Ah... I don't know. Depends on who it is. I'm sure some of the past kings would want to push me in that direction through whatever means are necessary... they've been waiting centuries for this.

[He can only imagine what it might have been like, waiting in the ring over many generations, helpless to do anything but watch and judge and pray. How long before some may have lost their humanity? Fragments of their souls? How much did they remember of what it was like to be human? He'd tried to speak with a few of them through the ring over time, but in some ways that was even harder than getting memories from the crystal. Some of them gave no real response at all. It isn't hard to imagine them witnessing what the crystal or Bahamut intended and deciding that it was a necessary price to ensure the future.]

Luna, though... and people like my dad... they'd never want this. They'd trust me to choose, and... they wouldn't force me into it like that.