Here I go, I'm starting the Aeris/Aerith Bio Project and I can't do this alone, so if anyone would like to help that would be great. I'm a newcomer to the Final Fantasy world but FF7 attracted me mainly because of Aerith.

I've been searching for sites of Aeris but couldn't find much. I'm still looking for these things:

Physical and Physiological description
Name Meaning
Origins
FF7 Beginning (what were their situation?)
FF7 Events (what occurred to them?)
FF7 End (what were their positions at the end?)
Role in FF7 Plots
FF7:AC Starting Point
Role in FF7:AC
Relationship with other characters
Psychological Analysis (those who can)
Anything else you can think of (attach official arts, dialogs, weapons list, arts, etc...)

The only real thing that I will have trouble on is "FF7:AC Starting Point" because I believe she only comes in dreams or I'm not even really sure how she appears on the same plane as Cloud. Any contribution to this Project I'll give you a pink ribbon to tie to your arm. :amused: Thanks!

Wow, this will take a long, long time! I'll start off with how Aeris was born.

Ok, just kidding. I forgot how she was born :push:

Well, let's start from where she does in the game :/
Well, hit me with a stick, I forgot that too :cry:

Here, taken from Kuponut.com (http://www.kuponut.com) - Pre-game Timeline (http://www.kuponut.com/games/ff7/pregame_timeline.html)

- 22 Years ago

Aeris is born to Professor Gast and Ilfalna. Soon after her birth Hojo
finally tracks Gast down. He tries to take Aeris and Ifalna away for his experiments. Gast and Ifalna resist. Gast is killed and Ifalna and Aeris are captured.


- Approx 16 years ago

Shinra go to war abroad with the town of Wutai. The fierce pride of the leader Godo has kept Shinras influence out of the town, but they are quickly crushed and Wutai has to become a tourist town to carry on and survive. Somehow during this time, Ifalna escapes from Shinra Headquarters Laboratory with Aeris and gets as far as Sector 7 station in Midgar. Here, exhausted and wounded she hands Aeris over to Elmyra Gainsborough and then dies. During their first meeting Elmyra's husband is killed far away and this is sensed by Aeris.
Elmyra adopts Aeris and raises her. Aeris grows up showing strange intuitive powers and an affinity with nature. She keeps about her person a small white pearl of materia that her dead mother left for her. This is actually the materia for summoning Holy. But Aeris is not aware of its power. As she grows up, Tseng the leader of the Turks pesters her. He wants to take her back to Shinra Headquarters, but Aeris manages to avoid Shinra every time.

Ok, now from memory... (The game parts are a lot easier to remember )

As everyone knows, Cloud meets up with Aeris for the first time when he's fighting Air Buster, and falls into the slums, through the church's roof onto the bed of flowers. They talk briefly, introducing each other, and Aeris mentions how the flowers only grow in that particular place.

Their brief conversation is interrupted by the arrival of Reno and a group of Shinra soldiers. Reno orders the soldiers to capture Aeris, but Aeris pulls Cloud through a back door to try and escape. The soldiers follow, but Reno chews them out for trying to run through the flowers. He then proceeds to step through the flowers, and is now going to, according to his soldiers, going to catch "holy hell fever." (I think that's what he's getting)

The chase is on! Cloud leads the way, leading Aeris to a hole in the roof where they will escape. However, as Cloud leaps over a large gap, Aeris slips and falls down, sliding on a pillar to the ground floor where the soldiers are waiting. While Cloud is puzzling over what to do with several large barrels placed conveniently on the rafters, Aeris is attacked by a guard, and soundly thwacks him on the head several times with her staff.

Cloud, with his excellent eye, then tips over the barrels, eliminating the other guards. As they escape onto the roof, they run from the church to Aeris' house. Aeris thanks Cloud, and by way of doing so, gives him a free date, to be reimbursed anytime in the future. They have a short talk about how Shinra was always chasing her and how she always escaped. Cloud mentions Materia, and she talks about her White Materia, which has never been of any use, but was a gift from her mother when she died.

When they arrive at Aeris' house, Cloud meets Aeris' mother, and she expresses how worried she was at Aeris being chased again. When Aeris goes upstairs to sleep, Elmyra asks to speak to Cloud, and relates to him how she found Aeris, and the events that occurred, such as how she knew her husband had died in the war. After the story, she asks Cloud to leave for Sector 7 alone as to not endanger Aeris anymore. Cloud agrees, and takes a short nap before waking up in the middle of the night, prepared to leave...

Whew, that was fun! I'll write some more later!

Actually, entranscend? A little correction there...

Cloud and Aeris' first meeting isn't when he falls through the church's roof but rather after the mission to sabotage the first Mako Reactor. After the successful first mission, Barret orders the members of AVALANCHE to scatter and to meet up at 7th Heaven. Cloud, on his way back to 7th Heaven, runs into Aeris. That is also when you're given an option to purchase a flower.

My 2 cents to this. :amused:

Ah, you're right about that! Forgot there for a moment, although I make it a point to usually buy that flower and give it to Marlene. Yes, Marlene, not Tifa :toung:

Continuing...Cloud leaves Aeris' house, taking care to pick up the "care package" left by the kind Elmyra, then proceeds to walk down the stairs. When he walks past a couple of junk heaps, he is surprised to find Aeris standing there, waiting for him! He realizes that he can't waste the time to take her back, so he continues to Sector 7 with her.

When they arrive in the playground, she invites Cloud to join up with her on top of the slide, and talks for a bit, when all of a sudden, the gates open, and a chocobo-drawn chariot passes by, with Tifa in the back of it! Cloud and Aeris follow, and Aeris notes that Sector 7 is not the best place for an unescorted girl to walk around in. They ask around, and they find out that Don Corneo has invited a couple of ladies to his house to choose a wife. Cloud tries to enter Don Corneo's building, but the guard refuses, and says that only girls may enter...

Thanks guys for you help. Right now, I'm still looking for information, looking through many sites....and so on and so forth.... It's not easy compiling this information. Well, gotta go.

Okay, i searched through a varies of Aerith fansites collecting every bit of news about Aerith and i'm summoning them up but this is what i have summoned up so far.

Name: Aeris Gainsborough
Age: 22
Height: 163 cm (5'3")
Weapon: Rods, Staves
Job: Flower Merchant
Birthday: February 7
Blood Type: O (In Japan, a person with type O blood is thought of as carefree, generous, independent, flexible, clumsy, flighty.)

Aerith or Aeris?
In Japan, her name is written as Aerith. Before it was released in the US, video game magazines also introduced this character as Aerith. In Katakana, it was spelled as E-A-RI-SU, which, when spoken, sounds like Aeris, which is what it was became when it was published in America. When this character appeared in Kingdom Hearts when it was released in the USA, her name is written as Aerith again, leading many to believe that the "s" instead of a "th" at the end of her name was an error in translation. Either one is correct.

Aerith significance
Erith is a Hebrew name that means, "Flower".

There is a plant called Erythronium americanum or Trout Lily that looks a lot like the flowers Aerith grows in her church. Maybe the "Eryth" in Erythronium is somehow connected with Erith, the Hebrew word for flower. (can someone please help verify that?)

The name Aeris is one form of the Latin word for "air", which may be an indication of her airy nature, and might parallel the relationship she has with Cloud.

There is also a greek Goddess named Eris, and she is said to be the Greek Goddess of discord and strife.

Her adopted last name Gainsborough is a traditional English-sounding last name. It's the same last name as the British painter Thomas Gainsborough

Her Wardrobe in Final Fantasy VII

Main Outfit - Very practical and comfortable.
Wall Market Dress - A red tail dress.
Toddler Outfit - Worn when Aeris is very young.
Childhood Outfit - Worn when Aeris is a child, living with Elmyra.

Posted on upcoming FF7:AC new section.

Thank you for the great job, please reply if you have any additions, changes.

Thanks again!

I know this thread is a little outdated, but since it is still searchable, I just wanted to mention that Aeris is latin for "Air" (lit. lower atmosphere) hence the main character's name, "Cloud." It is also used in the latin name for some meadow flowers. "Aerith" is a mistranslation. The reason the early merchandise used it was because it was imported and translated by non-professionals. The Japanese language has no "s" and no "th" so they have to use the same syllable "su" to translate both. The problem is, when it translates back, if it isn't properly researched then mistakes such as using "th" when it's "s" and visaversa can occur.

Thanks!
- FFPlaya

it could be a crossover between the two greek god names ares and eris, cuz eris is the goddes of strife. go fig.

but the earisu/aeris/aerith thing. aeris is her name. aerith is the romanized version of it (think romaji here in japan)
and earisu is the japanese way of spelling her name, when said pronounced earisu in japan, it's pronounced as Aeris (eris) cuz, the "u" at the end is silent, and is only there because "s" is not one of the main vowels...and because katakana and hiragana uses 2 characters to spell each vowel.