There’s not a thing I don’t cherish. Cloud and his family and friends.
Let me cheat in this one, reusing something I did for the past with Cloud's friend/party during ACC. But also, since remake I'm getting softer and softer with Claudia Strife and every type of content, official or fan ones, that can come with her involved.
OTHER THAN THAT, let me copy paste here some bits of this old post of mine:
One of the things that may be overlooked at least in Advent Children Complete / the Compilation, is the importance of their friends to both Cloud and Tifa. There were a couple of moments that made me tear up while having this in mind, making them meaningful, and I want to point them out.
In ACC, right after Cloud shows his first signs of wanting to try doing things right and stop isolating himself + running away because his fear of not being able to do anything right in regards of protecting his friends nor family, you can see his phone falling in the water. This is meaningful when you remember that a couple of minutes before we were shown the super important talk that Tifa had with him, especially when she called him out about hating being alone, that’s why he keeps his phone even if he doesn’t respond to any calls, because when we see the phone falling we hear the voice mails that the gang leave Cloud and that he keeps, giving us the hint that he cherish those messages that his friends leave him.
The next moments were during the Bahamut fight: firstly as they arrive to protect both Tifa and Denzel, she is shown with the proudest of smiles as everyone is making their appearance; while as Cloud joins the fight, we have the very obvious and symbolic moment of everyone –incluing Aerith!- helping him reach unhuman heights gradually being more & more OP
The third one is a subtle moment during the Kadaj fight as they all arrive in Cid’s new airship, specifically after Tifa and Vincent talk about the importance of this fight to Cloud personally and explaining the situation, where you can see Cloud making a smirk as the Shera fly off. This to me was such a “I have my friends backing me up and trusting in me”, giving Cloud the confidence he needs during his process to redeem himself (that was already on its way).
And the last one, while it is just more of a personal attachment to it, it’s the scene I (try to) draw: when Cloud awakes at the church, as soon as Marlene welcomes him and he turns to look, the shot of everyone standing together watching him, silently, as you can see the smiles, the acceptance or the proud looks of everyone in their own means, giving him that final sign of reassurance that he did and is doing a great job, made me emotional, as if everything is starting to be on its rightful place, but also the vibe that he always had them, and there was no reason to consider him a guy who let down other nor he isn’t able to protect what he cherish, and that he deserves to be happy, instead of feeling guilt about it.
And I feel that all of those kinds of feelings and thoughts were in Cloud’s and Tifa’s heads as they look to each other very knowingly. They know each other as few can, she literally was in his mind to find himself, and I’m pretty sure, as they smile to each other, that they share a lot of those thoughts, with hopes to what is waiting ahead of them.
Here's my old drawing I referenced
