#i love angeal

[lunartrashbin]

Poopy lighting

[pink-nubes]

Commission for @altocat

Thank you so much! : D

[citrusici]

so I have two new favorites thanks to Ever Crisis

[featherfangart]

Bonsai lessons

He's bored out of his mind...

[genesis-rhapsodass]

Putting my vision out for the young Soldier 1st Class trio dynamic before Ever Crisis comes around to disprove it

Of course they'll become thick as thieves eventually, but I like imagining there being a short period right at the start where Sephiroth tries to meet up with Angeal, but can't escape having to also hang out with this excitable, overly friendly redhead who keeps getting between his befriending attempts. Just imagining Angeal fussing over Genesis' uniform or something, Genesis kicking up a stink over it, embarrassed to be treated like some child in front of Sephiroth, and Sephiroth watching like "Ah man... That's nice, Angeal is so thoughtful... If only it was me."

[yingxtkm]

LISTEN I DONT CARE IF ITS 2AM IM DRAWING MINIROTH AND THATS THAT. I got my priorities straight 🙏

[sugusoko]

i cannot believe this isn't what episode two was about

[disgorgedfoetus]

Old meme + blk sephiroth

[rocketbirdie]

Weird thing that bothered me about Rebirth and I want to hear other people's thoughts.

Um... Why did they gentrify Gongaga? I can't be the only one who feels cheated by the chummy suburban development vibe in Rebirth.

OG Gongaga is an isolated village deep in a jungle. It's possible to completely miss the first chance to visit, because it's practically unheard of. All the young folks fled to the big city. A reactor blew up and killed most of the inhabitants, leaving the town in a state of decay. The houses are falling apart, the people are desperate, it's derelict and miserable.

An understated theme in the OG is how life is difficult without modern technology. Avalanche sets out to destroy these reactors without considering the consequences for their own futures, thinking "well it won't be easy but i'm sure it'll be fine." Gongaga is the story's way of showing you just how fine everything is going to be— despite being in a lush rainforest, long since violently cut off from Shinra's influence, these people still suffer immensely.

I wanted to see it in hd so bad honestly. The splintered rotting wood, the furskin rugs, the dirty brick walls. The unspoken yet unignorable trauma. The mournful purple twilight that quietly hangs over the whole village. I wanted to see the survivors' spiteful determination to make things work without mako.

Instead we got a squeaky clean Crisis Core rendition of Gongaga, with its down-to-earth upbeat stardew valley soundtrack and generic hard workin' country folk. The houses are like... twice the size i expected them to be. Neat and tidy, no holes in the roofs, no dishevelled interiors. No sign of struggle. Everybody is content at worst.

The reactor may as well have never exploded. Nobody talks about it. We hear some bullshit about Shinra trying to "make amends" or compensate people for the damages, and that's about it. Apparently everybody's just fine with this, because all of the original version's resentment and grief is gone.

Don't even get me started on the barker stationed at the town entrance. "Come experience nature's bounty!" Man... why are we treating it like a goddamn hippy tourist attraction. OG Gongaga would have had someone knock this kid's teeth out.

Idk I'm just sad. The melancholy is what made Gongaga so memorable despite its bump-in-the-road identity. I wish we could have gotten that instead of one big callback to CC.

[carriewhiteislove]

hhhhhhhh save me angeal hewley. angeal hewley save me

[priceofreedom]

I was worried about you. FF7 Rebirth 37 / ?

[prismaticpichu]

I’m looking at YOU, awesome fandom!

Thx for giving this bullet hole-riddled game so much lore and love <33

[the-music-maniac]

I've never been able to get over stories where the abused becomes the villain. True of any media that has this trope, really, but especially true of Sephiroth. He makes my heart hurt.

Created to be nothing but a weapon, abused and manipulated and experimented on from childhood. Sent to go fight Shinra's wars for them, desensitized to killing from a young age, but still managing to hold onto his kindness somehow. They made him into a legend larger than life for their propaganda, while simultaneously de-humanizing him in the worst ways, isolating Seph to the point where no one around him, not even his closest companions, even realized that he needed support. There's hints that no one around him really knew his background by the things they say - the only one who was aware of the extent of his mistreatment was his abuser. He was a high functioning individual - who would be arrogant enough to assume that The General could need help? Who would dare?

And I don't blame Angeal or Genesis or Zack for not realizing. Along with them simply not knowing there was an issue that needed addressing, Sephiroth probably kept it from them on purpose - whether by choice or necessity or outside influence or self preservation.

Sephiroth just wanted a normal life too. He didn't like having his picture taken, but endured because he had to, and because other people wanted it of him. He didn't really care to compete for the title of hero with Genesis, even though Genesis didn't seem to believe it. He took care of his troops, and we see in that one cut scene where he failed to save a soldier, that he still got upset over stuff like that. All those years of killing and losing his men to Shinra's missions and he hasn't truly become numb to it.

And then nearing the end, after first being told he's a monster by one of his former friends, and then later spending a week in that library not eating or drinking or sleeping, left alone to his devices because who would assume that the most competent general of their time can be in a vulnerable state, and shouldn't be left alone right now?

After learning the "truth" about his origins, and after a lifetime of systematic abuse, no longer believing he's even human anymore. And then the only person offering him a hand in his darkest moments is the one he shouldn't have taken. But at that point - could you blame him? Whether or not the post nibelheim Sephiroth is truly him or just a puppet for Jenova I'm uncertain about, but the end result is that from start to finish - Sephiroth never manages to break free from the whims of those who wanted to use him.

And because he gave into his worse demons - he won't receive a happy ending. He won't be saved. There's no comfort for him, no opportunity to rest and heal and grow. His childhood wish to live a normal life will never come to pass.

Watching Sephiroth's story unfold is like watching someone drown in front of you while surrounded by a crowd of people. And the one drowning doesn't even scream for help because he's been conditioned to believe that the suffocation is normal.

I will NEVER get over him. It doesn't excuse what he did after Nibelheim, I'm aware of that, but I can't help but remember that people only ever had praise for him while he was burning villages down in Wutai on Shinra's behalf.

It doesn't excuse his actions. But I will NEVER be able to forget all the ways the world failed him first.

[uinre]

CRISIS CORE: FINAL FANTASY VII REUNION (2022)

[azelussy]

just some Gengeal study doodles ,, very fun practice

[foreststarflaime]

I looove how all the funny anime swords in ff7 seem to be made the way they are for a reason. Like sure we can all laugh at how big and unwieldy the Buster Sword is, and how it would never work irl, but like…that’s kinda the point? I mean everyone who’s wielded it is a supersoldier with their strength enhanced like crazy, so the fact that they can wield a sword like that so effortlessly is actually a simple but wonderful way of showing just how strong they are, by showing us rather than just telling us.

And I’ve already said my bit about Rapier, but it being matched perfectly to Genesis in fighting style and personality holds up with all the famous swords, really. The Buster is a big bear of a sword, with a sense of grandeur resting upon it not from any inherent quality of it, but from the love and devotion bestowed upon it—a perfect mirror of Angeal, the wielder it was made for. And as it rusts and gets wear and tear on it over time, it shows the inner turmoil Angeal never lets himself show to others, and as he is forgotten and what he stood for fades more and more the Buster rusts alongside him, and is left as a lonely monument in the wastes. It fits Zack too, when he takes it up—Zack, whose every breath was taken for his friends, loyal to his mentor’s memory until the last, wielding the physical manifestation of that purpose and passing on what he saw as good to another of those friends. And it fits Cloud, who was clinging to ideals perhaps better laid to rest along with his friends, barely even knowing what he was clinging to, and it fits that this isn’t his sword in the end, when in healing he makes the Fusion Sword—even more fitting for him, made of a number of different mismatched blades, pieces coming together to form an even stronger whole.