Okie… you're here, at part II of To Love Cloud…
Objective: CloudxAeris supporters to sympathise with Tifa! (Yeah!)
Hopeless love (or, By his side—Tifa )
"Cloud. . . I like you."
The phrase most difficult to say to him.
*
It was all over. Sephiroth is dead, the Meteor destroyed.
We have saved the Planet.
*
I could not miss Cloud's departure once again to the temple of the Ancients. Even though Aeris's death was such a long time ago, he still went there every month, without rest. Other days, he visited places where we had seen her before, the hauntingly empty streets of intricate spiral homes, and Midgar, in the church where she once grew her flowers.
He has still not forgotten Aeris, a fact so stunningly obvious none could miss it. And I too couldn't miss those looks of sympathy the others cast upon me... to a person unable to recieve the love she wants from the person she loves.
*
What is the temple of Ancients but a hole?! Deep, empty, frightening... What is the use of his visits, anyway?
And yet I cannot loathe him for those visits, nor Aeris...
It is not their fault that they have so deeply fell in love with each other...
*
Aeris assisted in the saving of the Planet too...
Her prayer and use of White Materia stopped the Meteor...
She is an Ancient, I'm not, how am I to compare?
Who is to say whose love is deeper, for whom?
No one...
*
To long for something yet not have it...
Have you known that feeling?
Especially when it is tantalizingly close by, yet eternally unreachable.
*
How long have I loved Cloud? I know not myself. He was my first love, and destined to be my last... Me forever trapped by my love for him...
He once loved me too, but that was so long ago... A sweet distant memory.
And then he met Aeris.
*
I remember that long ago night when he was leaving for SOLDIER... He promised me to be my hero and rescue me... How ironic it was that he wanted to be like Sephiroth, then...
A shooting star sealed our promise.
Then the time before we set off for the last league of our journey, I fell asleep on his shoulder till the sun cast its gentle light upon the world...
There is no words to describe my joy at that moment, even outweighing the embarrassment I felt when I realized the whole of AVALANCHE had been looking down on us...
But then Cloud was already thinking of Aeris.
*
I cannot forget the rage on his face when he realized Aeris was captured by Shinra, and his staunch determination to get her back... Even before he realized she was an Ancient...he risked so much to get her back... a mere flower girl.
I dismay, I grow jealous at such thoughts, and I berate myself for being jealous. For Aeris has never done me wrong, and Cloud loves her.
But she is DEAD! Can't I even compete with a dead woman over the affections of a man's heart?
I grow discouraged... Will he always be so besotted by her?
Always...
And dismiss my presence, and my love for him...
Always...
*
Yet as long as there is breath within me, I shall not succumb to my disappointment, to utter hopelessness. Because there is life yet, and nothing remains constant in life. I shall try to get Cloud back, yet in a way that does not disrespect Aeris...
Only time will tell if I become bitter, or despondent, hopeless of his love…
Or, unbelievably happy.
~Fin.
Actually I support TifaXCloud… I mean, they were childhood sweethearts, and they have been through so much together! Even the game suggests that they are meant to be together… Cloud agrees to be her hero and deludes himself because he isn't strong enough in SOLDIER to impress Tifa…
Why I maintained Cloud currently still maintains his affections for Aeris is that Tifa can angst a little more, and also show her ever hopeful spirit…
Next we move on to Yuffie… (Now you will see something that is seriously not my style…)
Objective: CloudxAeris supporters to sympathise with Tifa! (Yeah!)
Hopeless love (or, By his side—Tifa )
"Cloud. . . I like you."
The phrase most difficult to say to him.
*
It was all over. Sephiroth is dead, the Meteor destroyed.
We have saved the Planet.
*
I could not miss Cloud's departure once again to the temple of the Ancients. Even though Aeris's death was such a long time ago, he still went there every month, without rest. Other days, he visited places where we had seen her before, the hauntingly empty streets of intricate spiral homes, and Midgar, in the church where she once grew her flowers.
He has still not forgotten Aeris, a fact so stunningly obvious none could miss it. And I too couldn't miss those looks of sympathy the others cast upon me... to a person unable to recieve the love she wants from the person she loves.
*
What is the temple of Ancients but a hole?! Deep, empty, frightening... What is the use of his visits, anyway?
And yet I cannot loathe him for those visits, nor Aeris...
It is not their fault that they have so deeply fell in love with each other...
*
Aeris assisted in the saving of the Planet too...
Her prayer and use of White Materia stopped the Meteor...
She is an Ancient, I'm not, how am I to compare?
Who is to say whose love is deeper, for whom?
No one...
*
To long for something yet not have it...
Have you known that feeling?
Especially when it is tantalizingly close by, yet eternally unreachable.
*
How long have I loved Cloud? I know not myself. He was my first love, and destined to be my last... Me forever trapped by my love for him...
He once loved me too, but that was so long ago... A sweet distant memory.
And then he met Aeris.
*
I remember that long ago night when he was leaving for SOLDIER... He promised me to be my hero and rescue me... How ironic it was that he wanted to be like Sephiroth, then...
A shooting star sealed our promise.
Then the time before we set off for the last league of our journey, I fell asleep on his shoulder till the sun cast its gentle light upon the world...
There is no words to describe my joy at that moment, even outweighing the embarrassment I felt when I realized the whole of AVALANCHE had been looking down on us...
But then Cloud was already thinking of Aeris.
*
I cannot forget the rage on his face when he realized Aeris was captured by Shinra, and his staunch determination to get her back... Even before he realized she was an Ancient...he risked so much to get her back... a mere flower girl.
I dismay, I grow jealous at such thoughts, and I berate myself for being jealous. For Aeris has never done me wrong, and Cloud loves her.
But she is DEAD! Can't I even compete with a dead woman over the affections of a man's heart?
I grow discouraged... Will he always be so besotted by her?
Always...
And dismiss my presence, and my love for him...
Always...
*
Yet as long as there is breath within me, I shall not succumb to my disappointment, to utter hopelessness. Because there is life yet, and nothing remains constant in life. I shall try to get Cloud back, yet in a way that does not disrespect Aeris...
Only time will tell if I become bitter, or despondent, hopeless of his love…
Or, unbelievably happy.
~Fin.
Actually I support TifaXCloud… I mean, they were childhood sweethearts, and they have been through so much together! Even the game suggests that they are meant to be together… Cloud agrees to be her hero and deludes himself because he isn't strong enough in SOLDIER to impress Tifa…
Why I maintained Cloud currently still maintains his affections for Aeris is that Tifa can angst a little more, and also show her ever hopeful spirit…
Next we move on to Yuffie… (Now you will see something that is seriously not my style…)