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Completely forgot about this. So, let's take a look:
古代種の末裔であるエアリスを監視し、機会を見計らって社への協力を要請することが、長い間、シォンの日常業務になっていた。時に、部下たちが粗暴なやり方で圧力かけることもあったが、神羅カンパニーとしては異例の、穏やかな作戦だった。かつてエアリスの実母を暴力的に支配しようとして、結果的に失ってしまったことへの反省が作戦の根本にあった。
From that, I got:
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Observing a descendant of the Ancients while insisting that the company allow him to choose opportunities at his own discretion had been Tseng's everyday affairs for a long time. Although his subordinates occasionally added some pressure by rougher avenues, this was still a gentle tactic exceptional for the Shin-Ra Company. The cause for this strategy was that he reflected on how he/they had once lost Aerith's mother as a result of controlling her with violence.
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It's not entirely clear to me whether it's saying Tseng himself was involved with the prior strategy. I don't think it's being deliberately vague about it either. Nojima either didn't think about whether it was unclear or didn't consider that anyone would wonder about it.
Personally, I think you could go either way with it. I do think Tseng was most likely already with the company at the time, though.
Aerith was still little when the Turks began approaching her at her house (not much time is implied to have passed after Ifalna's death; the most the Ultimania says is "They receive many visits from the Turks after that"/その後幾度もタークスの訪問を受け
, and I can't imagine a fresh recruit to the Turks being given this all-important assignment, much less the discretion to decide to go about it in a way considered unique to the organization. Had it been the executives who decided a more gentle approach was needed, I could maybe see it then, but Tseng himself was the one who argued for gentle tactics when the company would have preferred she just be taken against her will.
Back to the other matter, though, whether Tseng was directly involved before the escape, again, I can see it going either way. Tseng blunders and then revises his methods for dealing with Aerith after losing Ifalna. That makes sense. On the other hand, it's equally believable -- perhaps more so -- that someone else was previously in charge of bringing Ifalna and Aerith in, and was then "relieved of duty" after fucking up so bad. That would jibe with Aerith not realizing that Tseng worked for Shin-Ra until after the escape, when she thanked him for keeping watch over her and he decided to be honest about who he is.
Whatever the case on Tseng's involvement or lack thereof regarding Ifalna's death, I still think it's only reasonable to conclude he was already with the company at the time and was at least ten years older than Aerith (and, thus, about 15 years older than Elena at the time of the original game). I still think 17 might be a conservative estimate, but who the hell knows with the wacky world of FFVII.
古代種の末裔であるエアリスを監視し、機会を見計らって社への協力を要請することが、長い間、シォンの日常業務になっていた。時に、部下たちが粗暴なやり方で圧力かけることもあったが、神羅カンパニーとしては異例の、穏やかな作戦だった。かつてエアリスの実母を暴力的に支配しようとして、結果的に失ってしまったことへの反省が作戦の根本にあった。
From that, I got:
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Observing a descendant of the Ancients while insisting that the company allow him to choose opportunities at his own discretion had been Tseng's everyday affairs for a long time. Although his subordinates occasionally added some pressure by rougher avenues, this was still a gentle tactic exceptional for the Shin-Ra Company. The cause for this strategy was that he reflected on how he/they had once lost Aerith's mother as a result of controlling her with violence.
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It's not entirely clear to me whether it's saying Tseng himself was involved with the prior strategy. I don't think it's being deliberately vague about it either. Nojima either didn't think about whether it was unclear or didn't consider that anyone would wonder about it.
Personally, I think you could go either way with it. I do think Tseng was most likely already with the company at the time, though.
Aerith was still little when the Turks began approaching her at her house (not much time is implied to have passed after Ifalna's death; the most the Ultimania says is "They receive many visits from the Turks after that"/その後幾度もタークスの訪問を受け
, and I can't imagine a fresh recruit to the Turks being given this all-important assignment, much less the discretion to decide to go about it in a way considered unique to the organization. Had it been the executives who decided a more gentle approach was needed, I could maybe see it then, but Tseng himself was the one who argued for gentle tactics when the company would have preferred she just be taken against her will.Back to the other matter, though, whether Tseng was directly involved before the escape, again, I can see it going either way. Tseng blunders and then revises his methods for dealing with Aerith after losing Ifalna. That makes sense. On the other hand, it's equally believable -- perhaps more so -- that someone else was previously in charge of bringing Ifalna and Aerith in, and was then "relieved of duty" after fucking up so bad. That would jibe with Aerith not realizing that Tseng worked for Shin-Ra until after the escape, when she thanked him for keeping watch over her and he decided to be honest about who he is.
Whatever the case on Tseng's involvement or lack thereof regarding Ifalna's death, I still think it's only reasonable to conclude he was already with the company at the time and was at least ten years older than Aerith (and, thus, about 15 years older than Elena at the time of the original game). I still think 17 might be a conservative estimate, but who the hell knows with the wacky world of FFVII.
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