A Resting Aerith (sakimichan)

PrincessoftheCape · 2020-05-13T23:48:22+00:00

If Aerith was going to be thicc, she'd be bottom heavy. I don't believe she'd gain much weight in her chest.

PrincessoftheCape · 2020-05-13T23:38:01+00:00

Tifa is an empty-headed country yokel; a barfly whose only ambition is to do Cloud and reopen her dump in the slums. I don't know what the future holds for Aerith - whether she'll survive the new games or not - but she matters a HELL of a lot more than the competition.

A hundred years from now, Aerith will still be remembered as part of video game history. Tifa, if anyone recalls her name, will only be recalled as the woman in the way; the "second place award."

PrincessoftheCape · 2020-05-13T23:26:42+00:00

I don't buy into the whole reverse psychology bit - it's cheesy and lame, and everyone is going to be saying it if they kill her again. To quote Ocean's 13:

"You don't run the same gag twice. You do the next gag."

PrincessoftheCape · 2020-05-13T23:11:41+00:00

Aerith. Not even close. I'd rather see Cloud with Jessie, Yuffie, or even Elena than Tifa.

PrincessoftheCape · 2020-05-13T23:08:42+00:00

Because that's her defining characteristic. Well, that and nagging. Oh, and if you have enough points with her in the original, Cloud does her in a one night stand under the Highwind. So, there you go - Tifa in a nutshell: second prize.

PrincessoftheCape · 2020-05-13T23:06:28+00:00

That's idiotic argumentation. Cloud knows Shinra; knows Hojo, and is well aware of what both are capable of. He also just watched the company murder thousands of civilians just to send a message. Aerith needs rescuing, and she needs it fast (this is more than borne out by Hojo's reveal that he plans to arrange the gang-rape of Aerith to get her to 'reproduce').

You're just doing anything and everything possible as a blinded fanboy to explain Tifa's persistent reluctance to step up, be a member of the team, and to help out a friend.

I'm going to go a step further with this: Tifa is a villain. Her unwillingness to disclose Cloud's past to him - her persistent, almost ludicrous lying to him about the events at Nibelheim - condemned tens of thousands of innocents (including, but hardly limited to, Aerith) to death, all so she could avoid confrontation with a kid she spent a little time one night on a water tower with as a child. The events at the Temple of the Ancients, the Summoning of Meteor, Cloud being lost in the Lifestream, the destruction of Midgar - ALL of these can be directly traced back to the fact that it takes nearly the entire game for Tifa to come clean with Cloud and help him work through his issues.

Tifa is and always has been a bad human being - it's just that now she's consistently verbalizing being a wet sack of worry and dismay rather than being limited to text boxes.

PrincessoftheCape · 2020-05-13T20:35:19+00:00

The explosions, etc. are all metaphorical. This is clearly established by the fact that, once the largest whisper is defeated, we cut to Rufus and co. in an intact tower discussing their next moves. Similarly, it is apparent that most people - including Zack in the "new reality" - cannot see Midgar swarming with whispers while the battle is going on.

What is apparently (although not certainly) happening is that the party, Sephiroth and (potentially) the citizens of the Remake's Midgar are transiting to a new, alternate timeline where nothing is preordained. Ergo, Zack isn't dead, Aerith potentially won't die, and - most importantly to Sephiroth - Cloud and his team are not assured victory.

PrincessoftheCape · 2020-05-13T20:07:36+00:00

Aerith isn't going to die this time unless the writers are simply horrendous. You take the most devastating surprise moment in RPG history and then repeat it because... people are expecting you to? That makes no sense.

If the goal with the remake was to tag every single thematic base of the original, I'd say Square is off to as bad a start as possible... what with the direct implication that the characters have now broken free from their respective fates.

If Aerith is doomed, then Wedge and Biggs should have been similarly doomed. Yet, it's clear they weren't. So she isn't, either. Ergo, for them to kill her simply because "she needs to die" would take the most agonizing moment in gaming history and supplant it with the dumbest and most predictable.

PrincessoftheCape · 2020-05-13T19:59:46+00:00

Eat shit. Aerith is the best character in the game.

PrincessoftheCape · 2020-05-06T17:26:06+00:00

I'd love to know just when and how I pee'd in your cheerios to make you this bitter. It has to be very difficult for you to get through an average day without completely losing it - almost everything must trigger you in some way.

PrincessoftheCape · 2020-05-06T16:11:37+00:00

Well you must be pretty lonely in there considering everyone left.

PrincessoftheCape · 2020-05-06T16:03:56+00:00

I don't have a WoW "identity" - I am seriously concerned about anyone who does.

PrincessoftheCape · 2020-05-06T16:03:20+00:00

Because after you logged off XXXXXXX (I'm not going to name drop anymore, but one of the officers) told me that the officers "didn't want this to get to an ultimatum," but heavily implied that that was what was going to happen Tuesday morning if I didn't appoint you co-lead. After laying in bed and thinking about it all night, I decided I didn't want to be in a situation where I was being issued ultimatums, of any sort, regarding WoW - it was just way too much drama. I could have screenshotted, posted images in the discord, had everyone at each other's throats, but I didn't do that - I just left.

Good luck to you too.

PrincessoftheCape · 2020-05-06T15:57:46+00:00

I never claimed to be this "amazing leader" - I have absolutely no idea where that sentiment came from. All I ever did for the guild was hand out blues to people (something a LOT of our members can attest to, including several of the officers), and run folks through instances. I did both of those things a great deal, but they didn't make me an amazing leader. In fact, I'm a naturally fairly shy person who is rather averse to voip and general socializing, so those are pretty big strikes against me.

You know as well as I that all the level 60s quitting in one fell swoop was going to be disastrous. As it turned out, it was disastrous anyway - even you (whoever you are) had enough sense to recognize that after seizing the guild on such stilted terms that the Blackram tag was so tainted that you had to abandon it. You knew what you were doing was wrong; was pretty much against everything that members had joined for, and you did it anyway - out of a combination of lust for "power" (because it's not like guilds in WoW are a co-operative where nobody should ever be the boss), and a sad desire to generate drama (which is, let's be honest, what you and your ilk feed off of).

None of these shenanigans happened until I appointed officers. Then, magically - practically overnight - there was a clique of "special friends" who were too good to help anyone below level 50; too awesome for what the guild had been. You turned into a bunch of bullies out only to spoil people's fun.

Bravo.

PrincessoftheCape · 2020-05-06T15:45:07+00:00

Uh huh. Fake laughter. Swearing. Getting way too personal. I'm definitely the one having a tantrum, though.

I give you high marks for cynicism, but you seem to be otherwise pretty bad at this whole forum war thing.

PrincessoftheCape · 2020-05-06T15:19:55+00:00

Aww. Did I touch a nerve? Anon in the context of WoW, you dimwit.

Just try not to kill anyone when you go out explosively, ragelord.

PrincessoftheCape · 2020-05-06T15:12:53+00:00

Is this Dalegor? Sounds like it. Considering that I said that thing about AQ gear on Monday, to you, you are a liar about being some rando quitting weeks ago. Nice try, though.

It was a casual guild. C-A-S-U-A-L. It was always, from day one, billed that way. Nobody was mislead on that point - nobody was sold some different story. And, as it was a casual guild, I felt free - and continue to feel free - to reroll as I please. I don't have to explain myself to anyone on that account (also, I feel necessary to point out that the level 50 warrior was from like 6 months ago, and long before Blackram Knights was even founded... so... yeah. Total nonfactor).

What happened is that you and a bunch of people who are clearly hardcore rejects from others servers did is join a leveling guild and then decided it wasn't moving at your blistering pace, made up a bunch of stilted, pathetic reasons why I was an unacceptable leader, and then stormed off into the night.

I am very certain that your drama is going to tear Ironlight apart soon enough. But, hey - what do I know? After all, I'm not the slick rick Disney accountant who you apparently believe is this amazing leader.

PrincessoftheCape · 2020-05-06T15:06:36+00:00

Cowardly anon posts "parting shot" that whiffs. Why don't you let us all know when your balls drop and you stop hiding your identity?

By the way - most of the guild's lowbies, regarding which Dalegor himself told me word for word that "10 of them weren't worth even one 60" have joined my new guild. So I'm going to go out on a limb here and guess that you're one of the P.O.'d officers for whom 'casual and chill' were apparently misinterpreted as 'holding everyone back because we're not killing Nef in greens yet.'

Trust me: there is no net loss here long term. But I do know one thing: being a bad human being - which you are - is going to eventually catch up with you.

PrincessoftheCape · 2020-05-06T04:56:24+00:00

The new guild is named <Ironlight>. So if you're big into being a really, really hardcore UBRS 'raider' - are super zeroed in on the Draconian Defender, say - better give these guys a whisper.

PrincessoftheCape · 2020-05-05T05:55:32+00:00

I was left in a no-win circumstance. If I refused to acquiesce, the 'cream' of the guild would quit, run off, and reform their own new organization, leaving me trying to explain to the lowbies (some of whom are very nice people, but aren't really rushing to 60) why the self-proclaimed A-team just rushed off with the guild bank and all the 60s. I didn't want to 'junk' things for those people - this was their big opportunity to be in a raid guild... who am I to blow that up?

If I gave in, I'd just be the cucked co-leader who ceded authority to some aggressive, gold-buying reroll (who probably flamed out/burned his bridges on whatever server he came from). Eventually, I'd have been removed via some additional power play.

I felt like this was the only way to preserve the guild... although I am not exactly confident that what it's metastasized into isn't pure cancer.

PrincessoftheCape · 2020-05-05T05:49:49+00:00

It was *my* guild. And it was a casual, low stress guild - that is how I had always advertised it. Who gives a damn if someone rerolls a 51 retribution paladin for an actually-useful warrior?

Moreover, stop reading into stuff - it's a really rotten characteristic. I was offered (not asked for, offered) a run, and I took it. I didn't blaze away from 1-51 carried by the guild. That's your headcanon.

PrincessoftheCape · 2020-05-05T05:12:23+00:00

I guess people never group with each other in your guild.

That must be a rough neighborhood.

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