Speculation about Aerith's fate in Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth gets even more heated after a teaser image of the JRPG's iconic airship

Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth
(Image credit: Square Enix)

A new pile of 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth details , and I regret to inform you all that one seemingly innocuous promo image seems to have kicked off a fresh r꧂ound of speculation about who will live and who w🐲ill die in the next part of the remake.

I guess I should drop a spoiler warning here, but if you've somehow missed hearing about the most famous plot twist in the histo𓄧ry of video games over the past 26 years and you're 𝄹reading about Rebirth now, you're already a statistical anomaly. 

In the original FF7, Sephiroth rather famously runs Aerith through, but the FF7 Remake's apparent interest in making tweaks to the plot and some 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:vague teases in the🉐 early Rebirth trailers have longtime fans speculatin🙈g that Square Enix intends to do something dif🍒ferent this time around.

Square seems intent on fueling the fires of speculation over Aerith's fate, too. The company just released a new promo image featuring "Aerith Gainsborough and the Highwind," the iconic airship that Cloud and the party take command of late in the original game. Very late in the original, in fact - well after Aerith is dead. The implications are setting off s𝔉ome new fires in the fandom. 

"They're t🅷easing that she might get to ride it this time," 🐟 (deep sigh) says. "Maybe her fate awaits in game three."

"I ꦍdon't mind her surviving at all. In fact, I welcome it," says. "But Square, please, don't kill off Tifa instead. I wouldn🧜't be able to take it!"

"Now Cloud finally has the chan♛💜ce to take her for a ride on the Highwind," as says.

There'sജ a moment in the original game where Aerith catches sight of the Highwind, and later asks Cloud if he thinks she might be able to board it someday. You can choose Cloud's response in that sequence, and Aerith gets very෴ happy if you promise to take her aboard the ship. That makes it all the sadder when she's killed before you get the chance.

Images of Aerith gazing up longingly at the Highwind have been around since the original game. In fact, this new picture is a that served as the cover art for the manual included in the original PS1 game. So this new image is by no means a guarantee that Aerith's fate will be different in Rebirth, but I can't help but think that the devs know exactly what they're doinꦡg by releasing promo art with implications this loaded.

The Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth director says his cat won't cameo again because he'd "like to think" it died in Remake. 

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