I came up with a theory that summed things up pretty nicely and explained a LOT of the curious shit Aerith and Sephiroth do in the story: As the video said, the whispers are the planet trying to maintain the OG FFVII's events which lead to Sephiroth's defeat. The harder the party deviates from this path, the more the extreme the effort to protect/stop them. As long as the whispers exist, they'd be constantly interfered with, so they had to go. However this act benefits one individual massively: Sephiroth. Sephiroth very clearly knows of the events of the original game. This Sephiroth could very well be the Sephiroth from the original game, using the knowledge of that timeline to egg the party in "defying fate". He knows this group can stomp him, so why not goad them into destroying these creatures that would ensure his defeat? Sephiroth is playing to win here, foreknowledge and removing those that would doom him (the whispers). But there's a very interesting thing going on here: AERITH. Aerith, from the very beginning of the game is behaving like someoone who has seen all of the events of OG FFVII take place, not just the events up to her death (or events she was not present for). How could she know this? Simple. This Aerith somehow has the knowledge of the OG timeline pumping through her. She tells Marlene Barret's name even though up to that point no one had said it t her. When she touches Marlene and the little girl sees a vision and says she's familiar, Aerith just shushes her. Later on Marlene was about to blurt something out about Aerith but held her tongue. In the special Chapter 14 scene outside of Aerith's house, Aerith flat out tells Cloud NOT to fall in love with her. That whatever he feels for her isn't real. This is another allusion to the events of FFVII where a crippled, mako-addled Cloud imprinted Zack's persona over his own. This includes being attracted to Aeris, which she saw through in the original. She also knows the party has defeated Sephiroth before, something that is absurd considering the events of Remake where they've only recently met. Lastly, Aerith says 2 things that are very interesting: One is that each time the whispers touch her, a part of her disappears. Second, she says that the Planet is trying to protect a future that is corrupted. We know that after OG FFVII Sephiroth continues to exist like a cancer in the Lifestream. So it makes sense why she's so afraid of being out from under the "steel sky". Back in Midgar they were still on the rails of the original, but now that they're free of those events ANYTHING can happen. And when you're trying to save the planet from a villain that knows how he was defeated before, that is terrifying. More party members could die, some could abandon their quest, there might be severe betrayals, etcetera.
cioè che il remake è tutto una timeline alternativa in cui sephiroth e aerith sanno che tutto è già successo. bhò, sto quì ha una gran fantasia
spero che non sia questo il caso comunque, non sono un grande fan di cambiamenti estremi nei remake, mi sta bene qualche differenza, ma se mi devi stravolgere tutto non mi va troppo a genio la cosa
