Remember the days of the old school yard
Meet Tseng, the youngest Turk ever. According to Aeris, those flashback scenes where Aeris was a little girl and Tseng came to "rescue her" were a little bit off (much like the rest of the smurfing flashback scenes in the game. It's as if they set out to create an entirely wrong product). Tseng wasn't this tall thin asian dude, he was actually a kid being escorted by two Shinra guards in order to persuade Aeris to come back to Shinra.
IT ALL MAKES SENSE NOW
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