#ruclo

[thecloudstan]

No matter how many times I go back to the Gold Saucer fight, I CAN'T STOP LAUGHING HIS DRAMA QUEEN ASS! 🤣 He calls Dio during Rude and Elena's fight, told the Turks NOTHING about his plans to enter the ring, made the most FLASHY entrance in the entire game, and proceeds to blatantly flirt with Cloud IN FRONT OF EVERYINE'S POPCORN. I want to thank the FFVII development staff so much for giving us these glorious President Rufus Shinra scenes/lines.

He was really playing in everybody's face with it, the man clearly lives for a fucking audience...it's insane.

Actual pyrotechnics and a spirited introduction 😂 his need for that one-on-one was keeping the man up at night or SOMETHING.

#stanswers #Anonymous #and I don't blame him #keeps me up some nights too #LOL #ff7 #ff7r #ff7 rebirth #ff7 rebirth spoilers #ff7r spoilers #final fantasy 7 rebirth #final fantasy 7 rebirth spoilers #final fantasy vii rebirth spoilers #rufus shinra #cloud strife #ruclo #strifra #rukura

[thelovelesswanderer]

just came here to say i'm an ungodly amount of excited to see my boy (rufus) again

#im almost there im almost at a part to see him again #my ruclo fic ive been working on since 2021 starts with them meeting in junon #so like i swear if there's any rufus flirting in junon in gonna LOSE my whole mind #or any parallels i accidentally predicted early. time will tell

[444namesplus]

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[nimbostrxtus]

I can’t believe the entire internet is in agreement that the Rufus vs Cloud fight was the most sexually charged fight in the game and yet there is barely any fanart of them. How have they not skyrocketed to the top 10 FFVII ships with dailogue like this?

Cloud: Let's get this over with.

Rufus: Don't say that.

Cloud: Think you got my number?

Rufus: Not at all. You're making me sweat. Good thing I came prepared.

Cloud: That's a new trick.

Rufus: Like it? 'Course you do.

I need my RuClo fix damnit!

#every conversation between these two is an inuendo #it's actually funny how both of them are clearly into it #like guys. get a room

[turkspinupzine]

Welcome to MG Glass, one of our Artists!

[Image Identification: One image and blurb depicting on of our artists, MG. Their twitters are here and here, and their patreon is here.

The Bio reads:

Proud Shinra Fucker, MG finds their joy in championing the RuClo rarepair. Of all the Turks, Vincent’s pride and ultimate tragedy fascinates them.]

#ff7 #ff7 zine #zines #spotlight #artist

[leftiesrevenge]

More $10 portraits!!! These are both for #bloodofdaedra. First, her OC/Persona, the tough and tomboyish Kerrigan. And then her Monster Hunter Gijinka, Ruclo the Stygian Zinogre.

More are soon to be on the way!

#$10 commissions #bloodofdaedra #kerrigan #ruclo #character portrait #portrait commissions

[thecloudstan]

Just sitting here at work marveling over the fact that, on just their second meeting, Rufus propositions Cloud.

I’m sure from his perspective that went in his head something like ‘he’s obviously formidable, let’s get him to go search and destroy this wayward Shinra asset,’ meanwhile that asset is Sephiroth. It’s just a business deal! Right?! Right????? Of course he thinks this way. I’m tickled.

“Cloud, I own you. Cloud, you’re making me sweat. Cloud, I read your file. Cloud, you’re so fascinating and clever. Cloud, do my crimes for me.”

He’s kind of obsessed with that lil blond binch and I don’t blame him. Goes so lovely with Cloud’s propensity in Advent Children to use ‘needing to meet with Rufus’ as an avoidance mechanism.

#ruclo #strifra #Rufus Shinra #cloud strife #FF7R #ff7r spoilers #ff7 rebirth spoilers #rebirth spoilers #aren’t they cute #I love them sm

[thecloudstan]

No one brought this up yet, so we GOTTA talk about how the staff is emphasizing the bond between Rufus and Darkstar! I thought it was adorable how Rufus called Darkstar "D" (he even does in "Opera Omnia") during the first game, it's so adorable to see D always at Rufus's side. I squealed when I saw Rufus pet D at that one Shinra meeting and growled at Hojo for getting too close. D wanted to jump in from the get-go during the GS fight and jumped in partway to save Rufus. Their bond is lovely. T_T

I am really glad they did this as well. It's another little narrative device that gives a window into Rufus' psyche. And that Gold Saucer battle is such a bitch because of it 😂

I will say I'm a bit sad that the name 'Dark Nation' didn't stick because it's just so EXTRA, but the nickname D is good, regardless. Rufus and his weird desire to subjugate powerful things and then dote on them...

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[thecloudstan]

What did you think of Rufus's Junon parade? I LOVE how Rufus looks so angry and hurt and betrayed when Yuffie's assassination attempt failed to the point he refused to listen to Cloud's explanation that they didn't have anything to do with it. Cloud's expression of frustration and maybe even sad/disappointment (?) was portrayed so well. I love how FFVII staff really went all out with animating their eyes and doing a close-ups on Rufus's face so players can see the emotions churning in them.

Listen!!! Rufus' reaction actually pulled at my heartstrings for a hot second and I was so mad at Yuffie 😂 Of course, it would've been quite the divergence for Cloud to have accepted Rufus' offer, but then we know Rufus would still be conniving about it behind the scenes. And Barret's reaction afterward, about not getting in bed with Shinra, so to speak, is the truth. Of course they can't trust him, and of course their shared trauma is too great to allow for such a thing at this moment in time.

STILL HAD ME SALIVATING, THOUGH.

As far as their emotions...I'm overwhelmed just trying to quantify how their expressions gut me. Every time there's a memory sequence from Aerith's childhood, every time Cloud is subject to the Reunion thrall, every time Marlene cries...that brief period when Sephiroth is still alive/pre-thrall and his loneliness escapes his eyes for just a split second...it's all murder on my heart (in the best way).

And I was hoping for more background on how Red came to be in Hojo's possession, and boy...did I get what I asked for. It was one of the most horrific things in the game for me. Square really just stuck their whole fucking foot into this game in every conceivable way.

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[thecloudstan]

Lol, I think some of Rufus's Japanese lines for the GS fight is probably kinker. I think the English line for "Let's see, shall we?" (said in that super seductive tone...) is "It's time for punishment/discipline" in Japanese? And the "muzzled" line is literally "It's time I put a collar on you"? ASDFGHJKL, my Japanese kinda sucks, but that's essentially what it was. It's so funny, too, because I remember fans saying that the ENG made Rufus's WAAY more hornier than his JPN lines in Remake! XD

I LOVE to hear this, for all the reasons! My Japanese is so-so but I should search videos of the JP dialogue. As if muzzling wasn't enough, collaring is my true weakness 😩

Thanks for sharing!

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[thecloudstan]

but what if this time Cloud is all needy and feisty in bed and leaves a bunch of hickeys on the side of Rufus’ neck and his dress shirt doesn’t quite hide them when he has a meeting the next day, what then

#rucloud #rufus shinra #cloud strife #rukura #ruclo

[thecloudstan]

I'm redoing Rufus's Gold Saucer battle and CACKLING AGAIN OVER HOW HORNY RUFUS IS BEING AND CLOUD'S PLAYING HARD TO GET. Rufus: "Meet Kamui--a new gift to myself." Cloud (sarcastic): "Scary." Rufus: "Oh, PLEASE. Don't PRETEND you're NOT IMPRESSED." Dear Lord, they're doing this shit IN FRONT OF AN AUDIENCE! XD Pro tip: Players, adjust your background music settings for the ENTIRE game, because the default is SO FREAKING LOUD and DROWNS OUT the dialogue. DON'T MISS THESE AWESOME LINE DELIVERIES.

THANK YOU for pointing this out!! There is something a bit odd with the sound mixing, I thought. My husband blamed it on our TV but I made sure to tone the background music down a couple clicks to prioritize the dialogue.

*sweats* I need to watch that fight again...I'm DOZENS of hours away from it in my own playthrough...

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[thecloudstan]

If NSFW scenes are okay, then I'd love to see an art of Rufus and Cloud's car sex scene or the bathroom sex scene at the gala! If you do SFW scenes, maybe an art with them sleeping together in bed or the scene where Rufus and Cloud share a hungry, deep kiss from the end of Ch. 18?

thanks for the asks, anon! I went with a nsfw one so I cannot post in full on tumblr. enjoy the preview and click here for the full on my twitter!

#strifra #ruclo #cloud strife #rufus shinra #rukura #anonymous #stanswers #the art tag #requests #ntyc #next time you call #fic: next time you call #I think I’m gonna start tagging it rucloud #I just hate how silly ruclo sounds ajsbsknsksnsks

[thecloudstan]

What happened to Dark Star? I haven't seen Advent Children for years, so I'm assuming Dark Nation is out of the picture, but is Dark Star in the picture at all for Next Time You Call?

To be honest, my assumption when I began NTYC was that Dark Nation was dead, and so the line from chapter one directly references the fact that Cloud killed him:

He dreams instead of Rufus Shinra...the way he snarls as Cloud cuts down Dark Nation in a single violent swing of his sword. 

I just saw Advent Children again before the release of Rebirth when it was enjoying a limited run in theaters, and Dark Nation was nowhere to be found. I'm assuming his survival (and rebrand as Darkstar), is a dyed-in-the-wool retcon. I'm totally okay with that. Rufus surviving the end of FF7 is the first and most major retcon that I can remember, and I never once was assed about it. He's such a great character, it would've been a shame if he met his end that day on the top floor of Shinra HQ (like his disgusting father...no thanks).

I never thought to include Dark Nation past the events in the original game, so I can't. I don't want Rebirth to change too much of the fic's foundational canon. It will only make it more difficult for me to keep things straight going forward, and I don't want the fic to end up having an obvious pre-and-post Remake series identity crisis. With the exception of utilizing Remake/Rebirth's beautifully expanded maps and locations, and the occasional harmless background tidbit (like learning exactly how/when Cloud left Nibelheim through both Traces of Two Pasts and Rebirth), I'm going to predominately defer to the canon that existed right up until 2016.

This was a great question, and definitely something that stays on my mind now that so much more attention has returned to FF7 in general. I think the thing that will probably affect me and my depiction of Rufus in NTYC going forward is the knowledge of just how strong his connection to his lil beastie was, because of the fact that I wrote it in such a way as to make Cloud directly responsible for killing the man's dog...yikes...

Maybe he'll get Rufus a puppy, someday, who knows? (. ❛ ᴗ ❛.)

#stanswers #rainsonata #NTYC #Next Time You Call #fic: next time you call #rufus shinra #cloud strife #rucloud #strifra #rukura #ruclo

[thecloudstan]

GIVE US SMUT OR GIVE US DEATH, HEICH!!!!!

I'm TRYIN' I swear 😭 Trust me, I want to!! Why aren't there more people interested in, not just Rufus x Cloud, but Cloud with literally any of the Turks? I may be drunk, and I may be horny and incorrigible, but....that's it. Just those two things 😂

Please more Cloud x "unconventional" partners, I beg. Send me your headcanons, I'm in the mood to be devious 😈

#stanswers #Anonymous #rufus shinra #cloud strife #rucloud #strifra #rukura #ruclo

[thecloudstan]

(Prt.1) OMG, I'm glad you bought up AC and Rufus's proposition in Rebirth. I've actually seen folks saying that it didn't make sense to Rufus and Cloud to make a deal, and I was SHOCKED that people thought that because it seemed so obvious to me that 1.) it was an obvious parallel to their scene in AC and 2.) both Rufus and Cloud are REALLY SIMILIAR in personalities. Both are young, charismatic, pragmatic leaders who are willing to do broker deals that mutually benefits them long-term.

I'm going to answer these bit by bit because I love everything you pointed out!

Also, it's odd for people to say this because in the original they really do have goals that are aligned. It's more that Rufus just wants them the fuck out of his way if they get in it. Also, RUFUS LITERALLY PROPOSITIONS CLOUD FULL STOP in the original!!! He says "I guess we won't be friends," meaning he fully was down for a partnership from day one.

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