#ff7 fandom crit
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heavenlyascent · 3 months ago
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what bothers me about fandom is that so often, it treats Tifa as Cloud's second choice. Not his friend, not the person who pieced his mind together, not a part of his family
no, she's his rebound, the couch he sleeps on when he has no where else to go, the next best thing
and this isn't just about Aerith (who quite frankly would be so pissed at Cloud if he treated Tifa like that), I've seen it with so many other ships, be it Zack or even fucking Sephiroth??
Tifa in canon is Cloud's center point, his home, the place he always returns to and I don't mean this in a singular romance sense, I mean this as an importance and yet every time when Tifa is not the main ship, Cloud just uses her as emotional labor until the person he """belongs""" with comes along and then what? Tifa just swallows her tears, nods, and tells him to go on
all it proves is that for all this fandoms goin 'oooooooo girl boss we love you queen' about Tifa, they still treat her like a wet rag for Cloud to use and toss at his emotional convenience
I almost prefer when the fandom was openly sexist, at least it was honest
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