#(also I can't believe they retweeted this sketch

[kyberbonsai]

I forgot to post this little Transplanar RPG sketch here! I'm catching up with the podcast episodes (and I'll soon switch back to YouTube once I'm done with those) and I just can't say how good Transplanar is! It kept me company through the last couple of years and I absolutely love it, when I think it can't possibly get any better it does over and over again. I'm now listening to the Hounds of Mercy and damn, that's such a great miniseries and fits to well with the rest! I love all the PCs and I can't wait to get to hear the new additions to the other Arcs of the series~

[ID: A simplified sketch of Manaia, Vee, Dewey and Øka from TransplanarRPG's Arc Four. Manaia is a half-orc with pointed ears and tusks, her coily hair is braided at the sides of her head and the rest falls on her face and side. Vee is an elf with long pointed ears and a tie, her hair is straight and shaved on one side and long on the other side. Dewey is a pigeon aarakocra with glasses and ruffled feathers. Øka is an aasimar with piercings and scars on their face, their hair is straight and short. End ID]

[astoryofalove]

You recall all the major events this year Square did hold? Among them at least one would hint at clo/ti right? Either I missed it or what they showed was obvious that no other person belongs beside C than the one they included. Can't believe they payed massive ¥ to rent the Tokyo Tower, build a freaking snow sculpture, various videos to display and yet his "light" is missing representation on the Anniversary. Cherry on top? They chose Sakamoto [C] & Sakurai [A] to narrate FF30th video.

 I’m glad others have been thinking the same. It’s getting to the point where things are becoming blatantly clear. From here on out, it can go one of two ways… 

Since the remake was announced, this is the timeline of LTD related events…

June 15 2015: 

FF7R trailer premiers, Aerith’s lily is shown. Trailer depicts a “future” where the Cetra “shell house” Aerith is buried at is replicated as a children’s slide, and children play with Cloud’s Fusion Sword, conveying that the world views Cloud and Aerith as their “heroes”.

Official FF moogle twitter account tweets Cloud’s “My fingers are tingling, my mouth is dry” quote with the caption “At last, the Promised Land reunion has arrived”

Day of the E3 trailer, Nojima releases image of Cloud and Aerith’s figurines next to each other on his shelf and he captioned the image “here we go!” 

FF Explorers artbook released, Cloud and Aerith included but NOT Tifa.

Cloud and Aerith trended on twitter day of remake announcement.

July 2015:

Official merchandise is released, one of which is Cloud’s buster sword with Lifestream wrapping around it.

Official tote bag shows Cloud and Aerith’s CGI artwork together, center stage, Tifa is literally buried under other images and barely visible.

August 2015:

Amano art exhibit has new artwork including Cloud and Aerith, also sold one of the clerith arts as merchandise

September 2015:

Nomura sketch art of Cloud on motorcycle is displayed at ARTNIA, Aerith’s face can be seen as erased lines.

November 2015:

Cloud released as Super Smash Bros character, trailer references Cloud and Aerith’s church meet-cute with Cloud and Zelda kneeling with pikmin around them.

December 2015: 

FF7R gameplay footage trailer shown at PSExp

PS4 port for FFVII released with a unique theme; FF7R Cloud is the wallpaper and Aerith’s theme song plays in the background.

December 10th, pictlogica released image of Cloud and Aerith’s meetcute

(Dec 4) Cloud is added in World of Warcraft as “Koraud” acting as “Aerith Primrose” bodyguard

FF Mobius x FF7R collab announced, depicts Cloud and Aerith Promised Land reunion. Calls Aerith the “eternal heroine”, Aerith DLC costume released, Aerith’s theme song is included in cutscene with Cloud.

KHUX Clerith card released

Rampage Land Rankers FF7R DLC of Cloud/Tifa costumes announced.

January 2016:

FFRk AC Cloud event, quote says Cloud lost someone in a big way (aka aerith) that caused him to close himself off from his FRIENDS

February 2016:

FFRK Valentine event released, a medley of songs was created specially for the event, which Aerith’s song takes up the MOST time played.

FF Brigade Clerith event “Existence to Protect” released for FFVIIR hype

March 2016:

Clerith shown alongside Squall/Rinoa and Tidus/Yuna in FFRK promotional image 

April 30th 2016:

Japanese FFRK Clerith event released.

Music show in Japan includes clerith alongside squall/rinoa and tidus/yuna in montage video

“clerith” is a keyword/search term that directs you to the FF7 iOS port in the Appstore

June 2016:

Rampage Land Rankers is CANCELLED a mere SIX months later.

June 8th: Official SQEN EU products page uploads image of Cloud’s figure standing in white flowers

July 2016:

Android port shows Cloud’s wallpaper then Aerith’s after

Final Symphony official twitter tweets image of Cloud/Aerith/Tifa about the LTD

FF Brigade clerith summer event, Cloud and Aerith released together, Cloud is wearing Aerith’s white materia as a necklace

August 2016:

FF portal held a poll for Cloud’s birthday, one clerith and one CT quote was provided as a choice, in Japanese, clerith quote placed 3rd (no CT quote ranked) and in English the clerith quote came in 2nd whereas the CT quote came in 3rd

Clerith alongside TiYu for TFFAC

September 2016:

English clerith event releases in English

FFRK commercial narrated by Takahiro Sakurai focuses on Aerith.

FFRK event has clerith quotes

October 2016:

CT FFRK event

WoFF confirms clerith

Noctluna parallels clerith in trailer

November 2016:

Jpns WoFF confirms clerith, too.

Tifa added in Puzzles x FF

December 2016:

FFRK “Awakening Cloud” event includes medley of Cloud and Aerith’s theme song

January 2017: 

Polygon publishes “Oral history of FFVII with interviews from creators. Aerith identified as THE heroine. Amano clerith art is the header image

KH 2.8 released; clerith confirmed in romance portion of credits

FF30th special video included clerith alongside squall/rinoa, zidane/garnet, tidus/yuna, and snow/serah

January 31st: during the FF30th and FF720th event, FF7R new image was released, as well as Aerith’s announcement in DFFOO.

February 2017:

English FF Mobius x FF7 collab finally released in the West… on Aerith’s birthday.

February 7th: FF720th snow festival tribute video released, entirely clerith!

Aerith trends in Japan

Aerith is day 1 of FFRK valentine’s day event, clerith scene included

Second half of FF mobius event is released on valentine’s day, again, entirely clerith

March 2017:

Cloud references clerith bodyguard promise in DFFOO

Clerith used as relic banner in FFRK

FF Mobius second-half is concluded, cloud goes to the promised land to meet aerith

official FF30th commercial shows clerith with every other major ff couple

in FFRK, for white day and valentine’s day clerith matches (x)

clerith ffrk event references the highwind promise and cloud’s grief over aerith and speaks of having to go to a place

April 2017:

WoW uses clerith to advertise “april showers bring may flowers”

more clerith with major ff couples at ff30th tokyo tower celebration 

FFRk holds celebration for FF30th, aerith theme song included

April 29th: clerith narrated FFRK commercial

May 2017:

Clerith on gameinformer cover

ffrk clerith w/ other ff couples

FF brigade clerith wedding

June  2017:

clerith brigade wedding continues with a proposal scene, cloud is obtainable only with aerith

tifa has a wedding dress added later on, no cutscene w/ cloud, tifa does not reward players with groom cloud, either

E3 showed FF30th commercial with clerith + other ff ships

new ff mobius card released, shows Wol in Cloud’s outfit and aerith’s lilies are spotted in the background

July 2017: 

Sakaguchi retweeted clerith cosplay

aerith released in dffoo

September 2017:

IGN publishes clerith piece

We have TGS to go through and then Playstation Experience in December. Now, SQEN could continue with this clerith drive OR they could very well start to “level” it out with Tifa and Aerith appearing at the same time. If they keep releasing marketing that’s biased for clerith/aerith up until the release date of FF7R’s first half, then clerith IMO is on the smooth track to becoming “reconfirmed”. If Tifa starts getting fan service like clerith has, then i think it’s a 50/50 toss up.

all i can tell you is that from other shipping fandoms i’ve witnessed, the girl that takes over marketing campaigns directly leading up to a major event (in this case FF7R) ends up being the love interest of the main guy. 

and currently, since the remake was announced it’s been nothing but clerith/aerith drives. until this changes, i see nothing to worry about. let’s just all pray that square enix keeps on with the clerith love an NO ct fanservice. 

so yeah, you said it best anon.

(sorry it got sloppy btw, there was a lot to write down)