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tifa and aerith should have killed sephiroth
Kat. 30s. She/Her. A sideblog for my underlining obsession with FF7 that's been growing out of control.
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Advent Children is a great fun film full of fanservice on the surface but if you sit down and try to make it work for Aerith specifically in fic form, it makes you want to run head first into a wall.
#crying throwing up about how the remnants work they're seph but not seph they want jenova but also don't know her#the children effect by geostigma can just. sense jenova's presence#it hurts everything hurts
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-throws playlist at you-
WOE, AERTI PLAYLIST UPON YE
#aerti#I will subject the entire fandom to my questionable taste in music#aerith gainsborough#tifa lockhart#aerith x tifa#Spotify
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Tifa has Aerith’s blood stained ribbon I have no proof of this but it will not stop me from imagining Tifa taking it out when she’s alone and putting it to her lips, pretending it’s still warm and smells like Aerith’s favorite soap.
She’d tie it in her own hair but she’s worried she’ll damage it. To destroy the last piece of Aerith’s she still has—she can’t do it. So she’ll keep it safe or try to at least; it’s hard to keep something precious protected when all you have are battle scarred hands.
She learned that the hard way with Aerith.
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"Hey, we found you."
"I guess you did!"
#THIS!!! THIS IS WHAT I MEANT#THE PARALLELS#TIFA FOUND AERITH IN THE MIST AND THEN SHE LOST IN THIE MIST#GET OUT#AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAa#ff7r spoilers
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(spoilers for FF7 Rebirth Endgame)
I've finished the game and I just have notes right off the bat:
what Rebirth gives us the interpersonal relationships with EACH of the party members, it takes away from the brutality of the OG (Sephiroth bloody path through Shinra, Cloud physically attacking Aerith, Dyne in a manic state saying he wanted to 'reunite' Marlene with her dead mother, rebuilt Nibelheim, even Sephiroth's sword being in Aerith's stomach) and it makes me think that the writers were too scared of just how brutal FF7 was.
The removal of Cloud putting Aerith into the waters at the Forgotten City was a mistake. I have no idea why they did that except maybe they wanted the audience to believe that MAYBE Aerith was alive?
Actually her coming back at all, either as a ghost or a projection of the Lifestream really lessen the impact of her death. In the OG, when Aerith was dead, she was dead. No, message from the grave, no ghosts, no hint of her until her face appeared at the very end. It was final and it was heartbreaking--and again, it makes me think the writers were too scared to deal with that.
What Cloud is seeing in the final scene isn't Aerith. It's either Jenova or Cloud's broken psyche refusing to accept Aerith's death and his failure to stop Sephiroth. Barret and Tifa both being so uncomfortable with how Cloud's acting just proves it to me. And really, if it is Aerith, why is so not reaching out to anyone else. Why just Cloud. Like yes, Main Character, but not Tifa or Nanaki at least? I don't buy it, that's not Aerith.
Speaking of Tifa OH MY GOD between her and Barret, the writers at least knew how to hit us hard with them. Barret openly weeping and putting on his glasses, trying to force himself forward, when he screamed I'LL KILL YOU at Sephiroth.
Tifa being unable to move when called, breaking down, sobbing in the field because Aerith was her best friend. And the last time Tifa saw Aerith, talked to her, was when she lost her in the mist. And remember, Tifa FOUND Aerith in the mist before back in Remake--when Aerith was lost, Cloud may have found her but Tifa was the one to say 'we found you'. And SHE LOST HER.
I understand also that Cid didn't know her long but good God given his reaction when first met Aerith, you'd think he'd muster more than he's shown in the credits.
They REALLY want to hold off Aerith and Zack meeting and talking, huh.
This game series knows how to take the wind out of Sephiroth though like why am I fighting Bizarro Sephiroth of all things in what would be the mid-point of the game. I know they needed a final boss but WAIT a BIT FOR HIM.
In Conclusion @ Sephiroth:
#ff7r spoilers#ff7 rebirth spoilers#final fantasy 7 rebirth spoilers#seriously how many times we gonna have to beat Seph's ass
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I don't often get hit with 'HE WOULD NOT FUCKING SAY THAT' but with Cloud Strife?
I think some of ya'll need to have that megaphoned in your ear, please leave my white boy alone
#justice for my rizzless white boy#he says a lot of crazy shit but zero of it compares to what the fandom does to him#cloud strife
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Looking up something on the FF wiki and ah yes Tifa's Fenrir ring, very cool very--
wait a minute
Barret's what now
whispers oh my god Cloud gave Barret a ring. He gave him a ring that symbolizes himself just like he gave Tifa because Barret is part of his family I'm gonna
#cloud strife#barret wallace#ff7 advent children#WE HEAR ABOUT TIFA'S RING BUT BARRET HAS A RING TOO#CLOUD GAVE HIM A RING#BECAUSE HE DEEPLY CARES ABOUT BARRET ENOUGH TO /DO/ THAT#AND BARRET WEARS IT#PROUDLY#ALONG WITH AERITH'S RIBBON#I'M ON MY KNEES ABOUT THIS#if this is old info I'm sorry I just learned about this and I'm absolutely floored#people ignoring how important Barret is to Cloud when Barret is WEARING CLOUD'S FENRIR SYMBOL#inhales AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
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Thread by @/Sneeby_Bookwrym on twitter
Please do not support mountain dew ffxiv collab.
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AU where Cid helps Ifalna escape Shinra with Aerith and Sephiroth and they grow up in Rocket Town, and become pilots like they're stepdad. Getting to see the world they were constant denied from above. Sephiroth reaching out towards space to understand himself and Aerith traveling through a sky she no longer finds daunting.
Cid Highwind and his two very weird kids.
#aerith gainsborough#ff7r spoilers#cid highwind#sephiroth#hey listen I LIKED the reveal that Cid knew Ifalna#it's neat#don't know how it fits yet but I still think it was a good addition that can be worked with#also Aerith Highwind and Sephiroth Highwind have a nice ring to it.
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Ehrgeiz: God Bless the Ring
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Tifa the suportive gf
#aerith gainsborough#tifa lockhart#aerti#the only reason why Tifa wasn't cheering and losing her mind was because she didn't want to ruin her girlfriend’s ballad
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I just want to point out that Cloud only goes out with Tifa or Aerith on two of the six possible date options
Which implies that for 4/6 dates, Aerith and Tifa are out on their own date, kissing and giggling on the Sky Wheel as god intended.
#aerith gainsborough#tifa lockhart#aerti#folks i give you girlfriends#Also Tifa’s date implies she knew Aerith was going to sing or at least wrote the song#And so that means she DEFINITELY encouraged her to go for it and possibly helped her
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FF7 Or as I like to call it: Barret Wallace and the weird kids and three old men he keeps accidentally adopting.
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You can tell what the ship war/Tifa vs Aerith/Whose the “True” Heroine/Love of FF7 is about because it never includes Barret, despite him being a romance candidate (even IF the OG boiled it down to one big antiblack gay joke), or Yuffie (thankfully because of her age though I shutter to think how she would have been treated if she was an older, viable candidate), or Zack despite his bond with Cloud, or Jessie for that matter. All these are background elements to the ongoing fight over who is the default love interest and thus true love of Cloud.
Which is boiled down to, which one of these women are meant for this man.
It doesn't care that Final Fantasy 7 is a world-spanning story about humanity, genocide, imperialism, and trauma. It ignores that while Cloud is ultimately our main character, it's a story of an entire cast of main characters who are just as important to the ever moving plot as Cloud.
And really, as it insults Tifa and Aerith by trying to suggest one's story is more "important" than the other, it also insults Barret by completely ignoring that his efforts are the instigating factors OF the story and that the running theme of saving the planet? Is because Barret was the first one to scream it in the narrative. It ignores Yuffie's and Red XIII's fight to preserve their dying cultures in a world that actively wants to destroy them for the sake of capitalism. It ignores Cid as someone whose dreams were crushed by capitalism and become so consumed by his pain, he hurt everyone around him. It ignores how Vincent played an active role in Sephiroth's birth and the core corruption of Shinra.
And I think it absolutely misses the theme of FF7 and Cloud in general. Cloud loves everyone. He loves all his friends. If the Remakes and Rebirth did anything, it put on display that there's not one single person that Cloud loves--but all those he has met. Yes, he loves Tifa and loves Aerith and maybe in one or both, he has romantic feelings for them but he clearly loves Barret, Red XIII, Yuffie, Zack, Jessie, Bigs, Wedge, Reeve/Cait, and--as we'll see later--Cid and Vincent.
If any of them died, Cloud would have been devastated. Aerith is special and he mourns her in a specific way because she's AERITH. Not because she's the ONE. SHE'S AERITH. Irreplaceable just like Tifa, just like Barret, just like Yuffie, just like Red XIII, just like Zack, and Cait/Reeve, Cid, and Vincent.
For the last near 30 years, the ship wars have rewrote Cloud's intense love for the people around him as just a heteronormative love story and it's gross.
None of the characters deserve that, but specifically Cloud, Tifa, and Aerith who are so much more than players in a stupid love triangle.
#cloud strife#aerith gainsborough#tifa lockhart#barret wallace#zack fair#yuffie kisaragi#red xiii#reeve tuesti#cait sith#vincent valentine#cid highwind#Cloud Strife fucking LOVES so hard he'd rewrite his memories for these people#I can't believe that's what people are missing between him and Sephiroth either#the reason why he can BEAT Sephiroth is BECAUSE HE LOVES ALL HIS FRIENDS#HE NEEDS THEM#MAN BEAT SEPHIROTH WITH THE POWER OF LOVE#AND YOU JUST ASSUME THE LOVE TRIANGLE IS IMPORTANT HERE?#GET OUT OF MY HOUSE
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I can hate on Rebirth for its flaws any day of the week but I can never truly hate it because it unequivocally gave us on screen proof that not only are Tifa and Aerith best friends but also that they undoubtably love each other.
Like there's no playing around with this like people do with the OG. It's not in subtext or in silent background moments where you see them together. Tifa and Aerith are friends, they care so much for each other that on the brink of death one of the people Tifa imagined calling and reaching out for her was Aerith.
They say, to Cloud and the audience's faces, that they are friends. Aerith was ready to punch that one girl in the face for trying to be catty with Tifa.
I don't EVER wanna hear from this fandom again that Aerith and Tifa do not care about each other or that they would let Cloud of all people get in between them. They were close in the OG and they're close in the Remake. FIGHT ME.
#aerith gainsborough#tifa lockhart#ff7r spoilers#seriously I've had to listen to people saying Tifa did not care about Aerith and was happy she was dead for YEARS#I remember someone commenting on a video of Tifa reacting to Aerith's death that Tifa was pretending to cry over her#As if you need highly detailed graphics to see Tifa brushing Aerith's hair back and then running off in a fit of hysterics#because the grief of her best friend's death is THAT painful#but sure yeah Tifa hated Aerith and Aerith hated Tifa because they both loved Cloud okay so sure sure susre sure#anyway Aerith and Tifa love each other you can read that as platonic or romantic but they LOVE each other#aerti
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let's be honest this is exactly what he was thinking here
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