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⌈ Secret Post #4364 ⌋

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Comments

Re: What controversial fandom opinions do you have?

[soldatsasha]

Aeris is totally bland in the Compilation, I'll grant you that. But in the original game? No.

She's a hoodrat who sells flowers and seems pretty damn familiar with the sex work industry in the slums. Unlike Tifa, she's confident and isn't afraid to confront the party with uncomfortable truths, particularly about how fucked up Cloud is. And she's one of the funniest and most adventurous party members, but also one of the most jaded. The game even calls the player and other characters out on their inaccurate perceptions of her. She was never the sweet nice white mage girl ready to sacrifice herself for the good of everyone. She was never a Yuna.

The only thing "bland" about her is that she dies before she has any kind of real character arc.

Re: What controversial fandom opinions do you have?

[(Anonymous)]

Ayrt
Yeah, you're mostly right. I guess I just got really tired of so many people pushing the "Aerith flawless waifu uwu" angle.

Re: What controversial fandom opinions do you have?

[(Anonymous)]

I will never forgive Compilation for what they did to Aeris. Good god. How do you go from a girl threatening to rip a man's balls off to Actually Jesus?

Re: What controversial fandom opinions do you have?

[(Anonymous)]

TBH most of her "blandness" in the rest of the compilation is she has shit VAs and very few appearances. But I remember her scene with Cloud, calling him on his inability to forgive himself in AC, and if you just read it and ignore the shit VAs, she ends up making a lot more sense. Because what made her so interesting was that she was all that... But she was still caring. She's still pretty feisty in Crisis Core, she just... Is, again, the product of terrible VAing.

Re: What controversial fandom opinions do you have?

[chamonix]

THIS x1000. It sounds insane to say that Aeris is underappreciated because of how ingrained her character is into game history, but you rarely ever see people discussing her real personality. I get that the Compilation wanted a messiah figure, but I think erasing her mile-wide sassitude was a real shame.

Re: What controversial fandom opinions do you have?

[thewakokid]

Good lord I agree with all of this.