Materia

Materia is a goddess of machinery who appears in Dissidia Final Fantasy NT and Dissidia Final Fantasy Opera Omnia, opposite Spiritus. Unlike her predecessor, Cosmos, of whose will she was born, Materia is blunt and assertive. Due to her attitude and lack of knowledge of World B, her champions question her motives. While she speaks in a sophisticated and polite manner, Materia is self-righteous and prideful, believing she has a rightful claim over World B and treating Spiritus with contempt in spite of their shared desire to protect the world. When Materia sees Warrior of Light, Cecil, and Noctis at Spiritus's tower, she accuses him of turning her champions against her and of standing idly by while Shinryu destroys World B, even though Spiritus was also unaware of the threat. Although Materia is willing to work with Spiritus to defeat Shinryu out of dedication to save the world, she reaffirms her goal to vanquish him once World B has enough battle energy to sustain itself. Materia embodies common story elements central to the Final Fantasy series: light, technology, science, and the "power of mankind." Dualism features heavily in the series, and Materia represents a heavenly angle, but her actions and behavior hearken to the idea of how the sacred and majestic do not always represent the side of good. Although she carries benevolent intentions, her shortsightedness, judgmental, and accusatory nature shows flaws that are in line with her ruling elements as a goddess, including the fallacy of how power and justification supposedly equals righteousness.