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TopicSaveEstelle/LeonhartFour in Different Houses: Life is Frasier Edition [SELF]
LeonhartFour
04/10/18 3:17:46 PM
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trdl23 posted...
Rise has the same problem as Yukiko (another of Leons faves) in that her social link rolls ack so much of her initial character development. With Yukiko, it was a total withdrawal of ambition despite her clear aptitude academically. She caves to the very pressure that she had lashed out against. With Rise, its getting back on the same treadmill that got her miserable in the first place, But this time itll be different. Right.

Dont get me wrong; even the lesser of P4s main cast are still quite good. But they are lesser.


Yeah, you're totally wrong on both counts, Yukiko especially. The entire point of Yukiko's S. Link is that she wanted the choice to be her own, even if she ultimately ended up doing what others hoped she would do all along. Like, the fact that you view staying in Inaba as "lacking ambition" is the wrong perspective (and it's kind of insulting to me personally because I'm doing something with my life some people would view as "lesser" and below what I could "potentially" do, but this is what I love to do and want to do. It's not a lack of ambition). Just because Yukiko could do other things doesn't mean it's wrong for her to stay at the inn. She didn't cave into pressure at all. She chooses to stay precisely because the pressure to stay isn't there anymore.

Rise's S. Link is her learning to reconcile the fact that all the different "versions" of her are all part of the same person. The fact that she couldn't is why she left, and that's why they manifest themselves as several different personalities in her dungeon instead of just a single Shadow. Rise becomes comfortable with being both "Rise" and "Risette" because she recognizes they're both her. So yeah, in both cases, the fact that they ultimately choose to go back to what they wanted to leave doesn't roll back their character development at all. They just find new reasons for doing what they ultimately really wanted to do all along.

Like, people have to step away from what they love and try to discover new reasons or re-discover their old reasons for doing it all the time. This isn't some Japanese culture thing.

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