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I love how seemingly everbody and their mothers junctioned Squall with Shiva in their playthroughs. Like, there really is no other way to go about this, is it?

(=OwO=)

> Decides to doodle Strife's mask for the first time

People who ignore everything a story or fandom lore says just because they decided one day that a certain character is "stupid" or "annoying" or what have you, usually based on first impressions.

Are they just ignorant or is it a "rebellion" thing? Like, everybody likes this character, so they dislike them on principle? Or both? Or is it a matter of lacking empathy?

I've seen it so many times and I really don't get it.

For example, in one of my current fandoms, there’s a princess who fights the church, and I would bet a non-zero sum of money that at least half of her stans (namely the ones who like her because “she’s a lesbian taking down the evil church what’s not to love?”) are coming from a place of personal, religious trauma that gives them blind spots where churches are concerned, because:

The princess is canonically bi, not lesbian.

The goddess worshipped by said church is also canonically bi, and so is the archbishop at the top of the church, and so are two of her best knights, one of whom is openly simping for the archbishop.

There is not a single line/implication in the actual game text anywhere about the church being homophobic.

Most of the evil stuff that gets credited to the church is revealed to be a combined result of humanity simply being its usual dickish self, the survivors of a genocide covering up their own history so humanity won’t try to use their body parts for weaponry AGAIN, and a 1000-year-long game of telephone that’s been co-opted by an ancient terrorist cult.

But personal blind spots can make people ignore a lot of shit, no matter how rational or otherwise great at media analysis the person is. For a RL expert example, see Gavin de Becker, author of the 95% amazing book “The Gift of Fear”--the 5% that are decidedly not amazing is the chapter on domestic abuse where it becomes clear that he, being a DA survivor, is massively biased.

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WIP human D_

Whoever brought up the grey sweatpants, I see you.

I love how seemingly everbody and their mothers junctioned Squall with Shiva in their playthroughs. Like, there really is no other way to go about this, is it?

The funny part of all this conversation is that in Record Keeper Squall have a sword that is made with Shiva's design, even her face can be seem in the sword. And some Soul Breaks for Quistis she uses Card.

I love how seemingly everbody and their mothers junctioned Squall with Shiva in their playthroughs. Like, there really is no other way to go about this, is it?

That said, there is also a certain narrative consistency here of Squall getting the aloof but stunning ice queen while Quistis get’s the GF that learns the most OP ability in the game (Card Mod).