Compilation Network - Compilation of Final Fantasy VII Ultimania

Compilation of FFVII: FFVII - AC - BC - CC

Character Profile

Sex: Female
Height: 163cm
Blood Type: O
Date of Birth: 2/7
Birthplace: Icicle Lodge
Weapon: Rod
First Person Pronoun: 私 [Watashi]
Voice Actor: AC, CC - Maaya Sakamoto

The legendary race, the Cetra, are known to have the ability of talking with the Planet and leading people to the "Promised Land" where supreme happiness awaits. Aerith is the last survivor of this race. ShinRa took away her parents’ lives and then chased after her for scientific experiments. Although Aerith had miserable circumstances, her mind still overflows with brightness and sometimes mischief; no matter what happens, she never gives up hope. After the battle fighting to protect the Planet, Aerith returned to the Lifestream. But after that, she still exists in many people's mind as someone very important.

Living her life to the best she could:
An innocent and mysterious "Cetra".

Age: 22

Aerith sold flowers in Sector 5. She met Cloud by accident and then asked him to be her bodyguard. Aerith took this chance to leave Midgar. While traveling, she came to realize that Sephiroth was going to use Meteor to destroy the Planet, and the only way to stop him was to invoke the White Magic handed down though the Ancients—Holy. However, she lost her life to the hands of Sephiroth, and became a part of the Lifestream and now still keeps guard of the Planet.

「 Let's see . . . . . . How about if I go out with you once? 」

After the Reactor exploded, Cloud and Aerith merely exchanged words briefly. Meeting him again in her favorite Church, the wheel of Aerith’s destiny started spinning.

Although Aerith indeed looks like a weak young girl, in fact, she has a strong will. Once she decides something, she'll absolutely remain constant and quickly pull others to join the decision.

「 Let me handle Sephiroth. And Cloud, you take care of yourself.
　 So you don't have a breakdown, okay? 」

Even though Aerith perceived that Cloud had lost sight of his true self, she still has great affection for him. As an Ancient, Aerith had planned to accomplish the mission. On the one hand, her last concern is Cloud.

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Hidden inside of the ribbon,
The important materia from Mother's remembrance.

Aerith inherited something from her real mother, Ifalna, who was the last pureblooded Ancient. In fact, this is what the Ancients inherited from one generation to another, and the last hope for the Planet---the materia of the White Magic, Holy. But it seems that Aerith hadn't realized that her mother's memento is the key to save the world, so she doesn’t take it too seriously.

[FFVII] Aerith explains to Cloud her materia is nothing special.

[BC] Escaping from AVALANCHE, she accidentally dropped the materia, and she's terrified.

「It's only a matter of time before Sephiroth uses Meteor.
　That's why I'm going to protect it. Only a survivor of the Cetra, like me, can do it. 」

Limit Break

Great Gospel

Aerith infuses prayer into the pole, and makes the blessed rain pour.

Aerith keeps praying, and the rain stops while Angels appear in the rift of clouds.

From the sky which clears of Angels, the invincible power that cures everything is given to the party.

Showing up in front of people feeling pained and confused,
Her figure seems like a loving mother.

Age: N/A

Two years after returning to the planet, Aerith still lives on in the hearts of her friends who saved the planet. And in particular to Cloud, as a symbol of his failure to having being unable protect those dear to him, she was a major factor in causing him to close himself off. For Cloud, and the world once again faced with danger, she reaches out and offers her aid. In that sense she is like a mother watching over the entire planet, and it gives the feeling that she lives in every part of the world.

Suffering from an attack of Geostigma, Cloud strayed into the labyrinth of his heart. Aerith wants to take away the burden on his mind, and she greets him with a tender, teasing voice.

Cloud's friends sent him toward Bahamut like a relay race, and as for the last push---Aerith!

Trivia 1

In AC, we can see all members that saved the Planet wear a pink ribbon on their arms. Mentioning the pink ribbon, it will necessarily bring to mind the one that sacrificed herself in the previous battle in FF7—Aerith. This ribbon is the symbol of all members' feeling that "she will always be remembered". Although Marlene does mot tie the ribbon around her arm, she keeps a hairstyle which reminds us of Aerith.

Longing for the world outside of the Slum,
Aerith made up her mind to start on her journey but…?

Age: 17

Aerith wanted to know the outside world, so she decided to leave home although she knows it's thoughtless. On her way starting the journey, even though Aerith got help from a Turks member who was unwitting to the whole thing, she was besieged between "the group of ShinRa who needs her to get to the Promised Land", and "another group of AVALANCHE who wants to stop ShinRa's plan".

Although Aerith dislikes ShinRa and searches for freedom, when she met the member of the Turks who could understand her feeling, the change in her state of mind is….?

By the power of the Ancients, Aerith immediately noticed AVALANCHE's leader, Elfe and her secret.

「 I feel like I'm being called by the wind, therefore, I'm going to have a journey. 」

The dull life in the Slum,
The love with a SOLDIER who fell from the sky.

Age: 15

In CC, Aerith is just a 15-year-old girl. Under the surveillance from ShinRa, who wanted to worm out the location of the Promised Land from the Ancients. Growing flowers seems trivial but it brought her joy while she lived at the Sector 5 Slums. At that chosen day, she accidentally met Zack, SOLDIER 1st Class, and they were attracted to each other…

Just like Cloud in FF7, Zack fell to Aerith’s Church. Meeting him brings along her first love.

「 You fell from the sky. It surprised me. 」

Inspired by the flowers that she forbids trampling, they planed to sell flowers at the market. In CC, Aerith used to say that flowers are indispensable.

「 Stop! Don't step on the flowers! 」

Aerith gently embraced Zack, who came back sad. The atmosphere makes them feel like a couple....

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When Aerith gets angry.

According to the scene of flower selling and her movement of checking over flowers when she meets Cloud, we get to know that Aerith likes flowers very much. That's why besides the flowerbed in the Church of Sector 5's Slum, we can also see flowers in the house where she and her foster mother, Elymra live, and many in the garden outside.

Of course, her anger toward people who trample on the flowerbed is not to be taken lightly. In FF7, when Reno and his gang appear to capture her, the first thing she does is to tell them to go outside, away from her flowerbed. Then in "BC", the battle between AVALANCHE and the Turks is stopped by a shout of "Don't step on the flowers!" Next, in "CC", there's also a scene about Zack's paying attention to not to step on the flowers..... Is there anyone able to be a better flower guardian than Aerith?

[FFVII] Being affected by Aerith's desperate attitude, Reno's subordinates have accusing looks for their boss, who stepped on the flowers.

[BC] The fierce fight between the cadre of AVLANCHE and the Turks is stopped by Aerith's "Don't step on the flowers" ..... she's brave.

--- Forgotten City
The place where the Ancients built up their capital. Aerith's life ends here, but her emotion goes on living after that.

--- Icicle Lodge
The place where the rest of the Ancients finally gather. It's also the place where Aerith was born, but since she was soon captured by ShinRa, she actually only stayed there for 20 days.

--- Midgar
It's the place where Aerith spent her childhood under surveillance by ShinRa, and the place where she leads her poor but free, happy life in the Slums-- the place where lies her various memories.

Next: Aerith Timeline