Some cloud x aerith otp feels, Cloud being a begrudging, stubborn bodyguard and aerith surprised that someone actually gives a damn about her well being because of who she is as a person, rather than one race she is the last survivor of…

  Also tweaking cloud’s costume design, making it a bit more coherent and less gaudy.  Starting to create a design system for the materia as well.  I always loved the idea of armor and weapons etc being made to hold the small magical stones, and depending on how those materia slots were made they effected the materia differently.  So like, perhaps different smiths or manufacturers have different abilities or materials to make these slots, and some line the slots with different ores, which causes things like ‘double materia growth’, where the stones literally continue to grow as they would if they were still in the earth.   Eventually they would fill the slot completely and you could break off a piece of the materia to form a new one.  *_*;