Earth & Sky: A Cloud x Aeris Love Story
A website dedicated to Aerith ("Aeris") Gainsborough and Cloud Strife from Final Fantasy VII
The Final Fantasy series boasts a veritable army of main characters fighting evil (or otherwise) with swords, staves, and fists. From party members to villains, memorable characters are one of the main selling points of the games, which are iconic for their intricate plots and political-magical drama. At the vanguard is Final Fantasy VII, often … Continue reading How Popular is Aerith in Japan?
In the September 2001 issue of Electronic Gaming Monthly, a feature on Final Fantasy X brought in some familiar developers from Square for an interview. Yoshinori Kitase, one of the the key developers of Final Fantasy VII - and director of Final Fantasy VII: Remake - dropped an interesting comment. I believe it would be … Continue reading FF7 Dev Kitase Wanted To Make a Side Story Game with Aerith and Cloud
We know it's canon that Aeris loves Cloud. (Read this post for more on that.) But typically, Cloud's feelings are considered to be a matter of interpretation (and the game's built-in affection mechanics.) So, do we have any official evidence that Cloud loves Aeris? Take a look at just some of the evidence of Cloud's … Continue reading A Compilation of Cloud Canonically Loving Aerith
The music in Final Fantasy VII is emotional, entrancing, and reflects the game's story while adding special context of its own. Between the original game and Remake, sometimes the message is nuanced, sometimes conspicuous. Since Cloud and Aerith's relationship is a huge element to the game's story, it's no surprise that there are many (and … Continue reading Clerith and Music: All Songs Representing Cloud and Aerith
The Final Fantasy series tell emotional adventures filled with drama, hatred, and of course, love! The compatibility between certain characters is a fan-favorite topic, but select couples have become particularly iconic. Out of the mainline games, here are the romantic couples that are at the forefront of the series, with official (or near-official) status. Final … Continue reading What are the romantic couples of the Final Fantasy series?
With the announcement of Radiant Melodies, a new soundtrack coming early 2023, it seems like a great time to look at some of the previous Final Fantasy VII soundtracks. Radiant Melodies' cover was revealed to feature Cloud and Aeris's church reunion - which certainly illustrates how high Square holds this scene in regard, if it's … Continue reading Final Fantasy VII’s Music: A Clerith Tradition
The cities of Final Fantasy VII operate somewhere within the aesthetic realm between cyberpunk and 80's grunge. Sci-fi but not quite, we see a human population with flying airships but no successful human launch into space, chunky computers and PHS phones and a distinct lack of high-speed travel. While Final Fantasy VII: Remake injects a … Continue reading “Underneath the Rotting Pizza” – Cities in the Sky and a Desolate Earth Beneath
The Lifestream sequence refers to an event late in Final Fantasy VII's story that, after much disarray in Cloud Strife's alleged background, serves to untaggle the truth of his past. Prior to this, Cloud leaves the party for the first time after he suffered a mental breakdown in Northern Crater and subsequently fell into the … Continue reading Romanticizing a Mental Health Crisis? Revisiting the Lifestream Sequence
A major argument against Cloud and Aeris's romantic relationship is that Cloud and Aeris only interacted in disc 1 of the game - a period in which Cloud was knee-deep in his identity crisis, which was not resolved until the game's second disc. Auxiliary claims allege that Cloud is actually role-playing Zack in disc 1, … Continue reading Did Aeris Know the “Real” Cloud?
Who exactly Cloud is has confused Final Fantasy VII fans since the late 90's. His identity crisis is a major plot point and a penultimate crisis in the game before the final showdown with Shinra and Sephiroth. Players are haunted by a JENOVA taunting Cloud as a "puppet" and the image of a SOLDIER named … Continue reading Is Cloud in Disc 1 just “Zack”?
Earth & Sky: A Cloud x Aeris Love Story 