>no friends as a kid
>nobody liked him or wanted to include him
>became jealous of everyone and tricked himself into thinking he was too smart or mature to hang out with them at all
>became obsessed with a girl who he barely knew or talked to
Cloud is LITERALLY me.
No friends as a kid
>girl he barely knew or talked too
they were childhood friends you faggot
Play the game.
Not OP, but play the game again. Tifa barely knew Cloud and the scene of Tifa meeting up with Cloud was something out of the blue for her. She didn't think about Cloud until AFTER he left.
Its not really covered, there are 2 options up for interpretation.
1) Cloud was the local autistic kid Tifa hung out with out of pity because he was uninvited to the local games.
2) Cloud was the only boy that didn't constantly beg Tifa for attention growing up and, as such, earned her interest and close friendship.
Damn I totally forgot about this
Feels shitty considering the remake painted them as bffs
You are remembering wrong. When they went into the lifestream it was revealed Tifa was always hanging around with the other village boys but not Cloud, he was stalking her as a kid. The scene where they meet up with each other as kids Tifa considered that something she would never do.
the same people who wrote the original wrote remake so either it's a new take on their relationship or this is what they meant all along and you got the wrong idea through a bad translation
>Cloud is LITERALLY Yas Forumse