Quote Originally Posted by ReloadPsi View Post
I realise you say the ghost can appear with Aeris around, but then she has lines of dialogue which she speaks as part of the team after (SPOILER)she gulps it down.

I guess I'm willing to believe it was another mistake. There's some interesting information on FF7 Citadel about what may have truly been intended for Aeris, such as... well, I'll wrap it in spoiler tags in case you wanna read it all yourself. (SPOILER)Thanks to software used to decompile the game's files, evidence seems to suggest that Aeris' abrupt dismissal from the land of the living was not supposed to occur until the middle of disc 2 after the event in which Cloud gives the Black Materia to Sephiroth for the second time. Obviously, were this even the case, this idea was cancelled pretty early on.
Actually, Aeris has dialogue even after (SPOILER)Cloud gives the Black Materia to Sephiroth. If you cheat and put Aeris to your party after Disc 1, she has one line after (SPOILER)the Huge Materia battle in Fort Condor. When the guy inside the fortress gives you the Huge Materia, the party members react in some way, and if Aeris is in your party, she reacts by saying "What's this?" It's even funnier when you (SPOILER)revisit the Forgotten Capital with Aeris hacked to your party. The other party members, even Aeris if she's a party member, walk out of Cloud and look at the water reflection about Aeris dying.