Quote Originally Posted by Shishikabob View Post
Doesn't the dialogue during the Aerith date in Gold Saucer, should you get her, shows she really only cares for Zack?
no in fact she says she wants to get to know the REAL Cloud because she perceives he's not himself. If anything this proves she was over Zack and ready to move onto Cloud.
Yes, Aeris senses that the real Cloud is hidden, and is trying to draw him out, but no more than that. There is no romantic implication in her statements towards Cloud at any point. Her feellings towards him seem more tied to her mystical nature as an Ancient. She senses the hurt spirit, the shattered soul, and is trying to mend it. During most of the journey, she knows that Cloud is incomplete, and almost all of her dialogue with Cloud is centered on trying to fix that.

Her "wanting to get to know the real Cloud", would, if anything, indicate that she doesn't have feelings for him, and can't, because it isn't the real him. She wants to see the real him, not merely the reflection of Zack that he was. How could she love him for himself when she couldn't even see who he was, but could only see the facade of the man she once loved?

And her comments towards Zack are almost always romantic in nature, including the couple she makes during her date with Cloud.