Cloud

[residentflorist]

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Lilium
Derived from Latin lilia, which may have come from a corrupted
pronunciation of a word from an extinct Eastern Mediterranean language
Humility, devotion, restored innocence after death

"Lovers used to give these when they were reunited."

Comments

[residentflorist]

Tifa's then? [now she's just being a bully.]

[residentmerc]

... That's different.

[residentflorist]

Oh yeah? And just how is it so different?

[residentmerc]

... It's Tifa.

[residentflorist]

So Tifa has rights but the rest of us don't. I see how it is.

[residentmerc]

That's not what I said!

[ it is a little what he said ]

[residentflorist]

It's kinda what you said, actually. [taps his nose with a little boop.] It's okay, Cloud. I know she's in a league of her own.

[residentmerc]

[ leans his head back at the nose boop ]

That's not... It's just different.

[ he would honestly probably object if tifa did it too but hes thinking of the whole. [tifa voice] i know you so its ok ]

[residentflorist]

Okay. If you're sure. [the ride ends at this point, and she's looking at him with a little amusement and also curiosity. go on. explain how it's different.

but eventually she smiles a little.]

Why don't you pick what's next?

[residentmerc]

[ he has no way to explain how it's different because woops the ride ends. first of all when he steps off he then offers aerith his hand so she can climb down. ]

... There's... [ hm. he looks in the direction of the love tunnel and then the ferris wheel ] Options.

[residentflorist]

[no she's sitting here until he explains :\



she does not do that. she will take his hand and climb down, and she's not letting go.]

"Options." [cloud.] Are they options you want to try?

[residentmerc]

[ ... he doesn't really want to try the love tunnel because he thinks it's going to be stupid but he feels like he should...? on the other hand; ]

Skywheel wasn't bad at the saucer.

[residentflorist]

[it would be stupid and she'd love to tease him about it, but she does visibly light up at the idea of the ferris wheel.]

I want another date there, by the way. [future things.] But for now, let's try the one here? I want to see the view anyway.

[residentmerc]

Another one?

[ he looks a little surprised because why. they did everything at the saucer already. but to the ferris wheel! ]

Probably won't be as intense as the other one. [ this is a joke about how there's like. a million holograms happening in the other one ]

[residentflorist]

Why not? [why, more like, and the answer is because she wants something normal and not horrific.]

I think you and I could stand for something a little less intense every now and then. Don't you think? [she says it like a joke, but...also true.]

[residentmerc]

I just thought you'd want to try new things.

[ the second part... he hums a little ]

That go with wanting a vacation?

[residentflorist]

I can have a few old favorites, can't I? [but...there's a nod.]

I think so. [...] We still have a lot to do when we get back, but the idea of a vacation in the future's still nice.

[residentmerc]

[ she can, but the look on his face is how can you have a few old favorites when we have not been on that many dates. he does not say it ]

Nothing says we can't plan for it in the meanwhile.

[residentflorist]

[because you're a favorite, idiot, keep up.]

I know you don't have much of a preference where we go, but you have to have an idea of what you'd like to do by now. Even something small. [we are going to the ferris wheel.]

[residentmerc]

I've traveled a lot more than you have.

[ so he doesn't have things he wants to do as much? obviously? even if he didn't travel for leisure. here we are at the ferris wheel!!! ]

But maybe we'll see something new when we get back.

[residentflorist]

Yeah. [she's leading him up into one of the cars.]

...whenever you want. You'll want to go back and help the others rebuild Sector 7 before we go, right? [she says, as if she doesn't want the same.]

[residentmerc]

... I don't know about all of Sector 7. But... Tifa and Barret will need help remaking their bar.

[ in we go to the ferris wheel... this time they can sit next to each other uwah ]

[residentflorist]

[scooches to sit close uwu]

Yeah. [she's thinking there's going to be a lot of people who need little things and it'll be sidequest hell, actually.] Shouldn't be bad with multiple people helping, right? Get it in good shape again for them.

[residentmerc]

Probably won't even need the secret basement in that one. That'll cut down on time.

[ did aerith know about that. oh well. wraps his arm around her ]

[residentflorist]

Wasn't Barret living down there to begin with? [so yeah, she knows. i'm sure tifa probably explained it off-screen tbh to explain why they left a four year old at a bar alone. she's cozying up to his side under his arm though. yay.]