Report (Dissidia 012)

Reports are a series of unlockable reports and side stories in Dissidia 012 Final Fantasy that become available after the player has completed certain requirements.
Some lines in the reports are highlighted and can be selected. When selected, a cut scene or a series of battles is triggered. The cut scenes show side stories to the main storyline. Battles are sometimes related to the side story, and can consist of a number of rounds. There is no interruption between rounds, so any preparation to the player's character must be made beforehand.
The first seven reports contain contents of the Cosmos Reports from Dissidia Final Fantasy.
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==Report 1==
Report 1 is unlocked by completing Chapter 1 of Treachery of the Gods. The accompanying side story features Kuja and takes place before chapter 1.
===Report Text===
:World: A
:Place: Town on the Hawk's Wing
:Inherited Memories -01-
:"Your memories have great meaning.[1]
:And as you yourself have noticed,
:you story, and the recent calamity,
:are very likely linked."
:I don't know...
:My story is about a scientist
:and an ordinary mother and child.
:The story I am about to tell you may lead
:those already in the depths of despair
:to further confusion.[2]
:"We intend to lock these pages away,
:never to be read by anyone outside."
:By the time your story is excavated and
:read by understanding souls in the future,
:they story would have long become legend.
:It is only our duty[3] to preserve our stories;
:they provide proof of a life once lived.
:Please, tell us your story.
:The one deeply etched into your memories..."
===Side Story: Unshared Memories===
:Kuja and Cloud.
:Two warriors allied with Chaos talk about what they remember.
===Side Story: Singer of the End -1-===
Confusion spreads fast as Kuja furthers his plans while Kefka moves to destroy them.
===Side Story: Singer of the End -2-===
To defeat the opposing deity and its warriors is the one duty a summoned warrior cannot avoid.
====Battles====
==Report 2==
Report 2 is unlocked by completing Chapter 2 of Treachery of the Gods. The accompanying side story features Terra and takes place after Chapter 2.
===Report Text===
:World: A
:Place: Town on the Hawk's Wing
:Inherited Memories -02-
:He was so small, it was hard to imagine he
:was born with such immense powers within.
:The state was supposed to take care of him,
:but we decided to adopt and raise him
:as our own.
:One look into those innocent eyes,
:anyone would have made the same choice.
:We were painfully aware that he was not ours,
:but that he belonged to the state. He would be
:taken away from us one day, and we knew why.
:My husband was having doubts about his latest
:assignment. His other inventions—levistones,
:airships—enriched people's lives. But not this one.
:This was a child, and a tool for war.[1]
:But calamity was upon us. The state had to arm
:itself against neighboring states who had
:weapons such as Omega and summonable monsters.
:He had no choice but to continue his research
:in order to protect our peace.
===Side Story: To a New Path===
A girl, fearing her own powers as a tool for destruction, decides to fight of her own volition.
====Battles====
==Report 3==
Report 3 is unlocked by completing Chapter 4 of Treachery of the Gods. The accompanying side story features Jecht and takes place at the end of chapter 4.
===Report Text===
:World: A
:Place: Town on the Hawk's Wing
:Inherited Memories -03-
:The child was beginning to learn words,
:which he tried so hard to string together
:in order to communicate with us.
:He called me Mama, and my husband Papa.
:He never doubted the love between us.
:The child made us smile! As we lived in fear
:under the threat of war, he gave us such great
:joy, however fleeting it was destined to be.
:Indeed, our happiness was short-lived.
:War had begun.
:The child was taken and isolated from us by
:the military, which decided to use him early
:to put a swift end to the war.
:He had grown by then, and more than adequate as
:as weapon. The problem was not with his powers.
:The problem was he didn't follow military orders.
:I was soon detained by emissaries of the state.
:The military decided to depend on his "mother,"
:figuring he would have to follow my orders.
:The child complied...and sealed Omega and the
:other monsters. Dwellings in the neighboring state
:were reduced to smoldering rubble and ash...
:What I saw in the aftermath was hell itself.
:...I had no alternative.
:If he were not to fulfill his destiny as a weapon,
:he would be executed. I had to follow the
:military's orders in order to save the child.
:Even at the cost of ruining countless other
:lives, I desperately wanted to save him.
===Side Story: No More Savin' Your Skin===
Tidus sacrifices himself to protect Yuna. Jecht makes a decision on impulse.
==Report 4==
Report 4 is unlocked by completing Chapter 6 of Treachery of the Gods. The accompanying side story features Golbez and takes place after the end of chapter 4 at least.
===Report Text===
:World: A
:Place: Town on the Hawk's Wing
:Inherited Memories -04-
:They wanted my cooperation a second time, but
:I resisted, My husband and I were branded as
:traitors and incarcerated deep underground.
:So many lives lost because of me...
:I was overcome with grief
:And then I heard about another research
:project begun by the military.
:The research was on creating similitudes.
:The state was seeking to create a copy of me to
:control the child according to their will and
:repeat the tragedy.
:The child's immense powers must have been
:worth their efforts.
:But I could not accept it
:His was a synthetic life, but a life nonetheless!
:Why must he alone have to suffer so?
:Why must he repeat destruction time and again
:Time was running out. I decided to take action
:before their research was complete.
===Side Story: Knowledge===
Hinting at possibilities to the warriors of harmony is to defy the warriors of discord.
===Side Story: Victory Not Left to Chance===
Warriors of discord retaining memories are not "comrades," and probe one another's motives.
==Report 5==
Report 5 is unlocked by completing Chapter 7 of Treachery of the Gods. The accompanying side story features Sephiroth and Cloud and takes place prior to the start of the scenario.
===Report Text===
:World: A
:Place: Town on the Hawk's Wing
:Inherited Memories -05-
:We were incarcerated in a cave wheremany monsters roamed.
:I studied the monster's behavior and used them
:to our advantage to break out with my husband.
:Running as fugitives, we managed to arrive at the
:laboratory where the child was supposed to be kept.
:What we found was a similitude of me in the
:making...and the child who was no longer himself.
:He was emaciated beyond recognition.
:And I saw wisps of hatred seethingdeep inside his empty eyes.
:We had no time to explain much. I only told
:him briefly about our situation, and urged him
:to join us in our escape.
:Just as my husband and I were about to escape
:with the child in tow, I was caught by soldiers
:and shot
:In that instant, I think I heard the
:child's sad cry from far away.
:But at the same time, my heart was engulfed
:by a bad premonition as the color of hatred
:in his eyes grew deeper...
:I was right
:In front of the child was born a tiny rip in the
:time-space continuum that quickly grew to an
:immense shadow that swallowed everything...
:And that is where I lost consciousness
:When I came to, the laboratory was in ruins.
:The child and my husband were nowhere to be seen.
===Side Story: Unexpected Fulfillment -1-===
Kefka whispers to Sephiroth: Use the warrior that came from the same homeworld as himself.
====Battle====
===Side Story: Unexpected Fulfillment -2-===
Having just been summoned, Tifa can't even remember her nemesis. But he points his sword at her.
====Battle====
==Report 6==
Report 6 is unlocked by playing the epilogue of Treachery of the Gods. It unlocks in the middle of the chapter.
===Report Text===
:World: A
:Place: Town on the Hawk's Wing
:Inherited Memories -06-
:We originate from a tribe that inherits memories
:through ceremony. The knowledge and skills in my
:husband were inherited as well.
:I had intended to use the teleportation device as
:part of our escape, but decided to use it to
:return to my tribe. I felt the need to pass on
:my memories even if I were to die there and then.
:I arrived in the town on the Hawk's Wing, where
:my tribe still lived in the middle of a forest.
:They were trying to use one of my husband's
:levistones to elevate the whole town in order to
:escape the shadow that appeared so suddenly.
:I told them my plight, and they understood
:They immediately began the ceremony of memory succession...
===Side Story: My Road===
With his comrades headed for the door to the Rift, Kain is alone to face the endless flow of darkness.
==Report 7==
Report 7 is unlocked by playing the epilogue of Treachery of the Gods. It unlocks at the end of the chapter.
===Report Text===
:World: A
:Place: Town on the Hawk's Wing
:Inherited Memories -07-
:"So what you just told is all
:memory you have inherited?"
:Yes.
:Memory succession is a dying art
:In order to preserve this memory for a
:longer time, I thought it best to leave it
:in writing.
:"Do you think there is any relation between
:your memory and the Four Fiends wreaking
:havoc on our world now?"
:That, I cannot say with any certainty.
:But there are curious similarities
:as to where things happened.
:Where the rip in time-space occurred,
:and where the Four Fiends now dwell...
:The scenery in both locations match
:with what remain in my memory.
:"Thank you for sharing your story.
:it shall be passed on as recorded."
:Lukahn, please let me ask you one question
:before we finish.
:The Warrior of Light, the one you predicted
:would save the world from this calamity
:with crystal in hand, is he really coming?
:"I am called an oracle, but I am
:actually a historian."
:"History must always converge. I feel faint
:signs of it coming from the distant worlds.
:The Warrior of Light shall come indeed.
:And he shall liberate this world...
:no, the people of this world
:from the cycle of negativity."
===Side Story: Unexpected Fulfillment -3-===
The never-ending calamity will eventually cause her demise. Cloud gambles on a possibility.
====Battle====
===Side Story: Divine Memory Lost===
Through the tale of defeat, the deity and warrior that defied fate begin to weave the end of history.
==Report 8==
Report 8 is unlocked by completing the Prologue of Light to All.
===Report Text===
:World: A-B
:Place: Onrac Region Camp
:Exploration Report
:*Report 003
:World beyond "the door to the Rift"
:in ruins and had no signs of life.
:"Crystal ore" obtained in the alien world
:now undergoing experiments at the lab.
:Details of experiments undisclosed, but
:state apparently shows keen interest.
:*Report 019
:Dragon discovered in alien world.
:Armed forces deployed, contact attempted.
:Half our troops are now dead.
:It is thought to have intelligence.
:But communication remains difficult.
:*Report 025
:Waste Materials from lab increases.
:A brief view inside a tightly sealed
:box yields hideous figure.
:Motions awkward, unclear if human or not.
:Disposed of through the "door to the Rift"
:as per procedure.
:*Report 034
:"Door to the Rift" is lost.
:Strong magic? Details unknown.
:Research comes to abrupt end.
:State may physically blockade Onrac region
:to mask evidence of any research.
:Our own lives are in jeopardy.
:*Report 038
:State may review our worth if we can
:bring back door to the Rift and restart
:the experiments, but clues unavailable.
:To open again requires tremendous force.
:Perhaps enough to destroy our world.
===Side Story: The Maiden Bringer of Light -1-===
A tale in a time before some warriors of the gods were freed from the cycle.
Completing this side story unlocks Prishe in the PP Catalog.
====Battle====
===Side Story: The Roving Swordsman===
 The man in the red hood that confronted Vaan and friends is too smart to be a monster.
===Side Story: The Duel of Dreams===
Gilgamesh confronts a sleepy-eyed Bartz to start a one-on-one that decides the strongest.
Completing this side story unlocks Gilgamesh in the PP Catalog.
====Battle====
==Report 9==
Report 9 is unlocked by completing Chapter 2 of Light to All.
===Report Text===
:World: A
:Place: Cardian Islands Laboratory
:From a Researcher's Notes -1-
:*Notes 005
:Analysis continues of "crystal ore"
:brought back by exploration team.
:Cultured samples show incredible growth
:speed. Most certainly a life form, but
:no signs of its own will confirmed.
:Potential for military use acknowledged.
:Research continues.
:*Notes 008
:Mass-production of simulated life
:based on crystal ore successful.
:We name them manikins.
:But still no sign of will.
:Employing help of a capable Lufenian
:scientist to attempt transplanting
:memory facsimiles.
:*Notes 016
:Memories taken from 10+ subjects used to
:generate lovely little monster.
:Method inefficient for military use,
:but important step in research.
:Thermal disposal of memory subjects in
:interest of confidentiality retention.
:*Notes 020
:Monster shows extraordinary potential in
:physical and magic abilities. Growing
:military interest as practical weapon
:application.
:Currently under observation at scientist's
:residence. Hope for no confusion with
:human child.
===Side Story: The Girl Awakens===
Her strong resolve recognized by Cosmos, Terra awakens as a warrior of harmony and meets—
====Battle====
===Side Story: The Grown-Up===
In the midst of their battles, Vaan can't help but wonder about his young comrade.
==Report 10==
Report 10 is unlocked by completing Chapter 5 of Light to All.
===Report Text===
:World: A
:Place: Cardian Islands Laboratory
:From a Researcher's Notes -02-
:*Notes 024
:Never pleasant looking inside incubator.
:When I approach, multiple bodies take
:on my face and come at me. They seem to
:change form in response to any nearby life-form.
:Proposition for military use in current
:state rejected as impractical.
:*Notes 026
:Complete memory removal and transplant to
:simulated life successful for first time.
:Named Cosmos to signify order.
:Subject is Lufenian female.
:Study undisclosed to subject.
:Scientist claims to be an unclouded mind,
:but how this can be determined is unknown.
:*Notes 027
:Military request for dissection of subject
:rejected by scientist, who seems to have
:become intimately familiar with subject.
:Perhaps military unable to strong-arm
:the scientist since he has earned recognition
:for creating monster. Military decided to
:cut off research funds instead.
===Side Story: How Touching===
The young are pure and innocent in Jecht's eyes, but there is one member about whom he is worried.
==Report 11==
Report 11 is unlocked by completing Chapter 6 of Light to All.
===Report Text===
:World: A
:Place: Cardian Islands Laboratory
:From a Researcher's Notes -03-
:*Notes 027
:Since funds cut off,
:research is at a standstill.
:We have nothing to do.
:War seems to be getting worse.
:The monster has grown and was supposed
:to have annihilated the other country.
:But still no sign of peace.
:*Notes 032
:Successful memory transplant test case
:Cosmos confiscated by military—to make
:her control the monster, they say.
:Have not seen her or the scientist
:since parting ways with them that day.
:Wish I had a wife as pretty as her.
:*Notes 035
:Incident in Melmond—scientist, monster,
:and Cosmos now missing. Rumors of military
:executions as part of search efforts and
:confidentiality retention.
:Door to the Rift in Onrac has vanished.
:No connection established between the
:incidents.
:*Notes 037
:Military on orders to expunge all persons
:with any knowledge on experiments.
:Lab is on fire as I write this.
:But there's no way I'm letting go of these documents.
:This will be my last stand.
:Sucks to know you're gonna be killed.
===Side Story: Enjoy the Now -1-===
Laguna picks up a flower, starting the "dream" for Firion and many more warriors to follow.
===Side Story: Enjoy the Now -2-===
Laguna cheerfully lectures an unfriendly youth, unaware of their relationship in another realm.
===Side Story: The Key for Us Both===
Lightning finds a single rose, out of place in a battlefield. She could not let it go until...
==Report 12==
Report 12 is unlocked by completing Chapter 9 of Light to All.
===Report Text===
:World: B
:Place: Hill with View of the Water Temple
:One Man's Monologue
:I heard a voice speak to me as I laid
:dying-and that voice was my own.
:My words were the only clues I had of the
:realm in which I found myself-in which I
:assumed time has been frozen for 2000 years.
:The life of endless solitude felt like a
:nightmare from which there is no waking.
:In the present, I no longer have an interest
:in carrying my future self back to the past.
:But 2000 years is excruciatingly long.
:As I imagined the hatred building inside me
:that would eventually and inevitably lead to
:make an irreparable mistake, all I could do
:was cower in fear.
:As I wandered, I happened upon a man who had
:lost sight of what to protect-and learned that
:this realm was not 2000 years in the past.
:With the man was a woman without warmth,
:and a giant beast curled into a ball.
:The beast spoke; he was struggling to
:deny his own destructive nature.
:I could not help but reach out to him.
:I often think of the start of the cycle.
:I as Chaos summon me from the future;
:once summoned, I become Chaos.
:This cursed cycle could not have started unless
:one other than myself carried me to the past.
:I wonder if the truth will ever be revealed.
:The beast often spoke of whence he came-of
:ships that used wind to sail the skies, of
:precision machines that moved like humans.
:His stories were considered "lore" in my realm.
:Intrigued, we told one another about ourselves
:and imagined where we would return.
:I shall give a name to this beast one day.
===Side Story: A Convenient Loss of Memory===
Tidus has to ask something to the one among them who didn't seem to care about not having a home.
====Battle====
==Report 13==
Report 13 is unlocked by completing the gateway, To a Foreign World, in the epilogue of Light to All.
===Report Text===
:World: B
:Place: Land of Discord
:Fragments of the Dragon's Words
:"Power... I desire.
:Give unto... thy flesh and
:...shall give unto thee...
:If true... were in thy possession
:...false creation... shall be facile...
:Fight and gain power.
:...offer unto me that power."
:"If...corpse should... offered,
:I shall ready anew...purified vessel.
:Stay thy efforts to obtain...
:... great strength to distort the realms.
:Spend thy life in solitude here,
:or wager...glint of hope.
:...thine to choose.
===Side Story: The Witch's Scheme===
Having gained strength from the cycles, the witch senses an end to the conflict and takes action.
==Report 14==
Report 14 is unlocked by completing the gateway, Gateway of Artificial Life, in the epilogue of Light to All.
===Report Text===
:World: B
:Place: Chasm in the Rotting Land
:Record of Experiments -01-
:*Record 000
:Agreed on pact with Shinryu.
:Gave my physical being for everlasting soul.
:Chaos and Cosmos also seemed to have reached
:respective agreements. Their souls are now
:worthy of gods.
:*Record 001
:Cosmos summons memories.
:Begins using them as her pawns.
:Chaos follows suit.
:One possesses mind of extreme strength.
:Such fortitude leaves one puzzled...
:Possible deep connection to Shinryu?
:*Record 002
:The summoned, debilitated though battle,
:are purified by Shinryu.
:Their memories are returned to the state
:of when they were first summoned.
:Three damaged bodies, unable to withstand
:purification, have perished.
===Side Story: Hope Beyond===
Crystals restore the warriors' memories of their homeworlds. What does Terra remember?
==Report 15==
Report 15 is unlocked by completing the gateway, Inherited Memories, in the epilogue of Light to All.
===Report Text===
:World: B
:Place: Chasm in the Rotting Land
:Record of Experiments -02-
:*Record 003
:The door to the Rift made its mark in this
:realm by leaving gateways to other realms.
:Some among the summoned have begun taking
:control of these gateways.
:Shinryu attracts the gateways, which in turn
:are influenced by memories in the realms.
:*Record 004
:A question I have never entertained
:before has now seized my mind.
:Is my memory unclouded?
:There is an abundance of ore in this realm.
:It may be worth the effort to create
:another manikin as perfect as Cosmos.
:*Record 005
:Attempts at embedding my own memories into
:manikins fail.
:Like the "failures" in my old experiments,
:they do not retain human likeness.
:No complete memory transplant could be done.
===Side Story: If We're like Them===
The Onion Knight wonders about the manikins' origins and questions his own memories.
====Battles====
Recommended Level: 28
==Report 16==
Report 16 is unlocked by completing the gateway, Confinement and Flight, in the epilogue of Light to All.
===Report Text===
:World: B
:Place: Chasm in the Rotting Land
:Records of Experiments -03-
:*Record 006
:Memory successfully embedded in experiment.
:Confirmed non-crystallization of body.
:Difficult to sense any will in its eyes,
:perhaps caused by incomplete transplant.
:Observation by placing it under battle
:conditions with the summoned.
:*Record 007
:Manikins with transplanted memories gain
:Cosmos's power. Thereafter confirmed one
:may lose its memory but retain its resolve
:even though purification.
:Failures disposed of near former disposal site.
:They transform in likeness to the summoned...
:*Record 008
:Lifespans exceed that of what the
:summoned can sustain without purification.
:Confirmed that not only the divine but
:all life in this realm are unaging.
:The time-space continuum in this realm
:must be warped.
===Side Story: To Protect -1-===
Cosmos is no more, but the Warrior of Light retains command and leads his comrades to battle.
====Battles====
Recommended Level: 34
=== Side Story: To Protect -2- ===
Watching the Warrior of Light's unshaking resolve, the Onion Knight cocks his head.
====Battles====
Recommended Level: 35
==Report 17==
Report 17 is unlocked by completing the gateway, Gateway of Infernos, in the epilogue of Light to All.
===Report Text===
:World: B
:Place: Order's Sanctuary
:Dissidia -01-
:What Chaos-the weapon born amidst the
:war-brought upon the world was not peace,
:but fear, despair ...and more warfare.
:Chaos would later lose someone
:precious before he was locked into an unknown world.
:There he was given another order: to
:create a path to the door to the Rift.
:Through countless battles,
:Chaos gained immense strength.
:But the path was not to be found.
:The scientist Cid-who had originally
:forced him into the cycle-was losing
:hope of ever finding his way home.
:Then we were shown new hope-not from
:gods, but from powerless pawns.
===Side Story: Memories of Existence===
Bartz has an idea for the Warrior of Light, who still can't remember anything after all the battles.
====Battles====
Recommended Level: 35
==Report 18==
Report 18 is unlocked by completing the gateway, Chasm in the Rotting Land, in Confessions of the Creator.
===Report Text===
:World: B
:Place: Order's Sanctuary
:Dissidia -02-
:In the midst of battle, pawns of discord discovered a door where the experimental "failures" had been discarded in the past. They used the door to their advantage.
:Pawns of harmony were pushed to the brink of extinction in the struggle against these "failures."
:But they did not give up.
:The few pawns that had remaining strength destroyed the door to the Rift and sent the "failures" to oblivion.
:That was the path that led to the Rift.
:Cid was now convinced that all hope was now lost.
:But he was wrong from the start—ever since he was a scientist.
:For force never resolves anything. Hope is realized not through force, but through passion, determination, and faith.
:As this realm vanishes, I pray—that the warriors return to where they belong...
===Side Story: The Maiden Bringer of Light -2-===
Before the conflict raged, an empty-handed Prishe stumbles upon an amazing discovery.
====Battles====
Recommended Level: 50
==Report 19==
Report 19 is unlocked by completing the Southern Lufenia Gateway in Confessions of the Creator.
===Report Text===
:World B:
:Place: Order's Sanctuary
:Dissidia -03-
:When he was still a child, Chaos was very much attached to his creator and his wife.
:He never questioned his love for them, nor his mission to gain strength.
:Because that strength was to protect the people from threats—to save the world.
:But when his powers began being used for destruction, Chaos began to feel a hatred for Cid.
:And when he became aware of his own demise, he imprisoned his own creator into "the other realm"—of nightmares from which you can never wake.
===Side Story: The Duel of Dreams!===
Not quite blue, blue skies and rolling seas, but a good day for fighting nonetheless.
:Recommended Level: 50
==Report 20==
Report 20 is unlocked by completing the Edge of Discord Gateway in Confessions of the Creator.
===Report Text===
:World: B
:Place: Order's Sanctuary
:Dissidia -04-
:The memory of "her" from which I derive... The defeats that constitute the memory of the "goddess of harmony"...
:With all of my memories regained, I lighted on this land and saw a most beautiful sky of blue.
:This realm, long lost within the Rift, is likely destined for eventual disintegration.
:All shall become a phantom, leaving nothing behind—as if nothing had ever existed.
:And yet, I remain convinced—
:That even after the passage of eons, peace in the world—once sought by the father and son--can be restored again.
:By the warriors who have departed from this world with crystals in their hands...
===Side Story: Confessions of the Creator===
The denouement beyond the ultimate fantasy—
==Analysis==
The twenty reports provide the backstories of Chaos, Cosmos and Cid, and elaborates on various plot elements introduced in Dissidia 012 Final Fantasy. Report 12 gives insight on how the time loop in the first Final Fantasy began and details the first meeting between Garland and Chaos in World B. The final report is uniquely written from Cosmos's perspective, revealing her survival after Chaos's demise, and the fate of her and Cid.
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