#i want turk vincent not him woken up by his random-ass partner we've never heard of just so shippers can squeal over lines again

[vinjaryou]

💚💖💀 for the unpopular opinions ask!!

from the ask game: unpopular opinion edition <3

💚: What does everyone else get wrong about your favorite character?

Vincent is not just an 'emo' or 'emo vampire.'

Vincent Valentine has gone through hell and high water in his life. Working for the Turks, sent to be a bodyguard to the heads of the Jenova Project, seeing just a FRACTION of what goes on behind closed doors, has his heart broken and then literally shot through, resurrected to be the test dummy for experiments by *both* the woman he'd fallen for and the man who killed him, now housing not just his own psyche but now the psyches of four other beings that he also physically (and painfully) transforms into when under extreme stress - one of them a godlike semi-Weapon in Chaos itself - knows he has eternal life due to his resurrection and everything that was done to him even after Chaos... anxiety, depression, CPTSD, body dysmorphia, probable self-harm at times, and that's just the tip of the iceberg... that seeing him have the ability to not only walk out of Lucrecia's cave at the end of Dirge but smile afterward??? Vincent needs the world's best therapists, love, and so many goddamn hugs.

ps: he is also not a vampire. Give him a blood kink if you'd like (I know I have~), but he's not an actual vampire.

💖: What is your biggest unpopular opinion about the series?

Before Crisis is overrated.

I think trying to squeeze it in between OG and Crisis Core doesn't do it any favors, as it needs to fill in so many plotholes that retcons and shoehorned-in character cameos are shoved in for accommodation.

Granted, it being a Japan-only mobile game from the early 2000s doesn't help, but if it's to be given the 'Remake treatment,' it needs to be completely redone. As in, people say Dirge's gameplay needs to be reworked if it gets a remake (which I agree with, and say use Episode Prompto and Devil May Cry as inspiration for ways to help fix the combat)?

Before Crisis's everything needs to be reworked, starting with its writing and storyline(s). If it's supposed to focus on the Turks, let it focus... on the Turks. Perhaps show us how the division began, show us how it's run from the start - we're told these are supposed to be the John Wicks of Shinra, show us rather than just telling us. You can still use what's already been done - use it as a way to timeskip ahead and show how the division changed over the decades - and then figure out how to work in the character cameos so that some of them don't feel so sloppy or random.

💀: If you had to choose one major character to die, who would you choose?

Honestly, I wouldn't change the fates of any of the major characters in VII; they feel complete and sensical given the story. If we stretch this to include the Compilation?

Forgive me, friends who like him - Genesis Rhapsodos. I know his fate in CC and that silly 'secret ending' in Dirge but let him stay dead, please.

We already have Sephiroth at home.