Manikins (イミテーション, imitēshon?, lit. imitations) are the main enemies encountered in Dissidia Final Fantasy and Dissidia 012 Final Fantasy. They appear as crystalline palette-swaps of the playable characters. In-game, they are represented by various Battle Pieces on the map board. A lot of the back story on manikins is told in the reports the player can read in the menu.
Manikins are colored in a manner reflective of their original counterpart or their counterpart's game of origin: Terra's manikin is red, Kuja's is purple, Warrior of Light's is blue, and so forth. Some manikins, like The Emperor's, use two colors. Manikins of different characters from the same game are the same or almost a similar color. Their voices are garbled, distorted versions of their counterparts, and their icon is the Battle Piece icon that represents them on the board.
Their naming system consists of an adjective alluding to their nature as transitory imitations, and a noun that describes their counterpart: Cloud's manikin is "Imaginary Soldier", while Golbez's is "Delusory Warlock". The exceptions are Prishe, Shantotto, and Gabranth, who have the naming system "[noun] of Antiquity". The adjectives that describe the manikins are synonymous and all manikins of characters from the same game share the same adjective, except for Final Fantasy XII, where Vaan's manikin has a different naming scheme to Gabranth's.
Body of Dark, Heart of Light[]
There can be minor cameos of them in Cecil's centric fic.
Dissidia: Shadowgate[]
It was implied in the first chapter that the six warriors stationed in Stormhaven (Kain, Lightning, Laguna, Yuna, Vaan and Tifa, even Prishe and Shantotto later) had perished while sealing up the Rift thus stopping the Manikins from multiplying. The other nine main warriors reunited with them before they began their tumultuous journey thru Castle Shadowgate.
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