#clarrifa

[yinza]

Romancing Barret Week - Day 1: no gettin' offa this train

Not till we get to the end of the line.

[Image Description: Digital artwork of Tifa, Barret, and Cloud, shown from the shoulders up. They stand lit from below by the green light of the final descent into the depths of the Northern Crater. They lean their foreheads close to one another, their eyes closed and their expressions solemn. /end ID]

#romancingbarretweek #clarrifa #barret wallace #tifa lockhart #cloud strife #final fantasy vii #ff7 #ff7 og #final fantasy #yinza's artwork #artists on tumblr #fanart

[theoreticalconstruct]

Resting on the Bench

Barret x Cloud x Tifa. Pose reference: 5A here. Made in GIMP.

I'm not great at sketching but sometimes one has to make their own shippy art. Especially for polyam stuff.

[ From left to right - a smiling woman with dark hair leaning up against a taller, dark-skinned man. The tall man is kissing a paler young man on the forehead and is being hugged by the same pale man. The young man's fingers are touching the woman's arm. They are sitting on a blue bench against a bare concrete wall. ]

#Final Fantasy VII #clarrifa #Cloud Strife #Barret Wallace #Tifa Lockhart #cloud x tifa x barret #Fanart #Have I improved at all since the Barret/Tifa stuff I made years ago? #I have no idea #A thing that I drew

[romancingbarret]

Ship Index

Just a handy list of all ships collected on this blog. Please let us know about ship names!

Solo

Couples

x Aerith (barrith)

x Angeal

x Biggs

x Cid

x Cloud (clarret, barekura, boud)

x Dyne

x Elena

x Elmyra (balmyra)

x Ester

x Ifalna

x Jessie (rasbarret)

x Madam M

x Myrna (myrret)

x OC

x President Shinra

x Reader

x Reeve (bareeve)

x Reno

x Rude (barrude)

x Sephiroth (sephrret, feathered bullets)

x Shera

x Tifa (barrifa)

x Vincent (barrentine)

x Wedge

Poly Ships

x Aerith x Cloud

x Aerith x Cloud x Tifa

x Aerith x Cloud x Tifa x Zack

x Aerith x Tifa (baerti)

x Biggs x Cloud

x Biggs x Cloud x Jessie x Tifa x Wedge

x Biggs x Jessie x Tifa x Wedge

x Cid x Vincent

x Cloud x Tifa (clarrifa)

x Cloud x OC

x Dyne x Eleanor x Myrna

x Elmyra x Reeve

x Jessie x Tifa (rasbarrifa)

#ship index

[polyamship-otd]

Cloud Strife, Tifa Lockhart, and Barret Wallace from Final Fantasy VII are Polyamorous

#ot3 #poly ship #clarrifa #ffvii #polyamory #cotd #comment if this has any more ship names I can add

[somekindalady]

More Cloud/Barret/Tifa screenshots.

#Final Fantasy VII #Poly #clarrifa #Cloud x Tifa x Barret #Cloud x Barret x Tifa #Screenshots #Tifa Lockhart #Cloud Strife #Barret Wallace

[cateringisalie]

The Seventh Heaven family gets to grip with the idea of a whole week off.

#clarrifa #final fantasy vii #my ffvii fanfic

[theoreticalconstruct]

Morning Routine

For the Final Fantasy Kiss Battle (which is still going.) Also for @polyamships' Multiamory March (prompt: Hope). Fandom: FFVII Characters: Cloud/Tifa/Barret

Cloud woke up earlier than Barret did on a regular basis. Barret didn't believe it at first, having trained himself to wake up at dawn even in the obscured light of the Undercity. Part of him thought Cloud was doing it on purpose - as if he'd known Barret was proud of waking up so early and wanted to take it from him.

"How are you awake?" he remembered asking once, when he'd still been half-asleep and Cloud had already been dressed and wearing his sword. It was just after the sun had risen in their little camp, and the others had still been asleep. He'd never had the heart to make Tifa wake up with him, even the few times they'd shared a room or even a bed for warmth in the coldest nights. Cloud apparently felt the same, which was a relief.

Cloud had just looked at him with those strange, alien blue eyes. "I have trouble sleeping," he'd answered brusquely, before turning away.

For some reason, that had given Barret pause. Maybe because when he'd known him in Midgar, the guy hadn't been able to lie worth a damn - one reason why he'd just avoided all the questions Barret had ever asked him. So he hadn't kept pushing, had just shook his head to try to wake up and gone to stand next to him.

"It's the light," Cloud had elaborated after a while, gesturing at his face. "It never goes out."

"Damn." Barret shook his head. "Must be rough."

Cloud hadn't said anything, just made a small sound that usually meant he agreed. Barret had relaxed; it wasn't going to turn into something awkward.

Tifa woke up after they did, if not by much. She came to join them while the others slept, standing between them - not that she had to anymore. Barret thought she just wanted to be there, which was fine with him.

She leaned over and kissed Barret on the cheek, then he heard her do the same for Cloud - he would've known even if he hadn't heard Tifa's kiss, because Cloud wasn't good at hiding the small sound of embarrassment he always made.

It had been quiet then. Barret knew that when the others woke up, the quiet would be done with and they'd have to get going. Eventually he'd probably have to wake them, even, and let Cloud and Tifa get packed up and prepared for the next leg of the journey. But this quiet time had become an important part of their routine. He wasn't going to give it up until he had no other choice. He hoped he'd never have to.

#Final Fantasy VII #clarrifa #Barret Wallace #Cloud Strife #Tifa Lockhart #Fanfiction #polyamships #Multiamory March

[theoreticalconstruct]

PolyamShippingDay for @polyamships - Prompt is Gift.

Title: Presents by Marlene

I’m sorry, I couldn’t resist the urge to do another “Marlene drew this” picture with all three.

#Barret x Cloud x Tifa #clarrifa #PolyamShippingDay #someone gave Barret skinny jeans #it just needs the signature #By Wally age 40-ish #Final Fantasy VII

[theoreticalconstruct]

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Compilation of Final Fantasy VII Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Tifa Lockhart/Cloud Strife/Barret Wallace Characters: Cloud Strife, Tifa Lockhart, Barret Wallace Additional Tags: Sickfic, Slice of Life, Domestic Fluff, Multiamory March, Multiamory March 2023 Series: Part 9 of Multiamory March 2023 Summary: Cloud has a stomach ache. He is not being very brave about it.

#Final Fantasy VII #clarrifa #Barret x Cloud x Tifa #Fanfiction

[theoreticalconstruct]

Stickball (FFVII,B/C/T, SFW)

Title: Stickball Fandom: FFVII Characters: Barret/Cloud/Tifa, mentions of Eleanor, Dyne and Myrna. Summary: Barret missed the games they played back home and is trying to teach them to his new loves. Prompt: @romancingbarret day 1 - Pre-Game

AO3 link.

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"C'mon, Cloud!" Tifa shouted from the small mound on the center of their makeshift field. "You've got to swing if you want to hit the ball!"

"I'm trying," he heard Cloud say - he didn't see him roll his eyes but he knew he was doing it anyway. "It goes by too fast."

"You'll get used to it!" she called. "I'm just as new at this as you are, remember?"

Barret grinned on the sidelines, watching the two play. He'd freely admit that he’d missed this, the impromptu games he'd play with his friends back home, where the rules tended to change day by day and the only constant was that the person who hit a home run was the king for a day. Or queen - he'd been shown up by Eleanor more than once, he thought, chuckling.

There wasn't that much else to do for fun in a mining town, after all. Those games were what they did to blow off steam, and everyone would participate. Children got their own games, supervised by the adults - he'd been looking forward to teaching Marlene to pitch when she grew older, he remembered, although the thought didn't hurt as much as it had once before. He might still have a chance, if he could get the rest of the town's children on board.

The adult's games, though, those were just as crazy as the ones for kids. Anyone could play, and even if they weren't a great player, no one mocked anyone for their ability - not seriously, anyway, and even the most well-intentioned ribbing would stop once someone got their feelings hurt. It wasn't about winning or losing, it was just about having something to do when the mining stopped. About remembering that they were all alive and still able to have fun on their own terms.

There hadn't been much like that after he'd left Corel. Oh, Shinra would of course broadcast their own versions of their games, but they weren't worth watching - teams of people in peak physical condition playing their gentrified versions of stickball and soccer, games that grew more and more complicated every year to try to draw in more and more people. Always following the rules, like a dance that made him dizzy when he tried to learn the rules.  

Barret hated those games. He hated what they'd turned his childhood memories into. Practicing with Dyne to try to learn to hit the damn ball - no one ever believed how bad his hand-eye coordination was until they saw it, and Dyne had been one of the few people who'd been willing to spend the time with him. Hearing Eleanor and Myrna cheer that one time he'd hit a home run, sent their makeshift ball flying out of the vacant lot, and how he'd laughed with joy as he'd rounded the bases...

He supposed he could've started up a game or two if he'd wanted, now that he had a prosthetic that could be a proper arm. But for now, he really just enjoyed watching the others play. Tifa and Cloud had apparently never had a similar game, but they'd taken to this one like swans to water, and he loved to watch Tifa pitch the ball, sometimes too fast for Cloud to even take a proper swing.

Cloud sighed, shaking his head and smiling. "Hey, Barret," he shouted, "you want to come out here, show me how it's done?"

"Hey, I ain't that much better," he said, but he did walk out there, putting one arm around Cloud's waist. Tifa was grinning as she walked over to join them, leaning against Cloud's shoulder. "Let's take five for a while. Maybe we can have you pitch next time, see if Tifa's as good at swinging as she is at throwing the ball."

Tifa gave Barret a bright smile, then looked back at Tifa. "I really thought you'd be good at hitting the ball. With all the things we've seen you do with that sword of yours -"

"Hey!" Cloud protested with a rare laugh. "If I was trying to kill that ball, believe me, it'd be gone by now!"

Barret laughed too, lowering his arm as walked back with them. He knew that a few people had watched them practice curiously - maybe he could get the games started again, if he could convince them to join in. For now, though, he and Cloud and Tifa were happy just playing together, and it felt so right. He was the luckiest people in the world, he thought.

Well... okay, one of the luckiest. Tifa would tell him to say that, because learning this game mean that they could spend more time with him, and he had to admit that he liked the sound of it.

#Final Fantasy VII #Clarrifa #sportsball! #Fanfiction #RomancingBarretWeek

[theoreticalconstruct]

Random B/C/T idea 03:

Vacation idea for the parents 1: Rock climbing.

Tifa used to do it regularly until her mother died, and her father was too busy to supervise her and too nervous to let her try it alone. So she teaches them how. Somewhere far away from Nibelheim, of course - she has to take some time to get to know the terrain.

Cloud is very good at freeclimbing and rappelling,  but she insists they wear a harness, and he complains the entire time. Barret and Tifa mostly just ignore him, or tease him gently about it when they get back to the cabin.

Barret is nervous at first - yeah, he’s climbed before but that was something he had to do, and the idea of climbing for fun is scary, especially with the metal arm and all the extra weight he has because of it. But once he gets used to the idea that they have safety gear that’ll hold him and that they can catch him if he needs it, he eventually starts to take to it he turns out to be a good climber... although he still has trouble looking down.

#clarrifa #Barret Wallace #Cloud Strife #Tifa Lockhart #Barret x Cloud x Tifa #Final Fantasy VII

[yinza]

FF7 Ship Compilation

Because we were talking about rare pairs on Discord yesterday and while I know I haven’t achieved everything, I wanted to see exactly how many ships I had.

Here we go, the ultimate guide to “Has Yinza drawn/written this?”

This list is updated every time I create for a new ship.

Couples

Aeris/Barret (barrith)

Aeris/Biggs

Aeris/Cloud (clerith)

Aeris/Reno - AO3 link, predates Tumblr

Aeris/Rufus - ancient, not available online

Aeris/Sephiroth (aeriseph) - old fic available on AO3

Aeris/Tifa (aerti)

Aeris/Tseng (tserith)

Aeris/Vincent (aerivin) - ancient, not available online

Aeris/Wedge

Aeris/Zack (zerith) - ancient, not available online

Barret/Biggs

Barret/Cloud (clarret)

Barret/Dyne

Barret/Elmyra (balmyra)

Barret/Ester

Barret/Ifalna

Barret/Jessie (rasbarret)

Barret/Myrna (myrret)

Barret/Reeve (bareeve)

Barret/Reno

Barret/Rude (barrude)

Barret/Sephiroth (sephrret)

Barret/Shera

Barret/Tifa (barrifa)

Barret/Vincent (barrentine)

Barret/Wedge

Betty/Marlene

Biggs/Wedge (wedgggs)

Cid/Shera - ancient, not available online

Cloud/Genesis (strifesodos)

Cloud/Jessie

Cloud/Reno (cleno)

Cloud/Tifa (cloti) - mostly predates Tumblr

Cloud/Vincent (strifentine)

Cloud/Wedge (woud)

Cloud/Zack (clack)

Elena/Jessie (jesselena)

Elena/Tseng (tselena) - ancient, not available online

Elena/Yuffie (yulena)

Elmyra/Ifalna

Gast/Ifalna

Genesis/Jessie

Hojo/Lucrecia - ancient, not available online

Ifalna/Lucrecia (lufalna)

Jenova/Lucrecia (jenocrecia)

Jenova/Shera

Jessie/Shera

Jessie/Tifa (jessifa)

Lucrecia/Scarlet (scarcrecia)

Lucrecia/Shera (shercrecia)

Lucrecia/Vincent (vinlu) - AO3 link, mostly predates Tumblr

Marle/Mireille

Nanaki/Yuffie - AO3 link, predates Tumblr

Reeve/Rufus

Reeve/Tifa (reeti)

Reno/Tifa (reti) - ancient, not available online

Reno/Tseng

Reno/Yuffie - mostly predates Tumblr

Rude/Tifa (ruti) - ancient, not available online

Sephiroth/Zack (sephzack)

Shera/Wedge

Tifa/Vincent (vinti)

Tseng/Vincent (vintseng)

Vincent/Yuffie (yuffentine) - mostly predates Tumblr

Poly Ships

Aeris/Cloud/Tifa (clerifa)

Aeris/Cloud/Tifa/Zack (clerifack)

Barret/Biggs/Jessie/Tifa/Wedge

Barret/Cloud/Tifa (clarrifa)

Barret/Jessie/Tifa (rasbarrifa)

Cloud/Tifa/Vincent (clotivin)

Crosscanon

Aeris/Leeloo

Jenova/GLaDOS

Sephiroth/Loki (lokiroth)

#I don't really care for the term #but if you can win at multishipping #then I think I'm winning #tag index

[yinza]

I love love love the clarrifa art you posted today for romancing barret week! do you have any plans to put that piece up for sale as a print? I would absolutely love to buy it

I'll certainly consider it!

I'm planning on ordering some prints after I finish a few other pieces, so tbh now is a good time for folks to let me know if they're interested in anything in particular.

#ask yinza

[yinza]

Some matching holiday sweaters for @theoreticalconstruct! Also doubling as Day 1 (Family) of @barretweek - I absolutely cannot do all the days but we’re gonna get some Barret love in here.

[Image Description: Digital fanart of Cloud, Barret, Tifa, and Marlene. The adults are shown from the waist-up, with Marlene sitting on Tifa’s shoulders. Barret stands behind Tifa and has his left arm on Marlene’s shoulder as he kisses her on the cheek. With his prosthetic right hand he is ruffling Cloud’s hair, while Cloud starts to lift a hand to stop him. Cloud and Tifa are both looking up at Barret with smiles, and Marlene is grinning with delight. All of them are wearing matching red sweaters with white patterns depicting chocobos and pine trees. /end ID]

#barretweek #barret wallace #cloud strife #tifa lockhart #marlene wallace #clarrifa #final fantasy vii #ff7 #final fantasy #yinza's artwork #fanart #holiday sketch requests #scars #ff7 og

[theoreticalconstruct]

B/C/T - random idea 02

Daily OT3 thought:

Marlene sees a rainbow for the first time and runs screaming around their home telling them they all need to come and see the thing in the sky, it's even prettier than the lights that she saw from Midgar! Barret tries to explain what a rainbow is. Cloud was having a nap after a long trip when she saw the rainbow and just kind of blearily stares at the sky, but Tifa takes his hand and Barret puts an arm around his shoulder and he smiles a bit while Marlene goes on and on about how pretty it is. Denzel doesn't get all the fuss, it's just a rainbow, but Marlene's excitement is infectious so he ends up all excited too.

(Just a random idea, if anyone wants to run with it feel free)

#Final Fantasy VII #Cloud Strife #Barret Wallace #Tifa Lockhart #Marlene Wallace #Denzel (FFVII) #Barret x Cloud x Tifa #clarrifa #just a random idea

[theoreticalconstruct]

(FFVII, C/B/T) come and rest your bones with me (fic)

Title: come and rest your bones with me Fandom: FFVII Characters: Cloud/Barret/Tifa Summary: It wasn’t easy for them to find a bed fit for all of them. Prompts: @polyamships -  Day 19 - Sundays (ended up basing this on some lyrics from Sunday Morning by Maroon 5. Swapped in from the 2021 list.) @polyshipweek - Domestic Fluff or Only One (Big) Bed

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Getting a bed to fit the three of them had been a challenge, to say the least. And it had been especially touch on a budget. Yeah, people were willing to work with them, but that didn't mean they could get whatever they wanted for free. And they had a lot of mouths to feed for one household, even if they weren't always all there at the same time.

Barret was the first to admit he'd been the reason it had been so tough, but Tifa and Cloud had both been quick to assure him he wasn't the only reason. Sure, he was a big guy who had to have a big bed, and the weight from his arm didn't exactly help. Back in Midgar he'd had a little table on the side of his bed that he'd rested it on; there was no way he could find a bed big enough and sturdy enough to bear all that weight, and he wasn't willing to take it off at night, not with the danger of someone paying them a "visit" that would probably end with a hole in someone's head. He'd just wanted to make sure it wasn't his. But Cloud and Tifa had both been through enough trauma to have their own troubles. Cloud tossed and turned constantly and most of the mattresses they'd tried hadn't made that easy on them. Most of them would move every time he even twitched. Tifa was probably the quietest of the three, but she still had trouble with a lot of the mattresses, couldn't sleep on one that reminded her too much of her bed back in Niflheim.

They'd found one, finally, that could fit all three of them and where they could all sleep well enough. Barret still had a table by the side of the bed so that he could spread out a bit more when he needed to. There was enough space that the three of them could curl up together when the rain fell outside, warm under their sheets and gigantic blankets.

They all had to leave, sometimes, and let the others take care of their life at home. As long as they could always come back home to that comfortable bed, the one they'd worked so hard to find, none of them had a problem with leaving. They knew that someday they'd be back together again, and that was more than enough.

#Final Fantasy VII #Barret x Cloud x Tifa #clarrifa #Fanfiction #Multiamory March #polyshipweek22