if barret never hired cloud there's a real possibility that could would've just wandered around midgar until mixing with the wrong crowd and ended up as yet another gay male prostitute at the honeybee inn until a plate or something crashed down and killed him
>>12037943 >>12037967 >they were childhood friends
did you actually play the game? they werent friends at all, cloud just watched tifa play with her friends from his window and seethed, then decided he would go join shinra to prove to all of them how cool he was. eventually it worked I guess because he bangs her underneath the highwind.
>>12037926 (OP) >So if Cloud wasn’t handsome, Tifa would’ve thought he’s some weirdo and just left him there?
Yes.
Women see handsome men/rich men as sex partners or even future husbands. While the ugly men/poor men are seen by women either as free food tickets/free favors tickets or as creeps.
>>12038046 >Cloud never meets Aeris >nobody saves her when she gets kidnapped by Shinra >Hojo is able to carry out his crossbreeding experiments in peace
What do you think Aeris and Red XIII's litter looked like?
>>12037926 (OP)
The twist recontextualizes the game and more or less re-writes Tifa. Tifa as she's originally written is akin to Barret, and wants revenge on Sephiroth and Shinra for the events of her past, starts a bar and is an active member of a resistance group. Afterwards? She's a mom-like figure to Cloud and a total simp who's entire life just revolves around taking care of Cloud.
Tifa is "perfect" in the eyes of males, because she's a sexualized mom-figure for sad lonely boys. That's it. The male ideal for sad lonely boys is a female who has no agency and just acts like a stand-in mom figure they can cuddle and kiss and have sex with.
And reverse: Cloud is the ideal sad-boy stand in. Yes, he's a quiet awkward sad boy, BUT he's also the world's most heroic and strongest male whom every woman lusts for.
>>12037926 (OP) >>12037943
Herr friend-zoning him is what caused him to turn into a basket case that couldn't tell his wishful thinking apart from actual reality.
>>12038321
Her friendzoning him caused him to join soldier. Being dunked in mako after witnessing sephiroth destroy his hometown and getting stabbed
by him caused him to lose his marbles
Do you people even play games?
>>12038396 >Do you people even play games?
Where do you think you are? This is a thread using a random scene in a game as a pretense to bitch about fictional women
>>12038514
if you crack open the binary in a hex editor you'll see that in code she is referred to as EARITH which is clearly her canonical name as it ties into the game's themes
>>12038073
since hojo, the world's top expert on crossbreeding monsters, was confident that red xiii would be able to breed aeris, is really opens up a lot of questions about the mother of his offspring in the ending scene given he's repeatedly confirmed to be the last of his kind
>>12038065
They became friends after Cloud was the only one man enough to help her when she fell in the mountains, unlike the pussies she was hanging out with before
>>12038534
the difference is women have nothing beyond their appearance, by their own admission. Every little girl only dreams of being a pretty perfect princess who gets swept away by a prince who provides her with everything and all she has to do is exist and look good.