Do you think Cloud is Emo

[solidsnake420]

for me thats a big fat no im sick of people calling him and the v man emo there not emo there more of the strong silant type and there deeper then some of these paper thin allways happy heros cloud has had real pain he has had real strugal and he over came them and for that i say he is not an emo just becase he dosent run around saying dumb things like WE CAN DO IT GUY IF WE BELIVE WE CAN AND IF WE WORK TOGETHER bla bla and no cloud is not captan sunny shoting rainbows out his a## he is a little dark and i like that about him but he is no crybaby makeup waring sisy who follows My Chemiacal Romance Around like there the gratful dead or something if anything cloud seems like the kind of hard core metal have a beer with you kind of guy who is dark and bleake but not a emo crybaby who cuts him self and listens to welkome to the black paraid while he dose it like some emo chicks i know there a diff between dark and brutal and emo and sisy and i think deep down clouds dark and brutal

[Boney King]

So is this for the troll competition, or...?

[demondude]

Looks like somebody was born six months premature.

[Jessweeee♪]

No, I think in AC he was just kinda bummed that he was dying of an incurable disease.

[Wolf Kanno]

God yes I believe he is. His dark secret is that he's a sensitive soul that couldn't make the cut into SOLDIER and spends the entirety of the Nibelheim incident and Crisis Core in general whining about how pathetic he is and not as cool as Zack and Sephiroth.

Now granted I don't believe he's as bad as some people say he is, but I don't think he's "Dark and Brutal" at all, far from it to be precisely. AC is another where I never felt he was brooding over his disease, he just used it as an excuse to separate himself from the others and brood on and on about how he couldn't save Aerith and wanted forgiveness for events that are completely out of his control to begin with. Thus he shouldn't be whining about them to begin with. Cloud doesn't need forgiveness, he just needs a good "boot to the head".

[Marshall Banana]

I thought that he was pretty optimistic and ambitious when he wasn't confused or losing his mind in FFVII.

[solidsnake420]

man i think people miss under stand cloud as a person when he goes into battel he has to be dark and brutal no on nice is going to finish off the s man and when people call him emo that burns me up some one emo is not going to have the power to stop some like sephiroth there just going to go cut themselfs and cry about how thay cant do it and as far as cloud whining about how he couldent save arith he in my opinion was not wining he was just reflecting on his lifes past mishaps if u cant do that u are dommed to do the same things as befor hence the reason he could not be around tiffa he did not want to repeat his past mishaps with her but thats just me

[MJN SEIFER]

People are only emo if they concider themselves emo...

[Yar]

No, I think in AC he was just kinda bummed that he was dying of an incurable disease.

WHAT!?!?

Thanks for the spoiler, Jusswehhhh♪.

Cloud isn't emo, he's vamp.

[LunarWeaver]

I don't think so. Emos are stereotyped to be super dark and depressed over nothing. Cloud has quite a few genuine problems to justify his attitude. If I were him, I'd be a lot more of a wreck.

[Elly]

sounds like someone has the narrow sterotypical view of Emo... actauly Cloud is one of the coolest Emo Heros concieved... unlike mr. snake who's slandering everyone into the genre...

[LunarWeaver]

I said it was a stereotype to recognize it's not always accurate. But people slinging "emo" at Cloud with the intent of insulting the way he acts seems like throwing the stereotype at him to me.

[Wolf Kanno]

I feel its possible to be a badass and a emotionally sensitive soul as well. Zack is definetly a nice guy and he did much ass kicking. Zidane, Bartz, and Tidus are also very nice people who would kick your ass two ways into next Tuesday if you crossed them.

My main problem with Cloud is that once he regains himself and you see him for who he really is; he's a moody, pessimistic man who lacks real self confidence. He only acts when he's finally pushed into a corner and he is usually the first person to say we will probably die and fail before the others. Tifa, Barret, and Cid spend most of the second disc giving him pep talks to keep him cheered up. Despite this, he does have excellent resolve and he is true to his feelings, I just wish he was likable.

He spends all of AC, running away and brooding over how pathetic he is. This always irritated me cause he just helped save the world two years prior and instead of enjoying what little time he has, he would rather spend his days wallowing in self pity and seeking forgiveness from a dead girl. His attitude just irritates me. I feel he's a very human character but I don't necessarily feel this means he could be thought of as a role model.

Cloud is the video game equivalent of Rock Star, he is loved by millions, does many extraordinary things and has people who genuinely love him. Instead of feeling he's the luckiest guy on earth; he spends his days locked up in a hotel room doing countless drugs and wallowing in how worthless he is. The only difference is that we will probably never experience Cloud's unexpected death from drug overdose or a shotgun to the face.

I always think of Cloud when I hear this song.

[Momiji]

*to self* save it for the trolling competition, Momi...

[Marshall Banana]

I feel like I played a game that's completely different from the game that you guys played.