I hope her experience was better than mine. Like actually being cared for and given medical attention. I got to continue working with all the disorientation and shit in full effect.
I was there to watch over her, so yes.
Leading me into the next tangent, are you familiar with the wonderful world of Zelda (and other) randomizers?
It'd be legendary but... Soldier overshadows him.
True enough. In our imaginary crossover everyone thinks he's undergoing degradation, only to be told he's not even a Soldier, much less SOLDIER.
It's funny though, I actually feel bad for Scout. His feelings for Ms. Pauling are actually very genuine and sweet, it's not his fault she's in the closet. And his eventual solution, to just wait patiently for her to like him is a lot better than you might expect from an arrogant, murderous front line merc. Though if he did try to force things I'm pretty sure Pauling would kill him... unless Heavy caught him first.
I don't know if she's not into men at all, but she's definitely not into him.
Everyone had potential in 2, it was just potential to be murdered by Caim.Urick lived up to his at least
So you're saying they're all on the same level as faceless mook hordes?
Well when you put it that way
I insist. I know you love the taste of blood, even your own, but I do recommend against it.
Where he can meet a strong lady uranium miner.
How can you tell it's lady uranium?
I have a half-baked memory of a Joker crime spree centered around dissatisfaction with a comic book ship. Was that canon? Fanfic? It was entirely in-character for all involved but aside from that I can't remember.
It fits him, but I can't recall an actual comic it's from. Probably fanfic
He's used to moving a lot of mass around, that helps.
The Buster Belly.
Sounds adorable, yeah
Fair enough.
Exactly. Y'all have fun tryna' sap this'n here, ya yellow bellied scoundrel.
Now I feel like we need a "FF7 Cast as the TF2 mercs" fanart series. The problem is who should be who? Do we go for most appropriate, or most absurd? Is Aerith the Heavy? Is Cait Demoman because scottish and bombs, or Red because they share one eye and extreme rarity?
I didn't know I needed this crossover until now. I do wonder how long before Medic gets fed up and takes a bonesaw to Hojo mind you.
Those are technically very different questions. For Medic the bonesaw is almost the same as a handshake.
Ah yes, Scouts mad dog big brothers. I should have tossed the word "another" in there to account for them.
BFF Pyro and Engie makes me smile.
Barret would love an upgrade that gives him mini-sentries. No joke.
I'd love to have it in game, too. Let something else draw aggro for awhile.
If you try the Cosmo Kweh you'll feel like you're soaring a thousand feet above a resplendant canyon. Also that you're a bird.
Indeed, that'll keep him striving pretty much forever.
I mean, it has so far.
Sounds easier to bribe him to me
FTAGHN!
He's really a big pushover, when you get right down to it.
Yup, I agree. He will figure it out, too, it's just too useful not to.
The "now how the fuck did I do that" training montage will be great. Maybe he can tech Yuffie to throw energy bolts while she gives him pointers on impossible boomerang behavior.
Ahhh yes, the old tank n' spank. That works and is more appropriate for the thread.
Indeed. Buddha, like Cloud, deals the spank back himself.
I love interpreting game mechanics too literally. It's silly and fine.
It leads to the most absurd scenarios, yes.
No joke. Everyone just group trauma hug already. Yes including you Vinnie.
The only one who doesn't need a trauma hug is... Reeve. And even then, he needs a "having to deal with the rest of Shinra" stress hug.
Someone call Reeve, we got fundraising ideas for him.
What do we call the awards? The Shinnies? The Lifeys?
You're not wrong. Though to be fair, Snape Wives and similar would be snake-fuckingly crazy even if they legit were real people.
They'd be crazy in a different way, like real people shippers.
I still like Marlene best when she imitates her dad, but this is still on point and cute.
Marlene's Barret impersonations are amazing, yes.
That's how I read Chadley too.
It's pretty undeniable given the scene you get when you do enough of his missions.
I have to remind myself that sometimes I just have to let it go, that sometimes people are going to find characters I grew up with fatally flawed no matter what, I see the discourse on the unmoderated sites like Aerith is a "two timing back stabbing skank" and Tifa "narcissistic selfish bully" and I guess I just have to let it be, that some will always see it that way no matter how hard Nojima writes otherwise.
It's amazing how fractally wrong these are. Unless they mean Aerith is two timing by going on dates with Cloud AND Tifa... we may need to look into this...
But no, her ex is dead or gone, she's a bit socially crass but she's doing what she's doing very in the open and not behind anyone's back and she's been interested in one and a half men in her life as far as we know.
As for Tifa, that's almost literally the exact opposite. She's a pushover softy of a people pleaser who has trouble turning down requests for help.
Seeing that during the date, Aerith was checking in on Cloud regarding the CT misunderstanding in Kalm and Aerith advising Cloud to not take advantage of his relationship with Cloud, I wonder if Aerith was playfully teasing to make Tifa uncomfortable. So that Tifa would be more upfront with her feelings to Cloud. It felt like she was kinda being a wingman. Probably not the best way to do it, but it kinda read that way.
I sort of see it like this too- this is a trope that sometimes appears in japanese fiction- but Aerith might take it a bit far because of her emotions for the Zack in Cloud. It's also worth noting that these two very flirty moments occur before Tifa's backstory segment in TOTP chronologically since that IIRC starts right after they leave Kalm. Her flirting also tapers off significantly after this.
To be fair to Silver, I think she got relentlessly attacked by CAs, which really soured her. But yeah most CTs are certainly avoiding her because yikes.
She can join the club on getting attacked. I've been called basically everything in the book for arguing this position.
For example, I apparently brainwash people.
Pinkers, CAltists, extremists, whatever you call them, are fucking unhinged.
But you're right. It's been muddled ever since they were just like "Ya, she can choose not to dissolve in the LS bc she's a Cetra, and she can talk to Cloud/help him out whenever she wants, and she can also come back to life by making remnants like Sephiroth did but she decides not to, oh AND she can use her strongest limit break from beyond the grave to heal the world of geostigma." 
