#VII ˚ 「 thread 」 .

[the-moogs]

i just think they were so gf coded in rebirth

[valentimmy]

damn 😟

[troythecatfish]

[altocat]

EVERYONE READ ALTO'S MONSTERS THREADS I FINISHED OT LAST NIGHT AND I AM HOWLING

Alto thank you so much I cried so hard it was so good

Omg anon thank youuuu! I hope I brought justice to Sephiroth's story. Even if the plot came out before First Soldier, I hope it served as an interesting alternative. I worked hard to make it feel like a tangible novelization. So I'm glad it appealed to you 🙏

[soldier-lodbrok]

Threads of Fate / Fatechanger AU with @holyguardian that makes a big part of this blog

[trainingdummyrabbit]

Don gets people into "my lil meow meow" if they think that way about Angela because honestly she's also similar to Angela in very minor and certain ways, I will not explain further.

nono im following your signal. reading the thread, yes. theres been several several times already id go off on a thought tangent or an idea or smthn and then th "i literally did this same thing with angela. its again." in my thread notes somewhere is 'angela starts reaching out like a cat bravely exploring out from under the couch' and well wouldnt you believe it . wouldnt you believe it!

[oakthcrn]

A resigned sigh escaped her as she frowned. She glanced at the cave's mouth and had a feeling there was more to this training than a simple clear-out. Genesis Rhapsodos wasn't that boring.

❝ Somehow, I highly doubt it, but fine. ❞ She replied and gently shook his hand off her shoulder. She unsheathed her blade and began to stroll inside. She was swallowed up by darkness and she lifted a hand to activate her fira materia. She glanced around, so far so good. She produced a floating flame and ventured forward.

Once her hand was free, she touched her earpiece.

❝ Sir, can you hear me? ❞ She spoke and glanced around, she peered at the cave walls, remnants of old markings made her think it had once been occupied by some ancient Cetra. Why did SHIN-RA own it? Unless...they were out of bounds and this wasn't merely a training session, but an actual mission.

A look of irritation sprawled over her freckled face. Was it a mission he didn't feel like doing? Arse.

❝ So far there hasn't been any sign of--❞ She was cut off when she felt a sudden force against her, throwing her against the cave wall. She cursed in an old language and gripped her blade. She couldn't see details but the creature was exceedingly large. She sent flames towards it but it did little, her blade did little, and all she could do was dodge. She needed to think of a way to destroy it, or at least get by.

@phantasiiae continued from here: xxx

[kathanglangit]

okay here's how you design a fantasy weapon pls like and subscribe follow me for more tips-

Kidding- but this was sent to me by Dyl just a while ago and I just had to.

I do actually love seeing these wild designs, there's more imagination in them than you can beat out of a roomful of AI "artists".

Art by Peter Andrew Jones if I'm not mistaken.

I do wish there were more of them around, just over-the-top bullshit that doesn't take itself too seriously.

This one's from The Sword and the Sorcerer (1982). It's a sword with THREE blades. Two of them shoot out of the hilt as projectiles- I love it. I would never use it.

I set out posting my art online initially to design "practical fantasy weapons", and while I haven't abandoned the "practical" part myself, going nuts on weapon designs is still just really fun to do.

Saradomin Godsword from OldSchool Runescape and the newfangled RS3 version.

Doesn't have to be "practical". Depending on the context, the looks can be more important than the functionality.

Sanderson depicts shardblades in The Stormlight Archive as being ultralight to justify their size. Fun middleground, but not always necessary.

Art by Alex Allen.

There are weapons that will forever be iconic BECAUSE they went nuts with 'em.

Of course they also went nuts with the people using them, so there's internal consistency, but the point stands.

Guts' Dragonslayer, Berserk (1989-2021) by Kentaro Miura.

Cloud Strife's Buster Sword, Final Fantasy 7 (1997) by Square Enix, image from the 2020 Remake

Moonlight Greatsword, in one of its many iterations, this time as Ludwig's Holy Blade from Bloodborne (2015) in The Old Hunters DLC by From Software

Kratos' Blades of Chaos, God of War (2005), image from their iteration in God of War (2018) by Sony's Santa Monica Studio.

Just- don't pretend you could ever use them in the real world, yourself.

Actual martial artists can already hurt themselves using tried-and-tested weapons from history (i.e. there is someone to learn how they use them from), let alone the average untrained gamer with something out of fantasy.

Doesn't stop people from trying. Baltimore Knife and Sword are among the many blacksmiths who routinely produce real world versions of fictional weaponry (look up Man at Arms: Reforged on YouTube) and recently Digitally Twisted Outlaws (also on YouTube) started training with one such giant replica Dragonslayer, and dubbed their weapon-style the "Colossus Sword Form".

Bottom line, just have fun with it. Don't get too bogged down by what's consistent with real world usage, especially when the context is fictional.

[holly-fixation]

A medley of One Winged Angel, Shinra's Theme, JENOVA, The Price of Freedom, and the main theme of FFVII.

A Monster's Threads is a Sephiroth novel fic created by @altocat of Sephiroth's entire life before he fell into the Life Stream. (released before Ever Crisis and FFVII Rebirth) and it is an incredible read. Give it a read over on AO3 if you haven't already. The ending of this piece is completely different than my last AMT piece and honestly REALLY fun to play.

I had some time to myself today in a quiet area to record. Thus, this is Actual playing this time. I will fully update AMTs OST with more instruments at some point, but this is the best I can do for now. The only editing done was just to cut the silence before I began and after I ended.

[hyperionwitch]

Well..............the trim is done! It only took me like 50 hours lmao. But I can finally move on to the rest of the dress embellishments!

[offwithhxrhead]

[ text from maddie ] smiler , it is THREE IN THE MORNING . i swear to GOD if i open this link , and it's a rick roll , i will come into that room and SMOTHER YOU WITH YOUR PILLOW .

[ text from maddie ] ON MY WAY TO YOUR ROOM , YOU TROLL

@thevalicemultiverse

[tiderider]

there had always been something cold about corinne's home, a distantness to everything inside of it. harry had noticed it the first time he'd snuck through her bedroom window. the house was lonely and isolated, too much surrounding space and not enough things to fill it. outside of corinne's room the whole place had felt like there was no one inside it. like a starved beast, hungry for something it didn't know how to catch.

her parents had felt the same way. cold, distant, and starved. whatever intimacy they seemed to have with corinne had looked strange. like neither of them knew how to do it and were too afraid to try.

❝ you're tougher than you look. ❞ harry said without prompting. sweeping her hair back and over her shoulder when she looked at him, ❝ i don't think i ever told you. ❞ // @rosewiltd gets a starter .

[hollys-trying2draw]

"Can you live on a star?"

Sephiroth was curious when he was young.

Fan art for @altocat 's "A Monster's Threads", a novelization of Sephiroth's birth to the events of Nibelhiem.

[altocat]

AMT Chapter 2 in a nutshell

Babyroth: *tries calling Hojo dada*

Hojo not wanting to have attachments: *slaps the shit outta him* No.

( @izunias-meme-hole )

Dad of the year. Dad of the century 💀

(someone should slap the shit out of HOJO)

[roleplay-abiogenesis2]

@poeticphoenix || Continued from here~

Enrichment... The more Cyno stared at that strange window over the faraway world, however, the less he really understood just what the benefit was in this kind of spectacle. A group of people was lined up, and all apparently competing on trying to guess the monetary value of one of those strange chocobo-less chariots that he'd seen everywhere on the way to Genesis' apartment. Then, out of nowhere, the 'host' of the competition had called for a pause, and out of nowhere now was a happy family at a tavern-like sort of place, enjoying a meal so appetizing and delicious it made them break into song.

He shook his head, deciding to ignore what he was seeing to focus back on one of the books he'd taken from the man's well-furnished bookcase. He was more familiar with books; it gave him a sense of normalcy.

"Saying it in the tongue of my people would probably be nothing but meaningless noise to your ears." He said, flipping back a few pages, red eyes scanning over paragraphs, pictures, and charts. Photos of documents and excavation sites that made his stomach tighten with a sense of dread. But finally, he found the word he'd spotted earlier.

"The name you use to call us now... is Cetra." He muttered as he tasted the word on his tongue. "... Hmph. Wonder where that came from."

[trainingdummyrabbit]

ikeep wanting to donqpost but th . then the