#tkaa

1. The Original Game (OG)

Northern Crater: Tifa’s trust is the emotional anchor of Cloud’s identity. When her faith wavers, Cloud collapses and even then, he wishes for her to meet the real him.

Mideel: Tifa chooses to stay with a comatose Cloud, believing in their shared memories above all else.

Lifestream Sequence: Their true feelings are revealed. Tifa is the core of Cloud’s hero’s journey and the key to restoring him.

Under the Highwind: Cloud and Tifa openly share, express, and affirm their mutual feelings and desire for each other.

2. The Novels

TOTPs: A young Tifa dreams of spending her life with Cloud as early as age 12.

2K Gil to Become a Hero: Cloud’s motivation to be someone special comes from wanting to be worthy of Tifa.

Case of Tifa: Cloud says he wants to start a new life with her. Their relationship is tested by Cloud’s guilt and geostigma, but they still remain together.

Case of Barret: Barret and Cid speak of Cloud and Tifa in the context of a married couple, because that’s how they see them.

TKAA: After AC, Cloud openly declares to Kyrie, Evan, and Vits that he, Tifa, Marlene, and Denzel are a family.

3. The Ultimanias

Multiple entries describe Tifa as: the mother of the family Cloud is forming in Edge, Cloud’s “koibito,” emotional partner, and trusted ally, the most important woman in Cloud’s life, the only person he opens his heart to.

They also frame both the Lifestream sequence and the Highwind scene as romantic.

4. Advent Children Complete (ACC)

The movie centers on Cloud’s internal crisis within his home and family- Tifa, Marlene, and Denzel, while other party members only appear briefly. The conflict ends with Cloud choosing to return to his family, his true Promised Land.

5. Reminiscence

Cloud is shown living his normal life, running his delivery business, and planning to spend time with his family- Tifa, Marlene, and Denzel, with help from their friends.

6. Consistent Narrative

The Compilation repeatedly states that Cloud and Tifa talk, communicate, and resolve their feelings, which is how they ended up living together in AC and DoC.

7. Rebirth

Cloud and Tifa are the only pair with an almost-kiss and an actual kiss. Cloud directly affirms Tifa’s feelings with “Not one bit” in EN and “Hold on tight” in JP.

So no, Cloud and Tifa were never just friends. 😄

also that i wanna ask p2 what they thought of top gun maverick

Daeluin! I'm so sorry this took me so long to get to, life got buuuuussyyyyy. I'm going to preface this by saying I have not seen top gun maverick but I have been enjoying your various reblogs of it! And I neeeeeed to watch it now.

Yea YEA the top gun p2 stuff is so crazy from so many angles and it is one of their top p2....things.....imo.

First off we knoooow connecting via 80s movie quotes is one of their love languages and the fact they pick top gun which famously blurs the lines of platonic and romantic love (at least as much as one could with a movie on the 80s). Then the sheer prevalence of making top gun references starting late ioh and all through folie. From Patrick playing the theme song on stage while they killed time and Pete quoting the "carnal knowledge of a woman" scene which is, SCREAM, very gay!

And then THEN for Patrick to quote THAT line at Pete's wedding is honestly completely insane, especially when they both thought they were sacrificing themselves for the other....Patrick feeling like he was losing Pete and needed to let him go versus Pete feeling like he had to marry Ashlee given, well the circumstances. It's really like omg you can't make shit this fatalist and poetic up, they were just fucking doing it! Not to mention the similarities to Romeo and Juliet and *gestures wildly* everything with that.

AND the kids aren't alright the cherry on top of the whole thing. The way ab/ap is clearly THEE reflection on the hiatus album and Pete basically said so himself in interviews . He could have left things more ambiguous and open to interpretation but using the "stuck in the jet wash" line postH when they were constantly saying "ice fire or clear" to each other preH is crazy. PreH it was very, fire or clear, what are you going to do, make a decision, hurry there isn't time, we're going to die if you don't decide. Fire or clear, you can only choose one, choose wisely. And then using stuck in the jet wash in postH, saying, yea I really lost you during that time, I made the wrong move and I thought I'd lost you forever. When you look at the p2 timeline framed within the plot and implications of their use of those key phrases it's truly wow and speaks SO clearly to their emotions. Using 'stuck in the jet wash' is the definitive clear through line linking ab/ap to folie and the hiatus and everything p2 went through together, the smoking gun.

1) helping literal terrorists go do more terrorism bc at least they're not his sex trafficking mob boss

2) just looking for his fiancee/girlfriend (he says girlfriend in TKAA:ATSS but says fiancee in remake continuity so...)

3) going to eventually becomes friends/coworkers with kyrie canaan. the future angel of the slums kyrie canaan.

4) voiced by mark whitten. i just like him, really.

I never comment on fics but when I do it's always bangers