Since I count Cloud's ability to talk to chocobos as shown in FFVII as canon, here's my thoughts on this.
Regardless whether this is something anyone can learn with a bit of luck, opportunity and effort or if Cloud is just ~special~ I imagine it happened while he grew up; probably meeting some wild chocobos during the summers in the wilderness around Nibelheim. So he spent time with a particular group who kept coming back mistaken for a wayward, half-grown chick, and he picked up the ability to talk to them while spending time around them.
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ninetydegrees
The chocobo thing
2016-11-01 23:19 (UTC)Regardless whether this is something anyone can learn with a bit of luck, opportunity and effort or if Cloud is just ~special~ I imagine it happened while he grew up; probably meeting some wild chocobos during the summers in the wilderness around Nibelheim.
So he spent time with a particular group who kept coming back
mistaken for a wayward, half-grown chick, and he picked up the ability to talk to them while spending time around them.