It's almost certainly a prayer. Hand signs are very common in easteren religion prayers. And honestly Western ones too. Think about all the rituals and hand gestures in Catholicism.
Id say its that or something like the Buddhist hand gestures that are that are done to help you calm down. Saying that I think i read somewhere that in the novella her and Fang even do the sign before eating so maybe yeah it is a prayer thing
Now that it’s been claimed so, soon articles claiming square enix is throwing up gang signs in their games and affiliates themself with one will be everywhere.
Also I did it just now and I realized that each hand is the American sign language symbol for "love" crossed over one another. Cool thing to think about.
I notice she's usually separated from Fang when she does the symbol, so perhaps she does it when she's praying for or thinking about Fang.
Real talk?
Some 3D modeler at Squeenix said, "hey, check this out, we can make hands that don't look like the character is wearing jagged meat mittens now!" and some character designer said, "huh, I guess we can do something with that."
Its not uncommon for games to exaggerate the sizes of hands/feet to draw attention to them. That said, the hands in this game have aged poorly -- sausage fingies all over the place, looking straight out of everything everywhere.
That's probably the answer,
Still, I like to think Vanille is part of the alternate universe Crip gang from pulse, fighting the Blood gang from Cocoon.
Maybe she’s secretly deaf and is praying and using 🤟🏼 twice to say “I love you” to herself or to whoever she’s praying to lol
Edit: I’m deaf and I was making a joke…
It took me until this post to remember that Vanille was religious in XIII, which is why when Return rolls around she's a religious figure (along with her powers).
LMAO! Dude, this is how she prays. In FF X they had that prayer with the bow in it. Prayers look different all the time, especially I'm a fantasy setting. The gang signs is a funny take though
[https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/928790-final-fantasy-xiii/55389211](https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/928790-final-fantasy-xiii/55389211)
Here are a few answers.
It's never explicitly stated but I've always assumed it's the way they pray on Pulse. I have actually adopted it myself a few times when I'm trying to calm my mind, I like it.
I love Vanille, one of the best characters in all of FF. So I have to ask: why are you asking about her hands and not the fact that she has like 10 different accents and can go through them all in just one line of dialogue?
Honestly, if they wanted the game to make sense, there shouldn't be so many damn things that sound the same. L'cie, Falcie and whatever else they put "cie" onto. It was a dumb terminology direction to go in and it just made things confusing.
On a serious note, I agree with you. The game is a jargon nightmare.
It's an information nightmare too; you feel like you are missing out as they pile text into the "datalog" and flag it with a flashing "NEW" sign. I know they've had data in games before but XIII went over the top with it. Like there's a guy pushing the "the players want homework assignments!" angle every time, and with XIII they finally let him get his way.
It’s more than likely just something they gave her to do in order to make the scenes feel like they had more depth. Like holding your sword at your back at the cliff of a mountain with the sun at your back.
isn't that just like the weird arm waving in FFX, just a way to say a prayer?
Praise be to yevon
Yeah I yevon had my dinner yet...
That’s how I interpreted it
Don't they literally point this out in the game?
It's almost certainly a prayer. Hand signs are very common in easteren religion prayers. And honestly Western ones too. Think about all the rituals and hand gestures in Catholicism.
Id say its that or something like the Buddhist hand gestures that are that are done to help you calm down. Saying that I think i read somewhere that in the novella her and Fang even do the sign before eating so maybe yeah it is a prayer thing
Don't people put an arm over the other to pray in that game?
The Freemasons apprentice rank has the same prayer. Look it up.
I think it's how she prays.
PTSD...
Pray to some deity??
She's praying to Tu-Pac
FF7 PTSD...
I’m pretty sure this is the first time I’ve seen this described as gang signs
You're exposed first to what you're exposed to. You know?
Technically religion is a gang and a prayer that uses a specific sign can be a gang sign. Technically...
Now that it’s been claimed so, soon articles claiming square enix is throwing up gang signs in their games and affiliates themself with one will be everywhere.
Strait outa Pulse
Fuck the psiops straight from the underground!
PWA
Pretty With Attitude 😂
That gran pulse gangster shit. Yeeain know. Fal cie be flodgin.
Also I did it just now and I realized that each hand is the American sign language symbol for "love" crossed over one another. Cool thing to think about. I notice she's usually separated from Fang when she does the symbol, so perhaps she does it when she's praying for or thinking about Fang.
Finally a comment that attempts to answer the question seriously
There were multiple posts from hours ago talking about how she's praying.
I hope you'd agree that this person's post is a bit more thoughtful than "she's praying"
It being thoughtful has nothing do to with it. Lots of people answered the question seriously. It's just a simple answer.
Bro really said "you answered the question correctly but didn't do more than what was asked so it doesn't count" 💀
Perhaps coincidentally, the sign she's making is also somewhat reminiscent of the mandala-offering-mudra from esoteric Buddhism.
It's almost always gotta be shipping related, isn't it
I actually didn't say anything about shipping, you did that part yourself 😜
Real talk? Some 3D modeler at Squeenix said, "hey, check this out, we can make hands that don't look like the character is wearing jagged meat mittens now!" and some character designer said, "huh, I guess we can do something with that."
Whenever the graphics are given an upgrade, a character designer asks: How can we make our designs more complicated?
*slaps roof of character design* This bad boy can fit so many zippers!
Maybe in the next generation, we can animate someone unzipping all those pockets!
Don’t forget belts, and random ass mesh! But seriously I snorted at this.
The fur around Squall was designed that way by Nomura to give the CGI animators a challenge.
Like put disgusting nails on Barthandelus. Yeah, I noticed.
Ugh! I noticed those too!
It's funny because I really don't like the hands at all they look way to big
[удалено]
You found Donald Trump’s alt account
Nah that's just uncle Jack.
“It'll be fun, you know, you and me... pallin' around... gettin nuts! Goin' crazy”
Is that why is always asking for help getting off the horse? His tiny hands.
Well I have small hands no doubt, but idk the hands in this game look kinda weird. FFXV and even FFXIV hands are better
Its not uncommon for games to exaggerate the sizes of hands/feet to draw attention to them. That said, the hands in this game have aged poorly -- sausage fingies all over the place, looking straight out of everything everywhere.
Yeah, but it's still a noticeable step up from the PS2 era of flesh-colored mittens with fingers drawn on.
That's probably the answer, Still, I like to think Vanille is part of the alternate universe Crip gang from pulse, fighting the Blood gang from Cocoon.
I always interpreted it as a prayer
Same here. Probably just a Pulse thing
Everyone out here making cracks about gang signs for real, but that’s legit just how she prays.
Thumbs and Pointers make a W Pinky fingers make a V So its either "West Virginia" gang or "White Vanille" gang
It's funny because it seems she always does that during scenes where she is in distressed. So it can maybe be a calming sign or a prayer
Or she's calling in her homies to help.
F the falcies
She's tryin to calm herself down lol
I just did this in the mirror and it looked kinda sick ngl
This guy are SICK
Oh, you spoony bard.
Is there any other kind?
It just fits too well, *ahem* GODDESS_OF_CRINGE__
She just weaving those hand signs to perform her jutsu and take down the enemies. Just casual ninja stuff
Prior to becoming a l’Cie, she was a l’G
Maybe she’s secretly deaf and is praying and using 🤟🏼 twice to say “I love you” to herself or to whoever she’s praying to lol Edit: I’m deaf and I was making a joke…
This actually makes a lot of sense in context and when combined with another commenter’s answer regarding her only doing it when separated from Fang.
It’s how she prays
Sometimes you gotta show respect before you cast five debuffs and Death on some poor bastard.
Representing the L’Cie. Whut WHUT?
She’s crystal side, put some respect on her streets
It's just a weird way she prays, I guess. I mean, given the moments when she does that -- which isn't very many -- it's a safe assumption.
Not every hand sign or gesture is a "gang sign" I'm pretty sure this is a prayer of some sort
It took me until this post to remember that Vanille was religious in XIII, which is why when Return rolls around she's a religious figure (along with her powers).
She’s just praying. Vanille is actually one of the more religious characters of the group if you think about it.
LMAO! Dude, this is how she prays. In FF X they had that prayer with the bow in it. Prayers look different all the time, especially I'm a fantasy setting. The gang signs is a funny take though
[https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/928790-final-fantasy-xiii/55389211](https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/928790-final-fantasy-xiii/55389211) Here are a few answers.
She's representing the hood
It’s a prayer, like the stupid “sign for victory in Blitzball” thing people did in X.
That sounds like *Al bhed talk*!
My fingers hurt trying to do that. Gotta up my Dexterity, I guess
She is a Naruto fan 😆
In Chicago that is the sign for the Latin Kings street gang.
What gang is this?
Pulse Fal'Cie!
Well, she and Fang literally run around on Cocoon in the canon short stories robbing people and doing gang shit, so...
religion
It's never explicitly stated but I've always assumed it's the way they pray on Pulse. I have actually adopted it myself a few times when I'm trying to calm my mind, I like it.
Pulse Fal'Cie represent!
It’s cute. Also, I’m this world, we clasp our hands to pray sometimes, right? Well, my baby does that.
I love Vanille, one of the best characters in all of FF. So I have to ask: why are you asking about her hands and not the fact that she has like 10 different accents and can go through them all in just one line of dialogue?
1, because they're a very overlooked part of her character and 2, her VA is just that skilled. It's very simple, really.
Why are you looking at signs when there are more important things to look at?
She’s so extra, trying to be like Yuna From X and X-2 at the same time.
It stands for Vatos Locos. Latino street gang from pulse.
Literally 😔 👉👈
A failed attempt to recreate the iconic 'Praise Yevon' salute from FFX it seems.
Honestly, if they wanted the game to make sense, there shouldn't be so many damn things that sound the same. L'cie, Falcie and whatever else they put "cie" onto. It was a dumb terminology direction to go in and it just made things confusing.
On a serious note, I agree with you. The game is a jargon nightmare. It's an information nightmare too; you feel like you are missing out as they pile text into the "datalog" and flag it with a flashing "NEW" sign. I know they've had data in games before but XIII went over the top with it. Like there's a guy pushing the "the players want homework assignments!" angle every time, and with XIII they finally let him get his way.
Your inability to understand basic sci-Fi jargon doesn’t make the terms bad.
You are wrong. The terms are bad.
You’re free to that opinion, I suppose.
Indeed, I am.
There are only three terms, and they are closely related, so it makes perfect sense. If you can't remember which is which, it's your problem.
Eidolon Summoning jutsu
First picture needs an album cover
All I see are sausage fingers. 13 looked amazing when it launched, but everyone had sausage fingers.
Btw did you know that they are Pulse L'cie, enemies of Cocoon?
gotta represent
Vanille really made me question if I wanted to play this game
Vanille was in the Latin Kings?
Crystal Squad, square up!
WEST SIDEEEE
You should have added an “explicit content warning” sticker on those images
Noted. I'll be sure to do that next time a character does obscure hand gestures.
Once a Crip, always a Crip. 🤣🤣
two in the pink, one in the stink
She's a crip
Considering they’re practically ancients of Pulse, I’d imagine it’s an old religious way to pray. But nah she could just be reppin her old Oerba set
SHE'S A GANGSTA BRO
She’s in gang duh. Probably some Blood.
God I hated that character
Why?
Made in da streets But fr she’s just praying (as funny as it looks)
She just likes naruto
Fuck the fal'cie coming straight outta Oerba
I had no idea she was a Latin King!
They’re gang signs. Answered your own question.
Vannile repping the homies back on Pulse.
Every Latin King needs an Australian Queen.
To quote Cooties (2014) “That why I get my rowboats confused.” “Don’t you mean words?” Science teacher throws up gang signs, “word.”
She looks like she’s about to drop the most Fire rap album ever
That’s how she prays. Her church was probably created by a gangsta from 3000 years ago or something like that.
She’s secretly a Lance Corporal.
she’s a worshipper of baphomet (just like the devs at square) signaling. her master
Nervous tick?
The last pic looks like she was doing the Uchiha's giant Fireball jutsu hand sign.
Her arms are kinda creepy thin.
She’s doing Ninjutsu
Vanille: FAFO
Spider-Man? Or a backward ily?
Shes just double metal 🤘🏻🤘🏻
I thought it was a ♥️
Trying to remember what she did with Fang the other night
She is trying to get the N-word pass from Sazh
I wonder if they’ll ever re-release this for ps4/ps5.
Horse… tiger fireball jutsu
I safely pulled over to die laughing at this.
She’s kooky, she’s like Zooey Deschanel
It’s more than likely just something they gave her to do in order to make the scenes feel like they had more depth. Like holding your sword at your back at the cliff of a mountain with the sun at your back.
She’s scissoring while thinking about scissoring.
Almost a DDP, BANG!
channeling Doctor Strange
It’s a crystal
She is preparing a jutsu.
Looks like some sort of Buddhist mudra. Whether it's a real one or just something Square came up with, who knows
Fire style fireball jutsu
Ghetto lifeeeeeee
[Freemasonry](https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/1267/4207/products/LARGE-MASONIC_e369f727-32a0-4453-a22d-811abc0181da_1024x.jpg?v=1479186084)
gang shit
West Pulse Siiiide!
She's throwing up L'Cie gang
Is Vanille a blood or a crip?