megas_sephiroth
Pro Adventurer
That's not talking to her as an adult. Do you go around carrying your adult peers on motorcycles, lifting them up cutely like children, patting their head, stooping down to get to "their level" and telling them you're going to protect them?
If so, you have a very weird relationship with adults.
So being fatherly includes talking to someone like that? That's not fatherly, that's talking to a child.
Marlene was the one who acted as the adult there, while Cloud just pretty much talked about his issues.