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I've always disliked Tifa and Cloud's relationship cause to me it seems to be a complete lie. Tifa goes on and on about Cloud being her childhood friend and when you finally see the flashbacks, you learn that Tifa hardly knew him. He was just one of many who hanged out with her and she even had a hard time remembering anything about him before he talked to her on the water tower. Yet even when the truth is revealed they go back to the whole "we were special friends" spiel they had been carrying around for the 2/3rds of the game.

So I feel her foundation for loving him is pretty shaky. Cloud can get away with forgetting important details cause he's afflicted with Jenova but what's Tifa's excuse? Her sole purpose in the title (besides T&A) is to reveal major plot points long after they should have been revealed and to forget important details until it becomes conveniently necessary. God she pisses me off...
True, but I feel it borrows from the real life experience of meeting someone from your hometown/school/whatever that you never really talked to, but really hitting it off based on that shared experience. Everyone goes through that, meeting someone at college or on your summer vacation from such, that you never talked to back then, but you guys really get along great now that the introduction was made.

When you add in the fact that Tifa and Cloud are really the last surviving people from the Nibelheim incident (Zangan not a native, and the others turned into mindless "clones"), that's a strong bond they share, and that's something you can build on.

I like how the developers kept the relationship open-ended, even in the movie Advent Children, where the audience is supposed to interpret their relationship based on how they play the game. And I always get Tifa at the Gold Saucer scene.

I kinda don't like how they made Cloud bitch out in that movie, though. After playing and beating the game, I just find it hard to believe he would go back into super loner-mood after everything he's been through and experienced. Maybe GeoStigma has something to do with that.
Uhm, before b*tching about their relationship, maybe you should get the full picture of their relationship first.

On the way toa smile: the case of Tifa, namely. Square has released a story that deals with their relationship and here's a spoiler: you guys didn't get single thing right.