That quote is going to pursue us after Cloud and Tifa have a biological baby at this rate lmao. It was prior to AC, he said he didn't know, which was obviously wrong but he wasn't going to tell that right before the release of their big movie. In the Reunion files that talks about AC/C he said Tifa is like a lover. And there's only one character to whom she can be that, it's Cloud.
Very minor point of order, he did not say she was like a lover. While you can read the "is like" to refer to all three of her roles in English as it comes at the start of the sentence ("She is like a mother, a sweetheart, and an ally in battle" is the specific English phrasing, I believe) the grammar of the Japanese is slightly different, in that it's three short sentence fragments, each with a declarative "aru" at the end, and of these, only mother has the "like" modifier applied to it. She's like a mother. She is a lover/ beloved. She is an ally in battle.
This is a small thing, but it's an important one, fuckdammit. Same as how reading 'sweetheart' as 'nice person' is not a correct interpretation of the sentence based on the meaning of Koibito, so to is saying she's 'like' a lover incorrect.
Genuinely. Like, I swore stars were a Cloti thing? Saying Gaia (the earth) was a star was just...I thought I was losing it.
EDIT: that's a bit of a strawman I think, but the theory is still ridiculous.
Stars are absolutely a C/T thing and like all C/T things, must be co-opted for the cause.
Also please provide screenshot of the insanity. I would like to see.
Well of course not, Aerith isn't even in those games.
So powerful, she even rewrites the standard rules of canonicity.
Fucking weird is too mild to properly describe that. But yes, yes it was.
Like, it's dumber than the monkey pairings, and that's saying something.
If you put a gun to my head, I'd say he owes Cloud and Tifa more in that they are largely responsible for the planet as we know it still existing (Reeve helped but not directly). However, what he owes Denzel for is more personal and may have more weight.
Different sort of Owe. He owes them for 'services rendered' absolutely. I was referring to 'for personal grievance' owing. Even then, it's a close thing.
Either way facilitating legal adoption is the least he could do.
Reeve should be paying for him and Marlene to go to college wherever they choose. if not more.
Not healthy. Sad. Still fun to mockingly reminisce about but not good for 'em.
Yeah, there's a schadenfeude, but there's also lots of pity.
Fuck, especially that one.
There's so much fucked up shit re: that I don't even know where to start.
And thus I found myself playing Demoman for a round
Enjoy it, you black Scottish cyclops.
It was like Shinra was running a gaming company for a bit there... still is honestly, they're just hiding their time to try again.
Now you've got me thinking of ShinRa as a toy company subsidiary.
May they receive everything they deserve then
Always a terrible curse, that.
Yeah that's a point. Still easier to clean up, but a real mess all the same.
True, true.
Be always in haste, but never in a hurry.
And always read the fine print.
Lovely derailing of a derail.
Indeed it was.
[quote[Good old nigh-meaningless semantics. You're always there for our CAltist friends when they need you.[/quote]
Along with special pleading, cherry picking, ignoring evidence, outright lying, fabricating evidence.... I could go on.
True that, there's always some other fight I could be in.
Other people so stupid as to boggles the fucking mind.
And thus we're a butt load of Barret train jokes setup and paid off.
Trust me, I knew exactly what I was setting up for when I wrote that.
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