Not enough people talk about how Aerith has the most reasons to hate the world and everybody in it, yet she refuses to hate and it is among her greatest acts of strength and resistance. The amount she she's been through, that her family has been through, and the way she's constantly reminded over and over again that she lost her culture, and yet she doesn't scorn the world, and that refusal isn't even out of spite. She just wants to be kind. Out of every character, she has the most reason to give up on the planet and yet she fights the hardest to protect it, and whatever 4D Chess style shit is going on in the third remake game is gonna really put that on display. She's more than just the party's motivation or "haunting the narrative" and I need everyone to know that she is the hero of the story














