i believe in autistic cloud but have not played the remake and other games and hardly remember the original. can you give some examples for my reading pleasure?
*CRACKS KNUCKLES*
ohhh man if you've never played remake etc you are missing out on a whole wide world of cloud autism moments. just to give you an idea, less than 10 minutes into remake they hit us with this doozy of an interaction
and this is just the first of many. cloud is wholly incapable of sustaining a normal conversation with people in this game. shout out the scene where he tells a dying woman that she owes him a pizza. also much MUCH love to his voice actor who perfectly nails his emotionally constipated tone of voice.
anyway here he is fucking up not one but TWO high fives back to back
not even the first time in the game he misses this exact social cue. and he will continue to do so multiple times down the line. don't worry he eventually starts to sort of understand the esoteric concept of the High Five but not until well into part 2
he is regularly completely stone-faced and unemotive even when he's actively trying to be outward about his feelings. his special interest is military protocol/weaponry/materia and gets REALLY really into it without realizing during the junon parade in rebirth. other characters try to flirt or joke with him constantly and it just flies straight over his head, every single time, without fail. honestly what an icon everybody give it up for cloud strife


















