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When they cross paths, Cloud avoids him, making up excuses about courseloads and upcoming midterms. Sometimes, Zack simply wishes him well; other times, Zack’s eyes fall, just barely, and Cloud feels what he thinks could be heartbreak.
After the first week, he accepts that he’s gay. He had a crush on Kaison, that’s it. He starts to hang out with Zack again. His heart grows when Zack makes them breakfast, it stutters when Zack puts coffee in a tumbler for Cloud to take with him to his morning classes, mentioning Cloud’s stress over midterms last week.
A month after Cloud accepts he’s gay, he’s forced to admit he has a crush on Zack.
A week after that, he realizes he’s in love with him, and everything seems to fall apart.
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Prince Cloud of Nibelheim has always been alone. His father died when he was young, and his mother cares for the kingdom more than anything else, leaving him by himself.
Ever since Cloud came of age, his mother has been trying to set him up with ladies from other kingdoms, wanting to find a future queen for Nibelheim. Cloud finds that he doesn’t want to find a queen, and so the prince makes a game of rejecting suitors, being harsh and bratty to every woman who approaches him. Though, Cloud knows one day he will have to quit his game and find a lady to rule at his side.
What's best for the kingdom that will one day be his own may not be what's best for him, and the handsome Prince of Gongaga forces Cloud to reconcile with that fact much sooner than he had intended to, but love and duty hardly ever agree, and Cloud must make a difficult decision between what his heart and his kingdom want. -
major interference by nermle
Fandoms: Compilation of Final Fantasy VII, Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII, Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children
02 Jul 2024
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Cloud has the planet’s most humiliating crush on one Zack Fair. He wants, more than anything, to tell Zack how he feels. But any time Cloud works up the courage to tell him something gets in the way.
Or, five times Cloud's confession gets interrupted, and one time he interrupts someone else's.
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a courtship of constellations by nermle
Fandoms: Compilation of Final Fantasy VII, Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII
10 May 2024
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On Cloud Strife’s fifth birthday, he got his soul-mark. A scar across his skin to match one other person’s. No two people have the same soul-mark, to find your soulmate you have to find the person whose mark completes yours. Each person gets a smattering of stars across their skin, half a constellation, that would be completed by another person’s.
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when i (don’t) remember you by nermle
Fandoms: Compilation of Final Fantasy VII, Final Fantasy VII (Video Game 1997), Final Fantasy VII Remake and Rebirth (Video Games 2020-2024)
02 May 2024
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Cloud remembers seeing Zack in Junon, he remembers their friendship. Remembers Zack carrying him across the planet to get to Midgar.
But when Zack grabs Cloud's hand and drags him around the Gold Saucer, Cloud has a feeling he's missing a few pieces of this puzzle.
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What's Luck Got To Do With It by hrelics9
Fandoms: Compilation of Final Fantasy VII, Final Fantasy VII Remake (Video Game 2020)
27 Jul 2020
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After a horrible car accident, Cloud has to start over his freshman year at University. He's not really looking for attention from a happy dudebro jock. He's just trying not to fall too far behind everyone else.
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- Part 1 of When It's All Over-College AU
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15 Aug 2024
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Zack can't keep a secret for his life and Cloud's had enough.
He comes up with a cute little revenge plan.
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10 Aug 2024
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it rains ashes on golgotha by harmony
Fandoms: Final Fantasy VII, Compilation of Final Fantasy VII, Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII, Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children
22 Jun 2016
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To Cloud’s astonishment, a previously undiscovered Materia pulls in Zack from a parallel world – a timeline where Cloud was the one who’d died on the cliff, and Zack had lived.
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10 Aug 2024
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The Art of Being Neighborly by dapperpepper
Fandoms: Compilation of Final Fantasy VII, Final Fantasy VII (Video Game 1997), Final Fantasy VII Remake (Video Game 2020), Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII
23 Aug 2020
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Out of the kindness of his heart, Cloud offers to watch his neighbor’s two young children. It’s all downhill from here.
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24 Mar 2024
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Tipped Scales by ivyelevast
Fandoms: Compilation of Final Fantasy VII, Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII, Final Fantasy VII (Video Game 1997)
27 Jan 2021
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If this were a different story, Zack thinks, he would be using his last moments to remember kind, green eyes and a sweet smile. He would be staring out into the raining sky, life running out of him, while making peace with the fact that he would never see his first love again. If this were a different story, Zack would not be left empty-handed, crying out as his friend stumbles away into the remnants of a battlefield. He would not be praying for that blond head to turn, aching to capture the final sight of a cherished face before locking it behind two lids.
No, this does not feel like a fitting end to this story at all―and Zack overflows with the one childish thought that this is unbearably unfair. In the rare moments that he, as any soldier must, contemplated his death, he never imagined that he would die alone.
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03 May 2024