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Cloud and Tifa’s intelligence

Haven’t seen any essays on how smart they are so I’ll take it away. 

Cloud and Tifa both have above average intelligence. I say this because there’s a very real possibility neither of them has more than a jr high school education.

Cloud left home when he was around 14 years old where he got a job, I’m not sure if Shinra had classrooms for their young soldiers, probably not, and as for Tifa…little is known about her life in Midgar after the Nibelheim massacre and before the start of FF7. 

Tifa may not have ever finished high school after she moved to Midgar. She would have likely just immediately gotten a job to pay off her hospital debt if she had one. I don’t really know how healthcare works in Midgar. 

Anyway, both Cloud and Tifa display high levels of intelligence. Tifa is excellent at business, marketing, and accounting. She runs her very own restaurant, and it’s extremely successful. Tifa would need to take inventory, she’d need to come up with prices, be educated in food safety and store the food properly, then of course how she gets her produce…etc. It’s a lot of hard work to run a business and especially a restaurant since if she makes one slip-up she could make people seriously ill and potentially kill them. Not to mention most restaurants have employees that handle those things like inventory and accounting, yet Tifa does it all herself. 

She also knows how to market since no one would go to her restaurant if they didn’t know it existed. In Edge, she had rebuilt her bar and it is just as successful as her previous one was. 

She also helps manage Cloud’s delivery service on top of her own work at 7th Heaven. 

Cloud on the other hand, while he may not know the names of different veggies or fruits, this guy can read maps and also CREATE them. Cloud makes maps based on places he’s been, you know what this means? He remembers it all. Making and reading maps is called cartography and just check this shit out

Cartography is the study and practice of making maps. Combining science, aesthetics, and technique, cartography builds on the premise that reality can be modeled in ways that communicate spatial information effectively.

He is also so good at it, that his maps are easy to read as well as being accurate, as Tifa shows Evan a map that Cloud made when giving him directions on how to get to Nibelheim. 

Cloud also takes down notes about the flora and fauna in the area, as well as the monsters roaming in that area. 

That isn’t all, he is shown that he can hyperfocus as well. Cloud can not only read medical mumbo jumbo but understand it as well. As seen in ACC when he was trying to find a cure for geostigma despite not being a doctor or trained in medicine, Cloud was studying so much and his research was so confined that Marlene was able to deduce Cloud was looking for a cure. 

This speaks volumes of the intelligence of both Cloud and Tifa. 

In school, I would say that both Cloud and Tifa were straight A students. I would say that if Cloud got low grades it’d be because he was slacking off and just wasn’t interested in the subject. Or because he didn’t do the homework but he aced every test. Whatever Cloud and Tifa’s school habits may have been, I’d say it’s very clear these two could have easily been straight A students due to how focused and detail oriented they both are. 

#final fantasy vii#final fantasy 7#cloud strife#tifa lockhart#ffvii#text#video games
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theycallmeeljefe

Hey a new FFVII Remake trailer dropped. I wonder what our resident cleriths are saying?

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Well I wish I could say I was surprised. But this reaction is as predictable as it is sad. 

Seriously how does this trailer “confirm” anything? 

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crustyogfanboy

It’s funny because there’s a post pointing out that Aerith isn’t looking at Cloud in the first seconds of their initial meeting but instead looking at the sword on his back. The same sword her boyfriend Zack used to carry around. If anything, it just reinforces the idea that she was drawn to Cloud due to Zack.

Edit: The post in question https://zackoftrades.tumblr.com/post/184771734196/

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