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== Has nobody told Vincent about the birds and the bees? ==
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** We don't know how deeply involved Vincent and Lucrecia were before she snapped and married Hojo. Or what the exact timing of her pregnancy was. For all we know Vincent may very well have assumed he was the father.
** For the youngsters out there, Vincent being the biological father of Sephiroth has been a mater of speculation for ''years'' until the compilation came out and discredited it. The scene where he gets all surprised after finding out that Hojo is indeed the father it's an obvious [[Plot Hole]] that [[Shrug of God|nobody had bother to answer]]
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** I always suspected it was a case of [[Rape as Drama]] and that the marriage was to cover it up. I wouldn't put it past him. He ''did'' try to "breed" Aeris, remember?
*** That would only make better the fact that I stop thinking Lucretia was completely out of her mind.
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** Her defensive stats aren't the best in the world...
** It could have been that Aerith had to be a required [[[Heroic Sacrifice]]] in order to call in Holy's power.
** Sephiroth attacked her from above. The angle at which the sword actually entered her is important. Explaining this in words is complicated but basically, because the sword entered her vertically it damaged more than just one general spot [http://images4.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20110403053821/finalfantasy/images/e/ee/AerithDeath3.jpg\]{{Dead link}}. There's also the fact that Aerith is very thin, and doesn't appear to have much muscle; the sword went through her like butter and kept going, with about a foot sticking out by the time it stops[http://images4.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20110403054126/finalfantasy/images/9/91/AerithDeath4.jpg\]{{Dead link}}. Then her body slid down the sword, with the friction likely causing more damage. Although it's not shown, I'm assuming there's also some blood loss. That injury was definitely enough to kill.
** People die if they are killed.
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** Some common fannon says that Hojo is completely inept, and cites breeding Aerith and Red XIII as an example. It's more consistent with other things in the game than assuming he's a great scientist would be.
*** Hojo is certifiably insane. Then again, he also managed to cross human and alien DNA, so who knows? It's certainly possible through the power of SCIENCE!!
**** We're never really told what Nanaki is, but it's clear that they're a very spiritual people who are fairly connected to the planet. That may factor into why Hojo thought he could crossbreed the two. It may also be that the Ancients and other highly evolved things like them naturally come with [[Lego Genetics]].
** I don't think they are all male, it's just that you're seeing a bunch of very low-res character models from, for the most part, top-down.
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** Because the party members are the only ones who really know what's going on. Until Meteor shows up, nobody else in the world besides Shinra even ''know'' that Sephiroth is back, or that there's any trouble at all. They can't pick up weapons and fight against something they don't know about, after all. Plus, Cloud has the direct connection to Sephiroth that pretty much nobody else on the planet does.
*** Though it doesn't explain why the people in Coral don't just buy up some and go after [[Money Spider|Money Spiders]] or something.
**** For the same reason NPCs in every RPG ever don't take advantage of the game mechanics to change their lot in life: it's a video game and they're not player characters.
== The Lifestream just hates Lucrecia? ==
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**** Google what? Most terms from this game will just bring up guides and maybe fic. Doesn't this rumor just come from her deal with Cloud to go out with him if he'll be her bodyguard?
***** If Cloud goes into the Honeybee Lounge in Sector 6, when he comes out he'll find Aerith has been ''flirting'' with all of the men gawking at her in order to sell her flowers. She clearly knows how to get attention, anyway. Aerith's innocent persona is a fairly recent invention. I mean, how many nice girls would force a guy to parade around in drag in front of his childhood love interest? (Speaking of that, did you see the racy dress she was in during that stint? Yowza!)
****** The "innocent persona" has a lot to do with the fact that in her appearances outside of the original, she is [[Crisis Core|only fifteen or sixteen]]. Other than that, there's Advent Children (in which she's dead), and [[Kingdom Hearts]]. And the [http://www.cosplaykitten.com/reference/WallmarketAerith.jpg dress] isn't that racy. It looks like a classy coctail dress, and [http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20101017054510/finalfantasy/images/3/33/Wall_Market_Tifa.jpg Ti]{{Dead link}}[http://images4.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20080229131345/finalfantasy/images/3/3e/Tifa_Hot-.jpg fa] and Yuffie show more skin on a daily basis. As for talking Cloud into dressing in drag (she didn't force him), I just attribute that to game humor. Regardless, that doesn't make her a mean person; she clearly never did anything to them out of spite. She sells flowers to make a living, so why not try to sell them at the Honeybee Inn if she's already there?
**** These rumours might have been also fueled by [[Final Fantasy Tactics]]. The Flower Girl Aerith in that game (who is not the same Aerith) is rescued by Cloud (who ''is'' the same Cloud) from someone who is evidently not a common thug, but a bona-fide criminal leader, to whom she owes money, and who suggests to her to "sell her body" instead of flowers.
** [[Rule 34]]. Enough said.
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*** I never noticed Zack's earring. Huh. But it's not uncommon for men to wear a single earring...on the other hand, I've never seen or met a woman who has intentionally done the same.
**** 27 year old woman here. Been wearing a single earring since I was 15. It may not be common where you live, but where I live it's not that rare.
***** [https://web.archive.org/web/20131010025017/http://2012rankmaniac.files.wordpress.com/2012/02/rankmaniac2012-40.gif Well, I'll be damned.]]
== Cloud beat Sephiroth, spread a deadly disease around the world and got himself infected while searching the cure, he'll take tequila with that. ==
* At first I thought that this should go to WMG, until it ''really'' started to bug me. In On the Way to a Smile: [https://web.archive.org/web/20130401085015/http://ffviinovels.lhyeung.net/caseoftifa/ Case of Tifa], we can read about Cloud and Tifa's relationship, also we can see how Cloud gradually becomes cold with them and starts to show his depression. At one point he [[Drowning My Sorrows|starts drinking]], Tifa is serving him and asks if she can drink with him, and he replies "I want to drink alone", Tifa pisses off and tells him that he then go to drink in his room. Now, call me paranoic, but one of the habits that can end in alcoholism (and also a sign of a secretly alcoholic person) is drinking alone, and doing it while you're depressed only makes it worse, raising the chances of it becomes a problem.<br />Call me crazy, but if Cloud is bad in the movie, who knows what would happened if he had this problem. Add to that that all his problems, in the [[Real Life]], leads people to drinking their problems, like he seems started to do. Someone in another folder talked about Cloud's emotional and mental fragility (a pretty darn good argument), and, if we asume Cloud would have another relapse and gets depressed again, he could resort to booze and maybe things would [[It Got Worse|get nastier than before Advent Children]], in the subject of Cloud's problems. For me, this almost crosses the [[Fridge Horror]] territory, if we take in count that the children and Tifa would have to see Cloud in such state, slowly deteriorating, specially Denzel, looking at his hero state. Tifa would be like this too, but as far as I read, she was angry with him when he refuses her company while drinking, and most likely wouldn't call him of that until it was too late, maybe resulting in Tifa kicking him out, and/or Cloud leaving them ''for real'' if he represented a menace to the children (we don't know if he's an aggresive drunk or something). Add to that Tifa being seriously hurted emotionally, something like this could break her too.<br />So, Yeah. Cloud's acoholic tendencies steps in [[Fridge Horror]] territory for me.
** So... you're upset because Cloud has emotional problems, and deals with them in a bad way. This was not apparent to you at first glance?
*** Not when I saw the original movie, and I didn't read the novellas at that time; I realized when I read them and it were more apparent to me once I watched Complete (I admit that I tend to ignore things or not realize until much latter... [[Attention Deficit Ooh Shiny|Ooh, shiny!]]). And it doesn't upset me, it just... That I didn't realize about it earlier, and damn it's depressing seeing him like that (it looks like his status is contagious). The fridge horror part kicks me from the possible scenarios that could came from Cloud's problem ([[Cloudcuckoolander|I tend to let my mind fly]] with possible scenarios, and the ones I have with this in particular are [[Nightmare Fuel|not]] [[Nightmare Fuel Station Attendant|pretty]]). On the other side, my sadistic and masochistic side, I sorta like this as it shows us how bad he's at the moment, letting up grasp how much his survivor's guilt and PTSD is hitting him, also showing more of his deep, complex character and personality, and many other reasons that I'm not going to list because I'm too tired, forget about it.
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