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RP Interpretation Meme

Dec 25, 2009 13:03

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 December 25 2009, 21:30:11 UTC

first :>

Re: AERITH GAINSBOROUGH anonymous December 25 2009, 21:41:45 UTC

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 December 27 2009, 04:23:07 UTC

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 December 28 2009, 01:06:28 UTC

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 ( ... )

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Dahlia Hawthorne -> Ace Attorney anonymous December 26 2009, 00:24:07 UTC

Re: Dahlia Hawthorne -> Ace Attorney anonymous December 27 2009, 08:05:46 UTC

In my opinion, while Dahlia is considered the devil, I've never actually seen her try to hurt someone for absolutely no reason, like kicking puppies or something. She's not a sadist, she's incredibly selfish and greedy and vengeful. Basically, very screwed up. When she feels someone has wronged her, she will stop at nothing to get them back (i.e. Mia Feeeeyyyyyy Miiiiiaaaa Feeeyyyy MIA FEY MIA FEY MIA FEY)

Dahlia's smart. But she's not cleveri>, nor does she seem to think things through. Otherwise, why would all her schemes fail so badly each time? She strikes me as the type who plans out the actual crime in detail, but then fails to plan the cleaning up afterward part. One example would be when she poisons Diego, she just passed off the necklace to the first person she saw, with no thoughts as to how she'll get it back if necessary.

And while yes, she did let Iris try to get it back for her, I feel it was more that Dahlia thought Iris was too trusting/loving/sweet and predictable to turn on her, rather than actually trusting her. ( ... )

Phoenix Wright (Ace Attorney) anonymous December 27 2009, 04:12:34 UTC

AZULA- AVATAR: THE LAST AIRBENDER anonymous December 27 2009, 04:20:26 UTC

anonymous December 30 2009, 03:44:22 UTC

There are a lot of valid ways to interpret Azula. Since the first thing we hear about her is she's a liar, it makes sense that her own actions are unreliable. Sometimes she's saying something just to be cruel, sometimes it looks like it's part of a master plan, sometimes it seems like she just doesn't get it. The biggest thing characterization point is that she's a born manipulator. We see her switching tactics very quickly to get what she wants. And while she may be naturally prideful, she can be gracious or even servile in the right circumstances. She's a lot colder and calculating compared to other firebenders like Zhao and Zuko ( ... )

Luffy, OP anonymous December 27 2009, 11:23:41 UTC