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QUESTION MEME KINDA!!!

Except mostly I have a hankering to sort characters into Sabra teams/nations.

If you didn't play/stalk Sabra, there were 17 regular teams (plus one special enforcement team split three ways). Each team tended to have a general personality you can reads about here.

Those sixteen teams were also the basis of the sixteen nations of the world's history. (ICly it's the reverse of that: the old nations were the basis of the teams.) You can see info on the nations here. Basically every nation was it's own super special snowflake, from the Steampunk Atheist Bibliocracy, to ~Crystal Towers~ full of sketchy political intrigue, nomadic desert mages, crazy swamp jerks, THERE ARE MANY OPTIONS.

ANYWAY IF YOU COMMENT HERE I will sort your character(s) into teams and/or nations at your preference. (Normally a team and nation would have the same answer buuuuut)

Also I will then ask you a question I guess. I just want to do some Sabra sorting y'all.

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IDE!!! I dunno. Don't ask me about apps 8(

SOMEHOW, MAGICALLY, AERTA WAS ABLE TO TAKE A VACATION FROM SABRA TO MODERN DAY EARTH. What do.

/ide-

I THINK SHE WOULD PROMPTLY GET HERSELF ARRESTED. Unless she had a good guide with her :|a

HOW ABOUT AELLA?

AELLA WOULD ALSO BE ARRESTED unless she had, like, Kaelen and/or Elian with her.

How did you decide to modify the Aeris we saw in the original Old Sabra event to the Aerta we see now?

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?

It made all of the sense, yes!

Hm… I don't think she knows that there's a contract involved, but there is NO WAY she's missed the rest of the whole. Thing. With Gilgamesh. AND SHE DOESN'T REALLY APPROVE because damnit Aerta that guy broke Gian's wrist. The only reason she hasn't said anything is because she's been busy and distracted, and in that time it… doesn't look like anything too horrible has happened… So there's lots of side-eyeing and mrrrr, but she isn't stepping in because EVEN IF AERTA IS DUMB ABOUT FREE WILL she's also Aerta and. As long as she's safe and Gil doesn't douche it up to anybody in the apartment, Aella's kind of willing to let it slide? The second he steps out of line she will punch him repeatedly in the nuts. A lot.

Tell me about some of those OCs you've been cooking up, I AM CURIOUS.

ONE THAT I THINK OF A LOT is one favored by Messenger. She is from very, very, very old Delpinus, probably some 500+ years before the Sacred City. She was the advocate of a global language, the one that became known as "Sabra's language." SHE'S ALSO SUPER SERIOUS BUSINESS and very very much about humanity LIVING UP TO ITS POTENTIAL!!1! and FREE TRADE!!1! and EDUCATION!!1! though the only goal she accomplished was spreading a universal language, by like. Being the head of a MAJOR mercantile empire and then refusing to do business in any native language :)

ANYWAY she's super driven and serious business and an omega humanitarian and also. Totally devoted to the worship of Ptou, there are also some ~spoilers~ regarding her interactions with Ptou that I don't know if Nishi has discussed yet so we'll keep those quiet.

SO HOW IS YOUR WISHWIFE SETTLING IN?

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