Cleriths have been screaming "lt's optional!" for 27 years to cope with Cloud spending the night with Tifa under the highwind.
Now they will be screaming "It's optional!" for another 27 years to cope with the fact that Cloud kissed Tifa.
We've come full circle.
calling Zack Fair a “war criminal” while Rude, Reno and Tseng get off the hook for dropping a plate on hundreds of thousands of innocent people like ….. aight ..
Aerith and Tifa's roles as FF7's dual heroines are reflected in the choices they make at the story's most important crossroads.
After the Temple of the Ancients, Aerith chooses to leave Cloud behind and go to the City of the Ancients to pray for Holy, putting the Planet's survival above her personal desires. That decision ultimately leads to Holy and the lifestream stopping Meteor, thus preventing the destruction of the world.
In Mideel, Tifa is faced with a different choice. She can join the others in gathering the Huge Materia or remain with the near-comatose Cloud. She chooses Cloud. That decision ultimately leads to the Lifestream Sequence, where she helps him reconstruct his true identity and return to the fight, enabling him to defeat Sephiroth.
Nobody else could cast Holy except Aerith; she's the last Cetra.
Nobody else could help Cloud piece himself back together except Tifa; only she knew the real Cloud well enough to navigate his memories.
Neither one is more important than the other. Their contributions are different, but both are indispensable.
One heroine protects the Planet. The other heroine restores the hero.
FF7 needs both.
#FF7 #TifaLockhart #AerithGainsborough
@Firework_Blade7@seekthestardust Nojima never said that.
Cloud spends the whole night with Tifa under the highwind, showing her how he felt without using words. They fell asleep cuddling.
Tifa is talking about how it may be their last day alive.
You don't get anything about FF7 at all.
@Firework_Blade7@seekthestardust It's not. Compare this to the delusion Jenova implanted in his heart in REBIRTH. This is how Tifa really feels when she finds out the truth. Tifa sees Cloud as a hero, despite him never having made SOLDIER. This is what inspires Cloud to have faith in his real self.
@Firework_Blade7@seekthestardust That explains why Cloud would kiss Tifa, but not Aerith. And why he spent the whole night with her under the highwind.
@Firework_Blade7@seekthestardust She praised him for trying his best to be there for her when she needed him. As far as she's concerned, he kept his promise. To Tifa, it didn't matter if Cloud made it as SOLDIER. He was always a hero in her eyes.
@Firework_Blade7@seekthestardust Tifa stays behind to take of Cloud in Mideel, to the exclusion of everything else. To the point where the doctors and nurses all comment on how much she must love him, and how she is going to get sick if she keeps going.
@Firework_Blade7@seekthestardust Tifa chooses to remain behind for Cloud instead of chasing the Magnus Materia. Fact.
This leads directly into the Lifesteam. Fact.
Her words in the Lifestream inspired Cloud to believe in himself. Fact.
This is all in the OG.
@JosemariBa53012@seekthestardust No. All 3 of the boys from Nibelheim (Emilio, Lester, and Tyler) are still alive.
Tifa the only one that can help Cloud find himself because she loves him, and chooses to believe that he is the same Cloud from her childhood.
Cloud is a good person in EVERY playthrough. The devs do not portray their HERO in a negative way unless he is directly being manipulated by Sephiroth, and that ISNT his fault.
If you can’t understand the most basic things about his story arc. You aren’t a Cloud fan.
@yokikotokiku3 Imagine spending your life arguing that characters who have massive crushes on eachother are not in love because they still call themselves childhood friends....in a Japanese video game.
@AerithFaremiss@JediJenna@_SpyDtroid_ Both are in midgar. Cloud can feel Jenova's call from the Shinra Tower and Norther Crater, so why wouldnt Jenova cells be able to splice memories from the white materia in the same city?