Ah, Jun. Jun is probably my favorite character in a video game EVER. He's the nicest, most caring, most selfless person you'll ever want to know, except that he occasionally goes BATSHIT INSANE from guilt and once started a cult intent on destroying the world in order to save it (if that makes sense). But it's okay, because he was being manipulated by his father! Or something like that.
He can be very girly - he's prettier than any of the girls in the party, and he likes flowers - but he's not really "femmey" or anything like that...he's just a very softspoken, nice guy who fights with flowers. Oh, and he's gay for the main character (Tatsuya), too. XD
He and Tatsuya are the cutest thing since sliced bread (if, y'know, sliced bread were really really cute). XD
Also, in the drama CD (which is like half-canon and half-fanon) he's much more insanely gay (gaily insane?) than he ever is in the game itself. He does things like drawing up his astrological and blood-type compatibilities with Tatsuya until he finds a method that gives good compatibility, then cackling evilly and crooning to himself wordlessly. XD
Not to mention the fact that he wears Tatsuya underwear.
Have you heard the Nine Inch Nails song "Only"? It's off of the new album and very much reminds me of Jun-kun. Check out these lyrics and try to disagree with me. :)
OK, Lilah is completely the best character on Angel, bar none. Not because she's particularly nice - she works for a demonic law firm, so "nice" isn't really in her vocabulary. No, it's just because she's so damn cool. She is the queen of snark, whether dispensing her own brand of wisdom in three-inch heels or pretending in the bedroom to be a cornfed Texas girl, complete with glasses and pigtails.
"I'm good and pure and I like math, and one day, if I eat all my vegetables and pray real hard, I just might have hips!"
Lilah is not above doing just about anything to achieve her aims. A prime example of this is her seduction of Wesley, one of the Angel gang who's temporarily on the outs. She hopes to recruit him to Wolfram and Hart, but the fact that he doesn't wanna join is fine with her...she'll find a way to use their "relationship" (not her word, at least premortem) to her advantage anyway.
And finally, death doesn't stop her - some of her best material comes after being beheaded!
"It's the opportunity of a lifetime. Just now, y'know...mine."
Heh, Snowe. One of the more complex Suikoden characters, in my opinion. I'm constantly seeing him compared to Jowy from Suikoden II (by virtue of them both being the hero's butt buddy best friend who betrays him and goes to TEH DARK SIDE OMG), and people seem to think Snowe comes off rather poorly in this.
WTF, people.
Snowe's actions, while not always admirable (n fact, rarely admirable XD), always make sense. He starts out very scared, afraid for his own skin, but constantly being pushed by his father, the rich town leader, to excel. His only real friend is good ol' Hot Pants, and there's as much jealousy there as friendship.
He lies about Hot Pants killing Glen in order to get him out of the way and for his own advancement, having always been overshadowed by his poorer friend. (And I'm not entirely sure he wasn't freaked by Glen disappearing, rightly connecting it to Hot Pants but misconstruing the reason for it. It might have been an honest mistake.) Then he attempts to live up to his father's wishes by leading the Gaien Knights in battle - something he doesn't really want to do - but that kinda falls apart because he sucks at it.
Finally, eventually spurned by Razril, he ends up as a pirate, but again he totally sucks at it and is quickly defeated by the hero. At this point, the hero can either kill Snowe "(*thunk*") or recruit him. By this point Snowe seems genuinely penitent, and actually seems to want Hot Pants to kill him. In the game ending, he ends up as just a normal citizen of Razril, which I think is best for him - he, unlike most RPG characters but like most real people, is not cut out to be the selfless heroic type - he's too busy covering his own ass.
I actually hated Snowe at first, but as the game went on and everything he tried turned to dust, I found myself feeling more and more sorry for him. He actually ended up being one of the characters I liked most by the end due to the complexity they added to his character throughout the game.
...Also, he's one of the few males who can equip the Venus Set. Make of that what you will.
Ooh, my opinion of Aeris. I hope the FFVII fanboys don't kill me for this. XD
Personally, I always found Aeris kinda blah. She's half the stereotypical "girl with mysterious past and magic powers," which I can live with, but she's also very much the "oh, aren't I cute, tee-hee" vapid kind of heroine that I detest. Now, looked at in that context, she's less vapid than a lot of vapid heroines, but I still found her kinda annoying. (I always preferred Tifa, who actually seemed to have some human vulnerability rather than candy-coated moronicity, if that's a word.)
As such, during the OMG AERIS DIED scene, I was much less affected than most FFVII players seem to have been. I didn't cry - heck, the most I felt was a vague irritation that I'd had to run around to get her awesome final Limit Break that actually made her useful for once and then got to use it for all of, like, one dungeon?
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He can be very girly - he's prettier than any of the girls in the party, and he likes flowers - but he's not really "femmey" or anything like that...he's just a very softspoken, nice guy who fights with flowers. Oh, and he's gay for the main character (Tatsuya), too. XD
He and Tatsuya are the cutest thing since sliced bread (if, y'know, sliced bread were really really cute). XD
Also, in the drama CD (which is like half-canon and half-fanon) he's much more insanely gay (gaily insane?) than he ever is in the game itself. He does things like drawing up his astrological and blood-type compatibilities with Tatsuya until he finds a method that gives good compatibility, then cackling evilly and crooning to himself wordlessly. XD
Not to mention the fact that he wears Tatsuya underwear.
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"I'm good and pure and I like math, and one day, if I eat all my vegetables and pray real hard, I just might have hips!"
Lilah is not above doing just about anything to achieve her aims. A prime example of this is her seduction of Wesley, one of the Angel gang who's temporarily on the outs. She hopes to recruit him to Wolfram and Hart, but the fact that he doesn't wanna join is fine with her...she'll find a way to use their "relationship" (not her word, at least premortem) to her advantage anyway.
And finally, death doesn't stop her - some of her best material comes after being beheaded!
"It's the opportunity of a lifetime. Just now, y'know...mine."
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butt buddybest friend who betrays him and goes to TEH DARK SIDE OMG), and people seem to think Snowe comes off rather poorly in this.WTF, people.
Snowe's actions, while not always admirable (n fact, rarely admirable XD), always make sense. He starts out very scared, afraid for his own skin, but constantly being pushed by his father, the rich town leader, to excel. His only real friend is good ol' Hot Pants, and there's as much jealousy there as friendship.
He lies about Hot Pants killing Glen in order to get him out of the way and for his own advancement, having always been overshadowed by his poorer friend. (And I'm not entirely sure he wasn't freaked by Glen disappearing, rightly connecting it to Hot Pants but misconstruing the reason for it. It might have been an honest mistake.) Then he attempts to live up to his father's wishes by leading the Gaien Knights in battle - something he doesn't really want to do - but that kinda falls apart because he sucks at it.
Finally, eventually spurned by Razril, he ends up as a pirate, but again he totally sucks at it and is quickly defeated by the hero. At this point, the hero can either kill Snowe "(*thunk*") or recruit him. By this point Snowe seems genuinely penitent, and actually seems to want Hot Pants to kill him. In the game ending, he ends up as just a normal citizen of Razril, which I think is best for him - he, unlike most RPG characters but like most real people, is not cut out to be the selfless heroic type - he's too busy covering his own ass.
I actually hated Snowe at first, but as the game went on and everything he tried turned to dust, I found myself feeling more and more sorry for him. He actually ended up being one of the characters I liked most by the end due to the complexity they added to his character throughout the game.
...Also, he's one of the few males who can equip the Venus Set. Make of that what you will.
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Personally, I always found Aeris kinda blah. She's half the stereotypical "girl with mysterious past and magic powers," which I can live with, but she's also very much the "oh, aren't I cute, tee-hee" vapid kind of heroine that I detest. Now, looked at in that context, she's less vapid than a lot of vapid heroines, but I still found her kinda annoying. (I always preferred Tifa, who actually seemed to have some human vulnerability rather than candy-coated moronicity, if that's a word.)
As such, during the OMG AERIS DIED scene, I was much less affected than most FFVII players seem to have been. I didn't cry - heck, the most I felt was a vague irritation that I'd had to run around to get her awesome final Limit Break that actually made her useful for once and then got to use it for all of, like, one dungeon?
Her musical theme is cool though.