She wanted to birth a savior of a blighted world and betrayed everyone for it. Ironic she already had given birth to that savior. Her first born, too. 🤣

What chapter is this

Tell you what, when she did herself in, i couldnt have cheered any louder. Hated that woman from the first time you see her

For the entire game she never called Clive by his name, not even once

I think it was this scene that cemented how fucking brilliant this story was. The confrontation Clive has with his mother, the way he exclaims how foolish she was to not realize that Joshua was out there fighting at that very moment, against a terrifying, out-of-control dominant.
Ben Starr fucking killed this role. The way he delivered the line about how she gave her son up, willingly, to destiny. So goddamn awesome. Ik that this game is polarizing, but the love that was put into the story, the music, the cinematics, and the boss fights? Immaculate.

My only regret in this game was that we couldn’t make her kill herself twice.

I find it so hard to believe that Anabelle was the actual mother of Clive. For how she treated him like he was nothing, i thought the story wouldve gone at a direction that Clive was an illigetimate son hence the actions. But god damn, even till the very end she only cared about preserving the blood line…..

And my god this scene was so powerful, im glad i played this with english dub and not japanese.

The emotions conveyed in Clive voice is too good. I just finished this part of the game 30 mins ago and had to come back and watch this again because that scene was just too good.

She and Hojo would hit it off given their Disgraceful behaviour

Playing this game really had me hating this woman. She’s the worst mother ever.

What good is a homeland in a world beset by the blight? What good is a nation when there is no people to build it? Elwin is a true leader, the dominant of Ifrit became the personal guard of the dominant of Phoenix. Clive had every right to know why his own mother betrayed the family and province.

Little did Annabelle know that her oldest son, while passed over by the Phoenix, was actually the most powerful being in existence.

I love how ride or die Jill is

I’d definitely bang anabella

The best scene in all of FF history

This is still my favorite scene from the game. The passion in the VA voice, and that bomb ass entrance. “I’m a shield of Rosaria, and I will do my duty.”
Homie was a savage.

Clive is too kind for what his mother does

Elitism at its finest

man! why she sound like Dr. Paula from suits?!

This might be the best scene in the game. It has everything. Resolution to tension that had built through the entire game, clive getting to protect Joshua, both of them proving their evil mother wrong, Jill standing up for clive, the hypest ifrit transformation in the game.

It’s perfect

Probably best cutscene. Ben is a monster!!!

Clive is in Tekken 8 😂 can’t wait to play as him

even in confronting his own mother he puts his brother above himself, he didnt say “you had us”, as at this point he fully accepts she had never lovedh im, but rather “you had joshua”. just, damm

She should be grateful that not only she gave birth not 1 but 2 dominants if she only realized that when she saw clive transform to ifrit

His voice acting is fucking legendary

Man, this scene alone makes this game award worthy

I was rooting for clive beheading her. I was devastated when she got an easy death and even pardon from her sons especially Clive.

Clive never saw himself as her son. You can tell when he says she surrendered her son (Joshua) to his fate. He knew she didn’t see him as hers, and he returned the favor even before everything went downhill. Truly one of the worst mothers ever.

Crazy how Queen Brahne from FF9 is a better mother

It’s amazing how she still looks so young for someone who is a mother of a 33 year old.

I just realized the FF1 world map theme was playing in the background.

I was hoping for a scene where the uncle would interact with her. I’m sure it would’ve been something to see.

I love how when Annabella says how the phoenix should have been clive is a callback to when young Joshua said that he was not strong enough to be the phoenix and that clive should have been.

That voice acting man..top tier

Damn nigga dis shit be emotional af

The voice acting in this game is just so fucking good!!

I’m not play 16 before i got no Ps5… But my taste I think his Mother was quite hot yeah!! She’s better than Jill tats for sure…

3:12 Not anymore. My boy jinxed him

1:03 FF1 nes overworld theme music

Ironically, Clive was rejected by the Phoenix because he was already harbouring Ifrit.
So Anabella not only blamed for something he had absolutely no control over but also refused him while he was unknowingly hiding an even greater power.

What I love about Clive in this scene, is what Clive does not say to his mother.

His own mother speaks down on him, calls him a disappointment.

But the only time Clive raises his voice: when it’s about Joshua (one could argue the “surrender your son to his fate” could be about Clive, but given the conversation is about Joshua, I focus on that).

It says a lot about who Clive is as a person at this point in the story. His mother’s betrayal burns him, there’s no doubt about it. But he never makes the conversation about him, but about his father, brother and Rosaria. He briefly mentions himself, only to explain *why* he became a shield.

Elwin Rosfield and Traitorous Wife Anabella is liking based on Johnny Depp and Traitorous Wife Amber Heard (Opinion)

Even in a room where almost everyone in it wants her dead and she has no protection, Anabella is still popping off. True menace.

PEAK VOICE ACTING

I love the irony that Clive ended up being everything Annabella wanted in a son. She was just too selfish to give him a chance.

2:21-2:40 I’m still shocked Ben Starr didn’t win Best Actor award at TGA 2023.😢

I wish Annabella had reacted to Ifrite. It would have been cathartic to see her realize how much a fool she’d been

the little part of me wanted the rosfields to make up and be a family again. i absolutely loved how anabella voiced her lines she was so perfect

why does clive mother look so young though

This scene was AMAZING. I felt the real tension between the characters so strongly. Oh my godddddd

Reminder that the guy that gave this performance didnt win best va of the year

I just noticed the song playing in the background is actually the ff1 overworld theme

She’d fit well in game of thrones

I can fix her

Who would of thought The Mother voice actress is the same actress who played Alice Wake in Alan Wake 2.

She was afraid of being slandered by her “inferiors” when those same “inferiors” already looked at her with such disdain for her treatment toward her first born, Clive. Had she had the heart Elwin Rosfield had for BOTH his sons, she would be treated with the same level of respect she wanted from the start. A leader doesn’t care about his line or his land. It’s the people that matter. You can’t have a nation without the people who make it. This bitch was the reason why I bought the game after experiencing the demo because I wanted to see her pay for her treachery, and I wanted to end her myself.

Nah maybe her dying right after the boss fight was for the best. She got a whole two kingdoms destroyed with that backwards ass philosophy lol

Crazy.. Clive your mother is for the streets.

Can’t help love the irony of her unknowingly already having what she needed for the “perfect bloodline” she gave birth to 2 dominants of fire, and had Shiva’s living under her roof. If Phoenix Gate had never happened, then she would have been able to have Jill marry either of her sons to make what she considered the “perfect child”

Ben Starrs Performance in this scene alone is simply spectacular.

a very small part of me was hoping that clive, jill, joshua, dion, olivier, and anabella would go home too rosalith and have a nice happy ending not gonna lie 😭🎉

Man, what a bitch.

Bruh FUCK this bitch if only clive killed her himself ngl that wouldve been hella satisifying

This bitch had no redeeming qualities whatsoever.

The funnier thing is that had it not been for her machinations, Rosaria would have ended up with 3 loyal dominants (Ifrit, Phoenix and Shiva) rather than 2 angry ones (Phoenix and Bahamut).

I don’t know if the game explains when people are chosen as dominants, but since Joshua was around 8-10 when he was chosen I bet Anabella treated Clive with “love” like a real mother should before he was rejected.

Mother of the year

Final Fantasy Karen

The dark truth in her rant about the value of noble bloodlines over lands and kingdoms is that she’s correct. “What worth is a homeland in a world beset by the Blight?” It’s a harsh truth, but it’s the truth, if the Blight had reached Rosaria and the lands around Rosalith began to wither and die, what would Elwin’s plan have been to stop it? It can’t be stopped. Rosalith would have had to be abandoned and the duchy’s capital moved. Which is also what happened to the Empire, and they lived on because their leadership lived on, it was once the Emperor was dead and Dion lost that things truly collapsed for them. But as long as the bloodlines of the Dominants continues on, the power of the Eikons will reawaken within them and their glory can be restored.

It’s also a microcosm of the Ultima – abandoned their homeland because the Blight ruined it and tried to rebuild their civilization on another planet.

Death was to easy for her. Should’ve made her a slave for how long Clive was

Ich hasse diese Frau. Ich dachte Dolores Umbridge hasse ich, aber die Mutter hasse ich viel mehr. 🤬🤬🤬🤬

Just noticed the FF1 overworld track plays at 1:04

Congratulations Anabella!
You’ve just cemented your place in the Hall of Horrible People that No One Shall Mourn and No One Shall Miss! 🎉
Along with such distinguished figures as Joffey Waters, Ramsey Bolton, and Cersei Lannister, you too shall have a waiting seat to spend your time with the scum of humanity!

Sad thing is she let her third child die too.

2:02 can someone please explain what she meant by this? So is Clive actually her son? Or was she a concubine at the time she gave birth to Clive?

Moment worth the wait

I enjoy how horrible Anabella is, but it’s true she isn’t like that for no reason.

They tell you in the ATL, she was essentially brainwashed from childhood “This is your purpose”. Her entire identity and self worth hinged on her carrying on her noble blood and producing good children, producing a dominant.

So of course Clive failing to become Phoenix is upsetting to her, and then to add insult to injury the rumor of Elwin’s strongest and bravest child being from some commoner would naturally attack her pride and woth at it’s foundations. The son that is unmistakably hers may be the Phoenix, but he was sickly, weak, seemingly useless, not valued by the people in the same way Clive was valued.

Even Joshua (unfortunately) was aware of this, as he told Clive about how they cared about the Phoenix, not him. Clive was being hailed by the Rosarian people as a hero in the making, someone to look up to and respect, the perfect future ruler, or he would’ve been had he been the Phoenix.

Clive was jealous of the respect Joshua received.
Joshua was jealous of the love Clive received.
Elwin wanted his people to be safe.
Anabella wanted to fulfill her purpose.

How come she doesn’t age and looks same age as clive? This explained in game?

Clive the goat

Nah, fuck this bitch. I’m surprised the sons didn’t beat her ass to death.

Can’t lie that hoe was sexy

I honestly just felt sorry for her. The irony is so thick here, it’s oozing out of the screen.

-You failed to awaken.
-The shame of being slandered by those inferior. How could you ever know how that feels?
-It should have been you.
-Why did YOU survive?!

Damn, and then she sees before her eyes, she was dead wrong about it all. Dude… that is freaking nuts.

Annabelle deserved much worse than what she got

2:24

Final Fantasy 1’s overworld. My god. It shows up more than once.

I’m the most upset that they didn’t call her “Anabella” at the end cause that is NOT your mother. It should’ve been Clive “come Anabella, or not. I could care less either way” I would’ve been elated

A part of me thinks the reason she turned out the way she is not solely due to her “duty” to her “noble” cause; but the fact she did what she did out of fear—to not be _useless._ So her problem(s) may possibly be an existential one, if nothing else aside from utter lunacy.

What I find truly sad is that… there are A LOT of Anabellas out there, both men and women. Parents whose heads are so far inside their own arses to the point they fail completely to acknowledge their children as different individuals with different personalities, and not an extension of themselves as their delusional heads projected. And, to the extent they fail to recognize the potential of their children. Anabella had everything. Clive and Joshua were two handsome and talented boys, even with Joshua’s fragile health. Hell, Joshua was able to fully control the Phoenix despite his anger and the interference of Ultima. Clive was First Shield at the age of 15 and mastered the Blessing of the Phoenix as if it was a part of himself since birth. Elwin was honorable and loved even amongst Branded, specially due to his efforts to make their lives a bit easier. But instead, she chose to betray it all for a twisted dream doomed to fail from the very beginning.

Makes me laugh when she said , “they had orders, Joshua was not to be harmed.”

An invading country isn’t going to let a potential threat like that live.

Joshua is the heir to Rosaria’s throne.
Ignoring the Pheonix, he would always be a rally point for dissidents.
Adding the the Pheonix he is a weapon of mass destruction.

You would be a fool to keep him alive.😢

2:21 Damn, I freaking love Ben Starr’s delivery here! He absolutely nails Clive’s anger, it sounds so real! The voice acting in this game is hands down some of the best and most believable voice acting I have ever heard in a video game!! Huge props to the cast of this game, and I really hope ya’ll get some nominations at the Game Awards this year!

Actually i can see why she thinks this way. In the old days nobility acts as beacon of control and order. People was basically uneducated and easily divided. So thats where the position of nobilty and royalty, a symbol of unity in masses

Selfish and ignorance as she said, but it was quite true in days where only those in certain powerful family rule remained and people cannot force their freely and always subjugated by their weak nature. Thats why many royalty (ehem) had behaviours to marry their own kins

I still think she deserved a worse gruesome death . She got the easy way out 🤷‍♂️ but hey that’s just me maybe

They really perfected her bitchy im too good for you look in this game everytime the camera was on her lol

What a bitch of a mother 😒

0:47 If I was Jill, I would have slapped her and said: “Answers the woman who showed no respect towards me! If you were half the ruler Elwin was—”

I believe clive still see her as his mother,too bad she is so lust in power to see her own son….

Still a bit miffed that you don’t get to stab her at least a little. At least she got to see her demon baby bite it.

She ruined the brother’s lives because she wants to live in a much bigger house, more money and more power!

I’m bery glad they allowed Clive to tear into this bitch without any attempt to make her sympathetic. She crossed so many lines and gleefully rubbed her crimes in people’s faces when she felt confident she was winning.

I truly dont understand her

She was wife to a powerful and highly respected lord. She birth two prodigiously talented sons. She had the power, status and obedience of her countrymen( Not love. She cocked that up cause of her interactions with clive)

And yet she gave it all away and will forver be remembered a monster.

Lady. Your priorities are so backwards that you can only see your ass

damn clives voice actor is pog

I seriously love how Jill brandishes the rapier like saying “I got your rights right here, and you ain’t gonna stop me.”

Wifey Jill defending her man 😌

Hey Anabela, if the people were willing to turn on you that easily, what power did you really have?

trash writing should have thrown her to hang out with some goblins

I bet the mother felt too stupid realizing she had two sons with Eikon’s. 😂😂

FF1 WORLD MAP SONG IN THE BACKROUND WTF

She at least seemed to care for Joshua genuinely. But dude there is nothing redeemable about her in any way.

Even Square Enix knows how western modern women act lol

I have to congratulate the creators of this game they made annabella so vile that her pitful death never made me sad for her😂

So…she betrayed her husband, her children, her people and her kingdom. Just because she thought everyone saw her as a loser because of the “failure” that Clive turned out to be by not being chosen by the phoenix ? And that’s why, in order to achieve a new status and become someone “important” again, did she decide to give birth to the emperor’s son ?
This woman is crazy and the title of mother is too big for her. She is the clear representation of how rotten the nobility can be.

They could have at least gave Annabella’s reaction to Clive transformation, maybe a how?? So he was a dominant? Something…

SPOILER – About the young blonde boy with Anabella
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Before this scene I was so confused as to why Olivier seemed so lifeless and robotic. Other than the part where he whines about having to go to meetings “with boring old people”, he looked like a puppet. Makes me wonder when exactly did he become a vessel of Ultima.

Cersei lvl of garbage human being.

Best acting in ff game so far

KILL HER NOW!

The story would’ve been better if deus ex machina Ultima isn’t in the plot. And focuses more on politics.

The story ended up being another “kill a god” theme. A common trope in JRPGs.

What’s interesting is the background music playing during this scene has Final Fantasy I Overworld theme leitmotif but in minor key

Where’s Dr Phil when you need him?

Preserved your line?! You were content to throw your husband, sons, and nation to the wolves just to protect some meaningless symbol to rule! It’s because of you Clive and Jill were put through so much heartache while you only cared about your damn nobility! Death is a fate kinder than you deserve! You deserved to live with the sins you committed that night and you will be despised for it just as Clive and Jill were!

The scariest part about this cutscene is women in most parts of our world still behave this way. Their sense of self-worth is so deeply embedded that they’ll put it over their own survival, even when their precious culture is already obsolete.

This woman doesn’t even realize something else is going on. She doesn’t even question what the blight is. Her children are figuring out something else is happening but she waste her time for what. Also, does she not realize that is not how the Eikon thing works?

Wrong a leader a king is nothing without his people/ comrades without them he/she is no king nor leader and from time and memorial a king’s/leader’s duty first and foremost is to protect the welfare of his/her people/comrades at all cost but for you to say that a leader’s duty should to protect and persevere the royal bloodline over the people I don’t know the hell you’re thinking that takes a boatload of stupidity and if I were Clive I would’ve have your head with extreme prejudice

She’s a horrible mother. Joshua and Clive deserve better especially after all they had to go through.

Kinda wanted to see her reaction when Clive uses Ifrit

She worse than cersei lannister

I like to see them have, for the video game awards this year, an award for biggest “Game Karen”. I would nominate this BISH in a heartbeat.😂

Anabella is the embodiment of everything bad about nobility. Selfish and entitled. The nerve of her to say that a king’s responsibility should be towards himself and his bloodline instead of the land and people he rules over. If anything, Elwin was the perfect example of what a noble should be. I say the greatest mystery was. What did the Archduke and the emperor even see in this woman to wanna marry her.

Hojo has competition for worst parent in Final Fantasy history

Well Jecht can no longer be considered the worst parent to a Final Fantays protagonist anymore

She had a loving husband, two talented sons and a home but made anyway the choice to throw it away because she didn’t want to be seen as a loser in the eyes of others, not even Joshua who was more of a status proof than her child. And then she finished alone with the « false god » she mocked so much posing as a false son, but she couldn’t see it because this third son was another nobility pass for her after all. All of this for a better castle and status for herself. She was a lonely, blind and miserable person to the very end.

Also hats off for Dion carrying the empire’s dignity on his back

She’s just a karen with a crown 😂

Annabella the cowardly queen 😂🤣😂🤣 just like vortigern

Elwin said it best. Without good people like Clive and Joshua protecting her, she’d wind up in the gutter. She’s the disgrace, and the only lesson she taught her sons was what naught to be

Cersei’s reign of tyranny ended this night

All because of ultima scheme…. 😅

I feel Bad for that third child.

Now both sons are packing heat in more ways than one. Nice going bimbo

Her personality fits the standards of the medieval fantasy where the nobility cares only their wealth and status so i wasnt too shocked or suprised by her.

The voice acting has been so incredible like damn the emotion is so amazing !!!

who is the best mom of the year Anabella or Pospera?

It is confirmed Anabella having the affair.

Clive’s mom is a SEXY ASS MILF. 😛 OOPS

I see Cersei lannister has a match for her ego in the final fantasy universe.

Out of all the final fantasys i have plyed and i have plyed almost all of the final fantasys i have never hated a character as much as this bitch

As a mother myself i cant imagine thinking of my kid as a ‘trophy’.
I would do anything to keep my kid safe and healthy.

actually i love annabelle as villain . imagine the real villain is her and she just normal human who manipulate dominant.

WHAT. A. BITH.
Clive should have slapped her atleast once… while in Ifrit form.

Clive didnt fail to awaken. He was chosen by another eikon. That is why the Phoenix rejected him.

Damn i like clive voice actor, that emotions is on point

The most twisted part about this scene? That it’s likely the most a positive interaction he has had with his mother since he was passed over by the Phoenix. I mean, it’s still very, very hostile, but she actually acknowledges his strength, boldness and daring, equating him to his father who he clearly admired a great deal. And even goes so far as to say “The Phoenix should have chose you.”

Too bad she is such a bitch.

I gotta’ give it to the people who made this game and story. It has been awhile ever since I’ve ever felt one singular hate and anger towards a character like Anabelle.
She honestly deserved a whole lot more to all the things she did but I am just full glad and happy her last moments were of fear and paranoia. As sad as it is, Clive and Joshua deserved a better mother than that witch.

Out of all the people I wanted to smoke in gaming none of them come close to her

You know what’s fucked up, she, from what I’ve seen (haven’t played the game yet), never address Clive with his name. It’s either “you”, “him” or a really cold glare. She really sees him as her failure, nothing more. If anyone else notice as well, when her “veil” of her caring for Joshua dropped when she was talking with Elwin, she just addressed him as “The Phoenix”. This woman doesn’t care for her child, she just sees them as a trophy. As long as they are dominants.

Man and the fact they had her end herself is so cathartic🎉🎉🎉

ironic huh? Anabella firstborn son Clive is the powerful Ifrit, her second son Joshua is the noble Phoenix. both her sons are outstanding men, and yet she choose to sire a third child who actually has nothing. not Clive’s capabilities Nor Joshua’s Phoenix. blessed by Phoenix and Bahamut? Her third child is nothing

She is bitch, cunt, gold digger, Noble complex and Asshole.

nah text was bad she thaugt hes dead.

And this is the kind of woman Netherrealm thinks we wanted out of Sindel ? Seriously ? What, just because she dressed like a dominatrix ? Well news flash ! This one dresses like a graceful saint but she’s a piece of garbage !

Was the Emperor’s child innocent ? Unwillingly guilty ? Or purposefully guilty ?

If i were Clive I would just forget about her

I can’t tell if she’s as bad as Cersei or not.

Was kind of dissapointed that she never really got a bigger role based on how the demo set her up, but maybe thats just me.

she’s gotta one of the biggest Karen of all time dude WOW

All Clive heard from his mom was: “Blah,blah *I’m a bitch* blah, blah, *I’m a gold digger* blah, blah.”

Mother of the year xD

Twisted mindset

The Empress has a BIG Superiority Complex. Just WOW!

Anabella is also gold digger in Royal Family. Wow just wow…..

Why didn’t Jill help, she’s shiva’s dominant