A side quest inFinal Fantasy 7 Rebirthreveals that Jessie was planning to make a love potion pizza for Cloud inFinal Fantasy 7 Remake, or that she was at least aware of the ingredients.
As Yuffie wisely points out in Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth, it seems like it’s Cloud Strife’s destiny to be surrounded by “smokin' hot chicks” throughout his adventures.We’ve already discussed the two main love interests that Cloud has in Remake and Rebirth, but there’s one other major character who clearly showed an interest - Avalanche member Jessie Raspberry.
In the opening hours of Final Fantasy 7 Remake, Cloud works closely with Avalanche and gets a lot of attention from Jessie, who constantly flirts with him and makes suggestive jokes, before taking it back whenever Cloud calls her out on it. It’s a sweet relationship that is given a lot more focus in Rebirth following her untimely death in Remake.
Jessie’s Pizza Isn’t As Sweet As It Seems
One of the ways that Jessie flirts with Cloud in Final Fantasy 7 Remake is by inviting him around for pizza,something that’s even referenced in Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth if Cloud chooses to visit the portrait of Jessie in Chapter 8 on his own. It’s clearly a sweet moment that has stuck with him after Jessie passed away, even if it turns out that Jessie wanted a little more than pizza.
As pointed out by Twitter user MargotXCloud, when talking to Cloud about the pizza that she’s going to make, Jessie lists off a bunch of seemingly innocuous ingredients, including marche, luche, black milly, and red shelly. As a simple pepperoni man myself, I just assumed that these were a bunch of herbs and spices I’d never heard of, but a conversation with Barret reveals that they are actually love potion ingredients.
If you talk to Barret in Chapter 9,he and Cloud will discuss what kind of plants they’d end up growing in a garden, which gives the player some dialogue options. One of those options will cause Cloud to rattle off some of the ingredients that Jessie mentioned would be in her pizza, likely as a nice little nod to her.
In response, Barret will ask Cloud if he’s aware that those are ingredients used in love potions, something which clearly shocks him. So there we have it, Jessie’s list of strange ingredients was yet another way for her to flirt with Cloud. It’s likely that these are commonly known as love potion ingredients and she was just making another joke at Cloud, who is truly clueless in these situations.
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Final Fantasy Rebirth is the second part of the FF7 Remake project. It continues the story of Cloud Strife, a former SOLDIER turned mercenary who joins Avalanche, a group of eco-terrorists seeking to save the planet from the malevolent Sephiroth. As the party pushes out of Midgar, leaving the Shinra Corporation devastated, where will their paths take them?
