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Aerith's powers as a Cetra
Aerith is a Cetra, which is a kind of proto-human in FF7's world. Cetra have a strong tie to the planet, Gaia, and the Lifestream, which gives them magical abilities.
Cetra are capable of conducting a Planet Reading, which lets them speak directly to Gaia itself - for instance, Aerith strongly hints that she can hear her flowers, and that they only want to be tended by her. (And, in a weirder instance, hearing the wind calling her name.) Cetra's influence also makes the planet fertile, which allowed Aerith to grow patches of flowers in the normally barren Midgar. She doesn't have any control over this.
Similar to a Planet Reading, she can "Read" other people as well. In the FF7 Ultimania, it's stated that Aerith can “grasp the truth concealed deep inside people’s minds.” She can sense that Cloud isn't Cloud himself, hear an "old voice" from inside Elfe, tell when the stoic Nanaki is pushing himself too hard, etc. In one weird instance, she used this power to project herself into Cloud's dream.
Being connected to the Lifestream allows Aerith to sense when someone has died, and also allows her to communicate with the dead. This, obviously, doesn't work in MoM, so I tweaked this power a bit. Aerith can now have a sixth sense that allows her to detect changes or abnormalities in life energy throughout the world, or sense sickness or injury in others from a short distance. If Aerith focuses on it, she can feel someone die across the world (shown in canon when her adoptive mother's husband dies far away in Wutai, a foreign country).
Also dormant in MoM is her ability to be used as a Medium by the Lifestream. Both Aerith and her mother were shown to have their Cetra ancestors speak through them. Its influence can be overwhelming for her, though it doesn't hit her mother quite as hard.
Aerith's major power, both in MoM and in FF7 itself is her access to healing magic. This is also a Cetra trait, meant for healing the planet. She can heal anything from little battle wounds to - at full strength, with her strongest Limit - serious diseased. This is Great Gospel, which summons a healing rain and temporarily makes herself and other party members invincible. To keep her from being too overpowered, she won't be able to use this move often; the invincibility will also only last about a couple minutes.
As a Cetra, Aerith is noticeably non-human to characters that can sense these things, since she probably gives off a kind of magical aura.
IMPORTANT: Aerith's got a snazzy ability to read people's souls, letting her know things about other people, like, if they're hiding something big, if they're deceiving themselves or her, etc. She can also read their nature. She cannot tell if someone is lying to her and she doesn't/can't use this as a lie detector. She also can't tell specific things; it's more like a general feeling.
Let me know down below if you want - or don't want - Aerith reading your character like a book, or potentially spoiling things.
Aerith is a Cetra, which is a kind of proto-human in FF7's world. Cetra have a strong tie to the planet, Gaia, and the Lifestream, which gives them magical abilities.
Cetra are capable of conducting a Planet Reading, which lets them speak directly to Gaia itself - for instance, Aerith strongly hints that she can hear her flowers, and that they only want to be tended by her. (And, in a weirder instance, hearing the wind calling her name.) Cetra's influence also makes the planet fertile, which allowed Aerith to grow patches of flowers in the normally barren Midgar. She doesn't have any control over this.
Similar to a Planet Reading, she can "Read" other people as well. In the FF7 Ultimania, it's stated that Aerith can “grasp the truth concealed deep inside people’s minds.” She can sense that Cloud isn't Cloud himself, hear an "old voice" from inside Elfe, tell when the stoic Nanaki is pushing himself too hard, etc. In one weird instance, she used this power to project herself into Cloud's dream.
Being connected to the Lifestream allows Aerith to sense when someone has died, and also allows her to communicate with the dead. This, obviously, doesn't work in MoM, so I tweaked this power a bit. Aerith can now have a sixth sense that allows her to detect changes or abnormalities in life energy throughout the world, or sense sickness or injury in others from a short distance. If Aerith focuses on it, she can feel someone die across the world (shown in canon when her adoptive mother's husband dies far away in Wutai, a foreign country).
Also dormant in MoM is her ability to be used as a Medium by the Lifestream. Both Aerith and her mother were shown to have their Cetra ancestors speak through them. Its influence can be overwhelming for her, though it doesn't hit her mother quite as hard.
Aerith's major power, both in MoM and in FF7 itself is her access to healing magic. This is also a Cetra trait, meant for healing the planet. She can heal anything from little battle wounds to - at full strength, with her strongest Limit - serious diseased. This is Great Gospel, which summons a healing rain and temporarily makes herself and other party members invincible. To keep her from being too overpowered, she won't be able to use this move often; the invincibility will also only last about a couple minutes.
As a Cetra, Aerith is noticeably non-human to characters that can sense these things, since she probably gives off a kind of magical aura.
IMPORTANT: Aerith's got a snazzy ability to read people's souls, letting her know things about other people, like, if they're hiding something big, if they're deceiving themselves or her, etc. She can also read their nature. She cannot tell if someone is lying to her and she doesn't/can't use this as a lie detector. She also can't tell specific things; it's more like a general feeling.
Let me know down below if you want - or don't want - Aerith reading your character like a book, or potentially spoiling things.
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