OK, well the evidence points to her official name being Aerith. Still, it sounds nothing like Earth, so I'll asume the evidence is circumstantial.

Regardless, she'll always be Aeris to me--and to most of us--because that's how it was in the game. I'm sorry, but if you tell me your name is Bob, then tell me ten years later that it's really Bart, I'm not going to stop calling you Bob.

See what I'm saying? It doesn't even matter what her name is supposed to be; her name IS Aeris in the game.

Actually, it sounds quite a lot like Earth from a linguistics standpoint, but that's a long aside. In any case, the tale of her name comes from Dismantling, and was echoed in the UOG, if memory serves.

I'm not saying you can't call her Aerith. I'm just saying that's not her official name. It's like the FF6 characters. I don't care if you prefer Terra, but her prime source name is Tina.

Only once you get to the naming screen, actually. If you go to the debug room at the start of the game, or go later and choose to set all names to default, her name changes to Aerith. The name code is strange, in that it stores two names for characters, their data name and the name that appears on the naming screen.
Then there are the copies in which the name in the naming screen still appears as Aerith.

Actually it does. My point is that the original name was Aerith, but since Japanese doesn't have a character to stand for the /th/ sound, they used the kana for /su/. I just figured that you were smart enough to make that connection without me spoon feeding it to you.

What makes me think she was intended to be called Aerith? Maybe because it's been said by the creators that it was their intention. Maybe because the Japanese production materials from the original game spell her name out as Aerith.

If Aerith is nonsensical, what sense does Aeris make? Aeris does not translate to Earth, by the way (romanization and translation are not the same thing). They wouldn't call her Earth because that's blatant and heavy-handed writing. Using an anagram gives it subtlety.

If Aerith is really nonsense, why do you think the creators insist on using it?

Despite the fact that I've been spending time defending "Aerith", I totally agree with your standpoint. I'll take Aeris over Aerith any day and it's hilarious that people actually get mad about it.

What's not hilarious is when people are trying to argue with incorrect facts. I still can't believe this turned into a debate when the facts are so clear.

The pictures are hard evidence. Nothing circumstantial about that.

That's how I feel. I like Aeris over Aerith because I'm used to it and think it sounds better.

But that's not what you've been arguing for the past couple posts, so don't be trying to settle this without admitting you're wrong.

That does seem to happen a lot in this franchise.

Anyway, no argument here. Aerith is what the gods decreed. I prefer Aeris personally. In any case I never say either name out loud, so it's all about saving a keystroke for me.

True, true. Just those pictures really isn't evidence enough - I guess


The reason I'm being pissy is because you started off by making it seem like the name "Aerith" was stupid and that anyone would be stupid to prefer it.