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Happy New Year! 🥂

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(Scan courtesy of Thelifestream.net, translation by hitoshura)

The place where he awakens — That is Cloud’s Promised Land

As he sleeps, Cloud hears two voices. The voices of two people very dear to him, who are no longer with him. Playfully and kindly, they give him a message: he doesn’t belong here yet.

When he awakes, there was his friends. There were the children, freed from their fatal illness. (82)

Tifa and Marlene, and Denzel asking for Cloud to heal his Geostigma — his family were waiting. (83)

Engulfed in celebration, he realizes where he is meant to live. He realizes that he was able to forgive himself. (84)

And when he turns around — “she” is starting to leave. Together with the friend who had given Cloud his life. (84-85)

Cloud no longer has to suffer in loneliness … And so they too go back to where they belong.

Back to the current of life flowing around the planet —.

The place where he awakens — That is Cloud’s Promised Land

As he sleeps, Cloud hears two voices. The voices of two people very dear to him, who are no longer with him. Playfully and kindly, they give him a message: he doesn’t belong here yet.

When he awakes, there was his friends. There were the children, freed from their fatal illness. Tifa and Marlene, and Denzel asking for Cloud to heal his Geostigma — his family were waiting. Engulfed in celebration, he realises where he is meant to live. He realises that he was able to forgive himself.

And when he turns around — “she” is starting to leave. Together with the friend who had given Cloud his life. Cloud no longer has to suffer in loneliness … And so they too go back to where they belong.

Back to the current of life flowing around the planet —. –FF7 10th Anniversary Ultimania pg. 131 (pg.133 in the revised version)

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Not SE supporting the found fam Christmas with subtle cloti ❤️❤️❤️

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Merry Christmas yall. Have a good holiday, stay safe, and remember Cloud loved Tifa even before he made the promise with her to beyond the last moment we see them both in their DC cameos ❤️

He loves her every second of OG and Remake, CC, BC and AC. And she loves him just as much. Doesn't matter if they're 8bit, polygons, HD, anime or in print, they love each other and always will ❤️❤️❤️

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“Happy Holidays”

Cloud Strife and Tifa Lockhart from Final Fantasy VII REMAKE © Square Enix Fanart only. No copyright infringement intended. Do not steal, edit, use for 18+ content or make any profit with this render, please.

I wish you all a very Merry Christmas!! o(〃’▽’〃)o

CREDITS

Models belong to Square Enix

Other meshes belong to their respective owners

Cardy boots by DallasGirl79; decorations by Severinka and SIMcredible

Big thanks to daemon1 and SSPD077, Oo-Fil-oO, Ria and Sreliata

Posed in XNA Posing Studio XPS (developed by XNAaraL) and Blender (thanks to johnzero7 for the tools)

Rendered in Marmoset Toolbag 3

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If he has to wear a dress to go save his gf then let it be matching!

(bonus chibi cause they all go well together)

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Final Fantasy VII: Remake → Cloud Strife

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FAVOURITE MALE CHARACTERS: Sephiroth      “Don’t deny me. Embrace me.”

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It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas~

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I like it when you sleep, for you are so beautiful yet so unaware of it

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SE doing another Tifa promo after their other one a few days back promoting hers and Aerith's friendship ❤️

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“Let’s play.”

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Under the Christmas tree~

Gift for @omezamenokoucha ♥

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I'm freaking out about those Cloud expressions we got and how similar they are to the end of crisis core. I wonder if this means that we're closer to getting part 2 than we think???

Source

For people who haven't seen the latest tech interview, nonny is talking about Cloud's expressions and how a lot of people on twitter picked up on the way some of the faces match CC or AC expressions.

I think it's more likely the devs took useful assets from CC and AC, and that includes facial expressions to use as a base when they need them. These were all made during part one's development, so they don't need to worry about that work later. It's prep.

It's interesting they left the name marker for that expression up. Hopeful. And it matches Cloud's smile in alone at last ❤️

And that centre pic for Tifa matches her expression during chapter 3 when Cloud says he might stay and build up some savings. And the bottom left is her sad face after they save Johnny and she talks about Cloud's eyes.

And that's my contribution lolol

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I like how the illusion of choice transitioned from FF7 to FF7R. In OG, choice only mattered for how you got the GS date and HW scene, but the endgame's the same no matter what. In FF7R, your choices don't mean sh*t. 20 or 30 min? Place still explodes. Don't want the flower? Too bad. Visit Jessie or not? Answer still points to no. Tried to avoid trainroll? Narrative said otherwise. Tried getting 1 resolution? Guess what, all of them are canon and happened on the same night. We have no say anymor

That's what I keep saying and people still seem to think they have a choice because option boxes appear.

YOU HAVE NO CHOICE.

Imma go through them all just to prove the point. The branching dialogues and even side quests for Cloud's dress all result in the same conclusion. They rejoin the main narrative. They do not splinter off into their own mini narrative that results in slight dialogue changes through the rest of the game. Why? Because it would be ridiculously expensive to film, animate and code that. Not to mention all of the translation teams would have to be on the same page, and they clearly weren't for part one, so that would result in even greater diversity in the continuity of the overall story. That's why no matter what you choose there is only one main narrative.

The reactor timer isn't a choice, although I have run it out and, yeah, you die.

1. The flower. You will take it, no matter what option you choose. In the walk through midgar book there's a conversation snippet of chain link references from key words and the canon narrative from the key word flower in this case is to refuse, then accept, so Cloud hears the girlfriend line. The conversation doesn't go to the next line about how much gil he'll offer for it.

There is no option for gifting the flower. It goes to Tifa.

2. The drink. You will have two drinks. Refuse and Tifa will make one. Accept and Tifa will make one. Either way, Cloud calls her beautiful after the second.

3. Jessie's proposition. No matter which option you choose, Cloud refuses and Jessie says "Psych" and sticks her tongue out.

4. Alone at last. Achieved through completing all of the sidequests in sector 7, there's several narrative threads during the conversation that link it to the main story. You also get to choose Tifa's alternate dress for wall market. If you don't do the quests, the game still acts like you did by putting Tifa in her canon outfit. This means the conversation and date offer, with acceptance took place.

5. The train roll. Even if you run out the timer to avoid seeing the cut scene between Cloud and Tifa the ultimania main digest says the canon narrative is it happened. No matter what you do, you still end up in the train tunnel with Tifa and Barret.

6. Chapter 8 sidequests. The amount you do affects the dress Aerith wears later. By completing them all you also get the language of flowers discovery. But if you do none, there is no default dress for Aerith. She isn't automatically in the red dress, so to get that does rely on the player completing quests that Cloud wouldn't (whack a box?). But even if you do none, Aerith will still appear in a wall market dress, so your choice results in the same conclusion, with a few minor optional scenes to draw the branching narrative back to the main storyline.

7. Cloud's dresses. No matter which set of sidequests you do, or even if you do none, Cloud will end up dancing at the honeybee inn and wear a dress. The options you make to get the sidequests for the dress all branch and then merge to this final result.

8. The sewers. Even if you don't choose the canon narrative, which is Tifa, as shown in the ultimania, there's references to her resolution later in the story and ultimania main digest that show it happened.

9. Chapter 14 sidequests. Even if you don't do any, you still scale the wall and Barret and Tifa talk to Cloud beforehand. The only slight difference is the level of trust and comradeship they display.

10. Stairs or elevator. Even if you take the stairs, Domino's dialogue only fits if you took the elevator.

So, that's all the choices and even when things branch more than once, you still end up with the exact same result. What you choose doesn't matter to the story. It only affects some changes to the characters dialogues. Because it'd be too expensive to produce that many dialogue options that result in changes to the story. They'd have to reshoot the same scenes over and over. And that also why we're gonna have mandatory party members. It's not 97. SE can't produce those options on the scale that 7R is at. We'd be in development hell longer than FF15 was. Gotta sacrifice something, and dialogue trees that muddy the storyline, and optional party members that result in some characters never being used are the easier and healthiest changes to make.