#and angeal dies from power corruption after zack battles him to death and zack dies from the 100 blader challenge

[kazumahashimoto]

um. they have the same name

[ghostofnibelheim]

Personal Record [Verses]

Canon Verses:

Before SOLDIER: Age 0-10. Project “S” is a special child, born in Nibelheim in the secrecy of a cold, dark manor that the townsfolk believe to be abandoned and haunted. Spending his childhood in loneliness, he believes to be sick. Only the many tests performed by the “Doctors” from ShinRa may find an answer to his ailment. Is there really a cure? Why can’t he go outside and play with the other children of Nibelheim?

Before Crisis Core: Age 11-19. A young Sephiroth is trained under Shinra to become the poster boy for the company and its new SOLDIER army. As the War of Wutai breaks out, Sephiroth is sent on the battlefield at the young age of 12. His stellar performance in battle makes him a war hero. But can he endure the pressure of this responsibility?

Crisis Core: Age 20-22. All events occurring within this age span fall into the Crisis Core universe. Sephiroth is a 1st Class SOLDIER who dutifully carries out his assigned missions, having made friends with two others: Genesis and Angeal. However, his soul is in turmoil with questions about his origins.

Final Fantasy VII: Sephiroth, the war hero believed to have died five years ago, has returned to haunt his murderer’s dreams and thoughts, appearing anywhere, at any time, beckoning him and his friends, seeking their Reunion.

AUs (Final Fantasy VII):

"Four Seasons” Divergent Megaverse: (Age 6+) Project “S”, born in Nibelheim and raised in the secrecy of the ShinRa manor, briefly befriends little Cloud Strife before mysteriously disappearing. Soon after, the mysterious boy known as “Sephiroth” is presented to the world as the new hero and face of ShinRa’s new SOLDIER program. In this verse, Sephiroth is the biological son of Vincent Valentine, as well as a heteropaternal twin to Saruhiko Fushimi, though he ignores it.

Survived: (Age:22) Begins right at the end of the Nibelheim Incident. Cloud defeats Sephiroth, but doesn’t throw him into the mako reactor. The three (Cloud, Zack, Sephiroth) collapse to the floor and are retrieved by Shinra, which takes them to the Shinra Mansion. Hojo’s experiments on Zack and Cloud proceed as per canon. Sephiroth is taken back to Midgar and contained into the Science Research Department, for observation and containment.

Healed: (Age:27) The events of “Survived!verse” apply in this verse too, but this verse begins from the moment Aerith is captured by Shinra and Sector 7 is blown up. Sephiroth, still insane, has been contained in the Science Research Department ever since the Nibelheim Incident. When Aerith is captured, Hojo decides to test her abilities by putting her into an enclosure with Sephiroth. Aerith’s powers manage to heal some of Sephiroth’s corruption, restoring his sanity to a degree. When Cloud and the gang break in to rescue Aerith and are consequentially captured, Jenova breaks out as in the OG canon and in the visage of Sephiroth kills President Shinra. The team escapes alongside the actual Sephiroth, who is now framed for the president’s murder. An unlikely alliance forms, and he joins the group to seek and destroy Jenova once for all. But not everything is sunshine and rainbows: inside his mind, Sephiroth is still troubled by his period of insanity, and the Jenova Cells within his body threaten to take over his willpower at any moment. Can he be trusted?

Saved: (Age: 27) Post-OG. Begins after Aerith’s death at the hand of Jenova (as Sephiroth’s visage). All the events of the game take place as intended, but when the party arrives at North Crater and find Sephiroth in the mako cocoon, they actually achieve to break him free before he can summon Meteor. The Black Materia is destroyed, and a tense peace seems to have settled. It is up to Cloud’s party to decide what to make of Sephiroth before he retrieves consciousness.

AUs (Other):

Classic Fantasy - Dragon: (Ageless) Sephiroth was a noble dragon, known and worshiped by all as the guardian of the Fortress of Midgar. Until one day, the mighty dragon suddenly turned against the people he’d sworn to protect. Flying away to a distant continent, he razed a village killing all of its people and made its ruins his lair. Now he haunts the ghost town, facing any intruder who may trespass his territory. Many brave warriors have knights have tried to slay the corrupted dragon, and failed. Only a few were able to return from braving his might, and swear that the beast is nothing short of immortal. Yet whispers travel across the land, of the dragon obsessively protecting a lone, decrepit mansion. What kind of treasure could the dragon be hoarding in its darkest depths?

Classic Fantasy - Unicorn: (Ageless) They say that unicorns are irresistibly attracted to those pure of heart. To better entice his prey, this mysterious creature has used his magic to take the form of a beautiful man with long silver hair. Who is the virgin he has laid his eyes on?

Classic Fantasy - Centaur: (Age: 30) Born in a tribe of hunters and gatherers, Sephiroth has abandoned the herd to venture the world on his own. He’s never been near the more industrious society of humans and the other races. What awaits the curious adventurer?

Classic Fantasy - Elf: (Ageless) Immortality has a painful price. After spending countless centuries in the forest with his kin, Sephiroth decides to brave the unknown and wander the outskirts of the woods. He’s looking for anything, something that may make him feel alive, in this place where time stands to a still. Can his frozen heart beat anew?

FFXIV - Viera: (Age: 270) A member of the Veena clan, this quiet and serious man wanders the peaks of his homeland as a warrior and protector. Skilled with the spear, he spends his days practicing and hunting... until the day the Garlean Empire emerged on the doorstep of the Skatay Range.

Machinabridged!: (Age: 22) Sephiroth has returned, swinging his sword and doing badass multikills. Don’t get him started about that dragon he had to cut down in Nibelheim...

Dissidia - Warrior of Chaos: (Age: 22) Summoned by Chaos, Sephiroth roams the lands of World B, looking for a challenge, a purpose to his existence. Waiting for his puppet to find him, what other intriguing characters may he meet?

Dissidia - Warrior of Spiritus: (Age: 22) Summoned by Spiritus and thrown into his feud with the Goddess Materia, Sephiroth has little interest for chaos and destruction. But what is the truth behind this artificial world? He doesn’t like lies, and is ready to find answers of his own.

K Project - Strain: (Age: 27) Sephiroth is a mysterious individual. Orphan and of origins unknown, he makes a living in Tokyo Metropolis as a model and musical actor. His most attractive feature that made him most popular are his peculiar cat-like eyes that his fans adore and swoon over. Yet, despite his popularity, he seems to live a very lonely life. Isn’t that a power-controlling device issued by the Gold Clan clasped on his ear?

[kazumahashimoto]

okay oeople are literally BLUDGEONING my door down trying to get me to talk more about crisis core beyblade so i GUESS i will. see the reason why i think the Buster Bey would be a changable stamina and attack type is BECAUSE it would be used by all three angeal zack and cloud of whom have different battle philosophies. angeal reads like impossibly easily into a stamina type like he refuses to attack using buster unless under VERY dire circumstances which is exactly the strat for a stamina type. just stay in the middle and out last. zack similarly is trying to emulate angeal while still incorporating his own style. zack likes to hit stuff, but he knows when to back off and he always uses the blunt end of the sword which to me in a beyblade sense reads like him having a specific mode he can switch into where attack becomes the main focus, like choosing to use the sharp side of the sword. i'm not a beyblade schematics guy so idk how it would function but that is what i'm envisioning. on the other end now we have cloud who could not give two shits about nothing. attack mode only. why did he even get a bey with stamina put more spikes on this thing. honestly cloud changing the ornamental bits on buster to be more utilitarian could super easily be read into a bey upgrade. cloud just takes the stamina bit off to make it stronger. cloud also gets like ten more beys and has compartments for them on his motorcycle. angeal and zack are kinda rolling in their graves.

and like i said before crisis core and burst actually have a lot of plot similarities like the mako and ESPECIALLY whatever the fuck was going on with the firsts and cloud is easily comparable to forced possession. the snake pit in general fits as a shinra equivalent really easily. i imagine genesis was hit fully with a lain and aiger situation where he could feel everything his bey felt in battle and it was literally physically tearing his body apart while also making him crave more battles (the fated triple battle between three friends) which ultimately leads to him going insane and almost dying. angeal actually does die from a similar power corruption that just burns him out entirely and he dies after battling zack. i imagine sephiroth is. something of a combination between s2 shu and phi. phi is straight up a Demon from Hell so the possession doesn't do the Exact same thing but like with shu i imagine he just becomes so entirely corrupted he fully believes he Is his bitbeast. which i guess would be masamune. sephiroth is definitely the kinda guy who shatters beys also. no remorse. for zack's death i think the 100 blader challenge is pretty 1:1 with fighting 100 infantrymen. like that's basically what it's always shown to us as. these days they're getting pretty lenient with how many battles someone can physically do in one sitting but back in MY day valt literally passed out from exhaustion trying to do the challenge so. imagine zack is possessed and he can feel everything the bey feels. i think him dying makes sense there. and then he gives buster to cloud. one thing i think would be cute more on the beyblade side than it is accurate to cc would be cloud having his original bey too and zack doing the gay little pressing their beys together thing. like auygh. peak romance in beyblade world. and then i imagine cloud starts using buster instead which is actually fucked up I AGREE but bitches are getting so loosey goosey with their bitbeast morals lately. remember when bashara fully switched bitbeasts and no one cared. where am i. but that's very cloud so he does that too. ok thast all