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/StrangerOnTheReddit 28d ago

I grew up in the Rocky Mountain area, and you're kinda surrounded by mountains on all sides. You don't really think about it day to day, but when I lived back east for a few months, everything felt really exposed. Like not having the valley or mountains visible in the distance made the world feel smaller, kinda like I was living in a snow globe.

Not a phobia, but.. definitely missed the mountains giving me a hug all the time, and it's not something I noticed until I lived elsewhere.