Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth: Best Aerith Mods

Summary

• Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth on PC offers numerous character mods like outfits for Aerith inspired by different games and themes.
• Players can choose from a variety of unique mods for Aerith, such as Bahamut robe, original outfit, heavy metal ensembles, and crossover designs.
• Mods like Aerith of the Turks, Jessie over Aerith, and Rinoa outfit allow players to customize Aerith’s appearance to fit different styles and preferences.

Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth finally hit the PC back in January, and the mods have been coming in thick and fast. There are gameplay tweaks, graphical fixes, AVX2 emulation, and a lot of character mods. Want Cloud in his Kingdom Hearts attire? Or Tifa in her Advent Children outfit? It’s all just a download away.

The same is true of Aerith, the flower girl as infamous for her fate as she is famous for her staff-swinging healing. If players want to alter her in any way, they’ve got a treasure trove’s worth of mods to choose from. But which ones should they start with? Here are just a few key examples that are worth checking out.

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Aerith Bahamut Robe

Summon A New Fit With This Mod

FF7: Ever Crisis is a mobile RPG that reimagines events from the first game, Crisis Core, and Dirge of Cerberus, where players can take chibified versions of the gang out on their adventures. They could even be dressed in unique outfits, like Bahamut-themed suits. Aerith in particular got a nice Bahamut robe and staff combo.

Pejniu liked it enough to mod it into FF7 Rebirth as the Aerith Bahamut Robe mod. With it, players can dress her in the full nines, or in just her top if they don’t like how the robe flows. Both come with the Bahamut Rod, complete with its dragon wings motif at the top. It’s sadly incompatible with other clothing and weapon mods, so it’s all or nothing with this mod.

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Aerith Original Outfit

No School Like the Old School

Most of the outfits in FF7 Remake and Rebirth are close enough to their 1997 designs. They’ve just had touch-ups here and there, like Tifa gaining an undershirt, or Aerith’s dress being practically white with its light shades. But what if players wanted it to be more faithful to the old classic? StillUnoriginal has them covered with their Aerith Original Outfit mod.

This mod changes Aerith’s dress to be a bright pink number with buttons, resembling the original artwork by Tetsuya Nomura. The jacket has also been simplified with big buttons over the zippers and belts of her Rebirth jacket. It’s a neat way to go old-school without losing out on the polygons, and it allows other cosmetic mods like hair and eye color options to work with it as well.

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Aerith Of The Turks

Switching Sides Or Switching Fits

They’re agents of Shinra working under Heidegger, but it’s hard to hate the Turks. Namely, because they’re ultimately a bunch of goofs, from Rude being not as intimidating as he looks, to Reno ordering others not to step on the flowers…while stepping on the flowers. Still, they’re fan favorites, and some might like to play the game from their perspective.

Pejniu’s mod can’t quite do that (players need a ROM of the old mobile game Before Crisis for a game based on the Turks), but it can make Aerith a member via their Aerith of the Turks mod. It replaces her usual duds with Reno’s uniform, complete with goggles and red hair, which can be toggled on or off. The mod suits her surprisingly well and helps her fit in — plus, there are Turk mods for the rest of the playable cast.

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Aranea Aerith

Swinging A Staff At The Daemons

Remember Aranea Highwind? FF15’s wild, high-flying ex-merc-turned-commodore of the Niflheim Empire? What if she shifted dimensions and traded Niflheim for Nibelheim? It would make for a curious crossover, or another Dissidia sequel. But if players liked her fit, kazumashirou turned it into an outfit for Aerith.

Aranea Aerith gives her a full leather outfit, from the jacket down to the skirt, making her look like she dressed up too late for that motorcycle section in FF7 Remake. The skirt can be toggled off too, if players want a better look at her leather pants. It can be used to replace either her Default Outfit or Soldier fit, but it can’t be loaded over both, or it could cause a crash.

Becoming One With The Rock

Aerith doesn’t seem like the kind of girl who’d be into heavy metal, but looks can be deceiving. With vxsapphire’s Aerith Heavy Metal Outfits Remake mod, players can replace all of Aerith’s standard fits with different ensembles modeled after different bands, from her black and white Slayer checkerboard look to her yellow and black plaid Guns N’Roses fit. If they look familiar, that’s because they’re retweaks of mods vxsapphire made for Aerith back in FF7 Remake.

They can be combined with her different hair and eye color mods if players want her to coordinate her colors or give her the full goth makeover. Note that they work best with vxsapphire’s other cosmetic mods, as they haven’t been tested with mods made by other people. The mod also clashes with her 4K Upscale Mod, so players with 4K screens will have to stick to regular HD output to work with these outfits until a workaround can be found.

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Jessie Over Aerith

Giving Jessie’s Gang Some Love

Some fans think Tifa is the best girl in FF7, while others prefer Aerith. Others might still prefer Yuffie’s ninja thief antics. But there are others that wish Jessie, the doomed AVALANCHE member from FF7’s early chapters, got more of a look-in before she ducked out for good. With the power of mods, players can give her more time in the spotlight.

SoTotallySora’s Jessie Over Aerith mod does exactly what it says on the tin: it replaces Aerith’s standard fit with Jessie’s model from FF7 Remake, complete with name changes in the menu and outfit selection screen. Now Jessie can continue to have the players’ backs — even if it means keeping her in full uniform on the Costa del Sol beaches, as the other options will bring the flower girl back in her beachwear.

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Slayer Aerith

Ms Gainsborough Goes Goth

The Aerith Heavy Metal Outfits Remake mod comes with a Slayer fit, though with its checkerboard design, it might make her seem more ready to skank to two-tone ska than headbang to ‘Raining Blood.’ If players want a sole metal fit, Ninjagrime has an alternative offering in their Slayer Aerith mod.

It’s an original design Ninjagrime put together just before FF7 Rebirth’s console release, which aimed to replace Aerith’s fit with a gothic ensemble that held true to Nomura’s design trademarks, like offering plenty of belts and chains, with hints of red plaid to add a splash of color. It can be slotted over their default and both Costa del Sol slots, and it pairs well with their War Tifa mod.

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Aerith’s Sexy Dress

Turning Heads & Breaking Hearts

Cool those jets. This isn’t a Street Fighter 6 Chun Li mod moment. Aerith’s Sexy Dress is just the name SoTotallySora gave to the red dress Aerith could wear in FF7 Remake if players completed all six quests in Chapter 8. Still, it was her most dazzling option in that section of the game. But much like Tifa’s purple ‘Mature’ dress, they were one-off items.

At least, until players modded them back in. In this case, SoTotallySora’s mod replaces her standard fit with the red dress, ruffles and all, which means its physics can get a little funny and suffer from clipping. But it won’t break the game and will remain stable, thanks to the additional help SoTotallySora got from WTails358’s super skeleton.

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Tifa And Aerith As Garnet (Dagger) From FF9

Make FF7‘s Leading Ladies Pay Homage To FF9‘s Princess

FF7 became the big, groundbreaking hit that catapulted Final Fantasy into a global phenomenon. Still, that doesn’t mean it’s everyone’s favorite. Others prefer the unsung likes of FF9, with its callbacks to all its prior games, its Shakespearean setting, and its charming characters — particularly its leading lady, Garnet.

Whether it’ll get more than a remaster is hard to say, but if FF9 fans want to feel more at home in FF7 Rebirth, they have a few options. StillUnoriginal adds in her Garnet-inspired dress from FF7 Remake in their Aerith Garnet FF9 mod, while mariagata’s Tifa and Aerith as Garnet mods gave Aerith a slightly brighter Garnet dress and Tifa her full-on pantsuit fit to give fans double the Dagger and triple the fun.

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Rinoa Outfit For Aerith

Sadly, It Doesn’t Come With The Dog Cannon

As good as FF9 is, it didn’t get as popular as Final Fantasy 8, which couldn’t match the furor FF7 whipped up. Still, some fans ended up preferring its characters and world, with many enjoying the love story between leads Squall and Rinoa that served as the game’s centerpiece. That, or they got curious over whether that ‘Squall Died’ theory held any water or not.

Nonetheless, FF8 fans can feel more at home with vxsapphire’s Rinoa Outfit for Aerith mod. It replaces her standard fit with Rinoa’s blue and black combo, alongside her white party dress for FF7 Rebirth’s Loveless play. As of this writing, the latter only turns up in the Loveless section, but with luck and time, it may become a toggleable option — or a separate mod of its own.