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rainwatersparkI am, of course, all sorts of biased, but I have to say that I'm simultaneously happy that Aqua (Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep) is an actual heroine and sad that she's a rare breed among Square-Enix heroines.
First off, there are the useless heroines like Kairi and the emo Mary Sues like Xion. Aqua is, as of right now, the only Kingdom Hearts female lead who isn't needlessly angsty and actually goes out and does things.
In fact, I think Aqua is the real hero of Birth by Sleep. She becomes a Keyblade Master, fights many villains, puts sleeping Ven in a safe place to await his awakening, and saves Terra/Terranort by sacrificing herself and comdemning herself to wander in the darkness for years.
(Terra was plenty heroic, but he got screwed over by fate and people using him as a pawn, and Ven, for all his cheerfulness and determination, had a seriously messed-up backstory that caught up to him.)
Okay, so sometimes people bring up the fact that Lightning of FFXIII is also an action heroine. True, but from what I saw, at least from the beginning, Lightning is not as 3D/likeable of a character. She's not emo--her Action Girl-ness means her angst is transformed into anger, which she takes out on other people (*coughSnowcough*).
First off, there are the useless heroines like Kairi and the emo Mary Sues like Xion. Aqua is, as of right now, the only Kingdom Hearts female lead who isn't needlessly angsty and actually goes out and does things.
In fact, I think Aqua is the real hero of Birth by Sleep. She becomes a Keyblade Master, fights many villains, puts sleeping Ven in a safe place to await his awakening, and saves Terra/Terranort by sacrificing herself and comdemning herself to wander in the darkness for years.
(Terra was plenty heroic, but he got screwed over by fate and people using him as a pawn, and Ven, for all his cheerfulness and determination, had a seriously messed-up backstory that caught up to him.)
Okay, so sometimes people bring up the fact that Lightning of FFXIII is also an action heroine. True, but from what I saw, at least from the beginning, Lightning is not as 3D/likeable of a character. She's not emo--her Action Girl-ness means her angst is transformed into anger, which she takes out on other people (*coughSnowcough*).
