#even his dynamic with tifa exists to totally upend traditional gender roles. thats their entire arc together

[aerifth]

shocking how few people seem to dive into a more full queer reading of cloud and ff7 in general beyond sexuality, i don't know how you look at him and how he interacts with the other characters and only see something gay with nothing complicating his relationship to gender. im sure theyre out there but the algorithms that be really want me to see everything that bothers me all the time