sphene isn't an AU Garnet

Sphene is an AU Brahne

this probably doesn't make sense I need to sleep

but like

What If Brahne Weren't Evil Is Ugly And Fat

but also, world conquest

no, there's definitely some Brahne in there

but I would by that it was not part of the original Sphene, but more the like... process by which she came an Endless?

*would buy

Honestly I think the horror of sphene the AI is that they gave a murder computer the memories of an idyllic teenage princess and she feels the need to purge her humanity to properly be the murder computer

NO NO please continue you're onto something

They took the Garnet hardware and they're trying to force it to run the Brahne software and it's Causing Problems

yeah! or at minimum run on the Brahne software

I am also chewing on: Sphene as Kuja, Zoraal Ja as Brahne, Gulool Ja as Garnet

perceive my vision

I'm here I'm here I wish to know more

GULOOL JA AS GARNET. CYGNA YOUR BRAIN IS HUGE

Zoraal Ja is Sphene's catspaw, up until he goes off the - up until he keeps going on the rails in a way that is against her will

(Brahne turning Bahamut on Kuja goes here)

and Gulool Ja is Zoraal Ja's kid, who keeps trying to talk it out with his parent, only to get tossed aside and used, and only gets the emotional conversation he's been begging for when his parent is dying

(Brahne's dying words to Garnet go here)

Otis is a more static-because-already-his-best-self Steiner, as we know, and as much as FF9 Steiner is constantly trying to get Garnet to stop and go home...he is also always by her side.

/nods furiously