Recent content by MelodicEnigma

Don't people, though? I'm pretty sure I've seen many of arguments in retrospect to canonicity surrounding the affinity system/Cloud's responses, not to mention the campaign of "optional = non-canonical" which went beyond the GS date alone—the two points would coexist as the latter would be used...

Somewhere within the line of "canon" and it's different applications, is where I agree that the heart of the matter is that this means something different to the creators than it does the audience. That creates a sense of different ideas of who decides what—because fandom decides for fandom, and...

Lol I actually get this, but also the other side as well, which would be surprising for most of my mutuals (@LunarTarotGirl lmao) because I'm typically such a strict person. Back in the day (2003 lol), I used to roleplay online, which was basically like DnD/Larping but for writers—I guess it's...

To me this is kind of funny. lol Because it's less about the translation and more about people's understanding of JPN and it's typical usage like for what you're talking about. The "sister" aspect comes from the JPN, in which that is what people refer to when pushing the brother-sister angle, as...

Lol Yeah that and other stuff, which I equate mostly to interpretative outcomes. That example is rough because it translates poorly grammar-wise to english, so if understanding it in japanese, I'd argue the "if you call it love" blurb is meant to have a "is this love?" feel, as opposed to, well...

Which is why it behooves me that it's somehow still being used as a dissection. Lol Not that I don't know the reason why, but I had more faith people eventually would just move on to everything else, but they don't for now 20 years. Matsuyama can't stop catching strays as a result. I get not...

Ironically enough, I've seen some Clotis who keep using the phrasing of Matsuyama being "commissioned", which would also be inaccurate and misleading. Lol I remember having a conversation with a fan—who weirdly now is known for being difficult and as of late has made parody material to mock...

Like the Force, if anything Studio BentStuff/Benny Matsuyama is mentioned my radar pings. lol What's even more funny—you could even say SE and BentStuff themselves don't even view his materials for FF7 as derivative works, beyond the literal sense of just it existing. I remember still, back in...

I know a lot of shippers function on a "if X character has feelings [of even the smallest range] for another, then X relationship can't happen" mentality—this just isn't an absolute premise at least, never has been for a bunch of media that is even more complicated and expressive than FF7. Some...

This reminds me more of a perspective that is grounded in plot lines, the typical ones, where the main character starts the story liking a character, meets a new one, and the story is about how the main character falls in love and eventually chooses the new one. I already know about five of this...

Haha Thank you for the compliment—it's a mix between my musical background and early 2000 me thinking "enigma" sounded cool and edgy. Just stuck. But yes to all this too! It's just easy for there to be routes of multiple interpretations for things. People are layered. Content is already layered...

All of this, oh my goodness. Like, it's a huge key component. Between being deadass tired and wanting to be a fair person—I try to be more easy on people and their ability to interpret, even if it is wrong factually. To be able to just say "Oh you just misunderstood it, you good". But, the...

For fandom and kind of real life scenarios too—I find that justifying irrational reactions by reflecting it onto something that, on its own inspection, is completely reasonable and SHOULDN'T beget that reaction, doesn't work out logically. A kind of "they were asking for it" mentality that just...

Thus the confirmation bias. Because they chose HER version of the play, but for some people, there is no explanation outside of making both the relationship of Cloud and Aerith and that of the continuity of her Gold Saucer event canonical. There's issues to be discussed with both of these...

As in "the CA moments", you mean specifically why did they use Cloud and Aerith's version of the play? Or, literally any scenes featuring the two characters? Because it's in the game—with the addendum of putting extra weight on Aerith, who just died and was a focal point of the game. An answer...