Time for a new reveal!

Favourite Fan Theory/Rumour
First we have the losers:
Vincent is Sephy's dad
Adlai Stenvinson is Gogo
Dyne is Playable
Silly VII rumor/fetch quests (not specified)
Revive General Leo
VII and X are connected
Aeris is actually named Aerith
Aerith's body is in the soup by the soup guy... yeah whatever.

Ahh, Adlai Stevenson. That takes me ba- wait...

AeriS' body is in the soup by the soup guy? Wolf Kanno compiled these results so I'm not sure what the smurf that means. Let me check.

Quote Originally Posted by Bubba
The theory that Soup Dude from Wall Market found Aeris' body, chopped it up and put it into his soup pot to serve to customers. See related thread for details.
I must have missed that thread. Also, in before BoB tries to argue that AeriS is a drink.

In third we have:
All the games exist in the same world and are interconnected - 2 votes

I'm not going to bother looking up which two people said this, but I appreciate the mental gymnastics required to make that theory work. I imagine it's the same sort of logic people follow when they try to argue that the Bible is literally true.

In second:
(Tie) R=U, VII is going to be remade, Revive Aerith - 3 Votes

Never cared for the R=U theory myself. Mostly because I couldn't be bothered to read most of the half baked theories that get thrown around in the FFVIII forum. Or the FFVIII forum in general for that matter.

Revive AeriS is just a lame rehash of reviving Leo. Yet another way in which FFVII is just riffing off of what came before it.

But I love the FFVII is going to be remade theory. I love it because every time it ever reared its head it got the hopes of the dozens of FFVII fans up, only for the rug to be pulled out and for their fragile little psyches to pull a Cloud and shatter into a million pieces only to be repaired when a remake actually happens. That those fans were once happy and I got to watch that happiness be ripped from them brought me quite a bit of joy.

But before anyone claims bias on my part, I'm just as happy watching the hopes of fans of games I like be crushed as well. I'm an equal opportunity pain enjoyer.

And in first place we have:
Squall is Dead - 4 Votes

I'm actually happy this won and for one simple reason: it's the only theory which dramatically improves the underlying game if you choose to believe it. So I choose to. I know it's almost entirely impossible that this is what the writers had in mind, mostly because any writer that came up with that orphanage bulltrout isn't that clever, but I like it just the same. It's like the Jacob's Ladder of Final Fantasy.

And if I just spoiled the end of Jacob's Ladder for anyone, it's a 24 year old movie ad there's no excuse for never having seen it if you're over the age of three. But just to show I'm not a total jerk, here's something to make it up to you all:

(SPOILER)
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