[ SECRET POST #2623 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2623 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Aeris is nothing like the others in terms of personality. Unless you count her awful Crisis Core appearance

Oh man, I liked Crisis Core well enough but her complete personality change was incredibly jarring. I guess you could theorize that Zack's death was so traumatic that it caused her personality to undergo a shift but still, what the fuck?

[(Anonymous)]

But the thing was, it wasn't really that traumatic? She didn't even know he was dead (in the canon game). She calls him her first love, but also says it was nothing serious and that he was a womanizer - all while constantly flirting with Cloud. When you go to Gongaga and she does find out he's dead, she runs off kind of upset, but then asks Cloud if he's jealous, and (if her affection is high enough) says she hopes Cloud is jealous. I know they retconned in Crisis Core and had her sense that Zack was dead ... or maybe it's not a retcon, maybe she just got the sense that something was off and she never heard real confirmation. But over the course of the game, there doesn't seem to be a big sense that she's particularly bothered about her boyfriend from five years ago.

[illiadandoddity]

Well, you do get the impression that she wasn't as calm about his disappearance as she said she was if you have her with you when you go to Zack's parents' house in Gongaga - she runs outside, unable to deal with it. I think even if it weren't all that serious a relationship, knowing that a former boyfriend disappeared and is probably dead would really bother you.

[(Anonymous)]

Oh, I'm not disagreeing that it bothered her. She just doesn't seem traumatized. She was obviously sad and upset to hear that he died. But still, in the same conversation after she runs off and explains Zack was her first love, she immediately bounces back and starts flirting with Cloud. I'd say it's also Aeris's personality to keep what bothers her on the inside and address issues with optimism, so maybe it did bother her more than she let on. But Aeris just doesn't seem that caught up about Zack in the game, if she takes an opportunity to explain her teenage kind-of boyfriend's death to flirt with the guy she's currently interested in.

[(Anonymous)]

ayrt

Oops, ngl, I completely forgot about that. Well, I guess there really is no excuse

[(Anonymous)]

Or maybe it's simpler than that and is basically: people develop and change a lot between the ages of 15 and 21. In fact, that's exactly when a personality shift is most likely to occur.

[(Anonymous)]

I think that's giving Square Enix too much credit, but it's a possibility. Kind of seems like the writers forgot that Aeris wasn't a cute, sweet, naive girl. Even at 16... girl lives in the slums, watched her biological mother die before her, hears voices in her head, and spends her free time literally dodging government agents who want to kidnap her... and "I'm afraid of the sky"? srsly...