Well, keep in mind, other than two really short scenes (intro and ending) we never see what Lucia is capable of on the Blue Star. We only see her on Lunar. That being the case, it's hard to say what the extent of her true powers are. My own opinion is that she is a Goddess, the same Althena, but not the goddess of creation (that belongs to Althena). She has other purposes, and we haven't seen them. The fact that she's the one waiting in the crystal, rather than Althena, shows she has another purpose besides Althena's.
I can't argue that we do not see what she could be capable of, but that is taking into account that she is an upper level deity like Althena. What was said in the interview, and what we ended up seeing in the game still feel like two different things. Remember, it says they had two crystals in the draw up, but removed the one intended for Althena. Who's to really say that this is not an example of changing Lucia's overall abilities and role.
I agree that as a member of the Goddess Tribe, Lucia has her own place and job to do with the Blue Star, but I am still not sold that she is an upper level god. Without the supposed link that she needs to be on the Blue Star to be fully powered, she is presented as a lesser member of the Goddess Tribe compared to Althena, who had her full power no matter which planet she was on.
I'd also go so far as to say Lucia is the more compassionate of the two. Althena destroyed the Blue Star. When it was Lucia's turn to do the same to Lunar, she didn't. Call it weakness if you want, but I'd call it compassionate, even if it looked like she faltered.
Now I disagree with that perspective. Althena's actions, SSSC/EBC related, seem to be done in a last ditch effort to stop Zophar. At the time, she had no other choice but to unleash her full power in hopes of stopping Zophar. When it was her time to make that choice, she did not have the advantage Lucia has. Lucia is working with more knowledge of the true Power of Humanity thanks to the experiences of Althena/Luna. Basically, Lucia was able to make an informed decision, Althena did not have all the facts when she had to make that devestating choice. I don't see that as a difference in compassion.
When the chips are down, Althena will void Life, as it's been phrased. Lucia...will not.
Um...no. See above. And you are still seeing more there than there really is.
Though, in light of the new evidence, I have to wonder if she needed Althena's power, or any power but her own to put Life back in the Blue Star. If Lucia is to the Blue Star as Althena is to Lunar, then she already put the majority of her power into restoring the Blue Star, so she was never at full power in the first place on Lunar. She left the Lion's share of her power as a Goddess 'at home'. Taking on Althena's power, then, made her keeper of Lunar as well as the Blue Star. With the power goes the responsibility. But unlike what Althena did to Lucia's home turf, Lucia could not bring herself to return the favor...and instead chose to spare humanity.
...and humanity repaid her kindness in full on disc 3.
Once again you are adding uknown evidence to the very little that interview gives us. There is no positive link between amount of power and being on Blue Star for Lucia. That was a theory presented by JWL, which has been expanded by thoughts of G1.
And using your own odd logic, this proves that Lucia is still weaker than Althena. We have full proof from all games that Althena has all her power despite which planet she's on. If Lucia, as you claim, can only have her full power on the Blue Star, then she is indeed a lesser god than Althena, who has power anywhere. She is even a lesser god than Zophar, who can draw his dark powers from anywhere as well.
And as for the destruction of the Blue Star...again, my reply to G1 covers that.
Fixing to head out, but in regards to putting life back on the Blue Star, I don't think that's Lucia or Althena's doing. That power is being stored up in the Blue Spire (which unfortunately was nixed in the remake). There's a scene in the original where Ghaleon kills Hiro as they approach Pentagulia for the second time. Lucia is torn between completing her mission and saving Hiro's life. Ronfar persuades Lucia to save Hiro, in what I consider one hell of a character-booster for the priest-turned-gambling man. Lucia eventually goes to the Blue Spire to resurrect Hiro using a small amount of the power there. Ghaleon himself told Lucia that "if you give me the secrets of the Blue Spire..." which Lucia scoffed at. So, IMO, it's the power of the Blue Spire that eventually restores the Blue Star. At least, in the original.
I was going to bring that up, but you have nicely.
...Hmmmm. Actually, now that I think about it, in the remake, what channels power back to the Blue Star was Althena's Fortress instead of the Blue Spire. She points it out in the FMV where Lucia tells the story of Althena zapping the Blue Star. The problem, of course, is in the remake, Zophar EATS Althena's Fortress, and hence all the accumulated power in it, which completes his resurrection. Yum.
So in the remake, there's nothing to work with but her own power and Althena's. And, of course, Hiro who chases her to the Blue Star. The medium of transporting power to the Blue Star was munched by Zophar, so...
What on Lunar are you talking about?
I just plugged that movie in on my PS2....and not a single line Lucia says says a thing about the Fortress of Althena being a conduit to transfer power back to the Blue Star...where the heck do you get this stuff from?? Hell, the Fortress is not even mentioned or shown in the movie. And in the original games, there was no such thing as the Fortress. Once again you are making stuff up to fuel your arguements.
Now, after watching this scene, I do note a few interesting things based on FACT.
1- Lucia's recollections seem to give the feeling that she was awake and witnessing the entire war with Zophar on the Blue Star. However, as she remembers it, she says that the people called upon Althena for help...not Lucia. If Lucia was the Goddess of the Blue Star, then why did no one call upon her?
2- Lunar is lifeless until after the Blue Star is nuked. Althena is said to have created the sanctuary of Lunar for the survivors. This shows me that the creation of Lunar was an after thought, and a result of her Final Solution attack. Up until then she had no intention, it seems, to populate Lunar, which I see as strengthening my stance that Althena was the top dog Goddess of the Blue Star.
3- (and most interesting) Lucia's final "While I..." line, in addition to the being left behind junk, basically implies a feeling of being the one left behind to safe guard and watch over things. I get the feeling it is indeed her job to oversee the revitilization of the Blue Star once she emerged (on schedual that is) from hibernation. She has the knowledge and the power to make sure that Life on the Blue Star was normal...but I don't think that would make her the Goddess of the Blue Star, persay. More like the care taker.
And again, you simply cannot compare Althena's weakness -- from strength of character, in the remake version -- to Lucia's, which really is weakness of character. In SSSC she was deliberately crippling herself. In Genesis, so little makes sense that it may as well not be there; clearly she's not killed, but what does happen is completely opaque. For all we know that may have only zapped her back to Searis in the shape she'd already been in. In TSS she's in her routine human incarnation, and the backstory Shiva kindly translated from the guide (which is recapped in Damon's library) is that her previous human form had gotten old and weak, so vulnerability as a human is not unusual. We never see Lucia do the same thing, so we can't compare.
