Gau

Japanese name	Gau (ガウ)
Job / class³	Wild child
Skill	Leap/Rage
Desperation Attack	None
Age¹ ²	13
Height²	5'3" (1.60 m)
Weight²	169 lb (77 kg)
as of unknown time from Nintendo player's guide from Japanese version of game

Artwork by Yoshitaka Amano

Gau is a fictional character of the Square Co., Ltd.'s RPG Final Fantasy VI. He is a feral child who lives among the animals on the Veldt. Image File history File links Gau from Final Fantasy VI from Squaresoft via http://www. ... Gau, from FFVI. File links The following pages link to this file: Gau (Final Fantasy VI) ... Limit Breaks (sometimes shortened to Limits) are powerful combat moves featured in Squaresofts Final Fantasy series. ... Image File history File links Gau from Final Fantasy VI File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Image File history File links Gau from Final Fantasy VI File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Yoshitaka Amano, renowned illustrator and graphic designer. ... Square Co. ... Computer role-playing games (CRPGs), often shortened to simply role-playing games (RPGs), are a type of video or computer game that traditionally uses gameplay elements found in paper-and-pencil role-playing games. ... Final Fantasy VI (ファイナルファンタジーVI Fainaru Fantajī VI) is a computer role-playing game developed and published by Square Co. ... A feral child is a child who has lived isolated from human contact starting from a very young age and who has remained unaware of human behavior and unexposed to language. ... // The Square Co. ...

"Draped in monster hides, eyes shining with intelligence. A youth surviving against all odds..."

Gau is the son of the "aged man" who lives in the house near where Sabin ends up after falling in Lete River. Gau's mother died in childbirth and his father, believing him to be a "demon child," abandoned the then infant Gau in the Veldt. Artwork by Yoshitaka Amano Sabin René Figaro or Sabin Rene Figaro¹, is a fictional character of the Square Co. ...

Gau joins the party when he is fed the Dried Meat from the item shop at Mobliz. He guides the player to an underwater helmet which can be used to breathe while riding the currents in the underwater Serpent Trench to Nikeah. In the World of Ruin he can once again be found on the Veldt, but only if the player brings three or fewer characters there to obtain him. // The Square Co. ... // The Square Co. ... // The Square Co. ...

Gau was born on April 5th, making him an Aries. April 5 is the 95th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (96th in leap years). ... Aries ( , Latin for Ram) is one of the constellations of the zodiac. ...

Leap and Rages

Gau is one of the most powerful players in the game thanks in part to his Rages. When he encounters monsters on the Veldt, he can use Leap to jump out of the party into the monster formation and end the battle. The next time he is encountered on the Veldt, he will rejoin the party with the ability to use those monsters' rages. When he uses a monster's rage, he will use either a regular fight, or a special attack every turn automatically, until the battle ends or he is KO'd and then revived, and will also adopt certain statistics of the monster he's performing his Rage on, which basically makes Gau a modified and enhanced Berserker. Gau's level will not be averaged with everyone else's to determine the new character's level as is done with other characters.

Quotes

• Playing around with Cyan's speech, shortly before applying it to the wrong person: "Thou! Thou!"
• Introducing himself to the rest of the team: "Gau...GAU!"

Strangely, changing Gau's name to anything else won't change the part in capitals, making it a rather odd phrase. Cyan Garamonde is a playable character in the Square Co. ...

Music

In Final Fantasy VI Original Sound Version, Gau's theme is called "Gau" -- disc 1, track 18 sample ▶(?). His leitmotif is also found in the track: Final Fantasy VI Original Sound Version is a soundtrack album of video game music from the computer role-playing game Final Fantasy VI, produced by Square Co. ... A leitmotif (also spelled leitmotiv) is a recurring musical theme, associated within a particular piece of music with a particular person, place or idea. ...

• Ending Theme [Character Medley] -- 3, 15 sample ▶(?)
  • Gau's theme is also featured in the Final Fantasy VI arranged album Final Fantasy VI Grand Finale in the track "Gau" sample ▶(?).

In popular music an arrangement is a setting of a piece of music, which may have been composed by the arranger or by someone else. ... Final Fantasy VI Grand Finale is a arranged soundtrack album of video game music from the game Final Fantasy VI, produced by Square Co. ...

External links

• Gau @ FFOnline.com
• In-depth Rage Guide