the '' Sandusky Register'' in Ohio in 1869, and White was a reporter and executive with the family's media company before establishing the site. White launched ''The Daily Dot'' with $600,000 and a handful of full-time ...
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Leeds Beckett University
Leeds Beckett University (LBU), formerly known as Leeds Metropolitan University (LMU) and before that as Leeds Polytechnic, is a public university in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England. It has campuses in the Leeds city centre, city centre and Headingley. The university's origins can be traced to 1824, with the foundation of the Leeds Mechanics' Institutes, Mechanics Institute. Leeds Polytechnic was formed in 1970, and was part of the Leeds Local Education Authority until it became an independent Higher Education Corporation on 1 April 1989. In 1992, the institution gained university status. The current name was adopted in September 2014. The annual income of the institution for 2016–17 was £221.4 million of which £3.4 million was from grants and contracts, with an expenditure of £217.1 million. History The university traces its roots to 1824 when the Leeds Mechanics Institute was founded. The institute later became the Leeds Institute of Science, Art and ...
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Inquisition
The Inquisition was a Catholic judicial procedure where the ecclesiastical judges could initiate, investigate and try cases in their jurisdiction. Popularly it became the name for various medieval and reformation-era state-organized tribunals whose aim was to combat heresy, apostasy, blasphemy, witchcraft, and customs considered to be deviant, using this procedure. Violence, isolation, torture or the threat of its application, have been used by the Inquisition to extract confessions and denunciations. Studies of the records have found that the overwhelming majority of sentences consisted of penances, but convictions of unrepentant heresy were handed over to the secular courts for the application of local law, which generally resulted in execution or life imprisonment. Inquisitions with the aim of combatting religious sedition (e.g. apostasy or heresy) had their start in the 12th-century Kingdom of France, particularly among the Cathars and the Waldensians. The inquisitorial ...
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