Binaries

[paperclipchains]

At its heart, Aeris/Seph is sort of an opposites attract ship. There is a lot of duality between these two and I think that you can express that in binaries, many of which, I feel, tap into themes of FF7 as a whole. I'm curious as to what binaries you think these two represent. I went ahead and made a list for myself

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[ardwynna_m]

Destruction/Regeneration
Attack/Protection
Illness/Healing
Authoritative/Egalitarian
War/Peace
Goth/Hippie

[paperclipchains]

Haha, Goth/Hippie.

[meowwl]

Rage/Acceptance
Madness/Calm
Destruction/Healing
Solitary/Social
Contamination/Purity (Jenova and bloodshed tainted/untouched by any taint, even the pollution of Midgar.)
Artifice/Nature
Blindness/Awareness (He's blind about his true origins, she knows where she came from.

[paperclipchains]

I'm not sure how I feel about the solitary/social one. I think it sort of goes both ways - of their individual characters, you can say Seph is solitary and Aeris is social, but if you look at their lives, Seph's lived his in the public sphere and Aeris in private. Well, either way, I guess it makes the list!

[meowwl]

It's part of the whole evil/good thing...It's an archetype...in almost every story, a person who is so evil that they kill at random, they almost invariably toss friends aside and go on alone. The good side on the other hand almost always gets together with like minded people to "Stop the madman from carrying out his nefarious plans!" It's a little silly, since getting people to agree with a course of action, even if it's to save the world, is like herding cats!

[paperclipchains]

Yeah.. But I think it's worth mentioning that Aeris goes on alone, too.

[anonymous]

Dark/Light
Violence/Peace
Order/Chaos
Youth/Experience

[paperclipchains]

Youth/Experience is an interesting one. Makes me think there's a place for Wisdom/Impulse or Wisdom/Obsession.