What if the echoes of Final Fantasy remake VII were not Guardians of Fate, but the human souls manipulated by Sephiroth to protect a false narrative that guarantees his victory?

Since they appeared for the first time Remake Final Fantasy VIIlos Echoes or Whisper They baffled the players. These spectral figures, hooded, without face and apparently omnipresent, seem stubborn to ensure that certain events occur exactly as in the original game of 1997 (or this is what you think). But as the story advances, his behavior begins to seem contradictory, even disturbing. They help and obstruct, save and kill.

Are they really “protecting fate”? Or are they simply defending an illusion?

The dilemma of the echoes of the remake of Final Fantasy VII: guardians or accomplices?

The first thing that comes to mind is that the echoes of Remake Final Fantasy VII They seem the correctors of any deviation regarding the script of the original game. But his behavior is selective, inconsistent and – when he is analyzed in depth – suspicion:

Echoes save Barret of a premature death, but allow other “necessary” deaths.

Prevent Wedge Survive, although its existence seemed not to influence the general course of events.

Intervene aggressively when they threaten to deviate an alleged original story, but ignore the acts of Sephirotheven when they clearly interrupt the flow of events.

They push the group towards a predetermined narrative line. They do not act with purity or justice. On many occasions they seem to hinder Aeris. And the most alarming: do not attack Sephiroth.

The latter data are fundamental. If Sephiroth is trying to break the fate and the whispers are there to avoid it, why do they allow him to manipulate everything? The theory that is proposed here gives a radical turning point to what we think of them.

What if the “original destination” was a farce?

Suppose that the “fate” that the whispers protect in the Final Fantasy VII remake is not the true temporal line of the planet, but a theatrical work designed by Sephiroth.

And if Sephiroth needs certain events to satisfy its purpose?

That cloud knows Aeris.

Of the group between the temple of the elderly.

That reach the black matter.

In this vision, the “destination” is actually a script. An echo of the original game (if they want to see it in some way) used as a bait for the characters (and players) to believe they see a predestined path. But crossing the “Wall of Destiny”We would not break a cycle … but we activate exactly what Sephiroth wants.

What are the echoes in the remake of Final Fantasy VII?

The echoes could be anime trapped in the Vital current: Spiritual waste of people who died in traumatic moments or with strong attachments. These souls, far from being in peace, were corrupt – positively by the experiments of Hojo With cells of Jenova.

After falling into the Vital currentSephiroth gets knowledge of human consciences and the memory of the planet. He does not need to travel in time: his omniscience was born from having thousands of consciences, dreams and desires. This allows you to design a “false line of destiny”, a mental replica capable of remembering the original game and manipulating the echoes to act as guardians of this illusion.

Being in this vulnerable state, Sephiroth could easily manipulate them to act as agents of their will. They would not be aware of their role; They would have reacted only as defense mechanisms against any attempt at liberation.

This would explain why they are so violent, so chaotic and so desperate to maintain the flow of events. They do not defend the truth, but their prison.

The perspective of Red XIII: bad guards interpreted?

Red XII In the remake of Final Fantasy VII of Final Fantasy VII who whisper “Guardians of Destiny”. But, based on this theory, this is only an incorrect interpretation (in fact, Motomu Toriyama, co -director of the Final Fantasy VII remake, commented that due to the enormous amount of information he received from his contact with Aeris, Red XIII cannot assimilate everything so clearly). They believe they protect the balance, but in reality they are defending a distorted narrative, prefabricated by Sephiroth.

From this point of view, everything is detained by the vital current:

The souls corrupted by Jenova.

The mental domain of Sephiroth.

The structure of the “destination” as an artificial cycle based on unsolved trauma.

Sephiroth, Yogacara and the power of the collective unconscious

Kazushige NojimaRemake Final Fantasy VII, confirmed that it was based on ideas of Carl Jung and of the Yogachara Buddhist School To build history. This allows a much deeper interpretation.

Yogachara and Vijnapiety (consciousness only):

This philosophy teaches that reality is a mental projection. Everything we see are manifestations of consciousness, modeled by accumulated impressions (Vasan) in the Driving-Vijnana, the basic consciousness.

The echoes would be the karmic waste of trapped souls, modeled by their desires, trauma and confusion. They are not free. Sephiroth, when it controls these impressions, can build an illusory reality and support it with echoes as tools.

Jung and the Language of the unconscious: OMENS as synchronicity

Carl Jung spoke of the collective unconscious as a network of symbols shared by all humanity, which sometimes manifests itself through what called the synchronicity: coincidences full of meaning, beyond the linear logic of the time. In the remake of Final Fantasy VII, The omens that appear throughout history are not visions of the fixed future, but ambiguous fragments of possibilities that emerge from the flow of the planet, from the Lifestream … and also from which they try to manipulate it.

Aeris, like the last living cetra, inherited a very special skill: Chiaravoia. It is not a question of predicting the future as a rigid line, but of perceiving possible results through its connection with the planet. This power, natural in its lineage, is amplified by White matterwhich strengthens its spiritual bond with Lifestreame. That’s why Aeris has visions, intuitions and moments of sudden knowledge.

From the early hours of Final Fantasy VII remake, these echoes begin to steal memories and knowledge in Aeris. This explains why their warnings are vague, because sometimes it seems to know something but cannot clearly express it. The flashes of the future that appear during history – like a fall of meteorite or an XIII network that run with their young people – do not come from the “fate”, but from the power stolen by Aeris. They are fragments of their clairvoyance, used as tools to push the group towards a very specific path.

So we would have the following: Sephirot who forced certain moments and made the group, believing that he challenges the fate, walks directly towards it, is what would end up making such visions be adequate.

On the other hand, Red XIII, which has a natural sensitivity e MarleneWhich in the remake shows moments of disturbing perception, they seem able to receive fragments of these visions. Aeris would have moved unconsciously. At the end of Final Fantasy VII remake, after the battle against Omen, both Aeris and Red XIII claim to have lost this ability. They don’t know what will come anymore.

Why not everyone see the echoes?

Not all characters can see whispers. Popular theory is that you can see these beings having physical contact with someone who has already seen them. This explanation was suggested by the developers and seems to work in some cases (Rufus View ECHEGGI after meeting the cloud), but has huge logical holes: then everyone inside Midgar Which cross with the cloud should see the echoes?

The echoes are not seen with physical eyes, but with psychic consciousness. Who sees them? People with deep psychic connections (Aeris, Cloud, Red XIII). Those who were directly affected by the collective trauma of the planet. Those who have started the process of internal imbalance: like Cloud, who has mental cracks for its false identity.

From Jung, this means that only those who are about to identify (the journey to integrate the self with the unconscious) can see the archetypes (echoes). Touching someone who sees can arouse a resonance (a sort of psychic transfer), but does not guarantee “vision”: the person must have some internal opening or breaking. This approach is not only more coherent than explanations such as “you touched someone”, but also deepens the philosophical value of the game, which revolves around the liberation from fate through the awakening of consciousness.

From Jung and Yogachara, the vision of the echoes is not physical, but psychic. They manifest themselves in front of people in the processes of internal crisis or spiritual awakening.

Visual clues in the remake of Final Fantasy VII: The Abisal Echo and the Color of Jenova

From the beginning, The remake of Final Fantasy VII leaves visual clues that the echoes are not what they seem. The use of purple color (connected to Jenova) in the key moments – like the giant “omen” at the end of the remake – suggests a profound corruption.

Him “Eco Abisal” It is purple, a color that evokes Jenova. This strengthens the idea that some echoes have already been absorbed or modified. His role is not the spiritual guardians, but the emissaries of a corrupt cycle.

Its design also recalls hooded figures such as bojo subjects, connected to jewelry cells. This strengthens the link between human experiments and spiritual distortion of Gaia.

The origin of corruption: Jenova as a psychic parasite

Where did corruption started? Probably with Hojo and his experiments. Jenova is not just a physical agent, but a parasite of consciousness. If implanted in humans, the resulting souls suffer a spiritual break.

These souls, unable to dissolve in vital current, are trapped and manipulable. Sephiroth uses them as a raw material for corruption.

Since Yogachara, these contaminated souls are like sick mental seeds that infect Alaya-Vijnana, creating persistent illusory dreams: divergent worlds.

Why do echoes block aeris?

In the remake of Final Fantasy VII, the echoes steal memories of Aeris. Why? Because Aeris represents a threat to the illusory order.

It is able to guess what is happening. His consciousness is awake. The echoes of the remake of Final Fantasy VII, still believing defenders of fate, perceive an anomaly and try to fragment their memory so that it cannot act.

Why does Sephiroth want them to cross the destiny wall?

The nucleus of the Sephiroth strategy is to make the protagonists think of challenging fate, when they are actually following a carefully orchestrated script. Crossing the wall is not liberating: it is activating a reality that can control better.

In this way, they partially release it from its conditions. A more autonomous, more real, more omnipresent agent make it.

Why sell us that the echoes are guardians of fate?

Narrally, the game needs us to create in that version … until the truth is revealed.

From Jung, this is aligned with the concept of shadow: what seems benevolent and necessary is actually a trap. The shadow is presented as a guide, but actually perpetuates suffering.

From yogacara, The echoes are karmic illusions: manifestations of mental attachments that maintain Gaia trapped in a constant repetition of the same trauma.

Final Fantasy VII remake whispers are not what they seem. In light of Jung and Yogachara, its spectral nature is revealed as a product of a deep psychic imbalance. They are manipulated souls, traumatic projections and tools of a dark will that no longer has to act in person: it should only influence collective narrative.

If we suppose that Sephiroth does not need to travel in time, but to dominate the collective mental narrative, then the whispers are their most effective emissaries: not because they obey blindly, but because they believe they are doing the right thing. Because they are part of a bigger dream that they have not yet been able to question.

The Final Fantasy VII remake presents a narrative complexity that goes beyond good against evil. He tells us about memory, trauma, perception and destiny. This theory proposes that the echoes are manifestations of corrupt souls, used by Sephiroth to keep an illusion that benefits it alive. The alleged “fate” is not the real course of history, but a carefully built mental prison.

Free from the echoes, therefore, it is not to overcome fate: it is facing lies, collective trauma and the shadow that lives in the unconscious of each character.

This theory is not destined to be absolute truth. Just an alternative look, an invitation to think beyond what is in sight. Because in a world where reality is built with dreams, which controls the dream … controls the world.

In the following article by Final Fantasy VII will we explore the behavior of the echoes deeper, are the differences between black and black echoes all corrupt echoes? Can there be “liberating echoes”? What role does Aeris play in this dance between memory and illusion?

What is coming could completely change the way you see the fate of Final Fantasy VII.

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