Quote Originally Posted by Sephiroth View Post
Aerith like her name actually is and always was supposed to be.
If it's not in the original game's booklet and it's not in the original game itself, then I'll have to disagree on that. Nothing is more canon than the original game, regardless of how many other books or games have it spelt differently afterwards. Main game, main name.

Honestly still to this day have no idea what anyone was thinking when they opted to switch to Aerith between games. The only evidence of it in the original game is never visible in any way and is no more evidence to it being the "proper" name than it is evidence to Cloud's "proper name" being "Ex-SOLDIER". They say it's a mistranslation because there is no 'th' character in Japan, but what does it matter? They don't say 'Aerith' in Japan anyway!