I think a lot of it boils down to how Tifa is kind of perfect Japanese wish fulfillment in character form, because of the previous assets I mentioned plus being more or less completely submissive and deferential to Cloud.
That’s the current cope now because the Redpill Subculture got popular, but the funny thing is Aerith is more popular in Japan than the West and in some big national polls moreso than Tifa. At the very least it’s often quite close.
My experience is that most people in fandoms go for the "easy mode" of the obvious stuff to pretend they have "media literacy," yeah. And then when somebody points out there's other events to consider that actually do have depth but are not spelled out explicitly, they suddenly don't care about it.
Aeris is also a certified hoe, whereas Tifa is kinda not.
Masamune being an ancient relic of immense power is an invention of the Compilation. It had no backstory until Ever Crisis gave it one.
Except it did all happen, exactly as he said it did except for who the SOLDIER was on the mission. So that brings up the question of "how the fuck does he know all this" and bringing it up isn't the easiest thing because he shows signs of glossing over and mental instability when the subject gets broached about what he was doing since he left the village.
if tifa aint a hoe why she fuckin in front the italian senate
That was AI slander meant to discredit AVALANCHE.
Because that's what you do in the Italian senate. You do roll call, take your seats, have a sex scandal, and then get onto the business of the day. It's part of the bylaws.
But it only does anything significant or iconic in the OG. This series has backstory out the ass. It doesn’t mean anything compelling happens, which is again what we’re talking about. The only time the impetus for cool stuff isn’t merely a Shinra Side Project is the OG.
None of this is in the OG. In the OG she only says she was worried “what might happen” if she does and Cloud doesn’t have an obvious meltdown until the Temple. And someone seeming unstable is still a bad reason to sit on it. A character not acting on what they know is really hard to overcome. And he was talking about how people saw her as spunky and proactive based purely on design.
Literally the cope we were mocking tbh. The free market disagrees with this if skanks can dress like her to pay their rent all year. It turns out waiting 5 years to date again is less hoe-coded than how you dress. Who knew, besides everyone.
Well they're pretty much the one main couple in the series to have no will-they-or-won't-they aspect to their relationship, they basically act like an old married couple right from the get go. They're even sleeping together before the game even starts.
Cecil is a fucking CHAD
No, it is there in the OG, but the translation mangles it a bit. After waking up in Junon she talks about Cloud drifitng away whenever pressed on the stuff he shouldn't know but does and didn't know but should. And that Cloud's recollection was correct except for the SOLDIER is born out by seeing it in Crisis Core and the fact that well Cloud was actually there. And now Ever Crisis has shown us Cloud actively blanking out things even in their first meeting in the trainyard.
Yep, she fought the final boss while pregnant before the retcon.
Give Rosa her due as well. Woman is going to shoot a dead man in the face on the moon morning sickness be damned.
I’ll stick with Cecil + Rydia.
No shade on Rydia at all, but why ship her with the married man and not the one who's actually into her?I’ll stick with Cecil + Rydia.
View attachment 7765512
"Your Honor, time works differently in the Feymarch”
The plot, as in what propels these events. of Dirge and Before Crisis is Shinra shenanigans. A last minute monster is not the plot.
I’m skeptical of “in the original German” arguments (Japanese in this case) because people really do just lie or repeat from secondhand, but Tifa says enough of this in English for me to accept it.
I've seen a fair amount of Cecil/Rydia shipping, and I think it's cause some of how Rydia acts can come off like she has a puppy crush for Cecil from when she was a kid that's still leftover after she comes back as an adult, but she doesn't act on it because Rosa exists.