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[fuyu]

Located a full translation of Maiden Who Travels the Planet last night. Pretty much a direct translation and thus not the best writing in English, but understandable, at least. The chapter where she meets Zax is SO CUTE. He's still so in love with her. It's precious.

And in the end, where she's gathering the Lifestream and such to strengthen Holy, everyone she talked to in the Lifestream who wasn't a complete dick comes by and says something as this is going on...

And Zax is like "Hey Aerith, did you see Cloud's finishing move? That was one of my sword moves too! Doesn't it make you fall in love again? :D :D :D"

Zax is the dorkiest of the dork. How can you not love him? ♥

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[fuyu]

(And I think some people have such huge problems putting themselves in someone else's shoes that they instantly believe they'd do the right thing in her place. And what would the right thing be? Tell Cloud right off the bat that he wasn't at Nibelheim? Way to go, no hero, no game, no world saved.)

Seriously. Something I noticed, looking back at it... Cloud is able to hold it together only as long as he feels Tifa believes in him. He doesn't start breaking until he realizes that she doubts him.

There really wasn't a right thing to do. Confronting him too early, while he was still fragile might have helped, OR it might have screwed him up even worse. That was a LONG SERIES OF MAJOR TRAUMAS he went through.

And really, I dare anyone - ANYONE - to be in that situation, where they're one of two survivors of a destroyed town and they're dead sure the other survivor wasn't there at the time, only to meet said other survivor and find that he remembers the same events, which shouldn't even be possible, but have nobody else to turn to about it, and handle it well. Tifa did the best she could with what she had.

[elanor-pam.livejournal.com]

Didn't he say it himself? That what she thought of him was the thing that mattered the most? He was weirded out but kept his head throughout Seph's taunting; it was when Seph used Tifa's own testimony against him that he broke.

He did all but shape his life around Tifa's recognition, after all.

Considering how messed up the whole thing was, Tifa ended up doing pretty well. She did bring Cloud back.

(And going to sleep!)