To my favorite girl, aeris.

Noelia 2022-03-23 09:02:20

I watched AC again that day.
Cloud walked into the church, step by step, earnestly and sadly. I suddenly choked up.
I remember returning to the church in FF7 and seeing your figure in the distance, and when you got close, it disappeared.

I knew before you left that your death, that scene, had been seen many, many times.
But I can't stop crying when I see you fall in front of me. The girl I love the most, she's gone, she's gone, I've known it for a long time, but I can't keep her.

The first time I saw you, I watched the game in 1997 with the eyes of 2005, but you are really beautiful, those eyes are really beautiful, and there is a kind of reassuring power.
I used to think you were an introverted and weak girl, but you would tease Cloud to say a date, maybe they thought I had the potential to be a warrior, would stubbornly accompany Cloud through the dangerous 6th Street, and let Cloud be black-bellied Pretending to be a girl, "Miss Cloud, walk gracefully, like this."
You always pull Cloud, pulling everyone forward, completely soft on the outside and firm on the inside, strong and optimistic, and occasionally sad, just that moment Dodge, before we can catch it, you're that lively ghost again.
So happy with your trip, so happy that I'm starting to get scared because I know you're going to leave this thing.
So I kept dawdling on the first disc, and I practiced your final LIMIT. It's really an extreme skill that defies the sky. It's too defiant, so you have to leave.

When a sword from the sky pierces your body, there is a heavy heartbeat in the game, it's Cloud's, and it's like mine.
Cloud hugged you and said, Aeris is gone, no more talking, no laughing, no crying, no getting angry. . . I really hated Sephy at the time.
Then, you go away in the water, the picture turns black, and I can't see you again. Disc 1 ended and I stopped here for a week.

Now, Aeris, I remember saying I was going to take you through the skies in an airship.
I still remember that in the dreamy light and shadow of the golden disc, you said Cloud, I want to meet you. I
still remember you saying, Cloud, you have to take good care of yourself.
You wave and say you'll be back when it's all over.
A lot of people said that when New Game started after FF7 was cleared, you suddenly cried when you saw you alive. It's all over, but we've lost you forever. Like Cait Sith's prophecy, get what you want and lose what you love.

In fact, you've always been by Cloud's side, haven't you?
Just like TIfa who knows Cloud's past can find the real Cloud, only you who are the source of Cloud's pain can find Cloud's smile and heal his sorrow.
Therefore, you can only feel at ease when you see his relief and his smile.
He is not alone, his friends and you, haven't they been with him all the time? That's it.

In the end, when you look back and smile, I burst into tears.
Goodbye, my dearest girl.
One day, in the promised place...

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Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children quotes

  • Yuffie Kisaragi: All right. Who's been touching my materia?

    Tifa Lockhart: The bad guys, naturally.

    Yuffie Kisaragi: Oh!

    Yuffie Kisaragi: [Runs off]

  • Reno: Hey, partner...

    [points at bomb in hand]

    Reno: This thing... uh... got any bite to it?

    Rude: Shin-Ra technology at its finest.

    Reno: Oh, so you made it?

    Rude: If nothing else, it's... flashy.

    Reno: Oh, good...

    Rude: You love it, I know.

    Reno: Looks like today we're clockin' out early.