#maybe she remembers him fondly in hindsight. she probably didnt dislike him as much as her friends disliked him (and vice versa)

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always funny how often u see cloud and tifa purported as childhood friends when in reality he was the weird kid no one liked who tried to hang around with her friend group who all hated him. we only know of like two meaningful interactions between them before nibelheim burned and one of those tifa doesnt even remember. part of the fun with them is how tifa encourages clouds belief that they were friends then mostly because hes all thats left of home

#maybe she remembers him fondly in hindsight. she probably didnt dislike him as much as her friends disliked him (and vice versa) #but idr any implication they were actually friends LOL. idk #i just think aerith and tifas relationships w cloud are way more fun when u keep in mind all the lies and misapprehensions btwn them ar #at first. like aerith admitting she was drawn to him bc of that echo of zack at first #oh theres a squirrel or smth in the attic for SURE anyways. and tifa totally encouraging clouds fucked up memories #wnd neither case is out of anything Malicious or Duplicitous and theyre ehat Cloud wantsd to believe and to have believed by others… etc