Aeris was supposed to live.

[Dr.Blue]

This is my first time here. So being the law abiding n00b I am, I went to the “New Posters” thread, and read this “Squall of SeeD’s” post about how Aeris was never intended to live, or to be revived.
Well Squall is wrong, because she was intended to live. And Tifa, was to have never existed.

"Actually, we only had Aerith at the beginning, and Tifa did not exist. But on a Sunday evening, I phoned the director Mr. Kitase and suggested 'Let's kill Aerith and put in Tifa' (laughs). So now we have two heroines, and we never had an event where one of them dies." ~Character designer and the story writer of FFVII, Nomura Tetsuya

From-Final Fantasy VII Kaitai Shinsho

It’s virtually a technicality, but it’s there in writing. She WAS intended to live.

[Kawaii Ryûkishi]

It was an especially early stage of the story's development. If we go by what you're saying, then every character who ever died in any story was "supposed to live" because there were points in time when the authors hadn't thought of killing them off yet.

[Roxula]

Aeris was suppose to die I mean look how fast she leveled up she was already level 99 once she died on my game

[TheAbominatrix]

By this logic, Aerith was never even supposed to exist, because there was a time when no one had thought her up yet.

[The Jamie Star Scenario]

If Aeris was supposed to live they really messed up the ending to disc 1.

[ZeZipster]

It's true. Why do you think Aerith has her final limit break? It's impossible to get her to that level before she dies.

[Dr.Blue]

It was an especially early stage of the story's development. If we go by what you're saying, then every character who ever died in any story was "supposed to live" because there were points in time when the authors hadn't thought of killing them off yet.

This is different though, and you know it is.
They had allready decided the basic plot for FFVII, how it was going to play out, what the main parts were, ect. It was after this, that they thought of killing Aeris's firstly just joking around.

[TheAbominatrix]

Where does it say they'd already decided the plot, and things would remain the same?

[-N-]

I thought they decided the plot when they released the game.

[Vernie]

It does not really matter if she was intended to die in the first place or not. That's how it happened in the story, and if it didn't, then the story would be really screwed up.

[nik0tine]

Oops.

[boys from the dwarf]

aeris was supposed to doe or else she wouldnt be able to do those things near the end of the game in the final battle.im glad aeris died.

[Squall of SeeD]

You clearly don't understand the concept of a draft, Dr. Blue. A first draft does not count as the final draft. A multitude of ideas can be conceived, introduced, and acted upon between a first draft and a final draft. The final product reflects the ultimatite intentions of the concepts conceived and implemented. Aerith was intended to die and remain dead. That was the ultimate intention.

[Dr.Blue]

You clearly don't understand the concept of a draft, Dr. Blue. A first draft does not count as the final draft. A multitude of ideas can be conceived, introduced, and acted upon between a first draft and a final draft. The final product reflects the ultimatite intentions of the concepts conceived and implemented. Aerith was intended to die and remain dead. That was the ultimate intention.

Oh, I understand the concept of drafts my friend. And I know there were proubably other characters who existed, and were cut for various reasons. However, It is true, even if it was earlier in the drafting period. There was a time when Aeris was meant to live. Which is all I'm saying.

And to the people who posted earlier, do you really think that they didn't have a pretty good idea of what the story was going to be when they decided they were going to make FFVII?

[The Jamie Star Scenario]

And to the people who posted earlier, do you really think that they didn't have a pretty good idea of what the story was going to be when they decided they were going to make FFVII?

Yes. Generally they go like this:
Everyone: "OH NOES SOMETHING BAD IS HAPPENEDING, WHAT DO WE DO?"
Hero/Heroine: "I WILL SAVE THE WORLD!"

See I could write a FF.