Īerith and Zack kept in contact for the next two years. Zack promised to see Aerith again after he was called back to headquarters. The two visited the Sector 6 park, and Aerith told Zack she feared SOLDIER members for being experiments who love to fight, apologizing when Zack revealed he was in SOLDIER. She showed him around the Sector 5 slums, and Zack bought Aerith her trademark pink hair ribbon. After mistaking Aerith for an angel, Zack asked her out to a date, but Aerith brushed him off. In 0001, Aerith met Zack Fair after he fell into the church from Mako Reactor 5. I have twenty-three tiny wishes, but you probably won't remember them all, so I put them all together into one. When Kyrie was 10, after learning about the Ancients from her grandmother and figuring Aerith to be one, she ended the friendship with the 15-year-old Aerith due to feeling uncomfortable. One day, Aerith told Kyrie to hurry home, and when she did, Kyrie saw her parents' bodies carried in after being killed for stealing a man's wallet. She was close friends with Kyrie Canaan, and the two often played together in the church.
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Regardless, Aerith cultivated a flower patch out of the dirt under the church's floorboards, as well as a large garden outside her house. Due to the mako reactors draining the life out of Midgar and the surrounding areas, little could grow around the metropolis. Growing up, Aerith spent a lot of time in the Sector 5 slums church. As she grew up, Aerith continued to hear the planet, and although she was reluctant to admit it, she was aware of her Cetra heritage and strove to hide it. Shinra eventually found her again, and Tseng of the Turks attempted to persuade her to join Shinra willingly instead of capturing her, but Aerith refused. For years, Elmyra raised Aerith alone as her adopted daughter in the slums of Sector 5. Elmyra Gainsborough was there waiting for her husband's return from the Wutai War, and before passing, Ifalna asked her to keep Aerith safe, and so Elmyra brought Aerith home with her. Ifalna was wounded and only made it as far as the train platform in the Sector 7 slums before collapsing. Seven years later, in 1992, Ifalna and Aerith escaped the Shinra Building. Young Aerith in her new home with Elmyra Gainsborough. He poisoned his friends with mako and assumed the identity of one of them, Glenn Reiner, but ended up getting mako poisoning himself. Geddie-looking to make money-headed there to find the promised land for himself. A boy who was Aerith's playmate at the facility, his mother working as a caretaker of Aerith and Ifalna, instructed her to draw Mideel. Aerith made drawings of what was interpreted to depict the promised land, the land of legend Shinra believed was fertile in mako energy. As told in Final Fantasy VII Remake: Picturing the Past, a man named Geddie Bach watched over Aerith and Ifalna while they were held in captivity. Held in the Shinra Building, Aerith and Ifalna became subject to numerous experiments at the hands of Hojo and Shinra. When she was barely twenty days old, Professor Hojo tracked Gast down, killed him, and captured Ifalna and Aerith. History Before Final Fantasy VII Early life Īerith was born to Ifalna and Professor Gast Faremis in Icicle Inn on February 7, 1985, making her half- human and half-Cetra.