SPOILERS LTD Remake — It's like New Coke except ... no, it's exactly like New Coke

[Maidenofwar]

I'm just quietly enjoying the CA goodies including "the pleasure he felt at spending time with Aerith" and the time they spend with each other being so "precious" building between them (this because it's been a prevalent thing on social media for some CTs to go on about how annoyed Cloud is by Aerith, like he could barely stand her and couldn't wait to get away from her), and that Cloud's heart raced while with Aerith. Oh yeah and his emotional turmoil at the thought of Aerith on a similar date with someone else. Also their c14 translation. Good times.

The CT thing is -only- a "dunk" if you think of CT as an ideal, perfect and flawless. In game it's heart warming when Cloud finally hugs Tifa but the build up was still a bit awkward to some as Cloud took his time to comfort her. Look at it this way, if Tifa was comforted by the hug in the end it still culminates in heart warming.

Like I remember a while back the discourse over the "dysfunctional" thing. Well the whole point of CT (imo) is they have a lot of growing to do. That journey has ups and downs, there are sometimes breakdowns in communications or perhaps things are communicated more clumsily than wanted. Even in part 3 I expect a break down in communications and some distance between them for a while. It's not like CA is without tension.

 

[Eerie]

And I don't know if it's a translation issue or the original Japanese, but why would you compare it to a one-night stand? When they're hugging each other for comfort after having lost everything? Again? After Shinra did two massacres? Like??? Unless it's a reference to their "one-night stand" at the end of the world?

The Japanese indeed has a sexual subtext, but it's more that he felt he crossed a line.

We've known that since the beginning, the translation is terrible yeah but what makes me laugh is that it also straight up says he has feelings for Tifa lmao. TurquoiseHammer's translation of that bit is great BTW, I remember Peko praised it.

What it also shows is that line from 2K gils... where Cloud simply wants to become a special person to Tifa, her hero, and he felt he achieved that that night. And it's still something he wants to be entering Rebirth, as Nojima reminded us.

There is a lot of growth needed from the moment we meet Cloud in Remake until the end of p3, and he's growing up fast. It's good that he makes mistakes, because he learns from them: if you look at the reunion flower he offered to Tifa trying to impress her (it's his core character) to CoT where he brings her back rare vegetables she loves to cook, there are a lot of hints through Remake and Rebirth about this particular growth and it is extremely sweet.