even the wiki disagrees

They’ll take “gotta look forward, not back” like they’re reading a plain script but they’ll ignore Aerith’s face, her voice, her animation, the context, everything that suggests there’s more to it than just letters in words. So it’s pretty weird then that everything else she says practically doesn’t exist. “It isn’t real”? All that talk about Tifa being important to Cloud while also displaying an obvious meta knowledge of things that she shouldn’t, egging him on about it at every chance and expressing happiness about it, “follow your heart”, suddenly none of Aerith’s dialogue holds any weight? Only when it suits their shippy narrative? I guess we’re past the age of calling Tifa a liar then, apparently according to cleriths, that role belongs to the girl in pink now.

Oh, and if the “Tifa is the heroine” translation is faulty due to language despite that video being officially endorsed, so too are the scraps from old gaming magazines that Cali clerith just pulled out her rear to pacify her chickens. You know, the type of game articles that are written / translated by employees in their cubicles? Those are all biased inaccurate mistranslations. lol.

There was a big ol’ leak that happened some months back, people had a hold of unreleased footage and a ton of unfinished images, and I guess at some point there were a handful who got their hands on a file with the script. I’d heard accusations about people from both sides anonymously messaging ship-centric spoilers or something, or would mention a certain thing from the script and request a DM if you wanted to know details that they wouldn’t otherwise want to blast on their timeline, but it’s definitely for the best that the whole script thing stayed sort of on the down low for the most part. No idea where to even find it at this point tbh, but the rest of the leaks honestly just take a quick google / reddit search. 

The clerith logic on this whole “Tifa isn’t important” era is just… it isn’t there. The insecurity is jumping out so hard with all this press, but what else is new. They’re always gonna be out here scrambling to cover their asses, it’s gotta be the most unnecessary stressful fandom existence. Maybe instead of re-convincing their flock of hens that Aerith is THE heroine and that cloti could never be canon with all these doubly compromised translations and pick-and-choosy information, they should just tell their crying cleriths this:  It doesn’t matter. Don’t seek negativity where it doesn’t need to exist. Both characters are beloved. There’s enough room here for all of our favorites.