Aeris

[Chris]

Welcome to you too

[Crop]

Thanks for the welcome everyone! Glad i wasnt the only one who found that part sad.

[Sky 7000 2000]

First of all, Welcome! I haven't been here that long myself. Woo for the Noobz! Or whatever they say...........Anyways, Aeris death ticked me RIGHT off! I got her on my team and I never took her off. I trained her so hard. She was the BEST on my team. Then what, she goes and DIES! WTF! Needless to say, I didn't play it for a whole week. Then I got over her death and decided that Red X was much cooler anyways. *grumbleStupidAerisgrumble* Besides, once you start a game you have to finish. The game was calling me and I have the box to prove it. Yes, it does talk. Don't look at me like that. You're just jealous cause you can't hear the voices

[Sasquatch]

I didn't givvadamn, to tell you the truth. I had already known about it for a long time (how old is FF7? I got it like three years ago), I just didn't know when it was gonna happen. Plus, it's not like she had her own special abilities compared to any other characters (except limit breaks), so it wasn't that much of a loss. Oh boo hoo, I lost a weak, insignificant character?

This sounds rude. Yeah. Sorry, don't mean it to be, she just never made too much of a difference to me.

[Nii]

Why didn't they just give her a pheonix down to bring her back to life?

[Crop]

Why didn't they just give her a pheonix down to bring her back to life?

omg that is EXACTLY what me and my brother always say!

[Nova Briar]

Welcome to the forums from one noob to another. ^.^

Anyways, Aeris death ticked me RIGHT off! I got her on my team and I never took her off. I trained her so hard. She was the BEST on my team. Then what, she goes and DIES! WTF!

Hah...I can laugh because I did the same thing, training her and ignoring my other characters only to have her killed off just like that. I wasn't sad when Aeris died, I was angry. But the next time I played it through, I just ignored her scrawny butt and trained up Red XII/Vincent in her place. Experience is the best teacher.

[Ultima Shadow]

Why didn't they just give her a pheonix down to bring her back to life?

Because you don't actually revive characters with Pheonix Downs. When a characters HP is 0 in a battle, they are not actually dead. They are just KOed. A pheonix down won't work on someone who really is "dead".

[meowwl]

Aeris always annoyed me..I kept wondering how the hell a 22 year old city girl who sold flowers in the rough neighborhoods was such a freaking ditzy wimp, let alone that innocent..being a city gal myself, I just don't get it. I kinda thought that she was going to die anyway because she went off alone to pray for holy..I assumed that obtaining such power would exact a price. I liked the swiftness of her death..nothing drawn out or lingering about it, one swift slice, through the descending aorta..If she were real, She'd have bled out internally in seconds..not even enough time for pain to get through the shock. If I had to pick a way to go, that would be it.

[Squall of SeeD]

Because you don't actually revive characters with Pheonix Downs. When a characters HP is 0 in a battle, they are not actually dead. They are just KOed. A pheonix down won't work on someone who really is "dead".

There's also the fact that Phoenix Downs are part of battle mechanics and battle physics, which aren't part of the plot and cutscene physics.

[Crop]

Aeris always annoyed me..I kept wondering how the hell a 22 year old city girl who sold flowers in the rough neighborhoods was such a freaking ditzy wimp, let alone that innocent..being a city gal myself, I just don't get it. I kinda thought that she was going to die anyway because she went off alone to pray for holy..I assumed that obtaining such power would exact a price. I liked the swiftness of her death..nothing drawn out or lingering about it, one swift slice, through the descending aorta..If she were real, She'd have bled out internally in seconds..not even enough time for pain to get through the shock. If I had to pick a way to go, that would be it.

Says the guy with a sephy avatar! lol

[Julia Heartilly]

As for me, someone already told me she was gonna die, so that part was ruined for me. But if they redo it in AC, I hope it has some blood this time.

[Nova Briar]

Aeris always annoyed me..I kept wondering how the hell a 22 year old city girl who sold flowers in the rough neighborhoods was such a freaking ditzy wimp, let alone that innocent..being a city gal myself, I just don't get it.

I'll concede that Aeris had a pretty "unlikely" personality...but some people really do turn out like that. My sister and I grew up in a rough neighborhood (yay for the slums! ) and she, to this day, is both naive and rather defenseless. It's weird, but there's your real-life example...not just video-game fiction.

As for me, someone already told me she was gonna die, so that part was ruined for me. But if they redo it in AC, I hope it has some blood this time.

If they've got brains they will...no one gets stabbed through the stomach and doesn't bleed, unless they don't have blood in the first place. But they might not show a close-up of Aeris' dead body in AC, either...the only shots I've seen (in trailers) are from a distance.

[~Tenderness~]

I don't see the big deal about her dying after you've trained her and why she should be ignored the next time through. Her skills can be just as useful they were the first time and it's easy enough to have characters on a rotation system so that each character is used on disc and so they learn a few new skills enough to replace Aerith without having much trouble in fights. The only way I can see it being a big deal is if you use the exact same three characters for the entire game in which case it's not just a big deal with Aeris but with the other remaining characters apart from the chosen three. Personally I don't use the exact same three characters from start to finish, on disc one I use Aerith/Tifa/Cloud then Cloud/Tifa/Cid or Yuffie and on discs two and three Cloud/Cid/Tifa, Cloud/Cid/Yuffie or Cloud/Tifa/Yuffie

As for her being ditzy she was one of the most intelligent characters in the game, it was she who figured out a way to rescue Tifa from Don Corneo's, it was she who figured out what Sephiroth's plans were in the temple of the ancients and it was she who figured out what she had to do in order to do her part to help the planet. Also just because Aerith sometimes had an optimistic friendly exuberant personality doesn't mean that she wasn't street smart. Also such personality traits do not mean she was completely innocent. She was street smart enough to know what Don Corneo's places were, enough to bargain with traders such as the time she bargained with and convinced a man in Wall Market to make a dress for Cloud and enough to receive good money for her flowers in Wall Market. She's referred to in the game as a good business woman and her business talent is again commented on in Itadaki Street Special, I heard that Tifa a fellow business woman says that Aerith has a knack for making profits

She was also very brave at times such as the time she gave herself up to protect Marlene and when she followed her destiny by praying for Holy.

I kind of find it sad that if you're kind, friendly or optimistic as Aerith was or indeed as I am and others that I know are you get thought of as stupid

[Weimar Pluto Knight VII]

That was a great essay, Tenderness.

Yeah, Aeris was intelligent as well as very kind.

As for her death, it did bother me when I was much younger. I was paging through my official guide, and noticed a pic of Aeris with a sword through her, and a statement on the next page: "Now that Aeris is dead. . ." So, I saw it coming after I reached a certain point in the game. I sort of cried, but the effect was sort of elevated a bit since I change names to incorporate myself into the game. I had a crush on a classmate named Danielle at the time, so it was really sad to see her die and me saying those things about her. I still beat the game though--wait, I can't remember if I was able to beat Sephiroth, though. I went back at again once or twice, changing the names around now that I knew about Tifa and Cloud, and kicked Sephiroth's butt.