Today I am implementing the final playable character of Blackmoon Prophecy into the game. His name is Godot and he is, of all things, an esper.

What I like about this character, aside from his battle sprite being pretty cool, is how his personality is closely connected to how he plays in battle.

Godot is a fairly arrogant esper and believes that physical violence is beneath him. Now, when I say physical violence, I actually mean just the physical part. Godot feels that only lesser beings attack with their bodies. Because of this, he does not have a "Fight" command.

Godot's command list instead looks like this:

- Force
- Magic
- X-Magic
- Item

What is the "Force" command? I could joke and say that he is a Jedi, but I'm afraid of George Lucas so let's not go down that road. It is, quite simply, a command set that allows Godot to completely sustain himself. This ties into his personality as well, since Godot prefers to look after himself and he does not want to depend upon anyone else. By selecting Force, you'll have access to abilities that Godot can use on himself to restore his own HP, MP, and also clear status effects from himself. These abilities cost nothing to use.

What makes him even more interesting is that he possesses the highest magic stat out of everyone by a VERY large margin. There is a counter to this however, and that is the fact that Godot does not learn the best spells in the game. Godot is a red mage, so he's able to learn and cast both black and white magic spells. He has access to all spells that can be obtained by Oalston (black mage) and Elina (white mage) except their highest level spells such as Curaja or Ultima.

To supplement his lack of a "Fight" command, Godot instead can equip orbs in both of his hands which increases his magic stat and grant him various bonuses and resistances.

So what is Godot in a nutshell? He is the strongest magic user in the game and is capable of completely sustaining his own HP and MP without using up any items or magic points to do so. He depends on absolutely no other characters in order to perform in battle. He is, essentially, a magic-based powerhouse in the sense that he can hit hard and can take a good amount of damage in return (the his inability to equip shields counters that fact). Godot sacrifices being able to learn the best spells in the game for having insane an magic stat and the ability to be an inexhaustable fighting force.

Godot's mechanics are set in stone, but here's a question I want to pose to readers. If you were playing a game and were at the end with maximum levels, skills, gear, and so forth, would you want the inexhaustable magic-tank throwing an endless slew of powereful firagas and thundagas around... or would you take the mages who CAN exhaust themselves but have access to spells such as curaja, ultima, etc?

Overall I think Godot will be a really interesting character. He is essentially two other characters in one until the end game when the player has to decide between inexhaustable MP or stronger spells. Of course, there's nothing stopping the player from pairing Godot with another mage. A party of Vahn (always group leader), Oalston, Elina, and Godot would actually be pretty darn scary for any enemy to meet (though monsters with high magic resistances could pose a problem).

Godot's mechanics are definitely a good way to make a red mage character feel like less of "just another mage" and more like something a little unique.

The last point about Godot is that, even though he does not wish to depend on others, he still does not want to see his companions fail at all as he feels that it reflects poorly on himself as well. As a result, he's prone to pulling off some pretty extraordinary things such as drastically increasing Vahn's MP as soon as they meet just so that Vahn is "less of a liability" to him.