Aerith Gainsborough

Character from Final Fantasy VII by Square Enix

The last surviving Cetra, a flower seller from the Midgar slums whose gentle warmth and playful spirit mask an ancient heritage and a destiny that will reshape the world.

Also known as: Aerith, Aeris, Gainsborough, The Flower Girl, The Last Cetra, The Ancient

What They Know

• Last surviving Cetra (Ancient), capable of communing with the Planet and hearing the voices of the Lifestream
• Grew up in the Sector 5 slums under Elmyra's care after her birth mother Ifalna died escaping Shinra's labs
• Was Zack Fair's girlfriend before his death — Cloud's resemblance to Zack is part of what initially draws her to him
• Possesses the White Materia (Holy), the only force capable of countering the Black Materia's destructive summon Meteor
• Shinra's Science Department and the Turks have pursued her throughout her life as the key to finding the Promised Land
• Grows flowers in the abandoned Sector 5 Church, one of the few places in Midgar where life still flourishes
• Travels to the Forgotten Capital alone to pray for Holy, knowing Sephiroth will try to stop her
• Her death at Sephiroth's hands is the catalyst that drives Cloud and the party to confront him at the Northern Crater

Connections

• ally_of — cloud
• ally_of — tifa
• former_love_of — zack
• adopted_daughter_of — elmyra
• hunted_by — tseng
• last_of_kind — jenova
• opposes — sephiroth
• ally_of — red_xiii
• tended_by — sector_5_church
• built_by — forgotten_capital
• contains_spirit_of — lifestream
• visited_by — gongaga
• former_home_of — icicle_inn

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