#verse; FF7 (Crisis Core)

[holyguardian]

SPRAIN : for one muse to carry the other after spraining their ankle. from zack!

Comprehensive list of scenarios.

The expression on her face was almost childish, a sulking pout that suggested she hadn't gotten her own way — which would be a fair assumption. Her wedge sandals had finally betrayed her. Turned out that walking around on what were essentially platforms without a heel strap wasn't the smartest idea in the rougher terrain of the slums.

One wrong step on some slippery scrap, her foot twisted awkwardly, her shoe folded sideways to make the awkward slip worse and goodbye flower girl.

"You barely get free time." Aerith complained from her curled-over heap on the ground, and for a moment it sounded like she was accusing him. "Now I've ruined our daaate!" Also, ouch. Like, fucking shit, ouch.

To his credit Zack had attempted to intervene. What was a twisted ankle probably would have been scraped elbows and a bruised up backside without his quick reflexes. He already had her practically in his arms. So... an adjustment of his grip, and a far too easy transition from crouched down to fully standing, and bam.

"Zack!" That one was an accusation. "Wait, my dumb shoe... just... bend over backwards like a slinky or something and I'll pick it up." There it was. The sulking had finally started to ease.

[holyguardian]

Aerith tittered at the imagined scene, because even if her shoes were woefully undersized she could still picture Zack attempting to strut in them. He was good-humoured like that. Good-hearted too.

"Mmmm, tempting!" She had been saving her own gil, but it was slow, painfully slow. Even though she wanted to reach her own goal it wouldn't hurt to be more flexible, especially when brand new shoes would genuinely mean more ground being covered.

Lately she had been leaning away from what looked the cutest to wanting something practical that she could stomp around in. Though the price tag on the pair of stompers she had her heart set on seemed to have come from the upper-plate. It didn't feel right to ask that much from him... but maybe... a transitioning pair of shoes. Not the boots she wanted, just something more down-to-earth. No heels. No frills.

"Oh yeah. Yeah! I totally meant to do that. I didn't accidentally trip or anything, that would be embarrassing." It's easy to add onto each others teases. It isn't something that feels mean, between them it's playful banter that brightens their world a little bit.

"Ding ding ding!" They had a winner! One who really wanted to know things that were much too much to explain, so instead Aerith beamed full of mischief and delight. "I just have better thumbs than you." A weird statement. The kind of thing she normally would have kept to herself.

Then Aerith softened the more she thought about his question, however subtle it was. "Mum. My birth mum, that is. She's the one who told me about the church. It was... like a place of hope. Like somewhere that we might be happy. I decided I wanted to try my best to make it that happy place, even after... maybe it's silly, but I think the flowers grew because I hoped so much for them."

“Hmm, you think your shoes would fit me? I dunno, I've got big feet, but I think I could rock it.” Zack snickers, doing a little prance as he speaks. It's true, he would swap shoes with Aerith in a heartbeat if it was possible. The last thing he ever wants is for her to be uncomfortable in any kind of way. “Yannoooo, if you need new shoes, I can always get you some. My pay ain't too bad. Besides, I gotta make sure my girl's got what she needs, right?” 

It's not like Zack really spends his money that much. ShinRa, despite all its misgivings, does provide food and shelter at little to no cost, especially to First Class SOLDIERs. He'd rather spend his money spoiling Aerith because she deserves it, and, really, she could ask him to jump off a cliff and he'd probably do it. He's really just that smitten with her.

So he grins down at her, holding her closer against his chest and beginning to walk in the direction she's pointing. “You didn't have to fall to get me to carry you! I'd do it anyways~” he teases. She's really got him wrapped around her little finger, but he doesn't think that's a bad thing. Aerith is a much needed breath of fresh air from all the doom and gloom. While his worries about Angeal still linger in the back of his mind, at least he doesn't have to think about it with her.

“Flowers, huh? We wouldn't be going to the church, would we?” he muses, tilting his head. “Hey, you never told me how you get flowers to grow there. Is that always going to be a secret?”

[dracanboys]

realized i literally remade my tumblr so i can just talk about things again. ff7 remake spoilers for anyone like me who was a 2 year late motherfucker to this party but tearing my hair out. remake made me more insane about crisis core i cannot stop thinking about it. i cannot stop thinking about the bittersweet/frankly unfair nature of the remake verse but not in a "bad writing" way just in like an "ohhh my god oh my god the tragedy" way. the joy of somewhere they make it, of tearing apart the strings of their stories to write something anew but like. the gutwrenching unfairness of it all for the timeline/universe where things didn't change. og timeline zack fair didn't try any less than remake timeline (...remake timeline 2? "terrier timeline"?) zack, he just. didn't get lucky. his timeline just Wasn't the one that got weird shit happening in it, nobody was breaking apart the laws of space time coincidentally at the same time when he had the entire goddamn military after him and that makes me INSANE (especially with how i characterize him within my mind that guy is severely mentally unwell but that's a whole 'nother post) like it makes me want to bawl my eyes out. You did everything right, you just weren't lucky. need to put og zack and remake zack in the same room and watch the craziest fight of pure unfiltered rage and tears break out. og mygod i NEED to watch another playthrough of crisis core ill be back i just[CLUTCHES HEAD]

[anakinh]

all of my other posts on rebirth have some complaints or just pure complaint, which does not reflect my feelings on the game, so i'm going to now post a thing i like with each complaint. my current complaint is 'none of the words "queen's blood tournament on the shinra-8" is in the original game.' (and that includes shinra-8, shut up). here is a list of compliments about the game:

Starting as Zack generated SO MUCH hype. i was screaming

the music around the midgar wastelands is 'hollow'! I love it so much

playing as sephiroth was so fun. he's amazingly designed and his VA acted the hell out of nibelheim. very well done

i like the additional tension between cloud and tifa, with both of them suspecting the other of being an imposter

baby chocobo cute

the combat is very fun. yeeting tifa is great

it's so pretty! i have so many photos! of so many things!

FROG QUEST BEST QUEST

weed canon in ff7-verse

despite my imminent complaint, queen's blood is pretty good

in fact, most of the mini-games weren't terrible

also, the queen's blood weird subplot is very intriguing, as is the sucked into queen's blood subplot (until the timing made me want to kms). i do like it when i get to yell 'WHAT THE FUCK' at the screen. sometimes you have to remember that ff7 is a very silly game.

okay, now that i've paid my dues I just wanna say that there are so many minigames all at once. Literally most of chapter 4 were mini-games and then we jump into chapter 5 and it's another mini-game tourney?? jenova is RIGHT THERE in the boat. please just let me jenova boss fight. I'm forgetting what the plot is. (and this is also a general problem with open world games. even in BG3 I was spending time shopping in the Lower City instead of helping my friend who got kidnapped by murder cultists. sigh)

anyway they turned this game into 100 hours by filling it with padding. again. (imagine cloud narrating 'and then I got the vacuum to clean the air of mako so i could use the elevator... and then the cord WAS STUCK.' he remembers that but not killing sephiroth?)

also I don't like the way they're treating Shinra right now, especially Rufus. If I trusted Square Enix I wouldn't be blinking at it, since there are so many times where people talked about how horrible Shinra was... but I definitely don't trust Square Enix, and especially not how they write Rufus. Shouldn't he be talking about ruling with fear now? stop trying to sanitize the evil capitalist. I hope Barret is right when he said joining was a bad idea. I shouldn't have to hope. It should be obvious. It would be if I trusted Square Enix.

lastly, seriously, wtf is up with glenn T_T why is he here. why do i dislike a person from a mobile game showing up here when people from prequels showing up is fine? i mean definitely part of that is because crisis core is not a gatcha game.

... and that was like 4 complaints. it's just easier to say things when you're complaining instead of praising. I gotta work on that.

[thuganomxcs]

The bruised ribs?? Well he couldn’t exactly call the woman a friend, she was more than that. Thinking of the agony he’s even gone through in those days really brought a soft smile over his face. ━━   ❝   𝐒𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭.   ❞  Yusuke said with a smile before a hand was placed upon his chest. “She was more like a grandmother t’ me…least she was old enough t’ be my grandmother. She’s the one that taught me everythin’ I know.”

Then came the subject over materia, and yes the SOLDIER was right, it’s never wrong to NOT rely on it but still- “Wouldn’t mind shootin’ lightning from the tip of my fingers though, that’s still cool in my book. So I’m lookin’ for t’ what you’d be able to do on this mission..I can already tell that it’s gonna be interestin’.” There was a smirk on yusuke’s face now as his presses his fist into his open palm.

AND the excitement that appeared on Yusuke’s face right now, it was as if he was a child in a candy shop and everything was up for grabs. A little friendly spar to show him a little here and there when it comes to martial arts and in exchange he’d allow Yusuke to wield the materia of his choosing?! DONE deal and it would be something educational. Granted his mind began to ponder of WHAT element he would choose considering there were 𝙉𝙐𝙈𝙀𝙍𝙊𝙐𝙎. “You’ve got yourself a deal Bright Eyes!” The grin on his face remained as the pilot then spoke towards them.

“We’re nearing the drop zone, please prepare for landing.” The man said.

The detective nodded his head and sat back on his seat as he prepared for landing. “Well ya didn’t hear it from me, but there’s a lot of conspiracy theorist sayin’ that Shin-...” Nah it was probably better if they had this conversation once their feet hit the ground. Zack himself was a SOLDIER yes, but he’s shown himself to be a ‘people’s man’. Yusuke always had an opinion on SOLDIERs and Zack did not fit that stereotype period..but the pilot? He was still part of Shinra..a bootlicker. There’s no telling what Yusuke might say would come back and haunt him. “I’ll tell ya when we land..nothin’ bad either way.” It was as if the tone changed completely. “Ya ready for the mission though?”

"No way! Not from a friend, I hope." Zack clicked his tongue. "Well, let's get through this mission, and then we can go out drinking together. On me, of course~" He had definitely had his own share of friendly betrayals. Seemed a common enough trend to be sad!

"Listen, it's no bad thing not to rely on materia. If you think about it--" He shrugged. "---might not be here for us to utilize forever. The Planet's feeling a little wonky lately." The Planet might giveth, but it could also taketh away, right? Maybe that was why ShinRa was suddenly in the process of researching various other ways to compose the stuff, make their own from scratch. Rather than harvesting it from the natural world. But also, who could say what ran through the minds of the bigwigs?

"Maybe we can spar sometime, ya? I'm always up for a little lesson or two~" He wasn't so far gone that he wouldn't take pointers from someone who may know a trade better than him. He had swordplay down, he had to say. Hand to hand, well he'd do what he had to do, but it wasn't his forte. "You do that for me, and I'll let you try a materia---" He held up an index finger. "---- even one of your choosing if you want." Seemed more than a fair trade to him!

"As for the missing Firsts, your guess is as good as mine. For some reason, they didn't think to consult me. What have you heard on the street?"

[kiigan]

❝Life is just like the flowing of a river.❞

⇾ final fantasy VII verse ⇾ tag: land of the free; and blood splatters for applause ⇾ status: cross-over; open to interactions

Based on the original ff7 + Crisis Core + the Remake trilogy.

ㅤThe Uchiha clan is one of the proudest and most respected of Wutai. Their most defining characteristic, the sharingan, is a form of ninjutsu dating from an ancient bloodline and said to have been a gift from Leviathan as reward for their devotion and worship. Among other duties, the clan is responsible for keeping the flames in certain caves lodged in the mountain where the statue of Da-chao was later carved, for the sake of safely storing Wutai's prized items and treasure.

ㅤAs per a long-standing tradition, the clan head serves as personal guard to the nation's ruler. With Fugaku, therefore, appointed as guard to Godo, Itachi and Sasuke spent their childhood as close friends to Yuffie. From a very young age, Itachi showed great skill in the ninja arts, both in combat and espionage, and eventually joined the Crescent Unit, being assigned the codename Rubrum.

ㅤDuring the period of the Wutai war, Itachi made a name for himself in a similar fashion to Sephiroth, only on the opposite side of the conflict. Around this time, he met and developed a friendship with Sonon, although sadly was just as helpless to prevent Melphie's death. During the battle of Fort Tamblin, Itachi also had the opportunity to briefly exchange words and ideas with Zack, growing to respect his personality and kindness despite crossing paths as enemies.

ㅤWith the war lost and Fugaku, Mikoto, and Shisui killed in action, Itachi and Sasuke were taken under Godo's personal care. To prove himself worthy despite his still young age, Itachi challenged and successfully overcame the trials of the Pagoda of the Five Mighty Gods - being then allowed to take Fugaku's former position as Godo's guard and also being entrusted with the Leviathan materia.

ㅤWhereas not completely in accordance with Godo's newly found passivity and the gradual transformation of Wutai into a tourist resort, Itachi remained loyal in his service for a few years. With Yuffie and Sonon eventually leaving for Midgar to join forces with Avalanche, however, Itachi decided to ask Godo for permission to leave as well - not necessarily for the sake of revenge, even though he does plan on bringing the Shinra Electric Power Company to justice, but to try and find a peaceful resolution for the long-standing tension between Wutai and Midgar.

⇾ Abilities Shared with Yuffie: elemental ninjutsu, brumal form, doppelgänger Unique abilities: Amaterasu (single casting of a black-colored, unblockable equivalent of a firaja spell), Tsukuyomi (single casting of a status-altering form of ninjutsu that inflicts confusion, berserk, sleep, poison, darkness, and silence), Susanoo (single casting of a defensive form of ninjutsu that makes the party impervious to both physical and magic attacks for a limited period of time)

⇾ Equipment and Materia Weapon: katana; fire + magnify, revival, cleansing, chakra Armor: chain bangle; binding + warding, enemy skill + mime Enemy skills: magic hammer, death force, trine Summon materia: Leviathan Accessory: aureate pinion

⇾ Random little bits

Big fan of Da-chao beans, chocobos, moogles, and tonberries.

Definitely spends a lot of his free time hanging out in the cat house.

Collects Turtle Paradise/Happy Turtle flyers for fun.

The one time he borrowed Yuffie's Steal materia, he actually grabbed an adaman bangle from an Adamantaimai on first try.

Codename Rubrum, unsurprisingly, comes from his sharingan.

The voice of reason whenever Shisui, Sasuke, and Yuffie would gather together to suggest adventures. Imagine that level of chaos.

Before leaving Wutai, Yuffie offered him a moogle cloak just like her own, which Itachi is actually very fond of.

When once exploring the nearby islands with Shisui, they chanced to find an ancient orb of Mime materia, which the two then would share and take turns at using in battle.

Very interested in the study of Planetology and, if possible, would love to visit Cosmo Canyon one day.

Even though he specializes in wielding his katana, he's also very talented with shuriken and staves.

Will demolish you at both Fort Condor and Queen's Blood

Once stared a Malboro in the eye and the Malboro actually felt intimidated and fled the battle.

Chadley, I love you but Leviathan belongs to Wutai, thank you.

[phoenixcatch7]

Fic idea collection: sephiroth reincarnates into mdzs.

Now I've been rotating this in my mind for a while, but it went through several iterations before I was happy with it. Feel free to expand on or even use any of them!

Sephiroth reincarnates into lwj. Straightforward, pretty 1 to 1, we get lovely white v black and anime swordsmen and a bewildered love at first sight gay panic that goes differently to but about as well as canon. Room for gorgeous scenes and lots of angst. Wings, war heroes, on a pedestal, etc. Becoming a new person vs cycles of trauma. Devil you know etc. Problem: I don't like writing romance, I don't particularly want to one true soulmate wwx with someone who isn't lwj, and should wwx still die (pretty inevitable) the issue abruptly becomes sephiroth grieving for his brutally defamed and murdered One Love and not going on a genocidal spree about it. Lsh is not enough of an deterrent when the jianghu wants the kid dead too.

Sephiroth reincarnates into lwj and lxc in a split soul/mind situation, and they 'both' fall in love with wwx. I loved this, but the logistical issues (particularly the war) clashed with anything to do with the canon plot, and again it didn't fix the other romantic issues.

Sephiroth reincarnates into just lxc and that would have very little bearing on the wwx centric plot, so maybe a romance with jc? Again, cute, but sephiroth is pretty much the polar opposite of lxc and that'd mess up so much. They could work a grumpy (cold, uncaring) with a grumpy (hot, cares so very much) dynamic, I think they'd work pretty well under the right circumstances, but that combined with the fact I don't really ship them (sorry!) put me off expanding it further.

The one I finally decided on:

Sephiroth as... nmj! The combination of the special sabers and their resentment, the war leader role, the reputation, the kid brother abruptly foisted on him, it really struck me! I really like the idea of nmj slipping NHS some of his dna as a baby (qi covering for hojo science in this case) and the compulsive consequences of that. Feeling like NHS only really cares for him because of the s cells mind control. Having to take care of him like those egg/flour bag baby projects to teach kids empathy and responsibility but with a real human kid brother.

Nmj letting NHS slack even if he hates it because his subconscious will protect him in an emergency. If you've seen the scene in ff7 rebirth of cloud with the soldiers you'll know what I mean (it was SUCH a good scene. Ice cold). Imagine NHS of all people getting in trouble (like in the live action) and suddenly like a switch is flipped turning into a merciless murder machine.

I feel like they'd bond a lot in their own way, with NHS both thinking the world of and being sibling scared of him, them thoroughly enjoying battles of wits like weiqi but having no/few shared interests outside of that. Nmj honing NHS' observation skills, ruthlessness, quick thinking (and unwittingly, acting skills lmao). Sephiroths total inability to comprehend NHS' want to be lazy and indulgent with his own childhood of being genetically made to be a high functioning child soldier and then having to lead the sect and raise a kid from a young age, but having no real reference for how a normal childhood would look.

It'd be really interesting to see how it'd affect the war efforts, with someone well versed in large scale conflict, with sephiroths own overwhelming power. Wwx wouldn't be the sole ace, and how would that affect his own motivations and reputation if he wasn't as necessary?

And of course!! The venerated triad!! How would sephiroth take lxc and jgy, so much like his old genesis and angel? Would the experience of crisis core prepare him for those two, or for betrayal and distrust? Without the threat of degradation, would he find himself clinging to them? Would he notice lgys betrayal or underestimate him? Would he feed him his dna and pull an uno reverse??

And should he die, there's no way his corpse is going to be normal. Like, at all. (And poor NHS would sense it, react to it, part of his mind and cells getting ripped out, shut down, the warmth and love of his brother.) Would it constantly try to revive? Would its presence cause mania or mood swings, hallucinations, nightmares? Would people exposed start picking up habits or beliefs he had while alive? Would it be cut up to try and weaken it? Would its eyes track lgy until he hides it away? Would he start oozing green?? And don't even start on what a temple scene would look like in this situation, oh man. It'd be Bad. I think he'd claw his way back to full consciousness out of pure homicidal refusal. He's clawed his way back from total annihilation far too many times to let some conniving POLITICIAN do him in for good.

Nmj staunchly returning from the dead to take up being a Co sect leader again because now he's actually unkillable and NHS is not about to let this happen without shoving as much work as possible back onto him lmao (so he can't leave). And befriending wen ning. The white hair and blank eyes with the iron grey skin and black/gold would be striking.

Basically nmj would be ripe for really good canon divergence and character analysis and growth but even if you keep canon the exact same there's still plenty of room during and after for anything ranging from hurt/comfort to fluff to pure crack (we're putting Sci fi dystopia allegory man in Chinese High Fantasy it's not going to go completely smoothly. And this man does not have experience with raising a child).

There is, also, the option of split mind nhs/nmj sephiroth, in which one body takes the brawn and the violence and the attention and the other keeps the brain and the secret longing for safety and comfort and leisure, acting as though two separate people to allow this space to rest and heal and learn to be human in the way a child soldier or orphaned teen sect leader isn't allowed. It'd mean NHS and nmj would have to be twins, and thus full blooded, but that could be rectified by nmj just being the youngest of the trio and NHS being a few years behind in classes so he's in the same year as the other clan heirs (and wwx) like canon. He'd also be a lot, lot harder to kill and if jgy did anyway sephiroth would quite brutally extract revenge immediately for killing his other body and that means no happy ending for wwx (or a lot of people tbh).

So which idea is your favourite?

[furiaae]

here come my slightly incoherent brainrot thoughts on asteria and her ff7 verse now that we've finished rebirth pls bare with me (it does contain a few lil spoilers for rebirth of course so beware-)

Asteria's body pre-being dropped into the lifestream looked quite literally like a mannequin, featureless and genderless. Basically just something like an oversized ball jointed doll or something

Really, the experiment had no reason to work how it did, the scientist conducting it had imagined it would result in the disintegration of the artificial body, like cells in a body would destroy some sort of outside pathogen.

Also Asteria's body was definitely dropped in somewhere around the North Crater, this was sometime before Shinra even arrived and yoinked Jenova's body from it.

That's probably the reason Asteria's formation DID happen the way it did, since the planet has so much spiritual energy focused on the North Crater at all times.

Asteria is, for all intents and purposes, the planet's conscience given humanity. The planet itself is still its own being, but Asteria is basically the vocalization of it. LIKE UH, instead of Aerith praying and communicating directly with the planet, the planet can speak fully to Aerith AS Asteria. if that...makes sense-

Her body DOES have bouts of decay at certain points. While early on, Asteria would crystalize herself to recover, she has found more recently that ingesting Mako does the job at a much faster rate. It disgusts her to have to be using something that was stolen from her/the planet, but it is an unfortunate necessity.

Unfortunately this finding wasn't found earlier on as the retrieval and testing on Jenova's body was done during a bout of "hibernation", and she was unable to warn Shinra of the chaos they were about to unleash.

It was around pre-Crisis Core that Asteria re-entered the world and she immediately was keeping an eye on the likes of Sephiroth and the other first class SOLDIERs.

The events at Nibelheim absolutely CRUSH her but as it is fate, she is unable to act to help.

In terms of Remake/Rebirth timeline though, Asteria is startled and simultaneously relieved when the main crew defies fate and are now in uncharted territory.

I DO believe that in a similar vein as everyone believing that both Sephiroth and Aerith are aware of the OG 7's timeline (which i believe IS canon???? Due to Marlene seeing the vision of Aerith's death in Remake but idk anymore) Asteria is ALSO aware of the OG's timeline (and all subsequent/split timelines as explained by Sephiroth towards the end of Rebirth) and was incapable of opposing it directly until the end of Rebirth and the defying of fate/the whispers.

ALTHOUGH as she is capable of being in control of the white whispers to an extent (the planet as a being in itself still holds higher control as Asteria can only contain so much of the lifestream), she does try and control some of the events in the favor of the main crew as she is aware of most outcomes (albeit most are fuzzy to her aside from OG 7 and the 7Re trilogy and...whatever the hell is going on with Zack lmao)

[exoriiens]

Verse Announcement - Final Fantasy VII

A follow-up experiment of Project S that really shouldn't have existed, or prospered for that matter. Uriel (Eventually only know as Uri) was created more or less as a known failure. Gestated in an artificial womb in the brief time after the success of Sephiroth's birth and injected with a mixture of the altered cells of Project G as well as Jenova cells. To the incredulous shock of most, if not all of the scientists within Shinra, Uri flourished and was "born" within a few short months. Though, this flourishing wouldn't last long. As Uri grew into her teens, her body was suddenly at a war with itself, as the modified cells wished to degrade, and the Jenova cells refused to allow it. Unfortunately, shortly before the events that transpired in Crisis Core, Uri suffered mortal wounds and this kickstarted physical signs of degradation. Thus, as if on instinct, Uri finds a safe spot hidden well away from prying eyes and retreats into some form similar to a cocoon. Granted, she was meant to die in this cocoon, but after the denizens of Fate were eliminated this meant that Uri's fate was changed as well. Now Uri travels across Gaia, unaware of her changed fate and simply wishes to live.

addendum

OG ff7 continuity

though it seems she was meant to die originally, even in the original continuity Uri emerges from the cocoon, though it's only when the "reunion" begins properly.

The Jenova cells within her react in turn to Sephiroth's manipulation, though due to it's warring with the altered cells of Project G it leads Uri to not fully become as mindless as other "clones".

She still has a strange underlying drive to make her way to the North Crater, but Uri still retains mostly a will of her own in this case. Sephiroth's end at the hands of Cloud and the others comes as Uri makes it to her destination and in the subsequent collapse of the crater, she is mortally injured once again.

This results in another cocooning stage, and Uri only remerges about 6 months before the events of Advent Children.

I have not seen Advent Children yet so the OG continuity ends there but it may get a little more updated once I see it.

[crisiscutie]

since I'm a huge freak for Disney songs (and their movies of course), what do you think of the following? Frozen - Show Yourself for Sephiroth, if he would actually meet his real mother Lucrecia in the Crystal Cave Tarzan - Son of a man for Sephiroth as well in his youth BUT it could also fit for Zack during the whole Crisis Core timeline. It was actually pretty much a random thought, but, do you think these songs could fit ?

I haven't seen Tarzan since I was a kid but that was a good movie! I don't watch much Disney stuff nowadays but I loved them when I was younger.

 ༻❁༺ One verse in particular really stands out to me.

“And all the things you dreamed of. The visions that you saw. Well, the time is drawing near now. It’s yours to claim it all!” I know it’s a happy and optimistic song, but I think it can also be interpreted in a dark light as well. Son of a Man could not only fit a youthful Sephiroth but also Adult Seph as well.

For Adult Sephiroth, I’d imagine that would relate to his Nibelheim breakdown and his antics afterwards. After spending so long under Shinra’s control, he is liberated. The song would be him coming to a realization. His desire - reuniting with his “mother” Jenova has been recognized and now, He’ll claim the planet for him AND her. It’s in his power. He’s known as the strongest man ever and now, he will do more than that title. He will become a GOD. You can also look at the song from Jenova’s point of view as she spent thousands of years in suspended animation waiting for something to release her. And then there finally came the birth of Sephiroth. So she spent time from his childhood to adulthood, waiting for her chosen one to finally realize his purpose.

 ༻❁༺ What about Zack?

It fits him well too! KH Zack came to my mind for some reason when I listened to that song again. Poor KH Zack, he has no better chance of achieving his dreams in the KH verse than in the FF7 verse... Zack is very idealistic and full of positive ambition compared to Post-Nibelheim Sephiroth. I see the song as more than a deconstruction for FF7 Zack... At first. As he wanted to be a hero so badly, he played by the rules. He did what he could to help his loved ones, especially Angeal and Sephiroth, and look at what he was paid with in return. He stayed loyal to Shinra, only to be met with the bitter taste of betrayal when he discovered their dark secrets, especially their inhumane experimentations, which they did on him AND his friend. But at least he passed on his legacy to Cloud. So, in a nice twist of fate, he achieved his dreams. So this song applies to Cloud through Zack.

 ༻❁༺ A mother’s icy embrace.

So despite being a Disney buff as a kid, I have to confess: I never saw Frozen or its sequel. Yeah, I know...  But I checked out the song you’ve mentioned. I like it! It could function as a foil to Son of a Man, which fuels Sephiroth’s dark ambition and path of destruction, while this song acts as a soothing balm to his trauma. What he has been craving for, deep inside, is finally in front of him. I also think most of the song can apply to Lucrecia herself about Sephiroth, also similar to how I said Son of Man can be taken from Jenova’s point of view.

With Jenova, it's instant gratification for his darkness. He just takes her face value after reading false information about her origins. His fragile mind was broken, and he needed something to comfort him. Jenova was the perfect outlet. Whereas, finally meeting Lucrecia would be akin to delayed gratification. With the reunion and the truth he so desperately sought, he’d feel a sense of contentment and hope for the future will swell within him. He would be initially angry about what Shinra (and Lucrecia, to a lesser extent) did to him, but Lucrecia’s presence before him would temper that rage.

What do you guys think of a scenario/mini-fic where Sephiroth and his darling (pregnant with the triplets) meets Lucrecia?

[unforestalledreturn-a]

// I am strongly contemplating creating a non-FF7 verse that I can use as a default for the spookier, arcane, and occult related crossovers since they are now growing in number. If you have a current thread with me I am going to put the spoilers under the cut in case you want to keep things a surprise!

To blend his FF7 origins and translate it into something more crossover friendly and flexible, I am taking elements that make him distinct in Crisis Core and giving them some generic applications with a few nuances. Genesis in this verse will have been born to a wealthy landowner, noble person, or place of influence that fits appropriately. His parents, as the socialites, are very keen to uphold their image and progress their standing within society. Naturally, their son received the best education, opportunities and arrangements to ensure his future and enrich their own status. By all rights, everything was picturesque save for one flaw. Genesis, from a young age, was drawn to the mysteries and unknown of the occult. And as his proclivity for use in magic became apparent, his parents were concerned that his dabbling in the darker side of nature would drag the Rhapsodos family name down. Over time, their disapproval turned into resentment when it became clear that Genesis' passions for unveiling the mysteries of this so called 'science' were the only ones he cared for. After a failed attempt to align an arranged marriage, and subsequent passing of his ailing mother, Genesis' father blamed his son for their misfortunes, locking him in the basement as to not allow any further sorrow to come from his wayward son. After many years of imprisonment, Genesis lost faith in humanity, finding that the conversing and sympathies of so called 'monsters' were kinder than that of his own blood. Embracing his nature, Genesis and his awakened power set fire to the Rhapsodos estate, allowing him to escape. His father was presumed dead. Leaving everything behind, Genesis struck his own way, setting up shop as a broker managing clients from both the human and the supernatural world in need of a service, one way or another. Nicknamed the 'Matchmaker', he not only offers 'difficult to procure' items of alchemical, magic, and other ilk, but solicits contracts between demons and mortals, finding the right fit for the job and an assurance that if either side breached the terms, payment would be rendered. Annnnd that's all I got for the time being. I'm sure I will fine tune and tweak important things. Like, I have no idea where I will put this snippet, but definitely, somewhere prior to the mansion burning down, Genesis would have made his first summon, but fucked it up, resulting in him being partially fused with some sort of bird (hence wings since well. you know). Toying with the idea how edgy of a bird. Like yes, I could just go with a raven but a dark phoenix sounds so much cooler and is so much more on theme-- hskfdlsjdkfs Anyway that's all! Thanks for reading and if you wanna play around with this idea feel free to slide into my dms!!

[atarial]

my brain is currently in ff7 overdrive, so i’ve been plotting out my plans to add more characters to the ones i’ve already done

i’m having trouble finding one more character to fit in, so if anyone is more well versed in ff7 i’d appreciate the suggestion. there’s definitely others i could do, like the shinra execs, but then i’d have to do all of them, so if there’s a fairly solo character that you think would fit let me know

i’ve only played remake, most of crisis core and a bit of the original game, so maybe there’s someone in dirge of cerberus that could fit?

also thoughts on who i have chosen and how they’re arranged :D

[deathleadsarc]

since starting crisis core again while 6 hours into the game, I'm brought back to the mentality of de-humanization and cutting yourself off from humanity based on arbitrary definitions.

What makes a human? Is it when you have a soul? Is it a question you can handle asking? Is it an answer you can take hearing?

Qistina has always, in every verse, considered herself a 'monster'. Far from humanity. In her FF7 verse, she still feels this way - from her countless experiments, to the delight she experiences when her chaotic alchemy runs wild, her natural evil thoughts - it's all things that she considers to be monstrous. Therefore, she considers herself a monster.

going back to ff7 and crisis core... there's a lot of dialogue regarding the very same thing. The same question with different phrasing. It really makes me want to dive a lot deeper into that verse before the events of ff7.

[ofsgiathan]

i do want to give everybody a head's up that, yes, my angeal and @fairboy's zack are in a relationship. i know this is hella awkward and weird and confusing but i just wanted to state that it's something that me and kianye have talked extensively about. and i'll be explaining everything to the best of my ability via bullet points down below:

yes ... angeal is canonically 9 years older than zack. angeal was 25 whereas zack was 16 when angeal died. this is 100% canon. however! in my canon, angeal never died and actually got rescued by DEEPGROUND in hopes of him and genesis working alongside them. angeal said no and went AWOL until the beginning of ff7 and ff7r.

zack is canonically 23 at the end of crisis core and the beginning of ff7 and ff7r. this would make angeal about 32 years old. in fact, angeal has no clue that zack was still alive because they hadn't spoken since their fight 7 years prior. not only that but it's not like they start dating and fucking the second they reunite. that's 100% ooc for both of them.

our main verse takes place during the events of ff7r. which makes zack 23 and angeal 32. they're both consenting adults and are fully aware of everything. there's no forcing shit or anything. simple as that.

angeal is 100% against child grooming and p*dophilia. and he'll straight up tell you that he's against it. not only that but he'll actually kill a bastard or bitch who support either of the two without second thought. and let's not forget that zack is 100% blunt and already has a pretty damn good idea of who he is as a person and who he wants to become. he'd call angeal out on his bullshit despite worshipping the ground this man walks on. in fact, he actually has a couple of times in the game.

angeal actually ends up having a morality crisis because he knew zack as a teenager. but, again, they hadn't seen each other in 7 years. not only that but they've both grown quite a lot for better and worse due to their ptsd and how absolutely fucked up shinra is as both a person and company. and they don't start dating until a good while after reuniting. not only that but, again, zack is very blunt and m, "Hey. There's nothing wrong with this. I'm a consenting adult and if you were being weird about anything I'd tell you upfront regardless of my feelings for you."

kianye and i are both 100% against proshipping, child grooming, and p*dophilia. in fact, kianye has three children of her own and they mean the absolute world to her. i'm sorry but what fucking loving and adoring parent is going to be okay with the three of these?? my point exactly. not only that but i'm also dead set against all three because i've been a victim of child grooming. so no, i'm not going to write it and kianye isn't either. simple as that.

[calamitysshatteredson]

headcanon + fashion/style (canon or modern or any other verses!)

Headcanon meme | accepting but the slowest slow

Crisis Core/FF7 - The furthest possible uniform he can get away from Shinra’s standard issue may not be the most important consideration, but whether he’ll admit it or not, it certainly is one of the reasons he chose what he did.  Oh sure, it’s a power move in general, “practical” in ways, but it’s also just as utterly ridiculous and eyebrow-raising.  He was allowed to choose whatever he wanted, so he did.  And that’s about the only explanation anyone will get out of him.  Out of uniform, he’ll still go for standard issue Shinra casual wear because it’s available and comfortable... enough.

Shattered/Kintsukuroi - Without a memory, he doesn’t particularly care about fashion.  Just whatever he can ware, and that’s usually... questionable.  Even after regaining his memory, he can’t afford to be particularly picky about fashion... though he tends to avoid the more garish things when he can.  (He usually can’t, but it also helps disguise him.)

FFXV Safay Roth - It’s all uniform.  Standard everything, because that’s just... what he’s supposed to wear.  Escaping/leaving/surviving will offer him necessary choices to move as far away from the empire’s “style” as possible, so black’s tempting.  Safer.  Less questions asked in Lucian territory.  But if he’s feeling a little “brave”, brightly colored shirts from Altissia can be interesting.  Strange, but interesting.

[unforestalledreturn]

Verses

§ I’m Still Here §

Set in Genesis' early SOLDIER days, as a prodigy of magic but not so much physicality, he struggles to fit in amongst his peers. I’m Still Here is a verse that depicts Genesis during his early SOLDIER days. Feeling gatekept by ShinRa and his fellow SOLDIER, Genesis seeks to prove them wrong, picking fights, and isolating himself from his perceived persecutors and friends. Desperate to find himself and come to terms with what he wants, Genesis relentlessly fights for his place.

§ Crisis Core §

This verse is pretty self-explanatory. I do not create separate verses for every deviation in canon while writing, but should the deviation become extreme enough, it will receive its own divergent verse and receive its own section here.

§ Final Fantasy 7 Remake §

After the platefall of Sector 7 breeched an opening into parts of Deepground, I headcanon that Genesis’ holding cell was also breeched at this time, releasing him for shenanigity during the events of FF7. Genesis in this verse lurks in the shadows collecting fragments of his past. He is prone to breaking into ShinRa facilities to obtain confidential information, dispatching any remaining Genesis and Angeal clones, and seeking out familiar faces. As much as he tries to maintain a low profile, he remains impulsive and hungry to fill a void he is not entirely sure how to fill. He is duplicitous; a great ally in some situations and a terrible foe in others. 

§ Post-DOC §

Having laid dormant for nearly a decade, Genesis escapes from his prison in Deepground and emerges disorientated and confused in the rubble and monster infested ruin of Midgar. Everything of his prior world is dead and gone. In this verse, he aimlessly searches for meaning, desperately following clues of just how shattered his world has become. His personality has become tempered and morose, forced to stand upon the ashes of his reckless inferno.  Also of note in this verse is his relationship with the Tsviets. During their stay and mutual suffering in Deepground, I HC that there was a shared bond of pain, enough so to have Genesis referred to as “brother,” although it is possible that it could be sarcastic, indicating a bond of the opposite nature.  At the end of DOC, Genesis also makes off with Wiess with his cryptic message that, “There is work to do”. In this verse, I leave the interpretation very wide for as much flexibility as possible. 

§ Unblossomed Seed § In this verse, Genesis’ wanderings of a world completely change ultimately bring him to Wutai, the homeland of a people who he hunted and killed during his prime. He comes upon a village and is taken in and goes on a journey of self-discovery and growth. Healed by the people he once slaughtered and sought to conquest, he takes the lessons and tries to pick up the pieces back in his home, and whatever remains.