Mm. Perhaps not, but how much would Cloud suffer were you to meet your fate here?

[He'll let the things get closer, probably too close before he'll do anything about it. He's not about to let them get to himself after all.

However, as he looks to her he also considers what Tifa said before about 'him' changing destiny. Would killing her and the rest of them here change things for him? Tempting as that maybe he also doesn't want to lose those current memories he's built around Cloud ...

Doesn't mean he won't continue to torment Aerith here and now though.]

And Zack. Would he suffer just as much or more do you think?