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You know, it's not just FF7 with a crazy LTD and bonkers takes. Avatar: The Last Airbender fandom, for example, is still repeating the same bad faith arguments and that show aired from 2005-2008. And that show didn't even have a love triangle, lol. I honestly don't know what people get out of...

That's what I felt too! And welcome! The LTD is pretty funny if it's not taken seriously, lol.

I was actually thinking about Tifa's importance to Cloud and the plot. I mean, at Cloud's lowest point, she's the one who helped him recover and become the best version of himself. And then he went on to defeat Sephiroth and save the world. So it's so bizarre that people look at that and go...

The only Japanese game series I've seen so far where mercenaries were, well, mercenaries was Fire Emblem. And even in FE, it was more of a job class and an indication that the character is recruitable. And that they usually liked fighting to hone their sword skills, lol. Otherwise, the words...

"The LTD -- A wild Zack appeared!"? XD

"But he's meeeeaaaan! Zack wanted to become mercenaries with his comatose buddy!" (Actual takes I've seen, lol.) Which makes me wonder if these people have never played any other Japanese RPG. "Mercenaries" and "rangers" in JRPGs mean "jack-of-all-trades". Which includes killing monsters around...

And yet I've seen people call that moment his "cuck shed". You know, at some point you have to wonder if people even like the story they're talking about or if they like the version of the story they wholesale made up in their heads.

To be fair, shippers are gonna ship even with stories that have zero romance or love triangles, lol. Sometimes they even invent a love triangle. But most of the extreme behaviour usually correlates with demanding canon/fandom validation. Like, it's not that deep, lmao. Just ship your little...

This is why I don't really like shipping meta, not even for canon ships and even less for non-canon ships. I find most shipping meta so reductive for the story and all characters involved. There are moments when he's blunt with her. Not "are you really that desperate" levels of blunt but blunt...

You know, this is stating the obvious but whom you get as a date in FF7 has to do with the other character's affection for Cloud, not Cloud's affection for the other character.* So if Cloud gets Tifa as a date, it's because her affection for him is high. But him initiating the hug/kiss on the...

Zack, lol. To be honest, I simply refuse to think that this game, which has bigger themes than that, is an average high school romance drama. Like, "Aerith and Cloud like each other romantically, Cloud and Tifa like each other romantically, Aerith and Zack like each other romantically". I'm...

It's really sad that the extremes are usually the ones who are very loud and drown out the other voices. :(

This isn't really FF7-related but there are definitely people who willfully have wrong impressions about something. I mean, I don't want to say it's "delusional" because all shippers intrinsically take nice moments between their ships and spin them into romance even if they were 1000% platonic...

Not to mention didn't Aerith talk about her "ex-boyfriend" on all their dates? Which doesn't exactly make them romantic to me, lol. It's kind of like that advice "if a guy starts bad-mouthing his ex immediately and in all the dates, take it as the red flag that it is and get out of there", lol...

That's interesting because I recently played G.O.D.: Mezameyo to Yobu Koe ga Kikoe which was released in 1996. I wasn't sure if I should spoiler that or not, but I opted to spoiler it just in case.

To be honest, this sounds like a happy ending, lmao. I think my first Fire Emblem was the one with Eliwood, Ninian, Lyn and Hector. And I have no idea which is it on the space-time continuum, lol. (Why are Japanese game series so long? 😭) And hey, I always felt that Eliwood/Ninian was canon...

I guess I was thinking more of Dragon Age Origins which is the only game so far that I know of where the affection meter (or so to speak) is visible? I don't think it was visible in Mass Effect? And I'm not sure if Fire Emblem counts or how it counts the affection points since the -- oh dear...

And don't all actual player-choice games start at zero? Which makes me wonder why didn't FF7 characters start at zero? I guess Tifa having prior affection points for Cloud makes sense if the gameplay and story were interconnected but the affection points ended up being kind of arbitrary and...

It doesn't sound so romantic that "Cloud's" a virus that "Aeris" needs to fix, lmfao. No, wait, it's not even "Aeris" fixing it, it's just the magazine name. That was too funny, lol. Quite different than the majority of CT appearances referencing the promise, right? Welcome! :)

I've seen CAs absolutely hate the train roll, lol. I've seen them hate every single CT interaction in the Re-Trilogy and that includes Both Girls, All Ships, and self-proclaimed CTs. They even went so far as to say that they wouldn't accept the CT kiss unless Tifa was Jenova but then did a 180...