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Years after the Meteor Crisis, Sephiroth finally manages to overcome AVALANCHE and acheive his goal of consuming the Lifestream. In a desperate gambit to stop this, the Planet's avatar Minerva sends the last Cetra, Aerith Gainsborough, back to a time prior to the start of the crises. Now, with all the knowledge and experience of her older self stuck in the body of a teenage girl, Aerith must find a way to prevent the Calamity from occuring...which means finding a way to keep Shinra's top three [=SOLDIERs=] from going insane.
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Years after the Meteor Crisis, Sephiroth finally manages to overcome AVALANCHE and acheive achieve his goal of consuming the Lifestream. In a desperate gambit to stop this, the Planet's avatar Minerva sends the last Cetra, Aerith Gainsborough, back to a time prior to the start of the crises. Now, with all the knowledge and experience of her older self stuck in the body of a teenage girl, Aerith must find a way to prevent the Calamity from occuring...which means finding a way to keep Shinra's top three [=SOLDIERs=] from going insane.
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* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome:
** Aerith forces her way into SOLDIER, but don't expect the commanding officer to welcome her with open arms, or for her to get any special treatment. She starts at the bottom and has to work her way up.
** After Angeal goes off to confront his mother, Aerith bursts into Sephiroth's office and demands he go check on him. She turns out to have been right to do so, but it doesn't get her out of having to spend a month assisting the janitorial staff for disrespecting her superior. Then becomes two months after she talks back to Genesis.
** Sent back in time after dying, spending ten or so years in the Lifestream and witnessing the end of the world? Girl, you're going to have some issues to work out. Go see a therapist.
** After the aforementioned forcing her way in, rumors start to spread about her, some of them suggesting she slept her way in or has family connections. It also causes a degree of resentment toward her.
** Aerith forces her way into SOLDIER, but don't expect the commanding officer to welcome her with open arms, or for her to get any special treatment. She starts at the bottom and has to work her way up.
** After Angeal goes off to confront his mother, Aerith bursts into Sephiroth's office and demands he go check on him. She turns out to have been right to do so, but it doesn't get her out of having to spend a month assisting the janitorial staff for disrespecting her superior. Then becomes two months after she talks back to Genesis.
** Sent back in time after dying, spending ten or so years in the Lifestream and witnessing the end of the world? Girl, you're going to have some issues to work out. Go see a therapist.
** After the aforementioned forcing her way in, rumors start to spread about her, some of them suggesting she slept her way in or has family connections. It also causes a degree of resentment toward her.
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* AdultFear: Aerith returns home for the first time since the time switch, after weeks spent at Shinra Tower, to fnd Elmyra stewing in misery. Her daughter is gone, the Turks have vanished and no one has told her anything about what's happening.
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[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12467745/1/A-Flower-s-Touch ''A Flower's Touch'']] is a ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII'' AlternateUniverse fanfic by [=WavesBlade=].
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[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12467745/1/A-Flower-s-Touch ''A Flower's Touch'' Touch'']] is a ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII'' AlternateUniverse fanfic by [=WavesBlade=].
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* FutureMeScaresMe: Sephiroth comes to have a ''very'' low opinion of his One-Winged Angel self, especially with regards to Aerith's death, the notion of stabbing an unarmed woman who is no physical threat to him in the back while she's kneeling in prayer being particularly distasteful. He notes this when he and Angeal are discussing whether Aerith's had visions of the future or is actually ''from'' the future. Seph hopes it's the former, as that's just a possibility, whereas if she's from the future, it means his actions were so grevious time itself had to be rewritten.
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* FutureMeScaresMe: Sephiroth comes to have a ''very'' low opinion of his One-Winged Angel self, especially with regards to Aerith's death, the notion of stabbing an unarmed woman who is no physical threat to him in the back while she's kneeling in prayer being particularly distasteful. He notes this when he and Angeal are discussing whether Aerith's had visions of the future or is actually ''from'' the future. Seph hopes it's the former, as that's just a possibility, whereas if she's from the future, it means his actions were so grevious grievous time itself had to be rewritten.
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* DoesNotKNowHerOwnStrength: Aerith is wholly unprepared for the strength that comes with Mako enhancements. She's tasked with picking up drinking glasses until she can do so without shattering them just from holding them.
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* DoesNotKNowHerOwnStrength: DoesNotKnowHerOwnStrength: Aerith is wholly unprepared for the strength that comes with Mako enhancements. She's tasked with picking up drinking glasses until she can do so without shattering them just from holding them.
* Surprisingly Realistic Outcome:
** Aerith forces her way into SOLDIER, but don't expect the commanding officer to welcome her with open arms, or for her to get any special treatment. She starts at the bottom and has to work her way up.
** After Angeal goes off to confront his mother, Aerith bursts into Sephiroth's office and demands he go check on him. She turns out to have been right to do so, but it doesn't get her out of having to spend a month assisting the janitorial staff for disrespecting her superior. Then becomes two months after she talks back to Genesis.
** Sent back in time after dying, spending ten or so years in the Lifestream and witnessing the end of the world? Girl, you're going to have some issues to work out. Go see a therapist.
** After the aforementioned forcing her way in, rumors start to spread about her, some of them suggesting she slept her way in or has family connections. It also causes a degree of resentment toward her.
** Aerith forces her way into SOLDIER, but don't expect the commanding officer to welcome her with open arms, or for her to get any special treatment. She starts at the bottom and has to work her way up.
** After Angeal goes off to confront his mother, Aerith bursts into Sephiroth's office and demands he go check on him. She turns out to have been right to do so, but it doesn't get her out of having to spend a month assisting the janitorial staff for disrespecting her superior. Then becomes two months after she talks back to Genesis.
** Sent back in time after dying, spending ten or so years in the Lifestream and witnessing the end of the world? Girl, you're going to have some issues to work out. Go see a therapist.
** After the aforementioned forcing her way in, rumors start to spread about her, some of them suggesting she slept her way in or has family connections. It also causes a degree of resentment toward her.
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* WhatTheHellHero: Aerith gets this quite a bit throughout the story. The biggest comes when she invites herself into SOLDIER, despite not having any of the prerequisite training or going through the proper channels and, as Sephiroth angrily points out, circumventing his authority.
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* WhatTheHellHero: Aerith gets this quite a bit throughout the story.
** The biggest comes when she invites herself into SOLDIER, despite not having any of the prerequisite training or going through the proper channels and, as Sephiroth angrily points out, circumventing hisauthority.authority.
** He himself gets one later from SOLDIER Cody, a far more polite one, but it still fits for not utilizing Aerith's healing abilities earlier.
** The biggest comes when she invites herself into SOLDIER, despite not having any of the prerequisite training or going through the proper channels and, as Sephiroth angrily points out, circumventing his
** He himself gets one later from SOLDIER Cody, a far more polite one, but it still fits for not utilizing Aerith's healing abilities earlier.
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* {{Adorkable}}: Zack in general. Zack bouncing on his heels begging Aerith to go on a mission with him.
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''A Flower's Touch'' is a ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII'' AlternateUniverse fanfic by [=WavesBlade=].
Years after the Meteor Crisis, Sephiroth finally manages to overcome AVALANCHE and acheive his goal of consuming the Lifestream. In a desperate gambit to stop this, the Planet's avatar Minerva sends the last Cetra, Aerith Gainsborough, back to a time prior to the start of the crises. Now, with all the knowledge and experience of her older self stuck in the body of a teenage girl, Aerith must find a way to prevent the Calamity from occuring...which means finding a way to keep Shinra's top three [=SOLDIERs=] from going insane.
Easy, right?
This story contains examples of:
* {{Adorkable}}: Zack in general. Zack bouncing on his heels begging Aerith to go on a mission with him.
* AdultFear: Aerith returns home for the first time since the time switch, after weeks spent at Shinra Tower, to fnd Elmyra stewing in misery. Her daughter is gone, the Turks have vanished and no one has told her anything about what's happening.
* AlternateUniverse: Armed with knowledge of the future, Aerith is sent back to before any of the games begin and immediately starts altering events.
* AttemptedRape: Aerith describes a time when someone lured her into an alley and ripped her clothes off. Reno intervened and shoved his electro-staff through the guy's eye.
* BadLiar: Sephiroth describes Aerith as speaking with such honesty that it's easy to tell when she's lying, telling a partial truth or hiding something.
* BigDamnHeroes: Aerith and Zack's encounter with the sewer monster could have turned out very bady had Angeal not been following them. As it is, once it turns out they're in over their heads, he strolls in and handily defeats the thing.
* BlackMail: Angeal decides to use the video he took of Zack and Aerith on a mission for future contingencies. [[spoiler: Although it's really something to cheer him up if he starts getting depressed about his mother's perceived betrayal and suicide]].
* BreatherEpisode: Chapter 23, which is "Ace Reporter Angeal Hewely" following "the rare and elusive pup (Zack) in its natural habitat". It ends with Zack and Aerith in the sewer facing off against the sewer monster and getting humiliated until Angeal steps in and saves them. And catches the whole thing on video.
* ChargeIntoCombatCut: After [[spoiler:Angeal's mother kills herself]], he flies into a rage, punches Sephiroth through a wall then comes at him with sword drawn. The scene then cuts to the two of them arriving battered and bloody back at Shinra Tower.
* CurbStompBattle: After it knocks around Zack and Aerith, Angeal beats the sewer monster with hardly a sweat.
* {{Deconstruction}}: Chapters 19-22 become one of Aerith as she meets with Dr. Redman to sort out her traumas and other issues, particularly her years as Hojo's specimen.
* {{Determinator}}: Aerith is bound and determined to succeed in SOLDIER, no matter what it takes. It gets to the point that she becomes so obsessed with it that Sephiroth has to actually ''order'' her to take some time off and go see her mother.
* DidNotThinkThisThrough: Stems a lot from being thrown back in time with just the objective of averting the Planet's destruction, but otherwise having no real notion on how to do that.
* DoesNotKNowHerOwnStrength: Aerith is wholly unprepared for the strength that comes with Mako enhancements. She's tasked with picking up drinking glasses until she can do so without shattering them just from holding them.
* DrillSergeantNasty: Sargent Crawford, who becomes Aerith's trainer after joining SOLDIER. He's actually a fairly mild example, but Aerith still regards him as pretty nasty.
* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler: Gillian, after Angeal confronts her about her role in the JENOVA Project, kills herself out of a sense of guilt and shame]].
* EyeScream: How Reno dealt with Aerith's would-be rapist.
* FutureMeScaresMe: Sephiroth comes to have a ''very'' low opinion of his One-Winged Angel self, especially with regards to Aerith's death, the notion of stabbing an unarmed woman who is no physical threat to him in the back while she's kneeling in prayer being particularly distasteful. He notes this when he and Angeal are discussing whether Aerith's had visions of the future or is actually ''from'' the future. Seph hopes it's the former, as that's just a possibility, whereas if she's from the future, it means his actions were so grevious time itself had to be rewritten.
* GetOut: After a rather cutting remark about Redman's fate in chapter 21, the doctor ends their session and tells Aerith to get out.
* GodInHumanForm: Minerva merges with Aerith, bestowing on her part of her power. This manifests from time to time when Aerith becomes aware of something that could potentially become a threat to the planet, causing her to adopt a ''much'' harder stance than she would usually take, and giving her eyes an unusual golden glow.
* GreenThumb: Aerith finds that she can thread the Lifestream through plants and cause them to grow at an extremely fast rate.
* HealingHands: On her first mission with [=SOLDIERs=] other than Zack or the Trio, Aerith is able to completely restore one SOLDIER's leg that had been shredded by a landmine.
* HeroicBSOD: An absolutely ''massive'' one. Dr. Redman's probing into Aerith's past brings up memories so painful she curls up into a ball blubbering apologies. It takes them bringing Elmyra in to finally calm her down enough to bring her out of it.
* INeedAFreakingDrink:
** Dr. Redman (Jessie's mom), upon hearing how her daughter met her fate in the original timeline, shuts down their session and goes to hit a bar.
** Sephiroth, after listening to his recordings of Aerith's therapy and hearing how the One-Winged Angel kept returning and wearing down AVALANCHE until he beat them, finds the hardest liquor he has, lamenting that his Mako enhancements don't allow him feel more than a slight burn down his throat.
* {{Irony}}: ''Sephiroth'' of all people trying to get Aerith to not throw her life away and trying to keep her from getting herself killed by running off and trying to take care of JENOVA all on her own.
* MadScientist: Chapter 19 covers Aerith's life in the labs under Hojo's care in all its horrific, gory detail.
* MamaBear:
** Aerith may have willingly gone back to Shira, but Elmyra will still stand up to anyone there see to her daughter's well-being.
** Ifalna in Aerith's description of her time in the labs, though she didn't have much power there. She still protects Aerith as much as she can, outright threatening Hojo when he gets up to some of his more egregious experiments. [[spoiler:And when Hojo attempts to impregnate Aerith, she goes full-on berserker mode, killing her way out of the labs until they reach the train station where eventually Elmyra finds them]].
* MercyKill: Ifalna threatened this if Hojo ever [[spoiler: attempted to inject Aerith with Jenova cells again]].
* NamedByTheAdaptation: Jessie's mother was not so much as mentioned in the original game, and as of [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyVIIRemake Remake]], she is an actual character now, but still doesn't have a name except a last name, Rasberry).
* PlayingWithSyringes: The above mentioned Jenova injections, but Aerith describes being injected with things that run the full spectrum of reactions from her.
-->'''Aerith''': One time, it felt like my insides were liquefying. You have no idea how painful that was. Even after I was healed, even with my birth mother's magic, the pain stayed for days....I've been in all kinds of states from what he put into me. Feeling detached from my own body. Delirious out of my mind. Sicker than a dog. Hyperactive to the point of bouncing off a wall, literally. I think being hypersensitive to everything was the worst. My state of mind changed day to day, he put enough chemicals in me to make teenage moodswings seem pleasant in comparison.
* PrecisionFStrike: When Dr. Redman asks if Elmyra is aware of what Aerith went through in the labs, Elmyra recounts how Aerith used to act like it was normal, expecting it to continue, and describing in detail what happened, capping it off with, "YES, I'M FUCKING AWARE!"
* PyrrhicVictory: Aerith realizes the war the Ancients fought against Jenova wasn't really won, they just managed to contain her while their civilization was all but destroyed.
* RapeAsDrama: After Hojo decided he needed more specimens, he attempted to force Ifalna to bear more. [[spoiler: And when she wouldn't give him one, he began a hormone treatment on Aerith to jump-start her child bearing. That's when they ran.]]
* SensingYouAreOutmatched: Aerith comes to this realization when she insists on finding and taking on the sewer monster, and is surprised when it turns out to be a lot stronger than she remembers, then realizes that the first time, Cloud was with her and at the time had 1st class Mako enhancements. She and Zack are only 3rd class.
* TheShrink: Dr. Redman is assigned as Aerith's therapist. She starts off as leaning toward the well-meaning but ineffectual side to gradually becoming more effective as time goes on, [[spoiler:seemingly learning from Aerith's breakdown]], as she learns just what kind of case she has on her hand with not just one, but ''two'' lives worth of trauma.
* SupernaturalGoldEyes: Vincent gets these when Chaos is speaking through him, and Aerith herself also gets them when she is apparently channeling Minerva.
* ThatsAnOrder: Aerith gets this when told to go see Dr. Redman. Earlier, Sephiroth tells her to go see her mother, who she hadn't seen since the time switch, and says he will make it an order if need be.
* ThisIsGonnaSuck: Aerith when she's called to meet the Trio after they've had their true natures revealed to them and are clearly not in the best of moods. She has to keep reminding herself that things are different now and she's not going to be run through with the Masamune this time...right? *''gulp''*
** A more minor one comes when she realizes she has to go through ''puberty''...again!
* WhatTheHellHero: Aerith gets this quite a bit throughout the story. The biggest comes when she invites herself into SOLDIER, despite not having any of the prerequisite training or going through the proper channels and, as Sephiroth angrily points out, circumventing his authority.
Years after the Meteor Crisis, Sephiroth finally manages to overcome AVALANCHE and acheive his goal of consuming the Lifestream. In a desperate gambit to stop this, the Planet's avatar Minerva sends the last Cetra, Aerith Gainsborough, back to a time prior to the start of the crises. Now, with all the knowledge and experience of her older self stuck in the body of a teenage girl, Aerith must find a way to prevent the Calamity from occuring...which means finding a way to keep Shinra's top three [=SOLDIERs=] from going insane.
Easy, right?
This story contains examples of:
* {{Adorkable}}: Zack in general. Zack bouncing on his heels begging Aerith to go on a mission with him.
* AdultFear: Aerith returns home for the first time since the time switch, after weeks spent at Shinra Tower, to fnd Elmyra stewing in misery. Her daughter is gone, the Turks have vanished and no one has told her anything about what's happening.
* AlternateUniverse: Armed with knowledge of the future, Aerith is sent back to before any of the games begin and immediately starts altering events.
* AttemptedRape: Aerith describes a time when someone lured her into an alley and ripped her clothes off. Reno intervened and shoved his electro-staff through the guy's eye.
* BadLiar: Sephiroth describes Aerith as speaking with such honesty that it's easy to tell when she's lying, telling a partial truth or hiding something.
* BigDamnHeroes: Aerith and Zack's encounter with the sewer monster could have turned out very bady had Angeal not been following them. As it is, once it turns out they're in over their heads, he strolls in and handily defeats the thing.
* BlackMail: Angeal decides to use the video he took of Zack and Aerith on a mission for future contingencies. [[spoiler: Although it's really something to cheer him up if he starts getting depressed about his mother's perceived betrayal and suicide]].
* BreatherEpisode: Chapter 23, which is "Ace Reporter Angeal Hewely" following "the rare and elusive pup (Zack) in its natural habitat". It ends with Zack and Aerith in the sewer facing off against the sewer monster and getting humiliated until Angeal steps in and saves them. And catches the whole thing on video.
* ChargeIntoCombatCut: After [[spoiler:Angeal's mother kills herself]], he flies into a rage, punches Sephiroth through a wall then comes at him with sword drawn. The scene then cuts to the two of them arriving battered and bloody back at Shinra Tower.
* CurbStompBattle: After it knocks around Zack and Aerith, Angeal beats the sewer monster with hardly a sweat.
* {{Deconstruction}}: Chapters 19-22 become one of Aerith as she meets with Dr. Redman to sort out her traumas and other issues, particularly her years as Hojo's specimen.
* {{Determinator}}: Aerith is bound and determined to succeed in SOLDIER, no matter what it takes. It gets to the point that she becomes so obsessed with it that Sephiroth has to actually ''order'' her to take some time off and go see her mother.
* DidNotThinkThisThrough: Stems a lot from being thrown back in time with just the objective of averting the Planet's destruction, but otherwise having no real notion on how to do that.
* DoesNotKNowHerOwnStrength: Aerith is wholly unprepared for the strength that comes with Mako enhancements. She's tasked with picking up drinking glasses until she can do so without shattering them just from holding them.
* DrillSergeantNasty: Sargent Crawford, who becomes Aerith's trainer after joining SOLDIER. He's actually a fairly mild example, but Aerith still regards him as pretty nasty.
* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler: Gillian, after Angeal confronts her about her role in the JENOVA Project, kills herself out of a sense of guilt and shame]].
* EyeScream: How Reno dealt with Aerith's would-be rapist.
* FutureMeScaresMe: Sephiroth comes to have a ''very'' low opinion of his One-Winged Angel self, especially with regards to Aerith's death, the notion of stabbing an unarmed woman who is no physical threat to him in the back while she's kneeling in prayer being particularly distasteful. He notes this when he and Angeal are discussing whether Aerith's had visions of the future or is actually ''from'' the future. Seph hopes it's the former, as that's just a possibility, whereas if she's from the future, it means his actions were so grevious time itself had to be rewritten.
* GetOut: After a rather cutting remark about Redman's fate in chapter 21, the doctor ends their session and tells Aerith to get out.
* GodInHumanForm: Minerva merges with Aerith, bestowing on her part of her power. This manifests from time to time when Aerith becomes aware of something that could potentially become a threat to the planet, causing her to adopt a ''much'' harder stance than she would usually take, and giving her eyes an unusual golden glow.
* GreenThumb: Aerith finds that she can thread the Lifestream through plants and cause them to grow at an extremely fast rate.
* HealingHands: On her first mission with [=SOLDIERs=] other than Zack or the Trio, Aerith is able to completely restore one SOLDIER's leg that had been shredded by a landmine.
* HeroicBSOD: An absolutely ''massive'' one. Dr. Redman's probing into Aerith's past brings up memories so painful she curls up into a ball blubbering apologies. It takes them bringing Elmyra in to finally calm her down enough to bring her out of it.
* INeedAFreakingDrink:
** Dr. Redman (Jessie's mom), upon hearing how her daughter met her fate in the original timeline, shuts down their session and goes to hit a bar.
** Sephiroth, after listening to his recordings of Aerith's therapy and hearing how the One-Winged Angel kept returning and wearing down AVALANCHE until he beat them, finds the hardest liquor he has, lamenting that his Mako enhancements don't allow him feel more than a slight burn down his throat.
* {{Irony}}: ''Sephiroth'' of all people trying to get Aerith to not throw her life away and trying to keep her from getting herself killed by running off and trying to take care of JENOVA all on her own.
* MadScientist: Chapter 19 covers Aerith's life in the labs under Hojo's care in all its horrific, gory detail.
* MamaBear:
** Aerith may have willingly gone back to Shira, but Elmyra will still stand up to anyone there see to her daughter's well-being.
** Ifalna in Aerith's description of her time in the labs, though she didn't have much power there. She still protects Aerith as much as she can, outright threatening Hojo when he gets up to some of his more egregious experiments. [[spoiler:And when Hojo attempts to impregnate Aerith, she goes full-on berserker mode, killing her way out of the labs until they reach the train station where eventually Elmyra finds them]].
* MercyKill: Ifalna threatened this if Hojo ever [[spoiler: attempted to inject Aerith with Jenova cells again]].
* NamedByTheAdaptation: Jessie's mother was not so much as mentioned in the original game, and as of [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyVIIRemake Remake]], she is an actual character now, but still doesn't have a name except a last name, Rasberry).
* PlayingWithSyringes: The above mentioned Jenova injections, but Aerith describes being injected with things that run the full spectrum of reactions from her.
-->'''Aerith''': One time, it felt like my insides were liquefying. You have no idea how painful that was. Even after I was healed, even with my birth mother's magic, the pain stayed for days....I've been in all kinds of states from what he put into me. Feeling detached from my own body. Delirious out of my mind. Sicker than a dog. Hyperactive to the point of bouncing off a wall, literally. I think being hypersensitive to everything was the worst. My state of mind changed day to day, he put enough chemicals in me to make teenage moodswings seem pleasant in comparison.
* PrecisionFStrike: When Dr. Redman asks if Elmyra is aware of what Aerith went through in the labs, Elmyra recounts how Aerith used to act like it was normal, expecting it to continue, and describing in detail what happened, capping it off with, "YES, I'M FUCKING AWARE!"
* PyrrhicVictory: Aerith realizes the war the Ancients fought against Jenova wasn't really won, they just managed to contain her while their civilization was all but destroyed.
* RapeAsDrama: After Hojo decided he needed more specimens, he attempted to force Ifalna to bear more. [[spoiler: And when she wouldn't give him one, he began a hormone treatment on Aerith to jump-start her child bearing. That's when they ran.]]
* SensingYouAreOutmatched: Aerith comes to this realization when she insists on finding and taking on the sewer monster, and is surprised when it turns out to be a lot stronger than she remembers, then realizes that the first time, Cloud was with her and at the time had 1st class Mako enhancements. She and Zack are only 3rd class.
* TheShrink: Dr. Redman is assigned as Aerith's therapist. She starts off as leaning toward the well-meaning but ineffectual side to gradually becoming more effective as time goes on, [[spoiler:seemingly learning from Aerith's breakdown]], as she learns just what kind of case she has on her hand with not just one, but ''two'' lives worth of trauma.
* SupernaturalGoldEyes: Vincent gets these when Chaos is speaking through him, and Aerith herself also gets them when she is apparently channeling Minerva.
* ThatsAnOrder: Aerith gets this when told to go see Dr. Redman. Earlier, Sephiroth tells her to go see her mother, who she hadn't seen since the time switch, and says he will make it an order if need be.
* ThisIsGonnaSuck: Aerith when she's called to meet the Trio after they've had their true natures revealed to them and are clearly not in the best of moods. She has to keep reminding herself that things are different now and she's not going to be run through with the Masamune this time...right? *''gulp''*
** A more minor one comes when she realizes she has to go through ''puberty''...again!
* WhatTheHellHero: Aerith gets this quite a bit throughout the story. The biggest comes when she invites herself into SOLDIER, despite not having any of the prerequisite training or going through the proper channels and, as Sephiroth angrily points out, circumventing his authority.
