Cat

Cats are recurring animals in the Final Fantasy series. Less common than dogs, common house cats have appeared as pets and background elements in populated areas. Feline beings at times appear as monsters, summons, and other magical beings, such as Gimme Cat in Final Fantasy IX and Cait Sith. Mithra is a humanoid race with catlike features in Final Fantasy XI, whereas Miqo'te is a humanoid race with cat ears in Final Fantasy XIV. However, this article focuses on cats as regular animals.
==Appearances==
===Final Fantasy VII===
There's a large beckoning cat by the Pharmacy in Wall Market.
On the second floor of the Barracks in Upper Junon, cats of both types can be found on the bed in the top right if the player visits pre-Meteorfall. The orange-brown cat sits curled, while the calico cat walks back and forth and meows. After Meteor is summoned, three more smaller cats of various sizes and descriptions occupy the room.
The Corel flashback has a comedy routine that goes on in the background. A cat appears behind one house being followed by a dog before disappearing behind another house. The cat then emerges from that house and returns from whence it came, being followed by the dog who is now being followed by a small child. Then back down the original route the small child runs, now being chased by both animals.
Cat's House in Wutai has an HP Absorb Materia upstairs, but the path to it is blocked by cats until after Yuffie's quest has been completed. The passage upstairs has another cat, although it cannot be seen by the box and its presence is only made known when it meows on contact. The house contains 11 cats, and unique to this house are some darker appearing cats who use a shaded version of the orange-brown cat model.
At Icicle Inn, the Family House has an orange-brown cat. At first it is in the way of the snowboard until after the scene with Elena, where talking to the boy will get his cat to move to allow the player to pick up the snowboard. In Holzoff's House, an orange-brown cat sits camouflaged on the carpet.
A couple of cats appear in the Accessory Store in Mideel.
The Bird room of the Debug Room has an orange-brown cat that deals with areas concerning Junon.
Cait Sith's Lucky Girl Limit Break also features a catgirl.
===Final Fantasy VII Remake===
Cats make their home in the Midgar slums, numerous being found around Sector 7. A girl called Betty tasks Cloud Strife with finding her lost cats in an odd job called "Lost Friends"; though the cats flee as Cloud tries to approach them, they return to their owner and Cloud collects his reward regardless. Wedge also cares for numerous cats. The slum dwellers talk about "someone in the neighborhood watch who is a real cat whisperer", and he once invites Cloud to visit him so he can "meet all his cats". There is also cat graffiti in the Collapsed Expressway .
Sector 7 undercity has numerous stray cats. Co-director Motomu Toriyama has explained that their numbers can be attributed to Wedge who loves cats so much he cannot help but bring any stray he finds back home with him. The other co-director Naoki Hamaguchi (game design / programming) had his own cat rendered in-game, as during development a cat with a rough model appeared during a scene, and Hamaguchi, who loves cats, thought they could not release the game "like this", and gave the modelers a picture of his own cat, which led to the addition of a high quality cat model being in the game. The scene at Jessie's parents' house has three cats walking on the fence, and the detailed American Shorthair among them is Hamaguchi's cat. Because that cat model ended up so detailed, cutscene makers wanted to use it in various places, but Hamaguchi wanted it only living in Upper Sector 7. The model of Hamaguchi's cat at one point was even included as one of Wedge's three his cats, but Hamaguchi made Toriyama change it as Wedge's cats are supposed to be siblings and thus should look like they are from the same litter. Toriyama, meanwhile, did not want dog people left out, and added some more dogs to Midgar, which is why Marle—the landlord of Stargazer Heights—has one. Level design supervisor Yui Sawada stated that the team tried to select cats that looked like they could be found anywhere, avoided long-haired breeds that looked really fancy. The cat's animations were left up to the motion team, whom Sawada felt must have been huge cat lovers, given the surprising number of variations they created.Final Fantasy VII Remake Material Ultimania, p. 113
In "Episode INTERmission", Yuffie will find the newsletter she is looking for for "The Happy Turtle Ad Campaign" quest in the clutches of a cat, all of whom are playing with flyers.
Wedges cats outside his house from FFVII Remake.jpg|Cats outside Wedge's house.
Wedges three cats from FFVII Remake.png|Wedge holding three cats.
Gray cat in Sector 7 Topside from FFVII Remake.png|Gray cat outside Jessie's mother's house.
===Before Crisis -Final Fantasy VII-===
Tifa Lockhart owns a white house cat. In Final Fantasy VII Remake Trace of Two Pasts, the cat is named Fluffy.
===Final Fantasy VIII===
Cats wander around Timber. A girl near the hotel wants a cat but her mother is allergic. The back alley behind the Aphorora Pub has many cats and the Forest Fox Hideout has a cat living upstairs. It sleeps on the kid's bed, who comments that the cat is growing and he does not dare to move it. The kids complain that the cat is eating all of the food and this is why they're charging a "looksee fee," though their mother smacks the boy for attempting to charge this to the party. The cat model is enlarged if the player visits the house later.
The Winhill pub has a cat that is part of the vase sidequest. After finding the other pieces, the player must speak to the lady upstairs till she mentions the flowers' aroma. The player must examine the flowers downstairs in the bottom right corner, and Raine's spirit will appear, but is replaced by a cat who has the last vase piece.
===Final Fantasy IX===
Alley cats are found in Alexandria and Treno. At the beginning of the game the player can find a boy named Tom down at the docks near the church who asks Vivi to find his missing cat, Mittens. The cat is in the very first area of the city, where the statue stands in the middle. Talking to the boy after having found the cat nets the player the Bomb card for Tetra Master.
Queen Brahne is depicted holding a cat in a painting in Alexandria Castle. A concept art for her depicts her lounging on a "sofa" that is actually a gigantic cat .
The "secrets" section of Final Fantasy IX Ultimania explains that the legs of the Armstrong enemy are cat's legs, and that four cats are holding the Armstrong up. Armstrong has a cat motif on the weather vane on its roof and a shield on its left side.
===Final Fantasy X===
All cats are stripy orange-brown. Two appear in the Crusaders Lodge in Besaid Village, one appears on the deck of the S.S. Liki, one appears in Luca's square, one appears in the Luca city limits, and one appears in the nun's chamber in Macalania Temple. The cat at Luca's city limits (and also a dog) awaits the return of a Crusader who fights during Operation Mi'ihen. The cat in Macalania Temple moves around when interacted with and sometimes lets out a cry.
===Final Fantasy XIII===
No specific cats appear, but NORA's motif is a cat, hence the cat-themed jewelry Serah Farron wears, a gift from her boyfriend Snow Villiers who leads NORA.
====Final Fantasy XIII-2====
Serah's cat in New Bodhum is Snow, named after her fiance, Snow Villiers. She was found as a stray and ended up becoming a pet for the all New Bodhum, as various families have different names for her.
====Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII====
"Stuck in a Gem" is a quest in Luxerion. Gem is a cat in the southeastern part, but in truth, "Gem" is a boy named Ronan whose desire to bring his cat back to life resulted with his soul being transferred into it by a potion he received from Lumina. Gem asks Lightning to restore her owner's soul back into his body.
Ronan is located in the Market area of the Old Town, east from North Station and south from Wall of Joy. He is a boy surrounded by cats, who will react to the Starlit Spice (a man in old town market gives it) and take it from Lightning if she comes into contact with them.
===Final Fantasy XV===
There is a hungry cat in Galdin Quay Noctis wants to feed. After catching a fish and having it cooked by Coctura Arlund at the restaurant, the cat accepts the food.
The cat appears later in Cape Caem behind the lighthouse, again hungry. The player can either purchase luxury cat food from the shop at the parking lot for 20,000 gil, or have Monica Elshett cook a fish at the hideout's kitchen. Completing the quest yields a Sky Gemstone, one of the items Cid requests for weapon upgrades.
There are cats inside Perpetouss Keep during the "Adventurer from Another World" quest. The talk icon appears when near them, but the player cannot further interact with them. During the ending credits to the quest, Y'jhimei lies on the ground with a cat sitting on her back and Prompto may take a photo of this scene for the player's album.
Before the game was out, developers demoed Lestallum via a "dog cam", exploring the town as Umbra. Another studio Square Enix had outsourced some of the work to did their own demo in the vein of "cat cam", showing a train station from a cat model's point of view. This train station doesn't appear in the final game.
===Final Fantasy: The 4 Heroes of Light===
The player can transform Aire into a white cat and Rekoteh into a blue cat with the Animal Staff. Characters who enter battle in animal form retain their items and commands, but their weapons are not visible and stats are decreased. As animals, the player can converse with the non-playable animals found in towns, such as the seagulls in Liberte.
Aire is a spoiled princess who seeks treasure in a nocturnal whirlpool. When she opens the chest, she is cursed into becoming a cat and she discovers that only animals and fairies can understand her. Wanting to become human again, Aire heads to Arbor. She teams up with her friend, Brandt, who takes her for an ordinary cat. As soon as they set foot in Arbor, Brandt is turned into a plant, and Aire must save him by retrieving the Animal Staff. Aire and Brandt meet with Queen Arbor and agree to calm Arbaroc, Arbor's guardian, from a rampage. In exchange, the Queen turns them back into humans. Meanwhile, Aire's friend, Jusqua, has found a stray cat he believes to be the cursed Aire, and tries to expel the "curse" from the cat.
Category:Creatures