She's very different from her canon self, and while she's starting to mold into something a little more similar to her canon counterpart with recent memories, there's still a huge gap there. Their surface personalities/ways of presenting themselves are basically the same so her voice barely changes, but underneath there's a lot of differences.
The most obvious difference is that she's a lot... well, nicer! Lambda in canon is not exclusively malevolent, but she is casually sadistic and nasty and will enjoy terrible things as they come. Lambda in Aather so far, while she doesn't exactly get torn up about anything and she is now starting to redevelop a penchant for the dangerous or grotesque, she is generally a lot more sympathetic towards most people's suffering... She's entirely lacking in the experiences that made her so prone to cruelty, which allows for the underlying good traits she has in canon to instead take the forefront. You could say that she's sort of an inverse of her canon self—in canon she is flippant and mean-spirited with a core of genuine decency she occasionally lets show, while in Aather she is generally genial and considerate(... ish...), with her nasty side only slipping through if you flip the right switches.
She's also a lot more impressionable and a lot less self-assured—in canon she has a pretty strong sense of self-awareness and acceptance; her self-image and ideals and strong enough that there's very little that can shake her. But her lack of memories of course messes with that, so she's a little more unsteady on her feet in general. She also has a lot more walls lowered—more prone to viewing other people on a more even footing, and thus better at making genuine, mutual connections with people. There's probably other things, too, but those are the main ones that come to mind, I think...
Do you think Serah could have worked as a Hero? What teams do you think she would do well on if she were one?
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The most obvious difference is that she's a lot... well, nicer! Lambda in canon is not exclusively malevolent, but she is casually sadistic and nasty and will enjoy terrible things as they come. Lambda in Aather so far, while she doesn't exactly get torn up about anything and she is now starting to redevelop a penchant for the dangerous or grotesque, she is generally a lot more sympathetic towards most people's suffering... She's entirely lacking in the experiences that made her so prone to cruelty, which allows for the underlying good traits she has in canon to instead take the forefront. You could say that she's sort of an inverse of her canon self—in canon she is flippant and mean-spirited with a core of genuine decency she occasionally lets show, while in Aather she is generally genial and considerate(... ish...), with her nasty side only slipping through if you flip the right switches.
She's also a lot more impressionable and a lot less self-assured—in canon she has a pretty strong sense of self-awareness and acceptance; her self-image and ideals and strong enough that there's very little that can shake her. But her lack of memories of course messes with that, so she's a little more unsteady on her feet in general. She also has a lot more walls lowered—more prone to viewing other people on a more even footing, and thus better at making genuine, mutual connections with people. There's probably other things, too, but those are the main ones that come to mind, I think...
Do you think Serah could have worked as a Hero? What teams do you think she would do well on if she were one?