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[wyvernseeker]

Oh, holy SHIT.

Someone on Twitter said that since Sephiroth is associated with stars/the cosmos (and a direct mirror to Aerith who is like the representative of Earth), that his fall from grace is like if a star lost its light and fell, but that made me think of how his final limit break is Supernova, and that’s the death of a star.

It’s the final stage before it dies or collapses into a black hole, sometimes little neutron stars. It releases that last burst of energy and then loses itself. Sephiroth was born to expand and grow to his cosmic limit and die in a blaze of glory. Both beautiful and utterly terrifying.

[salternateunreality2]

Send this to all your favourite moots and pass the pumpkin round! KEEP THE PUMPKIN TRAIN GOING 🎃🖤🎃🖤🎃

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[rainbowcarousels]

🛼 or 🪲? Really like your fics, both for FF7 and Vampire Chronicles

Add 50 words to your current WIP and share the paragraph here.

🪲"I already told Reno and his less than mysterious benefactor that I wouldn't get into bed with Shinra." Taking no for an answer had never been Shinra's strong suit, but coming around here was a new low. "When your best case scenario is a mako STD, there's not much of an incentive."

[prismaticpichu]

Zack hugs + tackle =

💕 Zackles! 💕

Warning: spine and/or rib damage has been reported

[the-haiku-bot]

I swear to christ they

are setting this shit up. It’s

too sus. WAY too sus.

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

Excuse me EC??? Like???? They could have had Vincent wearing anything resembling his transformations but they went with a Crow????? The man whose whole thing is having literal monsters inside him and you dress him in a suit with crow details?? for Halloween?????

And like, having black feathers around is one of Sephiroth's things because you know flying one winged angel, so it's impossible not to link it to him (or Genesis I guess but you can't play as him in EC).

Not to mention they had Sephiroth resembling Galian Beast for the previous Halloween event, (you can't say it's an exaggeration because Cloud was clearly resembling Death Gigas)

And sure you can say it makes sense because hey Vincent could fly too, and yes BUT, Vincent's wings in chaos' form are bat's wings not crow's!

And like, the fact that Vincent's new suit kinda matches Sephiroth's previous one???? (Like, you could have Vincent joining Sephiroth and Lucia in that previous banner and the one who would look out of place would be Lucia)

Also Vincent having feathers on ONLY one of his shoulders??? and the fact that those feathers kinda resemble a wing?????

AND HIS WEAPON BEING CALLED CROW FAMILIAR??? HELLO????

Like, what the fuck Square?

I swear to christ they are setting this shit up. It’s too sus. WAY too sus.

[chamomile-soup]

this is my very original oc. he is definitely not inspired by altocat's post about sephiroth having a normal life. his name is normalroth and his favorite activities are filing taxes and being able to read. he is currently a PhD student in astrophysics working as an assistant in the local library (and BOY library visit rates have SKYROCKETED). he has brunch with his mom and stepdad on wednesdays and goes to therapy on thursdays. he comes in three flavors: chocolate, white bnuuy original, and red bean.

[wowa-bublord]

COMMISSION FOR @altocat !! Genesis is such a gentleman (<- lying)

[foreststarflaime]

(Based on this post by @rottenpumpkin13 and the addition by @altocat lol)

[tyrantchimera]

FFVII Theory: Jenova’s True Target

I’ll try to be brief: I think that, while Sephiroth was the main vessel for Jenova for the majority of FFVII lore, he very well might have been a (admittedly rather successful) bonus or a secondary objective. Her primary and initial target was, in fact, Vincent Valentine.

TL;DR: Jenova is a manipulator and her main target was always Vincent Valentine. But she was smart enough not to put all her eggs in one basket, so this fact never became obvious despite the many, MANY plots revolving around him. Sephiroth was little more than one of her more successful Vincent-adjacent backups. She was wise to target Vincent; In the end, he ended up being the one to foil many of her plans (perhaps once and for all).

The full theory can be found here, including more more in-depth explanations.

Credits to multiple people for gathering and summarizing information, including: @altocat, @pen-and-umbra, Danteppr (Reddit), RoflWotl (Reddit), @phantomyre,  XTurkValentine (Twitter/X), and @getvalentined

[chez-boi]

When does a man become a monster…?

Been feeling a little silly :P

@foreststarflaime @altocat @stairway-to-camaraderie

[ladyespera]

due to spamming @altocat last night I have been thinking of Scherzo again which of course one should never do

"Seeing you again would mean I'd failed. I have failed. I would have given anything to save you--I gave everything!" "I know! But I didn't want it, if I couldn't have you too. Sorry." "Everything." "I'm sorry." ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "I could be better than that--we could be better!" "But that's who I want. That's who I need. The man who had everything, and yet would give it up for something as small as me." "And now we have everything again." "I don't want everything. I want you. I want the Doctor." "I don't want to be without you, Charley." "You won't be." "I need you. I can't be on my own again." "Let me go. Set us free. You won't be alone, I promise."

[rosy-crow]

Wait @altocat I just realized the meme already became reality last episode…BLAIR HOJO (ALISSA?) PROJECT IS STILL ON

And Bachman is definitely dying first

[silvergreenseraphim]

Angeal and Sephiroth (And Genesis?)—Dissidia Opera Omnia—Part One

Alright, so this chapter was a lot, and it opened with Weiss quoting “Loveless” for a reason, it seems.

“When the war of the beasts brings about the world’s end, the goddess descends from the sky! Wings of light and dark spread afar, she guides us to bliss…her gift everlasting!”

Weiss becomes our voice for Genesis, or his “brother,” in this chapter. When Seymour questions his quote, Weiss replies,

“It was a passage from a story our brother loved. He used to quote it for his best friend. That friend was Sephiroth, the hero and friend of the other “brother,” Angeal as well.”

This part was hard to translate into English, but Weiss essentially explains that Genesis used to quote Loveless for his close friend, Sephiroth, the hero, and Angeal was right there with them as the third friend in the trio.

Seymour is shocked and gasps, “Sephiroth and Angeal were best friends??”

Weiss replies, “It’s hard to believe of the now-evil “hero” that never reveals his heart. And yet, the exemplary First Class soldier that is a role model for everyone was his friend.”

I am on the fence about the translation of this part and may change it once my friend gets back to me, but for now, it seems like Weiss is pondering the friendship of Sephiroth and Angeal and how differently they turned out, because Seymour does make a comment like, “I suppose if you have dreams and honor, you can’t go wrong.”

But there is potentially more here that Weiss is saying about his own relationship to Sephiroth and Angeal—perhaps suggesting he is not their friend and doesn’t quite understand their past relationship himself. I will have to keep researching.

We cut to Sephiroth again, who is confused about his memory returning. He says he didn’t expect any memories to return from the Lifestream, but shakes his head and denial. He claims these memories Angeal brought back are unnecessary and that he most remove Angeal from the picture immediately. His motives are set.

Meanwhile, Zack and Angeal are talking about how Sephiroth changed. I translated this on Altocat’s blog and here is what they say:

Zack says,

“Angeal, I know you’re surprised…I can’t believe that Sephiroth changed like that…

Angeal replies,

“So, you were taken aback as well…”

Zack says,

“It was out of nowhere. We went to investigate Cloud and Tifa’s village…and I guess he discovered his origins. He killed everyone and burned down the village. He had always been the hero I strived to be…”

Zack and Angeal are both very crestfallen here, lamenting this knowledge. Angeal pulls himself together and says,

“I know…I’m disappointed too. Everything changed while I was gone, I guess.

Angeal further laments that he wasn’t there, and Zack reassures him that even though Angeal disappeared at the time and pushed everyone away, Zack would have stayed by his side and helped. Zack would have left Shinra, and he says he is sure Sephiroth felt the same way.

Angeal thanks his student but says that it was his choice and lonely path at the time—he had to carry the responsibility as a First Class soldier. Zack chastises him saying he shouldn’t think that way—after all, Zack is a First Class as well, and has enough experience. He could have helped Angeal. Angeal begins to reply, saying, “Zack…” but then they are interrupted by the others.

They say it’s time to make a decision about Sephiroth, and Cloud explains that the silver boi is planning to turn the world into an empty vessel that he may sail the cosmos with in order to find another world. An Advent Children reference, of course.

Rufus mentions that this goal is very similar to the desire of Jenova. He has to then explain what Jenova is to the other characters, as well as the Reunion theory.

This makes a lightbulb go off in Angeal’s head and he gasps, “So basically…Sephiroth is Jenova?”

He puts it together that Reunion implies that Jenova’s cells must be drawn back to their source, and since that source is currently Sephiroth, they must be the same.

However, the others simply say that Sephiroth/Jenova must be eliminated, and agree to hunt him down. Everyone nods and moves forward except Angeal, who lingers with hesitation.

In the next part, they are in the process of tracking Sephiroth, but the group notices Angeal’s troubled demeanor. They ask him if he’s okay and Kadaj says that he heard about Sephiroth being Angeal’s good friend. He says that it must be disheartening to see Sephiroth in his current state, since nothing is like it used to be.

Angeal notes Kadaj’s own tone of disappointment and Kadaj explains how Sephiroth used him as a puppet to find Jenova’s remains, which horrifies Kadaj because if Sephiroth and Jenova are the same, then his own “mother” used and betrayed him in such a way.

Angeal encourages Kadaj and gives him one of his classic pep talks, appealing to his usual “dreams and honor” code. Tifa notes that Zack often spoke the same way, prompting Angeal to recall teaching Zack all those things.

In response to Kadaj, he then says he was indeed surprised by hearing what Sephiroth did, but he says that,

“Sephiroth had his honor once too…and he has a tendency to hold onto things, so even if I am surprised, I can’t abandon him…”

The others say that they aren’t sure if Angeal’s words can reach Sephiroth, who was cruel enough to destroy Tifa and Cloud’s village. Tifa agrees as she recalls how she begged Sephiroth to explain why he did what he did, but she does say to Angeal that she believes he could have a better chance.

She kindly compliments him on how his “dreams and honor” philosophy had helped her as well. :,)

She encourages Angeal, saying that his words will surely be a beacon and that he should try to speak with Sephiroth again. Angeal hangs his head sorrowfully and agrees, saying,

“I don’t want to give up on him….so I’ll try as hard as I can…”

—

This is a good place to stop because the next chapters are where everything gets chaotic, but for now, we have some build-up for what Angeal wants to do, and for Weiss being a stand-in for Genesis later.

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Some little notes:

The Zack and Angeal scenes were very sweet, as Zack wants to convince his old mentor to stop shouldering everything alone. Angeal’s absolute refusal to give up on Seph tugs at the heartstrings too, and I find it so sweet that Tifa actually encouraged him.

The “Sephiroth is Jenova” point is fascinating, but I believe we will soon find that Seph’s own will is blended into Jenova’s, as they are aligned, and this might be what reveals to Angeal that there may not be much hope for his old friend. :(

I am struggling with the Weiss and Seymour discussion, and this has been one of the parts that has slowed me down, because the context is hard to decipher, but I suspect that Weiss is comparing Sephiroth and Angeal to the figures in Loveless, which also becomes relevant later. I will update as soon as I can get an explanation from my Japanese friend. I am not skilled enough to decipher everything yet on my own, you see. 😅

But enjoy this for now, and I will be back with more soon! <3

[megashadowdragon]

heraldofcrow said: This is why the dove symbolism around him actually hits really hard. He was PURE and they cut off his wings every time he tried to fly.

The chapter where Sephiroth becomes a hero has a part called “Discarded Soldiers” aka the ones he saved.

He was running to save people that he didn’t know but who Shinra had decided weren’t worth anything at that point. Heidegger was going to bomb those troops. Sephiroth listened to Glenn and defied Shinra to go save them all. He fought tooth and nail for them…against all those monsters until he was collapsing in exhaustion… but he kept going until the end.

It was like he was outside of the Wutai War…just fighting to save regular people from Shinra themselves since those troops were betrayed by the company. Let no one say Sephiroth didn’t have a good heart back then. He tried to do right when Shinra was trying to always control him.

The truly evil thing about Shinra was that they took someone who was naturally predisposed to being good and turned him into a monster. Obviously Sephiroth made his own decision to go down the wrong path, but the reason he even GOT there was because Shinra set him up to explode. He was a ticking time bomb. If Shinra had never turned him into a weapon, if he'd never been forced to go to war or suffer in Hojo's lab, he could have been the greatest hero Gaia had ever seen. He COULD have been a Chosen One of legend. He had the qualities, origin, and characteristics required of such a hero. And he was like that DESPITE the Jenova cells, the evil that lurked in his genetic heritage.

They ruined him. They took something pure and noble and twisted it into something destined to come apart. Sephiroth could have been like Aerith. He could have been like Cloud.

And instead he became the greatest threat to humanity the world had ever seen.

[prismaticpichu]

Imagine all the lil’ adventures AGS had in that training room before The Incident. Seems like they snuck in there a lot!! (Based on Seph’s wistfulness/Angeal’s Omnia comments.) Prolly had so many good times going all over the world with that VR technology, exploring illusions that felt so real in the moment, getting Sephiroth out of his shell bit by bit as they sparred and joked and laughed and took him to all these amazing locations around Gaia to simply relax…

All, ofc, while still being fettered to a small room in ShinRa ❤️

[teethingpains]

𝔑𝔦𝔫𝔢 𝔓𝔢𝔬𝔭𝔩𝔢 ℑ'𝔡 𝔏𝔦𝔨𝔢 𝔗𝔬 𝔊𝔢𝔱 𝔗𝔬 𝔎𝔫𝔬𝔴 𝔅𝔢𝔱𝔱𝔢𝔯

Tagged by @0junemeatcleaver0 and @uncivilcivilservice

Last Song: Hoist the Colours (Bass singers version) by Bobby Bass

Favorite Color: Tough question, I like dark reds and blues a lot, but also may soft blues

Currently Watching: Just been watching crafting youtube videos ^_^''

Last Movie/Show: Handmade: Britain's Best Woodworker (this season wasn't as good as the last two imo)

Spicy, Savory, or Sweet?: can i have savory with sweet?

Last Thing You Googled: the name of the wood working show lol

Tagging (with no pressure to do it): @this-writer-needs-coffee @altocat @glamgoblin @fofoqueirah @complicitsacrilege and anyone else who wants to do this (I'm so bad with remembering people's names I'm sorry)