This isn't really specific to FF7 fandom but at a certain point shipping in general took a definite turn for the worse. Loud extremes forgot the fandom law of "ship and let ship", started conflating shipping with activism and puritan moralism, and started harassing creators and other fans for canon/fandom validation.* Then there's of course the fact that shipping generally looks at every relationship in media through either a sexual or romantic lens, which some people find annoying (especially if coupled with the previous behaviours).
Yeah, that's definitely another thing that more people should re-learn: don't like, don't read. I mean, I can get if something you've read upset you (generic you, lol). I've read plenty of terrible stuff out of sheer curiosity, but instead of going on a moral crusade to have it eradicated, I just closed off the tab and went to read something I like to scrub it from my mind, lol.
Thank you.
so what do square want us to take away from that scene then?
That she likes him romantically but it's different from her love from Zack. Because for Cloud she feels koi but with Zack it's re'nai. So basically she isn't sure how deep her feelings go. Basically as I said the entire purpose of this is to use CA's scene to set up Zerith. Which is great for Zerith.
Problem is that we won't know for 3 plus years It's strange to make this expectation and cruel to clerith fans honestly leaving this ambiguous kinda. I still see it as her being confused but there's still wiggle room and a unexplained difference in dialogue
I would just be shocked, just the same as I was shocked there was a kiss. I totally understand people believing it will happen.
I don't necessarily think it was lazyness couse we did get separate models for their flashback selves. I think it's more so that we as players can't confirm if she does in fact have the scar or not, just like how Cloud is being gaslight into thinking it's not there. It's something specifically made for new players i feel, so they can question if Tifa is indeed real or not.
Exactly my point here. And I don't think it's ambiguous on Cloud's part. But now after years of drumming Aerith loves Cloud, Aerith sees him as koibito, Aerith is fortright they want to suddenly say you know what? You want me to accept she actually isn't sure if it's even a crush? You want to be ambiguous about Aerith's feelings too??
I just wonder why they even tried going with Aerith having feelings now. I get its because of the OG game but maybe we didn't need to keep everything from OG. I felt like they didn't need to take away all of Aerith's future memories and maybe her plot could have been her trying to live normally while also, with her future knowledge, trying to learn more about the cetra? Giving the players more lore about the cetra as we learn it with Aerith. Maybe even if they really wanted showing us more conversations she had with Zack to Tifa that we never got to see in Crisis Core. I just think there's a lot more interesting stuff you could have done with the character?
I don't think they are talking about Aerith wanting to do more in the confession. I think they are confused on what Aeriths storyline was actually about having a dream date and once again making her arc around Cloud. Who in Rebirth has shown he isn't interested in a romantic relationship with her but cherishes her. Unfortunately, Aerith who isn't even the same Aerith as the one we were playing with so who knows what people are meant to feel about that? only learns this at the end of the game and didn't give her much to do in the plot until Temple, for some reason? The real issue was that Resolution scene saying don't fall in love with me. That line just comes off as weird and not the same story because for what Rebirth showed me there is no moment where Aerith should think this?
im not im just confused on why this scene even exists and the fact its a different Aerith means its not even the Rebirth one. Aerith getting closure would have been fine but the writing for the scene is just really bad.
Here is the thing. It's not really the confession that's the issue. It's that whole section with the dream date but also the execution of this is to set up pt. 3. This scene isn't about Aerith, not really. It's a way to set up the narrative for the next part and close her arc with Cloud. That's fine. But Aerith's arc especially in OG wasn't about Cloud. It was about freedom. Her conflicted feelings served to explain Cloud's identity.
We got a lot of that in Rebirth. But the thing is, this arc closed as she accepts her fate as a Cetra in ToA, and here we get the closure on her feelings for Cloud. To me the thing that makes it really bizarre is... who is this Aerith? Does this affect "our" Aerith because if it does not, then I don't really see the point.
