All this adds up to why Cloud had his vision at this moment. The view looks uncannily similar to the forest leading to the Forgotten City, and Aerith is humming the theme of the Temple of the Ancients (albeit at a slower pace than the original track) note Briana White, Aerith's VA, said it was just a random tune she came up on the spot, although that doesn't exclude her having heard of that track before., which was the last time you got to use her as a party member in the original game. Pay attention to the narrowly framed walkway, the greenish-tint of the dim lighting, and the soft tune she's humming as she walks off.When a concerned Aerith comes back to check on him, Cloud can only insist that nothing's wrong, quickly turning away to hide his face from view. Cloud is caught off guard when he finds himself shedding a tear, leaving him in pained confusion unable to understand what it was he just saw, or why he suddenly cried, except that it triggered something deep within his subconsciousness. However, the framing and music that accompany the scene call back to the original game, heavily implying that Cloud experienced a brief glimpse of Aerith's destined fate. Unlike in his earlier episodes, the vision is not shown. When Cloud and Aerith meet up on the passage to Sector 6, Cloud has another one of his vision-induced headaches triggered as he watches Aerith walking ahead of him.The lonely little girl will eventually ask if Cloud wants to be her friend. Thinking that Cloud is all alone with no friends, she says she has no friends either in a forlorn tone. She tells Cloud that she is sick and sneaks out to play at night. While Cloud never interacts directly with her, wait long enough and the little girl will talk to him and ask if he's there to play too. Near the end of chapter four after Cloud escorts Wedge home, you can find a lone child at the same Sector 7 playground where you meet Betty.A subtle example, but if one looks back at how Sephiroth seems to be genuinely sincere as he tells Cloud he will grow stronger through suffering, then it's quite evident that even after how far he fell into insanity, Sephiroth never truly forgot about all that he had to endure in order to gain as much power as he did.It quickly becomes obvious that Cloud is close to his breaking point. Cloud ends up reduced to whimpering in childlike terror, nearly in tears. As Sephiroth approaches him, Cloud backs away a few steps before freezing in place. Cloud has just watched two friends die, failed to prevent the Sector 7 plate from falling, and Aerith has been taken captive by Shinra. Sephiroth appears once again, this time to mock Cloud over his failures. Then, everything comes to a head in chapter fourteen. He finds himself trembling and only finally calms when Aerith holds his hand. Later on, in chapter eight, he runs into a Sephiroth clone in the children's hideout, who grabs him and shows him a vision of Sephiroth musing about the Reunion. Cloud very nearly kills his neighbor in a panic when he believes he has found Sephiroth in the room next door in chapter three. His first instinct is usually to go on the offensive. It can be heartrending to see just how terrified of Sephiroth Cloud really is.
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