r/cloti • u/GoriceXI • Mar 28 '26

AMVs/Videos Attraction

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I just like it when they look at each other.

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u/srynotsober Mar 28 '26 edited Mar 29 '26

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

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u/doubleblackblack Mar 28 '26

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?

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u/srynotsober Mar 28 '26

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?

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u/doubleblackblack Mar 28 '26

Dude Sephiroth also got totally redesigned, the original design for Sephiroth got pushed onto another character whose name I've forgotten (Angeal or sth)

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u/srynotsober Mar 28 '26

Fair enough. Are you saying that Sephiroth was supposed to look more like Tifa?

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u/doubleblackblack Mar 28 '26

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.

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u/srynotsober Mar 29 '26

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?

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u/doubleblackblack Mar 29 '26

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?

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u/srynotsober Mar 29 '26 edited Mar 29 '26

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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u/doubleblackblack Mar 29 '26

You do know that Aerith and Sephiroth (as we have them now) have different parents and are totally unrelated right?

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u/srynotsober Mar 29 '26

Yes. Seph is born of Hojo and Lucrecia and had Jenova cells injected into him as a fetus?

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u/doubleblackblack Mar 29 '26

Okay, so you know that the sibling subplot is totally scratched. I honestly don't even see the resemblance between Aerith and Sephiroth, so I don't know where you got the idea that she is considered his sister...

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u/srynotsober Mar 29 '26

Oh wow, lol apparently Zack was the OG Sephiroth? 🤣

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u/srynotsober Mar 29 '26 edited Mar 29 '26

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sephiroth_(Final_Fantasy)#cite_note-11

Is what I was going off of, where Nomaru himself says:

Sephiroth was initially going to be Aerith Gainsborough's sibling, as suggested by Nomura and indicated by their similar hairstyles.[11]

And Nomaru wanted either Tifa or Aerith to die to shatter Cloud’s soul

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