>Only knows Cloud for 2 weeks canonically before she dies
>Somehow I am supposed to believe Cloud was legitimately both in love with and heart-broken over some chick he knew for only days

Why didn't Nomura just write that there were months-long timeskips during the story to at least make Cloud's feelings for Aerith and pain over her death believable?

>>713683339 (OP)
Because the timeline surrounding VII is autistic about the number seven, so there wasn't more space for the game's events.

It's because Cloud's memories and therefore feelings are intermingled with Zack's due to Hojo marinading them in lifestream together and the whole PTSD psychotic break that followed. Cloud reminds Aerith of Zack in a general sense, but Cloud's feelings towards her aren't his own.

>>713683339 (OP)
You can fall in love in 2 weeks.

>>713683872
>Memory Transfer Theory
Retard

I think open world games have this unspoken implication that the world is not merely what's presented in the game world.
Basically the equivalent of "how come I never see my character take a shit" because it happens in the implied off screen time lapses.
A good example of a game acknowledging this is Xenoblade 3, which canonically takes place over 3-ish months because the progression of time is plot relevant. In most cases this is inconsequential and presents only minor plot holes at best. Yes, it's possible for 2 young people to fall in love in 2 weeks, especially when they're bound together in a life or death mission.

>>713683339 (OP)
BECCAUSE IT WAS ZAACKS MEMORIES INSIDE OF CLOUD, VIA JENOVA CCELL BULLSHIT HOJO EXPERIMENT CONVINCING HIM THAAT HE GAAVE A FUCK ABOUT THAT RED DRESSED HOE WHEN HE AACTUAALLY DIDNT GIVE A FUK!!!! AHHHHHHH!!!!!
>erhm, source?
READ A FUCKING BOOOOOK!!!!!

>>713684001
>never used a sword in his life
>gets brainpickled in the brine that shares memories that the whole setting and equipment system is based on
>can use the buster sword 80% similarly to the guy he was brainpickled with

>>713683339 (OP)
You had to be there.

>>713683339 (OP)
Cloud has always been individually infatuated with Aerith because she's both energetic and mysterious. Tifa is just boring as shit. I wish Aerith had bigger tits but seriously tits are not a replacement for a personality. And Tifa has LESS character than Yuffie who originally was an optional character.

Tifa's entire reason to exist is be Cloud's consolation prize because she already automatically loves Cloud even though she and Cloud are not even close friends. She's boring trash.

>>713684264
>I wish Aerith had bigger tits
Just go with OG and you'll have that too.

>>713683339 (OP)
What's wrong with loving a girl in two weeks?

>>713684172
Kill yourself.

>>713684420
You know you're right saw the artwork now and they made her smaller chested in the remake. Square Enix really lost it.

>>713684460
consneed accepted

>>713684739
>hurr durr Zcuck memeries
>game literally goes inside Cloud's mind
>only his own memories exist
You lost.

>>713683339 (OP)
Feelings aren't based on time

>>713684172
Damn. You give him a nerve.

>>713683339 (OP)
cloud is in love with barrett

>>713683339 (OP)
Ask me how i know you've never been with a pretty girl for a few days

>>713684172
precisely, some book they never really read through.

>>713683339 (OP)
Doesn't Tifa also not know Cloud too well when you consider they weren't really ever friends as children?

>>713683339 (OP)
What's all this faggot shit about needing years or whatever. You really don't need more than two weeks to fall in someone that you jive that well with, especially in life and death circumstances and spending most of that two weeks together. You don't even remotely need that much to fall in love.

>>713685324
Correct. Tifa and Cloud aren't friends. In reality Cloud and Tifa are strangers who are inexplicably forced together mostly due to awful writing. The whole notion that Tifa stayed obsessed and a loyal virgin to Cloud despite she and him not being not even friends is pure harem waifu bullshit otaku loser bait writing.

Realistically speaking Tifa would have long since found herself a steady boyfriend and never given Cloud a second thought especially since she's not ugly so she having another dick in her youthful prime would have been a thing. And no not talking about Johnny.

>>713683339 (OP)
I fall in love in 1 day and you want to pretend 2 weeks isnt enough

>>713685743
Tifa and Cloud weren't close friends as kids, but they were close enough for the watertower scene. She wouldn't have asked him to come save her if she's in trouble if she was completely impartial to him. And then when she found him in Midgar, what she found was the last surviving childhood contact from her incinerated hometown. I think people overlook the effect that would have. Then she realized something was really wrong with him and got concerned, finding excuses to take care of or at least keep an eye on him.

>>713683339 (OP)
I fell in love with her at first sight. Two weeks seems plenty of time, especially when they went through life and death situations daily together.

>>713683339 (OP)
Cloud thought he was Zack, besides he also had to deal with his mom's death and his identity issues.

>>713687445
>Cloud thought he was Zack
Still no

>>713685820
cuck

>>713683339 (OP)
>>Only knows Cloud for 2 weeks
And ghey went through more together than most people in 2 years

>>713683339 (OP)
> In such a short time she melts Cloud's heart and locks Tifa into a chastity belt, denying her wet rival the cock she craves. Aerith does this while being a based hero.

>>713690875
>put chastity belt on tifa
>die like a bitch
>never got the chance to tell anyone where the key is
>???

This happens a lot in media, be it movies or games. Characters know each other for only a very short time but they fall in love anyway. Terminator is a good example of this. Reese and Sarah Connor knew each other for only a day or two but they fell in love all the same and banged