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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,…
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…
On First Love (And Second): A Final Fantasy Tradition

Final Fantasy VII has confounded its fanbase for decades with its notoriously messy romance threads. The infamous love triangle between Cloud, Aeris, and Tifa is further confounded by Aeris’s own alleged love triangle between Cloud and her “first love,” Zack. To some fans, this simplified the story: rather than accept an ambiguous love story between…