#thank you for asking i LOVE talking about beyblade and crisis core. 👍

[kazumahashimoto]

Hey, what if Zac and Xander had a Zack Fair death moment?

Just wondering.

hello. you've just evoked my Dual Interest card. let's get into it.

so one of the funny things about this being the structure i.e. zac is zack because haha funny same name and xander as cloud is that truly this makes zero sense. cloud's entire thing is that he is smaller and weaker than the others where xander's is that he is bigger and stronger. so the idea of replicating like Exactly what happens to zack with zac instead in a more ff7 leaning sense as opposed to the beyblade aspect of it is. very silly.

i do think zac and zack have Some level of similarities between them though they are pretty far and few between. zac certainly acts closer to a younger zack (which i mean, checks out cos zac is about that age) and xander...... well xander does not suit cloud. zac is doing the heavy lifting in this silly role swap. which sucks cos he's not very strong.

the idea of zac being someone xander looks up to is pretty cute. i don't see xander being anywhere near as timid about it as cloud was but it's a fun thought nonetheless. zac slots into the role of "excitable person of importance (but not that much importance)" pretty easily.

as far as the Dying part goes that's mostly comical to me honestly 😭 poor little zac tries to drag 6'1 wall of muscle xander across two continents. inconspicuously. while on the run. quite frankly i don't think they'd have made it out of the mansion 😭 but let's suspend our disbelief just enough. zac fights the huge battle and xander desperately crawls towards him. zac sees him, his eyes light up, and he tells xander to live for the both of them. he brings xander down into his open wounds and xander comes back up with his blood on his face. zac moves his arm to reach for his sword, and he cannot pick it up. buster stays immovable on the dirt in the pool of zac's blood and it's so awkward that he dies. and xander screams and has his gay flashback and then he picks up the sword and wonders how zac could have possibly outranked him when he picks the thing up like it's a toothpick. he shuffles away, off to go meet whoever is playing aerith in this scenario.

unfortunately i find the idea of the ff7 characters in the beyblade universe a lot more interesting!! i think it'd be cuter and it makes more sense cos the plot is a lot looser and. less reliant on haha funny same name. i wrote that whole thing out too it's in my longpost tag somewhere