Cloud being in love with Aerith for 23 minutes straight | #ff7rebirth #clerith

As I mentioned in another comment. Details! These little details show that Cloud AND Aerith are a couple made for each other. Not everyone is able to see this and even if they do, they deny it by coming up with idiotic theories. As a psychologist, I am really full of appreciation of how wonderfully the developers recreated the body language, facial expressions of two people in love with each other. The gestures, the glances, the behavior of Cloud who is simply nervous and shy around Aerith. She, in turn, knowing his behavior, constantly breaks down this wall and allows him to open up to her. Those who think it's one sided love or simple friendship or the behavior of brother and sister have never been in love, never felt butterflies in their stomachs. This romantic tale could not be better presented. I think in 3 years there will be a happy ending for this couple.

WHY DOES THIS FICTIONAL COUPLE BRING ME SO MUCH JOY

19:06 the way she restores your HP and MP when she shows up… “you would appear, reach out to me / heal every wound and make me whole” :’)

'They're just thoughts. Let them be 'dark and ugly'; you're not.' For a non-romantic, that's one heck of a beautiful line.

23 minutes??? Damm let’s go enjoy clerith fam

They’re literally star crossed tragic soulmates THROUGHOUT TIME AND UNIVERSES. Their romance it’s such a narrative masterpiece and so intertwined in the main story of this game it’s insane.

Cloud be like: “as soon as I kill Sephiroth I’m permanently going to the world where Aerith is still alive”

THEY ARE PEAK ROMANCE 💘

Can you imagine if Cloud said this: Cloud: I love you, I love you in every universe.

"The spot" they talked about = the same spot as Cloud indicated as "my place" to Tifa in the novel.

watching ur first clerith vid back in 2020 is what got me into ff7 🙌🏻

YEAHHH IT'S HERE THE GREATEST LOVE STORY OF OUR TIME RETURNS

Fun fact, usually when people are listing their reasons for something they list them in order from the least important to the most important, so when Aerith says "Its about saving the world... and you" deliberately separating cloud from the whole big world, she is saying that, for her, he is more important.

20:07 This moment is so heartbreaking and beautiful. After the fighting died down, Cloud finally got a moment to just BE with Aerith. The music is soft, his touch is soft, his voice, their mutual smiles. None of their friends are present, it’s truly just the two of them sharing a moment of connection. Aerith and Cloud will never beat the star crossed lovers allegations.

I also find zack very cute in Rebirth. when he finds out that aerith likes cloud his reaction is not angry, he just processes it, looks a little sad but ends up accepting it. it's kind of sad for me cause I loved their dynamic in crisis core, but i love that he's not an jerk who hates Aerith just because she likes someone else (like many of his fans and #them)

Ever since the awkward visit to Zack's parents Cloud became unsure if the girl he's falling in love with feels the same about him.He's thinking about this even if you got Tifa's date. But then near the end of the game, during Aerith's GS date and the beginning of ch14, Cloud finally understood they have mutual feelings for each other and promised Aerith that they'll make more memories together next time. Just when Cloud thought he was about to start a new chapter of his life with Aerith, fate took everything away from him. Such a beautiful yet bittersweet love story but I believe Cloud can make things right in part 3 and reunite with Aerith.

Damn, it feels like christmas day, new clerith.

Please cloud and Aerith compliment each other so welllll 😭😭 they’re memories > their chemistry > THEM >

Now that Cloud managed to breach the fate and created a parallel world where he saved Aerith's life everything is now possible in part 3. These two belong together.

I'm replaying the story again. I reached the part in Gongaga and i noticed an important detail that makes everything make more sense in the context knowing what happens between Cloud, Tifa and Aerith for the rest of the game. I'm playing the spanish version which uses a translation based directly on the japanese one. When Cloud and Aerith talk about Zack and Cloud is VISIBLY jelaous when he asks Aerith is she still likes Zack, in this version she doesn't says "maybe" she says "yes" (but not in a strong manner), and then the "he didn't give me any reason not to". Cloud looks pissed about that answer and starts acting insecure, blasting Zack inmediately after. From this moment, this puts Cloud in a situation of insecurity about how Aerith reciprocates his feelings. Until that moment he probably thought there was really something between the both of them, but "what if not.....". It's after that moment that his insecurities about Aerith start allowing Tifa come closer to him and just not long after they have that moment after getting back from the reactor. It's like he's starting to accept some kind of "defeat" and that maybe he needs to move on. In Cosmo Canyon in their side mission about taking photos of the stars, after the selfie, he wants to ask her something personal, but he stops. He's still clearly insecure and confused about how Aerith thinks of him. Then we have the golden saucer date. And now i see better what the story is telling if you choose Aerith or Tifa there. If you have the date with Tifa it only ends solidifying Cloud mistakenly thinking he has no chances with Aerith because she really prefers Zack. He brought Aerith to the conversation and after Tifa's response he is hearbroken. So now, he is around this beautiful girl, who is his friend from his childhood, who he clearly likes too, and then he says to himself in the heat of the moment...."well, maybe this is what it needs to happen" and they kiss and then they left the wheel clearly embarrassed about it as if something was not quite right. But then you have the "dream date" with Aerith, and Cloud learns the real truth. Aerith does indeed likes him too. You can see how in their date Cloud is slowly accepting what is happening. Clouds doubts from earlier in the story are disappearing and when Aerith admits her feelings to him, you can see in Cloud's face that this makes him happy and how relieved he is to hear that. If you had the date with Aerith in golden saucer, all of this is just not that ambiguous. It only serves to make Cloud realise Aerith maybe feels the same sooner, and only getting confirmation in that "dream scene". It's more like a conventional romance story that just focuses on two characters. But with the Tifa date route, the story clearly goes to the "love triangle" drama kind of story more. It doesn't matter because in both cases Cloud ends up realizing Aerith real feelings. And that's why the love song is in the credits. It's unavoidable. The cards are already in the table. If i'm right in my impressions, i think i can visualize how the 3rd part is going to end this part of the story...