Thank you very much.
Exactly, Cloud and Tifa are her parents (SHE adopts them!) while Barret tries to atone for what he's done. I want to see in the future a hint of him with Marlene, as he could return to her though!
How did they make CAs happy tho. They barely spoke to each other. The only way they could have tried to make CAs happy is by intentionally trying to make it seem as though Cloud is not over her death because he is actually in love with Aerith, which I doubt they tried to do. Another way was to maybe make it seem as tho Cloud isn't happy with Tifa in general because he is more in love with Aerith which I could see because they also said that "Maybe things whould have gone better with Aerith", which is very disrespectful to Tifa because after all she has been through and all heroic things she has done they basically say she is just the second option.
They are canon in my opinion and I see what you mean. My problem is more with the way SE and specifically Nojima treats the situation.
I hate this “intended route” nonsense lol.
In AC, Cloud and Tifa also barely spoke to each other you know. That's the big fault of this movie, that its main characters barely talk in the end - and in the credits (again!) Aerith was watching over Cloud. And trust me, they were happy and happily fighting in the LTD thread.
Nojima - since it's him we're talking about - didn't even think about this question and also mentioned that Aerith had a great burden (being dead I suppose lol). Anyway it's clear that the sector 5 dream date is his true answer to this: Cloud and Aerith lack that "spark" and all the NPC tell them they're not fit together as a couple.
Nojima treats the situation very well, knowing he had to make it so there were those dates and in the OG it was way more easy to construct a CA romance. You'll have the answer at the end of the Re-trilogy but I'm certain it'll end with CT+ZA like ACC did.
From what I gathered, the answers are what give the most points! But you still need the smiley to be in light blue to get their HA, so if you're not there after the good answers, you'll need so get some S as quests results to bump them higher!I finally beat the game.
My results - Red XIII (22%), Barret (26%), Yuffie (28%), Tifa (35%), Aerith (38%)
My extra settings are locked, I can only select Closest Companion, and Others, but they are both still Cait Sith when I try Chapter 12
I'm going to go back through all Conversations and manually pick the best answers this time and see how much of an effect that has.
At first I was confused as to how Yuffie was my third highest but then I remembered apparently if you answers all her questions before she joins right it gives her quite the affection bump.
Also these weren't the % before Loveless play since the play gives affection boosts as well.
im interested to see post part 3 about this i can't imagine this Barret ever leaving Marlene afterwards for any period of time
What do you mean exactly when you say he didn't even think about this question? Not trying to be condescending because I whouldn't know the real answer as to why he said that myself but I just want to know what you mean
I think he never thought of CA as a pair before so he didn't really think about it. That question made him think, and I think his final answer is the one we can see in the dream date, i.e. no he doesn't think they'd be a good fit together.
So I watched Advent Children recently and I'm in the process of reading Traces of Two Pasts. Could you or anyone else tell me the names of the other novellas/stories relevant to CT and where I can read/find them? There are so many abbreviations and different pieces going on that it's so confusing to me lol.
Don't you think that if he never thought of CAs as a pair he would have said so. If what you're saying is indeed true than answering with "Maybe things would have gone better with Aerith" doesn't make any sense because why even suggest that and not deny that afterwards if it isn't even true. That is my main problem, its partly because of the things that I mentioned that the LTD is as big and widespread as it is. Its partly because of the things that I mentioned that Tifa is pittied and thought of as "Clouds second choice" and "Leftovers". Nojima could have done a lot better in that regard but he didn't and its because of that, that we still have a lot of people that played Rebirth or watched some streamers play Rebirth and still think that Clerith is endgame and shit hate on Tifa.
Books -
Streamers and other fans still think Clerith is endgame because they prefer it and read their scenes with that filter. Streamers in particular who have been pro-Clerith have essentially “built their brand” around it so they would be hard-pressed to show their interpretation has changed.
I agree, especially with the part about showing how Tifa was never bad to Cloud ever.
"Gee, Marlene. How come you get to have THREE dads?"
Yes. Despite wanting to go on dates with Cloud, I genuinely think Aerith's endgame is to see the two together.
Unless she wants the song to bring them closer together. Now that's an interesting reading, actually. Aerith writes NPTK to tell Cloud "don't waste your time, shoot your shot"
Yeah, and again, I'm not even to the dates yet because my busy life has gotten in the way of mainlining the game, but the game explicitly had Tifa say "we always invited you but you never came."
As a science person, who's entire thing and training was research and argumentation. Finally someone who knows what "burden of proof" actually means. Thank you.
Nah Rebirth is very clearly killing any kind of ounce of Clerith that might have existed. Cloud and Tifa will be the clear end game even if they don't really adjust AC in any way.
Thank you for adding your interpretation.
