Hey guys,

Thanks for stopping by. Nice to meet'chya.

I'm a little adamant about sharing (or oversharing) personal details about myself. So let me just share the things I want to share.

While all that is out there, I currently have huge Final Fantasy cravings. I'm also a big enthusiast on mythology and the first sort of mythology I was introduced to early on was Greek Mythology. And I love and hate the Greek Gods.

Bakc to the topic of me really liking Square Enix's Final Fantasy Games, I have never played Final Fantasy games. *crickets*

I only read a lot about them (not much into gameplay), and best of all (THANK YOU YOUTUBE) watched cinematic cut-scenes on YouTube. Of course, I will be partial to Final Fantasy VII Compilation and Final Fantasy Type-0 for they had the most compelling stories to date in my opinion and I felt the story lines of those games to be the most emotionally moving. Of course, I love the other games as well and it's hard for me to not fall in love with the characters, even the villains like Kuja (FF IX) and Ciaus (FF Lightning Returns).

I have watched a lot of anime when I was younger and at the moment I am sort of retired from watching anime as a whole. I believe the last few animes I have watched are DuRaRaRa!! and Death Parade, which are masterpieces.

Ah, I would like to get this topic out of the way: Slash-pairings, both hetero and yaoi/yuri; I'll call them 'big elephants in the room' for lack of originality.

1) Am I into yaoi? - No, it's not my cup of tea, I actually prefer yuri pairings because they are so underrated and yaoi seems to be just everywhere and quiet frankly I don't get the appeal. But if its your thing, I won't judge. I am aware that there is a huge influx of yoai fanfics in this site and I have learned to completely ignore it. I don't even feel its existence.

2) So... yuri? - Yuri on the other hand, well, I prefer it soft-core, so I guess its Shoujo-Ai, romantic girls' love that I prefer rather than 'Yuri'. Actually, I prefer Shounen-Ai better than yaoi and the best shounen-ai for me is the anime No.6 and even that's not completely Shounen-Ai. If I were to compare which one I like better, I'm going to have to go for Shoujo-ai... and these days, I wonder if I even care about these things anymore.

3) Non-canon pairings or crack pairings? - I am a sucker for non-canon pairings; big time. And you notice that the so called non-canon, were initially intended before the idea was scrapped. *sighs* Well what can you do? That's why I call fanfiction my peresonal guilty pleasures haha. As for crack/cross-over pairings, I like them too and if there is a fanfiction that makes them work, why not? It's fanfiction, its personal reinterpretation. That being said, I do not like like everything, I have my own preferences, naturally.

4) How's about no f*ing pairings? 8D lol - I'm a sucker for romance and I am a romantic at heart. Shoot me. Haha! But that doesn't mean I don't I don't appreciate a purely adventure fanfiction every now and then. And I have found one that is very adventure, action-packed with a little romance underneath and its made totally appropriate and believable. You know what the say: the strongest tool of a writer aside from the pen is imagination... and totally unrelated to what I am talking about.

5) Writing style and all that shinanigans: I am not the one to judge someone for how they write a character. As this is fanfiction, I do not expect people to stick 100% of the character or character personality. Be it in-universe or alternate universe, its very challenging to write someone in-character (especially when they don't belong to you and if you are not Homer or Virgil or Dante).

Characters from any medium will be subject to reinterpretation. You see this in Shakespearean plays all the time. So who the fuck are we to judge how a person writes a character? I have found plenty of fanfictions where I did not personally like how a character was written or where the direction of the plot went. Yes, there are fanfictions with character bashing and that's fine because its the authors that wrote them for their own pleasure and there are those who like those sorts of fanfics because they agree with how the author feels. As long as we agree that we are allowed to disagree and preserve the right to agree and disagree however we like, we are all good and this is getting way deeper than I thought. F*.

But I'm not going to moan and groan over it because it's none of my business. I'll just go ahead and find another fanfiction that I'll like and I'll definitely comment on it. Call me a coward if you want, but that's just how I roll.

While I am still on the Final Fantasy roll... and I plan to write a fanfiction for the first time in my life (really to quench my own cravings, jeez), I warn you, that I am really Pro-Tifa because she is a girl I could relate to and I wish I had some of her badass martial arts skills (and also her good looks. I don't envy her boobs though). So to list the following pairings I like below;

Final Fantasy VII (that is to say mainly Tifa x some hot dude lol)

... Yeah I think I am obsessed with this girl but what can I say? The girl's got an amazing rack!

All jokes aside, I could write an essay on why I am so fascinated with Tifa and why I find myself so emotionally close to her than I do of other characters.

But it's getting late and I don't feel like saying it so I'll just throw in a couple of words: Multi-dimensional in a good way, she is a warrior, a friend, a mother, a tactician and a leader; she should not be some sort of safety net that people should take for granted however. I hope that people will remember that while she is a great emotional crutch and warrior, she is also a woman and a human being. She is a strong fighter, martial arts isn't something for a weak-hearted and even while she fell into her own darkness and anger to take revenge against ShinRa, she appears very remorseful of the things that she has done as demonstrated in the Case of Tifa, she considers them as 'sins' (much in the same way as Vincent).

But unlike him, she is moving on, and facing it and when Karma comes to bite her in the ass, she'll embrace it and accept it. I think in some ways her strained relationship with Cloud is a punishment, but the fact she still wishes for a hero in Cloud, that he doesn't get her sense of humor, is hurt that is he distant with her and doesn't know if he loves her, it only makes me love her more rather than pity her and it also makes me hope and wish more than ever that Tifa gets some sort of closure and ends up with someone that will cherish her forever.

I find the relationship between Cloud and Tifa to be perplexing and its as if they tiptoe around each other which is predictable since they are both just so introverted and guilt-ridden, you see there is a bunch of problems between them and they fail to work it out. Its messy.

It's obvious that I am not a CloTi person. And I can say the same thing about CleRith as well.

Cloud loves Aerith very much and perhaps if she was alive they would have a chance to love each other deeply; Cloud's love for Aerith is beyond traditional norms, no doubt about that... but then when he was killed by Loz and Yazoo with a blast through his chest and went to the temporary land, he didn't recognize Aerith's healing touch and voice and ended up calling her 'Mother' much the same way Kadaj did. Aerith kicked him out jokingly telling Zack that she doesn't want a kid this big. Poor Cloud, I thought it was enough that Tifa sees him as a big kid too but this one through me out of the loop. I still don't know what to make of his 'death' scene in Advent Children Complete. In any case, Cloud found his peace in ACC, Vincent found his peace in DoC. However, I am wondering, how the rest of Avalanche found their peace. I wonder how will Tifa find her own inner peace.

And that paragraph pretty much sums up on why I love Tifa so much.

Anyway, I should seriously start cracking down on writing my first fanfiction so stay tuned for that guys. It might also be the only fanfiction I'll write. Sorry guys. But as you can see how scarily I am into Tifa, this fanfic's purpose is purely to purge the girl out of my system which is going to take a while haha xD Maybe after the Reboot comes out I'll finally get out of it. Maybe xD Or just let me turn 30. For anyone bothering to read my fanfiction in progress; thank you very much from the bottom of my heart. Really, thank you!

Keep reading fanfiction or keep writing fanfiction or do both and most importantly guys, enjoy. :)