[Kanon]

Originally Posted by Shadow5YA

Spoiler:

His plan is to get Cloud to bring the Black Materia to the Northern Crater where is true body is. That hasn't changed from the original.

In order to do that, Cloud needs to
1) believe that he needs to go up north to where Sephiroth is, and
2) be isolated enough from his friends that they won't confront him or try to fix his memories before then.

Remember what Aerith told Cloud before she left to go pray? To forget about Sephiroth and focus on himself.
Sephiroth won't get the Black Materia if Cloud never heads north.

And yet heading up north is exactly what Cloud plans on doing now, just like Sephiroth wants, and this version of Aerith is suddenly all for it. You really think that's what Aerith wants?


And similar to the original, Tifa won't confront Cloud over the difference in their memories.

Spoiler for Ending:

Aerith is dead now. The situation has changed, Cloud is needed to stop Sephiroth. And I don't think she knows he has the Black Materia, she was hanging around the others when Cloud realized he had it and he quickly hid it inside his sword.

Nanaki sensing her right when she tries to touch him completely excludes the possibility of her being a mere hallucination. It's too big to write off as coincidence.

It's also highly likely that after dying and becoming one with the lifestream, she regained the memories/visions from the future the Whispers took away at the end of Remake, so she knows how instrumental Cloud is in bringing down Sephiroth and can't just let him sit this out like she had originally planned.