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Special thanks to the Lawaifuteca Youtube channel for the inspiration.
La Waifuteca: The Fanfiction Series.
23- Aerith Gainsborough.
Measurements:
Bust: 81 cm.
Waist: 59 cm.
Hips: 84 cm.
Age:
22 years old.
Height:
163 cm.
Weight:
52 kg.
Eyes:
Green.
Hair:
Brown.
What's the Deal with Aerith Gainsborough?
She is, quoting the Page that Shall not Be Mentioned Until ye Next Paragraph:
"A young woman who sells flowers for a living in the slums of Midgar. Her years on the streets have given her a outgoing, street-smart but caring attitude. She is the last living Cetra, a precursor race who were driven to extinction by JENOVA."
So she's basically like the Dodo but very pretty and selling flowers. She's just lucky she lived before you could just but flowers online. Maybe she'd become an Influencer then. Scratch that, Influencing is evil. Kefka Palazzo might be evil enough to do Influencing. Might be.
The Way Too Cool For TV Tropes Aerith Unofficial Tropes Page!
TV Tropes will ruin your life, turning you into a Glass Generation adult child Social Justice Warrior!
You will start spending all your posting time walking on eggshells, afraid of Fighteer and his team slamming your posts down and telling you "Our way or the highway!"
You will start joining witch hunts for works to delete, saying "You heard they were sexy!"
Action Girl: Until she is killed. The devs discussed having her as an Action Pretty Corpse afterward by implementing a function where Cloud could swing her around like a weapon but it was in bad taste, or so Sony said but they released the Morbius movie so what do they know.
Adaptational Dumbass: See Flanderization below. Also, whenever I write her, since you only can write characters who am as smart as yourself.
Adaptational Wimp: Doesn't get a lot to do in Kingdom Hearts, but that's all the best to stay unnoticed, healthy, and without being turned into an Original Character Donnut Steel wearing a long black overcoat and sporting a dumb name with a strategically placed X.
Aerith and Bob: Subverted trope, she doesn't know any Bobs. Bob Parr was in Kingdom Hearts III but she wasn't.
Alternate Self: Being in a successful franchise will do that to you as long as executives have any money to squeeze from your exploits.
Art Shift: Originally she was a SD midget with a huge skull when the game was going to be for the Nintendo Ultra 64.
Then she was changed into the Aerith we know and love.
Then Kingdom Hearts came and she was... okay. She was still cute. Kingdom Hearts does cute well. It has to, it has Disney after all.
Then the remake sent her to live in the Uncanny Valley.
Ascended to a Higher Plane of Existence: Averted, she went from Final Fantasy to Kingdom Hearts.
Beard of Evil: Subverted. She doesn't have a beard and she isn't evil. She might have been sexier if she had a beard and she were evil, but YMMV.
Betty and Veronica: The Veronica to Tifa's Betty, except without all the Yuri subtext unless you ask demented fanfic writers. As usual, the Veronica is better than the Betty.
Braids of Action: Downplayed in that she has braids and she's an Action Girl but she never hits anyone with her braids.
Breakthrough Character: She isn't as cool as Auron, but who in FF is? FF means Final Fantasy, we all know Haggar is cooler than Auron.
Celebrity Voice Actor: Mandy Moore! She is also Rapunzel!
Crossover: She once met Donald Duck, so she's only one degree away from crossing over with Daffy Duck.
Die For Our Ship: Not really? I guess? I mean, it may look that way, but I honestly don't think anyone in the writing team wanted to kill her just to clear a path for Tifa, as seen in subsequent installements. Kind of a pity. It might have been a juicier story if they had.
Doomed by Canon: Unless it's the Kingdom Hearts version of her. In this case she just... kind of stops appearing... Maybe KH lore gave her a headache.
Happily Adopted: By Elmyra, who actually finds little!Aerith by the side of her dying mother Ifalna in the local train station, and ta- Wait, Elmyra?! Great, now I can't stop imagining Aerith hugging Buster Bunny to suffocation while calling him George.
Her Heart Will Move On: After Zack is killed she does the sensible thing and moves on with her life but creepily obsessed purityfags never forgive her and call her a hussy.
Flanderization: In that funny looking Deviant Art fancomic. I haven't felt bothered to actually read it, but I looked over some art! It looks really nice! It put the art for the Let's Split Gang trope! That was a funny gag! Why haven't I actually read that comic yet? Oh, yeah, 2,000 other things to do at the time.
Friend to All Children: Downplayed, most Final Fantasy VII players aren't children. Stupid Mario Bros.!
Girl on Girl is Hot: Those doujinshi with Tifa.
Healing Hands: Sadly she skipped the 'Heal a sword hole right through yourself' class in her Healing Hands lessons.
Iconic Outfit: Which she rarely changes out of. Pee-yeeeww! But then again it's for recognition. Look at what it's done for the Scooby Doo crew.
Iconic Sequel Character: It took us seven games to get this girl!
Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: "It wasn't a hate crime! I'm not prejudiced! I'm an equal opportunity killer!" Sephiroth protested.
Kill the Cutie: Heads should have rolled.
Leg Focus: Her dress only shows a tiny little bit of it but that just makes the teasing more alluring.
Lethal Chef: The real reason why Sephiroth killed her since he never forgot the time he ate one of her special stews.
Why do you think he aimed for her stomach?
Loving a Shadow: Aversion, Shadow is in Final Fantasy VI and she is in Final Fantasy VII.
Messianic Archetype: But they never nail her to a cross, thank goodness. That's always so on the nose, isn't it, Superman?
Mons: There's this cool fanfic where she is a Saver class Servant to Kishinami Hakuno in the Moon Cell Grail War.
Ms. Fanservice: Not this girl! She has class and doesn't need to dress like a skank to be sexy and... I'm shutting up, sorry, I didn't mean to offend your faction.
Naughty Tentacles: This trope doesn't exist. The management wants you to know that it never existed. Aerith was never touched by these anyway. Other than in those doujinshi.
One True Pairing: Sephiroth's sword and Aerith.
Our Ghosts Are Different: After being killed, she keeps on appearing to Cloud asking him if he washed behind his ears, flossed and had a good sleep. She also watches as Cloud and Tifa have sex. Weirdo.
Out of Focus: In Kingdom Hearts, but she gets the last laugh when EVERYONE from Final Fantasy ends up Out of Focus by III.
Parasol of Pain: She learned umbrella-fu from Oswald Cobblepot, but Square and DC aren't legally allowed to acknowledge it.
Pink Is Feminine: Which is why Mom wouldn't let me cosplay as Aerith.
Public Domain Character: In about eighty years from now on.
Red Mage: Turns out she was a Dirty Commie the whole time.
Referenced By: The Tsundere female cat in VG Cats. Is that something to be proud of? OM gives his approval to Aeris.
Second Love: Cloud. Purityfags never forgave her that because USED GOODS REEEEEEE. That's why they'll never have sex.
Schedule Slip: Her Tales as Old as Time Servant profile.
Ship Tease: With Cloud. Downplayed in that there is tease but neither of them is a ship.
Shipping Goggles: Fans pair her with Sora like EVERY OTHER WOMAN IN THE MULTIVERSE.
Silk Hiding Steel: Subverted and averted and deconstructed, she doesn't wear silk and she isn't a cyborg.
Spell My Name With an S: Aeris or Aerith? Aerith sounds cooler, end of the discussion, now just shut up.
Spinoff Babies: FFVII was to have one but Nomura held his breath until the execs gave up. Trust me, I have an uncle in Square.
Squishy Wizard: She was killed by merely having a behemoth sword running through her. What a weakling.
Staff Chick: They call them Futanari now. No, wait, they call them White Magician Girls now. See White Magician Girl below.
Stripperiffic: See Ms. Fanservice above. But just give Square Enix two decades more and you'll see a remake where you can make Aerith walk around in a string bikini. Unless Political Correction wins! The horror!
The Lost Lenore: AAAAAAAANGST, CLOUD! AAAAAAAAANGST!
The Medic: She's better at it than Donald Duck. Just heal Sora already, you literal quack!
They Wasted a Perfectly Good Character: Her braids. She never hits anyone with them!
Token Loli: What the funk are you talking about? Mature woman charm all the way, baby! This trope doesn't exist anymore either, and Wise Management says it never did. But, 'Token Mini Moe'? Yuck.
Tomboy and Girly Girl: "You thought Tifa would be the Tomboy, but it was I, Aerith!" she said, surprising Cloud, who never imagined Aerith read Jojos.
Trailers Always Lie: No matter what the trailers for any videogames she is in say, it's never the Final Fantasy.
Whatever Happened to the Mouse?: Inverted in Kingdom Hearts, the Mouse keeps on appearing but it's Aerith who doesn't anymore and we don't know if she ever was reunited with that deadbeat Cloud bum. You can do better than that, girl.
White Magician Girl: I admit that the one in 8 Bit Theater is better but that's a high bar to jump.
Yamato Nadeshiko: Wait, this isn't a 100 Kanojo entry. What does Naddy have to do with any of this?
Zero Approval Rating: With shippers of Cloud/Sephiroth.
Conclusion: Aunque Zack se la haya echado, no se le mira el colmillo a un caballo regalado.