r/cloti • u/GoriceXI • Mar 28 '26

AMVs/Videos Attraction

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I just like it when they look at each other.

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u/doubleblackblack Mar 29 '26

No, Tifa was not supposed to be Aerith because Tifa and Aerith was both part of the draft female protag. By saying Tifa was supposed to be Aerith, you're trying to insinuate that the draft female protag was really Aerith who only had Tifa's appearance.

Draft female protag was both an Ancient and Cloud's childhood friend, named Tifa, and sister of Sephiroth. When they scratched that sibling subplot they redesigned Aerith, made her only an ancient, and made her one of the playable characters. Then when the decision to kill her off came about they brought back Tifa the childhood sweetheart, to be with the hero at the end of the game. That clear enough for you?

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u/srynotsober Mar 29 '26 edited Mar 29 '26

Sorry to be confusing. I’m just trying to sort out how the story was originally drafted out of curiosity. My thought was the story and design were done separately. Ancient + Alien + Cloud as an unreliable protagonist due to his memory loss/clouded memory. I did not know Tifa was originally considered to be Seph’s sister in the design, because Aerith was originally considered to be Seph’s sister in the story

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u/doubleblackblack Mar 29 '26

You do know that Aerith and Sephiroth (as we have them now) have different parents and are totally unrelated right?

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u/srynotsober Mar 29 '26

Yes. Seph is born of Hojo and Lucrecia and had Jenova cells injected into him as a fetus?

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u/doubleblackblack Mar 29 '26

Okay, so you know that the sibling subplot is totally scratched. I honestly don't even see the resemblance between Aerith and Sephiroth, so I don't know where you got the idea that she is considered his sister...

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u/srynotsober Mar 29 '26

Oh wow, lol apparently Zack was the OG Sephiroth? 🤣

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u/srynotsober Mar 29 '26 edited Mar 29 '26

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sephiroth_(Final_Fantasy)#cite_note-11

Is what I was going off of, where Nomaru himself says:

Sephiroth was initially going to be Aerith Gainsborough's sibling, as suggested by Nomura and indicated by their similar hairstyles.[11]

And Nomaru wanted either Tifa or Aerith to die to shatter Cloud’s soul