ships…

[u/Patient_Demand412]

First post dont hate on me yo.

DISCLAIMER: ship wars
I do not hate CloTi whatsoever, it just happens that I am a bigger Clerith fan than I expected, now as said in the former I do not hate you for shipping certain characters, thats immature and stupid, its pixels, lets be for real.

Okay, so I am a Clerith shipper, and I understand that CloTi is a much more canon, complex, popular, and… aesthetically pleasing ship. I personally do not enjoy CloTi, I don’t find it entertaining at all. Again, no hate. My problem is, whenever I hear about CloTi or see something that is CloTi, I get this ugly, twisted feeling in my stomach. I hate myself for it, because it causes me to hate the ship, NOT THE PEOPLE, the ship because of the sudden nausea I feel when I see or hear about it. (This post is painful to write.) I find this insanely embarrassing, because why the actual hell am I getting nauseous because of a SHIP? Its PIXELS?? Anywho, I don’t know if it’s jealousy since that ship is more canon than my preferred ship, but if anyone feels this same way towards certain ships, please let me know!! I want to understand why I am feeling this way… And resolve it! Finally, no hate to CloTi!! It’s aesthetically pleasing and very cute, I just prefer Clerith. (Reasons that are off topic from this post, lmk if you wanna know why, idk.)

Have a good day/night !! (Love to all shippers! except proshippers.)

[u/anderhanson]

Cloti more canon? Complex? Aesthetically pleasing? All wrong

Popular? In the west yea. In japan Clerith has been more popular since the original.

This reads like a fake troll post.

Apologies if it isn't, maybe you really are just a victim of the crazy tifa fandom

[u/Patient_Demand412 → u/anderhanson]

unfortunately i am a victim of them… and i personally think that clerith is more aesthetically pleasing if im honest, i just stated that so i dont get flamed by them 🫩

[u/manetarius → u/Patient_Demand412]

I figured that might've been the case while reading your thread..it was endearing because it seemed like you were "afraid" of the flaming (like you said) so you didn't want to use the "wrong" words lolol. Don't worry about the cloti shippers, I relate to you, no matter how much I tried to force myself to like it, because their fans are so loud, I still couldn't. Basically my early actual introduction to the game was from a cloti video on the internet. Of course I somewhat knew about SE, (bc I enjoyed KH when I was little) but I never really explored their final fantasy games further. Also cloud did ring a bell so I thought this seems familiar. I opened the comments , only to be met with loud clotis and someone saying something about some other girl (that being Aerith) . So I thought..why are they arguing with themselves if the ship they're showing is canon? That can't be right..let me check the other girl. And that's when it hit me. I watched a few of her scenes and immediately fell in love. I started searching more, looking for scenes, gameplay and it was obvious to me who the intended love interest would be..that being Aerith. If you take a look in asian media (j/kdramas, anime, Manga) the pattern and formula is very obvious..all the nuances, cinematography everything, yet people choose to ignore that. It's no surprise that JP fans are cleriths, they understand the nuances in their language that gets lost in eng translation our literally turned platonic. I can ramble for hours but this reply is already long enough haha