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I don't know what you're expecting, but Zack and Aerith are ending up together. It's already baked into the story in Advent Children Complete. If you're willing to quote nebulous dev statements on the LTD as fact then you will surely accept the much clearer and definitive dev statements telling...

One of the most unusual behaviours with the LTD I've encountered is this propensity for fans of one ship to claim ownership of and, thereafter, gatekeep, one or both characters involved in said ship. I see this quite a bit on both sides, and it's not necessarily a bad thing per se, but I have to...

Just thought I'd write a little bit on the topic of moving on. This is something that seems to be hotly debated within the LTD because of the nature of the franchise and I saw it recently discussed again on social media, which, to my chagrin, I still find myself caring about. So anyway, we've...

You'll all forgive me for being a bit meta first thing in the morning, but if there's one thing that leads me to believe the LTD is actually over (for most people) it's the fact that only one side are actively discussing it with any depth or contextual analysis. Flipping through that old, yet...

The Ultimania shone some light on the devs views on relationship mechanics, in particular Nojima's, and it was quite surprising how distasteful they found them. Indeed, had they not existed in the part of OG that Rebirth focuses on, it has been suggested they more than likely wouldn't have been...

If anything, Rebirth has given Zerith a huge shot in the arm. For all the talk of confessions, unambiguous feelings and verbal expressions of romance, only Aerith in the entire game says outright that she loves someone - Zack, when asked by Cloud in Gongaga - this is of course, immediately...

So certainly it comes as no surprise to learn it's a bit "all or nothing" with the Gold Saucer dates, which I think anyone arguing in good faith has had to concede from the beginning. The way it's being described here is as a hypothetical scenario in which Cloud and this other individual are on...

It's quite a popular opinion these days that the LTD is over. Since Rebirth, publications such as Polygon and Siliconera have weighed in to suggest the debate is no more, it's finished and any further discussion is merely performative. There's some truth in these contentions. From a purely...

You're right. Though it's still a matter of debate as to it's canonicity within each individual instalment that it borrows from, Dissidia is itself canon and a full Final Fantasy - as it were. Regarding the subject of "nakama" though, it should come as no surprise that the word has multiple...

I think one can just summarize the entire thing and suggest that Clerith sinks because Tifa and Zack exist. One will note that fans of CA spend considerably longer, be it on social media or otherwise, attacking or degrading Tifa and Zack's roles in the franchise rather than celebrating...

I haven't read/watched Bleach so can't weigh in, but shipping in and of itself is fine - even if it's with characters in established pairings - as long as one is aware it's something personal and does not reflect the media that is being presented. Generally speaking active "shipping" is at it's...

So previously we've talked about how fans of CA need to ignore swathes of the lore to avoid uncomfortable questions about the ship. Indeed, it's not unusual to find many Cleriths haven't played Crisis Core at all, some even electing to drop OG after Aerith dies and yet others electing to sit out...

Yeah, agreed with this. NPTK has elements of a love song because that's definitely been part of her life. The many months she spent with Zack and the years thereafter in which those feelings never dulled - to speak nothing of the influence he had and has in her life in other ways - are a large...

No Promises to Keep being some bizarre, ill-placed love ballad written spur of the moment for Cloud alone was always narratively inconsistent in the extreme. We've said here for some time that it needed to be interpreted in light of her character as presented in the games. In Rebirth for...

Quite so, and this is significant in the LTD because one may note a recent trend of Clerith shippers to announce, decades down the line, they actually really love Zack. The reason for this is they believe the scene in Rebirth where Marlene jokingly tells Zack that Aerith likes Cloud, and Zack...

Yeah extreme Clotis do this too, unfortunately, particularly in mischaracterizing Aerith as being annoying or a bad faith actor in her perceived relentless pursuit of Cloud's affections. I would say though, perhaps controversially, that while these are the views of only an extremist fringe of...

The answer is, it's not Cloud/Aerith's place at all, but Zack/Aerith's. Nojima has described the church as a special place for Zack where he would come after missions, for many months, for comfort and healing. While this isn't shown in it's entirety in the games - it's certainly alluded to...

There's a scene in Nibelheim on the water tower where Aerith asks Cloud if he used to stand there to catch a glimpse of Tifa through her window. Confirm or deny, Aerith knows he did. She gets angry and asks to be left alone, but if you speak to her again she confirms that yeah, she's jealous but...

Does anyone? Yuffie manages to sus out Cloud/Tifa's mutual romantic feelings within days of joining the group. Yet she doesn't seem to be aware of any such dynamic with Cloud/Aerith despite the latter being seemingly quite pushy and overt, especially in comparison to the more reserved Tifa, on...

It's jarring because it's supposed to be, it feels wrong by design. The devs went out of their way to be less ambiguous - and it really does not get any more overt than a kiss - about who Cloud likes but also about who Aerith really likes as well, and by the end it's hard to argue much in favour...