Why do you say I was annoyed by it? I was lit one of the few people who keep dunking on fandom about the way they treated her during & ruined her first reveal with that matter.

I was never annoyed by her face unlike the hordes of toxic fandom out there because:

1. unlike many, I understand that the characters are in a semi-realistic style ( anime faces that got the realistic style basically. However it's not on the same level of details as you would find for a game like the TLOU/Uncharted. Everyone looks pretty doll-ish except for the random NPCs & more "gruff" looking guy like Barret, Cid, Dio, Reeve, Heidegger etc...) so of course, characters are gonna have similar faces. Scarlet, Noctis, & Rufus have a similar faces & you can lit swap them out without noticing much. Cloud's is similar to Lightning. FF is filled with with an enormous amount of Tifa clones in general. A lot of npcs in 7R have Tifa & Aerith faces.

2. Elena was always supposed to look like them stylistically since OG & fits the fact that I've always hc'ed her as half-asian.

3. I hate her EC face, which is just Aerith's face but with slightly diff eyes. It also doesn't suit her personnality & I can't see her do the various expressions she has in Rebirth.

   1. This is also the fandom who thinks that Tifa, Yuffie, Elena & Kyrie looks too much alike, which is a bit of a sus statement. The devs gave them traits to show they are asian, also made sure they are all distinguishable from each other. & I think it need to stop because it's starting to really give an immature & smelly racist aura to some section of the fandom.