The Ending - Some Questions (spoilers)

[One winged angel of death]

i felt three emotions sad lonely happy and confused... wow i wounder by then how old nanaki's children are?

[SetsuntaMew]

I hear they are remaking the ending in AC?

No, no, no! I like it the way it is! I think it really was a perfect ending for the game; it allowed the person playing it to imagine what happened afterwards. I like that.

[One winged angel of death]

it was okay..i still wish it ended differently..

[BudSoda02]

Geez... Don't you remember Bunahegan (Nanaki's Dad) saying that when something (trees, humans, dogs, animals, etc.) 'dies' they return to the life stream from which their souls 'come from'. It's a big circle. Remember? (This is just the details) If something hurts the process, (such as the Mako reactors) the planet will simply 'split' fall & die. He let the party hear the screams of pain the planet was having. Remember now? Geez you should actually pay ATTENTION to the story.
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[Starcrest]

jeez, dont get hostile now...not everyone pays THAT close attention to a video game, that's just...sad. yes i remember all that, but what's ur point? if something dies it's SPIRIT goes back into the lifestream, and can't come back the same way

[Cloud Strife fanatic]

Geez... Don't you remember Bunahegan (Nanaki's Dad) saying that when something (trees, humans, dogs, animals, etc.) 'dies' they return to the life stream from which their souls 'come from'. It's a big circle. Remember? (This is just the details) If something hurts the process, (such as the Mako reactors) the planet will simply 'split' fall & die. He let the party hear the screams of pain the planet was having. Remember now? Geez you should actually pay ATTENTION to the story.
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Bughenhagen is his grandfather not his father,

[Liam]

i felt three emotions sad lonely happy and confused... wow i wounder by then how old nanaki's children are?

THATS 4 MEMORIES LOL :rolleyes2

crap NOT MEMORIES (*EMOTIONS*) im as dum as others here

EDIT: Others don't double post, so use the edit button next time. -Murder

[BudSoda02]

Sorry I was tired & angry that day so I made the misprint about Nanaki's Grandfather. Nanaki's dad is in the Cave, at the exit anyway. He was a great protector of Cosmo Canyon from the barbaric tribes & ended up getting permanently petrified, uncurable; but is apperently still alive as he cried for Nanaki, which is really weird. Although that world is full of mysterious things...
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[Raistlin]

Holy didn't stop Meteor, it failed. In its failure, lifestream emerged from the planet and is actually what stopped Meteor. I think the image of Aerith as the end is supposed to show that at that point it was Aerith's will, inside the lifestream, that made it consciously emerge to save the planet and those living on it. Personally, I thought the ending was incomplete and unsatisfactory.

Holy did not fail. Holy was stopping Meteor, however it was much too close to the Planet, and the resulting battle was going to end up destroying much of the Planet anyway. Therefor, the Lifestream was called to protect the Planet and help destroy Meteor without killing everyone in the process.

[DelightfulSpekkio442]

What makes me laugh is how people can't agree on a name for the last of the Ancients. She is alternately called Aeris, Aerith and Aries in this thread alone. I understand that she's got different names in different games, but does anyone else realize the significance of the name Aeris? It's Latin for "air" or "atmosphere". Since there's a connection in the game between white/Holy magic and air (i.e. "Breath of the Earth", "Healing Wind"), I myself prefer to call her by this name. Aerith sounds like Caesar lisping. Aries is a ram.

Getting to the point...

did u not see that his body just turned into spirit energy and did not actually disappear. this leads one to beleive that he didnt die but retreat to the lifestream.

Doesn't Bugenhagen or someone say that when we die we all return to/become the Lifestream? That's partly why I think Aeris' face comes back in the end - she is part of the Lifestream.

Is the little girl in Kalm Marlene, and why does she say "the flower girl"?

Notice that just before this happens, you hear the first three notes of Aeris' theme, which gradually blends into the rest of the music. Marlene senses Aeris' presence somehow.

~MJE~

[Raistlin]

Aeris is the game spelling, Aries is by people who can't spell, and Aerith is for people who prefer the alleged Japanese version.

Doesn't Bugenhagen or someone say that when we die we all return to/become the Lifestream? That's partly why I think Aeris' face comes back in the end - she is part of the Lifestream.

Yay, someone with sense.
Yes, Sephiroth blew apart into "spirit energy." This, at least to me, seemed to signify him returning to the Lifestream.

[UltimaLimit]

did u not see that his body just turned into spirit energy and did not actually disappear. this leads one to beleive that he didnt die but retreat to the lifestream.

Agreed. Aeris would be in a similar state. I imagine it would be something like this:

Sephiroth: "Oww... well, at least I'm still alive inside the Lifestream."
Aeris: "Hey asshole, remember me?" *splits his skull from behind w/ staff*
Sephiroth: "...damn... now I have no hope in hell of keeping the Lifestream from stopping my Meteor..." *dies again*

SEPHIROTH ---> :chop: <--- AERIS

Well, so to speak. Technically, neither of them have bodies, but you get my idea. Aeris would be at home in the Lifestream, and Seph would be a new arrival, fresh from getting his multi-segmented ass kicked, and thus no match from Aeris on her "home turf". After defeating his will, she'd direct the Lifestream to help Holy. Go Cetra!

[Raistlin]

Where did you guys get this nonsense about Sephiroth "retreating into the Lifestream?" The last fight with Cloud was in the Lifestream, and when Sephiroth lost, he blew apart in a zillion pieces, and was reabsorbed back into the Lifestream to continue the natural life cycle.

[Wuggly Blight]

well, first up, Aerith is ment to be her name, hence why she is called that in kingdom hearts, they had a bad translation on her name first time around.
Also, Sephiroth can not return to the lifestream, as the Bug man says in cosmo canyon evil souls can not return to the lifestream. So hes gone, and not coming back, ever.

The ending itself is well done to me, as people can inturpret it. My view is that Holy acted to late, metor was already colliding with the planet and so, as Red XIII says its having the opposite effect. I think Marline goes to the window on cue of the lifestream because she can fell Aries/th, as I think it was her who summoned the lifestream to aid Holy from the promised land.

Oh, and Sephiroth is dead, forever, he did not retreat and he cant come back, ever.

[Raistlin]

evil souls can not return to the lifestream.

Load of baloney. ALL souls return to the Lifestream when the body dies.

So hes gone, and not coming back, ever.

Oh, I agree that he's dead. But his lifeforce returned to the Lifestream.