In the universe of Final Fantasy VII, the divergent worlds would not take the traditional concepts of multiverse or parallel universes
Introduction
In the vast universe of Remake Final Fantasy VII And its continuation, the rebirth, the traditional concepts of multiverse or parallel universes do not apply as it is. Here, divergent worlds do not emerge as completely autonomous universes that separate after a pause point, following a classic logic of physics or quantum theory.
These worlds are not formed naturally, but seem to arise due to an artificial or metaphysical intervention, a fracture in the tissue of fate and reality, which leaves room for multiple possibilities of coexisting or overlapping. But what does this really mean? How to explain what the characters like Zack “Long” in the same reality in which his death was a safe event?
This article explores these questions from a perspective based on philosophical and psychological theories – such as Buddhist Yogacara and Carl Jung’s analytical psychology– And not in absolute certainties. The intention is to open a path of interpretation that we will deepen below.
Divergent worlds: waste of unrealized possibilities
In popular quantum science, it usually thinks that parallel worlds are formed when someone makes a different decision, generating a new time branch. But in Final Fantasy VII y Rebirth remake The phenomenon is different.
Gaia It now seems fragments of alternative versions of their history that try to coexist with the current one. A clear example is the presence of Zack “Alive”. In the original story, Zack died in a key event. But now, a living zack seems to coexist in fact unstable or collapsed.
When and why is a divergent world formed in Final Fantasy VII?
The divergent worlds – yogachara and the development of the mind
The Yogacara Buddhist school claims that each of them designs its own world; There is no single universe, but a multiplicity of realities that emerge from the interruption of desires, fears and memories. Applied to Final Fantasy VII, The divergent worlds would be mental configurations actually transformed by psycho-scriptoal reality by vital current (the energy that connects all living beings and Gaia).
Facing the echoes after crossing the wall of fate, the broken souls and their repressed desires are fragmented and manifested in autonomous worlds. These worlds are like the dream mandalas, the projections of the collective unconscious of Gaia and its inhabitants, which become palpable (not in a physical sense) from the power of Vital current.
Each divergent world is an unresolved possibility: a “what would happen if?” Born from a broken mind.
Zack “Vivo” – Carl Jung: The Lost Hero’s Archetype and the Collective unconscious
From the analytical psychology of Carl Jung, the archetypes are universal models that reside in the collective unconscious. Zack represents the idealized hero, unjustly dead, whose memory weighs in the minds of Cloud and Aeris.
The “living” Zack is not literally the zack of the physical world, but an archetypal manifestation that derives from the pain and desire of those who loved him. After dealing with the echoes, Sephiroth releases these memories and gives them the body, transforming Zack into a collective shadow that becomes visible.
Zack “lives” because his memory has not been emotionally overcome. It is such a powerful memory that it has created its divergent world.
Were the divergent worlds before the crossing of fate?
Do not demonstrate. What existed before the crossing was:
Psychic and spiritual potential:
Following the theory of yogācāra, there are infinite “karmic seeds” (bīja) inside the collective mental flow of the planet. These seeds contain desires, fears, memories and possibilities … but they do not manifest themselves as “real worlds” until certain conditions activate them.
Unresolved dreams and emotional memories:
Many souls trapped in the vital current were suffering, attached, confused or corrupt by Jenova and Sephiroth and those latent conflicts fed a field of possibility. But they did not embody like worlds.
A “false” destination supported by the original echoes:
Until then, the echoes were maintaining a single line of manipulated events, designed to bring the group along the path that Sephiroth wanted.
What changes with the crossing of fate?
The collapse of the destination wall (final chapter of the remake Final Fantasy VII) is what breaks the repression of these potential. This allows:
The multiple souls that had been manipulated or contained by Sephiroth were fragmented and their memories, desires, fears and hopes are released.
Each of these energies generates divergent dream worldsWhich is totally consistent with yogācāra: mental phenomena can build complete realities if they are powerful enough.
What was previously a potential flow of possibilities becomes Active and visible projections, with rules and symbolic manifestations (such as the “rainbow” that appears when a decision generates a significant emotional bifurcation).
The collective unconscious (a central idea in Jung) contains all archetypes and narratives. When the order of “official” fate is broken, the collective unconscious generates different divergent scenarios, all as a symbolic reflection of the process of identification, trauma and redemption.
These branches are not “alternative times”, but states of the psyche, reality of the soul.
Before the end of the remake of Final Fantasy VII, the divergent worlds existed only as unconscious potential. Destiny’s intersection activates them and materializes them (not in a physical sense), allowing those souls fragmented or issued to generate dreams projected.
Why can Zack fight with Cloud against Sephiroth?
Symbolic and narrative explanation
Zack appears in the final battle of Final Fantasy VII Rebirth not as a physical ally, but as An extension of the internal conflict of Cloud, an echo of the will that opposes Sephiroth.
This Zack is not alive in the physical world, but it is a manifestation with a vital current, a spiritual fragment or an archetype of a divergent reality created by desires, dreams and trauma.
His struggle with Cloud symbolizes:
The unity between the past and the present of the cloud.
The acceptance of internal truth (cloud that recognizes Zack as an essential part of its history).
The rupture of fiscal fate, where even those who are dead can return as a symbolic force.
Why does your name appear only in the menu but not in your body?
Zack does not have a visual model in the menu and appears only as a name in the fight against Sephirot because his body does not exist on that plan; It is an idea, an archetype or an active memory.
What does Zack represent?
Narratively, Zack represents the spirit of resistance, protection and sacrifice.
Jung: The solar hero that inspires the ego (cloud) to face his shadow (Sephiroth).
Para yogachara: A projection of the collective consciousness born from illegal karma, such as the trauma cloud or the pain of the planet.
Zack does not “return from death”, but manifests itself when necessary for emotional healing and liberation.
What does the “Live” Biggs represent in Final Fantasy VII Rebirth?
Biggs is not alive in the real physical plan, but it represents:
🔹 a dream event within a divergent world created after the destruction of the destination wall.
🔹 His existence is supported by unresolved desires, the emotional attachment and the fault that lives the souls that have been manipulated.
🔹 Biggs acts with a certain lucidity, as if it were partially aware that his world is not entirely “real”: an illusory existence supported by residual emotional energy.
Yogācāra speaks of the world as a projection of consciousness. Biggs does not exist as a physical being, but as a construct of these projections, fueled by Vijñāna (consciousness that continues to exist after death, led by karma and desires).
Sephiroth: Seneca del Celson
Everything indicates that Sephiroth is behind the collapse of reality, not from chaos, but with a specific purpose: Make Gaia absorb all the chances of transforming itself into an eternal entity, in which the flow of time, death and reality itself dominates.
What really wants Sephiroth in the remake and rebirth of Final Fantasy VII?
In Final Fantasy VII, its goal is to cause a fatal wound to the planet that invokes the meteorite spell. In doing this, he aims to force the planet to concentrate his vital energy (the vital current) in the impact area to treat the wound. By absorbing that huge amount of spiritual energy while finding in the center of the impact, Sephiroth plans to merge with the vital current and become a kind of God, a higher consciousness with total control over the planet.
In Final Fantasy VII Remake and Final Fantasy VII Rebirth, his ambition has evolved: He wants to transcend time and fate, to redo the reality in his image, using Gaia as an eternal container (it is the same final plan but extended but expanded).
Sephiroth uses the breakdown of the “destination” to appear outside the time, manifest itself in several forms and force the coexistence of impossible possibilities.
Why is it so dangerous?
Since Gaia would stop being a living world to become an artificial reality, frozen in an eternal cycle in which nothing changes, and Sephiroth would have become the absolute center of all possible stories and reality.
His mantra would be:
“Everything that has been, what will be and what could be … belongs to me.”
The consequences of the fight against the omen
After the collapse of the wall of fate in the remake of Final Fantasy VII, Sephiroth releases the dreams and repressed desires of those corrupt souls who were manipulating and become more floating worlds, collapsing and merging with Gaia. This process artificially prolongs the existence of the planet as an amalgam of infinite possibilities, feeding on.
Sephiroth benefits from these worlds that take shape because:
There are more divergent realities, more vital is necessary to maintain them.
This feeds the planet and when it melts with the planet he manages to perpetuate himself in more and more realities.
Sephiroth is looking for the meeting not only as a clone meeting, but as the reunification of all the possibilities, to dominate them from their unique will.
Why can Cloud bring the white question of “another world”?
The key is that this “other world” is not physical, but not a simple illusion. It is an inner plan, a dreamlike or spiritual space generated by the interaction between cloud consciousness, vital current and Aeris’ emotions.
How can a plane appear in the physical world?
THE White matter It is not just an object; It is the crystallization of a pure desire: hope, protection and love, which is born when the connection with the planet is complete.
In yogacara: the outside world is a projection of consciousness. If a powerful consciousness (Aeris, as cetra) prints a desire in vital current, that impression can become concrete.
In Jungian terms: The unconscious of cloud can manifest archetypes in reality if it reaches a profound emotional integration and Aeris acts from Ánima, a guide of this integration.
Cloud does not bring a physical object of another plan: the white matter was born at that moment, the result of the spiritual union of Aeris and Cloud.
Bifurcations, rainbow and other mysteries of Final Fantasy VII
Training of divergent worlds (rainbow symbol)
The rainbow symbolizes the bifurcation of the field of consciousness. According to Yogacara, reality derives from the mind; The rainbow displays the manifestation of unresolved contradictory desires, creating “ephemeral worlds” within Gaia’s collective consciousness.
The reason why Zack is shown in several ways (in Final Fantasy VII Remake Intergrade and Final Fantasy Rebirth) has to do with the fragmentation of his soul. Each decision it takes, every emotional impact and every alternative “reality” becomes a new manifestation of its consciousness, but not in the sense of a “parallel universe”, but in terms of mental and spiritual fragments that are revealed through human perception.
Zack in Final Fantasy VII Remake intergrada and Final Fantasy VII Rebirth is not alive in a physical sense. It is rather a manifestation of his soul, an echo of his being in an alternative moment, which reflects how his bifurchase consciousness in the decisions he takes, creating new “possibilities” within the vital current of the planet.
The rainbows represent those bifurcations of destiny caused by the decisions taken by souls.
Zack’s presence at different times reflects the way in which decisions and echoes are related, leading to new forms of perception of fate.
In other words, Arcobaleni appear visually when the characters make decisions that branches reality in one of these artificial worlds. They symbolize: the spontaneous creation of a divergent world within another already divergent.
The detachment of a new emotional possibility, a new “desire” specified as a microcosm.
In Jungian terms: a rainbow is a symbol of unconscious integration, in which emotional impulses, fears and repressed desires are crossed.
Why have the remake tornado influenced Zack’s world?
The defeat of Omen In the remake of Final Fantasy VII not only affects Cloud and his group: he alters the spiritual bases of the vital current, generating new existential branches.
These branches are not independent, but are interconnected through the spiritual energy of the planet, which Jung would call the collective unconscious and yogācāra would see how the consciousness of the warehouse (Alaya-Vijñana).
Zack’s world is not a consolidated reality, but a world in formation, created by refused desires, fears and fragments of the collective soul.
When Echoes Fall is defeated, the energy released begins to “model” divergent worlds like that of Zack.
Tornados represent the initial chaos of the formation, or even a breakage of the limits of the soul, which is now expanding and embodies the possibilities.
In terms of Jung:
The defeat of the omen is equivalent to a break with the person, the mask of the “fixed destination” that the characters believed that they should follow.
When that mask is broken, the unconscious (both personal and collective) designs unrealized possibilities.
In terms of yogācāra:
All phenomena are constructions of basic consciousness (Alaya-Vijñana). The fall of the omen breaks the repression of some karmic projections, giving rise to divergent worlds born from the flow of consciousness.
The illusion that the cloud stops the sword of Sephiroth
When Cloud believes he has stopped Sephiroth before accumulating Aeris in Final Fantasy VII Rebirth, the rainbow that appears reflects an internal conflict of Cloud, not a physical event. It is an echo of his desire for redemption and protection, which momentarily generates an illusion or projection within the psychic plan. As in lucid dreams, Cloud resists inevitability, but the emotional wound is already determined.
Aeris Vision after his death
The aeris that the cloud sees at the end of the rebirth of Final Fantasy VII is not physical: it is the image that remains in the collective unconscious (Jung) and in the vital current (yogācāra). Persists as an archetypal psychic form, because Aeris has not disappeared; He has returned to the source, from where he can still manifest himself.
What exactly is the crack in the sky at the end of Final Fantasy VII Rebirth?
The crack in the sky is the point where the soul of the planet – corrupt from Sephiroth – can no longer support the artificial balance between divergent worlds and illusion projections.
From a yogācāra point of view, the physical world is a projection of the collective mind. The crack represents the breakdown of that illusion: the fall of the “veil” that hid Sephiroth manipulation on reality and destiny.
What we see how a broken sky is the mind of Gaia “tear”, which shows her interior. That is, the hidden spiritual plan begins to lose in the “real” world.
The divergent worlds are not parallel physical realities, but the bifurcations of the soul caused by decisions, desires and trauma have not resolved. During the rebirth of Final Fantasy VII, these fragments have coexisted an unstable tension.
The crack as a manifestation of the corruption of Gaia:
Sephiroth is using divergent worlds to keep Gaia trapped in an eternal cycle, like a timeless prison in which it can control the vital current.
Crack is the first visible sign that this manipulation is overloading the spiritual system of the planet.
It is as if Gaia, the soul of the world, could no longer keep the lie. The “roof of the world” breaks.
Cross the canal between the plans
The crack is not just a wound, it is also a threshold.
From that threshold, Aeris can act: not from a physical body, but from his living consciousness in the vital current. It is the place where the spirit begins to transfer the material. It is a crack in the “mind of the world” in which emotion and spiritual become one.
Sephiroth also wants that crack, wants to break the structure that limits its spiritual expansion. The villain weakens the membrane among the planes. The crack is also a step towards its final goal: not Gaia’s destruction, but its total reform as an eternal matrix of souls, where it is the only will. It is the moment when the collective unconscious breaks in conscious reality.
Why does only Cloud see the crack in the sky at the end of Final Fantasy VII Rebirth?
Because at that time the cloud is the only one whose conscience crossed the threshold between the physical plane and the spiritual plan. Crepa is not a purely physical phenomenon, but a psychic and spiritual revelation, visible only for those who have been “awakened” inside.
XIII Rosso feels the presence of Aeris
Network XIII, more connected to the nature and flow of planetary life, can feel the presence of Aeris as a living psychic presence in the vital current. It has not disappeared: his soul returned to the field from which everything emerged and continues to act as a silent guide.
Zack’s struggle in the church destroyed in Final Fantasy VII Rebirth
The Church represents a liminal space: a crossing point between the physical world and the plan of desires. The destruction that seems caused by a meteorite symbolizes the psychic collapse of that ephemeral world, an emotional possibility born from trauma and desire. Aeris’s participation suggests that his spirit is projected into that dream field to help Zack.
The field of flowers as an emotional resonance
The flower field reacts to Aeris’s energy because in the symbolism of the game, flowers represent hope, purity and life. Is an emotional indicator: His aspect confirms that Aeris is present in the spirit and that his will continues to act beyond physical death.
“The separated worlds” – separation of existence plans
When Sephiroth separates Zack and Cloud saying that the worlds separate, it does not refer to the physical worlds. It refers to the dissociation of mental or spiritual plans. Zack, as a projection of a possibility, does not belong to the same psychic field of the cloud at that moment. Like the dreams that vanish when they wake up, their union cannot be maintained if the fields of consciousness diverge.
Conclusion: The universe of Final Fantasy VII remake and rebiterth as a vivo mandala
The divergent worlds of Final Fantasy VII are not parallel universes, but fractures of fate and consciousness. They are fragmented realities by collision of desires, memories and unsolved trauma, supported by the vital current and manipulated by sephiroth.
The “living” Zack is an archetype that persists in the collective mind and which represents the fight against the imposed fate.
The battle in Final Fantasy VII is not only physical, but a metaphysical, a clash of will between the control of fate and the freedom of the soul.
In the next article, we will explore in detail the nature of these archetypes, the vital current and the way in which the concepts of time and destination are transformed into the rebirth of Final Fantasy VII.
If you want to know more about the Final Fantasy VII remake trilogy, click on the following titles
Beyond Destiny: the hidden role of the echoes in the remake of Final Fantasy VII
Eco, omens and destination: a symbolic reading of the remake and the rebirth of Final Fantasy VII by Jung and Yogāra
Remake Final Fantasy VII: Jung, Yogācāra and narrative control through the echoes of fate
