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Aerith Gainsborough (also known as “Aeris” Gainsborough due to a translation error in the original FFVII) was born on February 7th, 1985 in Icicle Inn of the Northern Continent to Professor Gast Faremis and Ifalna, last of the Cetra race. Upon her mother’s death, Aerith was considered the last known Cetra.

Listed as 5′3 with blood type O, she is the following ages during the Compliation:

15-22 in Crisis Core
17 in Before Crisis
22 in the original FFVII

Less than a month after her birth, Aerith was captured along with her mother by Professor Hojo and taken back to ShinRa where she would spend the first seven years of her life. In 1992 she fled with her mother under the plate but was orphaned when Ifalna died at the train station from wounds inflicted by ShinRa’s security during their escape.

Elymra Gainsborough, having been waiting at the station for her husband in hopes of his return from the Wutai war, took in the seven year old and raised her as her own daughter. While the Turks would eventually find her again and maintained surveillance during her entire life in Midgar, they did not force her to return to the company until 0007 during the original game canon.

Aerith is first met chronologically during Chapter 11 of Before Crisis, a full five years before her original appearance in the OG. She plays a significant part in Crisis Core, where her relationship originally alluded to with Zack is further fleshed out. During that time, Aerith receives her signature ribbon from Zack and together they set out to help her sell flowers as she is first seen in the OG. There is also a comment from Zack that she should wear pink the next time they meet, and when she is last seen in Crisis Core she is wearing what becomes her signature outfit.

During the OG, Aerith approaches life with enthusiasm and curiosity. President Shinra believed her able to lead the company to ‘the Promised Land’ but she is largely uneducated in her Cetra heritage. Nevertheless, history comes full circle and she ends up giving her life in an attempt to stop the Calamity of the Skies, Jenova, who had nearly wiped out the Cetra people over two thousand years before.

There have been questions from fandom of how necessary that may have been, as there was no indication in Aerith’s behavior that she believed it was necessary that she sacrifice herself to summon Holy and there would have been no reason for Sephiroth to kill her unless that would hinder her efforts.

In Advent Children Complete, Aerith is seen years after her death in visions by Cloud Strife, and creates the holy rain (presumed to be her Great Gospel limit break) that cures Geostigma and removes the last traces of Jenova’s presence. All members of AVALANCHE can be seen wearing a ribbon in her honor, and Marlene has a similar pink ribbon in her hair.

In the typical style of white mages, Aerith uses staves and rods as her weapons, and her limit breaks are centered on healing and buffing the party.

Level 1 defaults with Healing Wind and unlocks Seal Evil with 8 uses
Level 2 unlocks after killing 80 enemies with Breath of the Earth and unlocks Fury Brand after 6 uses
Level 3 unlocks after killing 80 enemies after L2 with Planet Protector and Pulse of Life after 5 uses
Level 4 is Great Gospel, suspected to be the source of the healing rain in ACC. The manual can be received as soon as you unlock the Tiny Bronco, but steps can be taken to get it as you get the buggy.

In addition to her appearances in FFVII Compilation games and the On the Way to a Smile novellas, Aerith appears in the following Final Fantasy games:

Final Fantasy Airborne Brigade
Final Fantasy All the Bravest
Final Fantasy Explorers
Final Fantasy Record Keeper
Final Fantasy Trading Card Game
Final Fantasy World Wide Words
Dissidia 012 Final Fantasy
Theatrhythm Final Fantasy
Triple Triad (Final Fantasy Portal App version only)

There have been references to Aerith in other games such as World of Warcraft and she also appears in the Kingdom Hearts series.

Barret Wallace was born December 15th, 1972, in the mining town of Corel. He is most well known as the leader of the second incarnation of the ecoterrorist group AVALANCHE. His canonical height has been listed as 6′4 and 6′5, with blood type O.

Born and raised in Corel, Barret was married to a woman named Myrna who was suffering from an unspecified illness. When ShinRa offered to put a Mako Reactor in Corel, Barret was one of the people who pushed for the community to agree against the wishes of his close friend Dyne.

In 2003 during the events of Before Crisis, the original AVALANCHE occupies the reactor and Barret helps the Turks take it back. Unfortunately, it is still destroyed, and ShinRa blames the people of Corel with the false accusation of them having aided AVALANCHE. Corel is destroyed on the President’s order, and the executive director of the Weapons Development Department (Scarlet) has troopers open fire on Barret and Dyne. Dyne, having fallen off the path, was only hanging on by his grip on Barret’s hand. When the troopers fired, they destroyed the two clasped hands, and Dyne fell presumably to his death.

In the aftermath, Barret returns and finds Dyne’s daughter, Marlene, and adopts her as his own. He eventually receives a prosthetic gun arm via Shalua Rui and goes to Cosmo Canyon where he learns about AVALANCHE. Not knowning the name of the terrorists who had led to the destruction of his home, Barret ironically takes their name when he later founds an anti-ShinRa group in Midgar.

When AVALANCHE later reaches the western continent, they cross into North Corel where the survivors of the disaster have settled, most of which are openly hostile to Barret and blame him for the destruction of their original town. By this point, the Gold Saucer has been built directly over the ruins.

Despite his rough speech and quick temper, Barret is shown as an intelligent man who is passionate about his beliefs and conflicted between his need to be with his adopted daughter and to save the future of the Planet she’s growing up in. While he sees it as his responsibility to fight for the Planet, Barret also grieves for the lives lost along the way and is aware there is also innocent blood on his hands.

After the original game, Barret appears in the novella On the Way to a Smile: Case of Tifa where he reunites with Marlene and helps establish Edge. He is the focus in Case of Barret, where he spends time searching for alternative fuel sources, trying to atone for his past, and requisitions a new attachment to his gun arm that can provide him with a mechanical hand and a more normal life. Staying in touch with the others, he is quick to return to Edge in Advent Children to help fight Bahamut SIN, and later leads the ground assault on Midgar during the final battle against Deepground in Dirge of Cerberus.

Chronologically, Barret is first met in Before Crisis at the age of 31. He is the fourth oldest member of the second AVALANCHE at 35 during the original game, 37 in Advent Children, and 38 in Dirge of Cerberus. While he isn’t seen in Crisis Core, he would have been 28 during the opening.

Barret’s limit breaks focus on use of his gun arm in ranged attacks with the single exception of Level 2: Hammer Blow, which involves him running up for a close combat strike causing instant death unless an enemy is immune.

Level 1 begins with Big Shot and unlocks Mindblow after using it 9 times
Level 2 begins with Grenade Bomb, unlocked after killing 80 enemies, and Hammer Blow after using Grenade Bomb 8 times
Level 3 begins with Satellite Beam, unlocked after the next 80 enemies killed since unlocking Level 2, and Angermax after using Satellite Beam 6 times
Level 4 is his ultimate limit, Catastrophe, obtainable after the completion of the Huge Materia sidequest’s portion on Mount Corel and useable once he has unlocked all other Limit Breaks

In addition to his Compilation appearances, Barret also appears in:

Final Fantasy Airborne Brigade
Final Fantasy Artniks
Final Fantasy VII G-Bike
Final Fantasy Record Keeper
Final Fantasy Trading Card Game
Mobius Final Fantasy
Pictlogica Final Fantasy
Theatrhythm Final Fantasy Curtain Call
Triple Triad (version available via the Final Fantasy Portal App)

He is also made reference to in the Kingdom Hearts series.

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