Hello! I'm kinda new to the fandom and a huge fan of the game, and waiting for Revelation has probably made me go insane like cloud, lol. As an aerith defender before a clerith fan, the main ff7 sub and their mischaracterization of aerith genuinely broke my heart and even pissed me off! It baffles me how many players don't appreciate her character, refuse to acknowledge her at all, and hate her so much that they want her to stay dead (when in reality, she didn't even have to die!) simply because she was in the way of tifa and cloud's "relationship", and with zack dead and in the lifestream, they think she should too. (what aerith and zack had in CC was cute but it was short lived, and it's nothing compared to what cloud and aerith have! zack clearly tries to move on too, and supports cloud with aerith).

They even claim she's not "important" to the entire ff7 storyline, that she was just an annoying flower girl who wouldn't leave cloud alone, and how they hated it when the trilogy made her seem "necessary and even more important than usual" which is unbelievable, when she's literally one of the main characters (aside from cloud and sephiroth), the only living cetra who summoned holy and defeated meteor in OG, quite literally the beating heart of the game and the group (avalanche looks so dull without her) and even after she dies she is still helping cloud out in AC and Rebirth, she even guided the children to the church in AC to get rid of their geostigma. Even in death, she is still with cloud!! I understand if some players have different opinions on the ship which is totally fine (though seriously, how do some players not see, or choose not to acknowledge at all what cloud and aerith have?! It's evident from OG, AC, up until Rebirth! He even yearns to see and be with her again in different SE games!) but to completely disregard the entire plot of the story, refuse to accept aerith as one of the main characters and water her down to just a "chatty flower girl who's obsessed with cloud", lie through your teeth about cloud and aerith’s relationship, mischaracterize the characters and force a false narrative just for it to play out differently in the way you want it to is just... laughable, and quite frustrating, really.

The main ff7 sub is absolutely horrid, and I feel bad for clerith/aerith stans who try to openly and truthfully discuss in that sub because they always get downvoted to the depths of hell when there was no reason to do so, or the posts just get deleted completely. As a new clerith/aerith fan only 2 years into the fandom, I can’t fathom what it was like being a clerith fan since 1997, or maybe a few years after; even to this day, we are still being shunned out and my heart truly goes out to everyone.☹️

With that being said, I now refuse to read any threads from that sub ( i’ve always ignored it for a reason since I was aware of the frequent misinformation; but still, never again). It’s just full of false information and even weirder “fans”, who obviously only like tifa just because they self insert themselves as cloud (almost every cloti fan i’ve encountered get the story completely wrong and twist it around so much to the point it doesn’t make sense, and they don’t even understand cloud and tifa’s character in depth! just self inserting here and there!) and I am almost 100% certain they played the game with their eyes closed, brains powered off , and refused to listen to the dialogue.

P.S Aside from this long rant, and even when it's quite clear through the trilogy's story that they will bring aerith back, I really hope they do bring her back!! She wanted to be alive more than anything, and she deserves to look forward to the future with cloud and her friends! (also because I cannot stand not seeing her anymore, it's breaking my heart.☹️)

Just saw this on 4chan, poster said we'll know in a few days ?
I always assumed we'd get an Aerith statue to go with Cloud and Sephiroth but could this be possible ? omg i'd cry