I have a tendency to take blame away from Crazy people, and Seph was kinda screwed from the git-go and never given a choice as to who he wanted to be or what he wanted to do, a snap was inevitable. And Jenova gave him a freaking SHOVE. ((Also, the real Sephiroth didn't even get invovled until you get to the crator, before that it was Jenova with a meat puppet that probably had a few of Seph's memories.)) There's also a difference in my head between Hojo's kinda crazy, and the kinda crazy that Seph ended up at. Hojo is the sort of scary functional crazy, in which he knows full well what he's doing and just doesn't care. Whereas I'd say that once Seph snaps out of his crazy, he remembers what happened, but he doesn't remember any motivations going into it, just that he needed to do it. And that lack of knowing why he did things would freak him out just as much as the things that he did.
As far as Tifa goes, yeah, it's really hard to be the one to say 'Hey I was there, and that's not what happened.' but the fact of the matter is if Tifa had done so, a lot of Cloud's angst over not being real would not have happened. She didn't know the entire story, no, and she had not idea what happened to him afterwords. Zack and Hojo held the keys to that particular bomb shell, and Hojo choose to lie. But if she said something, it's quite possible that it would have helped Cloud break his leash. Instead she bought into his delusions and validated them with the rest of the group to the point that no one realized it was a lie. I dislike her also because while she 'noticed' Cloud she was still a bully who let him take the blame for stuff she caused, like the bridge incident. In which he was very much a 'No don't.' element. And only really noticed him when she realized he might become something more than a social outcast. It's like giving dog treats to a starving dog because it makes you feel better about yourself, even though it doesn't really help the dog. Also, her stalkerish behavior in AC annoyed me. In a very much, yes, I realize that Cloud was quietly losing his mind and withdrawing so he didn't hurt anyone, but seriously. The man spent almost six years as a lab rat, never really got to go through the whole teenage thing, realized that he 'let' his best friend get shot, and then promptly forgot about it to get led around by the nose by another person he had trusted. He's got some stuff to work through, and it's not going to go away over night. He's not going to be the prince in shining armor, he's not going to be your five five day a week, 8-5 husband. Her choices irritate me for the most part. I accept that she's a person and made some huge mistakes in them, but I still dislike her for the choices she's made over when to speak and when to stay silent.
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As far as Tifa goes, yeah, it's really hard to be the one to say 'Hey I was there, and that's not what happened.' but the fact of the matter is if Tifa had done so, a lot of Cloud's angst over not being real would not have happened. She didn't know the entire story, no, and she had not idea what happened to him afterwords. Zack and Hojo held the keys to that particular bomb shell, and Hojo choose to lie. But if she said something, it's quite possible that it would have helped Cloud break his leash. Instead she bought into his delusions and validated them with the rest of the group to the point that no one realized it was a lie. I dislike her also because while she 'noticed' Cloud she was still a bully who let him take the blame for stuff she caused, like the bridge incident. In which he was very much a 'No don't.' element. And only really noticed him when she realized he might become something more than a social outcast. It's like giving dog treats to a starving dog because it makes you feel better about yourself, even though it doesn't really help the dog. Also, her stalkerish behavior in AC annoyed me. In a very much, yes, I realize that Cloud was quietly losing his mind and withdrawing so he didn't hurt anyone, but seriously. The man spent almost six years as a lab rat, never really got to go through the whole teenage thing, realized that he 'let' his best friend get shot, and then promptly forgot about it to get led around by the nose by another person he had trusted. He's got some stuff to work through, and it's not going to go away over night. He's not going to be the prince in shining armor, he's not going to be your five five day a week, 8-5 husband. Her choices irritate me for the most part. I accept that she's a person and made some huge mistakes in them, but I still dislike her for the choices she's made over when to speak and when to stay silent.