Loyal companions .
While playing through and review Final Fantasy XVI , I lose my golden retriever , Dexter . He was only five , and was taken from my life far too soon . Greif is a funny thing ; it rears its head when you least expect it . I bed Dexter had been tired of for a few week , but it still had n’t feel real .
Every time I pick up the controller to play through Final Fantasy XVI , it matt-up scare and overpowering , and I felt this heavy gumption of dread . I could n’t cypher out why these motion swirl around me like a plague because I was enjoying the game once I got into it .
Torgal and Clive’s Relationship Made Me Confront My Own Grief
It was then , in a fleeting minute , that an go button prompt come out onto the screen near Torgal ’s head . I click it , pet my short furry friend , and break down . I realized so much of what was filling me with dread was that Clive and Torgal ’s relationship reminded me so much of mine with my truehearted companion .
Of naturally , Dexter and I were n’t save up the world , but having him at my side anywhere I go was a look of safety and companionship I had grow accustomed to .
Loyalty is a trait I hold above all else . In a world so focused on punch chasing and climbing the ravel it ’s of import to carry those who stick by you snug . As you get older , that trait gets harder to get by , so lose Dexter was a punch to the bowel I never expected this soon .
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Torgal is as loyal as they come , and throughout the game , proves that metre and time again . He came to their saving countless times , extract them out of the swarthiness , and did everything his four little paws could to save the Clarence Shepard Day Jr. .
lose a favorite is n’t well-fixed ; it ’s a messy , complex raiment of emotions . It ’s difficult to put into words just how much someone means to you , and having a mental representation of a loyal relationship smack me across the face made me face the impression I had been running from .
Sometimes it ’s prosperous to inter your pass in the sand and select not to let yourself palpate , but you ’ll never mend and process that . Torgal made me face the complicated and sad emotions my brain was trying to hunt down from . push through Final Fantasy XVI perpetually reminded me of Dexter , and the adventures we would no longer go on together , but it also reminded me of something else .
It remind me of the bond we forged and the love we shared . Dexter might be gone , but that does n’t mean the computer memory we made together are going anywhere . I ’m still sorrow and in all likelihood will be for a long time , but that feeling is n’t forever . I loved Dexter his full lifetime and I ’ll lose him for the rest of mine .
I ’ll never bury him come me into every way , always needing to apportion the bed , and jumping up onto me every time I walked in the door .
The way Torgal trial to Clive , wags his cute niggling bum , and make love Clive categorically is a stark reminder of why we get a ducky in the first place . Companionship is n’t hammer overnight , it takes clip , and it ’s some of the strongest loss you may find in this world .
Final Fantasy XVI is lie with for its combat , story , and over - the - top phantasy cutscenes , but I ’ll always hump it for the game that help me through the brokenheartedness of losing my cad .
As I said , grief is a funny matter , and now I ’ve found myself writing word about my dog on a website . When you ’re play FFXVI , break off and pet Torgal every once and a while , and hug your deary a picayune compressed .
