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Meeting Aerith During Zack's travails as a SOLDIER, he came to know our iconically ill-fated flower girl, Aerith Gainsborough.

It's possible to take Aerith out on a Gold Saucer date in FF7 Rebirth, so here are the Synergy Skills, dialogue choices, and beachwear picks to level up her relationship.

Cloud and Zack are two sides of the same coin in Final Fantasy VII. What is the history between these two friends?

Crisis Core features a wealth of characters from Final Fantasy 7, with a particular focus on the budding romance between Zack and Aerith. Zack himself is the beating heart of Crisis Core, a superb ...

Briana White recalls one of Aerith's biggest scenes in Final Fantasy VII Rebirth and why she didn't sing in the game.

Aerith’s line clearly connects to her first conversation with Zack, and possibly speaks to her larger discomfort around finally leaving Midgar.

The alternate Marlene, talking to Zack, tells him that Aerith revealed to her that she’ll die because of a man with long, gray hair, who will kill her when Cloud isn’t there to prevent it.

Both Aerith and Cloud are still alive in Zack's world, but they're both comatose--they live, but they're not present.