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No, really, when I say spoilers, I mean spoilers.


Well, I warned you.

Has anybody else noticed the irony of the ending?
When you think about it, Sephiroth's goal was to essentially cause major crisis, hop into the destruction and merge with the lifestream to become a god.
And yet...
after all this, who was it who joined with the lifestream? Aerith. Who was it who, when crisis threatened the planet and it's defences had failed, raised the lifestream, the very lifeblood of the planet, to defend it? Aerith. Quite frankly, apart from the causing of the crisis, Aerith achieved practically every single one of Sephiroth's goal, ambitions, dreams, yadda yadda yadda, and in most cases did a damn sight better job of it too.

...To be honest, if she hadn't been busy trying to stop meteor, she probably could have carried on with the party for the rest of the game.

...Oh, and her mother wasn't a crazy alien of mass destruction.

This post has been edited by Kjelfalconer on 21st October 2010 21:25

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Yours, with sarcasm,
Kjel

I like what you've got here.

I think we can explain this by looking at it in generalities, and comparing it to other plots. The evil-doer's goal is always to achieve power in some way or form. The good guys always rise against this: in doing so, acting selflessly and in a morally just way, they obtain power.

Look at star wars for instance. The dark side is the quick and easy path to massive amounts of power; people who go down this path harbor great anger and hatred. The good side, however, requires discipline and a strong code of honor. Yet it is only by following the harder path and fighting with nobility that one is able to unlock true and lasting power.

You can see this in even better detail in the bible (regardless of whether or not you believe it). Jesus denies the devil when the later tries to tempt him with power and glory. Yet, by being the good guy (aka dying for mankind's sins) and acting with love and selflessness, he gains much much more.

It seems to be what you fight for, how you fight and why you fight for it that really matter.

Interesting stuff though

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Dang...you're right.
I never noticed the irony before.

I love FFVII, you always notice something you never noticed before.

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it was mainly sepherioths fault for doing so if he allowed aerith to live threw the game and kept control over cloud he could of easily acheived his goals i mean if instead of killing aerith but killed TIFA he could of won easily considering the fact that without tifa cloud would of been unable to settle himself inside and he could of then used cloud to ubtain the holy materia and used both meteor and holy and destoried the world in the end its all hojos fault and mainly vincets too if you have played dirge of cerburse which in not a rpg but a good 3rd person shooter you would know that if he actually didnt be such a push over and kicked hojos booty and ran away with lucrecia SEPHERIOTH would of been not only a good guy but he would of been playable in ff7 along with zack fair which i have to say would be the most awesome thing ever and it almost makes me cry cloud is so emo and zack is so awesome

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I like your idea a lot. I've always seen Aeris and Sephiroth as the purely good and purely bad sides on the planet, but I hadn't thought of how their mothers were similarly good and bad, and how their methods were very similar.

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legendary Soldier- that was one sentence!! sort of found myself not being able to stop reading til i'd finished lol.

I kind've like this idea, except did Aeris actually technically summon the lifestream? My understanding is that she cast Holy which 'gave the planet the ability' to use the lifestream to protect the planet...
but its strange to think that had Aeris decided to be the villain, she would have made a better one. Sephy would be turning in his mako-infused grave at the thought of it!

haha your right sephiroth is such a terrible villain