#fvii cloud

[worst-ship-showdown]

[ookikufurikabutte]

cloud, you have to get better..

[richie707]

Puppy sketches ✨️ 💕

[samuayu]

Cw// TW blood

That's actually how my valentine was, not complaining.

[frannartestudio]

Cloud Strife - FFVII 🗡️🏍☄️🩵

Nostalgia series, dedicated to my favorite anime/games of 90/2000 💖 --> swipe for sketch and process FFVII was my first JRPG and it's my favorite from the saga, so many memories 🥹🩵 I was in love with Cloud _(:3 」∠)_ What's your favorite final fantasy game?✨️ (If you ever played them)~

[mmhue]

[silvergreenseraphim]

“Fill your hollow heart with rage…and with that rage, burn the sadness away. Become the man I was that day…”

—Sephiroth to Cloud, FFVII Rebirth Chapter 13, Japanese Translation.

[shr0uds]

[plentyblush]

Smiling Friends reference

(Fun fact, I ended up befriending Roche's VA on Bluesky before making this, and they really loved it)

[hopetatic]

"I must've seen him in you."

[arkwngel]

king and queen 🤴🏼👸🏼

[the-second-sanctuary]

Dog

[hyoukanee]

Happy kiss day to them only!

[cephei-ea]

Cloud Strife - Interlinked

Genre: angst, drabble

Disclaimers: ib yt interlinked, symphocat, long whale song ;(

Synopsis: to be interlinked

A/N: I wrote this with a person in mind, so my apologies if it doesn’t make sense or suit Cloud.

I feel this will make more sense to those who have experienced the loss of someone they thought was their person.

What is it like to hold the hand of someone you love?

Interlinked

Your own fingers interlinked as he stared blankly at the food you made him.

Interlinked

Your legs interlinked as you lay on his chest, feeling his heart beating beneath your own.

Interlinked

Your minds had become one— a direct result of the amount of time you’d spent with each other.

Interlinked

When did he change?

When did he stop seeing you when he looked at you?

You’d watched as his gaze slowly morphed overtime. When Cloud began looking through you, instead of at you.

Interlinked

Do you long for having your heart interlinked?

Interlinked

When? When when when had you become so desperately attached? When had the love you felt looking at him become tension? Searing pain blistering at your chest, walking on the sharpest of needles while in his presence?

Interlinked

In the most intimate, skin to skin moments, when he whispered against your skin that there was something about you. That there was something between you that was different.

That no one could ever recreate what you’d built together.

Interlinked

How did you feel when he opened his heart to you and in the moment that your hearts

Interlinked?

What ran through your mind when one day, his kisses became scant. The next, his eyes stopped meeting yours and the time you spent with him became but a weekly occurrence.

Cloud had changed.

It was clear how his skin became a cold touch against yours, it was obvious how it pained him to even hear your voice.

Cloud had changed. His eyes dimmed in vibrance, his hair rarely indulged in his care, his lips dried and his routine consisted of work, fighting and little to nothing more.

Cloud had changed.

He no longer loved you.

INTERLINKED

Did they teach you how to feel, finger to finger?

Interlinked

Despite how he hoped it would, despite how he screamed and yelled and fought and rampaged, not even time could not erase what once was. Time could not erase the tattooed feeling of your fingers pressing against his fingertips.

Interlinked

Cloud tried, hands pressed finger to finger against each other and digging into his forehead, to forget you.

Interlinked

Cloud did everything in his power to act like you never existed, to hate you, to do anything to move on.

Cloud would have done anything to forget you. Still, despite all of his efforts, he found himself weak in the face of your existence.

Cloud was incapable of forgetting you.

Interlinked

What he did not know, was that the feeling of your fingertips against his would never, ever fade. Regardless of the time or method he used to fix himself.

Interlinked

Do you long to have your heart interlinked?

Interlinked

“We’re interlinked…” a giggle, a heart beat, a breath, a touch, a kiss. Cloud eternally longed to be interlinked with you once more. If only once more.

Cloud hadn’t changed.

Interlinked

His hair was still jagged and soft, his hands were still calloused and lithe, his eyes were still the same hue of blue and adorned with long lashes, his voice was still gravely and deep, his body was still the same shape, though a bit bulkier.

And when he looked at you, the look in his irises was the same. Cloud hadn’t changed, he still loved you.

Interlinked

The moment that Cloud saw you, it was as though a ribbon was tied around the muscle in his chest.

Interlinked

When he met your eyes for the first time in over a year, the tie pulled ever tighter with each passing second.

Interlinked

Cloud swore to all above that the planet had stopped spinning, if only for a few moments.

Interlinked

Cloud felt his heart wrench and his gut twist when he saw you again, all the air in his lungs seemed to claw its way out of his chest, inevitably escaping him. He felt every drop of sweat like a tsunami, every memory like torture, every recollection and every sprout of a tear being ripped from the tight shackles he’d hoisted down on himself after you left.

Interlinked

When Cloud saw you again, he was forced to relive the moment you were ripped away from him.

Interlinked

Do you feel that there’s a part of you that’s missing?

Interlinked

The hole created by Cloud in your stomach the day that you separated grew larger with every second that you stared into his eyes.

The pain returned with a vengeance, as though the wound had been inflicted yesterday.

Interlinked

Do you recall the feeling of meeting the eye of the person you love again?

Interlinked

When his bright blue eyes, deeper than any ocean could ever hope to be, became the center of your eyesight again, everything and everyone around you ceased to exist.

“We’re interlinked…”

His voice had been deep, muffled against your chest as his warm lips kissed past your sternum and down your bellybutton.

Interlinked

There wasn’t a day that you didn’t think of Cloud. There wasn’t a single hour of any day for the past year and a half that you were not tortured by the memories you made together.

Interlinked

“I will do anything-“ a husk of a memory. It was the first and last time you had heard Cloud beg. Beg you to stay. Beg you to forgive him. Beg you to rethink leaving him. Beg you not to walk away from him. “You can’t. You can’t do this.”

Interlinked

Tears stabbed at your eyes, the memories of your time with Cloud, and the months of agony you’d gone through before and after your separation were all enough to wrench your stomach like a vice and urge bile to rise in your throat.

Interlinked

You swore to every living being, to every god, to every rose, to every diety and every star that graced your vision that you would never allow another person to become your missing puzzle piece. Because the dry heaving, head spinning experience you had when you left to empty your stomach a moment after seeing cloud again, and then turned to see him breathing heavily behind you and desperation splitting his face gave you the visceral urge to curl into a ball.

You’d never truly wanted to die before.

You didn’t know what it was like to relive your world cracking and shattering to pieces, every fragment of your soul being spread far and thin until picking up the pieces became all but a feeble wish.

Interlinked

Your emotions had been run so raw by the mercenary in front of you that laying eyes on him, the missing piece of your soul, after a year and a half, was another trauma in and of itself.

Interlinked

Love could not,

never had been, nor ever would be

A word strong enough to depict the magnitude of the torrent of emotions that Clouds existence gave you.

You cursed him for it

Interlinked

“DO YOU FEEL THERE IS A PART OF YOU THATS MISSING?”

He was silent because he knew he didn’t need to say anything for millions of words to fill the air between you.

Interlinked

When you touched again, another rise of bile threatened you; you pushed it down.

Still, not a word managed to leave him.

Interlinked

You couldn’t recall a single moment when you and Cloud hadn’t been interlinked. There hadn’t been one moment when your minds were not one or when your bodies were not in sync.

Interlinked

You were interlinked when you were in love, you were interlinked before you separated and you were interlinked during your separation.

Interlinked

And you were interlinked then again, in the moment that your arms snaked around his neck and his around your waist, your arms a bond taut and unbreakable. Whether from the trembling strength of his arms pressured around you or the painful depth of your shared emotions in the moment, Cloud had managed to steal your breath once again.

Interlinked

Do you feel

there’s a part of you

that’s missing?

___

Hope you enjoyed, this was self indulgent

[samuayu]

They be fighting over the blonde

[goatman-againstgod]

some pictures of Cloud I've taken so far that I just really like<3 (i have more of everyone else, lmk if y'all want me to post those too<3)