#sefikura vision board

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What was Aerith’s relationship with everyone?

Took me a brief second to realize you meant the sefikura child au lol. I was really confused for a moment. This one is a bit long so I'll put a split here.

Cloud: Growing up, she has a good, strong relationship with her 'dad.' While he can be a bit weird and distant at times, she loves spending time with him. He often teaches her life skills such as basic mechanics or how to control her strength.

When she gets older and finds out that her dad is really her mom, the relationship gets a bit strained. She holds some resentment towards him for lying but still loves him dearly. The two get into more arguments, although she's quick to drop things since Cloud is in a pretty bad state and Sephiroth has convinced her that Cloud doesn't really know what he's talking about. Eventually the relationship gets repaired and she understands why Cloud hid the truth from her, but, you know, classic teenage "ugh I hate my parents."

Tifa: Before Sephiroth shows up, Aerith is really close with her 'mom.' As a child she always wants to be with Tifa, clinging to her legs or playing nearby. As she gets older she likes to help Tifa in the kitchen, wanting to learn her 'mother's' recipes. Tifa also teaches her some self defense basics, although she makes Aerith promise to never strike first and to avoid fighting at all costs. Even if another kid tries to strike her, it's better that she dodges rather than hits back. Aerith has a lot of strength that she is still learning to control after all, so she needs to be absolutely certain she won't seriously harm someone before she properly fights back.

When Sephiroth shows up, her relationship with Tifa turns sour. She stops calling her mom and avoids her. She gets into all sorts of arguments with Tifa and yells at Tifa that she hates her. Poor Tifa is heartbroken, because even if she knew Aerith was getting to the age where she would start to push back, it seems like this personality shift happened over night.

When Aerith starts living with Sephiroth (and an unwilling Cloud), she grows even more resentful towards Tifa due to the things Sephiroth tells her. Tifa is the reason her real mom lied to her all these years, Sephiroth says. Tifa was the one who manipulated Cloud away from Sephiroth! She grows very resentful of Tifa.

Sephiroth: When Aerith meets Sephiroth/begins to hear his voice, she very quickly falls under his sway. He tells her the truth and supports her strength. He teaches her to fight not just to defend herself, but to strike fear and stop anyone from so much as looking at her wrong. She adores him and is quick to call him 'dad'. Even when she witnesses Sephiroth acting a bit weird towards Cloud, her blind hero worship of the man who 'fixed' her family makes her ignore the red flags.

Marleen: Marleen is like an older sister to Aerith. Even though Marleen is a lot older than her, the two often played together growing up. Marleen would give Aerith her old dolls and clothes too, just like a real big sister would! Also, when Marleen gets to the age that she starts to wear a bit of makeup, she practices her skills on Aerith. Which of course is the coolest thing ever when you're a little kid.

Denzel: Aerith has a similar relationship with Denzel as she does with Marleen. He's like an older brother to her and he teaches her how to play all sorts of card and board games. He can be a little bit weird though, randomly getting quiet or distant from her. Her 'dad' says it because Denzel has something called PTSD, just like him. Apparently before she was born, Denzel had an illness that could causes really intense visions. Although he's better now, the experience was difficult and left a lasting impact on him.

Her dad says he had it too, although he's pretty certain Aerith won't get it. At the very least, he explains, even if she does get it the cure has been found and she won't get sick like him and Denzel did.

Barret: Getting into her 'extended family', Barret is like an uncle to Aerith. Although he often goes away for work, he lives at the bar with her parents and 'siblings' anytime he isn't away. When he's home, he always makes sure to take the kids somewhere fun! Aerith really likes him.

Yuffie: Yuffie is like the cool, fun aunt. She doesn't visit a ton, but she does it's always chaos. Once, she took Aerith to the Golden Saucer and taught her how to pickpocket the distracted crowds. Cloud and Tifa were not amused and Aunt Yuffie got in a lot of trouble. Aerith did too, although not as much as Yuffie who "should have known better than to teach a kid to steal!"

Nanaki: When she was little, Aerith was actually scared of Nanaki. She's told it's because she burnt her hand on his tail when she was a baby. Now that she's older, Aerith isn't scared of him anymore. She likes to give him pats, whenever he's willing to receive them.

Vincent: Like Nanaki, Aerith was also scared of Vincent when she was little. She came around to him by the time she was a toddler, but the few times she saw him as a baby she would cry and cry. Aerith doesn't see him often, but she views him as a sort of distant relative that sometimes shows up and comments that you've gotten a lot taller. He has a hard time talking to her or forming a bond, although he does try to occasionally make awkward small talk.

Cid: Cid is funny, because he can't seem to stop himself from swearing around her. Then Tifa smacks Cid on the back of his head, rebuking him for using such langauge around the kids. It never fails to make Aerith laugh.

Cait: When Aerith was a baby, Cait was the frequent victim of her grabby baby hands. As a toddler, she loved to snuggle him like a stuffed toy. Although as a preteen she likes to claim she doesn't care for toys like Cait anymore (which always makes Cait snap he isn't a toy!) she always sneaks a quick snuggle with him.

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Further thoughts on FF7R, especially the ending:

Yeah, they are not going to complete this into an actual storyline, especially considering the Sephiroth fight and lacking nature of the Whisper fight in contrast to other multi-phase bosses.

The idea of a Peggy Sue fanfic that stars Aerith that exists purely to retcon out Advent Children and make Cloti canon is perfectly fine by me, as long as it is well written, and so far Remake is very well written.

But given the fate of other sort of post-ironic retellings/continuations like the Rebuild of Evangelion and PMMM: Rebellion, it is clear that is just meant to be a tech demo for their next project. Rebuild movies for Anno were purely a means to get to his Godzilla movie, and PMMM: Rebellion was largely just a cash grab for its studio, since Urobochi has already left.

This game, on the hand, feels like post-modern mediation by the current Remake team (Kitase, Nojima and Nomura) to create a discourse about Hironobu Sakaguchi’s original vision of FF7, namely that Kitase and Nojima are salty that Cloti didn’t became canon, and Nomura is salt because he has to work with Clack instead of the “hotter” Sefikura. And both sides are salty about Aerith’s death like %90 of the fandom.

If I’m wrong, and there is an actual continution, you can ignore the first three paragaphs. But considering how the remake reuses assets from Advent Children and reuses the Sepritoh/Cloud fight’s entrance from the end of the original game.

Anyways, story thoughts, since I only looked at later chapters from videogamers.eu, these will be through that gameplay:

*I like how more explictly Jewish the Cetra are made to be, especially with their scriptures and mythology of the Promised Land. Originally Cetra were a generic nomadic tribe in allusion to Ainu people of Japan, but since the current Midgar is more 1920s New York and less 1920s Tokyo, the characters end up being closer to Western analogues than their Asian counterparts.

*The second clone that holds Jenova Dreamweaver/no.49 clone seems to be Genesis, especially considering we actually see his face and his “2″ tatoo, but also because he was alluded to by Hojo during the board meeting.I have no idea who the clone no. 49 is though. IIRC, didn’t Genesis have a girlfriend before Crisis Core?

*Many of the added sections look very good, except for the early Nanaki sections. It seems they were inserted as a last minute since they are not too polished. Some other sidequests like Tonberry midboss also look unfinished.

For bosses, and game design:

*The NPC designs are all over the place. Certain plot relevant NPCs like Leslie are very well designed and animated, others like Kyrie and Johnny do not have properly fitting lipflaps  for the English audio, and others like Ms. Folio has been reused as a design for a old lady in the same Sector 5. Some of the generic NPCs faces look like they are facescanned from real Japanese SE workers to save time.

*Monsters are largely used cleverly. All of them have upgraded variants to fill up the beginning’s otherwise lacking monster selection, but I dislike the lack of SOLDIER enemies besides Roche and Third Classes. I guess the emphasis on Shrina Troopers is so SOLDIERS can be properly introduced in the second run through Shinra.

*Sector 7 section retread is pretty fantastic, but I like in-game background better than the FMV sequence. It shows the destruction better. The Valkyrie boss, despite being long, is also good, largely because it feels something that would be designed by Scarlet.

And for meta:

*The game is pretty obscenely Marxist, and I kinda love it. Shinra are shown to be just the largest cog of an inheritely unstable capitalist system that went from an imperialist phase to a military-fascistic corporate state. It is almost as if Gramsci codirected this, or Nomura went full Chapo after Kingdom Hearts.

Everytime Shinra is humanized, the game immediately reminds you that not only the company is literally killing the planet, but they are also committing war crimes

*I like how Sector 5 still has greeny, while it dimishes Aerith’s house from original, it also shows these sectors are not fully claimed by industry.

*I do not like Aerith’s Cetra mindmeld. Not one bit.

*Some people are assuming the Whispers of the final battle might be Sepritoth kids from AC, but given their names it is more likely they are supposed to be souls of the Weapons, which interesting. I guess the remake is trying of a “Dream of Fayth” approach to the summons and WEAPONs in Gaia, except these time they are not always crystallized people, they are generally critters.

*Nomura’s attempts to make Sepiroth symphatetic aways fail, and this game is the biggest showcase of that. I wonder if Nojima deliberately heightened up Sepiroth to ruin Nomura’s Sefikura wet dreams, or to ruin his other idea of Hojo being the actual main villain, which I’m more symphatetic towards. Making Sephiroth a self-insert fanfic writer doesn’t help either.

*Since Zack and Biggs are alive due to Whisper butterfly effect(why is this a thing ughh??), I’m wondering what sort of timeline nonsense to bring Wedge and Jesse back.

*Cheers to my man Uematsu for making me think Hollow is a Clack song, when it is in reality both a Clack and Zerith song. I’ll see you in the steel sky bruh.