#asks: ff7r

[the-moogs]

marlene loves when her gay aunts babysit her 🎀

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Tbh the funniest part of OG FF7 is that Sephiroth's first action is to kill President Shinra and then the game has to almost immediately pivot to the Nibelheim flashback so you understand he's the main villain of the game. Barret was fully prepared to let the stabby ghost join Avalanche.

Even in Rebirth's flashback, Barret was like "Seph sounds like a cool dude wtf".

Somewhere out there, there's an AU where Seph leaves Shinra to join Avalanche and he and Barret become total bros. I want Barret to buy him a beer or something lmao

[waifujuju]

Cloud would be so much more powerful if he had a phone

[c-o-t-o]

Your writing of Zack and Cloud's date ideas was sooooo cute! Do you think they'd get jealous of you talking to other guys, assuming they had a crush on you?

Thank you so much!! I actually love comparing these two because I feel like their personalities really are so opposite. If they had crushes on you and saw you being friendly with other guys they'd 100% get jealous.

Cloud would probably be really pouty about it but try to pretend nothing is wrong. It would be written all over his face that he's bothered by it, but the second you ask him what's wrong, he'll say it's nothing and try to do something to distract himself. He'll stay relatively quiet about it, but inside, it's all he can think about. Eventually he'll shyly murmur it out, that he wishes you'd talk to him as much as the other guys. Eventually Cloud would have no choice but to admit that he likes spending time with you, trying to convey his message without entirely confessing to you just yet. But the second you catch on and start to probe him, he'll say "never mind" becoming too bashful, walking away so you don't see him blushing.

Zack would make it SO obvious that he's jealous, and pretty outwardly. He'll try to make a joke of it, saying that you must really like those other guys to be talking to them so much. And have a "what's so great about them when you've got me!" approach to talking about it. He'll go out of his way to make sure you're always seeing him do stuff like working out or fighting in the combat simulator, cracking jokes with others as you walk by to show he can be funny... showing off, basically. But Zack will be real with you at the end of it all and would probably end up confessing to some extent because he wants you to know he really likes you and wants to spend more time with you. And then joke again about how the other guys there aren't that great, anyway.

[rocketbirdie]

Cloud Strife Appalachian accent . That's it that's the ask Nibelhiem is West Virginia.

CORRECT

[sephirthoughts]

💚: What does everyone else get wrong about your favorite character? I actually haven't seen any seriously bad takes yet so I'm wondering if you have seen any

YOU HAVE CIRCUMVENTED MY REVENGE SYSTEM WITH ANONYMITY. dastardly.

💚: What does everyone else get wrong about your favorite character?

In case anyone was unclear that it's Vincent Valentine that's who it is. The things everyone gets wrong about him are very many, so I'll stick to the greatest hits:

vincent is white

WRONG! ignoring the fact that in japanese media in general, characters with european features are hafu unless explicitly stated otherwise, vincent is very very very cleary visually coded to be Wutaian, which is FF7's east-asia catch-all state. does the character model look a little more european in the remake trilogy? sure a bit, but he's still not white

2. vincent is dour/gloomy/boring

WRONG! leaving the massive trauma to the side, vincent is decades older than the rest of the crew and introverted. he doesn't seek other people out socially or waste time making chit-chat with a bunch of teenagers. and he gets all kinds of shit for it, just like us other introverts. and we are also not gloomy or boring

pro tip: try listening when he actually DOES talk. he's the funniest motherfucker in the entire series. his dry as a bone snark gives me LIFE. he's witty, sarcastic, adorable, self aware, and extremely ironic

if you think he's dour and boring you might be taking the vampire visual coding at face value and missing the whole fun of his character. remember, a character doesn't have to be running around yelling and doing slapstick to be funny because we're not primary school children

3. vincent is weak and/or passive and/or in any way culpable in what hojo and lucrecia did

WRONG! i usually see these lumped together so let's address it all.

was it vincent's weakness/passivity that enabled lucrecia's bad choices? was it really?? ok, what more was 27 year-old bottom-of the-food-chain bodyguard vincent supposed to do? impose his will on her because he knew better? force her to obey him against her own very clearly stated wishes? how? also why?

she made herself clear. it was her choice and she was going to do it. vincent was a decent human being and backed off when he was very vehemently told to

regarding hojo, vincent was not in any position of power at all, and was placed in multiple impossible situations by the people around him. in the end, he even stepped WAY out of his bounds as a shinra employee to stand up to hojo, which would have certainly cost him his job but for the fact that it literally cost him his life

try standing up to your boss, when all they can do is yell at you, and not literally murder you and then use your body for monstrous experimentation

there's a lot more but this is a long enough rant so i'll cut it short before it becomes a dissertation. thank you for the ask!!!! 🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤

edit i forgot to say it's from this ask game

[ryanthel0ser]

yeah I've got this terminal illness where I'm in love with Tifa and Aerith

no I don't want to be cured, ever

[getvalentined]

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

[ Unpopular Opinion Ask Game ]

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

This fandom is extremely horny so there are basically dedicated thirst groups for like every major character in the series, good or bad, and I have huge respect for that.

However.

This definitely applies to Broden, retired DILF Class SOLDIER, the most attractive innkeeper in JRPG history.

Screenshots from the lovely A-ta (@/gbkguk) on twt, who is the only person on the planet who appreciates this man as he deserves. Everyone else is sleeping on Broden when they should be lamenting that they can't sleep with him.

[little-black-dress-zack-fair]

Aerith: *writing Aerith Fair in her notebook*

Cloud: *writing Cloud Fair in his notebook*

Aerith:

Cloud:

Aerith & Cloud:

[brainless-but-thats-all]

for those curious

[professional-sephiroth-scrungler]

21 inches of Hojo

Hojo is now 21 inches tall and I will put him under my boot

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Silly me sitting in my silly house thinking my silly thoughts like how Hojo had three literal cylinders full of his darling son's skin, hair, and blood.

[rottenpumpkin13]

Let me be delusional please, my fragile heart needs this. We know that the remnants are part of Sephiroth, Kadaj is hatred and rage, Loz is physical strength and speed, and Yazoo is charisma and his aloof demeanor. But what if there aren't three remnants, there are four of them, but the fourth one is a bit "special".

The fourth is child Sephiroth, S-1, the kid is Sephiroth's innocence and pain.

Obviously, Sephiroth resents this weak, pathetic thing. Just the idea of having to look at S-1 makes him seethe in disdain look at how powerless he used to be, such thing is not worthy of Mother's love so Sephiroth just leaves S-1 in the Lifestream and lets Gaia do the work for him, this Planet and him have one thing in mutual is that they both loath each other, Gaia is too much of a coward to take the risk of letting some part of the Calamity's son roaming in the Lifestream, no matter how weak or harmless it seems to be.

To be fair, he is right about the last part. The Planet first wants to dissolve S-1 and be done with it, however, Aerith doesn't agree with them. At first, she was not sure what to do with S-1, she pitied the child that is for sure, but all in all, the poor child is still part of The enemy of the Planet, and Gaia can be very stubborn when it comes to anything related to the Calamity. But Zack... Gaia, Zack looks devastated when he takes the first look at his old friend, or at least what is left of him. He doesn't try to persuade her to save the child, he knows how unfair it would be for her since it was Sephiroth's blade is the thing that led her to her demise, but she knows how badly Zack wants to save S-1. Zack still feels guilty about what happened in the Nibelheim reactor, despite Aerith's continuous reassurance that is not his fault, he claims that he should have done more, he could have saved thousands of lives, and most importantly, Sephiroth wouldn't have lost his mind.

Saving the child probably would heal the Nibelheim-reactor wound in Zack so for Zack's sake, she negotiates with Gaia.

(Part of her feels sorry for Sephiroth, the man is doomed from the second he was born. He was born broken and never got the chance to save himself. Maybe by saving S-1, the deceased hero maybe can finally find a small bit of peace.)

I struggle at first to think of the name for the fourth one since I don't want to use Sephiroth. But then I remembered that all the pain and suffering of Sephiroth comes from the Jenova Project, what name fits more than S-1? English is not my first language so no matter how I want to write this idea into a fic, I can't lol, best I can do is write some small bit. This idea was actually inspired by an ask from anon to Alto but I forgot which one sorry, I just remember that they said they feel sorry for Sephiroth, and honestly? Same, I wish him to have a happier life in another world because there is no chance for him to have that in FF7 when even death refuses him.

WAIT WHAT HAPPENS NEXT? I'M INVESTED 😭

This is such a perfect idea ughhhhhhhh I want to read a version of this where they send him to Cloud and Tifa—after Advent Children—so that they can raise and take care of him. Imagine everything being over and done with, and then a much younger version of Sephiroth shows up at their door.

*screams into the void* I love this so much it's killing me 💗

[tifa-simp]

Instead of doing all these interviews with the same old questions and the same old answers, have the devs considered give Cloud or Tifa or Sephiroth cameos in other games? Just a thought.

Like I know FF7 is very precious and expensive IP of SE, but time changes. Final Fantasy as a franchise needs to adapt too. I just think interview and Ever Crisis aren't enough to attract new fans anymore. The marketing for FF7RE has to take different route if they really want part 3 to reach its sale goal.

[sephirthoughts]

This is like a reverse jehovah's witness knocking ur door but who's the haunted hotel bellhop that u pair vincent with? convert me 👀

OH HO HO strap in my friend because Haunted Hotel Bellhop has been living in my head rent-free ever since that genius of destruction @soundcrusher came to me one day and was like "look at my upside-down man isn't he cute" and i was like "WTF WHERE HAS THIS INVERTED WEIRDO BEEN ALL MY LIFE AND WHY IS HE SO HOT" and soundcrusher was like "he's right there in the haunted hotel how could you not have seen him" and then i had to admit i haven't played rebirth yet cause i'm waiting for PC release (i needs my mods y'all) and then soundcrusher called me a n00b and a fake fan and stuffed me in a locker**.

[**may not have happened]

[IMPORTANT NOTE: all dialogue with @soundcrusher referenced herein has been wildly paraphrased and only represents the basic gist of our actual conversations]

anyway the point is soundcrusher sent me videos and screenshots and more screenshots of bellhop so i could giggle and kick my feet about how adorable he is, and eventually brought up that "hey...this guy kind of reminds me of someone. like kind of a LOT reminds me of someone. you know who i mean right?"

and i was like "yes my cousin goth greg who lives in new orleans and does vampire the masquerade in-person roleplay like it's 1998 and there's not a robust roleplaying community on the internet"

and soundcrusher was like "no. how the hell would i know your weird cousin? i meant he's a lot like nero the sable"

which i totally knew and wasn't even oblivious to the many many ways bellhop's design is clearly supposed to evoke nero.

these include: his color pallette, his skin and hair color (possibly his eye color too though the lighting the game has him in makes it hard to tell), his bandages looking exactly like nero's muzzle, his mannerisms and way of talking being like nero's, etc.

the more we examined the character model (as much as we could with the bandages) the more we realized he really really looks like nero. for example, they have the same exact eye shape, and if you use a character model ripper to extract nero and remove the muzzle, the same exact weird eyebrow shape).

obvs we don't have the bellhop character model to strip the bandages and find out what's goin on under there, but for now it holds up.

(screenshots shamelessly stolen from @soundcrusher 's post about it)

he also hangs upside-down in the pose from the hanged man card from the tarot, which may or may not be relevant to the nero theory but is an interesting tidbit

anywhoozle, soundcrusher whipped up a whole bio and backstory for bellhop, which included the absolute master stroke of naming him Benjamin Hopkins, so that is what he is named forever in my head.

in soundcrusher's backstory, benjamin was originally the unnamed identical twin of nero the sable, born in deepground a moment after nero, and before the darkness consumed their mother. subject N-2 was considered to be defective and thus only kept around as literal spare parts, in case big brother ever needed them. he was not allowed to interact with his brother or half brother and never knew them.

a lot of things happened and a kind scientist hatched a plot to smuggle the kid out of deepground, before promptly dying a tragically heroic death, and thus the child was raised up on the surface world, apart from his twin and half-brother weiss, never knowing them, eventually coming to work and live at the haunted hotel.

it's a lot more complex than that but i am the only one privileged enough to have read all the as yet unpublished parts of soundcrusher's wonderful story world for benjamin so everyone else will have to suffer for now

RE: pairing bellhop with vincent since, in our shared delusion, nero is (unknown to anyone) vincent's son, that makes benjamin also vincent's son, which leads to all kinds of shenanigans when everyone eventually meets.

i also ship bellhop with vincent sometimes outside that fic, but i contain multitudes of universes, so i ship almost everyone with everyone in different contexts

i love soundcrusher's bellhop benjamin so much that i begged and whined asked politely for permission to borrow him for this fic, which is canon to this fic's world, which makes him part of the tangled web that is the valentine family tree.

IN SUMMATION: bellhop's strong resemblance to nero is almost certainly a little joke on the part of the devs to be like "wooo creepy he's like that scary weirdo with the hannibal lecter muzzle and straitjacket who failed to kill yuffie thus making him history's greatest monster" but joke's on them because they have NO IDEA how microscopic and fragmentary a piece of evidence we can base a gigantic web of headcanons on.

🖤THANK YOU FOR THE ASK ABOUT OUR PRECIOUS SON 🖤

[featherlumina]

Hello there. Based on the Genesis wingy thingy I was wondering if I could throw this question at you. When/how/why do you think Sephiroth had his wing? (If we know this from canon and I just forgot cuz i'm a dummy, please disregard the question)

Hi hello there, @emotionalwarmth! :D

In the OG, as far as I recall, Sephiroth only starts sporting his black wing when he turns into his Safer Sephiroth form. And then in the FF7R series, it appears at will after the the main game's events have kicked off. So we really don't get any sort of idea of when it first happened or occurred.

Maybe we can assume he learned this about his body shortly after falling into the Lifestream in the Nibel reactor? He probably put 2 & 2 together after learning his origins and seeing Genesis and Angeal and figured it was something he was more than capable of as well. Of course, the real fun happens when you get AUs creeping in and you can imagine it happening well before Seph's aware of his origins. There's loads of angst and feelings to be be had there for sure.

Thank you for the ask!!