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** The only other explanation for the slapping incident which is remotely consistent with majority of Tseng's characterization (especially in Crisis Core), is that he was somehow trying to protect Aerith by keeping her quiet -- i.e., he slapped Aerith to keep her from saying something that might further endanger her (Aerith) or Marlene.
** I think this was adressed in the novel [http://thelifestream.net/ffvii-advent-children-complete/5602/on-the-way-to-a-smile-case-of-shinra-translated/ On The Way To A Smile: Case of Shinra ]. <ref>"Before long after many years and certain events passed, Aerith came into contact with the anti-Shinra group Avalanche and the situation took a sudden change. Tseng became agitated as he couldn’t get a grasp of the situation at hand and because of that he treated Aerith with an attitude of such pretense evil that even his subordinates turned cold towards him. He would always think of what to say to them. ''This isn’t pretense evil. To Aerith, Shinra itself is evil. That’s why evil should act like evil.''"</ref> I don't fully understand Tseng's reasoning here, but I think he's basically refusing to lie to her and act like everything's going to be okay, when he knows that being captured by Shinra means hell for her.
** It's possibly a case of [[Early Installment Weirdness]], just that it was due to being written early in the game. Also people keep referencing Crisis Core as if it was even a thought in the back of anyone's mind when the original game came out. The simplest explanation: Tseng was intended to be a cold, callous asshole character. Slapping Aerith is indicative of that. They softened him very, ''very'' slightly during the course of the game itself, and then uplifted him to being a caring sort of person in the materials written well after his original appearance.
== Aerith - flower girl by day, working girl by night? ==
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