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Similarities

Here's a little um....sneak peak at my upcoming oneshot for clerith but with my oc Hunter Strife, Clouds twin sister.

Hunter looked at Aerith who was standing in the field of flowers beneath them before looking back at Cloud who had a small smile on his face as he watched the brunette pick flowers.

"Holy shit, you like her don't you?" Hunter asked with a teasing tone and elbowed her twin in his side, earning her a glare from the other blonde.

"No," he grumbled under his breath as he gently shoved his sister.

"Don't lie," she said and poked his shoulder. "Mom didn't raise you to lie, you suck at it anyway."

Hunter laughed as Cloud rolled his eyes and flipped her off before letting out a sigh and running his hand through his blonde spikes. "Okay....Maybe I do like her," Cloud confessed with a frown.

"But I shouldn't."

Giving him a confused look, the blonde female gently took her brothers hand and tugged on it to get his attention.

@starcrossedclerith , @kpoplovermjm

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When your date matches the main-narrative:

Her smile and optimism : gone.

Movie critics: Shin GODZILLA is truly a terrifying movie and version of Godzilla.

Fans: He's just a little guy

He's truly adorable imo

If Clerith is canon, then how come there only exists the possibility for Cloud to kiss Tifa in the game? At the point where Aerith is still alive. And as for your question about why Aerith needs to die like in the original, it’s partly because she needs to be in the Lifestream to summon Holy. There’s also the fact that Final Fantasy 7 is a game about loss and finding the strength to still live despite said loss. Aerith’s death works because she was a character who loved life, and thus to see that vibrant spirit suddenly snuffed out is tragic. And as for the whole Clerith vs Cloti thing, the Sector 5 dream date kind of puts a wrench in that with Aerith’s dialogue about “knowing where they stand” and the difference between “liking someone and liking someone”. The love triangle is an illusion that ends when Cloud regains himself, and the player can no longer choose dialogue options for him. Nojima seems to be going full steam ahead with Cloti and Zerith in Part 3, and while it’s fine not to prefer that, that’s what’s happening.

The reason why I question the choice of killing Aerith again is because the devs have said that dying is a fate/promise that Aerith is desperately trying to escape. Couple that with the fact they promoted Remake and Rebirth so far with posters as, “Defying fate,” and making the characters say “the future isn’t set in stone”. Near the ending of Remake you the player gets to defeat fate. Introducing alternative worlds where Zack and Biggs are alive. Implying that even if Cloud didn’t save Aerith in his world there is another world where she did survive and that Aerith is waiting for him. All of this sweet build up and for it to what? To go down the route of, “psych, no you cannot change your life. You need to give up and resign to whatever is coming your way.” Giving hope to not follow through with what you have been hinting at isn’t good storytelling. It’s pure sadism. But no matter. I am relatively confident that Aerith will get her wish. To live long happy life with her friends and Cloud.

Zerith is a ‘couple’ that doesn’t exist. It was created by certain shippers to get Aerith out of the way without being overtly hateful to her. Aerith is allowed to have somewhat complicated feelings to Zack without her feelings for Cloud being diminished. Zack may have been her first love, but there is no doubt that Cloud is her true love. That is clearly established in the alternative world where Marlene says Aerith is In love with Cloud. This is even further hammered down when Aerith has the opportunity to fight with either of them near the end of Rebirth but while she heals Zack she chooses to stand by Cloud and with him fight against Sephiroth. Zack himself has accepted that Aerith moved on. He wants Cloud to save her and not let her die. If only people more understanding like him.

As for the kiss you speak of. Nojima said that all the Gold Saucers dates are separate from the main story and more similar to dating sims. The fact that the kiss did not change the relationship between Cloud and Tifa in the main story shows it should be treated like it never happened. No impact means not relevant. It’s interesting you believe that is the direction the game is going. We each can have our interpretation and can only wait for the part 3 game in a few years to confirm whose analysis is right. Until then I say goodbye, anon.

Underground Boxer! Godzilla who has a tough, "Don't fucking talk to me", but secretly looks at Painter! Mothra from afar, always admiring the way she talks, giggles, walks, or the weird thing she does when she twirls her curly dirty blonde hair with her finger whenever she's nervous.

Underground Boxer! Godzilla who doesn't get the courage to say anything until him and Painter! Mothra are paired for a class project.

Painter! Mothra who had a crush on Underground Boxer! Godzilla after she started watching his fights, always drawing or painting him in her sketchbook she brings with her everywhere.

Painter! Mothra who doesn't hesitate to start a conversation with him, it's tough at first but the more they hangout the more Underground Boxer! Godzilla opens up to her.

Painter! Mothra and Underground Boxer! Godzilla who share there first kiss after he comes to her place all beaten up and bruised and bloody, they end up making out on her couch.

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This is for my human AU

Train Ride 🌤️

FINAL FANTASY VII REBIRTH (2024) ↳ Cloud and Aerith ➤ Forgotten Capital [ ✧ ]

Cloud and Aerith Final Fantasy Rebirth 2024

I might not be able to put this the right way, and maybe others have said this already,

but to me, the main thing about Cloud and Aerith is the way he tries to grow for her and because of her.

In a way, they could be quite similar. Both are incredibly lonely, and they share similar trauma. Both have lost their mothers in tragic, malicious ways. Both are confused about their identity and past. Cloud learns how much just he has forgotten and that something is very wrong with him, just like Aerith keeps finding out how little she actually knows about her ancestry or the circumstances of her mother's death.

Cloud and Aerith both realize this and are able to sympathize with one another. Aerith is incredibly patient with Cloud and him trying to uphold the walls he built around himself at all times.

I think Cloud knows there is a fundamental difference about them, though. And, that is that despite everything that has happened while Cloud has been putting up walls and has become hardened, Aerith has not. While Cloud looks to the past, is angered, shut off, and distant, Aerith has gone the opposite route. She remained soft and hopeful. It's not to say she isn't sad or lonely or angry, which she is, but she isn't faulting the world for this. She wants things to get better, instead of wanting revenge.

Generally, I think there are relationships that make you look to the past or to the future and I don't think there's right or wrong in that if it isn't too extreme.

But I think Aerith makes Cloud look into the future. I think he's always been either checked out about looking either way, or obsessed with the past, about what happened and how to mend it.

Aerith makes him believe in a future because she has been through similar things and she has come out on the other side hopeful. Because she is still good to people and because she still loves, she still cares. And I think this makes Cloud want to grow, too.

And he's showing this in some of Aerith's darkest moments. When she acknowledges her dark thoughts on the beach, he reacts with understanding, and he helps her going forward, supporting her when he can (even without the obligatory merc fee). He encourages her to speak out about her past at the lantern festival. I think as someone being taken in by a stranger as a child, essentially putting her guardian's life at risk and bringing heavy baggage along, she learned to have to be pleasant at all times to be loved. Through Cloud, she learns that this other side of her, the one that is struggling with embracing her difficult past and path forward, is also worthy of love and protection. She says to him on the beach, she is sure, he will love future Aerith, the one she is growing into right at that moment - she, too, is changing because of him.

These moments show he really wants to be there for her the same way she is there for him. He wants to make her happy and support her. He wants to protect her while she protects the world. He feels responsible for her, and it's a role he wants to grow into, and he does.

In a way, Clouds world just gets a lot bigger while Aerith is in it. When she is there, he actually laughs, he smiles like he does with no one else, and finally, he even cries holding her in his arms, when he was on the cusp of being turned into an emotionless weapon just moments before.

This, in turn, makes Aerith open up to him in a way she doesn't do with the others, too. They both see a side of the other person nobody else gets to see.

I think this is amplified in the ending when Cloud is literally the only person who knows what happened to her, that witnessed her death and who's able to see her afterward.

“It came to me in a dream”

Cloud lifting Aerith up to see Mt. Nibel.

He promises, as a mountain boy to a city girl, to go to the beach with her some day.

That day never comes to pass.

Take my hand and believe We can be together evermore

FFVII: REBIRTH | Aerith Loveless Date No Promises to Keep (FINAL FANTASY VII REBIRTH THEME SONG)