Quote Originally Posted by NeoCracker View Post
I was just saying it doens' look exactly like the dancer outfits, only resembles. Nothing really to read into.

In the end people who hate Rosa just grasp at little things like this and exaggerate.
Which is why I get upset by things like what I've been complaining about. The people who hate Rosa grasp at things and exaggerate them. The more people who go with it, either because they absolutely loathe Rosa or they'd like to see her the way people are talking about her, the more it comes off as accurate to anyone who hasn't spent much time with the game. It comes off even MORE true if nobody raises a voice against it, because contrary to what some might like to believe, silence comes off as acceptance. If it's not true, someone would have corrected them, right? So, the person gets it in his or her mind that that view of the character must be right, and from that point on, they will read into the events of the game with that in mind.

At this point, Rosa's already lost being seen as gentle, loving and nurturing, all because of the above. The majority view I've seen has been that she's clingy (even though Cecil clearly loves her back just as much), whiny (even though the closest she ever comes to whining is fearing for Cecil's life), weak (even though the only times she needs help, she needs it for things that anyone could have needed help with), and so on. And her personality? "Oh, she's a stereotypical white mage," forgetting she was the first of her type and refusing to see where she's unique or gives it a bit of her own flair. While the majority opinion of her is that she sucks, up til now in the majority view, she's at LEAST retained her exquisite love story with Cecil and that pure angle...

...And now she's losing even that much.

People are willing to believe it when someone claims, without actual proof, that she slept with Kain and dumped him for Cecil because she's power-hungry. People are calling her a slut, mostly for appearance now, but as I have seen with any other traits of hers, they'll start to read into events of the game with that in mind. People are advancing the notion of Rydia as the female lead of FF4, and promoting the idea that the love between Cecil and Rosa is weak so that Rydia hooks up with the hero and Rosa goes off to do some random crap she'd never do.

I like this character, and the more things like the above that I see happen, the more I wish the DS remake were never made... because it's more important to me to have my favorite character retain at least some semblance of her good points in the eyes of the public and remain obscure, than lose all of that and become viewed as something bad and only have some pretty CG videos and images to make up for it. A remake of my favorite game is not worth the gradual butchering of one of the most personally important aspects of it.