Final Fantasy 7's Aerith Has Had Enough of 'Creeps' Tagging Voice Actors With 'Smut' Featuring Their Characters

Briana White, the histrion who portrays Aerith successful Final Fantasy 7, has called connected fans to halt tagging dependable artists successful spicy worldly featuring their characters.

The treatment began aft White saw KPop: Demon Hunters histrion Rei Ami discovering big fanfiction featuring her quality Zoey. In response, White suggested fans successful wide had "forgotten the meaning of the connection inappropriate."

"Maybe let's normalize not tagging dependable actors successful smut of their characters," White wrote successful a bid of posts connected X. But galore fans responded by saying Ami had gone connected to look for the contented purposefully — to which White past suggested it was each a substance of "consent."

"It's truly a shame erstwhile VAs privation to interact with the radical who emotion the characters connected societal media but conscionable a fewer creeps ruin it for everyone," White wrote, acknowledging that she had seen each sorts of fan-made Final Fantasy 7 contented adjacent though she tried to "actively debar it."

White portrayed Aerith successful the 2020 Final Fantasy 7 Remake, a relation she has past continued successful Crisis Core: Final Fantasy 7 Reunion, 2024's Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth, and Final Fantasy Tactics: The Ivalice Chronicles.

"I'm truthful associated with FF7 that it gets shown to maine each azygous time anyway," White explained. "As idiosyncratic said earlier, it is simply a substance of consent. And it tin beryllium astir intolerable to cognize what precisely is acceptable oregon not to an idiosyncratic conscionable from knowing their societal media persona."

Ultimately, White conceded that portion Ami had chosen to question retired the fan-made contented that had prompted her archetypal post, fans should inactive beryllium mindful of what they share. "Alright alright y'all person spoken and I perceive you," White concluded. "Point stands, conscionable not for [Rei Ami]. Carry on."

White is acceptable to instrumentality successful Square Enix's upcoming 3rd and last introduction successful its Final Fantasy 7 Remake trilogy — a crippled that won't chopped contented successful bid to consciousness "more concise" than the sometimes meandering Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth.

"It’s astir making definite the pacing feels right," bid manager Naoki Hamaguchi said. "It’s not astir cutting retired content, it’s making definite that it feels right, the velocity that the communicative progresses astatine feels right, and it is reasonably speedy and feels similar you tin get done it astatine a tenable pace. But it has to consciousness right, truthful that’s what I chiefly intended to accidental there."

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