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Aerith "Aeris" Gainsborough

Aerith Gainsborough
Animeography
Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children
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Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children Complete
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Mangaography
Kingdom Hearts
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Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories
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Kingdom Hearts 2
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Aerith Gainsborough (エアリス・ゲインズブール)
Aerith is a character from Final Fantasy VII who is protrayed as kind and gentle, who helps out her friends to the best of her ability. She is seen wearing a pink ribbion in her hair and brown combat boots. She is also a pontential love intrest to Cloud, alongside Tifa. She and Zack were in love with each other.

Aerith Gainsborough is introduced as a flower girl, when she briefly converses with Cloud Strife, a mercenary who is fleeing from the bombing of a Mako reactor by himself and AVALANCHE. The two later meet in Aerith's church in the Sector 5 slums, where she is faced with the possibility of being captured by the Turks. Aerith asks Cloud to be her bodyguard for the cost of one date. She is eventually apprehended, but once again rescued by Cloud and company. Aerith then joins them in the pursuit of Sephiroth, while embarking on a journey of self-discovery as well.

After a failed attempt to foil Sephiroth's theft of the Black Materia, Aerith ventures alone into the Forgotten City for an unknown purpose. Cloud and his companions give chase, eventually finding her praying at an altar. As Aerith looks up to smile at Cloud, Sephiroth appears and kills her by impaling her through the torso. The materia given to her by her mother, which she wore in her hair, falls from the altar into the water. After fighting an incarnation of Jenova, Cloud carries Aerith's body out into a lake in the Forgotten City, and releases her back to the Planet.

The party later learns the reason for Aerith being in the Forgotten City; through her White Materia, Aerith was able to summon Holy, the only force capable of repelling the ultimate destructive magic, Meteor. Though Aerith successfully casts Holy before her death, it is held back by the power of Sephiroth's will. When Sephiroth was finally defeated and Holy was released, it appears that it was too late to function as effectively as it should, for Meteor - already summoned by Sephiroth and set on a collision course with the Planet - has come too near the Planet's surface. While Holy clashes with Meteor, attempting to prevent its impact, the gravity of both Meteor and the Planet pulling on the spell in opposite directions weakens it, leaving it with too little room to take effect. The Planet's Lifestream then flows forth from within the planet, intervening with Holy and Meteor, and acting as a battering ram while aiding in the destruction of Meteor. This scene is followed by a vision of Aerith within the Lifestream's energy.

Aerith makes several appearances in the CGI film, Final Fantasy VII Advent Children, as Cloud's spiritual guide, urging him to move on in life, to forgive himself for the tragedies that were beyond his control and that she never blamed him for her death. During their spiritual reunion, Aerith speaks to Cloud in an open meadow laden with flowers, cheerfully and kindheartedly poking fun at how he needlessly burdens himself with the past, but acknowledges his suffering and offers kind words of support.

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Voice Actors
Sakamoto, Maaya
Japanese
Doering, Manja
German
Suvari, Mena
English

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