#i've started to go more or less annually to see some friends yaknow

[icharchivist]

god Corel really does hit every single time.

Like yeah you've seen Shinra destroy area by now, you saw poor slums city before, with beautiful cities planted on top.

but you go to Corel and everything is in ruin, everyone living there still haven't recovered from a tragedy that happened years ago.

You're coming from a luxurious touristic City. You have to pass by Corel to go to the theme park that presides on top of those ruins.

And under the theme park there's a prison, out of the ruins of the town as it used to be, where people are thrown and forgotten there, unless they bring some entertainment to the people upstairs.

Like we're seen the power dynamic in Midgar and in Junon, where people on top have a luxury life while people at the bottom are suffering in poverty, but this is such a grim set up.

And honestly i feel like this explains even more Barret's hatred for Midgar and its plate. It's what happened to his village, except that the people of the slums have grown used to it. Shinra keeps repeating the same projects, the same thing, ignoring a poverty that happened because of them, by just covering it with something shiny on top.

Man this is so unsettling.