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Would add to point 2 that, although some will say the GS date "didn't have an impact outside that specific scene" Cloud and Tifa nearly kiss on other occasions too - including when they are stopped, millimetres away from each others lips, by an impatient onlooking Yuffie. It's built up (yes...

Are we still talking about this? Zack doesn't really care what the 5 year old kid has to say about someone "liking" someone else and neither should we. It barely even registers with him because it's just a kid being cute and he has every reason to be confident in his standing with Aerith...

Edit: Sorry about all the spoiler boxes. All related to the ending.

Nojima has already clarified that it is a "ballad for a man who has lost something important to him". Given it plays at the end of Remake, it's not outlandish to suggest it's about Zack and/or Cloud's memories of him.

Replying to @BlueSky 's moving post over here, but considering Cloud's reaction to finally remembering Zack - and Hollow being sung for him - it just continues to astound me how some people actually believe Cloud would knife Zack in the back by having a short-lived fling with his girlfriend. I...

I actually think the GS date is quite emblematic of the entire "LTD" as a whole. On the one hand, you have a relationship that has little room for misinterpretation. A kiss is unquestionably, undeniably romantic/passionate and it can't even be said to be "heat of the moment" because Cloud/Tifa...

I hear, but it seems a bit unfair to Cloud/Tifa really. They have incredibly well written characters and a romance that is among the most pure and developed - not without its bumps, but resolute nonetheless - in the genre. I guess what I'm saying is, for Cloud there's no love triangle. He was...

I wouldn't read too far into it, it's trailer bait. Was less than a month ago SE put out a trailer and everyone thought it was going to be a Clerith game, but the leakers came out and confirmed very, very much the opposite. Every leak we have is pretty implicit about how Rebirth leans heavily...

Zerith will be vindicated in the end, I've never been more sure of this. The Devs have been clear we're heading to Advent Children Complete (wherein, Zack and Aerith are already together) so the connection will be made, but also, the leaks of the game show conclusively that Aerith still can't...

I mean it can be many things, but what's the context? It doesn't necessarily imply anything romantic in and of itself. If she's saying it to a friend, it's with intent to comfort him and mitigate the natural loss he's about to feel - but if she's saying it to someone who has just confessed their...

The key line is なにがあっても、一緒だよ which can be translated as "whatever happens, we're in this together" or "whatever happens, we'll be together". It's a statement conveying feelings of "don't worry, I'll always be with you" and is commonly said in overly dramatic entertainment by one person about to...

Yeah, though I would argue this was already apparent in Remake (things like Cloud giving the flower to Tifa without option, the train roll, the hug, their constant invasion of each others spaces, intense body language and emotions etc). Further, had Aerith survived in OG, she'd have just stood...

I fail to see the difference, really, between Aerith stepping back and Aerith not being alive anymore. In either case, Aerith isn't in the picture. Perhaps you might argue that one is willing and the other less so, but the end result is the same. Anyway, my main point was that no matter how...

Narratively, she exits the game/story at just the right time to avoid awkward moments like this, or just being side-lined in general. Like straight away we've moved on to Cloud's mental state, and Sephiroth barraging it, and that takes up a lot if not most of the focus thereafter. People who...

This highlights my biggest issue with Cloud and Aerith being romantically involved, vis, how many hoops must be jumped through to make it even somewhat likely, it falls foul of occam's razor at almost every turn. You have to ignore the events of Crisis Core and the existence of Zack, a much...

Seems like it's from a point of view of screen time? He specifies ensuring every character gets equal attention but this was especially so for the girls.

Actually I agree, but this has been a narrative issue for Clerith from the beginning. No matter what they did with Zack, the mere fact he's existing now is incredibly awkward (at best) for those who want to eschew the canon and pursue Aerith with Cloud. In my mind, the only two options are you...

Crisis Core and Advent Children are canon though? It's not CC Aerith or ACC Aerith, it's just...Aerith. That Aerith in OG? She wrote 88 unrequited love letters over 4 years to Zack (evidently the last one wasn't that long before she met Cloud), wrote 23 wishes about wanting to spend more time...