I realized something: Prishe has it worse than pretty much every single FF protagonist. She's hated and shunned by almost everyone, she's been locked up for most of her life, her hometown has already been more or less destroyed, she's a wanted criminal in half the world, she's being hunted by the Sin Hunter assassins and possibly Bahamut himself, she believes she will one day be responsible for the end of the world, she expects her own party members to kill her for the greater good someday, and her entire life has been manipulated by someone she trusted as a little girl all so that she can one day be sacrificed to Promathia, the God of Chaos. And she's still more upbeat than most FF protagonists.
And you know what? She almost never complains about it all. Her backstory isn't even revealed until halfway through the story, and everyone else in the party is shocked because she never complained about it before. Even when her immortality is revealed, she jokes about it ("If I were a Tarutaru, no one would have ever noticed."
. She chooses to bottle up all of her problems, and the only indication she gives is at the very end of the story, when she privately admits to the player character that when Promathia tempted each of them with what they wanted most, he offered to simply end her life.
So yeah, my respect for her has now gone up.
For those of you who are curious, I watched all the cutscenes on WotgAshiee's youtube channel. She has every
Chains of Promathia cutscene on there. Here's the first one that introduces Prishe:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PxzKmX2PSwU
Oh, and another thing: I noticed that Prishe's cussing never extends beyond "hell" and "damn". Guess even I was mistaken in my memory of her foul mouth.