WELL THE FIRST THING I WANTED TO DO WAS GIVE HER A CURSE THAT ACTUALLY MADE SENSE FOR HER WORLD AND PLACE IN IT. Since frankly durring the event she was pretty solidly Aeris. Very little distinction besides being from a different environment. Since we HAD firmly established that they were marked by Surgeon and Weaver, I set about the task of "what is something that Weaver could do to someone that would suck and be interesting to play with" and we had already established that Aerta was . . . capricious with who she would heal, and would never justify her choices. So it made since that Weaver was the one dictating those choices. Taking a hit to the free will made way more sense than ~hearing the dead~. It fit the world and frankly it gave me something really interesting to work with!

A lot of the rest was replacing personality developed in Midgar with personality developed in Lacerta. So there are other difference like Aeris seems to always be aware of power dynamic, and actively seeks to keep herself safe. That's not something Aerta really notices or cares about. Aerta doesn't dance around sexuality, she's pretty blatant about it. Aerta is also totally unafraid of losing herself to greater powers, something that I think especially as a younger person really scared Aeris. Aeris has a lot more . . . individual will than Aerta. She's much more heroic and responsible, and owns her choices. Like she really does think of herself as the savior of the planet, and accepts that role, and chose to embrace it. Aerta's role was forced on her, and even if she becomes someone with a whole lot of agency in Thusia will still think of it more as "well this is the kind of person I am that is why I behave this way" as opposed to Aeris who I think would say more like "I chose to live up to my lineage."

Uhm uhm did that make sense?

Does Aella know that she's contracted to Sparkly McMurderdouche? If so, feelings on that?