To add some more about FF12 as I've been thinking about it anyway while playing the game over the past weeks: even though Viera and Fran usually catch heat in talks about FF12, I personally found Ashe's design a bigger flaw than anything else. She's well-developed, passes the Mako Mori test and is generally a surprisingly multi-dimensional character for the type of game she's in, but the way her model is designed seems to clash with almost every possible aspect of her character/identity as she's presented in the narrative. It's really disappointing. The Viera are borrowed from a tired trope but Ashe had no reason to look the way she did. Folks also often point and laugh at Vaan, but he does not look out of place in Rabanastre. It's at least consistent with the setting. Ashe, meanwhile, does not fit in any of the of the contexts, cultural or societal, that she's supposed to hang in.
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