“It’s Aeris.”

To call the Aeris vs. Aerith argument a “debate” feels inaccurate. The…discussion…over whether the name Aeris was an error or just a natural result of the imperfect process of trying to take a made-up fantasy name from one language and replicate it in another may never end. But in any case, that was the name under which many players first met Final Fantasy VII’s beloved flower girl, and as such, some feel a deep attachment to the name. She’s pretty much always called Aerith in every game and extended media that followed, but folks are still sore about it.