Tifa's Questionable Behavior - CONTAINS SPOILERS

[zacks_clone]

Hmm...Well...

Alright,alright.I suppose I could say i am not really too fond of ANY of the fe-mail characters in Final Fantasy 7.Sure,atfirst I was a big fan of Aeris.Tifa LOOKED the slutty stype.By the end of the game,i THOUGH she was because of some of the comments she made,the constant trying to win cloud over lines and acting pathetic and weak at times too.Aeris seemed not to care too much about winning Cloud over.Playful and caring,a loving person.Remeber when Tifa told Red to be strong?I thought she was copying Tifa.This was all befor my second game,where I took the trouble to go on the date with tifa.

Thats probly what turned me around.Any of you who have gone on the date with Tifa would probly feel abit sorry and have a change of heart.I then felt Aeris was after cloud for the simple reson that she reminded him of Zack,because he was 'pretending' to be,in a sense.

Tifa didnt date other people.Never said she did anyways.not once did she say 'oh,cloud,you remind me of him'.Aeris did.but then,Aeris didnt dress the slutty part.Tifa did....Only sulution here...YUFFIE!(oh,great...bet i started another war)

[TheAbominatrix]

Not a war at all, Zacky. We're adults here, no one's mad at anyone. Just havin a discussion. And a well-informed one as well, not just "She's a slut!" spat back over and over.

Yuffie isnt a sexual character to me at all. Not cause she's young, just cause she's so... not sexual.

[Wightraven]

Ah agreeing to disagree! My favorite end result! *nerdmo shakes hands with the Abominatrix* Then it is settled.

However I DO agree with you about Yuffie. She just wasn't the type for sex in my eyes. Which is too bad, as she was the cutest one. *grins*

[Miriamel]

*Aerith-hater*

Haha! She sucks. *runs*

[Big D]

None of the characters behaved in a promiscuous fashion at any point in the game. There are things which may hint at it - for instance, Tifa's costume and job, Yuffie's enthusiasm to chat with the Seaplane Guy after disembarking at Costa del Sol. However, they all showed that they have standards too. Aeris never layed a finger on Cloud, and Tifa was very annoyed at the prospect of the boys looking at her while they were climbing the stairs in the Shinra complex.

None of the characters actually behaved in an openly dodgy manner, though.

[Ultima Seraph]

Kudos. >DDDD LoL.

I heard that Tifa was an added-in character at the end of the game's storyline development. Whether or not this is true, I know not, but I read this online interview with Tetsuya Nomura a while back (fan translated) and it said something along those lines. Seeing that he did write most of that story... yeah. Just some interesting info.

[TheAbominatrix]

*shakes the nerdmo's hand, shares 'agree-to-disagree cake*


Onto the new info...

Hmm... I never heard that. Doesnt sound too probable, because of all the things she's in, namely the scene when she and Cloud are in the Lifestream together. There's no one else in the party that would know all that stuff to help him through. It is possible though. Neato.

[Kawaii Ryûkishi]

It's obviously not like they threw Tifa in at the last minute or anything. It's just that she wasn't originally originally a part of the plot. I bet a lot of the characters weren't, either. Trivial.

[Savannah]

I don't like either of them. Why do they need Cloud to be their knight in shining armor? Have some dignity and self-respect, girls. *points to Yuna as an example*

[Miriel]

Originally posted by Savannah
Have some dignity and self-respect, girls. *points to Yuna as an example*

O_o *falls over*

I think Tifa had plently of both dignity and self-respect. She was perfectly capable of handling herself without the help of Cloud. She had a crush on him, I can definintely relate to that, it doesn't make her helpless just because she wants someone to be there to support her.

*dislikes Yuna*

[eternalshiva]

lol this is great...

*eats the agree to disagree cake*

ERR... Yeah, Aeris did have some rebound issues BUT she did go after Cloud fair and square! Tifa was friends with bullies when he was young and they picked on him all the time.

BOF, maybe Cloud feels bad about Zack and that's why he hangs out with Aeris. It's a Betty-Veronice-Archie love triangle thing, who knows who will win but it got decided cause one got killed! Yay for Tifa I guess

*she plotted it with Sephiroth! She did She did!*

[Big D]

Yeah, Aeris did have some rebound issues BUT she did go after Cloud fair and square!

Aeris never saw (SPOILER)Zack again after he left for Nibelheim, five years before the events in the game. That's a heck of a long rebound period...
She was drawn to Cloud simply because he had those characteristics that she liked. Tifa knew him as a friend originally, and then wanted to stay by him and find out what was going on after he (SPOILER)turned up in Sector 7 carrying Zack's sword and with gaping holes in his memory. She became even more attached as a result.

So, I don't think either of them had a greater or more legitimate 'claim' to Cloud.

By the way, this may be too late, but please mark your spoilers.

[eternalshiva]

sorry Big D, I didn't realise I wasn't marking them *makes a note for next time*

I agree with you Big D, I am just trying to get the conversation working ;p

[Savannah]

Originally posted by Miriel
O_o *falls over*

I think Tifa had plently of both dignity and self-respect. She was perfectly capable of handling herself without the help of Cloud. She had a crush on him, I can definintely relate to that, it doesn't make her helpless just because she wants someone to be there to support her.

*dislikes Yuna*

Bah. I don't even try to strike up a conversation with Tifa anymore because it always goes about this like: "Cloud... do you remember when we were kids...? Anyway, I really care about you........."

I thought the whole tons-of-girls-after-one-guy thing was pretty amusing when I watched Tenchi Muyo!, but I guess when I have to actually put up with it (sort of) in a game, it's much less entertaining. The girls can barely think for themselves! I like Yuna, in comparison, much better, because the situation was reversed. She knew what was going on, knew what she wanted to do and her life wasn't planned around her romantic interest. Call me a big hairy feminist. *shrug*

[PhoenixAsh]

Yuna was the least independant character in all the FFs I've played! FFX Spoiler
Her entire life and opinions were programmed by Yevon, all she ever said was 'I will defeat Sin' and variations on that. Her only real form of attack was simply calling something else to fight for her. On the occasion that she was the only one who knew something and therefore made the descision herself, she could have very easily got the world destroyed through sheer stupidity until her GUARDIANS came to rescue her.

Tifa held the burden of Clouds past herself, could fight without any weapons unlike everyone else, stuck by Cloud when he was at his weakest state, and actually saved HIM from the lifestream, and at the very end of the game.
I can't remember a point where Cloud really saved her at any time other than when she was still young and dependant.