After a long day of training to be a legitimate member of the revolutionary group "Avalanche", Cloud found himself following a familiar path to a place he knew he could relax: his friend Tifa's house. It was not Tifa that he wanted to see, however; little did Tifa know, it was her 6 year old sister Marlene that he wanted to see. Marlene greeted Cloud with a warm smile as he entered the door. After briefly greeting Tifa, Cloud proceeded to talk to Marlene, about how her day was. He stayed and talked, with both Tifa and Marlene, for hours, but finally left to go home and sleep. On his way out of the door, he grabbed Marlene's hand and gave her a gentle kiss on her cheek, a secret symbol between the two of them of their love for each other.
Okay, so I'm really bad at writing this kind of stuff. And it really took me a long time to just sit down and write the blog for this week; it's definitely an exercise designed to make you jump out of your comfort zone. It seemed like an easy assignment, but when I actually sat down to do it, it took a lot more time than I expected - and my entry isn't even that long! It was a different kind of awkwardness though than writing the Wikipedia article, number one, because I decided not to post my entry on a public site. It was really awkward because it felt strange to use someone else's story/characters to make my own, and also the ways in which I had to use them (i.e. in a non-heteronormative way). Talking about it almost seems easier than writing it down - at least something in conversation you can possibly take back, but once you author and publish something, it becomes your own work, and you feel then like it's supposed to be a reflection of yourself. This makes it easy to understand then why some people felt uncomfortable with this assignment, because they may not personally agree with some of the kinds of relationships they were challenged to write about.
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