Relm Arrowny

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Relm Arrowny

Game series	Final Fantasy series
First game	Final Fantasy VI
Character designer(s)	Yoshitaka Amano
In-Universe Information
Class/Job	Pictmancer
Special ability	Sketch
Desperation Attack	Star Prism
Age	10

Relm Arrowny (リルム・アローニィ, Rirumu Arōnii^?) is a fictional character of the Square Co., Ltd.'s computer role-playing game Final Fantasy VI. She is an artist and the adopted granddaughter of Strago Magus.

1 Biography
2 Sketch
3 Trivia
4 Quotes
5 Music
6 External links

[edit] Biography

The player meets Relm during the first visit to Thamasa. After speaking to her grandfather, Strago, Relm introduces herself to the party. After finishing the conversation and staying the night at the local inn, the party is awakened by Strago, and asked to rescue Relm from a burning house. Relm is rescued from the burning house, and when the party leaves for the Esper Cave the next morning, Relm follows them. She is eventually useful in helping the party defeat Ultros, showing him that he is, in fact, a stupid-looking octopus, by sketching him.

When the World of Balance becomes the World of Ruin, Relm is found in the mansion of the rich art-collector, Owzer, where she is painting him a portrait of the Esper, Starlet. The portrait, possessed by a demon, comes to life, and the party is forced to defeat it, after which Relm once again joins the party.

Relm also has a mysterious relationship with Shadow, who is rumored to be her father, following a number of clues left in the game.

Relm was born on September 9th, making her a Virgo.

[edit] Sketch

Relm's special skill is Sketch, which allows her to duplicate the skills of her enemies with varying degrees of success. In early copies of the North American Super Nintendo Entertainment System version of the game, use of the Sketch skill yielded extremely unpredictable results (mostly when performed on invisible or otherwise atypical enemies) due to an uninitialized pointer, the most notorious being the infamous "Sketch glitch". This glitch would typically cause the game to crash, but it could sometimes add hundreds of free items to the player's inventory (including thousands of the "Dirk" item and items not normally obtained in quantities greater than one), switch characters on the active team, and even alter or erase saved game data. The "Sketch glitch" was removed from a later SNES version and does not occur in the PlayStation remake of the game. The most famous enemy to cause this glitch was the Zone Eater, although other enemies could also cause it.

After obtaining a relic called Fake Moustache, Relm's Sketch command turns into Control, which allows the player to completely control the enemy, and select from a small list of the enemy's attacks to use. This is, incidentally, one of the best ways to teach Strago some of the more esoteric Lore spells in the game. It is also useful to disable an enemy entirely while the rest of your team pounds on it with magic attacks.

[edit] Trivia

Relm's speech was heavily involved with profanity in the original Japanese version. With censorship still placing limits within SQUARE games of North America, her dialog was severely played down to a general audience. Example: "What a fuddy-duddy." To Strago when he turns down Relm's offer to accompany the party on an adventure.
Relm referred to herself in the third person in the Japanese version. It is unknown if this will show up in the English retranslation in Final Fantasy 6 Advance.

[edit] Quotes

To Strago in the World of Ruin: "You idiot, did you think I was going to check out before you?"
To Sabin in Thamasa in the World of Balance: "What's with the puffed up aerobics instructor?"
NPC in Thamasa says this of Relm: "Actually, RELM isn't STRAGO's real grandchild. I heard she's his friend's daughter."

[edit] Music

In Final Fantasy VI Original Sound Version, Relm's theme is called "Relm" -- disc 2, track 19 sample (help·info). Her leitmotif is also found in the track:

Ending Theme [Character Medley] -- 3, 15 sample (help·info)
- "Relm" is also featured in the Final Fantasy VI arranged album Final Fantasy VI Grand Finale in the track "Relm" sample (help·info). The theme is arranged a cappella for the ninth track, "Kami No Yurikago" ("God's Cradle") sample (help·info), of Final Fantasy: Love Will Grow.