Top 10 Square Enix Couples

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We count down the twosomes that made love look good

3) Cloud + Aerith (Final Fantasy VII, PSone)

Who they are: An emo mercenary and a flower girl/priestess.

Why they're the best: It’s a classic love story - man meets woman fleeing from authorities and protects her in exchange for one date. Man screws up protecting woman, woman is captured. Man saves woman, woman contracts a case of sword-through-the-chest, man avenges woman. Woman becomes Perfect Ideal Girlfriend for some other chick to secretly resent for the next three discs while man becomes Emotionally Unavailable.

What they teach us: The best lover is unavailable and thus unable to bug you with their annoying habits.

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