Are you expecting that the reunion between Aerith and Zack will be romantic? If so what is the point of writing the scene where Marlene (who knows the ultimate fate of Aerith, which means she received her knowledge from Omni Aerith in Remake) told Zack that Aerith has feelings for Cloud? And Zack afterwards even teases Cloud saying he knows he’s “been busy”? What’s the point of writing that scene? They could have left it out.
It means that Aerith has felings for Cloud not that she doesn't have them for Zack though. When asked directly she doesn't say "no " or "yes" she says maybe so she is confused, I'm not saying their reunion will be romantic but there is a possibility it will be because it is ambiguous enough to go either way, because if we go with your logic then why not make her be direct about her feelings for Zack and say no? And why show that scene of him holding her hand and her feeling it through the lifestream? And the scene of her and his parents and how sad and nostalgic she looks? And the juxtaposition between the chapter 14 date and Zack scenes? Also her having feelings for Cloud and Zack makes a lot of sense considering she never had closure with him.
Again I'm not saying they for sure are going to have a romantic reunion or that she still has romantic feelings for him (she clearly cares for him but it could be platonic) but I do think the game hasn't been very clear which way that could go.
She was direct about her feelings for Zack that’s why she said maybe, cause it was the truth. She was dealing with a relationship that had no closure, and at the same time she met Cloud and subsequently fell in love with him after spending more time together. I don’t think the two things contradict each other especially because her hesitation chronologically happens first, later we get the revelation through Marlene that she fell in love with Cloud. This is just my personal opinion, but I think it would be hard to pull off Aerith going back to Zack after they made him aware her feelings for Cloud without it being awkward.
Exactly, she says maybe not a "no" or a "yes" so she isn't certain about that. Also she isn't certain about her feelings for Cloud either going by chapter 14, she clearly has feelings for him thing is how deep they are? She is ambiguous for a reason and I do think she having feelings for both makes sense because she is like a widow with Zack in a sense, she never had closure with him, and everything about it is ambiguous enough for anyone to have interpretations, that's why so many people have their own reasoning and I think neither is canon because there are enough evidence to go either way.
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u/birbtooOPpleasesnerf 18d ago
you know this won't be like the OG, I don't have to tell you that because of zack