#ffvii kadaj

[ariseur]

hey!!! ive been reading your sephiroth fanfics recently and it has been such an intricate work of art i genuinely feel the emotion and love put into it, your writing is just perfect in terms of how you write his character! i was wondering if i could request a seph x reader maybe during or post advent children and is really angsty with some fluff regarding his return??? it's vague (sorry😭) but i know if you did take up on it youd do fantastic!! 💖🫶🏻

liberabo volucres 𓆩ꨄ︎𓆪

sephiroth (ffvii) x reader

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omg you are literally so sweet!!!! thank you so much for this request, although i don’t think i did it justice 😭 i wasnt quite sure how to go about this considering after advent children, the remnants of seph faded into the lifestream (i think?) so it’s more angsty with lots of mentions of kadaj, but i hope you like it either way!! i’m glad you enjoy my sephiroth fics and don’t hesitate to send more asks!! love this one 💕

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mentions of kadaj and remnants of seph, written in a yearning type of way where you still have a hole in your heart left from sephiroth, don’t ask where you came from at the beginning!! just enjoy it 😭, intended lowercase, mentions of kissing kadaj’s forehead, lmk if i missed anything!!

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“cloud,” your voice only a faint whisper as you called out to the blond, “what did you do?” he lifted his head, his skin glossier with the droplets of rain falling on his face. his eyes widened at the sight of you, chest still rising and lowering rapidly as he recovered from his battle with sephiroth. how foreign that name felt on your tongue, now.

you got up from your hiding spot beyond the debris, knees aching from how long you were crouched as your feet slammed against the flat surface of the floor. you watched as your kadaj’s catlike slits for pupils— pupils that constantly reminded you that he was still apart of sephiroth, despite his role as being only a remnant of your lover— flickered towards you with whatever energy he had left. the corner of kadaj’s lips quirked upwards ever the slightest as you rushed over him, cloud moving out of your way as he stood up.

cloud’s words, albeit firm, lay dormant in your brain, “he was going to kill me—kill us all.” and even with his sharp tone, you didn’t pay him any mind. the only thing you could focus on was kadaj’s eyes trained on yours, scoffing as he rasped out, “such— a drama.. queen.” you softly shushed him, watching as his eyes became emptier by the minute. your throat stung as a choked sob threatened to escape its enclosure behind your uvula. kadaj lifted his hand only for you to grasp it, moist leather clutched in your palm as you placed it back to his chest. he intertwined your fingers, a wince leaving his lips as you held his head up.

it took everything not to look away from him. his hair, his eyes, even the way he smelled, reminded you of sephiroth. sometimes, you wish it had been different. you wish you would’ve been there when it had happened, and even now, your memory’s fuzzy of the events. all you remember was the day sephiroth left you, and you haven’t stop thinking about him since. you wished he had come to you, and apart of you was angry. maybe you were angry that he left you with no word, or maybe angry that instead of opening up to you, he decides to burn a village down in his spiral, or maybe you weren’t angry at all.

you paused, taking another look at kadaj’s furrowed eyebrows and his lidded eyes. you wonder if this is how sephiroth felt upon his notice of who he really was— what he really was. he was only in his twenties when it happened, you couldn’t have imagined how he felt. you remembered; his friends, gone and turned against shinra, and with all the pressure on him about the cover-up, you thought that maybe it wasn’t entirely his fault. you realized now, that you can’t get what you want from this world without taking it yourself. saying please didn’t scratch the itch in the back of your throat the way that anger did, and you assumed sephiroth felt the same.

clasping kadaj’s hand, he let out a weak sigh. you let your hand, although shaky and so weak that you can’t make a fist, card a piece of his hair out his face; your heart ached at your hands in his silver hair, mind racing back to when you’d brush sephiroth’s hair for him. a true honor, you’d always call it.

the way kadaj’s eyes widened and his ears perked up made you pause, like he was listening for something. even with cloud’s tense presence behind you, you refused to let go of the part of sephiroth, your part of sephiroth. the only part you had of him left. you couldn’t be angry at cloud. he was only doing what he thought was best— and in the end, maybe it was for the best, you thought. you couldn’t even be angry at yourself, your mind only clouded with grief as your sniffles and teary sighs filled the air.

the sound of kadaj’s arm moving, leather rubbing against itself, interrupted your soft cries as he lifted his hand up to the sky. a soft whisper of, “mother—?” left his lips.

your hand snaked up and you rubbed your thumb against his cheek, watching as he turned his head towards you slowly. a teary sound left your lips, you weren’t even sure if it was a sob or a laugh. but you leaned down, pressing one last kiss to his forehead as his eyelashes fluttered, just the way sephiroth’s did when you’d lay with him in the morning where golden rays would seep through the curtains and shine onto your beloved.

all good things must come to an end, you realized, as you watched the only physical evidence that sephiroth had coexisted with you fade into the lifestream, his arm fading into reduced crystallized mako. you closed your eyes, shoulders heaving as you tried stifling your thick cries; after all, cloud was still behind you. you held onto kadaj’s hand until it was no more, his body being lifted up and vanishing although you couldn’t bear to watch it. and you didn’t open your eyes, not for a long while, in hopes that maybe you’d be back in the comfort of your home as you heard heavy footsteps trail behind you to the kitchen, sephiroth’s content face across from yours at the dinner table. and you didn’t open your eyes until you heard a low hum, beyond the loud sounds of the rain hitting the concrete, beyond your own shaking breaths. this couldn’t have been cloud, you thought. your head lifted up and squinted so as to not get any rain in your eyes.

and there he was— or more so a faded version of him. even in the rain, you couldn’t help but gawk at him in awe, his hair flowing so gracefully even in the humidity of the rain. even if you were dreaming, you’d wish you would never wake in hopes of spending one last minute with the one you held dearest to your heart. one last moment with sephiroth and you’d feel like you’d finally be complete.

his eyes, still sleek and catlike how you always remembered, almost look amused. he held a smile at you, his head cocking at the sight. you didn’t want to think of the possibility that this was just a hallucination of your grief. this was more than that. sephiroth was more than that.

he gave you a nod, a nod of which you didn’t understand. ever so esoteric, you thought. the way he always was after nibelheim. you sat back on your haunches, your knees still against the wet, cold floor— taking one last look at sephiroth before he turned around. his head tipped back, fingers twitching as he let himself face the sky, until he finally let himself go and faded away as well.

your lip trembled, a teary laugh releasing itself from your throat until cloud put a soft, awkward hand on your shoulder. head turning to face him, your eyes met his. you realized now that cloud did what was best, and you couldn’t possibly blame him for that.

he cleared his throat, almost cautiously as if you’d snap at him for interrupting the silence, “we have to go. i’m sure tifa’s waiting for us.”

you sniffled, wiping your eyes from both the rain and the tears that littered your cheeks. looking back down at your lap, once where kadaj laid, you were met with emptiness. closing your eyes once more, you inhaled and let the air fill your lungs. the first deep breath of air that you’ve taken in what feels like years, one that felt fresher— almost bittersweet. and when you turned back to cloud, you gave him a firm nod.

the urge to be changed is not metamorphosis, you realized. you can’t be changed without making a change of your own.

[chamomile-soup]

throwback to when ffvii and resident evil 8 lived rent free in my brain lived rent free at the same time! never got around to doing these doodles until now

bonus:

[council-of-beetroot]

So I was watching blade runner and for some reason the one guy Harrison Ford fights at the end reminded me of Loz so I am now watching scenes from Advent children (the Spanish dub) and I feel vindicated because I have a bad habit of pronouncing Kadaj like Kadai as if it were like polish. In the Spanish dub though they pronounce it like Kadah which makes sense given Spanish pronunciation but still odd given how they pronounce other characters names but hey least I'm not the only person pronouncing his name wrong

[berabare]

6 fluffy, 8 spiky, 1 bald

Take one

and take care of it

[pink-nubes]

Edgy teens

(Genesis is forcing them to take a picture together so he can upload it to the ff7 equivalent of Instagram)

A little time skip for my au, I imagine they are like 16 here :)

[theghostavocadoe]

Some fun facts about the development of Advent Children, specifically the remnants:

Kadaj's voice actor (Showtaro Morikubo) struggled greatly with capturing Kadaj's insane mood swings. He would switch from laughing to yelling to crying within the same sentence, and he couldn't really get it down pat. It was only after he started saying Kadaj's line in a frustrated frenzy that he got the lines done the way they wanted. Talk about method acting.

Yazoo's hair is so layered and complicated that every fight scene with Yazoo had to be animated by hand because his hair would completely bug out if they tried to use an automatic engine to animate it. They had a similar issue with Sephiroth but Yazoo's was constant.

Loz's super-speed was also hard to animate constantly, so they created a separate animation tool for it called the "Loz warp tool" that helped them animate it much faster. Additionally, a lot of Loz's lines had to be re-recorded because his voice actor accidentally made him sound "too cool."

And last but not least, Advent Children's director stated that the remnants of sephiroth as a collective reminded him of a "pretty boy band."

[xianta]

give them more love pls

[wowa-bublord]

i haven't seen advent children at all but i love that sephiroths goth son looks exactly like his ex

[silvergreenseraphim]

Translated AC character files for Rufus Shinra, the Remnants, and Sephiroth. Provided to me by a friend. Most of the information about what the Remnants represent originates from this. The information on Sephiroth and Rufus Shinra’s designs are here as well.

[kay-i]

🌍𝒜𝑒𝓇𝒾𝒮𝑒𝓅𝒽 𝒲𝑒𝑒𝓀 2024☄️ Fateful Blossoms

Children are the flowers of life, so Sephiroth holds his firstborn son.

[genesis-rhapsodass]

Just a found family on their way to a gentler life (hopefully)

So there's this really good fanfic by @eaymtb of Cloud being sent back in time together with child remnants that's got me SO hooked, I've been wanting to draw something for it for ages so here's some art of the boys on their way to Wutai

[rottenpumpkin13]

Can I please have 5 year old Remnants trying to break into Sephiroth's apartment in a Shinra HQ and accidentally breaking into the wrong apartment?

*Loz accidentally breaks into Angeal's apartment*

Angeal: Aww, tiny Sephiroth!

Loz: I'm not tiny Sephiroth.

Angeal: That's too bad, I was going to smother you with love.

Loz: I'M TINY SEPHIROTH.

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*Yazoo accidentally breaks into Genesis' apartment*

Genesis, braiding Yazoo's hair: —and yet despite everything, I still feel unworthy of love. It seems like the harder I try to be liked, the more people dislike me. What do you think is wrong with me?

Yazoo: You're Loveless.

Genesis:

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*Kadaj ends up in Cloud's dormitory*

Kadaj: Hello!

*Cloud grips him by the shoulders*

Cloud: Listen to me, younger Sephiroth, before the time travel portal opens and sends you back to your time. Your mother's name is Lucrecia. You were created in the Jenova project. You're human, not a Cetra, and Jenova is the name of the alien who's cells are in your body. Hojo is a liar. Shinra is lying to you. Arson lands you in jail and is frowned upon in society. Go to therapy and find hobbies that don't involve shish kebabing people. Stalking is wrong. Gaslighting is wrong. Resist the disembodied voice that will tempt you with maternal affection.

Kadaj:

Kadaj: You're hugging me! Thank you.

[itstheaestheticforme]

Final Fantasy: Advent Children

[moldyycheese]

AU but the remnants are Sephiroth's children

(Don't ask how. I don't even know right now)

[berabare]

can i crumple them together to make a Sephiroth?

[pink-nubes]

So... my friend and fellow ff7 enjoyer @wowa-bublord got an ask about AGS raising the remnants so 🥺 now I feel like I have to finally make this public sknfkjashfa

I have a LOT of things about this au so you are free to send asks about anything! In this au Sephiroth is brought back by the lifestream 5 years after the Nibelheim incident. The lifestream was able to separate the Jenova influence over his mind by splitting them into other three bodies, that's where the baby remnants come in! They basically all got spit out of the lifestream together inside a cave and Jenova's influence over Sephiroth is quite weak now, he is very confused tho, and has trouble remembering what happened in Nibelheim. And of course, he is even more confused because, "Where did these babies come from???". But overall he takes them under his care, he couldn't possibly leave them alone, he bonds fairly quickly with them. They are the only thing he has for a while.

And yep, that scar on Seph is from Cloud stabbing him, it goes all around

Also, this will eventually be AGS, but a few things happen before that lol (I have many things to talk about)