Disclaimer: Who doesn't know by now that these characters are not mine but
Squaresoft's… who does not really deserves some kind of physical assault…
A.N. This fic consists of three parts, each with its separate title, consisting of Aeris, Tifa, and Yuffie's POV of their affections towards Cloud…All parts have been written so that the character of the characters portrayed sticks as close as possible to the character the game portrays the characters as… (haha… makes you dizzy just reading, right?) Without further ado… The fic shall commence….
1 To love Cloud
By Yuffie.K
I hope to move Tifa fans to Aeris's unselfishness... (btw I myself don't even like her... why does she arrange her hair and clothes after battle? So vain... okie fine... don't make my prejudices too obvious to the readers...) Here Aeris is portrayed well, anyway...
To stand by and smile (or, Aeris in the lifestream.)
I was only a fleeting shadow on Cloud's life, a beautiful, uniquely patterned butterfly which flitted in, then out. A special butterfly, yet in the end, forgotten, like any other old-fashioned plaything.
To know your death... I once thought it was a blessed thing, so that before you die, you could finish accomplishing all the things you wanted to do in life, to be happy and content with the way you lead your life... Yet I am proven wrong, by myself, of all people.
I knew Sephiroth was going to kill me on that fateful day, yet I can't bear to leave Cloud... And the others too, of course. I couldn't bear to, yet I did, in the end. For only my death could save the planet -- it was foretold of by the stars, part of the Ancient knowledge. That the last Ancient shall die to save the prevent chaos upon the mortal world...
I knew he liked me, then... Perhaps for a while, I took him as a replacement for Zack... but in the end, I loved Cloud for who he was. And I really truly mean love him... Yet my love for him cannot prevent me from leaving to seal my death... Even if my love for him can rival my love for the planet... Because, how many others who were living and were to live, would not get a chance to love, if I do not save it? How many would perish, for my one selfish act of love, my inclination to stay by his side, forever and ever? I would be forever haunted by guilt if I do not leave my love behind... to forsake him... alone.
Yet I cannot bear him not to know my whereabouts, to leave a last hope of my staying by his side... and destroying the world. I told him where I am headed in a dream, my last chance of life...and death for the whole planet...
If he had reached me in time...
But I do not ponder on Ifs... History cannot be changed, neither can death...
Now he has Tifa by his side, another who loves him. Can I say I love him more than she does? I do not know. Yet I can say he would be able to love her more than me... They grew up together, didn't they? And she helped him regain his memory, and so many other things... He must appreciate her more - what have I done for him?
If they are together now, I bless them with a smile... and hide the pain in my heart... for..
I am but an unusual butterfly...
One which flitted in, then out of his life... then is seen no more...
no more...
~Fin
How come I always write Aeris's POV better than other characters? (*shrugs*) Juz continue with the next one : Tifa coming up!
A.N. This fic consists of three parts, each with its separate title, consisting of Aeris, Tifa, and Yuffie's POV of their affections towards Cloud…All parts have been written so that the character of the characters portrayed sticks as close as possible to the character the game portrays the characters as… (haha… makes you dizzy just reading, right?) Without further ado… The fic shall commence….
1 To love Cloud
By Yuffie.K
I hope to move Tifa fans to Aeris's unselfishness... (btw I myself don't even like her... why does she arrange her hair and clothes after battle? So vain... okie fine... don't make my prejudices too obvious to the readers...) Here Aeris is portrayed well, anyway...
To stand by and smile (or, Aeris in the lifestream.)
I was only a fleeting shadow on Cloud's life, a beautiful, uniquely patterned butterfly which flitted in, then out. A special butterfly, yet in the end, forgotten, like any other old-fashioned plaything.
To know your death... I once thought it was a blessed thing, so that before you die, you could finish accomplishing all the things you wanted to do in life, to be happy and content with the way you lead your life... Yet I am proven wrong, by myself, of all people.
I knew Sephiroth was going to kill me on that fateful day, yet I can't bear to leave Cloud... And the others too, of course. I couldn't bear to, yet I did, in the end. For only my death could save the planet -- it was foretold of by the stars, part of the Ancient knowledge. That the last Ancient shall die to save the prevent chaos upon the mortal world...
I knew he liked me, then... Perhaps for a while, I took him as a replacement for Zack... but in the end, I loved Cloud for who he was. And I really truly mean love him... Yet my love for him cannot prevent me from leaving to seal my death... Even if my love for him can rival my love for the planet... Because, how many others who were living and were to live, would not get a chance to love, if I do not save it? How many would perish, for my one selfish act of love, my inclination to stay by his side, forever and ever? I would be forever haunted by guilt if I do not leave my love behind... to forsake him... alone.
Yet I cannot bear him not to know my whereabouts, to leave a last hope of my staying by his side... and destroying the world. I told him where I am headed in a dream, my last chance of life...and death for the whole planet...
If he had reached me in time...
But I do not ponder on Ifs... History cannot be changed, neither can death...
Now he has Tifa by his side, another who loves him. Can I say I love him more than she does? I do not know. Yet I can say he would be able to love her more than me... They grew up together, didn't they? And she helped him regain his memory, and so many other things... He must appreciate her more - what have I done for him?
If they are together now, I bless them with a smile... and hide the pain in my heart... for..
I am but an unusual butterfly...
One which flitted in, then out of his life... then is seen no more...
no more...
~Fin
How come I always write Aeris's POV better than other characters? (*shrugs*) Juz continue with the next one : Tifa coming up!
