Not looking for an argument here, but would it really have been up to your standards if Archica had simply stuck with FF7 OGC?
I dont think adding things from AC, Reminiscence, and OTWTAS should make this less of a ship manifesto. o_O If anything, it shows that the possibility of the pairing outlives OGC, even if the Compilation has to expand on a game that had several different actual instances of canon (ie Cloud's differing relationships with Aeris, Tifa, Yuffie, Barret, and the others).
I'm sure there would be a way to word everything Archica said in a logical point by point manner, going one by one and disputing every single argument that comes against the interpretations and giving what support there is to them, but that's not what a ship manifesto is about. You start getting into having to defend every little thing, and that's not fun. (Not to mention it would WAY exceed the word limit.) What's fun is what makes a pairing lovable. What sells is what makes a pairing lovable.
Just because her "argument" for Cloud/Yuffie doesnt "convince" you doesnt make it invalid. Her manifesto does what it was meant to do: proclaim the love of a pairing and why people ship it, and share the love and excitement and fangirling that drive the fans of the ship.
I mean, if you wrote a Cloud/Sephiroth manifesto by your standards, it would be about two sentences long. o_O
If you'd like though, you're more than welcome to show us how a Cloud/Yuffie manifesto should be written.
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I dont think adding things from AC, Reminiscence, and OTWTAS should make this less of a ship manifesto. o_O If anything, it shows that the possibility of the pairing outlives OGC, even if the Compilation has to expand on a game that had several different actual instances of canon (ie Cloud's differing relationships with Aeris, Tifa, Yuffie, Barret, and the others).
I'm sure there would be a way to word everything Archica said in a logical point by point manner, going one by one and disputing every single argument that comes against the interpretations and giving what support there is to them, but that's not what a ship manifesto is about. You start getting into having to defend every little thing, and that's not fun. (Not to mention it would WAY exceed the word limit.) What's fun is what makes a pairing lovable. What sells is what makes a pairing lovable.
Just because her "argument" for Cloud/Yuffie doesnt "convince" you doesnt make it invalid. Her manifesto does what it was meant to do: proclaim the love of a pairing and why people ship it, and share the love and excitement and fangirling that drive the fans of the ship.
I mean, if you wrote a Cloud/Sephiroth manifesto by your standards, it would be about two sentences long. o_O
If you'd like though, you're more than welcome to show us how a Cloud/Yuffie manifesto should be written.