it makes me lowkey sad when people start questioning about how cloud is undeserving of tifa's love and affection. cloud has been in love with tifa since he was a child, he tried to save her at mt. nibel when he was 9 years old, the other boys were too scared and abandoned tifa but not him. he made the big decision at 14 years old to leave his hometown to join soldier. again, not like the other boys, to go find work in midgar but to become a soldier, a 'special existence' to tifa: you just don't join the military to impress a girl if you are unsure about your feelings, he was starting to fall in love with her. at 16 years old he hides away from tifa in nibelheim because he is too embarrassed to show himself as a grunt. things become a little bit complicated when he has lost his identity at 21 years old but 'when he talks to tifa, his true self briefly emerges'. he may not realize at first what kind of feelings he has for tifa until the lifestream sequence but rebirth and remake showed that soldier cloud and real cloud collide when he goes out of his way to comfort, hug and even kiss her.

did somebody do tifa and cloud in tomodachi yet