#bi flag colors kind of wink wonk

[soapysandmich]

haunted house

[234am]

For Pride fun, my preferred queer headcanons about the main cast of FF7:

sidecast post here

Cloud

(he/him, they/them) nonbinary panromantic (sex positive) asexual or pansexual

Pan purely for the flag color. Call him bi if you want. 

I love the idea of Cloud wearing cute pastel colors and patterned tights on his days off, and I'm suuuuper tired of the fics that make him do the entire rigmarole of elaborate drag just to have some man rip it off him. Let the enby have his cute clothes!

Also, sex positive because I'm tired of asexual being used as a "can't be shipped with anyone" flag, thanks. He may not initiate it or even think about it, but if a partner he loved wanted to try things, he wouldn't be opposed.

favored ships: clack, clarret, cid/vin/cloud

Tifa

cis lesbian

An absolutely uselessly gay that gets flustered around cute girls... Tries really hard to pass as straight or at least bi with her crush on Cloud but at the end of the day, they're closer than boyfriend/girlfriend, they're family. You know she was the MOST distraught over Aerith’s death, it just kind of faded into the background of everything else going on (ie, Cloud’s massive angst).

favored ships: aerti

Barret

cis bisexual

The bear dad wink wonk. I like to imagine he's pretty useless at making his intentions known, and most people come away thinking he's madder than usual. Myrna probably made the first move. He's very likely hung up on the ideas that it's "too soon", that his hands are too bloodied for romancing, and that he ought to focus on Marlene's upbringing first.

favored ships: clarret

Aerith

cis or trans bisexual

I say she DID date Zack, and she DID like Cloud, but she also super liked Tifa and other cute girls. Sometimes I want to write her as trans, but I get nervous about rousing some kind of terf-infested hive.

favored ships: aerti

Red XIII / Nanaki

He is a teenager and a catwolf. Let's not do this, people.

Cait Sith

A robot or an animated plushie, depending on how deep into the not-canon TCG you're invested.

Reeve

cis gay

In no universe is this man straight. Also, he's a furry. He may not wear a fursuit, and he may not be into the yiff side of things, but Cait Sith is absolutely his fursona.

favored ships: rufus/reeve, cid/vin/reeve

Yuffie

cis or trans and questioning

I like to keep it above the belt with Yuffie. She's a fun loving teenager and that is enough. Thinking about shipping her with any of the other main cast after they've known her at a vulnerable and impressionable age makes me very queasy.

Vincent

(they/them) nonbinary or cis biromantic gray-ace/demisexual

He likes women, he likes men. He's old, so unless he ends up dating someone nonbinary or trans, he doesn't know what that's about, but he adjusts fairly quickly if tactlessly.

For him, the romance side of things is the important part. His libido is inconsistent and almost nonexistent, but he'll happily take care of his partners even when he's not in the mood.

When I write eldritch!Vincent, they/them is singular *and* plural because he and Chaos have become one entity, so... technically nonbinary?

favored ships: VALENWIND! and Valenwind poly ot3s with like, literally anyone else who wouldn’t make it into underage, noncon, inhuman, or incestuous

Cid

trans or cis bisexual

Just a classic old dude who likes everybody. Probably has a preference for masculine people--and no qualms whatsoever about dating trans or nb or anything in between.

I like to write him as trans sometimes because no one would ever expect it. Miss him with exposition education and naked reveals--whether he's trans or cis, he's himself and that's that.

favored ships: Valenwind! and Valenwind ot3s. But man, I could ship him with just about anyone.