>>713550178

There is a 5 year age difference and Cloud spent most of 2 years inside a tube after the Nibelheim thing leading up to the main game, so he's basically still a 19 year old mentally.

Image related is when it got really dangerous.

>>712801502

Nomura and Nojima ruining VII, their golden goose, did not help. Not to mention the quality of the series went extremely downhill after XII.