A little reminder for all the LS scene deniers in FF7
Someone who lacks self-confidence, or the will to maintain it, falls prey to Jenova cells. That's the way it works. That's why Zack emerges from 4 years of experimentations without a trace, compared to Cloud, who suffers from a sickly lack of self-confidence from the start.
So to save Cloud, so that he in turn can save us by killing Sephiroth, we need the real Cloud. A Cloud who knows he's not a SOLDIER. A Cloud who ACCEPTS that he's not a SOLDIER and that it doesn't matter.
And how do we get him to accept it? How was Cloud persuaded that he could be himself? Because the person he did all this for in the first place told him that she loved him without all the artifice. He doesn't need to be someone else. She's in love with him. So it's ok to be him. Because being him is being loved by Tifa. Literally his life goal.
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