Disney Princesses… If They Were in Final Fantasy X-2

Curious why all of the princesses of color are dehumanized or stereotyped as thief or samurai and the white princesses get to be mage, knight, or songstress. Jasmine is the only exception. 

What about Belle??! =)

I haven’t played Final Fantasy…what is the stereotype of a thief in that game?

 Why is it sterotype to be a thief but not a mage or a knight?
(Is it an FF thing?)

 really, other than Rapunzel and Snow White, they are all stereotyped by what characteristics from their story. Ariel sings and loses her voice, so she is a songstress isn’t any less stereotyped than Jasmine has a tiger, so she is a tiger trainer or Mulan fights in the army, so she’s….an Asian warrior. You would have been happier if they just randomly changed which class went with which princess instead of the ones that match their story and are intuitive? They didn’t invent the classes from FF. As for dehumanizing Tiana, her story had her as a frog for most of the plot. I see it more as fitting the class to the story of the princess, not stereotyping races. Exactly how do you stereotype an Atlantian anyway?

As an Injun myself I have to admit there was a brief moment of annoyance at Pocahontas as a “Savage” Barbarian.

But then I remembered that I pretty much banked all my play time as the Barbarian class in that game because it kicked ass.

Besides, her unofficial portrayal as a fantasy Barbarian is pretty much the least culturally offensive thing about Disney’s Pocahontas

I’m not sure what’s going on with Tiana’s butt, legs, and spine…

These are a bit inconsistent. Snow White, Kida, Jane, and Tiana make no sense to me.

Pocahontas would make more sense as a trainer or summoner, or Full Throttle’s wing motif, since her story was all about her communion with nature. The Berserker concept only makes sense in a superficial observation of her culture and/or race, and runs a bit cotnrary to her lyrics “You think I’m an ignorant savage”.

Mulan could have been a Warrior or Dark Knight, but instead she’s a Samurai, which is only more logical than the others because of her race (to say nothing of her ethnicity, since samurai are Japanese…). I’m not balking at it in particular, but I did raise an eyebrow.

If I redid these to fit FFX-2 jobs to character storyline, I would do:

Rapunzel – White Mage (healing hair)
Jasmine – Trainer (Raja familiar)
Megara – Thief/Dark Knight (secret minion/dark agent)
Pocahontas – Full Throttle (wind/wing/feather motif)
Kida – Psychicer (magic crystal defensive abilities)
Ariel – Songstress (“the most beautiful ‘vai-ce’”)
Mulan – Warrior/Samurai (joins the Chinese army/plated amor)
Sally – Mascot w. Sally doll/Alchemist (dolls/soups and potions)
Alice – Lady Luck (cards and suits)
Snow White – Alchemist (poisoned apples need antidotes)
Jane – Gunner (on safari)
Tiana – Floral Fallal/White Mage/Alchemist (magnolia or orchid gown/Cure Frog/chef)
Belle – Machina Maw (inanimate objects come to life)Sleeping Beauty – Black Mage (enchantments and the Three Good Fairies)

If I included all previous jobs and some summons:

Rapunzel – White Mage
Jasmine – Summoner/Trainer (Genie/Raja familiar)
Megara – Thief/Dark Knight
Pocahontas – Ranger/Blue Mage/Geomancer (Nature)
Kida – Machinist/Geomancer/Lancer (Steampunk/crystal/staff)
Ariel – Songstress/Siren (Voice/Song/Silent Voice)
Mulan – Warrior/Samurai/Paladin/Mime (selfless warrior/disguised and fast learner)
Sally – Mascot w. Sally doll/Alchemist
Alice – Lady Luck
Snow White – Alchemist
Jane – Scholar
Tiana – Floral Fallal/White Mage
Belle – Machina Maw/Scholar (attack with books)
Sleeping Beauty – Time Mage (Sleepel)Esmerelda – Dancer

…technically, wouldn’t Sally be a Queen, not a princess?

Assuming she married Jack, at some point…and then it seems likely, knowing the characters, she’d be a full co-regent, not just Queen Consort. Unless, for political reasons, she merely took a lesser title, such as Duchess of Pumpkin Patch.

There’s a whole lotta escher girl going on with Snow and Tiana (and Sally, but frankenstien girls can get away with it:) )

As a Chinese person, I felt the same brief bristle with Mulan being a Japanese Samurai (Asians are all one big hodgepodge, right?), but eh, I’ll live…

Not sure why she couldn’t just be the Warrior class, though.

I think Mulan got better treatment than Pocahontas from Disney, anyway.

You are AWESOME.

And as a Black person, I’m pretty bugged by the fact that the only Black princess is here portraying a monster instead of a human character.

http://eschergirls.tumblr.com/ It's the boobs and butt pose + some broken spine going on with a touch of centaur lady thrown in. Pretty common in published art T_T

No joke. Pocahontas was cringe-worthy, even when I was like 10. I don’t even want to try to rewatch that now; my white guilt would totally overwhelm me :(

Really love Sally & Rapunzel’s looks. 

 But she’s badass and pretty, if you know about Shiva from Final Fantasy. She’s representing the goddess of ice very well.

True. And the character design is pretty boss. It’s just that initial ping of “WTF” I needed to deal with before I could allow myself to appreciate the image.

 That’s understandable.

As a merman, I also had to pause and roll my eyes at Ariel being the Songstress. As if all of us merpeople are born with perfect singing voices.

Joking aside, it’s not like there are many better options thematically.

I suppose you could have had Belle be the Berzerker (doesn’t make sense logically, but would be awesome visually), Pocohantas the Trainer, Jasmine the Thief, and left Kida out all together.

And while I did actually roll my eyes at the idea of a Chinese Samurai, let’s face it, what else was she going to be and who else could have been better for the role?

Alice as Lady Luck was inspired.

No….FF characters have much better physique.

Fortunately, it’s not a good enough movie that you’re really missing out.

O~ There is Sally <3 but where is Bella? Dx

 As a zombie, I felt a small pang of offense that, while all the other races are portrayed in a manner that accentuates their natural traits, Sally is shown to be nothing more than a two-bit medieval pseudo-scientist.

There is no mention of our ability to instill fear into the hearts of man, no imagery of our awesome ability to lose an eye or an arm and still lumber forward, nothing at all that symbolizes our incredible and insatiable appetite for brains that people of other races simply do not have.

Please think of your undead viewers next time.

Thank you.

Sincerely,
A Zombie

P.S. Braaaaaaaaaaaiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiinnnnnnnnnns……………

This would be a nice point if Sally was a zombie in the film, except that she’s not. She’s an animated rag doll complete with stuffing, who mixes potions like a chemist…

But points for trying.

I’m more bugged that it doesn’t make sense. Why would Tianna be Shiva of all possible jobs and/or characters?

 Not particularly negative–Several protagonists in the series are thieves. In the games, thieves are usually portrayed as quick hitters who can steal items from monsters (essential for getting important items, etc). So no, they’re not seen as bad or evil. More like cute and mischievous.

Many main caracteres are THiefs, 

If this were Kingdom Hearts X-2 , my faith in Squarenix would be restore :( 

Must look elsewhere for braaaaaaaaaaaiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiinnnnnnnnnns……………

She also has Tiana as the Mascot which I thought was brilliant and super adorable (and so fitting since Tiana was a frog for most of the movie) a lot of people were so insulted by that but the mascot class is SO badass

Glad I wasn’t the only one who noticed the weird racist implications here. Great concept; problematic execution.