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i love evil gay men

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regarding rebirth cid's random relationship w ifalna, i think i might have a reason as to why its a thing (if it hasn't been officially explained already)

im pretty sure squeenix thought that cid didnt have any or enough connection/beef w either shinra or sephiroth. the other party members have been wronged by either or both in some way, fueling their motives, but cid seems to not be the same

one could say that the fact that he worked for shinra and that they canceled the space program might be connection enough but i think squeenix saw it more of a cid and shera thing rather than a cid and shinra thing

i mean, im not sure how i feel about this new cid. im not big on him so far personally, but still. defiantly think that they could have done something better than "oh yea i found aerith's dead mom hot lol"

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here's my lil sephi stylisation bc ive been experimenting w what feels like a natural and right way to draw him for me

also get ready for a fuck ton of design analysis and opinions about of seph bc I'm kinda chasing a sephiroth high rn and i gotta get it outta me

okay, so, to explain my thoughts on how i view sephi, i'll call back to the post i made right before this one

homeslice is the most miserable and detached man in existence at the time of nibelheim

hes barely there and has barely been there for a long ass while. sure he can do basic things like brush his teeth, shower, brush his hair, but i believe he's too far gone to even give a fuck about his appearance, assuming he ever did back in the day. he's naturally beautiful enough to get away w it, but still

og seph, to me, isn't a person and hasn't been long since before nibelheim. never once in the entire game is he a person. we never get to truly hear about him from himself, only through word of mouth, legends, and from flashbacks from Mr cloud "unreliable narrator" strife. even the words of his clone that usually interacts w the party during the game cant be fully trusted to actually be how sephiroth feels bc of jenova's presence in general (no matter if you believe which one controls the other)

sephiroth is a dead man. even when he was still breathing, he was a dead man. he was a man that was beaten into a complete husk and was left as a corpse w a pulse. a corpse who would rather ignore reality than go through the painful experience of having to live inside his own mind

but thats how i see him, personally

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i do not care what sqeenix tries to tell me w modern sephi but istg

that man does NOT have the energy to smirk as much as he does. bro looks like he's dissociating all the damn time. you call his name and he responds w the most hollow, tired, and mumbly "hm?" you've ever heard in your life. you try to hold a conversation w this man and he has the most tired and detached look in his eyes.

he just looks so ungodly done and miserable to me in the og art, like he's just holding on to reality to do his job and then just blip out of existence again bc of how draining it is to simply think

homeslice would most likely cry sooner than he'd smirk, that's for sure. i refuse to let go of the personal hq that he cried hysterically after zack left the library

i just enjoy my emotionally spent murder man

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Being a Reeve fan is so funny. I’m screaming and cheering at a loser fail business man showing up and doing nothing in the side of a cutscene

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would you guys find me cringe for posting canon x oc stuff im like restraining myself here

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His constant "Wet Cat" status and babygirl charms have captivated me.

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what if i simply want to kiss the old distressed men on the cheek

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fuck shipping cloud with anyone

the party all drive him to therapy and wait in the car to pick him up and then they take him to go eat at mcdonalds

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there is a certain sense of calm i get when i block out all the ff7 stuff that came after the og game like

the way sephiroth is so majorly hyped up in every single release after the og is a bit interesting after returning to the og game for a while. bro doesn't even have the singular wing that people now mostly know him with

that also makes me think that the name of his theme is supposed to be symbolic rather than a little more literal with the wing reveal in advent children (im not sure if that was the first reveal of it but still)

"one-winged angel" without the added on literal wing on him is such an interesting train of thought to me. like it tells of someone who used to be good natured and kind (or maybe pretended to be) and then was cast out like lucifer for example. his other wing, the one that let him fly and reach heaven, was forcibly ripped out of his back or something. but then again i can never explain my thoughts well so this might read as stupid drabble and maybe not even sound like sephiroth at all

still, i value just looking at the og material for what it is, especially now with the remake series n stuff

its also funny to me that most people forget that mr angel man is literally dead for the entirety of the of game. like, he's snoozing in his crystal

he barely even says anything when you finally go fight him. says a few sentences at the start then, wham, he shuts tf up and fucking dies

og sephiroth almost seems underwhelming compared to all his other counterparts in later titles and appearances, and i find that i maybe like that a bit more

ofc this is just my opinion that i may or may not have worded in a readable manner, and i might also have not taken certain details into account bc i forgor do feel free to correct me on anything

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advent children is such dogshit and its sorta an insult to the of ff7 and it has a severe case of nomura-tism but like

its free serotonin for me in particular

its my dogshit and i love it very much

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currently rewatching advent children for the millionth time but like

ive seen a lot of age hcs for the remnants so I'm just gonna throw mine in there.

kadaj: oldest loz & yazoo: younger twins

i mostly think this from the novellas and from what i remember: kadaj was born first and then loz and yazoo materialised at the same time a bit after. i get seeing kadaj or loz being the youngest bc of how they act, but ive always seen kadaj as the oldest. i also think its a funny concept to have yazoo and loz as twins as they have completely different personalities while being bossed around by their short older brother.

i mean, theyre all like a few weeks old or smth. all small babies.

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gays im making an impulsive decision to make a ff7 scrapbook bc it had evolved from hyperfixation to special interest

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You can tell what the ship war/Tifa vs Aerith/Whose the “True” Heroine/Love of FF7 is about because it never includes Barret, despite him being a romance candidate (even IF the OG boiled it down to one big antiblack gay joke), or Yuffie (thankfully because of her age though I shutter to think how she would have been treated if she was an older, viable candidate), or Zack despite his bond with Cloud, or Jessie for that matter. All these are background elements to the ongoing fight over who is the default love interest and thus true love of Cloud.

Which is boiled down to, which one of these women are meant for this man.

It doesn't care that Final Fantasy 7 is a world-spanning story about humanity, genocide, imperialism, and trauma. It ignores that while Cloud is ultimately our main character, it's a story of an entire cast of main characters who are just as important to the ever moving plot as Cloud.

And really, as it insults Tifa and Aerith by trying to suggest one's story is more "important" than the other, it also insults Barret by completely ignoring that his efforts are the instigating factors OF the story and that the running theme of saving the planet? Is because Barret was the first one to scream it in the narrative. It ignores Yuffie's and Red XIII's fight to preserve their dying cultures in a world that actively wants to destroy them for the sake of capitalism. It ignores Cid as someone whose dreams were crushed by capitalism and become so consumed by his pain, he hurt everyone around him. It ignores how Vincent played an active role in Sephiroth's birth and the core corruption of Shinra.

And I think it absolutely misses the theme of FF7 and Cloud in general. Cloud loves everyone. He loves all his friends. If the Remakes and Rebirth did anything, it put on display that there's not one single person that Cloud loves--but all those he has met. Yes, he loves Tifa and loves Aerith and maybe in one or both, he has romantic feelings for them but he clearly loves Barret, Red XIII, Yuffie, Zack, Jessie, Bigs, Wedge, Reeve/Cait, and--as we'll see later--Cid and Vincent.

If any of them died, Cloud would have been devastated. Aerith is special and he mourns her in a specific way because she's AERITH. Not because she's the ONE. SHE'S AERITH. Irreplaceable just like Tifa, just like Barret, just like Yuffie, just like Red XIII, just like Zack, and Cait/Reeve, Cid, and Vincent.

For the last near 30 years, the ship wars have rewrote Cloud's intense love for the people around him as just a heteronormative love story and it's gross.

None of the characters deserve that, but specifically Cloud, Tifa, and Aerith who are so much more than players in a stupid love triangle.

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i rise from the damned dimension of exam preparation

i hate that i havent been able to draw smth for myself in months so might as well try to celebrate rebirth coming out

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autism-roth

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You can’t pick Lilia for this. But who is your other favorite short character in Twst?

I like the angry little king boy 🌹