Something I don’t see brought up and I wonder if they’ll go into this at all in the actual game (I never played OG so I don’t know if there’s any basis for a scene like this) but Tifa also has so much bottled up guilt and anger.
I’ve been rewatching Remake stuff the scene after the plate falls and Barret is mourning and shouting and angry because he thinks his daughter and three of his friends are dead. And Tifa just walks up and is like “we did this.”
Barret of course is like “no, Shinra took it this far, they’re the ones to blame” and when he looks back at Tifa she, with no conviction, won’t even look at Barret, just says “…yeah” while her fists are clenched and shaking at her side.
This moment does not get talked about at all but it’s something I think about all the time in regards to Tifa.
Logically she knows that Shinra pulled the trigger, that they chose to escalate things to this degree, but she also knows that it was in (extreme) retaliation for what her and Avalanche had been doing. So she feels responsible. And she’s so angry because once again her home and people she loves went up in flames because of those assholes up in their lofty tower, and she couldn’t do anything. Again.
We get another fist clenched and trembling moment if you get her special cutscene at Aerith’s house but that time she actually cries (and gets a hug she desperately needed).
Tifa is a kind, compassionate soul but there’s still so much raw emotion boiling under the surface that she just… doesn’t let out enough I feel.
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