Journal of Other Forum Analysis (Volume II, Issue 1)

[DavidCroquet]

in the original game aeris felt really under-characterized, she was just vaguely...enthusiastic? and then the latter half of the time she's with you, it's like she's contemplative and possessed by her vague destiny so you don't even know if this is really "her"

I don't know if they actually gave her a personality in the remake

They did. I felt the same way as you about the OG. She’s now like…irreverent and flippy. I think they did ok, but sometimes she comes off like Yuffie on mood stabilizers.

does she tell cloud to pull her finger and then she farts and tries to blame it on red 13 and then puts on a maga hat and pretends she doesn't understand the significance of it and says she thought the A stands for Aerith

Make Aerith Great Aerith