[ SECRET POST #3654 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3654 ⌋

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Comments

Re: bad fandom opinions

[mimi_sardinia]

Yeah, that is the biggest problem with canon, is that sudden turnaround. I am okay with the sorceress theory, but I don't think Rinoa would have done it deliberately.

I guess I come from my POV because I spent time reading slash fanfic for a while before I played the game and found Rinoa nowhere near as bad as even the mild versions I'd run across up until then.

Re: bad fandom opinions

[(Anonymous)]

I agree - I can actually see her powers doing it subconsciously out of her desire for that relationship she seems to idealise so much and out of the whole apparent necessity for a sorceress to have her knight.

The way Rinoa is vilified in fanfics is pretty ridiculous, absolutely.

Re: bad fandom opinions

[(Anonymous)]

...Do either of you know how people with abandonment issues work? Because they actually got the relationship spot-on. It's not got a damn thing to do with powers, it's got everything to do with Squall being severely fucked up and Rinoa being the only one from a healthy enough standpoint to notice.

Re: bad fandom opinions

[(Anonymous)]

Lol no, that's not even close to accurate and if you paid any attention to what happens in the game, you'd have noticed. And Rinoa with a healthy standpoint? You mean the chick who thought enlisting mercenaries to support her little rebel group in a coup against her own father was a great idea?

And even if your assessment was accurate, that only makes her insistence to insert her in his life and pressure him into a relationship only more creepy instead of less because that would mean she intentionally manipulated Squall in his fucked up state of mind.

Re: bad fandom opinions

[(Anonymous)]

nyart

I'm kinda amused at you jumping directly to "she's intentionally manipulating him" when - Hanlon's Razor! - it's more likely she just noticed something was off and thought her pushing was genuine help. I mean, this here?

You mean the chick who thought enlisting mercenaries to support her little rebel group in a coup against her own father was a great idea?

Yeah, that's a sign of being naive/stupid, not being mentally unhealthy. Come one, no need to overstate things when there's already plenty of existing faults in the character (and game in general).

Re: bad fandom opinions

[(Anonymous)]

I'm not jumping to anything. I disagree that she is such a terrible character, but AIRT implied that Rinoa did it all on purpose with the knowledge that Squall was mentally unstable.
If that's so: The way it was written - which was Rinoa being incredibly clingy and ultimately even enlisting Squall's friends to basically help her with her quest of pressuring him into a relationship with her - can, in my opinion, not be read as anything else than intentional manipulation. (Note that I don't agree with AIRT so I don't think it's this bad.)