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artist || ENG/FR ok || please do not use my works without permission catch-all account for complete + incomplete art + other posts. completed/nicer portfolio at @golden-galas

[apple-den]

myyy occcc my child my terrible creature. love her sm!!

I want to thank photoshop and my crappy 10 year old pc that doesn't have enough storage for giving me 50 million scares and saving 5 different copies of this document

i guess it gives me better access to the wips since I work on mostly one layer for most of the painting but still. what the heck man

[rikitiki-infinity]

oh honey...

[mandrakepot]

trying out new brush with Angeal nppl

w/ ref

[rpf3il]

[altocat]

Interesting question I've been dwelling on lately. So you know what that means. Poll time!

Pre-Nibelheim, Could Sephiroth Have been saved?

Yes, He was always a good person deep down

Yes, so long as he doesn't enter Nibelheim/The Shinra library

Yes, if his friends had still been present and supportive

Yes, if he'd gotten emergency intervention therapy

Yes, if he'd gotten far away from Shinra

Mixed feelings

No, he was already predisposed to a breakdown

No, Sephiroth had become too tainted after killing for Shinra for so long

No, Sephiroth was always evil deep down

No, because he was always doomed by the narrative

Choose your own response (Comment/Reblog)

Voting ended onMar 18

[apple-den]

I don’t really have enough braincells to articulate this well at the moment but I’ve always thought of it as this like. cyclical issue where he is too used to the terrible life that in order to be saved someone or some people would really have to break him out of shinra and show him normal life and what being human really is/what value his life has outside of all the terrible things he’d committed and what shinra subjected him to? which would be incredibly difficult if not near impossible with the way shinra had him under control, I mean it took him a while even in crisis core to consider possibly leaving (I don’t think they say it outright but I’m pretty sure it’s subtly hinted at) so depending on how you interpret that he probably could never have made the decision to leave on his own because he just doesn’t know what he would do after that.

idk how else to explain it :P I don’t think he was necessarily a “good person” before either and he was aware of that so that would make it even more difficult to convince him that he is worthy of being saved after solving the get away from shinra thing.

[maggiehajart]

Zack Fair 🗡️🖤

[apple-den]

As much as I know that cloud was projecting his perception of everything onto the stories he heard from zack and that they do not actually share any memories at all (and that this is my usual/main interpretation of cloud being fucked up and out of it), I cant help but play around with the whole ‘the mako messed with something and caused them to share memories or connect mentally’ or something

Like them getting knocked out post experimentation and someone asking if they know where they are, their name, etc and both of them having a split second where they respond with the other’s name before it starts to come back to them. I think it might be a bit more of an issue with zack post experimentation too if the only thing on his mind is being cloud’s caretaker

[worldformula]

what if i never see you again?

[sasukechannel]

So. Sephiroth didn't know that whistling to round people up was rude at the age of 13... so essentially Hojo and whoever else had been whistling to call him like he's a fucking dog since he was born. Got it.

[jesenipaints]

Kimono Aerith. Study

[apple-den]

feel like giving Zack the fear of drowning more than Cloud. Idk I’ve seen the hc going around and haven’t really taken it myself but I’m rethinking it now and I think it’d be nice to see Zack be afraid of water post experimentation 😊

[umbralstars]

My toxic trait is reminding everyone that Cloud Strife is the main character of FF7. The story fundamentally cannot work without him; no Aerith, Sephiroth, Tifa, or any of the other characters are not "more important" than him. All of them are important and have their own plots going on, but All of them still need the context of their relationship to Cloud (both textually and meta textually) for any part of the story to work and go as it does. Cloud is the glue that binds Avalanche together; hence, why it all goes to hell post-Northern Crater and doesn't get better until he does.

Notice how all of Avalanche and the important side-characters/antagonists have their own themes? Notice how Cloud doesn't have one dedicated theme and one could argue has multiple associated with him? His theme is the main theme of FF7 because It's His Story (and Hollow + all Hollow Skies variations but I feel like that still serves my point because one of his themes being Remake's ending credits/theme song with lyrics all about Cloud's grief, wanting things to be different, yet being unable to change a past he feels responsible for underpins the whole thematic narrative of the Remake Project).

Angeal's Buster Sword being meant for the hands of an honorable hero, representing the hopes and dreams of not only its wielder but of those they protect, is not something they just did for flavor text. Angeal himself was unable to use the sword for what it was meant for because he did not want it to succumb to wear and tear--he could never have been the hero meant to wield it even though it was made for him. Zack put the first bit of wear into it, but his life was cut short before he could have maybe used the Buster Sword for what it was meant to do.

He passed that sword and its meanings onto Cloud Strife. Was Cloud the destined hero? Was he this perfect champion? Fuck no. He's a backwater kid who never got into SOLDIER, got exceptionally lucky in killing Sephiroth the first time, he's rude and an asshole, and he woke up and decided he didn't give a fuck about anything unless he got paid to care.

But the point of Cloud Strife is that he eventually, slowly, chooses to care not only about Avalanche but all of Gaia and the people who live there. He cares about others constantly and consciously. He's not a man without severe mental health issues--he still gave the villain the "End the World" button, but he's also the only person who could actually defeat Sephiroth. Cloud not being a lone wolf, needing people at his side to get the job done, overcoming his traumas and worst aspects of his person to build a brighter future is the whole point of FF7. A wolf is a social animal and lives a worse life if it is alone. So are people.

In that, Cloud is a perfect representation of Gaia itself--full of weird people who don't always make the correct decisions, can be selfish, fall for propaganda, are operating on limited information, and might be deluding themselves about reality. But, ultimately are people who can choose to care, who want to protect their families, friends, and homes, and will do what they can to protect what they cherish. Not all of them, but enough of them.

Cloud is the last of the three Buster Sword wielders, and he was the one who became a hero.

[altocat]

Three things:

HEHEHEHEHEHEHHEHEHEGEHEGEEHEE Genesis joined because of senpai and wanted to be a superhero 🥹

The official timeline is so ass because there is NO WAY Genesis is the same age as Sephiroth. But then again, the game isn't really up to date when it comes to the correct approximations (I mean the Ultimania clocked all three of them as 25 which is hugely incorrect in Sephiroth's case). So it's just kind of a casual error that no one talks about lol

NERRRRRD LOOK AT THIS LOSER GINGER NERD AND HIS NERD BOOKS NERRRRD

[edel-pb]

A lil drawing of seph cuz he is so coooool

[rainelyn00]

💛❤️💛

//Yo creo que MEIKO ,rin y Len son un trio caótico, si tuviera que describir su dinámica será la de villana clásica con sus secuaces (?) es divertido pensar en ellos como seres de caos que puedo decirles

[corpsentry]

the thousand-year prayer machine

[sugusoko]

ff7 women in S.T.E.M.