Anika_Strizuki
Semeroth
Hm...Sephiroth would have only been about 15 or so when Ifalna and Aerith escaped. He likely would have been going full tilt in Wutai at that time...but even if he had seen Ifalna when she was in the Shinra building, I don't know if he would have done anything to help her escape...that would be pretty direct subordination. Plus, this was back before Sephiroth knew much about the Ancients (besides common folklore), or identified as an Ancient; the only motivating factor to help her escape would be his own experience in the labs, but it's known that children who come from abusive environments don't develop empathy, and his fear of Hojo would likely have kept him from doing anything about it. (Plus, Aerith would have remembered if Sephiroth had helped her and her mother escape from the labs...and considering the fact that Ifalna died at the train station means that she and Aerith didn't get away completely unscathed.)
...But that's canonically. If Sephiroth and Aerith would have had a concrete connection in the game, then Sephiroth helping them escape would have been perfectly logical. (And I love the idea anyway. X3333)
Oh, yeah... I forgot about that. Ifalna and Aerith escaped DURING the Wutai war.
You know, the people that tried to capture Ifalna and Aerith did should have used tranquilizers to put them to sleep if they had to bring them back to the labs. Quite stupid to kill the last full blooded cetra, but then again, they probably never knew about the lab specimen that escaped.
(Mm...I am a fan of AerithXSephiroth. They just sound like a good couple to me. Sephiroth with anyone else doesn't really click...)
I can just imagine Hojo screaming at the guards not to kill his precious specimens, and one guard being all 'Oh s**t... *nudges shell casings under a sofa in the hallway*'
I like Genesis/Sephiroth, but that's because I'm a yaoi fan. *brick'd* (The tension between those two...you could cut it with a knife.) I prefer the 'Sephiroth and Aerith as siblings' interpretation, since it seems to fit in with Loveless as presented in FFVII proper (when Cid quotes the one scene he remembers, he says that the woman is the 'sister of the lead', and if we assume that Sephiroth is the hero out of the three main characters of Loveless, then that would make him the lead), and because even crazy Sephiroth considered Gast to be a father to him in some way (expounding what a genius he was for finding Jenova and creating him and such).
Still, Sephiroth/Aerith can be cute. :3