Cloud’s relationship with each woman is romantic in tone and important to the plot - but, outside of one or two incidental scenes, there’s no conflict between the girls over Cloud, and no suggestion that Cloud needs to “pick” one. Because I do not believe that Final Fantasy 7 has a love triangle. If Batman is getting involved, I am forced to put on my lipstick and attempt the magic trick of making this love triangle disappear. “Either the one that’s gonna heal everything,” Kravitz wondered, “or the one in the short skirt?” And Aeris, right at her peak, gets killed! This is how every guy figures out what love is.” “Aerith … she’s like the really kind girl, she has superpowers to heal everyone … and then Tifa’s this sexy little thing, like a thief, in this short skirt. “It’s the two options of girls,” he said, as his The Batman costar Zoë Kravitz rolled her eyes. Robert Pattinson, the great mind and greater chef of the millennial generation, a man forced to spend his adult life caring about the Edward-versus-Jacob debate, described in a recent interview his fascination with Final Fantasy 7’s love triangle. Since then, terms like l33t, llamas and Lemons have modernized into memes, SCREAMs and stanning queens, and Final Fantasy 7 Remake has added new tomes of Aerith and Tifa scenes to argue over - but it’s the same battle, running since 1997.īatman’s at it, too.
I have strong memories of visiting an Aerith hate site covered in American flag GIFs because the owner witnessed the planes crashing into the Twin Towers on 9/11. Tifa, “Cloti vs Clerith.” Both sides paint the other side as uniquely toxic and deluded. These narratives have been competing for over 20 years Aerith vs. In the end, what appears to be least canon of all is the text of Final Fantasy 7 itself. It’s fan-translated passages from tie-in novels (the official translations were done by biased liars), scanned screenshots from Ultimania guidebooks of these characters’ Kingdom Hearts cameos, and tweets from official Square Enix accounts promoting their new range of Final Fantasy 7-themed café food. Canon, here, is a weapon to load up and shoot. And this isn’t your personal preference - it’s about canon. Or maybe you know that Aerith is Cloud’s true love? Or maybe you know, with equal certainty, that she is not, because that’s Tifa, and you can prove it.
You might also know that Aeris was supposed to be called “Aerith,” the ambiguous last katakana of her Japanese name EARISU, and just another fumble of Final Fantasy 7’s blurred, decontextualized translation. Prepare yourself for Polygon's Who Would Win Week. One eternal question spans all of pop culture: "Who would win?" That's why we're dedicating an entire week to debates that have shaped comics, movies, TV, and games, for better and worse.
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