#❛ verse: cloud ; remake.

[oocontextfanfiction]

From “Shaping Fate” on ao3

[myristicisms]

@defiant-ex-soldiers || Cloud Strife wrote;;

“ You're joking. ”

Turquoise eyes gleam curiously, confusion flickering within a typically calm expression. The same smile had been offered hundreds - thousands of times before, part of Zack's charm he'd guess, or it would be in better circumstances. As it stood, standing in a bar that he's pretty sure he helped name while staring at a few somewhat familiar backs of heads wasn't the former SOLDIER's ideal way to kill time, but if it meant getting well needed socializing in then he'd simply have to swallow the bitter taste within his mouth and cope.

It was much better than focusing on the judgemental gaze he'd received from passers-by anyways, not like Zack could blame them given his eyes were a damn giveaway of prior affiliations; Death on papers be damned he was still technically a work horse for Shinra at some point in his life and the company didn't exactly show much love for any of the residents within the slums. War hero or not, former first or not, the raven haired man understood far too well the apprehension that was thrown towards him, it was the whispers he wished he could ignore.

How he wished he could simply rip the mako that danced within his blood out, cleanse his body of the enhancements and perhaps then some; Unfortunately it was an ichor that forever lurked within his body, going into overdrive and effectively leaving Zack all the more vulnerable to hushed insults, not like they weren't deserved; The worst though was when his ears would occasionally pick up familiar voices, ones he'd yearned to hear once more but never quite being able to find the ones who they belonged to and tonight just had to be one of those nights.

Fighting the urge to whip his face around to where he'd guess the voice came from was always the hardest part, even if it sounded more biting than the one his mind usually conjured up, and much the same as always, Zack lost that fight quickly. Impulses were one hell of a fight for a man that rarely ever bothered to control them, if he'd learned anything it was to simply give up trying to look less insane around others, not like anyone would notice the frantic way his gaze flickered anyways.

“ Holy shit... ” A whisper, body tensing at familiar tufts of blondes and yet he can't help but feel out of place, those blues weren't familiar at all to him, not in the way Zack had hoped anyways, the glare he felt lingering upon his features made him wish so desperately that he didn't keep his hair slicked back, wished he could hide behind the long raven lock that covered just a sliver of his features. Normally he'd be elated, to finally see a familiar face, or at least one of the faces he's been hoping to see anyways.

Now all he feels is dread. He knows the words are spoken towards him, why else would the blonde be looking in his direction, though now he wonders if Cloud even recognized him, remembered him at all. Is he angry that Zack had disappeared after his battle with the platoon? Or maybe he has no clue who Zack is and he's just as apprehensive towards SOLDIERs as the rest of the folks within the bar. So many thoughts run through his mind and that damned lack of impulse control gets the better of him again, forces his legs to walk towards the shorter man and force an easy going smile upon his face.

“ Usually that comes after I say something stupid, ” His throat feels dry, trying to force words out; Wants to test the waters and see if perhaps his assumption was wrong and maybe Cloud was just shocked he'd be there too, but he can't bring himself to get that confirmation, knows the idea that he'd been forgotten despite doing his damned best to take care of the blonde on their run from Shinra would rip whatever was left of his pride from him and that wasn't something Zack wanted to risk. “ You were staring pretty hard - I think - can I help you with anything? ”

[thecloudstan]

Random question here: In your upcoming Rufus/Honeybee!Cloud fic, will we get to see Darkstar with Rufus, even if it's a little bit? 🥺🙏

Actually…it’s not out of the question!

[heartbinders]

TAG DUMP: CLOUD STRIFE

❛ ic: cloud. ❛ musings: cloud. ❛ headcanon: cloud. ❛ aesthetic: cloud. ❛ meta: cloud. ❛ images: cloud. ❛ relations: cloud. ❛ open: cloud. ❛ closed: cloud. ❛ inbox: cloud. ❛ dash games: cloud. ❛ starter call: cloud. ❛ drabbles: cloud. ❛ music: cloud. ❛ verse: cloud ; crisis core. ❛ verse: cloud ; original. ❛ verse: cloud ; remake. ❛ verse: cloud ; rebirth. ❛ verse: cloud ; kingdom hearts. ❛ verse: cloud ; smash.

[smellbringer]

Gwen and Aerith: Reinvention vs Exploration

Between my executive dysfunction and difficulty explaining myself, this took a month. Somehow it's not even the longest.

Final Fantasy VII is a game that has firmly gripped it’s hooks in me once again thanks to the Remake project. One of the effects of that remake is that I’ve been re-examining my thoughts on one of it’s stars, Aerith. In the original Final Fantasy VII I largely wrote off Aerith in favor of other leading lady Tifa. But as I played Remake and Rebirth, I’ve realized that Aerith also has her own…

[gcdwinged]

@speedchasing : liked for a starter

𝐄𝐀𝐂𝐇 𝐂𝐄𝐋𝐋 𝐈𝐒 an extension of himself, each subject a tool he can pick up and use with ease. after his enduring odyssey, sephiroth is now the largest single concentration of jenova cells. the son has surpassed the mother. her powers have become his. and he knows when pieces of him have been awakened.

𝐇𝐄 𝐂𝐀𝐍 𝐅𝐄𝐄𝐋 the desires of this new puppet; oh so similar to his own. cloud. he wants cloud. it's an easy wish to grant for someone like him. " burn, " the god whispers, his presence so real that the little soldier can feel his breath on the shell of his ear. " burn brightly and he will notice. you need not fear rejection any longer. i am with you now. "

[kuhatoarchive]

tifa jumps off the train first btw. always, always.

[holyguardian]

♡ because why not

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●●●●● | ATTRACTION ●●●○○ | AFFECTION ●●●●○ | INTEREST ●●●○○ | LOYALTY ●●○○○ | TRUST

I am like a parasite who has been feeding off Mya content on the dash, so some of these scores are higher than they have a right to be HOWEVER.

I can say that Aerith would have become fast friends given the opportunity to do so, and I feel like they'd have a very similar code: they're not going to be open about the past, and they're not going to be hypocritical and demand it of the other. That's something they can handshake on without ever giving any actual acknowledgement.

I can also say that Aerith is fast to warm up to people. I know that if she befriended Mya, her affection would max out and with time / shared interactions her trust and loyalty would also creep up from 'friendly' to 'friends'.

[oubaitorisouls]

now that I can come back here and do this, time for another tag dump!

•°. *࿐ Tifa ; to be added to as I think of more tags for her!

[sephirthoughts]

sephiroth thoughts

(hey just like the title of my blog!)

sephiroth imprinted on cloud like a motherless baby duck because cloud stabbed him while he was losing his mind to jenova, causing him to have a single moment of clarity where he was in control again, which is what allowed his conscious will to survive in the lifestream. in his post-death apotheosis delusion-verse, it is cloud who stopped him from disappearing forever, so he has formed a twisted attachment to him and has no intention of losing him.

his obsession with cloud is evident (remake/rebirth canon) in the way that he constantly talks to him—taunting, mocking, sometimes cruel and sometimes cryptic, but always beckoning, always calling out to him, demanding his acknowledgment, begging him to not forget him. to not let go. to hold on to his hatred. because despite his intention to become a god, he so deeply and terribly needs there to be someone who cares about him.

even if that means he has to destroy everything cloud cares about and chain him up so he can never leave. even if cloud hates him forever. because the opposite of love isn't hate, it's apathy. sephiroth believes he can never have love, so he'll accept hatred, because that means he still matters to someone. that he hasn't disappeared. cloud's hatred is literally keeping sephiroth alive

[clonerightsagenda]

Kat's "I could fix him" Arcane post pt 2:

Yeah it's him this time.

The Jayce, Viktor, and disability storyline is where Arcane s2 gets the most incoherent, imo. I never got the impression in s1 that Viktor wants to "fix his imperfections". He just doesn't want to die. Also, his problems were caused by apathy and classism, not generic human emotion. (Blaming human emotion in general sure lets the rich and powerful off the hook, right?) At the end of s1, Viktor wants Jayce to destroy the hex core, but then in s2 he's embracing it. Also at the start of s2 he claims he's moved beyond affection, but then later tells Jayce he left without explaining himself because he was clouded by emotion. Viktor was upset about the idea of using hextech as weapons but then willingly helps Ambessa's army. We also have Viktor claiming "that's not Jayce" and Jayce having some visible arcane corruption, but that never goes anywhere. I'm still genuinely not sure how the show wanted me to interpret his s2 thought processes.

So, how would I deal with this? By leaning way way harder into the Horrors of Ableism and the Medical Model of Disability.

Viktor wanted Jayce to destroy the hex core. Instead, Jayce uses it to save his life against his wishes. After that, Viktor's affect changes, he goes into the Undercity, and non-consensually transforms someone else. Other disabled and chronically ill people come to him willingly, but this is a world where even one of the most powerful people in Piltover can't get a fucking wheelchair ramp. A quick fix is appealing, even if it means giving up some of who you are. You've already been unpersoned by society, after all.

Hextech is something Viktor and Jayce created together, and it seems to respond to intent and emotions, so let's take it to extremes. That's not Viktor. That's hextech, influenced by both Jayce and Viktor, and it answered Jayce's desperation. The man of progress, the herald of tomorrow, wanted to save his friend. He wanted to fix what was broken. Here you go! I made him even better. Now while I'm at it, I'll fix everybody else too!

Have purple disability Jesus!Viktor be embodied hextech on a well-meaning rampage. Meanwhile, mindscape Viktor debates it while it's wearing Sky's face. He feels betrayed by Jayce and guilty about Sky, but also he did want to bring better things to the Undercity. Is this the best way to do it? Is the only way to play the abled world's game abandoning who you used to be? He's not sure, and he starts to waver/get weaker as Sky/hextech gets stronger with more followers in its hivemind.

Following my last post, as hextech!Viktor helps Jinx with her shimmer issues, maybe he also tries to 'fix' her psychosis. (Side note, it would have been nice to make it clear that AU-verse!Powder still has psychosis, so it's not so clearly associated with Jinx's villain era. I'm sure stress and trauma makes it worse, but still.) He's unsuccessful at this, or perhaps Jinx resists it, and this can be something he reflects on later at the end when Jayce talks about our imperfections being important and part of who we are/the world around us.

Anyway, hextech!Viktor wants access to the gate to make everybody perfect and fully intends to doublecross Ambessa and remake her too. For her own good, of course. Real Viktor is exhausted in the mindscape. His partner wants to kill him, hextech is out of control, and even the downtrodden people he 'helped' have been destroyed. Then Jayce gets dragged into the mindscape and the hextech goes look, you created me and I've expanded on your vision. I saved your partner, I brought about the era of magic, I've created the men of tomorrow. And as in canon, Jayce can go no, Viktor, I didn't save you because I wanted to fix you, I just wanted you to live, there's nothing wrong with you. You don't need a glorious evolution, we just need to help people be better at being who they already are. And that encourages Viktor to overpower the hex tech possessing him.

Then they can still collapse into a gay singularity if you want I guess. Personally I think it's kind of a bummer that dozens of disabled people got obliterated and everyone would've been better off if Viktor had lay down and died of Limp And Coughing Blood Disease from the start but ymmv. IDK what my better ending of 'Jayce and Viktor embrace the social model of disability' would look like but if everyone gets sent to Zaun maybe it would involve coming up with assistive tech like they originally envisioned. And maybe Viktor still will die of lung disease. But he can do it on his terms if so.

[soundcrusher]

OH YOU ASKED FOR IT PAL

(from this ask game)

💛: What is a popular ship you just can't get behind, and why?

💜: Which character is way hotter than everyone else seems to think?

🤍: Which character is not as morally bad as everyone else seems to think?

🖤: Which character is not as morally good as everyone else seems to think?

💖: What is your biggest unpopular opinion about the series?

💕: What is an unpopular ship that you like?

💛: What is a popular ship you just can't get behind, and why?

Cloud x Tifa

And not for the reasons you think of when you talk about this ship. I can see the appeal and I won’t get on the fence about how Cloud shouldn’t be with her, because, well, at the end of the day, people ship what they want to ship.

I don’t like them, because of the way she uses their “friendship” as a tool to get Cloud to do the things she wants him to do.

I’m going to be honest and say that I didn’t play the original. All my knowledge comes from Remake, Rebirth, and the little bits and pieces I didn’t skip in Ever Crisis. And from what I’ve seen, she’s an awful “friend” from the get-go. Not only does she rope Cloud into the shit Avalanche does, but she also lies to him about getting paid. He is forced do this whole side-quest where he follows her Around Sector 7 to help install those water filters and gets antagonised by every fucking person.

And instead of being like “Please stop being like that to Cloud. He’s going through things” she just tells him to be nice. Like, girl, they are assholes to him, and he just reacts accordingly. There’s a saying in my country that, translated, is like “The way you scream into the woods, the same way it comes back out”. Meaning, if you’re met with people who are assholes to you, they will get the same kind of treatment from you.

Cloud’s standoffish and cold, because he’s met with scrutiny. And sure, the people might be vary of him, because he’s wearing a SOLDIER uniform and they very much care about Tifa, but it’s still rude of them. And Tifa’s not helping either. On the contrary, she’s making everything worse by telling Cloud to be “Nice” and making him out to look like an asshole.

And the worst of it all, Cloud doesn’t even get paid accordingly. He should have charged extra for every second he spends following his “friend” on their shit fuck side-quest.

💜: Which character is way hotter than everyone else seems to think?

Can I even say Reeve, because there are enough people who share that opinion?

If not, I’m going to go with the Bellhop from the Haunted Hotel and Chaos. Other than that, everyone else is pretty much mainstream.

Edit: I'm adding Broden, because he's also hot!

🤍: Which character is not as morally bad as everyone else seems to think?

Again, I am not as well versed in, well, basically everything, but if I must go off from things I have learned from fandom osmosis, it seems to be Genesis?  Like, sure, he killed a lot of people, but so has everyone. Not even Avalanche can wash their hands from all the lives they have ruined.

🖤: Which character is not as morally good as everyone else seems to think?

Fucking... I’ll go with Tifa again. Mostly because of the reasons I have already given in the first question. Like, taking advantage of a “friend” while they’re going through some shit and then not giving them any kind of safe place to get their shit together is a very shitty thing to do.

Sure, I can see why she did it but come on. She hasn’t seen Cloud in a while, and the first thing she does is put him in a group with an asshat with a gun who keeps on being an asshole to him.

💖: What is your biggest unpopular opinion about the series?

Some of the clothing choices in the game are terrible, I would change them if I could.

If I had to give some examples, it would be like this:

Rosso -> Give. That. Woman. Better. Pants!

Shalua -> If she must wear a skirt, give her a better one.

Yufie -> That’s a fucking teenager. Give her better pants and a shirt.

Weiss -> Give that man a shirt! I know his abbs are nice and all, but he’s gonna get cold! (Don’t come at me! This is the big sister/mom-friend in me talking!)

Sephiroth -> Same reasons as Weiss.

Cloud -> That SOLDIERs uniform looks stupid on him. Either give him better gear or put him back into his Trooper uniform. At least that would give him some form of better protection.

💕: What is an unpopular ship that you like?

You’re mocking me, aren’t you?

Haunted Hotel Bellhop x Reeve. Fight me on that, I dare you.

I also like Reeve x Chaos. You may also fight me on that.

[spicypepperjack]

Seeing Jinx with a silhouette of black wings made me think of an Final Fantasy 7 AU where Jinx is a one-winged angel. I'd like to think in this AU, she's adopted by Hojo instead of Silco, and she's forced to be part of the Jenova project. I'd like to think she manifests herself in the failed clones, where she taunts Vi and Ekko for "abandoning" her and tries to get them to join her "reunion" as a gesture of remorse. Basically, she's the Sephiroth to Vi and Ekko's Zack and Cloud.

I'd like to think she loves messing with Ekko flirtatiously like Sephiroth does to Cloud in the Remake-verse

[azure-steel]

Independent and selective Cloud Strife roleplay blog - Lightly canon divergent - borrows from all OG, Remake and Rebirth verses - OC friendly - multiship - Over 18's only. Adored and written by Saphie

[makostrife]

independent  CLOUD  STRIFE  from  square  enix's  FINAL  FANTASY  VII.  follows  the  plot  of  remake/reunion/rebirth.  highly  headcanon  based  &  canon  divergent.  crossover  &  oc  friendly!  minors get out of my swamp. not  associated  with  any  fandoms.  written  by  CERO  (she/her,  21+). comes  with  various verses: fandomless/modern,  kingdom hearts, baldur's gate 3, honkai: star rail & wuthering waves.  ⸺ carrd. / ©

[gcdwinged]

tag dump

#* ic    /    all things must die.

#* aesthetic    /    defy the force that drags them all to heel.

#* musings    /    whispers from mother.

#* character study    /    beneath the legend is a longing.

#* visage    /    alone as a god.

#* dyn. sephiroth & aerith    /    we cast darker shadows with stronger light.

#* dyn. sephiroth & cloud    /    what you are without me? what am i without you?

#* verse: final fantasy vii    /    ruination to all.

#* verse: crisis core    /    the one who remains shall become a hero.

.#* verse: kingdom hearts    /    in the heart of darkness.

#* verse: remake    /    the sun rising on a rebirth.

#* verse: advent children / i send the pestilence and plague.