Okay but again why is she still working out things if this is Aerith with knowledge of the future right? If she knows the future shouldn't she know this shouldn't be a problem to warn about? Does Aerith just forever stay in conflicted feelings forever and never figure it out? They apparently then introduced these conflicted feelings that she doesn't solve ever. The end? Also her dialogue in the dream date is still uncertain "I wonder what kind of like this is" it implies she is still thinking about it even then.
You see where I am coming from?
I'm not saying you don't make sense. You do make a lot of sense. It's these scenes that don't quite fit. Like pieces might still be missing and we get all of the picture in Pt. 3.
Also CT and ZA canon and they took away so many CA moments from OG supposedly to make things clearer.So why even bring back the uncertainty of are they friends or not? If the answer is they're friends but she has feelings and is confused they really could just say that.
This just leads me to believe they want us to view it as uncertain for the conflict to work. That makes sense but it's still just so misleading and weird to do it this way.
And yeah I think it makes sense if she comes before the point of dream date Aerith who is still confused but maybe less confused I don't know. But then the question being who the heck is dream date Aerith? Maybe these are Aerith's remnants or reflections in different alternative realities in the LS and that's why they don't make any sense with the current plot.
I really hope they do explain this at some point because it really is just so weird to constantly do this with Aerith.
You know, just because you know something doesn't mean you can't feel anything.
If I could see into the future and know that my real crush is actually in love with someone else, or that I'll die before we can even talk about this thing, that doesn't negate the fact that I'm feeling things RIGHT NOW.
Life isn't black and white, and neither are people. I think the devs are just showing that she's human. She may become a "goddess" in the future, but that doesn't stop her from longing for love.
And again, we don't really know if this Aerith is real or not, if she's just a goofy vision of LS, if Cloud is imagining things. We simply don't know. Cloud isn't a reliable narrator. The two weird Aerith's scenes take place during his "dreams" !
All this to say, we don't even know if this Aerith knows about Zack. Does she know that there's a future where the group defied "fate" and Zack escaped his fatal destiny? Does the Church Aerith know? There are too many uncertainties to draw a conclusion.
It's all very confusing because so is she. She simply doesn't know. She's dying, but she doesn't want to. Zack is gone and she wants him back. She finds a new family, but she doesn't really know what it's like to have one. I think the devs just show that she's a lonely girl who doesn't know anything about the world. A world she's destined to save. That's the tragedy and irony of the situation. That's why the sky scared her, and why she was comfortable under her Midgar pizza. She just wants to live her life with the people she loves.
In the end it's confusing because that's what they want to do with this love. They know there are Clerith fans. Maybe you'd be quite willing to accept total rejection. But not everyone is. It's not the best solution, but it's the one they've found to keep everyone happy. Yes, this couple will never be canon, but it's nevertheless complex and not devoid of deep feelings. "They're not friends. But they're not lovers"
" lmao so I mean, you're not alone in thinking it makes no sense and that it's kind of out of place narratively--because it is. I'm still unsure of Nojima's reasoning for including it when he got so much internal pushback on it.
