#ILoveTifaBecause
i feel like she represents my ethnicity as an asian. tifa doesn't have any mako superpower, she's not cetra, she's not a princess. she's just an ordinary girl, but she can achieve greatness through hard work & by overcoming her past trauma and losses
i looked up the meaning of teardrop jewelry and found out that they are often used for the expression of lost loved ones. idk if it's intentional or not, but the fact that tifa wore this earring after she lost everyone in the nibelheim incident makes me sad
thinking about how tifa wore her best dress to the water tower to impress cloud & how cloud wanted to go to midgar and be a soldier to impress tifa. they both keep trying to be a better version of themselves for each other in any way & it's sooo adorable
if cloud didn't love tifa, he wouldn't have kissed her. it really is that simple. u don't have to write a long-ass thread with a bunch of assumptions and mental gymnastics to conclude that he kissed her out of jealousy because that'd be ooc of cloud. u're just in denial atp
nojima:
"the song is about aerith's feelings; her burden as the last cetra, it's about everyone she's loved; elmyra, her real mom, zack, cloud, even tifa and barret."
delusional fans:
"why are you lying and backpedaling?"
nojima: ?????
what makes me really love cloti ship is the fact that tifa & cloud have an unbreakable bond. they've always been there for each other, saving each other's lives countless times. they're each other's heroes, and their bond is a testament to the power of true loyalty and devotion
tifa became physically powerful through her hard work and became mentally strong because all of the things she's been through even though she's just a normal human without any extraordinary superpower abilities is one of her many qualities that i like about her character
i really hate to comment on this type of thing but to say "trust me" when you're wrong is just spreading misinformation. cloud didn't leave tifa for 2 years. he left after contracting geostigma and had severe PTSD along with survivor's guilt.
while the detail of this short sequel wasn't included in the famitsu interview, it was stated in an article that Nojima-san's early idea was about Cloud receiving a note passed along by children. The sender of this note was eventually revealed to be his girlfriend... Tifa.
the reason SE already gave intimate moments between cloud and tifa is because OG ffvii fans already know the actual depth of their relationship and it had also been emphasized in several novellas so there's no reason to keep it super secret anymore
"it's the two of us, together! we'll walk this path together! and when one of us stumbles and can't walk any further, we can carry each other and continue walking"
can't get over the fact that Nojima-san at one point almost explicitly end the LTD discussion once and for all.
before advent children came to production, at the early stages Nojima-san wrote a simple 20 minutes sequel for FFVII
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In its own way, it is a admittance of romance. Why would he even want to go on more dates with her if he saw her as a friend only? Aerith says it easily enough because her and Cloud’s personality differs. Can you also pull up Cloud saying out of his mouth “I love you Tifa?”
im sorry but...
Trace of Two Pasts was written by Nojima-san himself. some ppl really have the audacity to believe TMWTTP but deny ToTP, how delusional can you be lol
i think nojima wants to end the ffvii LTD for good, that's why he's building up cloud and tifa's relationship since midgar and delve deeper into their relationship in ToTP.
i hate it when people try to downplay cloud's mental health issues in AC. bcs if i found out that my friend had sacrificed himself just so that i could live on & at same time, i couldn't protect his precious gf & also my nakama, i won't be able to bear the burden & guilt
even though the dates are slightly detached from the main story, the devs tried really hard to make the affinity system work so that every possible date wouldn't contradict the plot. and what is some possible route that wouldn't contradict the overall plot? cloud kissing tifa lol
that's why zack and aerith's scene at the end of advent children is so significant. they never blamed cloud for what had happened, but cloud always felt like he didn't deserve their forgiveness. however, in the end, he finally found some closure
the greatest thing about shipping cloti is the fact that you get new things to hype about on a regular basis like we are genuinely well-fed. we are cloti-fat
i personally think deep down this time Nojima-san wanted to clear all of the misinterpretation of his story. with the remake & the addition of ToTP, i think he made it clear that he also wanted to bring clarity into cloud & tifa's relationship, so im excited to see the next part.
CA cult who keep saying cloud only had seggs with tifa under the highwind because of lust and not out of love are weirdos. that only paints cloud as a douchebag and why would you want to ship ur favorite character with a douchebag, where's the logic man 😭
"cloud ghost T for 2 whole years", im sorry to break your bubbles but cloud is not a douc*hebag you guys painted him to be. he cherished everyone even more so his family, so he didn't leave for the stupid reason that i know u ca shippers desperately want
the article also stated that in the first development, "Nojima felt certain that they would be together in post-meteor Midgar". So even though the idea was expanded, by the ending of AC we know that they did end up together. (stated in page 70 of Reunion Files)
observing a pattern where people who like ada tend to gravitate towards tifa more and people who like ashley tend to resonate towards aerith more or am i tripping? 🤔
that idea was finally expanded into a feature length movie that we know today as Advent Children. In addition to that, Nojima-san provided the backstory in the novella "On the Way to a Smile" where we can see Cloud, Tifa, Danzel, and Marlene were living together as a family.
tifa is envious of aerith and yuffie who can express themselves clearly. aerith is envious of tifa and cloud because they have a friend to reminisce about childhood memories with. the struggles for the girls, man...
[Aerith knows about the depth of Cloud and Tifa's relationship theory]
in remake, aerith is basically aerith 2.0 & already has the knowledge of the future. this theory pretty much has been proven true in-game and by the newest ultimania & she slips up her knowledge several times
it's funny how ffvii fandom is full of shipping wars, assumptions, and theories but nojima is just chillin out there postin' video of his cute guinea pig knowing full well how the story would end.