RP Interpretation Meme

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For these anons-

ITT your interpretations of a character for critiquing and analyzing. Kinda like rp_advice_meme in reverse. Don't get too wanky- this'll only work if you play nice. ♥

Edit: Oops, meant this to be on the comm. Oh well.

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AERITH GAINSBOROUGH

[anonymous]

first :>

Re: AERITH GAINSBOROUGH

[anonymous]

Aside from the big things about her that I think we can all agree on (toppy, kind, brave, pushy so forth) I see Aerith as a person who can actually be quite- ah, the word I want isn't dishonest, but maybe evasive when it comes to letting people into her own emotions. While she loves people, and enjoys being loved in return, there's some part of her that is reluctant to really let people in. For example: there are two (maybe three) characters who's only purpose in the game is to exposition about Aerith, because Lord knows she won't do it herself. There's really no way to reconcile what she says about Zack in the original game (he wasn't that important/too much of a skirt chaser/so forth) with what information we get from Crisis Core. I think the original game hinted that Zack was more important to her than she let on, but if you take into consideration things like her job, her clothes, a lot of her personality having come from Zack then he has to have been way more important than she let on. But still, she avoids talking about

Re: AERITH GAINSBOROUGH

[anonymous]

Yeah, I agree, to an extent. I think Aeris is fairly in-touch with who she is and what she feels, but a part of her is repressive. I think she's trying to protect herself, rather than concealing things for any other reason -- she learned early in life that who she is can be unfortunate and uncomfortable, and denying others access to that is a sort of coping mechanism for her. She's guarded, but not closed.

AERITH GAINSBOROUGH

[anonymous]

There are other things too, like her unwillingness to tell people what she knows about the Ancients and Holy.Maybe it's not unwillingness? I don't think she really knows that much. She answers questions about the Ancients and the Planet in Shinra HQ to Cloud & Tifa but one of the things she says is "more than words...I don't know", that she often can't make out what the Planet is saying and needs to get out of Midgar to find her Promised Land. It's kind of a running theme that people keep overestimating how much Aerith knows about Cetra-related matters; when she gets kidnapped by AVALANCHE in BC she gets a guilt trip about Elfe dying without being able to get to the Promised Land, and all she can say is "…but I really don’t know where the Promised Land is…" There's optional dialogue in Costa del Sol where she talks to Cloud about how she doesn't know who she's supposed to be as an Ancient, so I don't think it's that she's unwilling to open up--it's her choice to start telling Cloud about it--as that she's seriously confused and

Re: AERITH GAINSBOROUGH

[anonymous]

Agreeing with pretty much all of this, and also commenting to add that the reasons for Aeris' guardedness could also likely be the result of everything people mentioned here, to varying degrees. She doesn't know much, what she does know worries her and makes her life difficult, and that she possibly doesn't prefer to dwell on it, rather, trusting her path to reveal itself.

AERITH GAINSBOROUGH

[anonymous]

While Aerith does talk about her experience being an Ancient in the original game, I do think it's interesting how she'd never admit to being one on her own. She might talk to Cloud about who she's supposed to be as an Ancient, but CC makes it clear that nearing two years in a relationship with Zack, she still hadn't told him about herself. It's pretty interesting especially because even if it should only be a need-to-know basis, Zack kind of did need to know: he was working for Shinra and the company had it out for Aerith. Had finding the Promised Land become higher priority during that time and more pressure been put on Tseng to recapture her, Zack could have found himself forced into a difficult situation with barely any warning. And Aerith knows how dangerous Shinra is, so the fact that she never says anything to Zack after two years shows there's a big issue there. All the same, she did talk to Cloud about her feelings regarding being an Ancient a few times, and she traveled with AVALANCHE, who all knew she was a Cetra and

MAIDEN WHO TRAVELS THE PLANET

[anonymous]

Yeah I know, people hate this one because the characterization is terrible, it's kind of boring, and it's not officially part of the canon anyway.

But do any parts get used for inspiration in characterizing Aerith?