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bolina · 3 days
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FINAL FANTASY VII: REBIRTH (2024) dev. Square Enix
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solidsmax · 12 hours
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Sephiroth and Cloud Strife FINAL FANTASY VII REBIRTH (2024)
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holly-fixation · 20 hours
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So every time Cloud goes all puppet-y in Rebirth, his eyes dilate immediately. It doesn't last forever but the initial command triggers it.
We see Sephiroth's eyes dilate twice in the Nibelhiem flashback: once in Shinra Manor, the other just before he destroys the Jenova doll.
Just food for though.
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itisnotaphasemom · 3 days
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I might not be able to put this the right way, and maybe others have said this already,
but to me, the main thing about Cloud and Aerith is the way he tries to grow for her and because of her.
In a way, they could be quite similar. Both are incredibly lonely, and they share similar trauma. Both have lost their mothers in tragic, malicious ways. Both are confused about their identity and past. Cloud learns how much just he has forgotten and that something is very wrong with him, just like Aerith keeps finding out how little she actually knows about her ancestry or the circumstances of her mother's death.
Cloud and Aerith both realize this and are able to sympathize with one another. Aerith is incredibly patient with Cloud and him trying to uphold the walls he built around himself at all times.
I think Cloud knows there is a fundamental difference about them, though. And, that is that despite everything that has happened while Cloud has been putting up walls and has become hardened, Aerith has not. While Cloud looks to the past, is angered, shut off, and distant, Aerith has gone the opposite route. She remained soft and hopeful. It's not to say she isn't sad or lonely or angry, which she is, but she isn't faulting the world for this. She wants things to get better, instead of wanting revenge.
Generally, I think there are relationships that make you look to the past or to the future and I don't think there's right or wrong in that if it isn't too extreme.
But I think Aerith makes Cloud look into the future. I think he's always been either checked out about looking either way, or obsessed with the past, about what happened and how to mend it.
Aerith makes him believe in a future because she has been through similar things and she has come out on the other side hopeful. Because she is still good to people and because she still loves, she still cares. And I think this makes Cloud want to grow, too.
And he's showing this in some of Aerith's darkest moments. When she acknowledges her dark thoughts on the beach, he reacts with understanding, and he helps her going forward, supporting her when he can (even without the obligatory merc fee). He encourages her to speak out about her past at the lantern festival. I think as someone being taken in by a stranger as a child, essentially putting her guardian's life at risk and bringing heavy baggage along, she learned to have to be pleasant at all times to be loved. Through Cloud, she learns that this other side of her, the one that is struggling with embracing her difficult past and path forward, is also worthy of love and protection. She says to him on the beach, she is sure, he will love future Aerith, the one she is growing into right at that moment - she, too, is changing because of him.
These moments show he really wants to be there for her the same way she is there for him. He wants to make her happy and support her. He wants to protect her while she protects the world. He feels responsible for her, and it's a role he wants to grow into, and he does.
In a way, Clouds world just gets a lot bigger while Aerith is in it. When she is there, he actually laughs, he smiles like he does with no one else, and finally, he even cries holding her in his arms, when he was on the cusp of being turned into an emotionless weapon just moments before.
This, in turn, makes Aerith open up to him in a way she doesn't do with the others, too. They both see a side of the other person nobody else gets to see.
I think this is amplified in the ending when Cloud is literally the only person who knows what happened to her, that witnessed her death and who's able to see her afterward.
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felrend · 2 days
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Breaking Cloud is a sport
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onewingedangels · 2 months
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FINAL FANTASY VII REBIRTH (2024) dev. Square Enix
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feriowind · 27 days
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when this happened in rebirth i was so surprised.... somehow i never got spoiled about cloud being influenced by sephiroth like this in my 20+ years online lol
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cloudstriifes · 1 month
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three men and their cat ride the ferris wheel and everyone has a terrible time (except the cat)
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aeirithgainsborough · 2 months
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Cloud Strife & Aerith Gainsborough FINAL FANTASY VII REMAKE (2020) ➙ FINAL FANTASY VII REBIRTH (2024) dev. Square Enix
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priceofreedom · 3 months
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lovebirds... (✿◠‿◠)
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archonfurina-archive · 2 months
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gomacave · 9 days
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totally normal thing to say
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holly-fixation · 1 month
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The group every time Cloud has one of his "blood thirsty/homecoming" episodes:
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lvckheart · 2 months
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MENTALLY I'M HERE
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felrend · 2 days
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I loved this part of the game, getting to play as either Aerith or Tifa was a treat!
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onewingedangels · 2 months
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FINAL FANTASY VII REBIRTH (2024) dev. Square Enix
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