#also this is the start of Aerith’s

[emblazons]

"This Planet's Still A Kid. A Little Kid Sick And Trembling In The Middle Of This Huge Universe. Someone's Gotta Protect It."

The Party // Playable Characters in Final Fantasy VII (Rebirth)

#cloud strife #aerith gainsborough #tifa lockhart #barret wallace #yuffie kisaragi #red xiii #cait sith #my gifs #ffvii gifs #ffvii #userwolfkissed #tuserashes #userlockescoles #useraimz #final fantasy vii #gamingedit #usergif #dailygaming #design forward #gamingnetwork #ffgraphics #ff7 rebirth #final fantasy spoilers #ffvii rebirth spoilers #THIS TOOK SO LONG. BEEN SITTING IN DRAFTS FOR A WEEK #once I started I knew I had to finish it tho lmao #also yes I made another gifset in this style. its the marie x final fantasy special LOL

[anna1819]

“Weird...My stomach’s in knots...”

#ffvii #ffgraphics #aerith gainsborough #zack fair #zerith #in cc Aerith senses sth is wrong as soon as it starts raining #then we see zack dying #in remake it starts raining and then zack appears carrying cloud #but only Aerith seems to notice his presence #and in intergrade it starts raining and then next scene is zack back at the church #do u see the pattern here? #I don't know if it was intentional #the creators have also stated that water represents Aerith #and her connection with the lifestream #but that's just my theory #we still got to wait for rebirth for more answers #*mine

[catboyidia]

omg now we have the yaoi and the yuri version of the rebirth key visual! 🥳 win for the gays AND the lesbians! yippee!!!

#seriously though i love the aerith/tifa version! they look great! #anyways zakkura and aerti canon <3 (jk i swear! but people are using these for cloti vs clerith ship wars and its stupid) #so maybe if i make it obnoxiously gay (like myself) then i can deter the het shippers (not all just the ones that are starting ship wars) #also love that this is being used to fuel ship wars and everyone collectively ignores seph lol #like if this canonizes cloti and zerith somehow (saw ppl actually say that) the what does it mean for seph? sephxhimself canon? sephseph? #(idk how this canonizes any ship tbh especially cloti and zerith cause like… they’ve been canon for like… years…) #im ranting in these tags im so sorry i just think its so stupid but im also seeing it on twitter so like… of course its frustratingly dumb #ff7 #ffvii #final fantasy 7 rebirth #cloud strife #zack fair #aerith gainsborough #tifa lockhart

[justsomeunsurefancat]

ALRIGHT IT'S FINISHED I MADE A CLERITH DRAWING

I love them so much <3

This is probably the most complex thing i've drawn in my entire life. It took me... I think the program said like 16 hours. This originally started as just a doodle to try and draw two people together, since I never do that, then I thought "hey, it'd look cute if I made a little background" then one thing got to the other and... here we are.

It took me a lot to make the lighting and i'm still not 100% pleased with how it turned out, i wanted it to look more... sunsety? i think? but i would've never finished it if I kept overthinking it. Also I'm... happy with the result, it worked hard and I do like it.

#also if you're reading this i'd be very happy if you could reblog it instead of just liking i'd appreciate it a ton #honestly i give myself a bit of extra credit because I did this on my phone and I only started drawing there recently #also ibis paint sucks for making gradients #still a good program though #final fantasy 7 #final fantasy vii #cloud strife #aerith gainsborough #ff7 fanart #ffvii fanart #clerith #cloud x aerith #my art

[sacredflorist]

Thank you @rysingdawn for the adorable icon border, I loooove it 🥰

#also: #i'll start writing the starters tomorrow morning #i'm excited to write aerith again gfdgfd #ooc

[heavenlyascent]

“we need more complex female characters” you couldn’t even handle Tifa and Aerith when they had storylines outside of their romances with Cloud

#you guys have been sanding them down to their palatable versions for over twenty years #for a SHIP #aerith gainsborough #tifa lockhart #as if both aerith and tifa don't exist beyond what they can be for Cloud or Zack #and don't even get me STARTED on how you guys can't handle Lucrecia #also -holds a gun up- if you guys start with the shipping war nonsense at me I will block you :D

[astrxealis]

i love final fantasy so much i might go insane

#⋯ ꒰ა starry thoughts ໒꒱ *·˚ #urgggfhfgfh listening to distant worlds 6 ... battle theme medley. i heard the ff1 and started Crying already oh fuck this #i can listen to cosmo canyon (i loveu red) and then just start cryying it's insane actually. what reason do i have to cry from that #i am Ignoring the #. the uhm. #the eternal wind one bcs i will be uncontrollable (in sobbing) ..... Man! #idk man i missed this :( haven't been self-indulgent w any interests aside from acads for the past months (which is cool but also) !!!!! #ff1 to 16 and then the spin-offs and sequels and prequels and other games i love you all #will always rmbr my super cool adoptive-tito (he is. american LMFAO gay friend of my super cool aunt so he kinda got adopted into the family #when he went w her on vacation here) who is insane w the piano and played. mario and ff songs for us. #aerith's theme.... oughhh....... rufus' welcoming ceremony and esp uh #the battle theme i forgpt the name of atm. Insane! amazing

[icharchivist]

they're so fucking cute 😭😭😭

Cloud having warmed up to her just enough to ask her what she believes in even if he doesn't believe in it. Aerith who still worries and still beats herself down. Cloud cheering her up because he had to deal with her stubborn ass the whole day. Aerith finding the day special because she met him. Cloud threatening her flowers because they make Aerith sad. They're so adorable.

#i don't ship them at all but god i eat their platonic relationship up this is so cute #just like. I love seeing Cloud slowly open up and warm up to the people around him #and it's so fun to see how everyone worm their way to Cloud's heart #and Cloud does from pure apathy to 'yeah ig i'd fight the whole world for you idk' #And for Aerith it's a new start. maybe an answer to her questions. #like why does this weirdo has her ex sword on his fucking back #but clearly she's also just warming up because he's so bullyable (lovingly) #god i love this so much #ichablogging ffviirg

[iridescene]

ALIAS CHANGE/ADDITION : IRIS

You can still call me Iryth if you're used to it :)

#so fun fact... i initially started out w the name iryth pronouncing it in my head as similar to aerith's name from ff #but i decided to let ppl pronounce it however they wanted #everyone went on to pronounce it as eye-rith which sounds like iris and i liked it :> #and iris is also a nice name with a multitude of meanings that i've come to appreciate a lot as well #iriad

[ashorterurl]

I have so many thoughts on ff7 rn

#some of them are: i wish the fandom was better and bigger? its presence is surprisingly small for what youd expect #i dont understand the sephiroth x cloud ship like literally cant understand it #i guess its an enemies to lovers thing but there isnt any? tension? #id accept it with zack bc of their history but idk cloud is a baby next to sephiroth #also every time i look st zack legit tewring up #im learning to play price of freedom and aerith's theme snd they both make me super sad in a good way #i used to dislike aerith bc i didnt like her with cloud. it seems to be that aerith for cloud is kinda idk. motherly? like a caretaker lol #but i started liking her a lot thanks to her dynamic with zack #bc theyre super goofy togethwr #i do like what cloud's name means for aerith tho #bc she's scared of the sky and clouds hide the sky and his name is cloud. poetry #anyway just some late night thought bc ive been playing crisis core all day #literally 7 years after coming into touch with ff7 and i still cry when i look at zack man #makes playing crisis core particularly tiring #millions of typos bc my phone is still kinda new and the keyboard smaller than my previous

[aerithkinfaker]

one of these days I'm going to snap and write an essay on how they butchered both aerith and tifa in the remake

#mikhail.txt #i was watching it with my partner last night and like yeah everyone's character took a hit (barret is on a sliding scale of being a guiding #light in a conga line of nightmarish dialogue abd decisions and being a victim to the games shitty philosophies) #aerith's demeanor is good but the bones of her character are lost in the themes of a game that decided it has a torturous existence (how #dare you like the original game how dare you torture us like this) and also theyre running with her shit writing in crisis core #dont get me started on tifa. i think i will start crying

[kaeyaphile]

........... i’m not crying i promise

#🎮 kayleigh plays crisis core reunion #i didn’t realize i was so close to the end jfc #i have to do a BUNCH of missions and level up my materia a lot more before i go #and also make aerith a better flower cart ofc #but ugh wtaf i’m not ready for this #i immediately started crying and wasn’t able to stop for like 20 minutes lmfao #listen i just have a LOT of feelings re: final fantasy vii and all of its characters okay?

[transpanda-1]

🧵It's such a shame how the fridging trope is so prevalent because we do see the importance of exploring death, the cycle of life, sudden tragedy, etc. in stories. It's a universal truth of reality and it makes sense why it appears. But... god is it hard to care about so many stories when 90% of the time it's a woman who's entire character becomes reduced to the tragedy that she died.

#chirps #Aerith is probably a really well written character but also 99.9% of content depicting her after the fact #characterizes her solely centered around the fact that she died horribly that one time #and the original is probably good! But everyone abuses the trope so badly it's hard sometimes! #you know #Kaede from DR speedran this in her own game at the start she was a proactive entity with her own goals #by the end she was a tragic mommy gf that died to make Shuichi sad because he “loves her” #maybe she's the better example than Aerith suifdhskj

[frangiturastrum]

❛   despite everything, i believe that people are really good at heart.  ❜  ( aerith @ big bro seph!!! )

Blinking owlishly for a moment, Sephiroth allows himself a small smile, soft and fond and tender, the kind that only his sister (for even though they share no blood ties, she is his sister) is allowed to see. Standing next to her as they watch the business of midday Sector 5, he looms like a mostly silent bodyguard, knowing full well that, even if he did not go through with all of Hojo's plans for him, his strength is still enough to deter the Turks from trying to take Aerith away. But, the thought of Turks is far from his mind as he listens to his sisters words. The kindness within her forever staggering him.

Truly, she shone like a light in the darkness. It was no wonder really, why so many of those who lived in Sector 5 loved her so.

Bowing his head a little, his eyes slipped closed as a low hum rumbled out of him. "You are better than I am in that. I wish I could see the good in everyone as you do, but I am afraid I will always be looking over our shoulders, and especially yours." He knew Aerith could fight, but that didn't mean he wanted her to have to, which is why, if anyone came to steal her away to the labs again, he would take care of them quickly, and ideally without her knowing.

"Although," there's a short pause, almost like a cat waiting before pouncing on its prey, "I have found that it is easier to believe in the goodness of people here. Though I have yet to determine if that is because you brighten this sector like a light in the darkness, or if these people are always like this."

Turning to face her fully, he kept a cool mask with a small smile in place, even as he felt the wish to turn his face away, knowing she could read the emotions in his eyes as he, quietly and so softly, asked, "Perhaps you can help me learn to see, to believe, that there is good in peoples hearts?"

#another chance perhaps to make things right. sane / time travel au. #foolsdeath. aerith gainborough. #foolsdeath & big brother sephiroth au. #// he is here to be awkward and protective #// and also kind of poetic and sad apparently??? #// i started writing this and then he took full control??? #// seph wtf

[noxtivagus]

i lov rinoa

#🌙.rambles #[ ffviii. ] #I'M JUST THINKING ABT HER AGAIN #help it's uh 5 pm rn but i got distracted with ffxiv again HAHA #back to ffviii though #i saw a twt post abt how she's more similar to aerith than tifa #n i'm just thinking about rinoa now ehe #magical sorceress c: i love that #while i main tank in ffxiv ( drk especially ) #mostly i still go for classes that are like #magic kinda vibe. though i do enjoy healing n supporting or wtvr #more on the darker side of things is what i personally prefer in vibe #i started out as back mage after all in ffxiv yes n drk is also pretty.... 'emo' #rinoa liking flowers ehe #n she occasionally teases too :] just like me frfr #SHE'S SM CUTER THO WAH #the 'wields dog' is so cute #i'm more of a cat person but YES CUTE ANIMALS #OH WAIT #she has themes i like sm as well. ffviii in general #angel ! n then yk i don't know too much abt ff8 yet but #don't rinoa n squall have some scenes in space ? #n then ff8 with time and destiny stuff . oh my god i've always loved that #N THE MUSIC ! the ost is one of my faves #ff9 is special to me n i have actually finished it #but i think 8 will be my fave when i finally get to playing it. due to preference #OH N GARDEN TOO #please damn it has so much themes i've always loved for years #head in hands #i love final fantasy so much

[mejomonster]

I finished final fantasy vii rebirth and. Some mixed opinions.

The main good points: as a Sequel to original FF7? Its good. The women are all written well (which was a concern considering Kairi and Lunafreya in past games), and everyone was in character just fleshed out more (with 2 slight exceptions). What the game did best was accomplish an open world game, world spanning adventure, stick fairly well to some main highlights from original ff7 (which is what people wanted for ages) and with new stuff thats fun if you like the world, very little wasting of player time (so much better than ff7 remake). It did open world well, pacing well, side quests and mini games well, characters well, combat well, and overall gave the feel of what square enix was maybe Hoping and Wishing to successfully accomplish in a mainline game for years but either hasnt been able to achieve on a technical level or fumbled in the past. (So no time wasting dungeons like ff7 remake, fleshed out open world with stuff you enjoy doing so more than ff15, open world so more than ff13, and combat that feels like things theyve learned and improved on well). How it feels to play? Great, fast paced, no dead time, all enjoyable game you came to play. (With the exception maybe of Cait Siths box mandatory mini game and the aerith in ancient temple magic platforms thing but they both werent too difficult to push through if you dont enjoy them).

The bad? Mostly... if you treat Rebirth as a SEQUEL to original ff7, these arent major issues. They just annoy me as a player of the original ff7 game. Because i know plenty of people will ONLY play ff7 Remake and Rebirth etc, and never know the original characterizations. So 2 characters were slightly unlike their original ff7 selves, and instead more like their Advent Children (and general non ff7 appearances) selves: aerith and sephiroth. Sephiroth's character being NOT like ff7 originals is more irritating personally. Because yeah... i get it. As a sequel to original ff7, this Remake/Rebirth Sephiroth might be from the future (so he is Advent Children esque version of himself), hes had time post losing his way to really get all mysterious and hyperfocus on cloud and be a looming vague pest. But the thing is... in the original ff7 the reason we learn hes used to be a SOLDIER war hero, is so the cast and you are confused why he kills Shinra people. Then you and the casy figure: well cloud remembers sephiroth finding out hes a monster cause of shinra, justifiable for sephiroth to hate shinra. Unflrtunately Sephiroth also decided to hate ALL HUMANS. Then you later find out maybe Jenovas controlling Sephiroth/one with him etc. But the key here is you find out at some point in original ff7 that sephiroths goal is mainly Destroy World because Hes not Human. Rebirth... does not clarify this very important and very BASIC point ever. Maybe it assumes its so basic that as a ff7 fan you should know.. but plenty of new players wont. Rebirth clarifies yes sephiroth may be Jenovas kid... but the whole MOM, im an ancient like Jenova! Oh Jenova isnt an ancient oh well fuck humans anyway! Either way fuck humans ill kill them all! None of those Very basic sephiroth motives are clarified much. I felt Rebirth did good explaining the Gi and the black materia. But to make Sephiroths motives so vague, why he wants to end the world SO VAGUE, why hes in clouds head (the black robes are everywhere but the game HINTS theure sephiroth clones but never actually spells it out eevn though its a BASIC KEY DETAIL). Now... because Rebirth is a sequel, it makes sense... if hes Advent Children Sephiroth he already knows he isnt an ancient, knows hes Jenovas kid, knows he wants to fuck with Cloud specifically now and the world generally but not necessarily so singlemindedly desperate to just kill all humans. So yes, Sephiroth is in character for his future self... but i feel like even with him less SINGLE MINDED and freshly with Jenova, clarifying some basics of his Original old timeline motives... would be helpful to new fans. So it annoyed me. I think the biggest Not Good writing decision in Rebirth was to never fucking clarify Sephiroths original basic goal: im not human like mom, hate humans, kill world. I suspect the writers either thought players KNEW so hinted instead of being on the nose (but to new players theyll just be CONFUSED), or they plan to explain those basic things in game 3. Which seems stupid to me and shouldve been explained earlier.

And Aerith. As a sequel? She remembered the other timeline which explained some moments she was calmer than original ff7. She forgot, then toward the end of Rebirth she seems to have remembered the other timeline again and that she needs to die and X happens etc. So her being calmer based on the plot they wrote for Rebirth? Makes sense. However... i deeply miss her Original FF7 personality where as an Ancient she freaks out a bit LIKE sephiroth, paralleling him, that shes not human, a freak, that it all rests on her as only one ancient left. Their overwhelm parallels each other. Aerith is more scared in original ff7 of being the only ancient, of what it means, of finding out more. That fear is slightly there in Rebirth but WAY LESS. its only a little in cosmo canyon and almost gone in the Ancient Temple. In ff7 expanded universe theyve changed her character over time to a calmer wiser goddess type like in Advent Children, and so yes in Rebirth when she remembers the alrernate timeline it makes sense she'd be calmer like her future self. However... i miss original ff7 aerith. I miss her initial shock, loneliness, fear of the weight on her shoulders, not being sure what to do. Her and Sephiroth, because of Rebirth writing them to know more, act more like their future selves and so. While it is in character and logical to the Rebirth plot. Its also sad to me that anyone who only plays Remake and Rebirth simply wont see what they were like WHEN these revelations were brand new shocks to them, forcing them to react and grow and fear. I dont think Aerith is written bad, i just think because this game is in reality is a Sequel im just personally mourning that it didnt have that as much of the original Aerith's personality who was afraid and discovering. Mostly her Rebirth personality is similar to original ff7s. But in some high tension moments shes way calmer and wiser than in the original. I miss getting to see some of that before to after character growth.

Oh and. The aerith dies scene. Does it make sense in context of Rebirth written as a sequel? Sure. Is it impactful? Not as much as the original. In Rebirth, theres a scene where Cloud is losing control and listening to Sephiroth and attacks Tifa, causing Tifa to fall into mako. That scene is high stakes and emotional and lands WELL. Later in Rebirth, when Aerith actually dies, Cloud has not lost control and isnt the one who killed her. Its fine, as a sequel to ff7 i get the choice to make him able to stop himself from hurting her. But it does make the scene less impactful: now cloud will NOT be blaming himself for her death, will not be struggling with the guilt and fear, and will not be as terrified of losing control again. Since he wasnt the one who attacked her. And since he saw her ghost/something post death, hes not even sad or grieving her. He thinks shes fine. These 2 things will result in a WILDLY DIFFERENT cloud moving forward than the original ff7 one who very much was distraught and horrified he did that. So like... as a sequel its fine these changes were made. But death wise... i wouldve prefered like, cloud drops her from up high qhile struggling with whispers, or doesnt get to her in time and sephiroth stabs her when shes too far away. The way Rebirth did it, cloud was near her, she gets stabbed anyway. It seemed to me almost like the writing was trying to vaguely or softly kill her, like somehow making it vague would make it hurt less. Yeah it did hurt less... but id rather if a character i love dies that its a Worthy Scene for them to die in. A strong meaningful scene that makes me cry, that felt like the loss it is. The Rebirth scene... couldve done its plot as intended and just make Cloud farther away or something and it wouldve been better to me. Maybe the writing point was Cloud thinks its fine, and its still not, and he cant even feel distaught because he cant tell if she died or if things are fine? Thats the only angle i can see where maybe the death scene did what the writers wanted? Anyway. Aeriths moms death made me sob, Aeriths death did not. It is what it is. I feel like Tifa, crying in my heart off screen, the game acting like Cloud like its fine and it looks fine to him but im confused like Tifa aa to why hes (the game) treating it that way. Lol.

Overall? Um 4/5. 8/10? Really solid square enix game, Amazing as far as final fantasy 7 SEQUELS go. It has one main weak spot in treating Sephiroth fully mysterious when a few clarifying details could help the game stand on its own Better (and make Sephiroth a stronger enemy character instead of a vaguer one). The other weak spots are more my personal preference and mourning the parts of ff7 original i miss and had wished were in this, but as this is a Sequel in a parallel timeline i dont feel the parts effect Rebirth on its own merit. It IS the best Square Enix game ive played in ages, at least since Final Fantasy X or XII. I thought it was better than FF13, FF15, definitely better than ff7 remake (i hate time wasting dungeons and bad pacing its a dealbreaker), and than kh3 (although kh3 was quite good for a kh sequel). I get to play FF16 next, which will hopefully be as good as Rebirth or better! Since its also on the PS5 and clearly from Rebirth, the square enix main team can do excellent combat, open world, level design, mini games, side quests, and good pacing now. So i'll just have to see if ff16's story is better. And i am guessing it hopefully will be, since Rebirth as an ff7 sequel has some weirdness to its plot quite typical of ff7 extended universe stories like Crisis Core and Dirge of Cerberus. Whereas ff16 is a brand new plot, so they have nothing preventing them from a tight excellent written story except themselves. I am curious how BIG ff16s world will be though. Because ff7 Rebirths world was MASSIVE and very full of stuff, tons of mini games, cool stuff to find or do or little character side quests. If ff16 also takes me 60 hours to beat the main story its gonna be thw longest final fantasy main title ive ever played.

Rebirth is very replayable if you enjoyed it. I will probably replay ff7 original soon.

#final fantasy vii rebirth #ff7r #lb #rant #oh and shipping discourse lol: if you ship tifa x aerith? GREAT TIME #tifa mourns aerith more than cloud does. tifa aerith ARE IN LOVE. great time for me as an aerti fan and ot4 fan #i do think in theory the writers had aerith x cloud scenes more in Rebirth since aerith dies at the end. and predict game 3 will have #more tifa x cloud scenes. so itll be even by the end. i think everything was in character tho tbh #(in my opinion anyway) #like. aerith x tifa x cloud x zack i ship and they clearly all CARE for each other. zack loves aerith but also saved cloud #when aerith likes cloud. zack is big enough to be happy for aerith and want her to have what SHE wants. #cloud loved zack and was so fucked emotionally when zack died he convinced himself he WAS zack. tifas his childhood crush. aerith likes him #and he gradually does like her back too. (clouds very not interested in crushes tho tbh. hed happilt be in ot3 with #tifa and aerith or ot4 with zack or ot3 with barret too if they just told him to be) #and tifa loves cloud but wisely isnt sure how he feels OR whats going on mentally with him. and is focusing on building trust #that cloud will communicate with her BEFORE getting romantic (shes wise we should all copy her). and she loves aerith. which is goof #cause cloud isnt giving aerith some care she Needs. but Tifa always does give aerith that support. #tifa knows aerith likes cloud. so tifa simply is likinv her 2 crushes (happy to be in an ot3 if aerith and cloud would start it) #but tifas shy and slow going ans values friends MORE so shes not making any major moves until she knows the other 2 aerith and cloud #are emotionally stable (and theyre lol not) #and now shes grieving aerith so :/. my point is: all the romance is written very in character #very similar to original ff7. and if ur a tifa AND aerith as characters fan like me? #its really NICE to have 2 main woman leads in a game (with romance even) who are full characters ON THEIR OWN #and really well written and with relationships outside of cloud. (again... after lunafreya and kairi #i was worried tifa or aerith as love interests might get written BAD or flat or destroyed writing wise #by some shitty square enix writer *cough* who tends to butcher woman characters if theyre love interests) #so im super glad i could just enjoy tifa and aerith #also as a Non romance lover. i enjoyed that Rebirth focused HEAVY on friends but had very little actual romance #flirting yeah sure. but aerith and tifa never even kissed cloud in my playthrough (yay for me) #their crushes are just side details they mention to be direct and communicate (wise of them) but the romance isnt the main point