Quote Originally Posted by Richard View Post
Ooooh. For a minute there when I looked at the topic I thought you were asking about friends with benefits, lol.

Never thought Tifa or Aeris had any sort of rivalry other than having common interest in Cloud. I will say that Aeris took advantage of what Tifa was taking for granted, even than in Advent Children Cloud and Tifa remained friends......which is weird because he had always had a crush on her and she was his motivation to run off and join Shinra and eventually enroll in Soldier....which never happened.

Yet they are still in each other's friend zone. I don't get it and that's probably because I don't think I could understand or comprehend what their relationship in the game was.
The tie-in novels make it vela that they became a couple.

My favorite FF couple are Fran and Balthier. I love them so much more than the others if only because they are so subtle about it (seriously, I can't believe how blind people are about it, considering shippers usually interpret everything as romantic). You meet them as a couple who's already been through a lot together. They don't need words to understand each other and the body language they use towards each other is filled with so much trust, affection, and passion it's not even funny. And judging by Balthier's throwaway line about Fran being tied up, I get the feeling they have a pretty kinky sex life.

I love them so much that I want to write a story about how Fran abandoned her village with the man who made her fall in love with the sky, and I don't even do fanfic!

Also, I liked Aerith and Zack in Crisi Core. They were adorable.

I also loved the friendship between Cecil and Kain and how it plays out between FFIV and The After Years. You can tell that no matter what goes wrong and who loses himself, the other will be there to get him back up on his feet. And this in spite of all the betrayal, which I feel only made their bond stronger.