Originally Posted by Psychotic With A Hat
It's pretty obvious, to me at least, that Tseng died. After the scene where you talk to him at the entrance of Temple of the Ancients, Aeris cries because he is dead. She wouldn't cry and start talking about how he was the only person who really knew her if he was just injured. And he never appears again in the game, even though it's on disc 1. Reno, a fellow turk who received injuries, appeared later in the game after receiving them and being absent for a while, so why not Tseng? Also, what Elena says in Icicle Inn "But you really got guts doin' my boss in like that!" seems conclusive. 'Doing someone in' means killing them. Square must have changed their mind for plot reasons (Not sending Elena into the North Crater alone?) I suppose.