She does though, didn't you see all the flowers by her house and in the church? You even get one from her. I know this is just an old joke theory, but I never got how people believed it. The whole flower thing is important because it helps show her connection to the planet.
>it helps show her connection to the planet
It could be an ambiguous pun. Wouldn't sexual licentiousness show "connection to the planet" as well? She even kind of dresses like a hippie.
People have all sorts of delusions about this game. Like thinking it is a super dark, edgy story when it is literally a fun anime adventure with lego characters.
Not just FF7 either. The mentally ill headcanon crowd seems to have especially latched onto late 90's jrpgs. Every thread has one or two of them who seem to have their entire self-worth tied into getting others on the internet to verify their headcanon.
I was starting to replay it earlier today. I started up the Switch version and was disgusted with how it looked. Turned that off and started it up on MiSTer instead with some filters. Way better.
>she sells them for 1 gil!
She charges different amounts to different people. Probably doesn't need the money too much anyway, her mom seems to be getting along fine (by slum standards) with that big house.
If she was a street prostitute wouldn't she be working at the Honey Bee instead?
I think it would be kinda cool if she really was a street prostitute, but I think people just had a wild imagination and made it into a meme
Her getting stabbed in the back is actually a metaphor for her real profession and Cloud feeling stabbed in the back after he realized she sold her "flower".
Very clever writing.
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Bingo. Keep the flower basket with you for simps and police. Real johns will know what's up.
cloud willingly enters random rooms in a brothel and just lets things happen as they may. i don’t believe a prostitute would pass someone like that over
She doesn’t sell anything. She’s a NEET who lives with her mom and pretends to sell flowers so that she doesn’t have to tell people she’s unemployed when they ask what she does for a living.
I would assume the exact opposite, selling flowers on the side was pretty much the only thing she could do without being harassed, they pounced on her the moment they had plausible cause to have her arrested for 'working with' AVALANCHE
A rifle that fires intermediate rounds (larger than pistol rounds, smaller than "full-sized" rounds like 7.62x51mm) with selective fire (a fire mode in addition to semi-auto, could be full auto or burst)
>she sells them for 1 gil!
She charges different amounts to different people. Probably doesn't need the money too much anyway, her mom seems to be getting along fine (by slum standards) with that big house.
>1 flower 300 gil
Reminder Cloud bombed Reactor #1 for 150 gil.
depends on the conversion rate of Gil to real world currency.
Recently I bought a bouquet of flowers for about $25 It had about 8-9 roses in it, so roughly $3 for a flower.
If she's selling single flowers for 1 gil then maybe we can make a rough estimate of 1 gil = $3.
If she's selling them for 300 gil then that means 100 gil = $1
This means Cloud either did the bombing run for $450 or $1.50
I could name 2 dozen manga with that very premise. People who write that crap don't seem to understand that exp is a numerical representation of combat experience, not an actual magical essence you collect from dead bodies.
casting a spell on your enemies in combat would give you combat experience casting spells on enemies who are actively trying to kill you
pushing a button gives you experience at pushing a button
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It's just a pre-emptive strike, and bombs are attacks, Cid throws dynamite and has the Highwind bomb enemies. Plus there's shared exp from just sitting on your ass for everyone in the party.
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That's because Cloud goes back to the airship and brags to everyone else about all the monsters they fought so they buy into his lies about him being in SOLDIER. They learn from the theoretical mental training they earn from it. And he can't stop even after he reveals his lie to them because it's such an ingrained habit from a lifetime of self-deception. It all makes sense.
It's ambiguous and clever because it will be read differently depending on your age. When I played it as a kid I only understood that she was poor, living in a slum police state under the boot of Shinra. She was just trying to scrape a bit of money together by selling more or less worthless flowers. As an adult I understood the ambiguity of 'selling her flower'.
>a girl with an entire giant fricking garden and church flowers she tends is only doing it for the sake of a metaphor
the real questions are how and why are she and her mom living in a house that would be exceedingly nice even in a good neighborhood and how are all the hobos like 5 feet away not infesting/robbing them
This is one of the few things that actually does make sense to me because they're literally a protected interest of the government. Those hobos have presumably all seen the Turks in clean cut suits and other G-Men visiting the area. Similar to how even poor peasants in medieval times in Japan wouldn't break into a lord's manor because that meant torture and death, it's probably a similar thing here. Besides, despite the nice house, they don't actually seem to have much of any real money and they are well-liked there. The best they're going to get out of breaking in there and giving themselves a death sentence is basically raping Aerith and her mom and taking some flowers.
>The best they're going to get out of breaking in there and giving themselves a death sentence is basically raping Aerith and her mom and taking some flowers.
I want to see that doujin.
> The best they're going to get out of breaking in there and giving themselves a death sentence is basically raping Aerith and her mom and taking some flowers.
I’m not hearing a downside.
She does though, didn't you see all the flowers by her house and in the church? You even get one from her. I know this is just an old joke theory, but I never got how people believed it. The whole flower thing is important because it helps show her connection to the planet.
>it helps show her connection to the planet
It could be an ambiguous pun. Wouldn't sexual licentiousness show "connection to the planet" as well? She even kind of dresses like a hippie.
People have all sorts of delusions about this game. Like thinking it is a super dark, edgy story when it is literally a fun anime adventure with lego characters.
Not just FF7 either. The mentally ill headcanon crowd seems to have especially latched onto late 90's jrpgs. Every thread has one or two of them who seem to have their entire self-worth tied into getting others on the internet to verify their headcanon.
It's just delusional tenderoonies that are still assmad that PSX "stole" Final Fantasy from them
>Low res pre rendered background with high res 3D model
Emulators were a mistake
5th gen was a mistake
The more I experience it the more I realize that the Saturn's focus on 2D was the correct choice in hindsight.
Emulators don't look like that. Most likely that's the PC version of the game.
Is that at the haunted hotel at the gold saucer? That’s one of my favorite scenes.
Yes. Emulated on epsxe.
I was starting to replay it earlier today. I started up the Switch version and was disgusted with how it looked. Turned that off and started it up on MiSTer instead with some filters. Way better.
Many of them work for SquareEnix
>she sells them for 1 gil!
She charges different amounts to different people. Probably doesn't need the money too much anyway, her mom seems to be getting along fine (by slum standards) with that big house.
>She charges different amounts to different people.
Sounds like she's trying to schmooze.
>1 flower 300 gil
Reminder Cloud bombed Reactor #1 for 150 gil.
Reminder that Cloud is mentally ill and a terrorist group took advantage of him to "save the planet" or some shit.
Ah, Plato, you are mistaken. It was 1500 gil
this clearly means shes good charging a lot for just flowers and she can get away with it because shes cute
its a common nuance in japanese
商売上手
bro he also got free food and housing
If she was a street prostitute wouldn't she be working at the Honey Bee instead?
I think it would be kinda cool if she really was a street prostitute, but I think people just had a wild imagination and made it into a meme
Her getting stabbed in the back is actually a metaphor for her real profession and Cloud feeling stabbed in the back after he realized she sold her "flower".
Very clever writing.
if that’s the case why does she just walk away after you buy the flower
Pretty sure "professional" women can tell at a glance who is and isn't buying
cloud willingly enters random rooms in a brothel and just lets things happen as they may. i don’t believe a prostitute would pass someone like that over
Bingo. Keep the flower basket with you for simps and police. Real johns will know what's up.
Lies spread by Tifagays who actually is a bawd
Why do you think her bar is called “heaven”
The flowers are just a front for what she really sells, it's a common ploy, on the books she's selling flowers but in reality she sells the goods.
She doesn’t sell anything. She’s a NEET who lives with her mom and pretends to sell flowers so that she doesn’t have to tell people she’s unemployed when they ask what she does for a living.
This would actually be really funny if it were canon and it would make me like FF7 more.
She's bankrolled by Shinra, basically a trust fund kiddy LARPing as poor flower girl
I would assume the exact opposite, selling flowers on the side was pretty much the only thing she could do without being harassed, they pounced on her the moment they had plausible cause to have her arrested for 'working with' AVALANCHE
So the real twist of this game is not that Aerith gets killed but that Cloud is put into a vegetative state
1 gil for a flower is a LOT
selling 600 flowers to buy an orb that lets you light things on fire?
or 350 flowers for an assault rifle?
Come on anon, in the real world you can buy an assault rifle for much less than 350 flowers.
350 individual flowers???
What’s the definition of an assault rifle??? Kidding….
A rifle that fires intermediate rounds (larger than pistol rounds, smaller than "full-sized" rounds like 7.62x51mm) with selective fire (a fire mode in addition to semi-auto, could be full auto or burst)
There are some pistols that fire rifle rounds though.
They don't fire in burst or full auto. Disqualified.
painted black
So anything painted black??? What about n…evermind.
Tifa sucked Barret's black dick.
Thread ruined
But she does
>1 gil per flower
She would have to sell 1500 flowers every day just to pay for a room at the inn.
see
cloud got a heavy discount
It aint easy selling flowers these days, brother. FJB!!!!
depends on the conversion rate of Gil to real world currency.
Recently I bought a bouquet of flowers for about $25 It had about 8-9 roses in it, so roughly $3 for a flower.
If she's selling single flowers for 1 gil then maybe we can make a rough estimate of 1 gil = $3.
If she's selling them for 300 gil then that means 100 gil = $1
This means Cloud either did the bombing run for $450 or $1.50
This fails to account for JRPG progression inflation. Currency can't convert simply.
>every time some yootoober makes a new video /vr/ gets flooded with this shit
EVERY TIME
And why wouldn't she just rent out her WHM services? Apparently a lot of dudes in the slums are sick, she could make bank.
>over 6 million people died in the reactor bombing
the game really downplays this
If that were true then wouldn't Cloud've immediately hit level 99?
It was Jesse's bomb, bro. She got all the xp.
that's the kind of metagaming 4th wall shit we need to see more of
>why did you blow up the city
>to hit level cap, b***h
I could name 2 dozen manga with that very premise. People who write that crap don't seem to understand that exp is a numerical representation of combat experience, not an actual magical essence you collect from dead bodies.
There is no difference between casting a spell to kill 3 enemies and casting BOMB to kill 3 million
casting a spell on your enemies in combat would give you combat experience casting spells on enemies who are actively trying to kill you
pushing a button gives you experience at pushing a button
It's just a pre-emptive strike, and bombs are attacks, Cid throws dynamite and has the Highwind bomb enemies. Plus there's shared exp from just sitting on your ass for everyone in the party.
That's because Cloud goes back to the airship and brags to everyone else about all the monsters they fought so they buy into his lies about him being in SOLDIER. They learn from the theoretical mental training they earn from it. And he can't stop even after he reveals his lie to them because it's such an ingrained habit from a lifetime of self-deception. It all makes sense.
I rememebr being disgusted when Fable came out and it's experience was actually little motes of energy dropped by enemies. It was and is so baffling.
>not an actual magical essence you collect from dead bodies.
>sephiroth: you have failed again, I see
>also sephiroth: but damn, nice level gains bro, mirin'. meet up at crater in 7 days, bring some hero drinks
>EVERYTHING IS ABOUT MUH SEXXX!!!!
kys
Yuffie is more likely to be a prostitute than Aerith.
It's ambiguous and clever because it will be read differently depending on your age. When I played it as a kid I only understood that she was poor, living in a slum police state under the boot of Shinra. She was just trying to scrape a bit of money together by selling more or less worthless flowers. As an adult I understood the ambiguity of 'selling her flower'.
I want to do Pinkus up the butt
Anon, its not my fault you get your video game lore from doujins.
There aren't enough Aerith prostitution doujins. Hell, there aren't enough Aerith doujins, period.
she's holding flowers right here you morons
The worst thing you can say about her is that she’s Zack’s sloppy seconds.
>a girl with an entire giant fricking garden and church flowers she tends is only doing it for the sake of a metaphor
the real questions are how and why are she and her mom living in a house that would be exceedingly nice even in a good neighborhood and how are all the hobos like 5 feet away not infesting/robbing them
This is one of the few things that actually does make sense to me because they're literally a protected interest of the government. Those hobos have presumably all seen the Turks in clean cut suits and other G-Men visiting the area. Similar to how even poor peasants in medieval times in Japan wouldn't break into a lord's manor because that meant torture and death, it's probably a similar thing here. Besides, despite the nice house, they don't actually seem to have much of any real money and they are well-liked there. The best they're going to get out of breaking in there and giving themselves a death sentence is basically raping Aerith and her mom and taking some flowers.
>The best they're going to get out of breaking in there and giving themselves a death sentence is basically raping Aerith and her mom and taking some flowers.
I want to see that doujin.
> The best they're going to get out of breaking in there and giving themselves a death sentence is basically raping Aerith and her mom and taking some flowers.
I’m not hearing a downside.
She literally sells you flowers though.