#always cloti

[ampala-yeah]

tifaaaaaa (ft. cloud) ❤️

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[kiiseru]

He would become exceptional. A SOLDIER. A hero. Someone special to Tifa. [x]

[the-prima-vista]

[emblazons]

"Well...after you." "You first."

Cloud Strife & Tifa Lockhart Golden Saucer Date • Final Fantasy VII (Rebirth)

[pearl-aqua-fantasy]

❤️ Love this!

[moonilit]

Bro took her request for life

[daylighteclipsed]

While Aerith is looking for Zack in Cloud and subconsciously, I think, expecting Cloud to respond to her like Zack, I do think that Tifa also, initially, has her own false expectations about Cloud. Not in the sense that she’s subconsciously expecting him to act like someone else — Tifa is never not looking for Cloud in Cloud. But in the sense that it seems like, initially, Tifa’s subconsciously expecting Cloud to act like he’s a closer friend to her than he is.

Tifa’s hurt at the start of Rebirth when it seems like Cloud’s choosing not to tell her where he’s been for the past five years. She’s hurt by his distrust and doubt that she’s real, and she tells him that maybe she shouldn’t have been so glad to have him back — a callback to Remake when she tells him she’s really glad to have him back the first time Cloud starts dropping his facade (“losing that hard edge”) and shows that he remembers the promise he made to her as kids. Tifa keeps trying to reconnect with Cloud by trying to jog his memory, but it doesn’t work that well. This arguably comes to a head in the Under Junon inn. Tifa and Cloud have a chance to talk privately again and apologize for their words before. But then Tifa brings up Emilio and, regardless of whether you have Cloud answer that he remembers Emilio or not, she launches into a story about seeing Emilio again. And you can hear her growing excited as she speaks, almost like she forgets Cloud was not friends with Emilio, was not friends with her friends growing up, until she notices that Cloud is standing there awkwardly and she realizes… She does not have the old friend in Cloud that she thought she did.

Cloud and Tifa were close when they were very little, but that was a very long time ago. They didn’t hang out as adolescents. Cloud is willing to listen to Tifa’s story because he cares about her — and this is another callback to that same scene in Remake I mentioned before when Cloud first loses his facade; he says if Tifa wants to talk, he’s listening — but he has no personal investment in this story about Emilio. And it’s like Tifa realizes then that she’s got their connection wrong… She’s been trying to jog Cloud’s memory to rekindle a close friendship that never exactly existed. She’s been expecting Cloud to act like her close friend when they were never really that close to begin with — or at least, they haven’t been that close since they were 7-8 years old. That’s not fair to him.

Noticeably, Tifa lets this expectation go, which enables Cloud and Tifa to bond and reconnect organically (and much more successfully) instead. They grow very close when they’re not expected to already be close. And idk I think it’s interesting.

[teaitis]

First touch

Cloti for the poll win!

[xdevilrushx]

Progress.

[cliji]

cloti sprite still hits crazy i can't believe

[oikiri]

i firmly believe men do not know what love is even more by how they treat the existence of clerith

[aeirithgainsborough]

sorry WHO on this webbed site said that cloud hates aerith?? if they don't ship them that's their perogrative but what an out of pocket take lmfao

it’s the dumbest shit in existence actually considering ff7 was marketed as a story about a love that could never be gee wonder who that could be about it’s such a mystery.

people say it everywhere; here, twitter, the fandom is just awful. tbh im 183% sure they know cloud doesn’t hate aerith, nor is he even annoyed by her in the slightest (hello his heart literally cracks when she dies and he spends spin off material intensely grieving her and desperately trying to get back to her), but she’s such a threat to their there’s only one canon ship in ff7/cloud and aerith were never meant to be romantic bullshit that they need to delude themselves he hates her. or if it’s not that, it’s just that he thinks he’s zack and she thinks he’s like zack which is such a bastardisation/oversimplification of an incredibly nuanced story about trauma and insecurities and what cloud does to cope that i genuinely find it upsetting. all whilst these same people scream they’re the real fans lmao and understand the game better. im sorry but if your understanding of the game is cloud = zack the whole narrative went right over your head. aerith even tells cloud during their gs date that he reminded her of zack at first but as she spent more time with him she could see he was different and she wanted to meet the real him/she was looking for him.

the latest is that no promises to keep is a zack/aerith game bcus clerith cannot have anything at all without it being about zack in order to dismiss clerith as a pairing that does actually exist and did so for a decade before zack became a fully fleshed out character. not to mention they literally copied clerith when they explored zerith in cc it’s a cheap knockoff. these people should just go and play crisis core i s2g. aerith is also a whore for being interested in cloud when she has zack, never mind it’s been 5 years, she wrote a letter saying goodbye to him, and he is actually dead (sort of? maybe? we don’t know yet). it’s just been a cesspit of toxicity esp on Twitter that’s culminated in nojima receiving death threats and having to say something about it because actual grown ups are having a tantrum over the trailer. perhaps if they hadn’t spent so much energy deluding themselves into thinking clerith, a pairing that has existed for 26yrs, doesn’t exist they wouldn’t be so shocked now! nothing in the trailer should be surprising!

[the-prima-vista]

[emblazons]

"You Okay?" • "I'm Okay."

Cloud Strife & Tifa Lockhart Nibelheim Flashbacks • Final Fantasy VII (Rebirth)

Bonus: Yuffie Sees All

[pearl-aqua-fantasy]

"Hey, remember when we were kids? How you'd - you know - always be looking at me?"

"I, uh... What?"

"Everytime we made eye contact, you'd look away."

I LOVE THIS SO MUCH!! ✨️✨️

[seaseren]

POV Cloud and Tifa just kissed