Owie

[mimi_sardinia]

The plotbunnies are biting again, through they aren't being very original at the moment. Current idea has strong resemblance to bits of this series, particularly One of These Days, and moreso to bard_linn's Equivalent Trade. There's also a part of the plot that may get me castigated for Tifa-bashing.


So, after the events of AC Cloud is pretty good. He's cured of his geostigma, he's come to terms with the deaths of old friends and is starting to be social again.

Without any warning, he disappears. He goes on a delivery and never comes back.

It is several years later that he is found alive - and living with a reserected Sephiroth.

Of everyone's reactions to this Tifa's is the worst. She has never been able to let go of Cloud even though everyone had practically accepted him as being dead. The whole issue of Cloud had become rather obsessive for Tifa - so much so that everyone avoided talking about him in her hearing range.

Of course, finding out he's with Sephiroth immediately sets Tifa off badly - she immediately assuming Cloud's being missing is due to Sephiroth kiddnapping him and holding him captive.

Okay, I don't have the exact course of events set out but Tifa does something to Cloud while he is seperated from Seph - I originally thought something akin to date-rape actually - that Cloud reacts badly to. Badly =/= yelling at her, badly means beating her up viciously and only being stopped because Seph - thanks to a mental link between him and Cloud - arrives just in time (with others following) to stop Cloud from killing her.

This is where the resemblance to the abovementioed fics come in.

Aerith and Zack make an appearance, saying things need to be set straight.

Gaea, the Planet, wanted someone who could hear it, someone to protect it. It picked Cloud because he was already halfway there. The problem is Gaea is barely sentient in it's own right, so when it grabbed Cloud and altered him for it's purposes it did not understand "gentle". The result was that it damaged Cloud's mind - badly. Cloud was angry at the torture the Planet put him through and set out to "punish" it... by summoning another Meteor.

Sephiroth's reserection was Zack and Aerith's doing. Before Nibelheim Sephiroth and Cloud had the beginings of a relationship but between Sephiroth's lack of understanding of how normal human interaction works and Cloud's total lack of self-worth it was not going well. Zack was just about to make the pair of them sit down and talk everything through... after they got back to Midgar from Nibelheim.

To put it simply, Sephiroth's role now is to guard the guardian - to keep Cloud stable. Tifa's interference at a time when Sephiroth was not present was something that could have caused Cloud to go off the deep end again.

So there you go. I'd advise CloTi fans not to read - I'm usually nicer to Tifa but... :) Sometimes you need to vent against an unfavoured character.

Comments

[mimi-sardinia.livejournal.com]

In that situation she was in a coma for 7 days afterwards so she didn't have a chance to correct her father when he first took it out on Cloud. On the other hand there's also no evidence she ever did tell her father otherwise when she did wake.

[jessara40k.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I know she was in a coma, but she should have told him when she woke, and I'm pretty sure it would have been mentioned if she had.