Summary
A skilled gaming cosplayer recently impressed social media users with their gender-swapped rendition of Aerith Gainsborough fromFinal Fantasy 7. Introduced early in the game’s story, Aerith initially appears as a simple flower girl living in Midgar’s Sector 7 slums, but she is later revealed to be the last of the ancient Cetra, a magical people tied to the life force of the planet - which puts her in conflict with both Shinra and Sephiroth during the originalFinal Fantasy 7.
ManyFinal Fantasy 7fans have recreated Aerith’s many looks through cosplay over the years, whether it’s her standard pink dress and red leather jacket or the dark red dress she wears during theWall Market section ofFinal Fantasy 7 Remake. Even Briana White, the voice actor behind Aerith in bothFinal Fantasy 7 Remakeand this year’sFinal Fantasy 7 Rebirth, has gotten in on the cosplay fun multiple times since the first installment of the remake trilogy launched in 2020.
Reddit user haruhiist10 recently showed off a different take onFinal Fantasy 7’s Aerith Gainsboroughon r/FinalFantasy, posting their gender-flipped cosplay of her usual outfit that they wore to a convention. About six years before this, haruhiist10 would often dress as characters like Kamui fromFire Emblem Echoes: Shadows of Valentia, but they took a lengthy break from cosplay during the COVID-19 pandemic. As Aerith is one of their favoriteFinal Fantasy 7characters, haruhiist10 decided to cosplay as a male version of her to “get some rust off” as they also like the creative challenge of gender-swapped cosplay.
Gender-Swapped Aerith Cosplay Impresses Final Fantasy 7 Fans
The cosplayer’s take on Aerith manages to capture her iconic look fromthe originalFinal Fantasy 7while providing a few fun, gender-flipped twists. While it isn’t shown in the provided photos, haruhiist10 sports a small braided ponytail modeled after the one Aerith famously wears. Aerith’s signature red jacket was haruhiist10’s first attempt at dyeing a denim jacket, while her magic staff was made from PVC pipes. They also didn’t like how the belts on Aerith’s sleeves looked on them, so they decided to represent them with a belt on their pants.
Other interesting details from haruhiist10’s gender-swappedFinal Fantasy 7cosplay include Aerith’s necklace having a piece of jade in it to simulate the look ofFinal Fantasy 7’s legendary White Materiawhen it isn’t in use and the pink coattail that resembles her dress. Overall, other Reddit users have been impressed with this male version of Aerith, even coming up with alternate names for one of the biggest characters in the originalFinal Fantasy 7.
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Mako—the discovery of this natural resource drawn directly from the planet’s life force marked the dawn of a new era, and now the energy sustains the lives of people across the world. However, the Shinra Company has monopolized mako production, and in doing so established a powerful hegemony–its influence reaching the far corners of the globe.Cloud, a former member of Shinra’s military organization, SOLDIER, joins the anti-Shinra resistance group AVALANCHE, despite caring little for their motives. During one of the group’s attempts to stop the company, they learn of the return of Sephiroth, Cloud’s nemesis, and that with his reemergence, the planet is in greater danger than anyone had expected.With the fate of the world riding on their success, Cloud and his allies set out to quell this deadly threat.
