I don't read sex fics that often but I have before so I might be a bad judge on what's crass... but I usually see that as a lot more crudely phrased/not very thoughtful of the participants? Which this doesn't make me feel like at all.
Though I can see Cloud still being mortified if she did walk in on him like that (...not totally sure on Aeris's reaction if she did admittedly).
Oh yeah I'm sure it would be embarrassing for both parties--though maybe Aerith would manage to overcome it and back out with some good grace. For Cloud, well. Pretty sure there's no way to play the cool, casually interested mercenary after you get found like that.
Aerith! I'm actually skipping around in comment a bit because I noticed you talking about her noticing his eyes the first time and the attraction starting there and I really liked that idea? And I'd venture that the second encounter is when she started thinking about sex as an actual possibility, but maybe even after the first time she's thinking about it? Like, she goes home enjoying a silly little fantasy, maybe not about sex itself but sexually-charged (...does this make sense), not that it means anything since she doesn't even know the guy's name and she's not likely to run into him--Planet, what are you dropping him into her lap for. A SIGN??? Okay Planet probably has bigger things in mind than a girl's sex drive, but it'd be a shame to waste such a nice opportunity... (And yeah, thinking more seriously about having sex at this point.)
Question about the guilt thing, really: does she feel guilty toward Zack (for being interested in someone else), or guilty toward Cloud (for not being interested in him as a romantic thing, seeing the Zack similarities)? It might be a personal preference thing; I'd lean more toward the latter, because of what she thinks (or tells herself anyway) went on with Zack and slighter because of it (as long as she thinks Cloud is on the same level as her about the relationship), but it could go either way--it could go both.
...Sorry, my thoughts are kind of scattered on this right now.
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Though I can see Cloud still being mortified if she did walk in on him like that (...not totally sure on Aeris's reaction if she did admittedly).
Oh yeah I'm sure it would be embarrassing for both parties--though maybe Aerith would manage to overcome it and back out with some good grace. For Cloud, well. Pretty sure there's no way to play the cool, casually interested mercenary after you get found like that.
Aerith! I'm actually skipping around in comment a bit because I noticed you talking about her noticing his eyes the first time and the attraction starting there and I really liked that idea? And I'd venture that the second encounter is when she started thinking about sex as an actual possibility, but maybe even after the first time she's thinking about it? Like, she goes home enjoying a silly little fantasy, maybe not about sex itself but sexually-charged (...does this make sense), not that it means anything since she doesn't even know the guy's name and she's not likely to run into him--Planet, what are you dropping him into her lap for. A SIGN??? Okay Planet probably has bigger things in mind than a girl's sex drive, but it'd be a shame to waste such a nice opportunity... (And yeah, thinking more seriously about having sex at this point.)
Question about the guilt thing, really: does she feel guilty toward Zack (for being interested in someone else), or guilty toward Cloud (for not being interested in him as a romantic thing, seeing the Zack similarities)? It might be a personal preference thing; I'd lean more toward the latter, because of what she thinks (or tells herself anyway) went on with Zack and slighter because of it (as long as she thinks Cloud is on the same level as her about the relationship), but it could go either way--it could go both.
...Sorry, my thoughts are kind of scattered on this right now.