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  • 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…

  • Aerith is Cloud’s “Cherished” Person – A “Taisetsu Na” Compilation

    The phrase 大切な者 (たいせつなもの: taisetsu na mono) is often used to describe Aeris’s value to Cloud. 大切な人 (たいせつなひと: taisetsu na hito). Taisetsu itself means “important” or “significant” – but in this context, the meaning is also “precious,” “valuable,” “dear,” “cherished,” or “beloved.” In both cases, a noun is added to this adjective. The first noun…

  • The Perfect Girl For Cloud, According to Cloud’s Mom (Hint: It’s Aerith)

    After Aeris contracts Cloud to be her bodyguard (in exchange for one date), she brings him to her house in Sector 5, where she lives with her mother, Elmyra. It’s a quaint, homey cottage surrounded by flower gardens – a sharp visual contrast from the rest of the cyberpunk junkyard of Midgar’s slums that Cloud…