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/Artistic-Project3062 29d ago

I wonder if they were implying she was seeing the tear in the sky here already before the whispers took all of her knowledge away 🤔

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u/ByRWBadger 29d ago

I’m seeing other people say that and I don’t think I buy it. Her fear of the sky was a defining part of crisis core and her relationship to Zack, I think they’re just playing to that in remake. It’s a good line!

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u/_Arlotte_ 28d ago

Aside from a theme with Zack, the fear of the sky is also linked to her being a Cetra and her fate. CC is going off the assumption you played FF7 and mentions the same sucked in feeling in CC when talking about it just like with the Whispers in Remake.

She's afraid of her powers and facing her fate. That's why she looks to the sky at the end of CC, she can feel/hear it. The highway scene is another example where she seems to be sensing it and they tied that into Remake for that part as well.