FFVI: Divergent Paths

Yeah, a lot of thought went into both Leo's overall character and his relationship with Terra. When I was a teen, I hated the end of Disney's "The Hunchback of Notre Dame" because Pheobus gets the girl, and Quasimodo... gets a hug from a random little girl on the street. As an adult though, I love that ending. Quasi didn't need love; he needed to know that he wasn't a monster, and that people could accept him. I wanted to bring shades of that into Terra's character. Ultimately, Terra is not looking for romantic love. The culmination of her arc was not found in romance, but in the orphans of Mobliz. That's why I ended the Ancient Castle scene on that note, instead of moving towards romance. It wouldn't be unthinkable for there to be a relationship between Terra and Leo, but that's not the story that needed to be told.