where has he gone and what have they done to him?

Pictured above is the greatest character ever to grace a video game. The character, and you should cause yourself great pain if you don't know him, is Bikke the Pirate.
Who, you ask? (while subjecting yourself to torture)
Bikke the Pirate is a Final Fantasy character. I haven't seen him in a long time.
I miss Bikke. Without him, the world of Final Fantasy will never recover.
No amount of FMV can replace him.
No ten CD's to load a game could ever come close.
Bring him back.
And to a Nintendo system, for crying out loud.