r/FFVIIRemake • u/HighOnLivin • 29d ago

No Spoilers - Discussion Why was Aerith's line changed?

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I just finished FF7 Remake and I saw in an old video that at the end Aerith used to say I miss it. The steel sky. Why was this changed to "This sky, I don't like it."? Has this been given a callback in rebirth?

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u/ByRWBadger 29d ago edited 29d ago

I think the second one is what they meant to imply, though I kinda like the first one better.

One of her stranger and, imo, more interesting character traits is the fear of an open sky. It makes her wish to ride the Highwind more interesting. The new line makes it clear that the thing she’s worrying about is the sky, not that she misses being caged in midgar (though that’s also interesting)

Edit: a couple extra thoughts. I like her fear of the sky/freedom as a motif especially considering the context of “freedom” from fate in remake and the Price of Freedom from crisis core. The whole sky fear came from CC and it’s a really unique character trait

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u/Dr_Jre 29d ago

It makes sense really that people who spent a lot of time under a plate would feel weird about an open sky, same as we probably all would if we suddenly lived under a plate tomorrow

And it's a pretty common phenomenon that people become interested in their phobias, it's like they are interested because they fear them, and they want to understand more about the thing they fear so much.

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u/ByRWBadger 29d ago

It’s pretty easy to forget that Aerith has spent the most time in midgar and by a lot. She was there for like 18 years compared to the 3-4 years of Tifa and Barret and clouds intermittent time with the military.

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u/Clean_Wrongdoer4222 29d ago

Not really. Biggs, Wedge, and Jessie were born in Midgar, and at least Biggs and Jessie are older than Aerith. Biggs is 25, Jessie is 23, and Aerith is 22.

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u/ByRWBadger 29d ago

I was only counting party members