mmmm yeah
the moment of reunification with the idealized Mother is very woman of her yeah. like In her consciousness. there's such a fundamental worldview shift you almost *have* to put the gender there too

she knows, calls him out at gold saucer, etc etc. so girl I have to ask. why do you wanna die so badly. why. aerith pls

i mean she picks up on cloud not being cloud. and yes, she clocks that bc she knew Zack, but cloud is a terrible Zack, and she knows that he isn't Zack and isn't himself either. like it takes tifa the mideel mako mindfuck to realize fully what's going on but aerith spends like 2 weeks and boom

think about jenovaroth trying to cast meteor, then it surely is obvious that Aerith is a target for having and being able to cast holy. like of course she's walking to her death trying to cast it there in the capital, and she has to know it bc she's one of the most perceptive chars in the game

so she's going that whole distance alone. a long long march to her death. why, aerith, why? yes all of avalanche is willing to die for the planet, but only Aerith ever does, and she does it like a god damned lamb to the slaughter. if we read the calamity as actively hostile to cetra, or if we just -

I do not think she had to go alone to the capital. another thing that fucks me up is that when you look at the world map of og the temple of the ancients and the capital are so far away from each other, and gongaga is even farther (which btw. insane that they start in the temple and end in gongaga)

yeah I think for me she doesn't even know it's an option. like even looking at say tmasc gen she goes ok well *I'm* a man and that's that. tbh I don't even have her realise until Zack fair says stupid shit *in nibelheim* the night before the first reactor visit

she's silly enough to go toe to toe w zack and haunted enough to walk willingly, *alone,* to her own death. she's one of my fav chars ever I don't give her enough love

*from the pyre* by the last dinner party has been on my playlist on repeat the past few days and it is ALL Aerith coded
I was bound to write something eventually

i haven't written her that way but like
I cannot imagine hojo being cool with her being transfem
kudos to those who can but I cannot

i think I saw a couple (not that I have links) of baby tfem sefi one of which even had hojo signing off on it. but none of hojo doing gender affirming care on baby tfem sefi no

ahh, yeah ok. so it just depends on how little you want to do with those fics nat

anon is a beautiful thing
you could also orphan them (that might be the same thing tho im not sure)

you should always be thinking about genesis the cunt ever

good.

i do not know :pensive: have fun tho i think ?