The goal of this take is to explain she can’t be the one helping Cloud during the LS scene.
Problem with this take is the same as always. It just shows this people didn’t understand what the game is saying. Tifa is not an unreliable narrator. She’s not delulu. She just doesn’t understand why Cloud knows so much about the Nibel incident when from her POV he wasn’t there.
As if the scene was written for all of this to make sense the moment Tifa understands that Cloud was here all along…. Oh wait.
It's just another side of the "Tifa is lying to Cloud!" bullshit, really. Anything to 'invalidate' her somehow so Aerith can... uh.... thing? And win Cloud's heart.
I mean, I’m willing to compromise and say they played strip poker
That was IIRC the usual response.
This one?:
This is the 'For the one I love' page:
I was referencing the For the One I love page, trying to remember the exact page number.
An online argument he lost from the get-go, mind you.
Like a lot of AA's stuff, it was doing him more harm than it ever could do his ship any good.
and Aerith herself talks about his light in a way that she can't really be talking about herself.
Yeah, she's very clear that what he's looking for isn't her, that she can't help even though she wants to.
Except the same doesn't apply to Tifa, you only get her as Rosa if you got her date. So if she's the 'canon' Rosa, it can only be on her date.
I get what you mean, but the ludonarrative events and the canon events are not necessarily the exact same. What happens mechanically and what "actually happens" don't always match up 1:1. This is hypothetical talk anyways.
I think it's because Aerith's relationship with Cloud is more opposites attract, people tend to be into that. Aerith is less of the spunky girl in Crisis Core with Zack than she is with Cloud in subsequent compilation material, so I think people would rather self-insert as a confident woman as opposed to a slightly more demure one. Especially when said spunky woman would most likely wear the pants in the relationship, not that there is anything wrong with that, by the way.
I hate to say it but I don't think the personality plays into a lot of the Self Insert motivations. I think it's the aesthetic. Hence why there's such a slut-shame vibe from the same people against "the competition."
Speaking of terrible takes...someone might have mentioned it here already, but anyone else see the "3 leaf clover represents friendship" cope?
I have not but like "Holding hands is more serious than kissing" it does not pass the smell test.
Didn't reply to this, my bad. I think I meant more in the sense that the premise isn't great to begin with, so it involving weird future time travel that apparently affects the present doesn't help.
It's not strictly speaking future time travel as it is pulling points in space-time together. And I know that probably makes no fucking sense to you. I am used to it.
It absolutely does, too. If my rival ship had a sequence where the woman explores the mans mind on a different plane to reality, in which he reveals his feelings for her, I'd give up.
Like, making a couple get married and have kids is about the only thing more blatant you can do than have a character's literal subconscious spell out his love for a woman to that woman.
So let me raise an interesting point…
Cloud gets motion sick. When Tifa fights, she moves really fast. This means they aren’t meant to be.
Checkmate Clotis.
He only gets motion sick on vehicles and when he's not driving. As Tifa will be taking him for a ride, that will not be an issue.
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