Garnet/Dagger almost has the same exact hair as Tifa for most of the game

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In all fairness, all three had very different personalities and even classes

  • doublepepperoni [none/use name]@hexbear.netOPEnglish
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    17 days ago

    I personally always assumed everyone was Asian, with some notable examples like Barrett or Cid.

    How come Cid is white but Cloud and Aerith are Asian??? monke-beepboop

    As Z_Poster365 said, it’s way better than the unrealistic, cartoonist way anime depicts Asian women. Obviously, neither is real. One is a video game and one is a cartoon of sorts so they have fantastical liberties I don’t think should be denied them but this is great. The less men have some fantastical and unrealistic expectations of women the better. I mean, Tifa already is a bit of an unrealistic expectation in, uh, certain aspects, but I think this is generally a good way to depict Asian women who are love interests in a game mostly targeting and set within an Asian market.

    Better they did this than pander to Western love interest tropes which for so long were necessarily some White, blue-eyed, blonde. I’d take a Rinoa over Trish (DMC) in a game any day.

    I’m still not convinced Tifa, Rinoa or Garnet/Dagger/Sarah is supposed to look Japanese. Yuna from FFX reads as much more Japanese-coded to me because of her name but mostly because she’s dressed like (and sort of is) a shrine maiden. She also looks very different from her immediate predecessors with shorter, lighter-coloured hair and heterochromic blue/green eyes.

    • anarchoilluminati [comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
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      17 days ago

      How come Cid is white but Cloud and Aerith are Asian??? monke-beepboop

      He was clearly supposed to be White because they made him such a loud, rude, arrogant bastard.

      I’m still not convinced Tifa, Rinoa or Garnet/Dagger/Sarah is supposed to look Japanese. Yuna from FFX reads as much more Japanese-coded to me because of her name but mostly because she’s dressed like (and sort of is) a shrine maiden. She also looks very different from her immediate predecessors with shorter, lighter-coloured hair and heterochromic blue/green eyes.

      Yuna is definitely more Japanese-coded, I agree about that, especially with the clothes. I don’t know but I think pre-X they just didn’t have the hardware to make them look more detailed so they just end up looking kinda ambiguous. Rinoa definitely looks the most like a real, normal Asian woman to me though, and she’s coincidentally the one of the three I predominantly crush on but mainly because I go with Aerith in the Aerith/Tifa debate, but I still think they are all supposed to be Asian. it-is-known