Aeris vs. Aerith in the Voice-Over Project

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Yay, a poll! If Aeris wins, then they'll pronounce her name Aeris. If Aerith wins, they'll pronounce her name Aeris! Win-win situation.
Unless they're going to actually say Aerith, which is incorrect and sounds silly on top of that.
 
1. Aerith doesn't sound silly
2. Why are so many people against Aerith, when it was the name in the Japanese version, which if I'm not mistaken (could be) was the original version
3. Polls are easy to do on here
4. I guess it's a bitty late to do a real one, if the lines are to be started recording tonight

And just as an afterthought, how does ANYONE know if Aerith being pronounced Aerith is incorrect, as Auxili says, when the game is done WITHOUT voices, how do we not know that the original developers weren't thinking they want it pronounced Aerith instead of everyones beloved Aeris.

If there is proof, I retract this statement, and apologise for any inconvenience, and since I don't have a PSP, I dunno how it's pronounced in Crisis Core.  It was just an afterthought to this whole thing.

But just because one person likes it one way, and another the other, doesn't make either way wrong just because they don't like it.  Like how certain people pronounce that jackass Caith Sith as Cate Sith, and some people as Cat Sith.
 
Thank the gods I don't have to retract my previous statement. ;-)

Many thyanks Obesebear.
 
Popular vote is going for Aeris, and that's what I'm likely going to be using. But we'll keep this up I suppose a little while longer.

"Red XIII" is rarely spoken in the game, and in the few cases it is, jack.o.lantern and myself will likely come up with a substitute such as "Red" instead of "Red Thirteen", which sounds like a robot. His default name will remain the same, so in his captions you will see "Red XIII", but again when his name is actually spoken, we'll see about using something less clumsy.

There's a problem with this, however, and something everyone needs to consider. When Red XIII's name is spoken, it uses the {RED XIII} tag. In order to change what is spoken, it would have to be hard coded so that no matter what you name him, it will still come up simply "Red" or whatever. I'm personally not going to use Nanaki. The revelation of his real name is an original piece in the game, and to simply default him as "Nanaki" takes that away. It's safe to say we're open to suggestions on this, but Nanaki won't cut it.

On the other hand, at the time you acquire Red XIII as a party member, keep in mind to a new player he's still just this weird experiment creature, so Red XIII doesn't seem quite so stupid. It seems dumb if you already know him as Nanaki, son of Seto etc. But originally he starts out seemingly a strange experiment. Just something to keep in mind before dismissing "Red Thirteen."
 
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Do you think it'd be possible to call him Red/Red Thirteen up until the point where you find out his name is Nanaki, and then have him be referred to as Nanaki from Cosmo Canyon onward?

If the Aeris/Aerith debate is settled... what's it settled on?
 
He's referring to Crisis Core using Aerith and saying it as it looks. Personally Crisis Core doesn't mean shit to me, but - one man's opinion.

I'd like to be able to change his default name as you said. I can try messing with opcodes to see if there's a way to change it around once you get to Cosmo Canyon, but there might be more to it than just tinkering in Meteor. On that note, does anybody know where default names are stored? Is it in the menu system?
 
The default name is Aeris in the NA version, and Crisis Core's voice actors doesn't mean much to me, but I don't mind if people call her Aerith and pronounce it this way too. However, her name in game is Aeris. It could just be as simple as that. Her identity in the western world is "aeris", and there is nothing wrong with that. People think there is a huge problem with that, and they fight for Aerith, but I don't see the need.
Squeenix translated her name, and, as far as I'm concerned, her name to the western world SHOULD be Aeris, not the japanese world's 'Aerith'.

It would make more sense to settle on Aeris rather than try to respect the Japanese translation of the name and call her Aerith. The name was translated as Aeris, just as Sephiroth and such were. We aren't calling Sephiroth anything different.


Anyways, I like the idea of calling RedXIII "Red" up until Cosmo Canyon. Then everyone can call him Nananki (except for Cid as I remember him saying "Red" in AC, methinks. Also, him using a nickname would be more true to his character).
 
Correct me if I'm mistaken, but that's 12 to 5 for Aeris. I'm sending in Aeris' first lines now, so poll closed (there's no 'make a poll' option for posts on this board, I'm afraid...).

As for Red XIII, I don't mind saying the whole thing, but Red is a good nickname too. It might be useful to change depending on what the mood of the line is and how well you know the character at this point. "Hey, Red!" as opposed to "Hey, Red XIII!" for example.

The Cait in Cait Sith rhymes with the English name Kate. His Japanese name is ケット・シー (kaytto shii). If it was Cat Sith, it would be キャット・シー (kyatto shii).
 
Totally agreed about Red, jack.o.

And I didn't know people pronounced Cait Sith "Kite Sith". I've always said "Kate Sith". It's how the word is pronounced.
 
Concerning Red XIII I think the best idea would be to initially call him Red XIII when the party first meets him, then after a couple of events (maybe once they reach Kalm) start having the cast refer to him as Red.

I have no idea what to do once the party learns his true name is Nanaki, it would've helped if someone said his name in Advent Children.  But I think 'Red' would be best even then.
 
I would definitely suggest still using 'Red'. Even if you knew my real name, you'd still keep calling me Lag.Com on here, wouldn't you? :mrgreen:
 
Maybe its a good idea to have some characters refer to him differently?

The more slang characters such as Barret, Cid, Yuffie etc could continue to call him red after they find out his real name... but I think it'd be cool to have maybe Cloud, Vincent and Tifa call him Nanaki?

The idea of Vincent calling him red feels a bit strange to me for some reason.
 
The idea of anyone calling him Nanaki souds a bit strange to me.

I think it's a stupid name, Red ftw!
 
The idea of Vincent calling him Red feels a bit strange to me for some reason.
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Agreed, same goes for Cloud.   They should call him Red XIII and then switch to Nanaki.  Both of them are very serious throughout the game, so it would sound strange with them using a nickname.
 
The idea of Vincent calling him Red feels a bit strange to me for some reason.
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Agreed, same goes for Cloud.   They should call him Red XIII and then switch to Nanaki.  Both of them are very serious throughout the game, so it would sound strange with them using a nickname.
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Agreed (for a second time).

This is what I think:-

Cloud      Red XIII/Nanaki   
Tifa         Red XIII/Red
Aerith        Red XIII/ [Not Sure]               
Vincent     Red XIII/Nanaki
Cid        Red XIII/Red           
Cait Sith    Red XIII/ [Not Sure]
Yuffie       Red XIII/Red
Barret       Red XIII/Red

But of course this is just my opinion as its not up to me. I suppose at the end of the day it'll sound different with whatever voice is given to the characters, but this is what feels right to me as I percieve the characters to be.
 
The characters hardly ever say eachother's names, so it doesn't really matter. Aeris is said frequently, but I don't recall people saying Nanaki's name very often.
 
So back to the main question..... Is this determining what they will call Aeris in the voice over project? Or is this just another poll about what the fans think? I'm not trying to be offensive, just wondering.
 
Thanks for telling us you weren't being offensive, cause your post was hugely offensive. /sarcasm
lol
 
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