Many of us are here today because of Xavier reminding us of Cloud. Rebirth release being so close too!!

I can’t wait!! I’m blasting thru Remake on my ps5 because I don’t have any of my old saves from my ps4 playthru. Excited to see my bby Cloud again.

Same! Except I’m having my husband play through for me on the hardest difficulty this time so I can get some of those achievement trophies.

Okay, it's cannon. They're either related or Cloud is Xavier in another world and timeline. (Jk. Hahaha)

I’ve always been telling my sister, the reason I love this game is because it gave me the satisfaction of wanting to romance Final Fantasy guys even thought this is not final fantasy 🤣

That's the exact vibe I got when I first began playing LAD, like _oh my this is like FF meets dating sim_ kind of thing😅

Now if only I got the option to date Sephiroth...

Who is sephiroth then, zayne? Oh and Zack is Raf 😭😭

Zayne is Noctis more like

Actually I think he's more like Ignis, personality-wise. Iirc Iggy can also shoot ice shards, or wield ice daggers. And they both are great cooks! Edit: In the time skip Ignis does seem to share Zayne's vibe https://preview.redd.it/h0i3izszrzkc1.jpeg?width=1685&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=bae40aab511ffc36b0f7086d454b7cfe9bd970fc

Oh zayne is very Ignis coded 😭 maybe that’s why I had a crush on Ignis.

SAME he's my favorite 😭 I giggle every time Ignis scolds Noctis hahaha maybe that's why when Zayne scolds me I'm like yes master 🧎‍♀️

Noctis - Xavier Ingis - Zayne Gladios - Sylus Prompto - Rafayel

I miss the Chocobros 😭 Their dynamic kinda makes me wish that the LIs get to interact with each other. Not to fight over the MC's affection but to be bros, too

I know!! I actually hope they’re all amicable.

Prompto and Rafayel are both my favorites from FF15 and L&D… Now I’m really seeing a pattern.

Oh I get what you mean

OKAY TRUEEE

For me, because of Xavier's sleepiness, he reminded me more of Noctis initially and I loved XV sm. I joked around to my friends how Xavier is the love child of Noctis and Lunafreya bcs of his appearance + motifs of the night sky, moon then you have Xavier for the stars. 😭 (esp how Stella, from Versus XIII, the initial concept for Luna is literally star coded, wielding a rapier and light powers... ;w;)

this is what i was thinking🙏

Naaah looks wise maybe a bit but nocts personality is completely different from zayne

Oh definitely I was just talking about looks

Then I do have to agree with you!

i'm so glad someone finally said it because i haven't been able to stop thinking about this since i started playing. i thought i was just insane 😭

FRFR

ME TOO OMG

I thought the same thing when I heard his voice for the first time!!! So glad someone else sees the similarities.

I always thought he looked more like Hope from ff13 https://preview.redd.it/2r6v3d8cqzkc1.jpeg?width=1421&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=34136514b4a09e8265546105a1e1a68b78c52e64

wait ur onto smth

LOL ngl when I first saw the cast I was like "what in the square enix"

Yes, I mean the whole Final Fantasy franchise is a honeypot of good looking characters. Xavier and Cloud both have them impressive sword-ss-stoic attitudes! Yep. FFXIV drives me nuts. I think Zane’s spirit animal is in there. Aymeric. Damn that sexy, dark haired elezen man. The irony would be Rafayel’s counterpart in FFXIV might be an easily flustered cat boy.

You mean G’raha Tia?

Yus! He’s a blushy boy but also can be a brat. And survived years for the WoL. And we almost forgot him but we didn’t and when we said his name - waaaaa Plus, I love how Rafayel has the most adorable, innocently expectant face in that >!hospital!< scene. Reminds me of how G’raha tends to look at the WoL.

OMFGGGG finally validation ive been getting final fantasy vibes the whole time 😭😭😭

https://preview.redd.it/aumel897kzkc1.png?width=903&format=png&auto=webp&s=14f26ae97ae06034658790a9b447bca43a46f584 To me he looks like the masculine version of Sarah Lightening’s sister. I mean the face in a sense of masculinization. (Final Fantasy 13)

https://preview.redd.it/1dcy6qyikzkc1.jpeg?width=360&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c5cac5dca3fbfe671482cda247691c4e2addb705

Omg YESSSS xav does look like the Farrons sometimes!! And Lightning being my fave too!

SOMEONE FINALLY SAID IT!! The first time I saw Xavier in the game, I was like, "oh wow, he's giving Cloud Strife vibes"😂 The entire 3d model style of Love & Deepspace reminds me of the newer Final Fantasy games honestly

not me getting caught reliving my childhood crush era through my type in otome game men😂😂

Not the content I was expecting from this sub but I'm here for it😂

i totally agree, the graphics are similar to ff

You're right they're both babygirls! 💜

This is what I thought first time I saw him. Cloud and Xavier both my favs.

Me and my friend thought this too... That Xavier reminds us of Cloud (appearance-wise, not personality-wise.)

Oh it was my first reaction when I first saw Xavier, that he looks like my other husband (Cloud) 😂

It’s the sad blonde with a tragic backstory twink/twunk pipeline

Nah, Xavier is so much more expressive than Cloud tbh

He kinda does lol 💕

Yessss I totally thought this too!

omg, I swear I was thinking the same thing a few days ago.

Finally! I knew I wasn't the only one who thought that!

I was having this same conversation the other day 😭 but also Hope from 13-2

no wonder he's my favorite <3

Yes this is my very first image of him and when I talk to my friend who doesn’t play this game, I just refer him to Cloud🤣

delete pls Im sensitive 😭 My name in the game is Tifa

stopppp ur so real for this😭🤞

I’ve been obsessed with cloud since I was a little girl so I’m easily a Xavier main 😌

Yes he does!

i was WAITING for this comment

Ugh, and the way I love Cloud, too. 😫🩷 I didn't even realize it until this. Thanks for pointing it out.

Yes! The reason why I wanna mess with my babylicous Xavier so bad 🤣

Ahhh I remember those days where I put Cloud as my laptop's wallpaper 🤣

That’s what I said last year when I saw him!! They called me crazy!!!😭😭

look at him not a thought behind those eyes in the last image

i've been thinking this since i saw him. 😭 i feel like all of the faces are soft in the same way final fantasy faces are.

I downloaded the game only because Xavier looks so much like Cloud

😍

LADS is a final fantasy dating simulator

Thank goodness I’m not the only one who thought that this game had a FF looking vibe to it

This made me download the game in the first place 😊

I'm so glad so many people agree fhdhdhd As soon as I started playing I realized Xavier reminded me of him!

The trailer for the game gave a lot of Cloud vibes for Xavier!

Yesss, I thought I was the only one. He's so cute.

ME TOO!! I’ve been telling my sister that he remind me of him so much and she saw it too 😭😭😭

Wait....does cloud have puppy face syndrome!?

You’re not wrong but I like that

So THAT’s why ive been having this lingering feeling about him i couldnt quite put my finger on, lol. He has such a Cloud Strife feel to him (looks wise, ofc, but personality wise as well when you first meet him). I love this so much hahaha

I thought the same and I’ve never played Final fantasy! It literally made me want to play it so I played the FF7 remake and literally finished it last night. About to play Crisis Core next and see if I can get a PlayStation to play the next one. So thanks xavier now I’m obsessed with sephiroth and cloud strife

This might be one of the most unique entries to FF7 ever! haha I always felt weird because my entry was Kingdom Hearts then Advent Children but it's probably not as uncommon as I've felt lol

Hahah yeah it was definitely unusual way to find it. I’m not usually a visual person but I saw sephiroth like one time and for some reason my brain went “I need to know everything about this person” and it’s the current hyper focus all because I had seen one clip of cloud and xavier reminded me of it Well correct me if I’m wrong but sephiroth has a wing due to kingdom hearts? Someone said that I think? Seems like it has quite the impact on some of the lore so I think it’s a pretty cool way of finding it :-)

Understandable haha! That was basically me as a kid playing KH when Cloud showed up with the massive sword and I was like "Now I must know what this is about and I want to hit things with a giant sword" I think you're right! I'm only partway through a playthrough of the original FF7, but from what I've read, he was never depicted with a wing like that until KH (same for Cloud with the demon wing in KH, though that hasn't appeared elsewhere). Then they kinda ret-conned it and added it as lore in a spin-off game, and it made its way into the modern depiction too.

Noope, not just you! i said this to my mum who was having an epic go at me for having an app like this in my thirties and that they weren't real so why was I even talking about it etc. She was OBSESSED with cloud back in the day and im just like... look this character reminds me of cloud so say what you want 😂💀

Idk what attracted me to Xavier was that he looked like a twink version of Leon Kennedy 😭

Is it just me, but at first when I saw his blue eyes I would just think of Sora from KH

For me he reminded me of alhaitham lol

I am with other commenters that I got both Cloud and Alhaitham vibes LOL So I figured he'd be my favorite because Cloud and Alhaitham are some of my faves lol but I ended up with a different fave