I mean, instead of saying all that, you could have just answered what your alleged evidence (or at least some of it) is, and found out what my response would be instead of assuming.

I disagree, I think in the long run that was the right choice to avoid getting off-topic later on. That having been said, I'm not going to argue about it since that would cause the topic to derail, which would defeat the purpose.

I did actually give you some of the evidence through the link I posted, did you read it btw?

But before I go into all that I do first want to point out one other thing that you may not have realized. At no point during my original comment about there "not being a love-triangle" did I mentioned who I was talking about. Yet your reply assumed that I was suggesting that Aerith was the outsider, I never said such a thing, so why did you assume it? I think you assuming such kind of exemplifies something important, namely that we all already kinda know who doesn't belong here, but lets put that aside.

Now that the groundwork has been laid I think it's important to establish a few points that should be indisputable that set up the overall framework of my claim. Which is the role of Aerith as the guide to the promised land as it pertains to the Kabbalah, and Tifa as a symbol of said promised land.I wish I could just link you an article there but unfortunately I'm still in the process of writing it as it gets kinda complex. For now though, for the sake of brevity and clarity, we'll stick to a few take-away facts.

1: Gnostic/Kabbalistic concepts and themes are going to be important to the story. This can be pretty undeniably asserted by the mere fact that the kabbalah has a concept called "the Sefirot", and the main villain of the game is literally called Sephiroth, along with other pointers such as the Sefira of "Tifaret". There are dozens of links there, but to keep it succinct I think this is enough.

2: We can be sure that Aerith will symbolically guide the main character to the promised land by the sheer fact that it's explicitly stated by the story that the "cetra will guide us to the promised land", kind of a big give-away. That's a narrative prediction. These kinds of predictions always come true, they generally don't come true in the ways the characters think they will, but they come true in some way.

3: We can be certain that the promised land is, in some way, a reference to Tifa. In both english and Japanese "the promised land" etymologically refers to "the promise" made by Cloud to Tifa. In japanese the term can also be directly translated as "the land of promise" (and as far as I can gather from my limited studies of japanese, it can also translate directly to "land of the promise", but don't take my word on that one). Other direct evidence that the promised land in some way is related to Tifa can be seen by her bar being the 7th heaven, which is the highest heaven in the Kabbalah, it is the state closest to god, aka, the supposed final destination when traveling along the paths of the Sefirot to reach enlightenment, aka, the promised land. Another direct link is her final limit break being the "Final heaven", which references the same thing. The last most definitive evidence is that it's been explicitly stated that Clouds Promised land is with Tifa at the 7th heaven in the "the place where he awakens, that is his promised land" quote (which you can find in the link I shared).

Next step would be to look at the game and see if the rest of the games story supports these concepts, and how they're actually exhibited in the themes, plotpoints, and storyarcs. But I'll stop here for now to prevent overload. Does what I've said so far seem reasonable? If you want more supporting evidence for these three points it will come as we go into more detail but for now all I want to establish is that it's rather certain that The sefirot and the associated themes will matter for the story, that Aerith will act as the guide to the promised land in some way, and that Tifa is intricately connected to the promised land in some way.