Like what the topic says.....
Did CloudxAerith change or improve anything in your life? :angel:

Hm. I've certainly improved artistically from drawing them so much over the years, so I'd say it's changed my life a lot!! ^_^

Cleris, and DF, have taught me that there's alot more under the surface than I thought. It's changed my view of video games, and I just wish that I could get other folks to understand!

It showed me that not all boys are typical and that video game guys can be more real than live guys. :lol:

Well the pair actually got me into drawing, and I don't know where I'd be if I wasn't!

Firstly, it got me into this great forum :D
It also widened my perspective on 'spiritual' love and love beyond death.
And it sometimes got me looking beyond some anime and videogames for Japanese symbolism

In a way... XD Part of the reason why I kept playing FFVII was because I wanted to find out what would become of this couple, and FFVII changed my life in multiple ways! So it certainly lent a hand in it. I've put a lot of time and effort into understanding this couple and deciphering FFVII and finding all that I can about them (*points to odd coincidences thread*). There's a good number of people I've met *through* being an FFVII / Aeris fan. If It weren't for FFVII, I wouldn't have gone to the Last Cetra boards, I wouldn't have created CFW (my highly successful role playing game), and my horizons wouldn't be as broad as they are now.

aerith and cloud made me realise that there is someone out there for me, with the same kind of passion too. when i first realised that cloud and aerith belonged together, i kept singing to myself, wanting to find other websites that share my thoghts. now i have found you guys...my family!! *sniff* :cry:



cloud and aerith 4ev@ :cleris:

Yeah , I guess in a way this couple pairing did change my life slightly ^_^.
Most probably it gave me the inspiration to do things like play the game, write fanfics, make fanarts and what not :P.

It sort of gave me something to look forward to if ever I was feeling down, especially when I stumbled upon Ally's website :huggle: . Other than that, if it weren't for CloudxAerith, I wouldn't have met all of you :blush: :cleris: . ^_^

Cloud x Aerith... Aerith changed me the most but I'll only tell you how they both changed me... their hope of seeing eachother again inspired me... it made me hope that I will see the one I love again...

That's so sweet, naseroth. :huggle: I hope you do too!!

yup, cloud and aerith brought me to this forums and for that I am thankful. *^__^*

cleris get me more into FF SAGA ^^

:cleris: inspired me too. It's sad :sad:
I made fics based on cloud and Aerith relationship with other
characters. I love how they portreyed there relationship :D so cute
it changed my life a bit. I like Aerith's theme.
I just can't forget it

me either, DL. its just so sad, and its like you can feel cloud's pain. its so obvious that cloud loves her.


RABID CLOTI, get it in your thick skulls! Cloud loves aeris!

That's what I think too ... Aerith and Cloud were falling in love but then she died :cry:

Cleris changed me from a tomboy into a more feminine person :D

Claeris made me the same, I always liked Aerith and I knew Cloud loved her when I played the game, so I guess my life did not really change. But here I can do one. ClAeris made me purple.

Cloud/Aerith? Their story taught me that there's more to love than happy endings.

>> Eh... The couple hasn't really changed my life. Just what I think. "If you love someone, let them go, if they come back, you know you have something true." Or something like that. <_<;

I would say that Cloud/Aeris has changed my life. But then again, it's fair to say that all of FFVII did too. A story can change things. It definitely encouraged me to write far more, and allowed me to really get in touch with and develop my imagination in a way I hadn't been able to before, and I'm very grateful for that still.

As for the more subtle, indirect changes...I can't really find the words for it... It (both the game and the pairing) affected me so much, and made me think about it for so long afterwards, and drew such a strong and honest emotional reaction from me that I can't imagine how I would have developed without that one little influence. It changed me, who I was, in a way...so I suppose it must have changed my life through that. I engaged emotionally with the story and characters, especially Cloud and Aeris, and I think that kind of emotional interaction with something doesn't just vanish into thin air afterwards. It's not so much changed my life as my character, but I think that's enough. :cleris:

thats beautiful, hyper. *wipes tear from eye*

Thank you so much, AR! :huggle:

Well Cloud did not actually change my life,I knew that he's cool,but Aerith did change my life.


Originally I was a cold blooded ******,but now actually cry,yes cry,and I am guy.



I know that most of you view me mad,for loving Aerith as much as I do,but it
was not always this way.One day I posted something at elfwood,that was a picture that had her in it,I said''Die,Die for what you did to me''.Well one night as i was listening to her theme,apparently ealier,I did not lik her,for fear of the unknown,
I began to realize,maybe I was wrong about her.As i was playing the gane for the first time,yes I know she died before i played the game,but more proof began to play,that I was wrong,I found out that she was born in the slums,she lost her mother,and she was close to the last of her kind,but not quite,Sephiroth is one too.
Then I found out she lost her Beloved father in war.As I was playing her theme,
I bagan to realize maybe i was a bit harsh.I bagan to realize that she helped me began to love other poeple,not just myself.



Thats hoe she changed my life.

To begin with, I've always felt that the concept of a "love beyond death" is very beautiful...but to see that concept being portrayed by an extremely well-liked couple was just absolutely emotional and even breathtaking.

Although most people claim the game wasn't exactly about love, I think "love" was, in fact, a theme...only it was portrayed with subtle hints in this game instead of the more-obvious. Basically, it's inspired me to understand that there's a deeper meaning behind everything, and that there's more to life than just the obvious. FFVII (more than any of the others in the series) stressed the importance of spiritual love, and for me, it really reinforced the beauty behind that whole concept.


*waves Cleris banner* :cleris:

Cloud didn't change my life as much as Aeris did. When I first played the game, I liked her the most. It was like an internal war between her and Tifa. Aeris won as you can tell. Abyway, I used to be a person who didn't think of the concicuenses, but when Aeris died. I sat there and watched it and thought about all the things that I missed because of all the things that I'd done to others. I could have been a better person. I could have said no to a certain someone. I could have done alot of things, but I said that it was okay or yes.

Cloud changed me in a way also. He made me understand how the world is. When 9/11 came, I was still playing the game and I think I was on the 2nd disk by then, but when I saw that they WTC was demolished, I thought of Cloud and what he did at the start of the game. AVALANCHE blew up a mako reactor to save the planet. What did they do? Nothing! They just did it to see people suffer.

Thanks to both of them, I see the world as the harsh one it can be. I really used to think that the world was perfect. How wrong was I?

No...I don't agree that the reason why they did it was JUST so they could see people suffer. Remember, people on the AVALANCHE side were suffering too and doing stuff like blowing up reactors was AVALANCHE's way of telling Shinra that they were sick of suffering at their hands. I'm not saying that their method of doing it was right but AVALANCHE had reasons too.

When I first played the game (not completed just started playing) I thought to myself:

"AWW look, Tifa is so pretty, and look how she acts with Cloud, and the promise! So cute! They love each other!" then I saw Aerith and, although I thought she was ok, I loved Cloud x Tifa, I was 12, I didn't look deeper into the game, I just looked at superficial means and thought that because Cloud and Tifa where childhood friends they were good for each other! (I'm a fan of Vyse x Aika from Skies of Arcadia...)

But then I started seeing Anti-Aerith sites, saying how she was trying to break them up, and, for some reason, I thought the same, I was naive and stupid and started hating Aerith, and liked Tifa more. I didn't go as rabid as to be horrible to Aerith or scream out at her but I didn't like her, because no one else liked her (I know, sad but true...)

Then, I read somewhere that she dies, I didn't laugh or cry, I just thought "wow how can they kill her off? she's a Cetra!"

But when it happened, it shocked me, I cried, I bawled, I remember my sister was playing Ghetto Superstar in her room when I first saw the scene:

"that is what you are
reaching for the stars
coming from afar
run away with me
to another place
we can rely on each other
from one corner to another"

now the song isn't really relevant to anything, but I saw Cloud's reaction to her death..."OMG HE LOVES HER!" and the whole "run away with me, to another place" it just seemed to fit for me (I know, I was 12/13 and weird!).

I cried for days, poor Aerith, I must have really liked her, I started ignoring these sites bashing her, they where wrong abut her, she went and sacrificed herself for the planet, for Cloud, why would she do that if she's a man-stealing whore? She cared so much that her life wasn't as important as their saftey and future.

I replayed the game over and over and saw all the cute CloRith scenes, and when I found out Tifa kept secrets from Cloud and was never his friend in the past I knew she wasn't right for Cloud, she'd destroy him, she turned from the intruction manual's "optimistic lively girl" to the "pessemistic worry-wart"

The promise, the lovey-dovey promise I once thought was special was forced, I knew this before coming hear and reading all of your thoughts on the couple, and I know now I'm not the only one who sees deeper into such a powerful game.

And now I love to draw cute happy pictures and make graphics of them together XD

Who could ever hate Aerith? T_T I was possesed by the evil CloTiness....seriously, CloTi's have to become very negative and hateful to justify their pairing, it's upsetting :(

Final Fantasy VII made me want to play the rest of the Final Fantasy series.

Cloud and Aeris proved to me that guys don't know how to show their feelings but it's there when you look for it. My cousin actually was playing Final Fantasy VII and he told me which group should fight so he could make his team. (I always picked Cloud, Aeris, Tifa.. not realizing the love triangle)

and then he told me my favorite girl, Aeris, dies! :sad: I was so upset! He showed me the movie too and I said: "How can they kill her off?! Cloud loves her! She better come back in the later discs!"

So I sat there watching while my cousin played.. and then he showed me how to play Final Fantasy and at that young age of I think 9 or 10, I asked for my own playstation and FFVII game and I became addicted.

And I was always pro Cleris. I can't see who likes Tifa with Cloud anyway. :whistle:

One day, I believe, Cleris will be together again! :cleris:

Im proud to say that I have always been a Cleris supporter. :cleris: I guess FF7 (and Cleris of course) changed my life in a sense that I learned to appreciate RPG games more. :angel:

The only changes Cleris did to me is making me love it more from KH and FFVII, though I didn't play the FF series in order they came. :blush: I also love the deeper meaning and symbolism in the pairing and how they're meant to be. From now own then, I always keep an eye out for more symbolism in other games. :cleris:

Not sure how Cloud and Aerith themselves change me since I play FFVIII before FFVII. I'll get back to that...

It didn't change my life drastically in anyway at all, but my liking Cleris is very strange in the first place, since I don't usually go for the healer-type girls who wear pink and are always cheerful and happy. But I don't know, with Aeris it was somehow different because in the game she really struck me as being sincere, and not shallow at all. And through the game, I also discovered that Aeris had a backbone and was a strong person, unlike many of the bubbly shallow heroines I've come across. That really impressed me, and I've been a Cleris ever since. :)

Final Fantasy 7 got me into the whole series.That then got me into forums were I met so many cool people. :angel:

hmm I go on AerithxCloud forums more :D I am certainly obssessed with reading post that concerns the LoveTriangle. I spend a good part of my day checking the forums for new posts :blush: while I am doing my homework, and chores. Oh and since Cloud and Aerith's traggic love story I find myself favoring anime or game couples who best resembles my favorite FF couple. :cleris:

^___^ CloudxAerith-ness changed my life...it made me see things in a new light.

Like when somebody dies, I thought that they just stopped loving whoever died....

and the Cloud and Aerith happened to me...and I believe that people will never stop loving somebody just because they died....^_^

So yes, CloudxAerith-ness changed my life.

:cleris: ^________^

In 1997, I saw my first Final Fantasy 7 commercial. The most poignant and moving part? Cloud laying Aerith to rest. That awoke the romantic in me.

Did Final Fantasy 7 change my life drastically? No, I can admit that.

Did it change ME? Yes. The game, their relationship, and most especially Aerith herself helped me along to become a person I enjoyed being. I learned from Aerith like a little girl learns from an older sister; she taught me the importance of giving and loving and warmth. She taught me to appreciate life for what it is, regardless of my station or environment. Hell, without her, I would be...some random kid, that's who I'd be. But because of her, I smile when I see flowers, and I notice when the sky is extra blue, and I can stand up and say, "I can't fight, and you can beat me up, but I'm still better than you that you'll ever know." Conceited? Maybe. But you'll never get anywhere with low self-esteem. :lol:

I think I have to steal parts of what other people have said, but mostly it just makes me want to write.

:cleris:

Well, Aeris made me like flowers alot more. :lmao: Other than that, not much about CxA changed me that much, but I now beilive you can fall in love, even if you havn't known someone that long.

They made me support more couples. At first, I didn't really care but now all I can talk about is fanon and canon couples <_<...

ISAACXMIA RULEZZZ!!! :devil:

Hello..This is my first time writing in a forum period. I am glad I chose this one. Well, I recently became a cloud and aerith fan. I first noticed them in Kingdom Hearts I. I have never heard of them, however, I did hear of the final fantasy games in the past but didn't know what it was about.

At the end of Kingdom Heart when I saw Cloud and Aerith find each other again, I got a feeling that there was something between them.

Then I bought Kingdom Hearts II and you saw more clues that there was something between them.

Then I bought Advent Children..and what can I say...I was hook on their love. It is really beautiful. It kind of reminds me the love between Kenshin and Kaoru. You don't have to say the words "I love you", but you can tell with their actions...to the point where you can feel it yourself.

So in return to the question "How did Cloud and Aerith change my life?"

It made me believe that a beautiful and deep love like that can really exist. It's really a good feeling.

I hope I did a good job in writing in this forum :blush:

Hmm where to start..?

I'll just list.. :P

They inspired me to draw more..
(making me a better artist)

They got me into KH.

They got me into the FF series.

They made me a complete computer geek!

They inspired me to learn photoshop.

They... uh.. They made me have a hatred for the pairing Cloti!

There. Bless this couple! :cleris:

Cloud and Aerith have shown me that love knows no boundaries and you can love a person even after they are gone. I learned a lot about love in Japan, I started reaserching a little after I became a Cloud and Aerith fan. I met so many cool friends on the Cloud and Aerith forums.