>>717649097In the original is her Martial Arts teacher Zagan. Its implied she travels the world with him doing humanitarian missions etc until meeting up with Avalanche and opening the bar.
>>717649546I always looked at it as platonic with some fucking on the side. To be honest I don't think Cloud lived much longer after the end of the OG game. He is now the strongest person on the planet, and he's Jenovatized.
The few options are:
He turns into a big bad goes crazy.
He crystalizes himself like the original Cetra(maybe named Jenova) after defeating the calamity from the skies.
Kills himself.
Unjenova's himself, going back to a weak human.
I think the crystalization is the only true option though. Jenova is functionally a parasitic life stream from another planet. Once an organism infected by it dies, the returing alt life stream energy parasitizes the planets life stream and feeds those powers back to the physical entities still alive. I bet if all the living pieces die it can be born.
So thats why Jenova is found still alive, encased in rock. Thats why holy that Sephiroth is guarding looks like the stuff around Jenova. Thats why Holy is the special materia that does "nothing," its inert and has no power to steal.
So yea, Cloud is fucked. Tifa is a good friend whos along for the ride and they're kinda playing pretend couple and fucking maybe, cause Cloud is going to bite the dust.