Shades
General Information
Chrono Trigger DS
Age: Indeterminate
Species: Unknown (possibly Dream Species)
Home Time: Various
Home Area: Dimensional Vortex
For enemy information, see Alabaster Shade, Crimson Shade, and Steel Shade.
The Shades are strange doppelgangers of Crono, Marle, and Lucca that lie at the end of each dimensional vortex entry point. Crono, Marle, and Lucca must each be present to progress far enough to see them. They exist in pale reproductions of the Millennial Fair, Guardia Castle, and Lucca's house. Armed with significant combat capability, they each battle Crono, Marle, and Lucca. The Crono Shade's raised weapon and the others' unused lines show that they are malevolent entitites:
[Marle Shade] One of me is all this world needs. Begone, for all eternity!
[Lucca Shade] You are all that stands in the way... You must die!
Defeating them awakens latent powers in the three. As part of the Dimensional Vortex and Dream's Epilogue ending, their canonicity is questionable. They may be emanations of The Entity made to train the heroes for the Dream Devourer, similar to the Dream-Figment theory for the Ghost Children of Chrono Cross.
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