#that being said. i understand and deeply respect blorboism. if the remnants are ur blorbos i sincerely apologize for any damages caused.

[rocketbirdie]

What do you think of the remnants as characters? If still involved in the story, albeit in a longer medium, to give space for exploring Cloud’s grief and trauma, how would you feel about them?

They're three very similar characters that all serve the same narrative purpose within the same story simultaneously— so if I had to describe how I feel about them in a single word, I'd call them "redundant."

I understand that they're supposed to be an exploration of the way that Jenova scrambled Sephiroth's soul. Manifestations of a shattered identity, grappling with the subtle difference between life and existence. But this unique idea contends for runtime with what is essentially a rerun of the OG plot: Jenova, in the form of Sephiroth et al., wants the reunion to happen so that she can become powerful again.

If they wanted Advent Children to be about Jenova, then the foundation for that already existed: in the form of geostigma, yet another new source of conflict that doesn't get properly fleshed out due to the movie's scattered attention. Therein lies the real problem: the remnants are fine in concept, but they get sabotaged by their only major appearance being in a movie that can't decide what it wants to be.

I would be interested in seeing the remnants expanded upon in a setting that doesn't compete for the spotlight with the main cast plus multiple other plot points, similar to how Ever Crisis has done so for Angeal and Sephiroth so far. I think it's unfair to the remnants that Advent Children relegates them to hardly anything more than fight scene spectacles and repetitive monologues.