SPOILERS LTD Remake — It's like New Coke except ... no, it's exactly like New Coke

LNK

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Graymouse said:
It is bad convoluted writing from the devs. There is no reason why these multiple AUs should exist.

This is what happens when you let the writter from KH help write on an already very straight forward story.
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How is it convoluted though?

Multiple AUs shouldn't exist? That's odd since they've always existed
 
Graymouse

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Saw another ridiculous post on the internets about C/A because the achievement icon for Chapter 14 shows Areith and Cloud holding hands back to back like in the final scenes of the game that means they are the canon couple. Why else would SE make the icon for the achievement!
 
Yoru

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Graymouse said:
Saw another ridiculous post on the internets about C/A because the achievement icon for Chapter 14 shows Areith and Cloud holding hands back to back like in the final scenes of the game that means they are the canon couple. Why else would SE make the icon for the achievement!
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I stopped paying attention to be honest. I won't last 4 years reading and correcting their bullshit. Let them be delulu, they'll learn the hard truth when Part 3 comes.
 
Hix

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No Promises to Keep being some bizarre, ill-placed love ballad written spur of the moment for Cloud alone was always narratively inconsistent in the extreme. We've said here for some time that it needed to be interpreted in light of her character as presented in the games. In Rebirth for instance, before the song Aerith openly admits to still being in love with Zack and after the song is shown to still be trying to shoehorn Cloud into the Zack shaped hole in her heart - right up until the end - before admitting he's just not a fit. Where's the narrative consistency here?

But now we know for definite. NPTK is a song not about any specific individuals, but all the individuals and her entire life and feelings and experiences. The 2 weeks she knew Cloud surely were special, but ultimately were flash in the pan compared to the rest of the 21 years of her existence. The people she knew, the family she had, the life of a Cetra. Everything in this song.

I guess what I'm saying here is, there's so much to Aerith. Trying to force every little thing she does to be validation of CA is an assassination on the character that has been intricately woven by the devs to be far, far more complex than just one exceedingly nuanced relationship. It's why I struggle with the chutzpah of Cleriths who continually accuse those who cannot get on board with the CA ship, through sheer inability to deny the story as presented, of "hating Aerith" - yet it is by virtue of forcing her into the role of Tifa, that of Cloud's own closest "personal connection", that the biggest hatred of Aerith, the real Aerith, shows itself in the fandom.

In any case, now the pieces can fit together. Aerith sings her song for, and about, everyone she cares for ahead of making the ultimate sacrifice. Remove that and what are you left with? Some awkward love confession that Cloud doesn't reciprocate? A confusing mishmash of signals given her growing realization of her fondness for Zack and Cloud's growing realization that Zack and Aerith are a thing? Just awkward, uncomfortable and overly dramatc. I'm glad we can listen to this song now and enjoy it as part of the beautiful story the developers have created for us.
 
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thetriplerhyme

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okay I was wrong it was a theme song as Remake's hallow is about Cloud, Rebirth is about Aerith's and her feelings for everyone. I guess now I understand that the last part

Take my hand and believe
We can be together evermore

Is a plea of wanting to spend more time to everyone. Its sweet I appreciate it and Nojima thank you!
 
Maidenofwar

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Some people just want to take every little thing CA has away from them I guess. Oh well. Can't have any happiness in this house. The amount of glee, crowing, etc, vindication of people's joy being taken away from them on twitter is going to suck.
 
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Yoru

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Maidenofwar said:
Some people just want to take every little thing CA has away from them I guess. Oh well. Can't have any happiness in this house.
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Maybe because it's not a thing from the start. Maybe because Aerith as a character is much more than just her relationship with Cloud. And yes, we can't say the same with Tifa. Because as a character, she is written with a relation with Cloud first and foremost.

This is not about Love Triangle War. You (i'm not aiming you, just the extreme CAs) made a headcanon too much of a deal. This is just not how these characters have been written. Ever.

You have all the rights in the world to cherish characters differently. But you can't impose something the creator is obviously "against".

Aerith is a fantastic character. Because she's much more than just a love interest. She's a sunshine and at the end of the journey, literally a Goddess. The embodiment of the planet herself.

That's how she's been written. That's her role in this story. Nothing more, nothing less.
 
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