#shinra school of immaculate conception

[gomacave]

Taps mic. Hi guys. im introducing u to my 70s shoujo flavor toxic yuri sfkr au where they go to all girls catholic boardiing school and seph gets obsessed w the virgin mary statue in the school chapel (JENOVA) and tries to ascend to meet her. Cloud is manipulated into helping her because he has a massive crush also. Thank you.

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[gomacave]

Heyy abt your au, how does seph plan to ascend? Like what is her idea of ascension even?? This hasn't left my mind since yesterday I swear hdkdbd

HIII THANK U FOR BEING INTERESTED IN MY STUPID AU IT MEANS SO MUCH 2 ME🫰🫰🫰

anyways.

similar to canon i think that she and jenova (the virgin mary statue here) have some sort of a psychic connection (tho idk how much of it is just imagined by seph) but she believes that it's talking to her and needs her and its sending her signs.

i think the beginning of all of this is when she starts sprouting a wing and the more she listens to jenova and does what it asks of her the more the wing grows & seph gets powerful. though eventually id like 2 think it stops being ab serving/listening to jenova or whatever and becomes real personal (like in canon where shes like mother.............. and projects all her personal issuez onto alien mommy) (i think shes an orphan here adopted by the headmaster maybe) (and is very very very lonely like in canon)

anyways she gets cloud to help her complete the things that she thinks jenova wants. i want there 2 be like a secret society dark academia vibe where its connected w the school theyr at & they find secret passages and stuff. and cloud can feel super special helping the beautiful admired school idol sephy secretly after school on her DIVINE MISSION. it's their little secret<3 skipping class to make blood sacrifices. slay! (THIS IS OBVIOUSLY EVIL) (WHICH CLOUD IGNORES UNTIL THE END)

anyways heres how i imagine their first real meeting where cloud accidentally stumbles on her checking on her wing in the chapel !

again thank u for the ask!!!! and also indulging me in my stupidly self indulgent and sooo far from canon au

[gomacave]

Yessss, thank u! Ok, this is pre written, word vomit incoming

They both come from the same orphanage, Aerith's mom died by natural causes (since there's no shinra) and Lucretia and Hojo... You decide, a lot can be done there. Anyway, they were... Kind of childhood friends/acquaintances; Aerith was younger, but she thought seph was very pretty and insisted on talking with her. Seph thought she was sweet, and indulged her sometimes, and did come to care for her in some way. Then Aerith is adopted by Elmyra, and that's that. Seph is adopted later, and they see each other again at the school that they end up going to years later. Seph initially tries to feel glad that Aerith was adopted and being cared for, though she did feel a level of jealousy. Over the years that jealousy grows, and the more she sees her have so many more friends than her, and a caring mother and a life that she so desperately wants, it grows into resentment. Especially since they come from the same background. (What's so different abt her that she gets to have everything and I get nothing?) it culminates, ofc, in her rejecting humanity in favor of a divine calling, not realizing the warmth and love that she seeks come from the very same humanity that she's disparaging.

Bonus, Aerith tries to be friends with Seph again, starting conversations and searching for her when she tries to hide, but seph reads Aerith's actions as pity or mockery. And/or seph can't let go of her jealousy and talking with her is just a reminder of how effortlessly charismatic and friendly she is, and she hates it

I'm so normal abt your au <3

little comic +

aerti designs...!

OUGGHHGHGHGHG YOURE SO FUCKING REAL FOR THIS MY GODDDDDDDD 🫵🫵🫵 FUCKKK BRO THE SHAME OF COMING IN CONTACT W A GENTLE CREATURE WHO KNOWS LOVE BROOOOO......... UR MAKING MY BRAIN EXPLODE W NEVER B4 CONSIDERED AER/SEPH BRAINWORMS...... GOD the idea that seph who has built up this skill of being able to live w/out love suddenly being offered it by aerith after they grow older and seeing how she hasn't changed while seph herself has just grown bitterer and bitterer BITING MY DESK. ashamed of her life as if it were a stained or threadbare piece of clothing moment <- unwell. but at least she has power. and a divine mission. so she doesnt need love....!

ok more thoughts under cut cuz i dont want this to get monster length

I LOVE THIS IDEA SO MUCH............. aerith and seph coming from the same origins is so crucial to my enjoyment of ff7 and i think making them grow up in the same orphanage is. bites glass. anyways.

i like the idea of maybe the catholic school and the orphanage being connected (maybe through the same wealthy family that has connections 2 both) and so seph grows up and is an exemplary student since she was young and is adopted/sponsored by the family as like. a PR move lowkey. (maybe by hojo, maybe by the shinra fam) but in reality she's treated more like a coworker or side show by everyone around her but she gets the prestige of being a "child prodigy" and "shinra's pride and joy" so she's like a lowkey celeb in the student body but also idk maybe they make her attend outside events like galas and stuff and preach about how shinra has been soooo good to her and her future she owes to the company and family

this vs aerith finding a genuinely loving home outside of the orphanage and escaping it (YELLING) and coming back i love the idea of. like. her symbolizing freedom/hope/love to seph and making her SO MAD AND JEALOUS because what did she work so hard for. she worked so hard to get to the top and escape the shit situation they were in and now she discovers that aerith, without doing anything, achieved the life she thought was forbidden from them (BECAUSE LOVE SHOULD NOT BE EARNED) and has her worldview shattered from this. (the notion that the orphanage is inescapable and that hard work will earn her salvation from this life)

ANHWAHS i think she shrugs this all off w the divine mission thing (HEALTHY THING TO DO) and also i love the idea that higher purpose is the only thing that seph knows how to live for as somebody deprived of autonomy and raised as a human weapon (in canon). aer/seph making me UOOOUGHGH (im craaazzy im insanee gif)

^ seph, to me,

[gomacave]

*Cloud going oogly eyes at Sephiroth*

“Sephiroth, a girl as beautiful as the Virgin Mary herself…”

UAGHGGHGHGH WAIT UR GIVING ME BRAINWORMS FOR THE FINAL SCENE FOR THIS AU....... holding my head in my hands....... ALSO HE WOULD 100% DO THIS the white hair that obscures her eyes is already soo veil-like and pretty

[gomacave]

Hii, small question, can I dump my ideas for your au here? Cause I got an idea for Aerith and Seph but it's kind of long and I don't want to overstep lmao

I'm sorry I'm talking so much abt it, it's the brainworms 😭

YES PLEASE OMFGGGGG ,🫶🫶🫶🫶🫶🫶 PLSPLSPLS I WOULD LUV 2 HEAR ...........