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I hope they include Ed.

No it isn't. His defining line in the OG was, "A pro isn't someone who sacrifices himself for his job. That's just a fool." His defining line in the Remake is, "This is bullshit. What the hell are they thinking? ... Well, I guess it's a bit late to grow a conscience." I expect the Remake to draw...

Oh, I have done that. I meant they'd be interesting in obtaining a copy of what you're producing. No art work leads so far, I'm afraid. Only what you already know about.

There seem to be quite a few "Snowfields" fans on tumblr, so I am happy to push your book there when you're ready.

It'll probably be bad but I'll watch it anyway.

You're a fanworks archaeologist, Odysseus. I wonder if you could find the fic that first used the surname "Sinclair" for Reno. I'd love to know who came up with that.

Yes, but those other recurring secondary rival antagonists don't enjoy the popularity of the Turks.

"Dirge leans pretty heavily towards a sympathetic depiction of Lucrecia, TTM, but you're happy to hold her in enormous disdain with no issues. Why is it such a problem when I take note of other characters much greater sins? But the fandom works so much harder when the Turks reputations are at...

That's very true. I personally got the impression (others might have got a different one) that Elena had no patience for persuading people with reason and winning hearts. In her view, force and fear are the most efficient ways to get things done. The thing is, she's right to be furious with the...

Or maybe real human trafficking is something that goes on in a world ruled by unbridled capitalism?

I'm also intrigued by how difficult she finds it to trust Zangan, and how quickly she reverts to her old suspicions about human trafficking.

It's actually part of the surname of the Dutch royal family, "van Orange-Nassau" because one of their ancestors came from Orange in France. But it's still a very unusual colour surname, like calling someone Mr Yellow or Mr Purple instead of Mr Green or Mr Brown or Mr White.

Orange is a surname that only someone who didn't speak English could come up with. I'm sure it works in other languages but it sounds incredibly odd in English. That said, apparently there are 14,000 people in the world with the surname Orange, and you are most likely to find one in the USA.

I think it's very easy for evil to creep up on people. First of all, while Shinra is evil in its methods and seems to know that mako extraction is killing the planet, it has provided some enormous boons to humanity: heat, light, power, progress, peace. Secondly, as Red XIII observes in TOTP...

Yes, I was thinking particularly of Cid. But I find the Cids of real life easier to deal with than the Vincents. You can stand up to a Cid and fight him. Vincent's a sort of blancmange; if you tell him he's an awful person, he'll just agree with you and go on sitting in his corner all depressed...

I find him quite an interesting character but I don't respect him the way I do Barret. If he were in my real life I'd want to slap him. I wouldn't like him at all. I mean, one of the things I have always loved about the FFVII protagonists is how they're all deeply flawed, have some bad values...

That would be true, Clem, if Shinra's Board made rational choices. But they don't.

Maybe we mean different things by precocious? I mean, I didn't get the impression the writers (Nojima et al) wanted Aerith to come across as some kind of child genius, or a kid who has more worldly wisdom than you'd expect in someone her age. She's just a normal kid in extraordinary...

Precocious kids are usually pretty annoying, but Aerith isn't annoying. To me she comes across as a pretty typical young woman, assertive, likeable, and fun-loving, who moves confidently through her world, and only occassionally lets slip that she has some rather unusual abilities that make her...

Presumably by this point anybody who's still invested in the waifu wars is doing so because they enjoy it. I'm happy to let them fight their endless battles, if that's what sparks joy for them. As a historian, I am pleased to see that the same kind of mindset which led to the Iconoclastic...