Literature / Final Fantasy VII Remake: Trace of Two Pasts

Trace of Two Pasts is a novel that focuses on the heroines of Final Fantasy VII Remake, Aerith Gainsborough and Tifa Lockhart. While following the enigmatic Sephiroth after the events of the game, the two heroines tell their own story of how they got to where they where at the start of the game. In the first part while on the road to Kalm, Tifa relates her history of growing up in Nibelheim, her life leading up to the Nibelheim incident and what she did to recover from her life being shattered in the aftermath. In the second part while disguising themselves on the Junon ship in Shinra grunt uniforms, Aerith passes the time by telling Tifa what life was growing up in the Shinra Tower with her mother, their escape when her powers became apparent, meeting Elmyra and living under the gaze of Shinra.

The novel came with the Final Fantasy VII Remake Ultimania Plus on July 15, 2021 and was available in Japanese only. Thankfully many parts have been translated online and an official English release was made available on March 21st, 2023, under the slightly altered title Traces of Two Pasts.

Tropes

• Abhorrent Admirer:
  • In Tifa's story Rakesh ends up becoming attracted to her, to the point he gets an Entitled to Have You attitude, and Tifa loses any trust she had in him once she notices it. During their final encounter, he even tells her he loves her, but given how he deceived and scammed her, all she holds for at that point is contempt.
  • It turns out that Faz only helped Aerith and Ifalna escape because he was madly in love with Ifalna. Years after her escape, Faz runs into Aerith again and reveals what his true intentions were. What makes it worse is that, with Ifalna already gone, Faz then decides to turn his unsavory desire towards Aerith (who, at this point, is just a pre-pubescent child) on the excuse that she strongly resembles her mother. Thankfully, Elmyra arrives in the nick of time and knocks out the disgusting man before he can lay his hands on Aerith.
• Adaptation Name Change: Tifa's white cat introduced in Before Crisis was named Mal in most adaptations, but the English localization for this story gives her the name Fluffy instead.
• Ambiguous Situation: Several plot points are left in the air so that later material can fill them out as needed or to keep the player's decisions in their hands. Who the Turk that Tifa met was is unspecified, whether Yuffie is in the party during the Junon boat ride and what exactly happened in Cloud's flashback among others.
• Another Story for Another Time: At the end, Aerith is interrupted before she can get into another story for Tifa. She says that she'll bring it up another time, which is a subject concerning "boys".
• Ask a Stupid Question...: Played for drama. When Shinra forces look for Avalanche members in Container Row, Tifa defends her friend the Waterkeeper who was being brutally interrogated by them. The Shinra trooper she hits gets finished off by the Watchman with a Slashed Throat. Later, when Tifa asks what happened to the trooper, Rakesh responds by saying he disposed of the body efficiently, not realizing that Tifa was wondering if the trooper was okay. Tifa curses herself for making such an assumption.
• Bathing Beauty: Tifa's love for showering is present in the novel, with her often mentioning doing it whenever she feels stressed. When she has the chance to shower in the Oranye clinic's fancy modern bathroom, she makes a point to note how luxurious modern showers are. It becomes a particular issue for her while living in Container Row since she's forced to use the communal shower. She soon makes a deal with the Waterkeeper, paying extra so she'll have a lookout for her whenever she showers and the chance to shower twice everyday, which is notably one of the few times Tifa uses her money for any kind of extra luxury.
• Bath of Poverty: Container Row, Tifa's first living arrangement in the slums, has no plumbing, which forces everyone there to have to use the communal showers to bathe. This is a particularly stressful task for Tifa, who is an attractive young woman and has to worry about peeping toms and worse. At first, she considers showering with a Modesty Towel for perpetuity, but the Waterkeeper sympathizes with her and puts a curtain in one of the shower stalls, labeling it the "ladies' stall" and offering to keep a lookout whenever Tifa uses it — for a fee of course, but one Tifa gladly pays.
• Beauty Is Never Tarnished: Tifa's lack of any scarring from her attack from Sephiroth is addressed. Despite having severe damage that cut several bones requiring medical wire to keep her ribs in place, some skin transplants kept a large scar from forming.
• Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Dhamini and Rakesh look like kind doctors who are looking out for Tifa at first, but as the story progresses they look more and more sketchy. By the end, it's revealed that they were scamming her all along, having vastly overcharged her medical treatment and have been sabotaging her chances at meeting other people and having other opportunities in the slum so that she'll remain under their thumb.
• Brainy Brunette: Tifa's intelligence is put on display several times in her part. She personalizes the work out routine of the people in her Calisthenics group and gets good at counting money to pay off her medical bills. Tifa even figures out how to get more work done for her stand so that she is able to raise the money years before she first figured.
• Brutal Honesty: Pops, Tifa's first boss while working in Midgar, does not mince words and is quite harsh in criticizing her in her early days working. While at first, this troubles her greatly, she comes to appreciate his harsh honesty.
• Buxom Beauty Standard: Tifa's ample chest gets her a lot of male attention in the slums, to the point Pops even attempts to give her a street name based on her chest size, but she firmly declines.
• Cannot Spit It Out: It becomes obvious in the narration that Tifa had some infatuation with Cloud even in their youth, but she never vocalizes these thoughts.
• Cathartic Chores: Aerith notes that doing little chores is Elmyra's mechanism to deal with stress, and she often does say chores with mumbling about her problems under her breath.
• Chef of Iron: Pops is a jovial food cart owner most times but he's also a tough gang leader known as Manson who personally beats up a trained Zangan disciple like Rakesh when he falls behind his gambling debts.
• Company Town: Nibelheim is described as being extremely dependent and influenced by Shinra, due to the Nibel Mako Reactor being one of the first ever built and Shinra using the town to conduct important research on Mako when it was first discovered. Most of the village's residents are said to be descendants of the laborers who worked on the reactor and settled in the area. By the time the story takes place, Nibelheim is no longer very valuable to Shinra, which left the village to steadily shrink over time. But the remaining villagers still hold some loyalty to Shinra, to the point that Zangan is all but expelled from the village just for badmouthing the company.
• Continuity Nod:
  • Tifa's cat, Mal (named Fluffy in the English localization), from Before Crisis is mentioned and its habit of leaving her from time to time happens during one of her bonding scenes with Cloud. She doesn't know what happened to it since.
  • While drilling Tifa on her exercises, Zangan instructs her on the importance of shoulder muscles and that one should stretch them out and puff out your chest to get them in working order. Which means that her victory pose in the games proper is a part of her workout activities that Zangan helped her with.
  • Just before the Nibelheim incident Tifa met one of the Turks from Before Crisis.
  • In their last session before the Nibelheim incident Zangan tells Tifa that he will teach her the final lesson of his style one day soon. In the original game, Zangan left Tifa's final Limit Break manual for her to learn.
  • One of Zangan's final gifts to Tifa was leather armband she wore on her left arm. Tifa's outfit in the game incorporates an arm guard around her left as well.
  • During the game Tifa often ends battles saying she wants to take a shower. Here she says that showers used to take gil each time and the only one around she could use was a communal shower she used early to beat the crowd.
  • The reveal that Tifa had a fear of human trafficking puts the events at Don Corneo's mansion in a new light. She deliberately put herself in a situation very close to her old fear for the sake of her friends.
• Cool Big Sis: Jessie is actually revealed to have been one to the teenage Tifa in her early years in Midgar, being Tifa's first true friend there and looking out for her, even making Pops food cart the Local Hangout for her encounters with Biggs and Wedge. Tifa claims she greatly looked up to Jessie's confident demeanor back then, and gave her the confidence to brave Midgar's oppressive lifestyle.
• Creature of Habit: Red notes after hearing Tifa's story that she seems to enjoy habits and routine. This helps her organize her life and plan her activities. And after the incident get herself back on her feet when in an unfamiliar land. Unfortunately, her life still keeps getting upended by circumstance time and again.
• Curbstomp Battle: Despite Rakesh claiming that he followed Zangan's teachings when Tifa learn about his scheme to keep her in debt she puts him down in a few hits. Rakesh barely is able to croak out that he loves her (as his Jerk Justifications). Tifa lays him out for that.
• Deconstruction: Tifa's good looks are shown to be an obstacle to her having actual relationships. Her friends back at Nibelheim often did things to get her attention, and she could tell that they only saw her as a prize to be won. In Midgar, the first person who tries to be her friend, Rakesh, keeps her in debt with medical bills that he inflated and keeps sabotaging her from having new opportunities to keep her dependent on him.
• Demoted to Extra: Cloud is out of the spotlight for this story, with a few appearances and a small handful of dialogue.
• Determinator: This novel focuses on how strong the wills of the leading heroines are. While both have had significant hurdles put into their way neither have given up on their lives and work to improve themselves.
• Disappeared Dad: Cloud's father is noted to be a wanderer who was "like the wind" and not well-liked in Nibelheim. One day he disappeared in the Nibel mountains where his items where found but no body.
• The Dog Was the Mastermind: Played With in regards to Manson's identity. He's revealed to have been Pops, the stern but jovial food cart cook that has been working alongside Tifa for years. But while he's the gang leader who's behind Tifa's debt, all the "rules" imposed by her were actually made up by Rakesh who didn't want her to leave Container Row since he fell in love with her and Tifa's debt is also high only because Rakesh and his mother overcharged Tifa's treatment. When Tifa learns all of this and confronts Manson, he lets her go without a fight, considering her debt paid.
• The Don: Manson is the slum lord that Tifa's indebted to and whose turf she lives on for her first few years in Midgar. Late in her story, she learns he's none other than Pops, the food cart owner she worked under for years.
• Dr. Jerk: Played With with Doctor Dhamini Oranye. While at first, she seems like a kind woman that runs a surprisingly well-kept clinic in the slums, the more Tifa interacts with her the more she notes Dhamini seems very money-obsessed and that her kindness seems like a facade. Near the end of Tifa's section, she also learns her whole practice is a scam and that she often overcharges patients, especially naive ones such as Tifa was when she first arrived in Midgar.
• Dying Town: Nibelheim used to be a Company Town to Shinra in its early days due to mako research being conducted there, but now Shinra no longer has an interest in area, Nibelheim has been slowly shrinking in size, with many of the younger villagers wanting to move to bigger cities. The village's status becomes even worse when monsters start becoming more prevalent in the area due to the reactor, with the village's only hope being Shinra's interference. Surprisingly Shinra actually agrees to help, which is what prompts Sephiroth's fateful visit to the village.
• Eccentric Mentor: Zangan is shown to be a very lively and odd man, especially for a small conservative village like Nibelheim where his sudden arrival causes quite a stir. In particular, his interest in Tifa as a potential pupil is misconstrued by her as him wanting to kidnap her, due to the fact he does things like grab her arms unprompted or climb her window in the middle of the night.
• Even Evil Has Standards: Manson is a ruthless slum gang leader but even he disapproves of the Oranye's scamming a naive girl like Tifa, though he goes along with it. When Tifa finds out and confronts him about the scheme, he's unapologetic about it, but lets her go and considers her debt paid.
• Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep": Some of the characters in the Midgar slum sections are only known to Tifa by their role, such as the Container Row Watchman or the Waterkeeper (Tifa later learns her name is Aisha, but still refers to her as Waterkeeper after learning it). Sometimes this is actually enforced, as many people in the slums use street nicknames, so they can escape their past.
• Evil Debt Collector: A sector 8 gang leader named Manson buys off Tifa's medical debt, forcing her to Work Off the Debt on his turf and he imposes several rules on her to keep her from leaving Container Row or getting a job in another sector, and often sends her intimidating messages via Rakesh. Downplayed when Tifa learns Manson is Pops and questions him about it, she learns he never imposed any rule on her other than having her work at his food cart, causing Tifa to realize it was actually Rakesh who was making up the rules and telling her they were Manson's. When she settles things with Rakesh, Manson just lets her go without a fuss.
• Faint in Shock: Happens to Tifa a few times as all the stress gets to her. Most notably when she knocks down a Shinra security officer and the Watchman finishes him off.
• Family Theme Naming: Tifa's mother is revealed to be Thea Lockhart, which means the two of them have four-letter names with the first T and the last A.
• Fanservice with a Smile: Pops explicitly hired Tifa with this in mind, knowing a pretty girl like her would attract customers to his food cart and later she plays the same role for Monty as a bartender at the Seventh Heaven. While Tifa is initially offended at the idea, she comes to terms with it, and while she doesn't go out of her way to make herself look sexy for work, just the fact she's pretty and easy to talk to does in fact attract loads of customers.
  Barret: [about Seventh Heaven] Used to be a real quiet place, run by a guy as old as lumber. But when Tifa started tending the bar, it transformed overnight. So many guys were pouring in the doors, you had to bat 'em away with a stick!
• Florence Nightingale Effect: Both Aerith and Tifa's stories feature unsympathetic examples: Both Rakesh and Faz ended up falling for Tifa and Ifalna while nursing them, but both develop Entitled to Have You attitudes toward the women.
• Foil: The contrasting lives of the two heroines is put on display here. It's pointed out in the cover with the two standing at opposite sides of a corner clock, as Aerith is looking up while a bright red phone booth is right behind her while Tifa is solemnly looking down in a dark alley. Pointedly Aerith's name is in white and Tifa's is in black on the cover.
• Framing Device: The story is about Tifa and Aerith telling stories of their past to the rest of the party during the early stages of Final Fantasy VII Rebirth. Tifa first tells Aerith, Red XIII, and Barret about her upbringing in Nibelheim while they travel through the grasslands, then later tells Red XIII about her early life in Midgar at the Chocobo Ranch. Aerith first talks to Tifa about her early life while onboard the Junon ferry.
• Friendship Moment: Both heroines get moments of these, showing their friendships when outside of battling Shinra. Tifa helps her future teammates with what they need in the slums and all of Aerith's part is her confiding in Tifa, showing how deep she considers her friendship.
• The Gambling Addict: Rakesh is apparently addicted to gambling, and got himself in massive debt in Wall Market, which is why he and his family started to overcharge and scam their patients.
• The Gift: When Zangan first meets Tifa, he sizes up that her natural talent for martial arts are exceptional. He is quick to teach her that the greatest obstacle to her improvement is herself to keep her grounded.
• Good Counterpart: Aerith says that Elmyra's father-in-law was basically the good version of Don Corneo. It shows when comparing their houses, while lavish for the slums his is a humble two-story house surrounded by vegetation while Corneo has a gaudy brothel plus S&M dungeon.
• Good Parents: A running theme is that both Aerith and Tifa had loving and well-intentioned birth parents. Despite the rigor of her tests putting her on her death bed, Ifalna looked out for Aerith's wellbeing until the very end. Brian looked out for Tifa and helped grow her hobbies and talents.
• Greater Need Than Mine: When Barrett and Marlene show up disheveled from weeks of travel, Tifa puts up the money she had spent years building up to pay off her hospital bills to give them a place to stay by buying the Seventh Heaven.
• Healthcare Motivation: Tifa's early years in Midgar are dedicated to her paying the extremely high medical bills she got from the injury Sephiroth dealt with her and almost killed her, which leaves her trapped working at the Container Row for years since the local gang leader Mr. Manson paid her bills for her and is forcing her to work there until her debt is settled. Later she learns the doctor Oranye scammed her and vastly overcharged her treatment, leaving her furious.
• Hired for Their Looks: Pops makes no secret he hired Tifa to work with him in his steamed bun business because of her good looks, not because he's a pervert, but because he thinks she'll attract more people to his food cart if a pretty girl is selling his product.
  Pops: Anyway, maybe you're flattered, or maybe you think I'm a pig. Frankly, I don't care. Woman or man, when the name of the game is sales, looks are key. You’re walking proof. I've never seen anyone make steamed buns so slow and still keep the customers flocking in.
• Honest Corporate Executive: Gabriel Gainsborough, Elmyra's father-in-law, was the only Shinra contractor who worked below the plate, and he was known for being a Benevolent Boss who treated his workers fairly and could give many honest jobs to the people of the slums. He even lived a relatively humble life in the sector 5 slums, in the home where Aerith would eventually end up living with Elmyra.
• Horrible Housing: Tifa's forced to live in a small, cramped container with only basic amenities for years in order to pay off her debt. Even Jessie and Barret, who also live in the slums, are somewhat horrified by how bad Tifa's living conditions are.
• Human Traffickers:
  • Surprisingly, Tifa is revealed to have a fear of human trafficking and suspects Zangan of all people to be one in their first encounter. It does not help matters that when she wakes up in Midgar her living conditions greatly resemble the stories she had heard, and partly justified that Zangan was also randomly grabbing her arms and calves without consent (to check her muscle structure), raising her suspicion.
  • Aerith reveals to Tifa that the Leaf House in Sector 5 used to be run by child traffickers who were often sold into lives of hard labor.
• I Shall Taunt You: In their practice spar, Zangan goads and taunts Tifa to keep her off her game. After the spar Zangan teaches her how her greatest obstacle to self improvement is her own ego.
• In a Single Bound: When Tifa first meets Zangan, he jumps off the river he was meditating on, and goes to an impossible height before landing next to her, showing he's no ordinary man.
• In Spite of a Nail: The story is explicitly said to follow the continuity of Remake rather than the original, and the ending of Remake implies that the remainder of the narrative can go any way and does not have to follow the events of the original. In spite of this, the framing devices of this novel show that at least some of the events of the original game following the exodus out of Midgar still end up happening, including Cloud's flashback at Kalm and boarding the Junon ship disguised as Shinra troopers.
• Incompletely Trained: The Nibelheim Incident occurs before Tifa can receive her final lessons from Zangan, leaving her training incomplete. When she starts training her martial arts again in Midgar, she notes that her fighting style has evolved and become more hers than his.
• Kung-Fu Kid: Tifa became one of Zangan's best pupils while she was still in her early teens. The Nibelheim Incident occurred before he could teach her the final lessons of his Zangan-style martial arts, but she managed to keep training in Midgar and incorporate her own style and forms to complete her training.
• Leaving Audience: The entire party hears the start of Tifa's story, but one by one stop listening for one reason or another. By the end of it the only one listening is Red XIII.
• Mystery Meat: While Tifa admits that Pops steamed buns tasted great, she was too afraid to ask where he got the meat from, and suspected it involved something unsavory.
• Mythology Gag:
  • The group of Tifa, Emilio, Tyler, and Lester are nicknamed the Four Fiends.
  • There is a very minor character named "Gerad", possibly a reference to Edgar's alias in Final Fantasy VI.
• Naked Freak-Out: In order to convince Marle to perform a skin graft surgery, Doctor Dhamini Oranye shows her photos of Tifa's bare chest — and while the photos don't have Tifa's face, Tifa's still clearly mortified about Dhamini just showing it off to strangers. Marle notices Tifa's embarrassment and becomes furious at Dhamini's lack of tact.
• Non-Residential Residence: The place in Sector 8 that Tifa first moves to is called Container Row, being in fact just a bunch of containers that serve as makeshift homes.
• Not What It Looks Like: When Tifa first meets Zangan, he begins to openly admire her physical form, seeing her early aptitude for martial arts. But little Tifa is extremely creeped out by this, and runs away screaming back to Nibelheim, much to Zangan's confusion. She would spend the better part of the day thinking he was some kind of Human Traffickers or worse.
• Obligatory Swearing: The novel contains multiple instances of the word "fuck", making it the first entry in the Compilation of Final Fantasy VII to do so and the second Final Fantasy entry overall, after Stranger of Paradise: Final Fantasy Origin.
• Open-Minded Parent: Brian Lockhart is portrayed as being very open-minded when raising Tifa, especially for a conservative little village like Nibelheim. He not only allows Tifa to become Zangan's pupil with little prodding but actually dedicates himself to helping her train once he sees how devoted she is to it.
• Pet the Dog: Mr. Manson might be a sketchy gang leader but he seems to genuinely grow to respect Tifa due to working with her as Pops, and even warns her about an Avalanche raid that Shinra is planning, since she knows she's friends with Jessie, Biggs, and Wedge. And when Rakesh's scheme is revealed, he simply lets her Tifa leave Container Row without a fuss, thinking her debt is more than paid.
• Physical Therapy Plot: Much attention is given to Tifa's recovery from the Nibelheim incident. When she first woke up, Tifa was barely able to get out of bed and change. Seeing her medical bills, she had to start working before she fully healed. Zangan's teachings and exercises helped her recover while dealing with all the problems she was dealt.
• Punch Catch: To demonstrate his greater mastery, Zangan stops one of Tifa's punches cold during their practice spar.
• Reformed Bully: Martellus, Aerith's childhood bully, eventually grows up to be a nicer guy who comes to regret the way he treated her when they were younger, apologizes to her in person and becomes more of a friend. It helps that he started seeing her in a new light after she took responsibility for her unintentional theft from the orphanage and got Martellus out of trouble when he really needed it.
• Shockingly Expensive Bill: Shortly after she finds herself in Midgar, not only is Tifa wrecked with the anguished of losing her father and all of her hometown, but she also has to deal with the shockingly high price of the surgery that had to be performed to save her life, even though she doesn't have a gil to her name.
• Slimeball: While at first Rakesh sounds like a Nice Guy and Tifa trusts him due to his past as a former pupil of Zangan, his actions become more sleazy and sketchy the longer she interacts with him, with him inviting himself to her home, offering her "work" at Wall Market and "forgetting" to give Marle's address to her. By the end she even discovered he was scamming her from the very beginning as he overcharged her medical bills and was making up rules and sabotaging her relations so she wouldn't stop depending on him. In the end, he even steals her life saving to try to settle his debt with Manson.
• The Smurfette Principle: Tifa is the only girl around her age in Nibelheim, which made puberty awkward when her male friends started seeing her not as a playmate but as a girl, and they started to compete for her affection, causing her to go out of her way not to be alone with any of them.
• So Beautiful, It's a Curse: Tifa's childhood friends back in Nibelheim only saw her in a shallow way because of how good she looked, thinking she was some sort of prize to be won. Rakesh also saddled her with a lot of fake medical debt to try and stop her from leaving town. One of the reasons that she took a liking to Cloud was that Cloud clearly didn't care about her looks (or anybody else's, for that matter).
• Spirit Advisor: Even after dying, Ifalna could use her Cetra powers to communicate with Aerith from time to time when she was little, and would give her advice about Elmyra and everyday life. Aerith says that as she grew older, it became harder for her to connect to the planet, and Ifalna's "visits" ceased.
• These Hands Have Killed: This gives an account of the first time Tifa has metaphorical blood on her hands, when she defends Water Guard from a Shinra security officer, Water Guard uses the opportunity to slash his throat. While she didn't do the deed herself, Tifa's conscience is no less assuaged. Making it worse the officer was just a teenager younger than herself.
• Trash Talk: During their first sparring match, Zangan mercilessly taunts Tifa, including insulting her country girl background causing Tifa to be confused and Blinded by Rage. Later he apologetically explains he did this on purpose, to show her the importance to keep her emotions in check as well as her body, as while Blinded by Rage she forgot most of her training and fought far less effectively.
• Trapped by Gambling Debts: Tifa is trapped in Container Row until she Work Off the Debt that she owns to Manson, the local gang lord that paid for her medical surgery. Rakesh himself, is revealed to be in even deeper debt to Manson, due to actual gambling debts he got in Wall Market. He tries to pay off by stealing Tifa's life savings, but she manages to get them back just in time.
• Turn the Other Cheek: Aerith experiences childhood bullying, particularly from a boy named Marcellus who claimed she "stole" his sister's name (Ronna), simply because she initially went by the same name on pure coincidence to hide her Cetra identity, as per Elmyra's instructions. Despite this, she comes to Marcellus' aid when he really needs it, and never exacts revenge on him for all the torment he put her through.
• Work Off the Debt: When Tifa first finds herself in Midgar, she's in high debt due to the costly surgery required to save her life after the Nibelheim incident, which is paid off by the local gang leader in Sector 8, forcing her to work on his turf in order to pay her debt. She would later discover her medical wasn't actually that costly and she has been vastly overcharged by her doctor.
• Wretched Hive: Both Tifa and Aerith's stories highlight how much the Midgar slums are terrible places to live and grow up in.
• You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: When Aerith first developed her powers as a Cetra, Hojo realized that Ifalna was replaceable as a test subject. He continued to increase the severity and frequency of her experiments, which lead to her being too weak to fully escape and dying at the train station.
• Younger Mentor, Older Disciple: Despite being in her early teens, due to her aptitude for martial arts and mastery of Zangan's exercises, Tifa becomes the calisthenics instructor of several of the older villagers in Nibelheim.
• You Owe Me: When Tifa first starts working her second job in Seventh Heaven, Manson sends her an intimidating message via Rakesh to remind her he "owns" her and that taking a second job outside of his turf is against his "rules". Later is revealed Manson sent no such message, has no such rule and doesn't care she has a second gig, it was all made up by Rakesh who has an Entitled to Have You crush on her and just wanted to keep her isolated in Container Row indefinitely.

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