Maidenofwar
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Aerith has Chapter 2. I'm counting the rooftops scene as well. It's not necessarily about romance it's just scenes involving the girls and Cloud.
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SPOILERS LTD Remake — It's like New Coke except ... no, it's exactly like New Coke
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LNK
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Don't get me wrong, I see where you're coming from. My 40 year old self has a different life experience than my 20 year old self, I just don't see the point in labeling them as different people though. It makes things needlessly complicated imo. It maybe is semantics like Stiggie is saying.
It's also equally as likely that you might respond the same.
Sacky
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just a lot of hate for saying the jenova theory so we are making appreciation tweets cause theres some vile stuff said against him
damn Elon really turned that awful place into such a cesspit. Can't even make random theories anymore without being attacked for nothing. It's quite tame for a theory as well even though I dont believe it myself. Damn, Sucks
Yoru
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To each their own, but I would say quantity doesn't mean quality. I'm happy if people are happy, but imo they did her dirty. Obviously she will have a new role compared to the OG and we'll see more of her in Part 3, but if it was her "last" part, I would be pissed.
Sacky
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its the strangest thing the theory isn't anything anti clerith? i guess its cause he says Aerith is dead which well yeah?
billy22
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Twitter was always a cesspit lol.
made worse now by the metric butt ton of bots and the for you tab pushing absolute crap on you tbh
Maidenofwar
They/Them
The Aerith is Jenova isn't tame I don't think.
why is it not tame? explain
Maidenofwar
They/Them
You want Aerith to be evil?, a villain incarnate?
It pours mockery on what 's meant to be a wholesome ending of Aerith saying goodbye in a field of flowers to the party and the players in her send off game. If true it would ruin a poignant part of the game.
It pours mockery on what 's meant to be a wholesome ending of Aerith saying goodbye in a field of flowers to the party and the players in her send off game. If true it would ruin a poignant part of the game.
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Yoru
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Still not a reason to harass someone. It's not even saying that Aerith is a mad bitch. The point was she wasn't here. You would've told me this at the end of Part 3, I would say "yeah, kind of disrespectful theory" but for now... it's not like we'll not see her again.
I think the theory don't hold too much weight on its own. But I kinda agree Jenova's cell are onto something. I'm not with him when talking about the CGI Aerith during the ending. But the one we see when they're all mourning is creeping me out for real. That's the first thing I thought "Kinda spooky"
So no, the one saying goodbye is our dearly maiden. But i'm pretty sure Jenova will chill and fuck his mind even more with this "Aerith is alive" mindset.
LNK
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Yeah, but that Aerith being Jenova is so far out there for a theory.
That scene is spooky enough, without doing something like that. But hey, technically, anything is possible
Yoru
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My point is : Cloud created a fake Aerith in his mind, like he created a fake Zack persona. It's not Jenova. More like Jenova is using this weird mind palace of his to continue toying with his mind.
Why you could ask ? Simply because Tsundere Sephiroth wants to separate Cloud from the party. He wants everyone else to see Cloud is loosing it/is a fucking insisitive bitch. He want them to doubt Cloud more and more. He failed to kill Tifa because the planet is protecting her. No it's time to provoke another type of separation. For his evil plan to succeed, he needs to stop the real Cloud to come back.
LNK
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That doesn't seem to be what Max is saying though.
Even then, idk if it's Jenova actively doing things within Cloud's mind. As far as I know, outside of Sephiroth, it's his trauma and mako poisoning that is fucking with him mentally.
It is possible they've made it so Jenova is doing more than she did before though
Yoru
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Never said it was Max POV. Just saying to stop the harassement. I'm just telling my own vision of the ending.
When Cloud see Sephiroth out of the blue or this MF tells him Tifa has no scar and Cloud trust him and don't see shit in front of him, I would say it's not too far fetched to think Sephiroth/Jenova cells can do a lot of things in Cloud's brain. Like... making him imagine her lost dear friend (who's speaking with 90% of Remake sentences, except the meteor part. sus.)
It's not Jenova for sure. But the "perfect vision" of her Cloud created to protect himself from breaking. Like he did with Zack kinda.
shady
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Gotta be honest I'm not sure why the Jenova = Aerith theory has got people up in a twist, virtually everyone has misconstrued what Max was actually saying...
He wasn't saying Aerith HERSELF is Jenova, he was saying Jenova/Sephiroth was imitating Aerith after her death, i'm not sure that is a difficult concept to grasp and doesn't make Aerith herself evil?
I'm really confused.
He wasn't saying Aerith HERSELF is Jenova, he was saying Jenova/Sephiroth was imitating Aerith after her death, i'm not sure that is a difficult concept to grasp and doesn't make Aerith herself evil?
I'm really confused.
Yoru
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Well... it's the fucking big villain of the story. The origin of all this mess. So yeah it's maybe tame but... when things go shit it's pretty normal to think of her. But I don't even care, it's not my theory, and someone having a bad take/theory doesn't deserve to be shit on and harassed.
Rin
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I agree with you, hence why I'm saying most people would see it as a tame theory and therefore nothing to get mad about.
Yoru
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Oh my bad friend, didn't understand it like that. Sorry !
Let's be honnest. We know why. It's because it's saying Aerith is dead, that people harrassing someone over a videogame are insecure at minimal, and they're afraid a "big streamer" with an audience is spreading this kind of idea. As if Square Enix was waiting Max ideas to plan what to do next...
And before someone wanna go the whataboutism route : Yes a bad take on Tifa would have pissed the shitty corner of the CloTi fandom too.
LNK
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I know you didn't.
It's definitely possible
That's still pretty far out there, since there's no visual clues that that is what's happening. I do think she's dead though
LNK
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You'd be surprised. A few days ago, someone in here implied just that
GamerSkull
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Aerith’s goodbye in the final cutscene is framed like a genuine goodbye. There would be no reason for Jenova to do that or to “stay behind” like she does.
It’s a dumb theory. That being said, nobody should be harassing Max over it.
It’s a dumb theory. That being said, nobody should be harassing Max over it.
Rin
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Sorry, I'm just catching up on the thread but what exactly are we counting as chapters for both girls? Like scenes with Cloud, specifically? Or just scenes in general?
I do think that overall both girls got the same amount of time, it's just that a majority of Aerith's screentime comes in towards the end while Tifa's screentime is evenly spread out from beginning to end. I think a lot of people wanted more Aerith-centric content that let us peer into her as a character since this was her "farewell" game.
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