Quall’s Starry Sky and Cloti’s Starry Sky
While I noticed that the FF franchise is fond of using stars and the night sky for its romances but it has also been used for non-couples to share feelings or speak about important events.
When Cloud was young, he had a crush on Tifa and to be noticed by her he declared to him that he would join Soldier. Impressed by this, Tifa asked him to promise her to help him whenever she’s in a pinch, after repeatedly saying what and stalling Cloud finally agrees and holds his promise. This scene does not sound romantic because Tifa did not really pay attention to Cloud until he talked about becoming famous like Sephiroth. Also Tifa wanted Cloud to be a hero which is why she forced him into the promise, while all the other couples agree to it easily or the guys suggest it as is the case with Squall/Rinoa, Zack/Aeris, Tidus/Yuna, and Snow/Serah.
Examine the dialogue:
Cloud and Tifa
Tifa: Hey, why don’t we make a promise? Umm, if you get really famous and I’m ever in a bind…… You came save me, all right? Cloud: What? Tifa: Whenever I’m in trouble, my hero will come and rescue me. I want to at least experience that once. Cloud: What? Tifa: Come on—! Promise me——! Cloud: All right…… I promise.
The scene is like this:
That night the stars were gorgeous. It was just Cloud and I. We talked at the well…
-Tifa
A shooting star appeared at the end of the scene.
While a shooting star normally suggests romance, all it means is that Cloud will later does save Tifa, which he does. In earlier titles of the Compilation of FF7 (Before Crisis and Crisis Core), he values the promise greatly. However, by the time FF7 has its storyline, Cloud is cool and arguably cold as well as standoffish to her in non-optional scenes and says he is not famous and can not keep the promise before trying to leave her bar. Also as we later learn in the Lifestream sequence, Cloud and Tifa were not close and not childhood friends. Tifa was not mean to Cloud, but she just ignored him as she had the other group of friends that excluded Cloud. Also Cloud was humiliated by his perception of failure to save Tifa from her bridge accident that caused her to be in a coma for a week so he felt she hated him (which she did not).
Squall and Quistis
Quistis calls Squall to reveal that she was fired as SeeD instructor and hoped for some moral support from Squall (who acts very ungentlemenly by not only rebuffing her advances but he tells her to talk to a wall rather than him.) Squall clearly has no romantic interest in Quistis and never flirts back or sees her as anything other than what she is, his teacher.
Vaan and Ashelia
Vaan reveals to Ashe that he, too, can see Lord Rasler's ghost, though he thinks it looks like his brother. Ashe is shown clearly still pining over Rasler in her scene at night. Vaan eventually ends up with Penelo in canon, at the end of Revenant Wings. This night scene between Vaan and Ashe, does take place on a starry night, but while these two bond as friends and learn more about each other, it's nothing more. They talk about Vaan's brother and revenge and of course Vaan's reasons for working with Ashe. The two of them clearly hold a friendship developing in this scene, but nothing more.
Hope and Nora
Hope and his mother Nora are shown watching fireworks together in Final Fantasy XIII on a starry night. Nora is Hope's mother, and though he loves her, it is clearly not in a romantic sense. They bond as mother and son would, but this is another starry night that the romance was not shown under.
