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Cloud and Aeris (Clerith) Appreciation
- Top 10 Romantic Moments Between Cloud and Aerith
- Top 15 Romantic Cloud and Aerith Moments in FF7 Rebirth
- “Clerith” is an Official Keyword for Final Fantasy VII
- Square Enix Showcases Memorable Clerith Scenes
- The Cloud/Aerith Artwork of Yoshitaka Amano
- 30th Anniversary “Farewell” Exhibit Featured Clerith
- Fans Celebrate June 1st as Cloud and Aerith’s Wedding Anniversary
- The Clerith Love Story as told by Final Fantasy VII Dismantled
- FF7 Deleted Scene: Aerith is Cloud’s strength
- Cloud and Aerith Parfaits by Square’s Tokyo Cafe, Artnia
- FF35th Anniversary T-Shirt Collaboration with Uniqlo
- Clerith Church Reunion Wins Square Enix LEGO Contest
- Ota City of Gunma Prefecture, Japan, Will Open “Aeris’s Little Forest” Garden on June 5
- Official Square Enix Concert “Final Symphony” Claims Clerith
- Clerith and Music: All Songs Representing Cloud and Aerith
- Cloud did WHAT with Aerith in the Gondola? Itadaki Street: Dragon Quest x Final Fantasy 30th Anniversary Official Comic
- Cloud and Aerith Cast as Final Fantasy IX’s Zidane and Garnet in Ever Crisis
- Final Fantasy VII Rebirth is a Clerith Dream
Essays: On Support for Cloud and Aeris (Clerith)
- A Compilation of Cloud Canonically Loving Aerith
- HOLLOW: Cloud’s Ballad to Aerith
- NO PROMISES TO KEEP: Aerith’s Ballad to Cloud
- NO PROMISES TO KEEP: Aerith’s Ballad to Cloud (Part 2)
- Aerith’s Theme is a Romance Song: Its Legacy of Love and Marriage
- All the times Cloud and Aeris’s relationship is described using the word “heart” (心)
- All the times Cloud and Aerith are called a couple in Chapter 9
- The Legacy of Cloud and Aeris’s Gold Saucer Date
- Losing a Loved One: The Reason Cloud Suffers from Geostigma in Advent Children
- The Perfect Girl For Cloud, According to Cloud’s Mom (Hint: It’s Aerith)
- On First Love (And Second): A Final Fantasy Tradition
- Aerith is Cloud’s “Cherished” Person – A “Taisetsu Na” Compilation
- Kingdom Hearts: A Clerith Story
- Final Fantasy Tactics: A Clerith Love Story
- Ever Crisis Beta Busts a Few Anti-Clerith Myths
- Did Aeris Know the “Real” Cloud?
- The Most Epic Date Ever: Remake’s Chapter 9 Entire Purpose is Building the Cloud/Aerith Romance
- Clerith Wins in the FF7 Rebirth Ultimania (And Other New Official Literature)
- Cloud and Aerith Go On Five Official Dates in FF7 Rebirth
Essays: On Rejecting Aeris and Zack (Zerith)
- Dismantling the Zerith Myth
- No, Aerith isn’t wearing the hair bow Zack gave her
- On First Love (And Second): A Final Fantasy Tradition
Essays: On Rejecting Cloud and Tifa (Cloti)
- Do Cloud and Tifa Get Together?
- On Canon Vs. Fanon: Love, Sex, and Cloud and Tifa Under the Highwind
- What the Devs Say About Final Fantasy VII’s Love Triangle: It’s Open-Ended (duh!)
- Romanticizing a Mental Health Crisis? Revisiting the Lifestream Sequence
- Myths and Misconceptions: Does Player Choice End at the Lifestream?
- Does Tifa Know the Real Cloud?
Miscellaneous Essays and Appreciation Posts
- What the Devs Say About Final Fantasy VII’s Love Triangle: It’s Open-Ended (duh!)
- Is Cloud in Disc 1 just “Zack”?
- On First Love (And Second): A Final Fantasy Tradition
- “Underneath the Rotting Pizza” – Cities in the Sky and a Desolate Earth Beneath
- What are the romantic couples of the Final Fantasy series?
- How Popular is Aerith in Japan?
Recent Posts
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Romanticizing a Mental Health Crisis? Revisiting the Lifestream Sequence
The Lifestream sequence refers to an event late in Final Fantasy VII’s story that, after much disarray in Cloud Strife’s alleged background, serves to untaggle the truth of his past. Prior to this, Cloud leaves the party for the first time after he suffered a mental breakdown in Northern Crater and subsequently fell into the…
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Did Aeris Know the “Real” Cloud?
A major argument against Cloud and Aeris’s romantic relationship is that Cloud and Aeris only interacted in disc 1 of the game – a period in which Cloud was knee-deep in his identity crisis, which was not resolved until the game’s second disc. Auxiliary claims allege that Cloud is actually role-playing Zack in disc 1,…
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Is Cloud in Disc 1 just “Zack”?
Who exactly Cloud is has confused Final Fantasy VII fans since the late 90’s. His identity crisis is a major plot point and a penultimate crisis in the game before the final showdown with Shinra and Sephiroth. Players are haunted by a JENOVA taunting Cloud as a “puppet” and the image of a SOLDIER named…
