RP again

The second of mine and icedark_elf's Sephiroth/Zack prompts, for those following them, is up over here!

My brain....

"I was the chosen one."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6fRHixLS6A

That line is in the subtitles of that AMV. The AMV is heartwrenching Zack/Cloudness based around Last Order.

Unfortunately I have this really bad habit of reading subtitles in AMVs. The one in that AMV?

That is not the widely circulated Shinsen one.

That uses slightly different phrasing, though almost the same. I even went and watched the one I saw the first time again to make sure.

In the widely circulated one, it's "I am the chosen one."

Was is past tense. Am is present tense. Considering the line, the distinction is hugely important, right?

I mean, if he said he was then that means that he wasn't the chosen anymore, or at least had a twinge that said he wasn't, doesn't it? Makes you wonder if he knew it was going to fail, on some level. That it was a lost cause even as he crooned to Jenova. He corrects it in the next line in that scene clip they used for the vid but... that's a rather large mistake so certain of his place in things, isn't it?

I know there's a widely used translation, but this has me wondering if there might not be small inaccuracies even in this most accurate one. I don't know Japanese well enough to say, myself, so it's something that has me both curious and interested. A friend of mine who knows it better listened to it and pointed out that technically, no tense was assigned to it at all in that particular sentence. The one after it stymied her to, since it can apparently go either way with just on listening to it, but they both say present tense in those translations, though different phrasing was apparently used in the two.

So, essentially, I'm hung up on the simple thing that there's a word difference in a very very important place. It may seem like a small quibble, but my brain is pointing out all the ways that one little word could be damn important.

So really, my muses just took a split. Those who were in the 'I am the chosen one' camp, and those in the 'I was the chosen one' camp.

Anyone know if they ever did an official translation for the damn thing, and if the word is 'am' or 'was'?

I'm going to make pairing/grouping icons!

So far the sets I've figured out I want to use are:

Foursomes:
Seph/Zack/Cloud/Aeris
Seph/Zack/Cloud/Vincent
Vincent/Aeris/Tifa/Cloud
Vincent/Cloud/Tifa/Cid

Threesomes:
Tifa/Loz/Rude - Three way street
Vincent/Cloud/Aeris
Vincent/Seph/Zack
Rufus/Cloud/Vincent
Zack/Cloud/Aeris
Cloud/Tifa/Aeris
Loz/Kadaj/Yazoo

Pairs:
Seph/Aeris
Seph/Zack
Seph/Cloud
Cloud/Aeris
Cloud/Zack
Aeris/Zack
Vincent/Reno
Zack/Reno - Imps
Reno/Cloud
Seph/Vincent
Tifa/Yuffie
Tifa/Cid
Hojo/Vincent
Rufus/Zack
Hojo/Cloud

Suggestions for other ones? Boys and girls accepted, the icons are most likely to be moving ones for most of these, but I might be able to find pictures of folks together too. FFVII folks.

Edit: Links to usable fanart/doujin sites would also be very very welcome here.