Aeris

“Aeris is a very, very mean lady. She's always yelling at me and hitting me with things.” 
- Leo, Behind the Scenes Part 1
Aeris is one of the two main characters of VG Cats, with the other being her co-star Leo Leonardo III, who never ceases to annoy her with his constant idiotic and offensive banter.
==Appearance==
Aeris is an anthropomorphic blue-eyed female cat with pink fur, with white fur going down from the lower part of her face to her abdomen. Her hands are also pink. Aeris was introduced in the comic Pika?. Ever since her first appearance, Aeris' look has undergone several changes. In her first appearance, she had a full head of hair, but then she was left with only a single, large, bang of hair, then she was completely bald, even more so than Leo, until she eventually got her iconic look, which she’s stuck with ever since.
Not only does her hair constantly change, but her outfits do too (not counting in-game clothing). She switches through differing clothing styles ranging from casual, winter and even a type of gothic apparel complete with black collar, not much different from Leo's, aside from the bell. The usual colors she wears are pink and purple.
===Main outfits===
Aeris' main outfit traditionally featured a purple shirt, a pink jacket, and blue jeans. Her jacket was originally just pink, but had more purple added onto it by 2004. While this outfit did last a while, more outfit experimenting would be seen afterwards by 2005.
While not used as frequently, she could be seen wearing a purple shirt, black wristbands, and dark purple pants, along with a black collar similar to that of Leo's. This outfit was seen in a VG Cats promotional art around 2006, being seen at conventions, and even on the main VG Cats site for a while. Later, a similar outfit to the purple shirt and pink jacket combo would be seen again in 2008 comics, now with a Triforce necklace.
She's been changing her outfits a lot since then, and it has not remained consistent. She would be seen with a work outfit in Get it Now! NOW! and Plink!.
==Personality==
Aeris' personality is sometimes neutral, but usually annoyed. She is best friends with Leo, but hardly ever tolerates his stupidity. She is easily the most sensible character, with a look of cuteness about her, but a quick temper and little patience for the foolishness that surrounds her. She is almost always upset with the other characters, and even went back in time to terminate Leo's existence after she got tired of hearing him make sexual jokes about her mother. She also is rather snarky, but overall is fairly calm when others aren't there to be annoying her. 
As a result of her short temper, she sometimes even resorts to violence. In an early comic, The Waiting Game, Aeris has a bad encounter with Microsoft Support after her Xbox kept on getting an error message every time it started up. She then strangled Bill Gates to death. Other than that, she has threatened and beaten up Leo multiple times. For example, in the comic Behind the Scenes Part 1, the two tell a story in which Leo gets a console that is actually just a box full of rocks. Aeris started beating him with the 'console' as a response.
Part of her is also rather mischievous, like getting Slippy Toad from Star Fox to drink a bunch of sodas to see what Slippy Toad's gender was in the comic It's Pat!. 
===Interests===
She enjoys video games like Leo, especially enjoying Final Fantasy, and is usually seen in most of the strips parodying the game. She also likes being at the arcade and the video game store, even snuggling her Xbox 360 when she first got one in The Big Top, which she had to steal and attack the clerk for. Aeris is also a fan of yaoi fan fiction, and is seen writing some herself relating to Final Fantasy characters Tidus and Auron in the comic Stranger Than Truth. In the comic, Leo sneaks into Aeris' room and is seen reading it, which causes her to throw the laptop at his head. In NSFH, Not safe for humanity, she dreams about Fox McCloud and Falco from Star Fox being in a romantic relationship. 
Aeris also seems to have distaste for fans of the VG Cats webcomic, but this could also apply to her overall disliking towards nerds in general. In the comic Songs of the open seas, she is playing Unreal Tournament with other players, who are all noobs and suck at the game, and gets bruised badly because of the ignorance. As seen in the comic Start the Reactor, She is also a fan of online RPGs, but gets mocked by Leo for how common noobs are. She is also seen enjoying card games a few times, such as when she played cards with Ternaldo, but was later convinced by Leo to start battling real monsters.
==Backstory==
Not much is known about her backstory or how she grew up. In the webcomic VG Kitties which only lasted 3 comics, her and Leo are kittens living together with an unknown owner. The strip Comedy shows Aeris as a kid with her mother and 3 other siblings who all live together. It is still unknown who her dad is. She also went to school as seen in the comic Muppet Babies, and in the comic appears to have been a good student, getting her homework done on time, only reacting negativity when Solid Snake from the Metal Gear series pushed her in the hallway. Leo would help her out, which made Aeris walk away blushing.
More recently, it's been shown that she now works at Best Buy as seen in the comic Get it Now! NOW!, but it's unknown if she still has the job or works somewhere else. In some other comics, she can be seen wearing a work outfit, and has been doing multiple interviews since.
== Relationship with Leo ==
Leo and Aeris have known each other since childhood, and ever since Leo has never left Aeris alone. It is implied that her relationship with Leo is purely out of their mutual like for video games and their general fondness for one another. It is never explicitly revealed, as to why Aeris continues to put up with Leo, though it is most likely that she cannot get rid of him, even when she "aborted" him from time in The Comedian.
Aeris calls Leo the "king of idiots" in Behind the Scenes Part 1. Despite her overall annoyance, it's clear she does still care about him, and usually does try her best to protect him from the acts he pulls. In a later comic, Get it Now! NOW!, after seeing Leo's injuries, she shows concern for him and anger towards Windows 10 after correctly assuming that it was the one that caused them. Leo tried to sue Aeris in the comic Legal Matters for her beating him daily.
A big turning point occurred in The Perfect Gift, Leo took some odd jobs, such as shoveling Donkey Kong's feces, delivering newspapers (all the while being chased by a wild lawnmower), and hitting several Mario blocks, and afterwards bought Aeris a video game she was hoping to buy with her own money, but was unable to due to being broke. Leo was fast asleep when Aeris opened her present noticing that Leo purchased the second installment, instead of the recent version, though since she knew Leo cared and worked very hard to get it, she kissed him on the forehead and left a note saying, "Merry Christmas", and she smiled as she played the game. Since then her usual rage towards him seems to have faded away or at least she has become more tolerant of him and both are now often seen engaging in peaceful conversations while doing an activity they both enjoy, such as playing games or painting figurines. 
It is unknown how long Aeris and Leo have been living together, but it is confirmed that they live together as of I Am Gross. It can be assumed that because the two live together, it's why Leo ends up bothering and annoying Aeris so much. 
== Other relationships ==
Aeris' relationships with the other characters who appear in VG Cats are shown with disdain or hostility. In Behind the Scenes Part 1, she derogatorily calls the cast 'freaks and idiots.' It's known that she does not like Leo's drunkard friend Dr. Hobo, and she refers to him as "that damned hobo" in the same strip.
In Party Hard!, Ternaldo says "You iz hot!" to Aeris, which prompts her to say, "I'm going to start wounding you now. I'm not sure when I'll stop." Something between them presumably led to her banning Ternaldo from her own room, as seen on a sign in the comic Stranger Than Truth. In Ternaldo's first appearance, Card Shark, she is playing cards with Ternaldo, but right after he speaks she immediately says "Shut up Ternaldo." In Nutsack, when she has to give Johnny Evilguy testicles from an individual named Tommy Goodboy as part of a quest, she calls him a 'sick fuck' and seems displeased by the whole idea.
Despite all her hostility, her friendships with PantsMan and Krug seem to be neutral, but does get annoyed with them a few times, such as Krug eating the dice in Skittles. She is seen at PantsMan's place in I'm gonna get sued for this.., reading the comic PantsMan made and asking what it has to do with video games. Her constant annoyed tone makes it hard to identify who she truly trusts or dislikes, but it is evident she doesn't like anyone annoying or stupid.
==Role==
Aeris doesn't appear as much as Leo in the game parody strips and is usually not depicted as any female character in the game VG Cats is parodying, such as her being dressed as a pink Spartan in Halo strips. However, she still does at times, such as her dressing as Princess Peach in a few Mario comics. A joke in the comic A Battle of Titans pokes fun at how every female character in fighting games must be half as dressed as any male character, and in the comic she is dressed as Cammy from Street Fighter. A few times she also dresses as male characters, as seen in Pimp your ride, where she wears a Luigi outfit.
==Trivia==
*Aeris wore braces in her childhood.
*She is a Final Fantasy fan.
**Her name came from the name one of Scott's real-life cats,http://web.archive.org/web/20061017125657/http://www.vgcats.com/new/ however it was most likely inspired by the character Aerith (also known as Aeris) from Final Fantasy. 
*Her favorite console is the original Xbox.http://web.archive.org/web/20030617142235/vgcats.com/misc/cast.php
*She is left handed.
*She is not very good at fighting games and gets irritated when Leo defeats her.
*She is a fan of Star Trek: The Next Generation and Star Trek in general as seen in the comic Boldly Went, even having a signed picture of the actor who played Jean-Luc Picard, Patrick Stewart.
*Originally, Aeris was mostly depicted as the dumb one in earlier comics. The early comics that have been remade, like Pika? and Um.. the pin is... never mind. have since gone about changing this, swapping her and Leo's roles.
*In the VG Cats Animated Series her license says “Legal” indicating that she is an adult.
*Aeris has a fear of Donkey Kong, as revealed in the comic Don't even ask about Waluigi.
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