Hynad said:
Spoiler!
Well the whispers were trying to correct events to stay in the line with the original story. At first glance, it seems to be a lame meta-commentary gimmick and whathaveyou. But there's so many inconsistencies involving them that I am lead to believe they are not going to be what we're lead to believe so far. |
I already answered your question: Sephiroth.
I'm not sure if Sephiroth is also the one giving other characters future visions, or if he's just receiving visions from the same source and happens to see them more clearly, but he clearly knows a lot more than he should. Aerith probably does too.
The first scene you mention, where Cloud and Aerith have their fated meeting, is also just after Sephiroth visits Cloud the first time. Doesn't take much of a leap from there to say that Cloud probably had Sephiroth on the mind, and if the Whispers didn't make Aeirth stand out he might not've noticed her.
There's no reason to think there's more to the Whispers or anything else than what we've been shown, when they've already given us enough clues on that front. And how could the Whispers have some bigger part in the future, when the end of this game literally involves erasing them, and makes a big point of it?
The biggest overlaying plot point of this game was the Whispers and getting rid of them-- a ham-fisted metaphor for breaking free from the original story, as far as the finer details go.