God, this whole sequence is just...heartbreaking to see the second+ time round, when you know just how dissociated Cloud is, how he's flipping back and forth between his own POV and Zack's, plus filling in some blanks to form them into a coherent story. And he can't remember what happened with fighting Sephiroth in the reactor because both Zack and Cloud have very definite memories of what happened that are completely irreconcilable into one person's point of view.
I got the impression that Tifa here and for a lot of the story is genuinely unsure which of them is remembering accurately - after all, it was a horribly traumatic time for her, and a lot of things will have been distorted in her mind, plus she was in a coma for a while afterward. So while she can tell something's off about Cloud, and the story isn't how she remembers it happening exactly, she isn't sure. She gets more evidence as the game progresses, but I think at this point she's still not willing to commit, especially since it sounds so flat-out crazy; how can she say Cloud wasn't there and she didn't see him (because he never took his helmet off), when he remembers everything so clearly, including that conversation about materia that she would never have considered relevant enough to tell anybody? What seems more likely, that he's got someone else's memories in his head (and also was in Nibelheim without telling her), or that she's blocked him out for some reason? As we encounter more objective evidence later, the balance shifts, but until then, I don't really blame her for not wanting to play a lovely game of Who's The Crazy One.
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Date: 2013-09-29 02:45 pm (UTC)I got the impression that Tifa here and for a lot of the story is genuinely unsure which of them is remembering accurately - after all, it was a horribly traumatic time for her, and a lot of things will have been distorted in her mind, plus she was in a coma for a while afterward. So while she can tell something's off about Cloud, and the story isn't how she remembers it happening exactly, she isn't sure. She gets more evidence as the game progresses, but I think at this point she's still not willing to commit, especially since it sounds so flat-out crazy; how can she say Cloud wasn't there and she didn't see him (because he never took his helmet off), when he remembers everything so clearly, including that conversation about materia that she would never have considered relevant enough to tell anybody? What seems more likely, that he's got someone else's memories in his head (and also was in Nibelheim without telling her), or that she's blocked him out for some reason? As we encounter more objective evidence later, the balance shifts, but until then, I don't really blame her for not wanting to play a lovely game of Who's The Crazy One.