Aerith's Death Scene - Sephiroth Kills Aerith - Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth

Aerith's Death Scene - Sephiroth Kills Aerith - Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth

[lichenmoss]

It looks like Cloud was able to change the timeline, but the "Whispers" tried to put it back to how it was. So Aerith is now neither dead or alive.

[mr.d]

27 years later: still no phoenix down.

[antoinejunior]

Again tifs facial expression to seeing possible 2 timeline of aerith deaths depicted exactly how we felt as fans.

[GamersHaven]

Theory: Cloud, who broke the established will of the planet, can now see between the multiple worlds he changed. Ultimately, it will be needed to defeat Sephiroth, who wants to use convergence and bring all these worlds together.

[malexFTW]

To be honest, i see all of this like you're seeing the Cloud insanity and you see Aerith alive cuz Cloud really believes that she is alive. Meanwhile the others sees the true reality, Aerith death

[JrystalTyaeli]

Rewatching this a year later, no way the Aerith stuff after the fight isn't in Cloud's head. The chilling music, the unnatural happiness on Cloud's face when Aerith just wakes up after being stabbed, even Tifa's reaction when Cloud let's go like nothing happened. Cloud is living a fantasy and it will come to a head in part 3.

[blon-della]

Sephy really put him in a Genjutsu just to say "you thought didn'tcha?"

[cloud_slash]

In the third game the moment Cloud going to realise that he not succeed to save her gonna be hearthbreaking moment

[ronthehybrid]

Cloud is either living out two timelines or this is all in his head and the story never changed. Either way, this mans mind is gone and in this game they are really showing us how far.

[LordVanOskuro]

They never address this, but shouldn't Yuffie have a fear of Sephiroth? Considering his involvement in the war, he should be the Wutaian equivalent of a boogeyman.

[ZeothGames]

Shroedinger's Aerith, an Aerith who is both dead and alive until the third game tells us wtf is going on

[Tubby]

If you notice when Cloud have that vision of Aertih being alive, it was not some black or white whispers shenanigans that is messing with him, it is the memory glitches where he refuse to see the truth, it shows he parry Sephiroths blade but he failed, that moment it is Jenova Cells or rather puppet Cloud being puppet Cloud, Sephiroth need Cloud to continue being delusional till he delivers the black materia to him, which is why I am almost certain in Part 3 we will get the entire Aerith's death and funeral played out either once Cloud regains his memory or he regain some of it halfway through the process and go completely broken.

[chekal]

Man I really wanted to see the iconic part of putting her dead body in the water.. I was ready for some tears although I wish she is alive in the remake. If you still gonna make her die atleast make it beautiful like the OG 😭

[nachamu]

Her theme song in a slower pace when Cloud goes to wake her up is the saddest thing… 😭

[renegade]

1:15 Anyone notice the rainbow effect? Every time that's shown up, it represents an alternate timeline forming. I'm not saying this is a reason to believe anything. But, given the fact that it's shown up every time Zack made a decision, that would seem to mean something significant has happened that we're just not being shown.

[jackepong]

This sequel disguised as a remake is really something

[otzytherabbit]

This scene hit hard... It does not matter if they showed her getting impaled, it still hurt my soul. Sephiroth throwing the blood on Cloud was crazy...

[PatLund]

4:17 Sephiroth says "a confluence of worlds." This implies to me that Cloud created a new timeline when stopping Sephiroth from killing Aerith. This new timeline and the original are now converging. They both exist, but they can't both exist. Causing Cloud to see Aerith as both alive and dead.

[thirdmeow]

I'll never forget Aeris dying in game when I was younger. Having, at the time never experienced death, it hit hard.
I still get chills watching it, quite possibly the best video game ever made.

[ThestJack]

2:53 when he says... "Don't weep. Your tears are empty. Just like you" ...it reminds me of his dialogue in Advent Children when he says "Don't pretend you're sad. Why tremble with anger that's not even there? Face it Cloud. All you are is an empty puppet"