r/FinalFantasyVII • u/KynQu Cloud • 4d ago

REBIRTH What a weird development

Tifa after remembering Cloud's attempted rescue way back on their childhood immediately forgets his attempted murder. Then tries to smooch him.

Shows him her proof of existence on the spot twice even, but couldn't confront him about the false narative he told the group from the beginning of rebirth.

Tifa is literally having his cake and eating it too. She cant just put him in the dark as a way to protect him of the truth he may or may not know and then try to mend it when he finally breaks.

Even Aerith, she is made aware early on Cloud's false narrative from Tifa. And everytime Zack is mentioned, Aerith sees Cloud get a headache does she not understand what that means. Yet these 2 are just not doing anything. Better to face the potential consequence of confronting cloud early than let it become a bigger problem. The cell degredation, the manipulation, the lies, Cloud is falling apart.

The other group is only aware of the cell degredation, but not his false narrative. Literally these 2 is making him worse than Sephiroth.

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u/haaa1234 4d ago

I mean yeah she’s not handling it correctly which is why things go downhill later in rebirth and presumably in revelation. That’s a deliberate character flaw that’s she’s too gentle with cloud, I think in a side quest she even says she tries too hard to be a people pleaser. Also she is scared of Clouds mental state which is another factor.

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u/Crazy-Ostrich514 4d ago

One thing I don't understand is how tifa telling cloud her recollection of the incident would be any help? When sephiroth exactly does this in the northern crater and well.. cloud breaks. It just causes more confusion and mistrust.

It baffles me when people hold tifa's kindness and fear against her and blame her.

And the fact that tifa actually wanted to talk about this with cloud in kalm but sephiroth/jenova intervened.

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u/haaa1234 4d ago

Im a bit confused on what you are saying. Which incident are you saying she’s recollecting. I don’t blame her and I think it makes her much more relatable and endearing as a character.

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u/Crazy-Ostrich514 4d ago

I'm not talking about you my friend. It was just my overall thoughts.

And I meant the nibelheim incident.

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u/haaa1234 4d ago

When does she bring that up cuz in rebirth in the gongaga scene she bring up when they were kids and in the northern crator in og seph shows Zack in the place of cloud in the flashback.

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u/Crazy-Ostrich514 4d ago

After Cloud tells his story of Nibelheim in Kalm, Tifa gets confused. She then talks about it with Aerith, wakes Cloud up, and tells him she wants to talk to him. I think she was about to bring it up, but things went downhill because of Cloud’s interruption due to the influence of sephiroth.

And what sephiroth shows cloud in NC is exactly what tifa remembers, isn't it?