History PlayingWith / HonorRelatedAbuse

** ...until she defies them in public, after which they see no choice but to kill her.

* '''Parodied''': Aerith [[HoldingHands holds a boy's hand]] and her parents are so ashamed they whack her with a feather stuffed pillow.

* '''Invoked''': Aerith's parents purposefully set up the affair so they have an excuse to punish her.
* '''Exploited''': Someone with a grudge against Aerith [[BlatantLies tells her parents]] that she [[MyGirlIsNotASlut has been unchaste]] outside of marriage.

** Aerith's action as actual crimes, up to and including killing commoners for sport. Her parents [[PragmaticVillainy don't actual care what she does only that it ruins their reputation]].

** This is a form of DomesticAbuse; Aerith's rights are being violated in the name of [[ValuesDissonance family honor]] and her parents cross the MoralEventHorizon in the process.

** Being abused is scary enough, the fact that Aerith's parents [[ObliviouslyEvil think that they are in the right]], makes it even more horrifying.

** Aerith's action as actual crimes, up to and including killing commoners for sport. Her parents [[PragmaticVillainy don't actual care what she does only that it ruins their reputation.

** If Aerith's parents choose not to punish her, their society will kill them ([[ConvictedByPublicOpinion or at least their social cred]]) as well as her(s) "[[VillainByProxyFallacy for tolerating]] [[AccompliceByInaction her indecency]]". They had to choose LesserOfTwoEvils. ([[FalseDichotomy Couldn't they]] TakeAThirdOption and let her go, then say everyone that she fled?)

** Aerith is killed for being a PuritySue.

* '''Zig Zagged''': Sometimes Aerith is punished severely for doing things or seeing people her parents don't like, other times she gets off with barely a slap on the wrist.

** Aerith has GoodParents that treat her well, even when she does/says/wears things or dates people they don't approve of.

** [[NoWomansLand The setting of the story]] [[DeliberateValuesDissonance demands it]].
** The author was subjected to this, and is trying to use their work as therapy.

** Bob comes to her rescue and he and Aerith fight back against the abuse. [[FireForgedFriends Their bonds strengthened]] [[NiceJobFixingItVillain because of that]].

* '''Played For Laughs''': Aerith's parents punish her for dating Bob... by [[{{Unishment}} taking away all her fancy dresses]] so that she has nothing but a set of ImpossiblyTackyClothes (or even [[ShamefulStrip her natural "costume"]], [[NakedPeopleAreFunny that is, her own skin]]) to wear while out, hoping that she'd be too ashamed to meet Bob again.
* '''Reconstructed''': Aerith has internalized her parents' ideas of honor, and thus cannot retaliate.
* '''Played For Drama''':

* '''Played For Horror''': An examination of the things people have done to [[DisproportionateRetribution get retribution]] for dishonor (which includes and ''does not'' stops at maiming, rape, stoning people to death, setting them on fire and disfiguring them with powerful acids) is usually bone-chilling.
* '''Plot Foundation''' (combined with Rule of Drama UpToEleven): Aerith was a cheerful young girl who loved her family. However, she learned the hard way that her feelings are one-sided when she finds herself on the receiving end of an attempt to OffingTheOffspring for dating a boy from a wrong family because they thought it would damage the rep of their family. [[CorneredRattlesnake Desperate for her life]], [[SelfMadeOrphan she kills the parents]] and is soon arrested and sentenced to a long prison term for the CrimeOfSelfDefense. She comes out of the prison a [[BrokenBird bitter, roguish, antisocial shadow of her former persona]]. Now there are (usually) two ways to pick from: a) become [[HadToComeToPrisonToBeACrook a full-on criminal]] with no remorse or pity towards members of their society and a ''massive'' FreudianExcuse; or b) [[MiseryBuildsCharacter overcome her troubles]], [[MisfitMobilizationMoment mobilize her fellow women]] to stand up for their rights and grow into [[RebelLeader a head of a rebellion against the ultra-patriarchal society]] that tears it down and sets up a much more just one.

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* '''Subverted''': Aerith's parents discourage her from seeing Bob again but take no further action...

* '''Double Subverted''': ...until she defies them in public, after which they see no choice but to kill her.

* '''Implied''': Aerith is rescued from her tower. When asked why she was in there, she says, "Let's just say 'honor' is the dumbest thing ever."

** HonorBeforeReason

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** This is a form of DomesticAbuse; Aerith's rights are being violated in the name of [[ValuesDissonance family honor]].

** If Aerith's parents choose not to punish her, their society will kill them ([[ConvictedByPublicOpinion or at least their social cred]]) as well as her(s) "[[VillainByProxyFallacy for tolerating]] [[AccompliceByInaction her indecency]]". They had to choose LesserOfTwoEvils.

** AerithAndBob are together, but Aerith's [[ParentalMarriageVeto parents don't approve of Bob]]. They lecture her, saying some rather unnecessarily hurtful things, and tell her she's grounded.

** If Aerith's parents choose not to punish her, their society will kill them as well as her. They had to choose LesserOfTwoEvils.

** Rather than harm Aerith, her parents kill or injure Bob.

** [[NoWomansLand The setting of the story]] [[ValuesDissonance demands it]].

** When Aerith's parents find out that she wants to refuse an ArrangedMarriage, they lock her up in a [[TortureCellar cellar]], [[DeniedFoodAsPunishment starve her]], [[ATasteOfLash whip her]], beat her, wound her, and [[ParentalIncest rape her]] until she either dies or [[TwoPlusTortureEqualsFive changes her mind]].

** When Aerith's parents find out that she wants to refuse an ArrangedMarriage, they lock her up in a [[TortureCellar cellar]], [[DeniedFoodAsPunishment starve her]], whip her, beat her, wound her, and [[{{Squick}} rape her]] until she either dies or [[TwoPlusTortureEqualsFive changes her mind]].

** Aerith is part of a BigScrewedUpFamily

* '''Plot Foundation''' (combined with Rule of Drama UpToEleven): Aerith was a cheerful young girl who loved her family. However, she learned the hard way that her feelings are one-sided when she finds herself on the receiving end of an attempt to OffingTheOffspring for dating a boy from a wrong family because they thought it would damage the rep of their family. [[CorneredRattlesnake Desperate for her life]], [[SelfMadeOrphan she kills the parents]] and is soon arrested and sentenced to a long prison term for the CrimeOfSelfDefense. She comes out of the prison a [[BrokenBird bitter, roguish, antisocial shadow of her former persona]]. Now there are (usually) two ways to pick from: a) become [[HadToComeToPrisonToBeACrook a full-on criminal]] with no remorse or pity towards members of their society and a ''massive'' FreudianExcuse; or b) [[MiseryBuildsCharacter overcome her troubles]], mobilize her fellow women to stand up for their rights and grow into [[RebelLeader a head of a rebellion against the ultra-patriarchal society]] that tears it down and sets up a much more just one.

** Aerith is rewarded (not punished) for being involved with Bob.

** Aerith is ConvenientlyAnOrphan and an only child that made it into becoming an adult, so no one is able to mess with her life.

** Aerith's parents realize that she is a person, and that she may do things they don't approve of. If religion is the issue, they pray to the PowersThatBe for her forgiveness, and [[BeYourself they accept her as she is]].

** Bob comes to her rescue and he and Aerith fight back against the abuse. [[NiceJobFixingItVillain Their bonds strengthened because of that]].