#harharlarious

[finalhxaven]

@harharlarious @fcragil​ asked: 🍋 : what kind of diet does my muse have? do they eat regularly, or the standard 2-3 meals a day? do they have to be reminded to eat, or are they likely to remind others? do they cook, or have others cook for them? do they eat healthily, or not so much?

Tifa might be a bartender, what she puts real effort in has to be her cooking. That’s because working out and having actual results requires both a serious training regimen as well as an intense food regimen. Certain nutritional necessities come from being a martial artist with a solid uppercut, but it also is a matter of cooking for others too. Tifa is Marlene’s temporary guardian, so she takes breakfast, lunch, and dinner serious for herself as well as the little girl. She wants Marlene to always have the dietary needs for a growing girl. This means vitamin c, probiotics, protein, antioxidants. 

While living in Midgar, the martial artist gets up early to start breakfast with Marlene generally following behind. The little girl learns a lot about cooking. And if Marlene is eating breakfast, that means Barret is downstairs trying to feed her so long as a mission didn’t keep him the night before. Wedge comes in the second butter starts sizzling in the pan, and Jessie will catch Barret as he’s coming through the sector. Biggs follows only because he know everyone else is there, so might as well make a portion for him too. Breakfast always ends up being a feast of eggs, toast, bacon, sausage, and whatever else Tifa manages to scrounge up from the fridge. Ham in the eggs, whites only, for her. Marlene gets cheese in her eggs, maybe some onion and carrots if Tifa can finely chop them and sneak them in while the little girl isn’t looking. Everyone else gets a big heaping of whatever she’ll throw in. There’s always vegetables though, that’s a promise!

Lunch is a salad, a sandwich. Maybe soup. 

Dinner is something heavy before the evening rush. She makes extra on purpose so Marlene can serve it to customers as a free sample. But since then, people have been coming in at that time on purpose, so now she just cooks what’s on the menu for the bar. It just so happens it’s always a nice protein, vegetable, or fruit smoothie on the side. 

Tifa likes to bring out the natural flavor of her cooking. Even if it can be difficult to procure certain market items, she tries to make it well balanced. She cuts the fat out of the meat save for small bits to add flavoring. Light use of butter and salt. She loves aromatic herbs like basil, oregano, parsley. Garlic is a great ingredient with a lot of flavors, but it can be hard to come by. There’s nowhere she can go to pick it herself, and gil inflation of the market uptop makes it impossible. It’s only when the gang leaves Midgar that she’s able to explore more with her culinary skills. AC has her using all kinds of crops, and by that point she has a great trade relationship with people in Kalm and Junon to make whatever she wants!

[finalhxaven]

( /squishes ur face/ olive, my darling, my dear, my friendo ily. ur portrayal of teef is so good. and i know we been writing together forever, since my old aeri blog, and girl u have come so far. ur development has been so good. u've captured the essence of tifa, she's strong, she's soft, she so beautiful and u, u have brought that out in ur writing. i love ur portrayal of teef, ur have done our girl justice and ily for it. i'm so happy we're friends and partners

beep beep how’s my portrayal ?

You will forever the one I look up to as a writer. So to hear this coming from you gives me soft feelings inside. To think that anyone on this site would even remember me makes me eternally grateful in general, to think they would still like me is another thing entirely.

Thank you so much this made me teary eyed.