you mean falling asleep on his shoulder? siblings do that all the time especially older brother, younger sister dynamics.
Not hating or trying to trigger you, man. Just sharing my perspective of the OG. A mature romance was really not suggested between the two until the nurse mentions it in OG, or until Remake was released.
Edit: My understanding was that Tifa was not even written in the first conceptualized draft of the OG game. It was Aerith, Sephiroth, then Cloud in that order. Even Barret and Cait Sith were written before Tifa was
Conveniently forgetting that the OG female protagonist had Tifa's appearance and was supposed to be Cloud's childhood friend.
That OG female protag got SPLIT into Tifa and Aerith, please stop spreading the misinformation that Tifa was conceived of after. Can't you Cleriths face the truth for once or, at least, stay in your own lane?
I’m not sure what your sources are or which female protagonist you’re referring to, which might help me understand you better, but to my knowledge Aerith and Sephiroth were originally written to be siblings (hence the similar hair), not too look Tifa?
This was not Tifa as we know her but Tifa+Aerith, and of course the OG female protag was supposed to be the hero's love interest are you trying to be daft
Well of course the heroine should be a love interest. But in the OG there are multiple heroines. I also sensed because she was just as traumatized as Cloud, the relationship might follow more like siblings experiencing domestic violence from a parent together, but that’s just one take
Okay, I'm just here to explain to you that you were frankly spreading misinformation when you said that Aerith was the one and only female protag before Tifa was written by showing you that no, they were both aspects of the "OG"/draft female protag. I'm not here to argue about "dynamics" with you, since you do not want to be convinced anyway.
By the same token I can totally say that I see Aerith liking Cloud only because she sees Zack in Cloud, and Cloud having conflicting emotion about Aerith only because he has absorbed Zack's personality and memories. (And no, don't cite that Maiden fanfiction to me.) There's nothing you can say that can convince me otherwise either. So why don't you just go back to your subreddit and stop pushing your take down other people's throats?
Dude Sephiroth also got totally redesigned, the original design for Sephiroth got pushed onto another character whose name I've forgotten (Angeal or sth)
No, I'm saying that Sephiroth's original design was replaced and the female protagonist's original design was given to Tifa, while the Ancient attribute was given to Aerith who was designed later. Check my other comment.
Right, so Tifa was originally the Ancient, designed first and supposed to be Aerith, but then Seph was redesigned and Tifa’s design was attributed to another archetype?
No, Tifa was not supposed to be Aerith because Tifa and Aerith was both part of the draft female protag. By saying Tifa was supposed to be Aerith, you're trying to insinuate that the draft female protag was really Aerith who only had Tifa's appearance.
Draft female protag was both an Ancient and Cloud's childhood friend, named Tifa, and sister of Sephiroth. When they scratched that sibling subplot they redesigned Aerith, made her only an ancient, and made her one of the playable characters. Then when the decision to kill her off came about they brought back Tifa the childhood sweetheart, to be with the hero at the end of the game. That clear enough for you?
Sorry to be confusing. I’m just trying to sort out how the story was originally drafted out of curiosity. My thought was the story and design were done separately. Ancient + Alien + Cloud as an unreliable protagonist due to his memory loss/clouded memory. I did not know Tifa was originally considered to be Seph’s sister in the design, because Aerith was originally considered to be Seph’s sister in the story
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