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aranarumei · 9 months ago

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I'll take any info on the sasamiya ones but I must admit that since I'm subscribed to your profile getting notifications about final fantasy fics was a fun experience.

ask me to give “director’s commentary” on some part of a fic! or send a ⭐️ for me to talk about a bit of my choice?

ohhh…! that’s so many stars. and you’re subscribed to my ao3 profile….! how lovely! anon you’re wonderful. always nice to know I have a—if I dare be so bold—fan. now as that’s quite a lot of stars, so I… went overboard. consider it an expression of my affection for you, anon. going to put the rest of it under the cut:

about ff7: I’ve been playing ff7 veryyyy slowly for the past six months or so! it’s been exciting—I’ve managed to avoid a LOT of spoilers, and am still doing so, because I haven’t finished the game lol! but I had a reallly strong fic idea, centered around cloud & tifa, so I couldn’t resist. the dynamic between those two is so fascinating to me, because with the deaths of zack and aerith, I think they, as the ones “left behind,” have a really good opportunity to like… share in grief, and such. I wanted to write that fic in a way where any romance is kind of ambiguous, and secondary to the pure feeling of like, grief and love and living intertwined.

anyways. since you asked about sasamiya, I’m going to talk about various scattered sasamiya fics! I’ll gloss over the anomalous agate, because though I could talk about it for ages, I also wrote up a general commentary post. I’ll also skip over something there, since I just answered something in relation to that already. I’m really quite surprised (and flattered!) you said any of them, anon… there’s quite a few oddities in there.

I suppose I’ll start with a delinquent and a stargazer. that was a title I only ever came up with once porting a bunch of fics over ao3… and I was so embarrassed to find that backdated fics apparently show up as email notifications for subscribers. I’m sorry.

titling was so hard, but I’m pretty proud of this one, as in the fic it’s questionable who, between sasaki and hirano, the “delinquent” and the “stargazer” are. the section I wanted to talk about, though, is this:

Hirano keeps laughing for a while longer, eyes scrunched in small joy, and then he flops down, flat on his back. His knuckle grazes against Sasaki’s arm before he pulls it back. “I think that’s the first time I’ve seen you smile.” “What?” “Just—” Hirano falls quiet. “I don’t know.”

so, when I was talking about something there, I briefly touched on the idea of sasaki being attentive when it comes to hirano, and that sense of Attention and Observation is something that’s really important to me in the sasahira dynamic. even when they’re not quite friends (first year), they’re deliberately conscious of each other in a way they’re not going to vocalize. so that’s what’s going on here, dialogue-wise—hirano makes a comment that’s indicative of him paying special attention towards sasaki, and specifically what makes him smile. in the description, sasaki’s remarkably attentive towards how hirano laughs, so he’s also cataloguing expressions of joy. they’re doing the same thing! also, sasaki focuses in on that graze of touch because it’s a very slight… crossing of boundary, here. like, you don’t usually casually touch people you’re not friends with. at the very least, sasaki is not going to do that (see: his issues with controlling his strength and stuff—I bet that spills over into being a bit over-conscious of touch)

next, let’s address this bit from help! my classmate’s asking for relationship advice, but I’m aromantic!?:

“Those are common descriptions, sure.” Hirano levels him with a flat look. “You sure lose all your worldly upperclassman charm when Miyano’s not around, huh?” Miyano was different. Miyano was the type of person to have stars in his eyes. Hirano was… also the type of person to have stars in his eyes, even if he went about it differently. It was, strangely enough, Hanzawa’s favorite thing about both of them. “It’s my secret,” Hanzawa says. Thankfully, Miyano hasn’t really asked him for advice of this kind yet.

my secret is that hanzawa’s “it’s my secret” is quoting. something that got stuck in my head. it's not famous or anything so I doubt anyone will recognize it. but it made me laugh, so I kept it in for the same reason I decided to use my wip title as the actual title… because it’s funny! also it killed the stress of having to title the thing.

I tend to headcanon hirano as some form of ace—it’s clear he responds to touch in a different way than kagiura, so it’s an angle i think is fun to explore—so having him connect with an aromantic hanzawa headcanon was neat, here. this bit shows hanzawa’s underlying pessimism regarding love & romance, as contrasted with hirano’s optimism, as he's looking to meet kagiura where he is. both asexuality & aromanticism, to me, have things to say about “unconventional love,�� and this was an opportunity to explore that, in a way that tries to fit with canon. right now, hanzawa is feeling uncomfortable about the idea of dating, and romance—these feelings are going to have him blow up at his brother a little later. this conversation is also going to make him reformat his approach for miyano, later. on hirano’s end, he’s clearly trying to puzzle out his feelings, but both he & hanzawa are limited by conventional descriptors of what “love” has to look like. i think hanzawa envies hirano for his feelings, as much as he kind of disdains them—they’re not things that could every apply to him, after all. so that’s what motivates the fic, for me.

I know I write a lot of hanzashiro fic, so it might have been a surprise to see me write hanzawa as aromantic, but it’s like… man, no matter how I think of hanzashiro, it’s always in a way where hanzawa’s got some hang ups about the idea of romance in general. there’s a reason I’ve never written them actually dating—if that happens, it’s not going to be conventional, and I’m far more interested in exploring the tension of things being ambiguously romantic between the two. this is fun because i characterize hanzawa as romance avoidant as well as generally avoidant (see him self-describing himself as picking the path of inaction in this fic) and that interacts well with tashiro, who seems like a regular guy, but has never had a girlfriend, doesn’t seem to care about having one, and is sometimes curious about romance in a way that’s suggests he doesn’t quite “get” it. tashiro’s also got a surprisingly sharp intuition, while hanzawa is perceptive and knowing… hanzashiro, then, to me, is about the tension of seeing, of understanding.

speaking of hanzashiro. I’ve written quite a few fics centered around it, but I’ll settle with talking about the first thing I wrote, two-tone. how about… this long concluding passage:

“Some attention’s fine,” Hanzawa said carefully. “Fame is different. It’s like… being inspected, over and over. Like an object.” The silence between them stretched a little too long. Hanzawa cleared his throat, planning to leave, but the sound that emerged from his throat wasn’t gentle but rough, long, and dry. “Hey,” Tashiro said, before Hanzawa had the presence of mind to be embarrassed. “You look parched.” He held out his water bottle, fingers curled around the neck. It swung between them. Hanzawa stared back at him. He’d been doing it a lot, nowadays, but right now he felt overwhelmed by it, just looking at everything and the hint of a smile on Tashiro’s face, the way the awkward, close feeling in his throat was loosening already, feeling like he was on the edge of many realizations that were all secretly the same one. There was a metaphor here, somewhere, to be pulled from the shape of Tashiro’s knuckles brushing up against his hand—something about hunger. A starving man who’s been drinking an ocean given his first sip of spring water. For now, Hanzawa was content to let that stray thought swirl along with the rest. Maybe years later he’d think about how to write it down. Tashiro grinned as Hanzawa accepted the bottle, took a long, slow gulp. “Feeling better?” he asked. Hanzawa stared up at his half-bleached hair and sunny smile. “Yeah,” he said, voice smooth. “Something like that.”

two-tone is a fairly obvious title—tashiro’s got two-tone hair, and hanzawa’s two-toned in that he’s multifaceted. originally this was meant to be a 2-chapter fic, w/ a tashiro pov sequel, and this… kinda but not fully exists in two-faced.

but—okay. let’s break down this scene. hanzawa is someone who’s really aware of what is “normal” and doesn’t really want to be “abnormal.” this is why he doesn’t want to be famous—he’s already wearing some kind of mask, and that level of constant inspection is going to turn him into someone who’s like… fully dissociated from himself. he’s going to think of himself like an object or a puppet to maneuver, rather than a person. so being inspected scares him, because he’s not good with honesty, and feels like what’s underneath isn’t like… evil, or bad, it’s embarrassing. hanzawa reveals some of his discomfort with this, and immediately wants to escape. but his throat is dry, so any smooth escape is broken up by this harsh, ugly sound—like the ugliness of himself is being shown, here.

next, tashiro offers water. there’s a couple reasons for this. the primary and obvious one is because hanzawa is parched. the second reason is that I was heavily inspired by what I’ll call @dirtbra1n’s river series, which uses the river as a really fascinating metaphor for a lot of hanzawa’s character. I think you can do a lot with the shifting nature of water—how it adapts to take the shape of its container, for example, and I wanted to pay some kind of homage to that, so that’s why we’re using water bottles. I then proceeded to lose my mind when i read that anthology bit where tashiro slides a drink over to hanzawa when he’s accepting the possibility of being captain.

okay, but back to the offering—tashiro’s fingers are curled around the neck. this evokes a sense of—albeit gentle—strangulation. so that pairs well with what hanzawa’s fearing at this moment—honesty, awkwardness, etc. he doesn’t want to be caught. but the bottle’s also swinging… a motion that puts it in limbo, and I imagine it’s got a sort of, hypnotic pendulum vibe. it’s alluring. hanzawa accepts.

accepting doesn’t bring any kind of awful thing. instead tashiro’s nice, easy, in the way that honesty is when you feel safe. hanzawa’s throat loosens even before he drinks any water, because tashiro’s presence is one that makes talking comfortable. hanzawa’s staring at him, and tashiro’s looking back—some attention’s fine. he’s on the edge of many realizations, things about how he’s allowing himself to be vulnerable and the like, but the reason for all that stems from a simple I like him.

then we get to talk about hunger. of course it comes when tashiro’s touching him, just barely. like sasaki and hirano, it’s a mild crossing of boundaries. a starving man drinking an ocean is not just having problems, he’s having “solutions” that are ill-fitted and actively damaging. starving tends to mean you need food, not water… and ocean water tends to make you dehydrated on account of the salt. then, a sip of spring water is a path towards a solution for thirst, but it’s not solving the starvation problem, yet. that’s why this is the barest of touches. it’s like spring—like the green tashiro wears, which, by the way, I said his favorite color was spring green before I knew he wore it a bunch—it’s like hope.

finally, tashiro asks hanzawa if he’s feeling better, and hanzawa responds truthfully. his voice is smooth—because of the water, and because tashiro makes it easier to be honest.

well, that was a lot! the last thing I thought I’d talk about is a dating sim au fic, because… it’s a pretty crazy concept and thus I thought I’d touch on it last. to give a quick summary, @dirtbra1n conceptualized an au where just shirahama & miyano exist in modern day japan, and then get isekai’d into the sasaki to miyano universe (only now it's a dating sim!), where miyano is the player character, and shirahama is Just Some Guy. a lot of the major sasaki to miyano characters have become romance routes, and that's going to bring around a lot of shenanigans where miyano runs from love and then runs towards it, and shirahama is losing his mind for a lot of reasons. the biggest of them being that shirahama’s got an unrequited crush on miyano, a thing that is semi-confirmed by volume 10 but was pretty left field at the time of this concept’s inception. what can i say. @dirtbra1n is some kinda genius. now, they have... a lot of very cool ideas that I'm not quite sure I can explain or conceptualize, but what’s interesting to me is the setup of shirahama as an npc in someone else's game.

I think this pairs interestingly with how unrequited love can kind of… make a person a side character. it’s usually there to introduce love rivals, to fuel plot, or to reach a requital. but I think there’s meaning and value in unrequited love that’s never reciprocated, too…? so there’s this bit in the stranger in the hall:

Ichinose turns his gaze to the floor. “Well,” he says, “since I’m graduating this year and I really doubt we’ll run into each other after that… like recognizes like, or whatever.” Nice, Shirahama thinks, the game never had any love interests that are third years when you’re a first year. Then he feels mortified. “And it’s a…” he trails off. “Um. Yeah,” Ichinose says, picking the dirt out of his fingernails. “It’s not really a—even if he wasn’t… it’s kind of a hopeless effort, you know? But I still…” A tightness abruptly seizes Shirahama’s throat. “Yeah,” he manages to get out. “I know.”

first off: meet ichinose ao. he’s a side character in hirano to kagiura that I’m obsessed with. if only I had the energy to post extensively about why I am. but we know he gets easily anxious to the point of stomach cramps, he’s a high-achieving student, and he’s got what looks to be a pretty hopeless crush on the dorm manager. I think this is fun—it’s pretty futile as far as mutual romance goes, but there’s valuable exploration in pining, in crushes, in learning the ways in which you love. he pairs pretty perfectly with shirahama.

I use the phrase like recognizes like because it’s a common one to signal two people’s similarities, but also because it’s literally liking—their unrequited crushes—that makes them similar. you see them mirror each other with how they talk about ichinose as a third year—he’s like, well I’m outta here so I can be a bit honest, and shirahama also relaxes because he’s going to be out of here and is therefore irrelevant to the miyano romance routes. and in this case, ichinose’s irrelevance means that he’s someone shirahama can talk to without fear.

and through their vague dialogue, this moment of connection allows shirahama, for the first time, to really vocalize the enormity of his secret love. and it allows me to try to express how even love, unrequited, has its own special place. that as it remains hopeless it remains valuable.

…and if you, reader, got through all of this, you have my kudos!

#kiri.txt #ask #anon #ask game #commentary

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nebuvoid · 1 year ago

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KH1 makes you think that Cloud is looking for Aerith, strengthened by this in the credits. Look he found what he was looking for!

Except. Aerith says this.

This might be obvious to others, but I didn't exactly think much about it back in the day. Too busy feeling sad about Riku being mean.

There's also the fact that there's clear communication and travel between Olympus Coliseum and Traverse Town. You can fight Leon and Yuffie in OC and the TT moogles speak of your progress in the matches.

Cloud is either looking for Tifa or for Zack. Nomura will likely never dig deeper into this as he seems to have lost interest in developing the KH FF cast further (apart from the Versus/VR deal).

Considering Tifa appears looking for Cloud in KH2 and it's a clear parallel between Sora and Riku it seems likely that Cloud was looking for Tifa.

Kingdom Hearts II Ultimania, pg. 718; Interviewer: "This was the first appearance of Tifa from Final Fantasy VII." / Kazushige Nojima: "Tifa wasn't planned to appear at first. I was talking with Tetsu about what Cloud could be doing in Hollow Bastion, and we eventually moved towards him chasing after Sephiroth, but also being chased by something himself. So Cloud's really running from something, but goes around pretending, saying that he's chasing Sephiroth. Then we decided to make it him running from the 'something warm' like what Tifa was after in Advent Children."

The oddity about Zack in BBS is that unlike all other FF cameos he appears in a Disney world and seems native to it. So as much as I would've liked him looking for Zack, I don't think they even know each other in KH. (Nothing you can't headcanon still of course.)

Cloud was likely looking for Tifa in KH1 but by the time KH2 comes around he's grown ashamed of his darkness and hides from her instead.

#i like making posts about obvious shit i guess #kh1 #kingdom hearts #ffvii #kh talk #kh

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hisreunion · 11 months ago

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@wingsdreamt (x)

“Sooo, y’like it?”

Sure, he can see the cautious smile stretching over Cloud’s lips and that should be answer enough to anyone with enough common sense to spread around, but a little verbal confirmation never hurt anybody.

“Yeah? Yeeeah?” Zack prompts again, eagerly waiting for Cloud’s response. Flowers aren’t exactly an everyday find in the city of Midgar, after all. Wet market kabobs and other rare oddities smuggled in from faraway lands for the pleasure of Midgar’s denizens are an easier mark, but they don't exactly make for the best gift material.

Zack rocks back on his heels, sheepishly rubbing at the back of his neck. “I was worried, y’know, guys aren't usually into flowers 'n all…”

Cloud proceeded to carefully tuck the flower into the breast pocket of his jacket before lifting his eyes to Zack's. "I like it," he chuckled, his tone warm and smile genuine. It was a brilliant splash of color on a canvas of navy and grey. The guy was goofy but he was also sweet and thoughtful—Cloud appreciated that. "... Where'd you get it...?" His head tilted curiously. He couldn't recall ever seeing any flowers growing in Midgar. The only thing close were the planted aquariums and small trees within ShinRa HQ.

#wingsdreamt

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augment-techs · 1 year ago

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I already have this one in the works but I’m curious to know what you’d do with this SO

"hi, you might not know me but my name is Eugene Skullovitch, and I have recently come to the realization that you can not kill me. Many have tried, and at times have bled me well. But here i am…limping yet still standing. Angel Grove’s rock and roll cockroach. So what do I say? Come at me bro.”

+Skull/Billy

How very strange it was for poor Billy to find himself in this situation--surely the Emissaries could come up with something better than locating all of the most fucked up versions of the Rangers throughout the infinite dimensions and putting them on their own newly made little world. Part Twilight Zone, part that weird amalgamation of every "children's" book that Neil Gaiman and R.L. Stine had ever written; and the Blue Emissary asking Billy to have a conversation with one of the only members of the new planet that...didn't quite feel right for the place of exile/containment. This, normally, would have been a fascinating thing to be allowed to do: witness darker versions of himself and his friends brought to a place that was technically a prison, but could almost be considered paradise in that they claimed their territories, set up agreements and accords, did what they wanted; just without the threat of hurting anyone but themselves. Drakkon was finally in a place where he was probably having the time of his life, constantly brawling it out with a Jason Scott that was simultaneously a raving lunatic and an industrious tactician; a Kimberly that looked the Ranger Slayer seem like a sad wet kitten popping in to comment on their fights like a caricature of a 1950s cinematic femme fatale. The evil versions of Bulk, Zack, and Trini spent most of their time, from what Billy could gather, flirting as hard as they could with each other, while also ruining each other's plans for building new towers of infamy or palaces of lunacy; a wet dream that Alexander Dumas would slobber over, to be sure. Now he was faced with what the Emissary had mentioned as the oddity to the pack of horrible assholes: a Skull that was maybe late thirties or early forties in appearance, tall as a tree, dressed like a more sunset/sunrise leaning Goblin King, smoking a thin black cigarette and, apparently, preventing the Billy Cranston that was a scary motherfucker with extremely sharp teeth from choking out the little one that had come to look in on them. '....Why does he have to be hot?'

#boom! comics power rangers #mmpr #ggpr #ask fill #prompt fill #billy cranston #eugene skull skullovitch #short version here; long version on AO3

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myristicisms · 1 year ago

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@unbridledfist | Tifa Lockhart says;;

" It's totally natural you feel this way. "

Living in constant guilt was getting old, Zack had decided. Not that he could control his emotions well enough to get that constant and ever present feeling of dread and self hatred to fade into something manageable but he could sure as hell pretend he had the ability; Not like it was hard to do anyways since nobody outside of his personal relationships knew the raven haired man well enough, assumptions always served as both a blessing and a curse in a way and it's something that for once, Zack was grateful for.

Except no, he wasn't.

There lingered a sadness within glowing turquoise eyes that the former SOLDIER had long grown used to, so much so that he hardly recognized his own smile anymore and he knew damned well people from his past, should he bump into them ( which while unlikely was still possible ) would notice damn near immediately, especially given the fact that his face had changed over the years too; The large scar upon his jaw was faded of course but so too were the numerous small scars littering the rest of his face and those told a mysterious story, once semi sharp canines that often had him compared to a puppy had grown into something more akin to the fangs of a wolf and how he wished he could rip apart those who brought that particular change with the very maws they had gifted him.

These were all things that weighed heavy on Zack's mind, like lead seeping into his heart through the blood pumping within his veins and while he refused to fully indulge the details in a familiar face from his past, ( ironic it's the very girl you couldn't save, Fair. ) he still divulged his feelings, his thoughts, passed off the oddities with his scars and teeth and the way he seemingly sprouted another four inches over the years as just being far too adapted to the mako pumping through his body. Seeing Tifa again had awoken some strange feelings within the raven haired man, relief that she had survived, anguish that he had failed her just as he failed everyone else in his life but especially her when he couldn't defeat Sephiroth on his own to right the demon of Wutai's wrongs, and numbness. Numbness that he'd been falling bitterly into for the worst half of a year and when she tells him " It's totally natural you feel this way. ", he can't help but to laugh softly, bitterly.

“ I don't think it is. I haven't earned the right to grieve what happened. ” He finally manages, tawny fingers gently tousling through raven spikes in thought before he sighs heavily. “ I don't even deserve to be sat here speaking to you as though we're long time friends after what happened in Nibelheim. I should've done more, should've seen what was coming and yet I was so... Blinded by what was in the reactor instead of worrying about what he might've been up to. ”

Then he's silent for a moment, eyes staring at Tifa intently with a soft, sorrowful smile sat atop his lips. “ Enough about me and what I've been up to, ” Not like he shared any of what actually happened, just expressed how he'd been mentally and said he was doing mercenary work, “ what have you been up to for the last... Five years? Give or take? ”

#muse;; zack fair #unbridledfist | tifa lockhart #verse;; tufts of phoenix down #• answered ic!#interaction continued?

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crazypatrolstudent · 9 months ago

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Oddity posting!!!

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nessquik64 · 1 month ago

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Oddity is good, I like it

#My art #Oddity #Oddity rpg #Mother 4 #Travis fields #Zack fields #Floyd #Does he have a last name I forgo #Travloyd mayb?

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sillyfeebo · 2 years ago

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Oddmongus, an Oddity fanfic by me

It's a Saturday afternoon at Mcdonalds. Leo, Meryl, Travis, Zack and Floyd decide to play Among Us.

Meryl sets up a lobby. It takes 30 minutes for everyone to connect because the Mcdonalds wifi is shitty.

Simon is currently in the washroom tampering with the router (its old as fuck)

after an hour, a lobby finally starts.

Leo throws his fries at Floyd because he took red. Floyd switches to yellow to avoid being stabbed by a plastic butter knife.

With everyone satisfied, the game starts. Simon finds a tape hidden within the router. It's a map to where all the missing parts of that Travis jpeg are.

Once the game is done, Simon bursts out of the washroom. He's in his Captain Underpants underwear.

"GUYS I FOUND A MAP!" He says, holding the beat-up wifi router in his hands. "To where?" Meryl asks.

"The New World!" Simon replies enthusiastically.

"The New WHAT?" Leo asks.

"Yep, my dear friend! We're going to set sail to find the Travis Piece!"

Everyone heads out of the Mcdonalds to find the missing parts of the Travis Jpeg.

Floyd calls Zack on Whatsapp:

"GET YOUR BROTHER AND GET YER ASSES TO MY HOUSE NOW!!!!"

Travis and Zack head to his house. Meryl and Leo are there.

"Where's Floyd?" Travis asks.

"He's packing his school supplies, he says they'll 'help' on the way." Leo says.

Floyd come out of the closet. "All ready!" He says. "Now we wait for Simon!"

Simon is tied up in Floyd's basement. Floyd wants the completed Travis jpeg all to himself. Simon is forced to listen to Stay by Oingo Boingo while a plush of Zero from Mega Man stares at him.

"I guess he's not coming!" Floyd says.

"Doesn't he have the map?" Meryl asks.

"He 'gave' it to me, now lets go without him, he told me he doesn't feel well after sitting on a mcdonalds toliet for too long."

The group heads off to scour the country for the missing Jpeg pieces. Simon is still in the basement, listening to Oingo Boingo.

At the Desert of ODD!!, they find a green amogus holding a travis jpeg part.

"Give that back!" Travis says.

"Nuh uh!" The amogus relplies.

Meryl grabs the amogus and SMASHES it to SMITHEREENS

"EEYIKES! the ODD piece that will help us TRAV-erse this desert IS not AMONG US! WHATSAPP with this place!"

"The next piece is in the tower of pizza, which is guarded by my cousin the white amogus!"

The team arrive at the tower. Pibby steals the amogus's piece. They chase after her.

Zack throws the amogus corpse at her and she drops the piece.

"You dirty BRATS!" Pibby says. "ok?" they all say in sync.

"The next piece is at zumbo sauce's garden!" Pibby says.

"ok" Travis replies.

At the garden, they defeat Zumbo Sauce in a Yugioh battle and he got sent to the shadow realm.

With all 7 Travis Jpeg parts, Travis turns into WHATSAPP TRAVIS AND DEFEATS GOD IN A FUCKING BRAWL AMSHCJVVCJCJ

But Floyd takes a piece away and EATS IT

"man wtf?" Leo says

"I WAS HUNGRY WTF WAS I GONNA DO ABOUT IT?" Floyd replies.

Travis plumets to the ground, and lands on Mt. Ebott and finds Simon doing fortnite dances.

"Floyd can't be trusted, Travis." Simon says. "He wants all the power for himself. He has a god complex or somethin."

They get out of the cave and face Floyd who is enhanced because of the jpeg he ate.

"Dumbass you can't hurt me!!" He says.

Travis and Simon do a dbz fusion dance and merge. They fly up to Floyd who is keeping Meryl, Zack and Leo hostage.

"Let them go!" Travimon says. "Nuh uh you cant make me youre not mo mom!" Floyd says.

"Then I'm telling on you!" Travimon says.

"Wait, anything but that!" Floyd says.

Floyd explodes

The End! :3

#oddity rpg #fanfic #you wouldn’t get it #odditygame

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terraxcloud · 2 months ago

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The Times "Planet" is Used When Referring to Meteor in OG FF7

I came across this dialog in the "FFVII Unlocked" playlist in this video at around 1:35.

I checked the FF7 Script and this piece of dialog happens after Meteor is summoned.

After finding out that Rikku and Tidus behave similarly to Cloud and Yuffie over two decades in the future...I began wondering if the majority of FF7R's "new" story is actually a cut story from FF7 where Yuffie and Vincent were not optional characters, Loveless isn't just something Cid mentions in the end, and if the ending was supposed to lead to Terra...this may have been the idea they had to get Cloud & Terra back together since there was no "other time" to do it.

The idea that Meteor was originally the planet Terra comes from was always on my mind because of one piece of dialog from Aerith:

"…this must be magic. Just what Sephiroth was saying. The Ultimate Destructive Magic, Meteor. It finds small drifting planets with its magic. And then collides with them. This Planet might get wiped out entirely…"

Most people in the story call Meteor...well, Meteor. There's a little oddity here. Wutai only calls it a Planet, never a Meteor (one person calls it a star and another thinks it's a moon).

This dialog was taken from the FF7 Script in the wikia:

(Upon talking to people in the room with a statue in the house to the right of the pagoda, after "Homecoming of a Miserable Daughter".) "Help me. Help me. Help me…… He's in the pagoda next to Lord Godo. Lord Godo says we're stuck… num, num…… I hope the planet doesn't fall anywhere around here……"

(Upon talking to the man in the old man's house before finding Yuffie in there during "Homecoming of a Miserable Daughter".) NPC 1: "Oh, you know lately things have been like that. You can even see the moon in afternoon. Everyone's celebrating." NPC 2: "No, Gramps! That's a big red planet in the sky! Everyone's scared of it!!"

(Upon talking to the man in front of the pagoda.) "Have you ever heard the story of the scales of the Water God? They're not just regular scales. They have special hidden powers. And are impervious to the strongest flames. But of course I don't think they'd stand up to the fire that huge eerie-lookin' Planet's gonna make when it crashes into us…"

"(Upon talking to the woman walking on the right side of the town.) Life is like the dew on the leaves of the trees. Whether that planet falls or not is no more than a fleeting glimmer."

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This next one is the only time it's called a star in the entire game (also in Wutai). The first reveal trailer for FF7 Remake mentions it as a "star" btw:

(Upon talking to the Turtle's Paradise bartender.) "First the ground started shaking, then that large star…… Yy, you think… It's all over?"

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The first one I posted is from the Sector 5 slums after Meteor was summoned. This means that the only two times "planet" is used to refer to Meteor are:

Aerith's description of the Black Materia in the Temple of the Ancients.

Some guy in the Sector 5 slums shop after meteor is summoned.

The Sector 5 guy is what makes it odd. If it were only Wutai then I could blame it on "Wutai-speak", but that's not the case.

My feeling is that the story of FF7 had three phases.

First phase was pre-Chrono Trigger with a Cloud that behaved like Zack and Aerith was actually the main love interest. This phase was only on the SNES. They stopped production and switched to Chrono Trigger where they gave Crono and Marle a faint resemblance to Cloud & Terra.

Second phase was the moment they decided to bring "FF6 Cloud" into the story, redesigning Aerith into something with more negative intentions after dying (design change to Nomura's FF5 enemy Lemure - it's in the concept art and the Forgotten Capital has all the underwater symbolism). Yuffie and Vincent (and Wutai) have a significant part in the story. The devs (well, Kitase at least) wanted to end the game with most of the characters dead, which means the game had a completely different ending planned, possibly more similar to the end we'll get in FF7R Part 3. Many things from FF7R likely came from this phase (like the Whispers and the actual Loveless play).

Third phase is the FF7 we know of today.

The playlist for the FF7 cut content is found here.

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