#‘boy oh boy the price of freedom is steep’

[prayerith]

just remembered that zack. that he. that in this one he doesn’t make it and i got very sad over the fact that i’m gonna have to play that scene out

[one-winged-dreams]

fKJSLHDG:LKJSHDG:KJLHSDG????

I did that fucking comfort character meme with Heather Mason and Zack as a warmup.

Zack was a given, but Heather was the funniest fucking possible second option (and the easiest to draw).

[noxtivagus]

THE ZACK FAIR BRAINROT IS SO REAL

[onewingedangels]

CRISIS CORE FINAL FANTASY VII REUNION (2022) dev. Square Enix ↳ "Boy oh boy, the price of freedom is steep." — Zack Fair

[planetvries]

"Boy oh boy… The price of freedom is steep.”

[ilminnestrone]

So my boy Angeal got his second and third Limit Breaks named after Latin mottos and I'm all for it.

Serit arbores, quae alteri saeculo prosint.

Plant trees, that will benefit others for centuries to come.

It means "start something positive today, even if you will not enjoy its fruit yourself." It's a quote (later used as a motto) from a lost Caecilius Statius's commedy, came to us from Cicero's De Senectute, a long dialogue where the old Cato Maior explains how old people should think about future generations and be useful an pleasant to them. Cato had a long military and political career, during which he imposed high taxes on luxury goods, dealt with public utilities and tried to protect morality from the libertine customs of the Greeks.

Per aspera ad astra.

From asperities to the stars.

It means "the road to success is paved with difficulties". It's a very common proverb (still quite common today in Italian in the original Latin), which has several versions in Latin literature. Its actual origin is Greek, from the myth: those who managed to climb Mount Olympus were heroes whose lives were steeped in battles and suffering. The form ad astra is commonly used for those who already reached success after a long journey.

"Oh boy, oh boy, the price of freedom is steep."

I'm still trying to decipher and translate Gongaga's Latin lyrics, but my ear is trained to the ecclesiastical pronunciation and I can't grasp everything. Text me if you want to help!

[kazumahashimoto]

if people had wings, they'd be monsters. -> wings symbolize freedom for those who don't have any. -> angeal wing reveal -> then what should an angel fight for zack? what do angels dream of? (please, tell me!) to be human. -> zack dreams of white feathers -> i want to help out a friend, but i don't know how i can do it -> zack wakes up in aerith's church -> heaven? not quite. church in the slums! -> an angel? no, i'm aerith. -> i hope that your friend is okay, zack. you talk in your sleep. -> angeal dies -> zack goes straight to aerith (inside the church) -> zack names seventh heaven -> dog angeal copy stays in the rafters of the church to protect aerith for four years -> zack hallucinates angeal -> those wings, i want them too -> boy oh boy, the price of freedom is steep -> aerith's prayer keeps zack alive another few minutes -> zack dies -> that girl, she said that the sky frightened her. -> angeal flies down (from heaven) -> but it must feel so good up there. -> those wings, i want them too. -> angeal takes zack up with him -> it does, feel good

[voidsentprinces]

Boy oh boy, the price of freedom is steep...

[square-pear]

Boy oh boy, the price of freedom is steep.

[animcsus]

Boy, oh boy.. The price of freedom... Is Steep....

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CARRD. COMM.

[preposterousgreen]

Zack: Boy, oh boy!

Zack: The price of freedom sure is steep!

Zack: *signs his tax return, folds it, and stuffs it in an envelope*

Angeal: Will you please fix your withholding already?

[silentchamp]

[ Boy, oh boy, the price of freedom is steep. ]

[relicbxund]

softly are ya defectin son.......

[tsurugixbuster]

"I have to go to Midgar."

"What are you gonna do when we get to Midgar, Cloud?"

"Boy oh boy... The Price of Freedom is Steep."

"Embrace your dreams, and whatever happens, protect your honor... as SOLDIER!"

"COME AND GET IT!"

"We're almost there Cloud, almost there."

Like a man possessed, the now Ex-SOLDIER drags himself through the city streets with his best friend in tow. Zack returns to the city like some great conquering hero. In his defense, he had just fought an army single handedly. His battered body and the pain of it all isn't enough to dull the bright gleaming smile upon his dirty face. Now that he was victorious. There is only one thing really on his mind. Only one place he wanted to be.

Aerith

As they came up the hill of Sector 5. He could feel the blond stir beside him. Life all at once seemed to return to Cloud. His arms finding their old strength, if only for a moment. They squeeze tightly around the raven haired man's frame. They nearly collapse to the ground as Zack starts laughing. Whether it is from the delirium and pain or from the excitement of Cloud stirring he doesn't know. He regains his footing through it, and hoists Cloud back up right once more.

"Z..Zack!"

As their glowing eyes meet, Zack can see the pained look come over Cloud's face at once. The firmness of his grasp slips quickly away, as he goes limp once more. Zack is quick to seat the two of them down at a nearby bench. The two of them must be quite a sight. He is glad that people don't come out here that often.

"Zack... I'm so tired."

Zack exhales deeply at Cloud's words. It is a sigh of relief. One he had been carrying with him since they'd left Nibelheim, and the nightmare of Hojo's lab.

"I know pal. I'm tired too... but there's still something I gotta do."

He reaches over playfully ruffling the blond's hair for a moment. With a groan; he rises up from the bench soon afterward

"Good Night, Cloud. I'll be back soon."

With those last words, Zack begins to make his way the rest of the way up the hill to the abandoned church. Any other time he would be all nerves, but this time he is too tired to care. He has been gone so long, and yet every day he has thought about her. Wondered how she was, wished that she was happy, hoped that she would wait... for him.

To think those silly little wishes he had stored in his heart had been what gave him the strength to make it back here.

The doors to the church swing open with a loud creaking thud. In the doorway stands a man. He is blackened and bloodied. As if he had dragged himself up from the depths of hell itself; to be here in this holy place.

She is all he can see in the dimly lit ruin of the church. The look upon her face as she rises up and turns around to see him. It doesn't take her long to come rushing across the room. Those bright green eyes as wide as they can be at the sight of him.

"Well shit.  I didn’t want you to see this—  blood really isn’t my color. ”

He makes the joke for her. To try and ease her mind. He can only imagine how rough he looks. He doesn't have to imagine how rough he feels. It takes the last of his strength to heave the buster sword from his back and lay it clattering down with a thud onto one of the nearby church pews.

In truth he only half hears what she says at first. The fatigue setting in hard. Even his mako enhanced body has it's limits and he had surpassed those long ago. At the touch of her hand against his own, the SOLDIER crumbles. His attempt to follow her is brief. The man hits his knees in the church's center as if he is falling into some reverent pray.

"I... I'm fine."

He clutches her hand tightly in his own as all of the adrenaline begins to fade. His other arm wraps itself around her legs. His forehead coming to rest against her thighs as he embraces her from his position on the ground.

"I'm back."

He ushers the words fervently once more. As if to reassure himself that all of this was real.

↳ @tsurugixbuster queried: “  well shit.  i didn’t want you to see this—  blood really isn’t my color.  ”

------SHE COULD ONLY imagine the struggles of a SOLDIER. rumors of the program had touched her ears in early childhood, only emphasized in small parts by zack's own casual conversation with her on his visits. she did not know what torture those poor souls went through, only that some twisted version of the planet coursed through their veins when all was said and done. pieces of the planet that were so far gone she couldn't even feel their pulse anymore. processed beyond science and reason. perhaps he bore as many scars as she did ... but aerith never asked. it wasn't right to press.

worry laced her features at the state of him. blood. it spattered his face in flicks - as if someone had come at him with a paintbrush instead of whatever apparent massacre had taken place - and stained his clothes so deeply she was sure it stuck to his flesh. she could taste it on him, heavy copper in the air like cologne, and while it may have made the stomach of a lesser woman turn or drop it only served to strum her with the deepest of concern. " are you hurt? "

perhaps it was a silly question - but he wasn't nursing anything (either he was much more accustomed to pain than she could ever perceive or he wasn't even remotely injured), and aerith could only hope she wouldn't discover some heinous gash hidden behind the sword at his back ... or anywhere else. " come on, let me help clean you up. " gently she reached for his hand, tugged at the palm much larger than hers, wayward toward safety. " i mean ... you're not hurt, right? "

[kazumahashimoto]

i really do love that zack dies i've been thinking about that a lot lately with rebirth and all that like i just love the way his story plays out in crisis core. it's so fucking sad. completely devastating. he wants to save people so bad. he tries so fucking hard to save people. he kills angeal. he can't save genesis. he can't save sephiroth. he can't protect aerith. he leaves his parents to cissnei. he craves freedom. he says three times that he wants those wings too. boy oh boy the price of freedom is steep. he wants so badly. but he doesn't get it, not through life. the only person he saved was cloud, and he had to die to do it. I LOVE IT. he's sosad

[thelvadams]

FINAL FANTASY VII REMAKE: INTEGRADE

Boy, oh boy... The price of freedom is steep.