#viir

[robsheridan]

Photographs recovered from the mysterious Zorovic Building in New York prior to its destruction in 1913, showing summonings, materializations, and other dark magic rituals which allegedly occurred in the building’s various rooms around the turn of the 20th century.

Legend goes that the Zorovic Building's foundation ran deep underground into a “soft place” - a “wound” in the fabric of spacetime where our dimension becomes unnaturally close to other realms; imperceptible to human senses but ripe, according to spiritualists, for channeling beings and magic from beyond.

Officially, however, so little is known about the building that historians classify its entire existence as urban folklore, as it does not appear in any historical records. But paranormal researchers and amateur sleuths believe records were altered and destroyed to protect the exact location where the building once stood, so its unique paranormal attributes could never again be exploited for the terrifying evils which once occurred there; or perhaps, more sinisterly, to conceal the secrets of whichever new building now stands on its plot… 

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[evieeion]

art trade for friend on insta!!

[ffseven]

FINAL FANTASY VII REBIRTH (2024) — summer game fest 2023 trailer

[silver-wield]

All. The. Damn. Time.

[shitpostingkats]

The thing about Final Fantasy is every once in a while they'll make a guy with a mullet and you just gotta go hell yeah

[silalcarin]

Both SE and the FFVII development team have finally stopped being subtle about Cloti's tender kiss in Rebirth Chapter 12

I find the progression this year, from SE and the FFVII development team, to be extremely satisfying — specifically regarding Tifa's Gold Saucer date and Cloti's tender kiss in the Skywheel in Rebirth Chapter 12, post-release on February 29th, 2024:

March 28th, 2024 — The "Friends of Fate - Inside FINAL FANTASY VII REBIRTH - Episode 2 (Scenario, Cutscenes and Story)" official interview with the developers is on one of Square Enix's official YouTube channels. The developers giggle excitedly as they tell the players to specifically get Tifa's GS date in Chapter 12 and only Tifa's date, and they even encourage everyone to play the game multiple times, "go back for second and third rounds", solely to see a "special Tifa cutscene". But, the video doesn't actually show the kiss. (Skip ahead to timestamp 12:58)

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July 12th, 2024 — Japanese comedians play through Tifa's GS date in Chapter 12, and they intentionally only play through Tifa's date. When Cloud agrees to go on a date with Tifa, they say "he's already in love". When Cloud and Tifa wander around Gold Saucer together, they refer to Cloud as Tifa's "kareshi", which translates to "boyfriend". When Cloud and Tifa finally kiss, they exclaim excitedly. They also acknowledge how shy and awkward the couple is with each other after the Skywheel ride is over. Kanou-san says "Even if I am over 40 years old, I got kyun-kyun", meaning that his heart skipped a beat or he had butterflies in his stomach. At the end of the video, there's a big block saying "Play the game to find out the relationship between Cloud and Tifa". This stream was approved, endorsed, and sponsored by Square Enix themselves, and is on one of Square's official YouTube channels, meaning that Square prepared this stream themselves. But, the video cuts away right after Cloud pulls Tifa into a big tight hug and right before the viewer can see the kiss.

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September 26th, 2024 — The official English version of the FFVII Rebirth Gold Saucer & MiniGame Disc calls Tifa's GS Skywheel date "Words Drowned Out by Fireworks - A Tender Kiss".

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December 3rd, 2024 — Hamaguchi explicitly talks about Cloti's tender kiss during Tifa's GS date at the PlayStation Partner Awards. He confirms that there was a "clear intention" behind the kiss. He basically confirms that Tifa's Resolution in Remake Chapter 14 is canon because he explicitly mentions the Cloti hug in her Resolution. Since the hug in Remake happened, therefore the kiss in Rebirth happened. This is the very first time Cloti's tender kiss has ever been openly acknowledged by anyone in the FFVII development team, 10 months after Rebirth's release.

[sitting-on-me-bum]

Horse grazing in a field on a snowy, wintery day.

Photo © Merlin Viir.

2023 International Pet Photography Awards

[itsfullofstars]

[radioxphonic]

[cloudlimitbreak]

i think it's hilarious that every man who meets cloud is obsessed with him and wants to bang him immediately (sephiroth, biggs, wedge, andrea) but every woman who meets him thinks he's full of himself and wants to knock him down a peg (tifa, aerith, jessie, madame m)

[4th-make-quail]

cooking up a lil somethin-somethin >:3c (Cid improvements to come cos i found stubble mod and some slightly improved highlander faces, and also better glam, but ahhHHHHHH)

[evieeion]

wip of old art i never finished. this was when sora was announced for smash

[ffseven]

FINAL FANTASY VII REBIRTH (2024) — summer game fest 2023 trailer

[silver-wield]

Is it true that Nojima wanted AC to be about the domestic life of the cloti family but SE wouldn't let him because it needed Action?

Yup.

[fightabear]

[silalcarin]

In reality, Cloud did NOT find Aerith to be beautiful if you got her red dress in Chapter 9 of FFVII Remake.

In reality, Cloud didn't even recognize Aerith.

This tweet of Cloud's motion capture actor playing that scene in FFVII Remake Integrade, and adding his own commentary, explains it all perfectly:

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Bonus: here's a screenshot of the specific moment:

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エアリスなのか？<- This is the line as originally written

Earisu nano ka? <- This is the line translated in Romaji

"Are you Aerith?" or "Is it Aerith?" <- This is the line properly translated to English