So, what do you think the LTD conclusion is? (Round 2)

Who does Cloud love?

  • Aerith

    Votes: 20 14.2%
  • Tifa

    Votes: 121 85.8%

  • Total voters
    141
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Ryushikaze

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Tim, Ryu
I have a question, so please don't angry. Is it possible Cloud doesn't love either women? That he thinks of them both as family?
Again, this is a question.

It's possible, but entirely unlikely, given all the statements on the subject and the general presumption of cohabiting adult men and women, especially those raising children, and nothing has been presented to rebut the general presumption. Indeed, all the quotes would seem to reinforce, rather than rebut, the basic presumption.

I don't know the guy's name, but yes, I know where it came from.

EDIT:
After all this couple fighting, we have blogs and websites being made to destroy and insult each other. I can't believe SE or the people behind the couples, would sink so low. Its absurd and to be blunt, freaking weird and disturbing.

We should all love that couple silently until SE decided to drop the bomb on us all.

SE isn't sinking so low, nor are the majority of the 'people behind the couples.' It's a few very fervent believers, really. And their detractors.

Oh, have you finished SoS's essays, yet?

Addendum: And again, it's not about 'loving' the couple. No one really gives two shits if you love an acanon couple. What we're interested in here is the thrust and jib of the plot.
 
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The Twilight Mexican

Ex-SeeD-ingly good
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TresDias
I made a reply over on the CxA forum. If you don't feel like following the link, just click the spoiler button here.

P.S. M-Mira is awesome.

P.P.S. Que, I'll look at your link soon.

P.P.P.S. Mako, that family skit was SO CASH.

As the person who wrote the analysis that has caused such an uproar, I feel I need to clarify a few things and respond to some others.
I don't expect everyone to read this entire post. If anything, I've learned from this experience that I don't have the patience for these long replies that I once did. Feel free to just scroll down to the responses to your own posts if you want.
If you read any or all of it, though, I appreciate it. Likewise with the article itself. Also, a few of your comments will certainly influence a future update to the article.
First, the main thing to be clarified is this: I didn't write the LTD analysis with the help of Mako Eyes or anybody else from TheLifestream.net. There is no "they" in this as I keep seeing.
I wrote this before even joining their forum as part of an update for my FFVII Plot Analysis FAQ. Here's my first post on their forum if you're interested.
Since you guys were reading that thread some and were convinced that I'm just towing the party line, I thought you'd have checked out my first post on the forum.
Anyway, I hadn't updated the FAQ since January of 2006, but recently decided to. During that process, I realized it should have a section on the LTD if it were to truly be comprehensive.
The comments in the "Acknowledgements" section of the FAQ thanking the people at TheLifestream.net are due primarily to the various translations they've provided for the benefit of the fandom. You'll notice a great many parenthetical references throughout the document to page numbers from books they've translated. All those references are part of this newest update.
There's a lot more in the FAQ than just the article on the LTD. I'm really baffled that the only possible contributions suggested to have come from them would relate to it. They've talked about much more than that and all of us are interested in much more than that.
In fact, the only part Mako Eyes had a hand in helping me with was the "Plotholes and contradictions" section. He looked over what I already had there to see if he thought anything wasn't a plothole or contradiction, and made some suggestions of his own. Isabella is the only one to have influenced the LTD article after its initial drafting.
Though hitoshura obviously influenced it due to his translations, he had no actual hand in the writing of it, nor have I spoken with him about it. Everything else was my own observations of FFVII, the Compilation and various forum discussions, including some from both TheLifestream.net and this forum; you'll notice both are in the list of resources mentioned in the "Acknowledgements" section.
No offense intended to you guys, but the emphasized thanks was given to TLS because the work of those at TheLifestream.net contributed significantly to the FAQ as a whole.
It also seems I need to clarify this: I don't hate Aerith. I like her, but not in the sense that she's someone I'd be interested in. Her personality traits don't work for me. That's what I meant by "can't stand Aerith."
Doesn't mean I don't think Cloud could be interested in her, nor do I suggest that.
If you have any other questions about the process behind writing the article, feel free to ask me.
nyrin said:
so we're supposed to pretend as though his biased Tifa-fanboy opinion = official stance of the game. Rather arrogant, but whatever. Take a look at how he justifies his position
As I said in response to a comment on TLS, I didn't present my opinion as the resolution of the matter. Rather, I presented a quote from Nojima.
I then went into a related -- but different -- topic (whether the LTD seemed to lean more toward Cloti or Clerith without the Nojima comment). It was that position I then went about justifying.
To your concern about bias, I can only repeat what I said in that same response on TLS:
I said:
As for my preference of Tifa biasing my views of the matter, that's not an unreasonable concern. However, as you may know, in any public address, it's necessary to state one's personal views upfront. Otherwise, it becomes a question of honesty.
Would you prefer one who has made up their mind keep that a secret while speaking to you behind a veil of complete objectivity, or would you prefer that they tell you their views and then explain why they hold them?
You won't find someone with no opinion on the matter actually speaking on it. Not only because it takes a vested interest in the first place, but because it's impossible. Anyone analyzing data and drawing conclusions from it, even if they began as neutral, no longer is by the end of the process.
This is as true of researchers making employ of the scientific method as it is of scholars conducting media analysis. They must attempt to distance themselves as much as possible while drawing their conclusions, however.
You are free to disagree, but I believe my three-and-a-half-year absence from this fandom has given me a degree of distance. I will tell you outright that I could not have objectively discussed this matter in 2005.
I believe I've done a reasonable job of it at this point, however. I started with the developers' comments as both foundation and framework, analyzing the various materials through that lens and in light of one another.
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I hope you see where I'm coming from better now. You are, of course, still free to disagree.
nyrid said:
and yet your Cloti fanboyishness couldn't stop you from mentioning them both in a way that actually pumps up Tifa and Cloud's relationship over his with Aeriths. That's like saying "you know, I'm not gonna call you fat and ugly, nor am I going to call your dress an abomination, okay. Because that's besides the point." Um...
Not really. I was saying that KH is irrelevant, regardless of which pairing it arguably favored.
I don't see how I was arguing evidence for Cloti there by pointing out that KH wasn't part of the analysis. Rather, saying that I thought it looked more Cloti than anything but that it's still irrelevant seems to run counter to what you claimed I was doing there.
nyrid said:
I said:
Johnny's completely irrelevant to Advent Children and mentioned nowhere else in the Reunion Files.
FF Goddess said:
I said:
I've had my preference since the beginning, it was initially based on my own preferences in women. More to the point, I couldn't stand Aerith and adored Tifa. That's still the case 12 years later.
Which makes you a CloTi.
No, not really. Thinking Cloud and Tifa are or should be a couple makes one a Cloti, which I am.
I even call myself one in the article. I'm unsure where you were going with this.
FF Goddess said:
Actually, he doesn't say a thing about them as a romantic couple. He is talking about the premise behind CoT, which is the fact that Cloud and Tifa have issues between them that don't have anything to do with Geostigma and Sephiroth. What are these issues? Mostly communication issues, IMO. They simply don't communicate well and this leads to disagreements and incompatibility issues.
The communication issues you speak of would be a problem because of their relationship status. Otherwise, why would they be such a problem as to rise to the level of being the premise of the story?
FF Goddess said:
Why in the world would Nojima speak about Cloud and Tifa as a romantic couple in a statement where he basically breaks down how utterly incompatible they are?
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Obviously, no romantic pairing was intended here or the creators would not have written Cloud and Tifa as having problems
You've never seen a couple where the partners had compatibility issues? Or a work of fiction where a couple went through such problems but was nonetheless a couple?
Being involved in a romance with someone doesn't mean everything is perfect or that you always get along. Personally, I'd argue that you can't really know you want to be with someone until you've gotten angry enough to kill them but still don't want them to not be in your life.
As I said in the article, the LTD was never about who Cloud would live a perfect, share's-one-another's-thoughts, reflection-in-the-other's-eyes, fairy tale romance with. It was about who he was interested in being in a romance of any kind with -- even a dysfunctional one.
FF Goddess said:
and blatantly say that Cloud might have been better off with Aerith.
How can you argue that "maybe things would have gone well with Aerith" is in the context of romance while also claiming that those "things" -- the ones that Nojima talked about in the preceding sentences in relation to Cloud and Tifa -- amount to "he doesn't say a thing about them as a romantic couple"?
You really can't have this both ways.
Nojima's continuing the same line of thought from Cloud/Tifa into Cloud/Aerith. Either he's talking about both in the context of romance or neither.
FF Goddess said:
Aerith was defined as more compatible for Cloud than Tifa. How does that mark Tifa as a "current romantic love interest" when the entire statement was about how things DON'T go well between Cloud and Tifa?
Because of the use of "maybe"/"perhaps." It's a hypothetical, the same as, "Maybe John McCain would have been a better president than Barack Obama."
Obama is currently the president. McCain is a former potential president. A candidate. Then the matter was resolved.
Now, I suppose you could argue that McCain is still a presidential candidate in the sense that he could run again and maybe get elected. Likewise, you could argue that Cloud could break up with Tifa and go daydream about Aerith in the church or the flower fields at some point, making Aerith a candidate for Cloud to still be romantically interested in.
But that's not debating the LTD. The LTD is only unresolved if you're looking as far as the moment Cloud dies to see who he's with/interested in at that time.
And that's never been what it was about. It was always about who he was interested in being with during FFVII/the Compilation.
FF Goddess said:
It then goes even further smashing you over the head with anti-CloTiness saying that Aerith is a "burden" between Cloud and Tifa.
Actually, he was throwing that one out there as a potential issue between Cloud and Aerith. He was saying that her burden/charge/responsibility ("futan") is a big one. The context is, "Maybe things would have gone well between them, but one of them has a big responsibility, so maybe not."
It's all a hypothetical where Aerith is concerned.
FF Goddess said:
WRONG. Please stop twisting Nomura's words. He said nothing of the sort.
I didn't twist anything. He said, "If Cloud's darkness is Sephiroth, then Tifa is light." The sentence is structured, "If one thing is, then the other also is." And Sephiroth is his darkness. We know this. Cloud said so. That one isn't up to interpretation.
The only thing Nomura left up for interpretation was whether Tifa was also an ordinary person: "in that sense you can take it that Tifa isn't really human." Just because Nomura said that he removed Nojima's more in-depth explanation of Cloud and Tifa's connection in KH doesn't mean he said he'd removed all of it.
He says, "I think you can freely think for yourself about her," but, again, in the context of whether she's human: "Of course, I also presented her in a way that she could also be a resident of Hollow Bastion, so I think you can feely think for yourself about her."
FF Goddess said:
WRONG AGAIN. In the original JP version of KH, there was no Sephiroth. And yet Cloud was portrayed as searching for someone and finding that someone [Aerith] in the end. Oops, sorry I killed your little theory.
In the original Japanese version of FFVII, there was no Ruby or Emerald WEAPON. No fight with Diamond. There was also no flashback showing Zack die on the cliff overlooking Midgar. Those things were only added when the North American release came along.
Likewise, in all countries' original versions of Advent Children, there were many things absent that were added years later with Advent Children Complete.
You're not going to argue that those things aren't part of the FFVII canon, are you? Just as Cloud's story in FFVII was initially incomplete, it was likewise with Cloud in KH.
As for who Cloud was searching for, I'm more or less just taking him at his word. He told Sora he was looking for someone. It's later said that he was looking for Sephiroth. That seems straightforward.
Heck, Cloud's still doing it in KH II, even after he knows where Aerith is.
I'm aware that there's an interview with Nomura in the KH Ultimania where he was asked if Cloud had been looking for Aerith and said, "You might say it was made so that you can take it that way." That interview was also before the inclusion of Sephiroth, as well as Cloud's statement that he was looking for Sephiroth. Nomura can decide to make the abstract into something concrete later, can't he?
Feel free to argue that Cloud was looking for Aerith in the original, incomplete release of the game. I won't disagree with you. That's reasonable enough. I had that impression too.
But I'd argue that the canon of the matter is whatever came later, especially when things that were vague before became specific.
FF Goddess said:
1. Cloud has his own bedroom. PROVEN in AC/ACC by the bed in his office.
There couldn't be more than one bed? I'm not saying you're wrong, but what's your own explanation of the late-night scene where Tifa asks Cloud some questions?
FF Goddess said:
2. Marlene sleeps with Tifa. In the revised CoT, it states that Marlene ALWAYS sleeps with Tifa.
"Slept." The verb was past tense, and applies only up to the point in time where Barret left to settle his past. That was shortly after he helped them build what Case of Barret refers to as "their home."
Remember, Case of Tifa covers a span of two years, so there's a lot of time after Barret left.
By the way, the bedroom where Marlene and Denzel sleep is called "the children's room" and it's said that Marlene has "her own bed" there.
FF Goddess said:
3. Tifa didn't know Cloud had Geostigma. If Cloud and Tifa are lovers, how did she miss that huge black wound on Cloud's forearm?
He got geostigma after he left. His ACC Dengeki profile says so.
Anastar said:
All Nomura does is say that's a possible interpretation. Plus, he doesn't even say that Tifa can be interpreted as Cloud's light. He only says that she can be interpreted as light - then he goes on to say that if she is light, then she's probably not human.
You don't think the context of one of these characters being Cloud's darkness and the other being a light means that this other character is Cloud's light? Where else in the series are characters randomly presented as light without relation to another character -- especially in such a way that they wouldn't be a human the same way as Cloud?
The closest concept to that is the Princesses of Heart, but they weren't embodiments of light. Their hearts just possessed no darkness. And Tifa isn't one of them anyway.
Anastar said:
Why are Cloti's and SoS claiming that Nojima confirmed anything when he did not give his views on love, marriage, and family?!?
You're misreading the comment. He's saying he doesn't mean to go into those things because that's exactly what he did -- the couple's problems were the premise of the story he wrote, and his views on love, marriage and family influenced the story. That's why he says this and laughs about it.
It's like how you might say, "I don't mean to be a prude," right after you've said something prudish.
Anastar said:
Too many people seem to think that's what the Clerith side wants, or that that is the only alternative for Cloud. If he doesn't start a new relationship with Tifa, then he has to mope. Sorry, but that's not true.
Just want to point out that I said exactly the opposite in the article. Not sure if you were suggesting that I had said this as well, but there seem to be several ideas attributed to the article that I didn't include. Want to nip it now just in case.
Anastar said:
Lastly, that cannot be compared to what's said in RF about Tifa. In the first place, Nomura's quote says that he's talking about Tifa's characteristics, not her role in the movie.
Actually, the word that was used ("tachiba") does mean "role." It refers to a living, actualized element of your life. I mention this in the article.
Anastar said:
Quexinos said:
It's really interesting that Hito was GOING to use sweetheart but Mako stopped him in an attempt to prevent drama. He thought sweetheart wouldn't be a strong enough romantic word, but didn't want to use lover for some reason.
Then why wasn't boyfriend/girlfriend used? It seems to me that they used "beloved" because "beloved" only refers to one side of a relationship. That's an awfully convenient way to get around saying that the relationship is mutual, if you ask me.
While I wasn't involved in that translation, I don't think it takes a Cloti to decide that "beloved" makes more sense. Cloud and Aerith were not a couple while she was alive. We have all always known this.
The game doesn't show it to be the case, and we have Cloud's 10th Anniversary Ultimania profile telling us he didn't even realize she was interested in him during that time. There's no way for "boyfriend" or "lover" to make sense in this context.
With the context of "koibito" most accurately being "one who is desired" or "desired person," "beloved" works best with what we know about Cloud and Aerith during the time she was alive (the period she was commenting on in Case of the Lifestream White).
Anastar said:
Cloti's don't agree with our interpretation. We don't agree with SoS's interpretation. Simple.
And I'm perfectly alright with that. Like I said, I wrote this thing to make my FAQ comprehensive, not to sway Cleriths. Whatever people take from it is theirs, as was the case when they played FFVII and took whatever they did from it.
If someone gets something out of it, though, I'm glad of that.
Anastar said:
You also made a very good point when you said that the 20th FF Anniversary Ultimania doesn't show either couple to be canon. Since the 20th Anniversary Ultimania was written after the Reunion Files, after the first edition of the 10th Anniversary Ultimania, and after the release of AC, then if SE had intended that Cloti be canon, it would have been shown right there. Instead, neither couple is shown to be canon. If you ask me, that totally invalidates SoS's opinion that Cloti is canon.
Glad you brought that up, actually. My response to that is simply that Nojima's comment came after the release of the FF 20th Anniversary Ultimania.
Anastar said:
First objection - In the first place, his comment that, "in either case, the scene ends with the two snuggled together as they sleep." I do not consider the following scene to show a "snuggle", either in the High Affection version or the Low Affection version:
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When you say "snuggle", people take that to mean that both are shown with their arms around each other.
I meant it in the plainest sense: "to lie or press close together."
Anastar said:
Actually, FFVII Dismantled (see this page) says that Cloud and Tifa talked from dusk til dawn. What did they talk about? Did Cloud say that he felt the same way, or did he say he thinks it would be best if they remained just friends?
As the character blurbs in the FFVII: Kaitai Shinsho were written by Benny Matsuyama, their canonicity is as questionable as Maiden. That's why I didn't examine them.
For that matter, this one is refuted by the game itself, which shows Tifa asleep prior to dawn and then Cloud waking her up.
Anastar said:
Second objection SoS says in his essay that, "as they sleep and reacting with embarrassment the next morning when they discover that some of their teammates saw or overheard them."
Sorry, but only Tifa can react with embarrassment the next morning, and that is an optional response. She can also move off to side, look out the window, and tap her foot.
Cloud scratches the back of his head. It's either confusion or embarassment, and the former seems unlikely.
Anastar said:
For another thing, Tifa does *not* react with embarrassment after both the High Affection and Low Affection versions, unless you think that tapping her foot at the window shows "embarrassment".
That she does it after asking if they were listening is what indicates embarassment.
Anastar said:
Third objection For another thing, SoS says in his essay, "in either case, [meaning the High affection or Low affection version] the scene ends with the two snuggled together as they sleep"
That means he's completely ignorning the script of the Low affection version. In the part where they are "snuggled together", as SoS calls it, Cloud can clearly show that it bothers him:
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It doesn't take much time studying the FFVII script to realize that "....." is used to show annoyance, hesitation, and other negative emotions.
I don't see how it's clearly annoyance in this case. Hesitation, perhaps, but that isn't a strictly negative emotion, nor is it only used in negative ways during the game.
For example, if you somehow end up with Yuffie for the date at the Gold Saucer, Cloud does a lot of those long ellipses because he's nervous after she kisses him.
He also uses it with Aerith after she asks him if he was ever in SOLDIER, and that occasion was probably neither annoyance, hesitation nor anything negative. Surprise more than likely, as he wondered how she knew.
Anastar said:
Fourth objection Another thing which bothers me about this analysis. SoS says this in the part I quoted above: iI would also argue that the canon version of that scene, as far as SE is concerned, is the high affection version. According to the Crisis Core Ultimania (pg. 33), on that night, Cloud and Tifa communicated their feelings to each other, and thereafter, live together in Advent Children and Dirge of Cerberus."[/i]
That statement from the CC Ultimania does not mean the High Affection version is canon. Notice that it doesn't specify what feelings they communicate to one another? That's because it's optional what feeling they communicate, since you can get either the High affection or Low affection version.
As I explained in the article, I'd conclude the high affection version to be more likely on the basis of feelings being communicated from both of them. The low affection version involves Tifa talking about her feelings quite a bit, but Cloud really offers nothing of his own.
If what actually went down involved both of them talking about their feelings instead of Tifa just talking about hers before Cloud saying they should go to sleep, then the only one that seems to fit that is the high affection version. See where I'm coming from better?
Anastar said:
Hades' Daughter said:
It's amazing how words can be twisted so easily. Nojima never said anywhere that Cloud and Tifa were in a romantic relationship. Sounds to me like Nojima was merely talking about possibilities.
I agree, HD. I think it's a very twisted analysis of Nojima's words. Nojima actually refrains from saying what he thinks, so it's a mistake to assume what his viewpoint would be.
Because he doesn't give his opinion, there's actually two possible viewpoints: one, he thinks Cloud and Tifa should get involved in a love relationship and get married, OR two, he doesn't think they should get involved in a love relationship or get married.
Those aren't the only possibilities. There's also the simple possibility that he's commenting on whether he thinks things are going well between them, and whether they can improve if not.
Anastar said:
It's nice to see that he acknowledges the inconsistencies and discrepancies in those titles. :happy:
Most definitely. In fact, I'm pretty sure this is a matter where myself and the folks at TLS disagree for the most part.
Most of them are more forgiving of these inconsistencies than I am and allow the creators room to alter reality. But, as I said in the FAQ, to each their own.
Beatrix said:
Well, he's a Cloti all right... but compared to some, I think he defends his fav pairing quite well. ... I think this person just wants to prove who ends up with who... not who loves who the most.
Thanks, Beatrix. And you're absolutely right.
Beatrix said:
It was a big mistake to say that... because he just says right here that Cloud cares about Tifa just the same as he cares about Aerith... while he just wants to prove Cloud loves Tifa and that Aerith was only a friend. He just contradicts himself.
Not exactly. I was saying that carrying undying thoughts of Aerith doesn't equate to carrying for her undying romantic yearning. He would carry undying thoughts of either woman in the event of their grisly death right before his helpless eyes, just as he did with Zack.
Also, this is another case where context isn't always examined fully. This statement from Nomura came before Advent Children was even released. The full statement includes the comment that these undying thoughts he carries "even to this day" -- "this day" still being prior to the release of AC -- had a relation to the church and would have to be left to your imagination until the movie came out.
We then look at the movie. A relation between Cloud's thoughts of Aerith and the church is seen with the wolf, which represents Cloud's guilt. The wolf appears in the church and other places associated with events he feels guilty about.
Beatrix said:
Another thing... he pretty much nitpicking on how the narration was handled in Case of Lifestream... but then he doesn't mention that, in Case of Tifa, Tifa has doubts about her family and Cloud's involvement in it...
Just like real people do, even when married. After all, Nojima said that his views on love, marriage and family are what influenced this story, so it's to be expected that realistic concerns people go through would show up.
Beatrix said:
In my world, I want my favorite pairing to be happy and uncomplicated when it becomes canon.
Does that seem like a direction Nojima would take FFVII, though? Or does it fit the tone of FFVII, where there's a rather harsh and unforgiving setting?
I mention this in a different article in the FAQ, but before the game has even begun, the bright-eyed, pure-hearted, typical hero (Zack) has been gunned down in the defense of the unfriendly, anti-hero (Cloud) -- who then goes on to be torn down himself, rather than painted positively as anti-heroes tend to be.
For that matter, Nomura and Kitase said they wanted Aerith to die without warning and not come back -- all in defiance of the typical "meaningful deaths" and resurrections we see so often.
Hell, the fact that Aerith was the one to go is itself a stab at bright and cheery ideas. She's the one that fits the setting the least. The world around her is dark and everything -- even her comrades' personalities and garb -- reflects this. She isn't the one you would have expected to see killed, and especially not like that.
She's cheerful, grows flowers and wears a pink outfit of all things. And then she gets skewered while her friends are helpless to do anything about it.
Why would you expect a getting-lost-in-one-another's-eyes kind of romance from a story like this?
AerithGainsborough said:
The Clourith essays I read always give every detail about what they're talking about. This one didn't seem like it.
I'm open to suggestions for improvement.
AerithGainsborough said:
Like I've said before, there isn't a commercial with Cloud and Tifa under the Highwind and the word love above them is there?
The creators didn't have anything to do with the U.S. marketing. Besides, Cloud's feelings for Sephiroth weren't a "hatred that always was" anyway. He admired the guy initially.
If you want to take that commercial literally, you'd need to address that.
Also, doesn't the line "a love that can never be" run counter to most Clerith views?
AerithGainsborough said:
But can anyone tell me how the official commercial and Aerith (or possibly Nojima) saying Cloud is her friend and lover is debatable?
The commercial I already addressed. The other matter I mentioned in the FAQ: Cloud and Aerith aren't shown as a couple during the time she was alive, and his 10th Anniversary Ultimania profile says he was oblivious to her interest -- as well as Tifa's -- in him during that period.
You can't pick and choose which details you want to count if you really want to debate canon.
As I said in my FAQ, I don't count BC, CC and DC in the same continuity as the original game and AC/ACC, but they're undeniably canon.
AerithGainsborough said:
To be honest, I've always taken it that if Cloud did just move on with Tifa, he would be moping around a lot more then living alone or not having a realtionship. Nojima already said they have problems and they're probably going to be around no matter what. So Cloud will still be moping around.
All couples have problems. Even the ones that couldn't imagine life without one another. That's the unavoidable reality of sharing your life with another person who has their own feelings, thoughts and history that influences their feelings and thoughts.
By the way, this seems like more cherry picking of quotes. Nojima said they have problems that will be around regardless of Sephiroth, yes, but there are also multiple sources -- the ACC Dengeki profiles and the 10th Anniversary Ultimania -- stating that Cloud was happy living at Seventh Heaven and became depressed because his guilt made him believe he didn't deserve that happiness.
AerithGainsborough said:
You and everyone else have to remember one final detail. That Final Fantasy VII is NOT a realistic game. And since the heck when does a fantasy story have to have "realistic" scenarios?
The creators have demonstrated that they want realistic scenarios in some respects. Take Kitase's comments on Aerith's death, for example:
"In the real world, things are very different. You just need to look around you. Nobody wants to die that way. People die of disease and accident. Death comes suddenly and there is no notion of good or bad attached to it. It leaves not a dramatic feeling, but a feeling of emptiness. When you lose someone you loved very much you feel this big empty space and think 'If I had known this was coming I would have done things differently.' These are the feelings I wanted to arouse in the players with Aerith's death relatively early in the game. Feelings of reality and not Hollywood."
Nomura even pondered whether presenting those "Hollywood feelings" to people and giving them those expectations was irresponsible.
Then you have Nojima making that comment about his views on family influencing Case of Tifa. I think that -- psychologically anyway -- FFVII was the setting where the creators pushed their ideas of how hard and harsh life is. It's also the first one that explored Sakaguchi's ideas of what comes after death -- which had been influenced by the loss of his mother.
FFVII's world has always been one where these guys got their feelings related to the real world off their chest.
Angelwing Aeris said:
Why are the Clotis continue to push that Aerith's everlasting true love is Zack? She rejected him.
I pushed no such thing. The "Cloud is a Zerith" comment at the end of the article was a joke. I said as much right there.
I also said early in the article that "you aren't going to see me arguing that she loved Zack more than Cloud, or that she only loved Cloud based on the similarities he had to Zack." I didn't do that. I'm confused by your comment.
By the way, where did Aerith reject Zack within the canon? I know there's Maiden, but that doesn't seem to be counted by SE.
Angelwing Aeris said:
The only kudos I can give is that it is well written.
Thank you.
EdgarxTerra said:
WRONG!
The "solid green Materia" is the exact one in the game that falls out of Aerith's hair when she dies.
If it isn't the same color or the same size, isn't identified as the same materia within Dissidia, and isn't identified as a reference to Aerith in Dissidia's Ultimania despite many less significant references being called out -- how is it obviously "the exact one"?
EdgarxTerra said:
The sphere Tidus recieves is the same one YUNA recorded herself on when she thought she was going to die for the planet, just so they could live without Sin for a while.
For Terra! Her Magicite is her father, Maduin! So this completely destroyed this part
The sphere Tidus got looks like many of the other spheres in the game -- which also look like the sphere Yuna had. There's Jyscal's sphere, the Jecht spheres, the spheres on the floor of the travel agencies, etc. They all look like that.
As for the magicite, it's never identified as Maduin's any more than it is identified as Ifrit's. They're just generic crystals.
EdgarxTerra said:
Also, that whole "essay" was complete Cloti, I guess its what it was meant to be, but it never gave the actual strong points to Cleriths. And here I thought that's what a good, honest essay does.
Did I not include comments like these in the article?: "Cloud carries both women around with him, but inevitably in different ways. So, in this zero-sum game, that leaves the two ladies balanced as far as the use of that particular idea goes."
I did my best to be fair. I didn't just throw in everything that could be taken as a positive for a Cloti conclusion. I analyzed the points that were there for both sides, and then -- with all pieces informing all others -- made a determination as to which worked and which didn't.
You're free to disagree with my conclusions, but I'd ask you to not suggest that I omitted data if you're not going to mention what the omissions are. I'd be more than happy to look at whatever you feel warrants mention.
Silent Chaos said:
This part of his essay is interesting as well:
... Tifa asks Cloud some questions after waiting for him to fall asleep ...
"Some questions" eh?
I'm going to assume that he thinks those "questions" Tifa asked him aren't really important in his so called "full analysis" am I right? I'll be reading some more.
You assume correctly. Who hasn't heard the argument that if Tifa has to ask Cloud if he loves her then they're not in a romantic relationship?
But, then, who hasn't heard of -- or themselves asked -- this question in such a relationship? When you're in one that's not going particularly well, you start to wonder. So you eventually ask.
Silent Chaos said:
Nothing compare to "Analstar" and "FFGayness" imo, but if these two have taken it for more than a decade, I'm pretty sure SOS can take those remarks unblemished, but if those remarks really hurt his feelings then we'll take it out.
I don't mind. Thanks for the consideration, though.
For the record, I don't endorse the use of the "Analstar" or "FFGayness" monikers, nor do I endorse dropping mortars on Cleriths.
Silent Chaos said:
Have they ever actually explained why they're veering off the official context on Nomura's line? Even SoS' essay never explained that. Sure, he explained it in a literal, but as many of you know, it's the context that matters.
...
See, in this line of his, he provided a so called "more accurate translation". To me though, he's just changing an official translation in order to suit his perspective. Sure, reading the line "literally", there's a possibility that his translation is more accurate. But what's important here though, is the context.SoS neither confirmed nor deny that the official context is right or wrong despite his so called "accurate translation".
The point is that the line was translated improperly. You, of course, have only my word for that, but I offer my assurance -- whatever that's worth -- that it was.
A literal translation, by the way, is often the best place to go for context, unless of course there are idioms involved. Those have to be taken case by case.
Anyway, it's not uncommon for things like this to happen, even in official translations. After all, the official translation of Case of Tifa included with North America's Limited Edition version of Advent Children said that Cloud told Elmyra of Aerith's death, when the actual word here ("hanashita") would mean he simply talked to her about it.
This was an issue because some thought it was a continuity blunder. Reeve had already told Elmyra in the original game about Aerith dying.
It wasn't a blunder at all. Just a mistranslation into English, where the verb meaning "to talk" was treated as one meaning "to inform."
aerithstrife said:
When I saw LTD Analysis, I thought it would be from both sides. That both sides would be analyze---but, the more I read it, the more like it was going only one direction only.
Well, I did announce it upfront. Sorry you were disappointed, though. Thanks for reading anyway.
aerithstrife said:
From a critical thinking viewpoint, you wouldn't want to insert your own perference or bias into the analysis----You would examine it from both sides and carefully construct the analysis that examines the LTD.
That's what I did. I was just offering my conclusions in the article.
 
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Fairheartstrife

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FHS, that cloti bitch
I read your post and admire you facing the pink head-on!! **Cheers** You have every right to stand beside your article, and honestly, it's laughable that they're so bent over it. I think you might be my new hero.
 

Ryushikaze

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Tim, Ryu
I must ask, prompted by EdgarxTerra's spiel, where she is getting the idea that Cloud's crystal, Tidus's Crystal, and Terra's crystal, are Holy/ The white materia, Yuna's sphere, and Maduin's magicite specifically?
I would very much like to see a source from either in Dissidia or its related Ultimanias, or other in house source which states these things to be so.

And no, just in general, Cloud's crystal doesn't look 'exactly' like the white materia. It looks like any other general magic materia.

Because NOWHERE, NARY A PLACE, have I found expressing these ideas except coming from the mouths of you and fellow members of the CxA forum.
Further, do you have any explanation for why these overly specific crystals are only applicable to certain characters, why well over half the cast is given the short end of the stick as far as crystallian references?

Certainly, your response was well written and non inflammatory, but I would not hold my breath on the response being positive over there. Expect quite a lot of negative responses to your response, I would say. I hope it is otherwise, but I dare say I expect you to be banned within a week, if not already.
 

Alessa Gillespie

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I am sorry, SoS, I would have read your full response, but I bruise easily and my forehead can only take so many beatings with the palm of my hand. (in response to some of the shit being said over there, of course.)
 

TheMadHatter

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Oh, have you finished SoS's essays, yet?
~~~~Addendum: And again, it's not about 'loving' the couple. No one really gives two shits if you love an acanon couple. What we're interested in here is the thrust and jib of the plot.
Nah, I just came home 40 minutes ago or so. I had to get something to eat...which was Arbys. I normally eat healthy foods, doctors orders LoL
I'll try to get back to it, but for now I'm gonna reply to TresDias.

Hm, guess I thought you were suppose to love the canon couple. If you don't love it, why the hell does anyone even fight for it? Try and prove it right or wrong? I try to prove my couples right and I love them.

By TresDias:
If it isn't the same color or the same size, isn't identified as the same materia within Dissidia, and isn't identified as a reference to Aerith in Dissidia's Ultimania despite many less significant references being called out -- how is it obviously "the exact one"?
Didn't they all {each players "crystal"} switch sizes? I mean, look at the Magicite. It wasn't suppose to be that huge. So it could in all, be Aerith/Aeris' orby-thing.

The sphere Tidus got looks like many of the other spheres in the game -- which also look like the sphere Yuna had. There's Jyscal's sphere, the Jecht spheres, the spheres on the floor of the travel agencies, etc. They all look like that. As for the magicite, it's never identified as Maduin's any more than it is identified as Ifrit's. They're just generic crystals.
This is one I particularly agree with. Why is it that every hero got something that belonged and or gave them a bond to that said person or planet?
Throughout 6, the only people to have really given Terra hope, was the espers. It has to be Maduin.

On topic!

SE isn't sinking so low, nor are the majority of the 'people behind the couples.' It's a few very fervent believers, really. And their detractors.
I don't mean to sound rabid to any side, but even I think it is wrong. As Clotis, it would be appropriate to ask them to stop, because we all know that said person or persons, is here.
Also, I think {"know" actually} a Clerith has a site just like that....not as rude and nasty. But I'm not sure if he is a Clerith, but a friend showed me the link, again, I'm not sure it will solve anything if I post a link.

It's possible, but entirely unlikely, given all the statements on the subject and the general presumption of cohabiting adult men and women, especially those raising children, and nothing has been presented to rebut the general presumption. Indeed, all the quotes would seem to reinforce, rather than rebut, the basic presumption.
Its entirely possible. I for one, know a lot of people who share those kind of feelings. Someone could marry because they think that person deserves it and not truly love that person.

Maybe, just maybe, Cloud doesn't want to hurt Aerith's or Tifa's feelings. Maybe his guilt for Aerith is a family guilt. Maybe his feelings for Tifa, are family feelings. He hasn't exactly said anything about loving either women.
Maybe his feelings are family feelings.

He doesn't and hasn't slept with Aerith's dead body in a flower field and he hasn't slept with Tifa - that either means he's gay or he doesn't love them. But, that is my opinion. Please don't be angered by it. I mean no harm. -_-

And, after reading further reading in this thread, I'm painfully aware that everyone doesn't believe I'm Alice's sister? I've haven't been in this thread a lot, but I assure you, I am a real person and yes, I came out of my mothers Vagina before Alice.

I just want to point that out, because I am her older sister and it stupid of her {Alice} to be senselessly fighting over a couple, especially when I told her to stop before she snaps. :aah:
But, she is my sister and I can't promise I won't get angry if she is insulted, especially since I don't have my meds.

And, this damn black on black is terribly when posting >_> I can't ever find my mouse key :huh:
 

Fairheartstrife

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Oh, God, the response...LMFAO.... Seriously, how deluded can a fan-base be?!? I try, really I do, to understand, but I just can't. To so blatantly ignore the logic...it's just **headdesk**
 

TheMadHatter

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Are you talking about me, FairHeartStrife???

Or, If you are referring to FFG, I haven't read her post yet. I might...might not...
 

Makoeyes987

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Maybe, just maybe, Cloud doesn't want to hurt Aerith's or Tifa's feelings. Maybe his guilt for Aerith is a family guilt. Maybe his feelings for Tifa, are family feelings. He hasn't exactly said anything about loving either women.
Maybe his feelings are family feelings.

He doesn't and hasn't slept with Aerith's dead body in a flower field and he hasn't slept with Tifa - that either means he's gay or he doesn't love them. But, that is my opinion. Please don't be angered by it. I mean no harm. -_-

If that were the case, what mutual feelings did Cloud and Tifa realize for each other, as stated in the Crisis Core Complete guide? That makes no sense that he'd try to...spare Tifa's feelings, yet the creators dictate they've come to understand each other and realize their feelings for one another?

And again, why would the two of them build up this family setting and be platonic? Does. Not. Compute. Especially when he says he wants to..."start a life" with her.

Doesn't sound like he's gay or not loving Tifa. At all.
 

Kikyou

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I made a reply over on the CxA forum. If you don't feel like following the link, just click the spoiler button here.

P.S. M-Mira is awesome.

Aw, you're making me blush. :awesome: But I seriously meant what I said, and I'm glad to see it carried over to the CxA forums, and maturely. I just hope this direct encounter ends on a lighter note and this shit flinging can cease fire.

EDIT: I mean, even FFG admitted you were civil. So keep going.

Are you talking about me, FairHeartStrife???

Or, If you are referring to FFG, I haven't read her post yet. I might...might not...

I believe FHS was referring to FFG's response.
 
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Makoeyes987

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Holy shit, Squall_of_SeeD has the balls of a fucking lion.

You brought that shit to their teeth. I applaud you for fucking confronting that stupid spin head on. Excellent post dude. Seriously.
 

Makoeyes987

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And don't stop either. You keep attacking their tin foil arguments until they either concede, or ban you. I want to see them squirm under their own illogicality. PLEASE. :monster:
 

TheMadHatter

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If that were the case, what mutual feelings did Cloud and Tifa realize for each other, as stated in the Crisis Core Complete guide? That makes no sense that he'd try to...spare Tifa's feelings, yet the creators dictate they've come to understand each other and realize their feelings for one another?
Them realizing their feelings for each other could also mean: "Hey, Tifa, I never loved Aerith in a lover way...and I'm sorry to say this, but I can't feel that way to both of you." only put that sentence into the way Cloud would say it.

And again, why would the two of them build up this family setting and be platonic? Does. Not. Compute. Especially when he says he wants to..."start a life" with her.
"Starting a life" doesn't necessarily mean having a "lover". My older brother started a life {sharing a family} with a woman he doesn't love. I'm not saying Cloud loves Aerith, I'm trying to explain clerith's point of view. I'm trying to be honest and fair here.

Doesn't sound like he's gay or not loving Tifa. At all.
I'm not saying "he's either gay" or not "loving Tifa". I'm giving an alternate form to this LT. What if he doesn't love them and loves a guy? Or, what if he doesn't "love love" anyone...yet.

I believe FHS was referring to FFG's response.

Oh, okay LoL

@Mira
The shit flinging what stop if we keep saying these things:
And don't stop either. You keep attacking their tin foil arguments until they either concede, or ban you. I want to see them squirm under their own illogicality. PLEASE.
and:
You brought that shit to their teeth. I applaud you for fucking confronting that stupid spin head on. Excellent post dude. Seriously.
and:
Oh, God, the response...LMFAO.... Seriously, how deluded can a fan-base be?!? I try, really I do, to understand, but I just can't. To so blatantly ignore the logic...it's just **headdesk**
Which side will have to submit to what's right? As Clotis or Cloriths, one side should stop at some point. I say, let it be the Clotis. Because, when SE finally admits Cloti is canon, Clotis will get to say:
"And we stopped that bullshit fighting first...we are proud of ourselves."
 
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Ryushikaze

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Tim, Ryu
Maybe, just maybe, Cloud doesn't want to hurt Aerith's or Tifa's feelings. Maybe his guilt for Aerith is a family guilt. Maybe his feelings for Tifa, are family feelings. He hasn't exactly said anything about loving either women.
Maybe his feelings are family feelings.

Except he has said and done things to show that his happiness with Tifa is more than just fillial. 'It's different than before' and such.

He doesn't and hasn't slept with Aerith's dead body in a flower field and he hasn't slept with Tifa - that either means he's gay or he doesn't love them. But, that is my opinion. Please don't be angered by it. I mean no harm. -_-

Point of order, if he's not sleeping with Tifa, then how creepy is her watching him sleep in CoT?

And, after reading further reading in this thread, I'm painfully aware that everyone doesn't believe I'm Alice's sister? I've haven't been in this thread a lot, but I assure you, I am a real person and yes, I came out of my mothers Vagina before Alice.

I just want to point that out, because I am her older sister and it stupid of her {Alice} to be senselessly fighting over a couple, especially when I told her to stop before she snaps. :aah:
But, she is my sister and I can't promise I won't get angry if she is insulted, especially since I don't have my meds.

And, this damn black on black is terribly when posting >_> I can't ever find my mouse key :huh:

You are allowed to say vagina on this forum.

And well, we are sorry for the speculation that you are the same person, but if I had a nickel for every time a person used a dupe claiming to be the Original account's relative... well, I'd be a few hundred bucks richer.
 
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Makoeyes987

Listen closely, there is meaning in my words.
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Them realizing their feelings for each other could also mean: "Hey, Tifa, I never loved Aerith in a lover way...and I'm sorry to say this, but I can't feel that way to both of you." only put that sentence into the way Cloud would say it.

That ain't mutual. Tifa doesn't think of Cloud as just a friend. She's in love with him. Cloud also loved Tifa before. And they live with each other and have a family. And he says he wants to start a family with her.

Which makes more sense now:

Them realizing their mutual feelings of romantic love for each other?

OR

Them realizing their mutual feelings of PLATONIC ROOM SHARING for each other?




"Starting a life" doesn't necessarily mean having a "lover". My older brother started a life {sharing a family} with a woman he doesn't love. I'm not saying Cloud loves Aerith, I'm trying to explain clerith's point of view. I'm trying to be honest and fair here.

....Okay. How many people tell someone they'd like to start a life together and move in with them, and just stay platonic friends and oh...raise a family together to boot, and promise to be with them forever?

Common sense. Use it here, please.



I'm not saying "he's either gay" or not "loving Tifa". I'm giving an alternate form to this LT. What if he doesn't love them and loves a guy? Or, what if he doesn't "love love" anyone...yet.


Oh, okay LoL

The alternate form makes no sense though. It requires you to do 101 cognitive contortions that turn normal societal mores and logic on their head and transforms a basic sign of romantic interest and love, into some bizarre, atypical rooming arrangement that turns Tifa into a desperate doormate and Cloud into an obnoxious asshole stringing around a woman who clearly is pining for him and raising a family with him as the father. What planet would this be considered normal and the most logical outcome between two people?
 

TheMadHatter

Banned
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Not Sure - guess the movie.
You are allowed to say vagina on this forum.

And well, we are sorry for the speculation that you are the same person, but if I had a nickel for every time a person used a dupe claiming to be the Original account's relative... well, I'd be a few hundred bucks richer.
Oh? I can? Cool. VAGINA! LOL :}
Well, you'd be surprised at my friend's sized family. They get in trouble for having multi bungie accounts because their family is made of 8 siblings :G

Point of order, if he's not sleeping with Tifa, then how creepy is her watching him sleep in CoT?
Pretty creepy. But couldn't it mean she loves him romantically and had just walked in to watch the love of her life sleep? I'd do that for the person I'd love...

Except he has said and done things to show that his happiness with Tifa is more than just fillial. 'It's different than before' and such.
Hm..."It's different than before" could stand for him thinking he could belong here, and could be trusted and loved. And finally be able to protect. That's a different way I can interpret it.

I'm tempted to go in there and help... I really should....

Tres, throw them this link:
http://www.killthemongoose.com/interview.php

I'd like to see them respond to that.
What do you mean by help? Go in there and defend cleriths or help Tres?

Common sense. Use it here, please.
I am using. I know a lot of people who feel that way in both the real world and over the internet. I'm sorry if you haven't met anyone with a complicated or destroyed relationship before. But this is common and happens all the time; its called "wanting to give everything to a person that really deserves it".

I'm sorry if I don't make sense. Its pretty late here and my job was a pain in the ass today. I'll try to revise some posts ;D
 
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Alessa Gillespie

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Pretty creepy. But couldn't it mean she loves him romantically and had just walked in to watch the love of her life sleep? I'd do that for the person I'd love...
So Tifa is a pathetic creeper then? Mmkay then.

Hm..."It's different than before" could stand for him thinking he could belong here, and could be trusted and loved. And finally be able to protect. That's a different way I can interpret it.
But he was trusted and loved previously, because Tifa loved and trusted him. Hell, she thought maybe she was remembering things wrong, that's how much she trusted him. And it being a direct result of them realizing their 'mutual' feelings for each other makes that response seem off, sorry.
 

Isabella

Your Mom
So FFG's whole argument seems to be, "they aren't blissfully happy and lying in each other's arms and having marathon sex sessions so it's impossible for them to be in a relationship." Would y'all say I'm summing that up correctly?

If that's the case, I want to live on the planet she lives on. How do I get there?
 

Kikyou

just a fleeting memory
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M-Mira, crackitlackin, Izaya Orihara, SAILOR NARU, Sharon Rainsworth, Mara, Brosuke Hanamura, Commissioner Gordon, Santa Claus, Lenneth Valkyrie
@Mira

Which side will have to submit to what's right? As Clotis or Cloriths, one side should stop at some point. I say, let it be the Clotis. Because, when SE finally admits Cloti is canon, Clotis will get to say:
"And we stopped that bullshit fighting first...we are proud of ourselves."

It's less Clotis vs. Cleriths, than it is TLS and the CxA forums. I know both forums have a majority of members leaning at one side than the other. But when it all boils down to the problems, it has become less about the LTD and more about conduct. Several CxA members have issues with what they expected was going to be a "factual" and "neutral" essay had unveiled itself to be a pro cloti essay that has been featured on the front page. There is also apparent dissatisfaction with a few TLS members and the site itself. Several TLS members have more beef with the open disrespect for the essay's author, TLS forums/staff, and general mockery of the essay than the arguments made. Though I'll admit that the LTD arguments/logic are part of the fuel.
 

TheMadHatter

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So Tifa is a pathetic creeper then? Mmkay then.
I didn't say pathetic, did I? I would do the same damn thing. Its still creepy though.
And before I have to say it later, by fav character in FFVII is Tifa and Yuffie. So I'm not bashing Tifa, I actually love her character alot. :}

But he was trusted and loved previously, because Tifa loved and trusted him. Hell, she thought maybe she was remembering things wrong, that's how much she trusted him. And it being a direct result of them realizing their 'mutual' feelings for each other makes that response seem off, sorry.
Never said he wasn't, just that he could be loved more, if that makes sense. More of the love, ya know?

I meant help Tres but I think he can handle his own.
:O Got it -winks eye-

ABOUT THE WHOLE ESSAY MESS FIGHT
Maybe they got angry the site owner would allow it to go on a news section? That's wasn't appropriate for him to do or the essay writer. Shouldn't we all know by now that kind of crude fuels fights? Don't forums have a "forum news" section? Couldn't it have been posted in there?

This is what is upsetting them. They didn't like how it was posted as if SE made it news and made it canon.

Did any of that make sense?
 
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Dashell

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So FFG's whole argument seems to be, "they aren't blissfully happy and lying in each other's arms and having marathon sex sessions so it's impossible for them to be in a relationship." Would y'all say I'm summing that up correctly?

If that's the case, I want to live on the planet she lives on. How do I get there?

It's the one with imaginary Japanese friends who make up imaginary definitions for words and have imaginary interviews at imaginary restaurants. Sounds good to me too. Where do I sign up?
 

Alessa Gillespie

a letter to my future self
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Sansa Stark, Sweet Bro, Feferi, tentacleTherapist, Nin, Aki, Catwoman, Shinjiro Aragaki, Terezi, Princess Bubblegum
I didn't say pathetic, did I? I would do the same damn thing. Its still creepy though.
And before I have to say it later, by fac character in FFVII is Tifa and Yuffie. So I'm not bashing Tifa, I actually love her character alot. :}
Mmkay, but she's still being a creeper and watching Cloud sleep. I added pathetic because he's supposed to have made it clear he had no interest in her, right? So it just seems sad she'd sit and watch him all night if she knows she doesn't have a chance.

Never said he wasn't, just that he could be loved more, if that makes sense. More of the love, ya know?
I'm sorry but what. She always loved him, she loved him a lot, so him being loved more doesn't make much sense to me. Because she went through his mind and understands him? It still seems weird if they apparently realized mutual platonic feelings.
 

TheMadHatter

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It's the one with imaginary Japanese friends who make up imaginary definitions for words and have imaginary interviews at imaginary restaurants. Sounds good to me too. Where do I sign up?
Is that about them misspelling a restaurant's name? WacDonalds? I know its funny, but come on people, is it really adult like to continue it?

They might have Japanese friends. I have lots of Japanese friends, they love my fanfictions :} Maybe they do have JP friends, maybe there is a WacDonalds and maybe there are interviews.

Why would anyone trust online translation sites anyway? You know, translators? They always miss-translate things all the time, especially for Japanese words.

Mmkay, but she's still being a creeper and watching Cloud sleep. I added pathetic because he's supposed to have made it clear he had no interest in her, right? So it just seems sad she'd sit and watch him all night if she knows she doesn't have a chance.
Why do you insist on shoving words in my mouth?

I'm sorry but what. She always loved him, she loved him a lot, so him being loved more doesn't make much sense to me. Because she went through his mind and understands him? It still seems weird if they apparently realized mutual platonic feelings.
OF COURSE SHE LOVES HIM! I'm saying he thinks he can get MORE love from her. There! That should make sense now, okay?
 
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