Squaerith

Squaerith is the het ship between Squall Leonhart and Aerith Gainsborough from the Final Fantasy and Kingdom Hearts fandoms.

Canon
As Squall and Aerith are from different Final Fantasy series, they have never met in canon. Since Squall is from Final Fantasy VIII, while Aerith's is Final Fantasy VII.

They do, however, two of the few Final Fantasy characters to be included in the Kingdom Hearts series, as they both appear in the first game of the series and Kingdom Hearts II. While Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories has memory versions of them. The KH universe has them haling from the FF world Hollow Bastion/Radiant Garden, where it was one of the many worlds to fall into darkness when it was attacked by Maleficent, which is how Squall, who has changed his name to Leon in an attempt to amend for his mistakes of out being able to save his loved ones, had ended up on Traverse Town, with Aerith, Yuffie and Cid, who had raised the two, along with Yuffie, after they lost their home. Over the years Aerith has helped Leon in his resistant work, as he travels in the worlds in his gummi-ship and brings refugees back to Traverse Town. Where they finally meet the Keyblade wielder that is said to fix everything, Sora, when his home world was also taken by the darkness. Before Sora resealed Kingdom Hearts, Leon, Aerith and the others returned to Hollow Bastion, so they can there to reclaim their home after the darkness swallowed worlds revert back to normal. A year later, in the event of Kingdom Hearts II, Leon, Aerith and his resident allies continue to fight the Heartless, along with preparing for the battle with the 1000,000 Heartless invasion. After Leon and Sora discovered the existence of Space Paranoids, Aerith insisted in keeping an eye on the computer that brought Sora to it; but Leon wasn't so sure about it until Aerith gave him a glare that persuaded him to her way. Once the MCP was defeat, Tron shows everyone a pleasing sight of when their city was first built; in which reminds them of its true name. Radiant Garden.

Similarities and Comparison

 * The summon monsters featured in both of their FF games are Odin, Shiva, Alexander, Bahamut, Ifrit, Cactuar and Leviathan.
 * The summon monsters in Squall's home FF world are known as the Guardian Force.

Fanon
The ship is mainly focused on their Kingdom Hearts counterparts, since it is a canon Final Fantasy crossover game that has a version of the two know each other.

Fandom
FAN FICTION
 * Aerith/Squall on FanFiction.Net
 * Cloud/Squall (Dissidia) on FanFiction.Net
 * Aerith/Leon (KH) on FanFiction.Net
 * Cloud/Squall (Dissidia) on FanFiction.Net
 * Aerith/Leon (KH) on FanFiction.Net

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Trivia

 * Aerith was original set to appear in Dissidia Final Fantasy 012, but was later cut from it.