Heyy, technically, the only reason I sorta bash this pairing is that Zack was obviously in love with Aerith/Aeris, and I know that she loved him too. While this may sound soppy or yucky or too mushy, but hey, if you write one whole game on Zack, and put it that he likes Aerith and Aerith likes him, I don't see why Aerith will suddenly start to like some other guy, or even show signs like that.

Well, it's not as if you can't move on from a past love, it's that Aeris didn't. She had less than no opportunity to get to know the real Cloud (and YES, in the POSSIBLE date scene with Aeris, she expresses an INTEREST in finding the differences between the two, but obviously didn't receive that chance), whereas she and Zack spent a lot of time together. Crisis Core made Zack x Aeris canon. FFVII showed small hints of Cloud x Aeris. AC and Compilation near-canonized Cloud x Tifa (I refrain from outright saying canonized, for fear of stepping on delicate toes).

I personally love Zack x Aeris :D They were a couple that was meant to be.

I don't think Cloud=Zack. Just because Zack asked Cloud to be a living legacy of him, and that Cloud has many of Zack's traits, I think of them as separate entities still.

They are completely separate people, obviously, with distinct characters, but there is the whole deal with the Zack-ified Cloud confusing his memories with that of Zack, and thinking he was Zack for awhile. Not just the whole legacy deal.

Aerith may have just been stuck in the middle of the two of them. What I know for sure is that she loved Zack. And probably did till the day that bloody Sephiroth stabbed her. I think that if Cloud had gotten in the picture before Zack, maybe she would have liked him first. But the thing is, that's not the case. So all I can say is, don't put people together just because they look nice together. I think, to be absolutely true to the story, CloudxAerith/Aeris does not go. It just doesn't seem right to me.

Aeris certainly was confused as to their similarities, but as you said, her love for Zack is canon. Her love for Cloud barely scrapes at being hinted at. And I agree, maybe if she'd had the time to get to know Cloud, she would have developed more romantic feelings, but in the end, that wasn't meant to be. And frankly, I just think her and Zack's personalities go well together ^^ Just like Cloud and Tifa's.

Bleuh. S'been awhile since I paid these here forums a visit.

- WAS

Wow, all you guys who posted proof about Cloti just made me love the couple even more!

I don't get it when Cleris fans say that Cloud will always love her (in a romantic way), I mean, he obviously gets over her in On a Way to Smile, in Tifa's perspective. Also, I noticed that in Dirge of Cerberus, none of the party members are wearing the pink ribbon around their arms to represent Aerith's death. So in a way, I think they've all moved on from that tramautic event, including Cloud, who is now living happily with Tifa.

The thing is... Cloud never loved Aeris. At best, it was physical attraction because yeah, Aeris is a cute, flirtatious girl who plays up Cloud's ego. But again, you can't fall in love with someone in the short period of time that Cloud and Aeris knew each other. Cloud and Tifa had a whole childhood to build upon. Just the idea of a character like Tifa I find meshes much better with Cloud.

Not saying that Aeris and Cloud aren't terribly important to each other, though, because in their time together, they did form special bonds. Just like everybody else in the party.

And yes, in DoC everybody appears to have moved on, most likely due to Aeris's reassurances in AC.

I have a lot of things I want to say, but I'm pooped. (No idea why, it's not even late where I am.)

I suppose I'll blabber later :)

- WAS

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