branules

Final Fantasy VII is a beautiful name for a baby girl. Transfem Sephiroth, Lesbian Aeriseph – I have a vision. Occasional RGU posts also. Some nude and suggestive art. https://branules.carrd.co

[branules]

wire and cloth

[antisphinx]

happy families

[branules]

something's telling me safer sephiroth is not actually very safe

[branules]

sephiroth pulls a surgical scalpel across a lamb’s throat, guided to participate in the destruction of her childhood and other, grander acts of violence as a tool of imperialism. despite the lamb’s young age, its horns are already growing in. it suckles from the mako bottle proffered, spilling its blood across a map of gaia. the red insignia of the shinra corporation blots out specifics; only the faint outlines of continents can be seen beneath the stain, kanji, and sephiroth’s shadow. the diamond cleaves through the middle of the landmass closest to the viewer—this is wutai, its capital city to the north and bottommost territories lie precariously just out of reach. behind sephiroth, the vague figure in the labcoat with a dress shirt and tie is both scientist and businessman, a mix of hojo and the people whose money funds his work. the figure’s gloves act as a barrier between any meaningful human contact with sephiroth. i’m always reminded of how mako is the liquified life force of everything that has ever lived on gaia, constantly recycled. under shinra, it is processed as a resource, refined, and pumped into infrastructure and soldiers as fuel for the machine of progress. back to the lamb, the most “organic” subject in frame: feeding life back to itself in this artificial, unnatural manner only brings a slow death.

[antisphinx]

Cloud's Story

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It hurts to set you free, but you'll never follow me The end of laughter and soft lies The end of nights we tried to die This is the end

[antisphinx]

Enfold me in your mother's arms

[sephstrogen]

old style study from a couple months ago. it's not my favorite but i thought i'd share anyway!

[a-cup-of-fantasy]

Extra illustrations from Hikari no Hito, a 1997 doujin by Saho & Manaka.

[branules]

ok so about that barret and sephiroth piece,

i really need to make something clear that i'm surprised to see be potentially misinterpreted in the tags. normally i would ignore this sort of thing, but this is one point where i want my stance to be crystal clear.

i am not trying to say, with my art, that barret and sephiroth are more alike than unalike. when barret and avalanche bomb reactor 1, it's for the express purpose of preserving human life and the future of the planet. shinra causes active, observable harm to people and the environment that, by the time of the main story, is close to irreversible. barret and his faction of avalanche recognize this, and are the only people in midgar willing to do something about it by taking dramatic, purposeful action. when sephiroth burns down nibelheim, it's because she wants to kill everyone. she wants to eradicate human life from the planet. that's what summoning meteor is meant to do.

barret and sephiroth both wish to dismantle shinra, yes, but for polar opposite reasons. that's the whole point of my drawing. barret tries to act on behalf of humanity and the sanctity of life, while sephiroth moves against it. sephiroth's furious torching of a village populated by innocents is not the same as a coordinated anti-government ecoterrorist attack. homicidal rage is not equivalent to genuine resistance with both intended and unintended casualties. idk man. tfw you're taking direct radical action against the machine and there's some freak setting fire to things alongside you for her own reasons.

let's also remember that shinra frames avalanche for the sector 7 plate drop... surely the fact that shinra wishes to depict avalanche as violent, destructive, and unreasonable is not significant. not at all.

[branules]

bonfire of the billionaires.

i never see art about sephiroth and barret so i wanted that to change. this is a piece where fire is both a cleansing force and a means of annihilation. barret wishes to tear down the institution of shinra to preserve the future. sephiroth's only desire is to burn it all down.

[antisphinx]

an unlikely encounter - a scene from @branules & i's ffvii au

[antisphinx]

they told me to follow my dreams

[branules]

here’s what i’ve been cooking the past few weeks, a PMV for @antisphinx and i’s final fantasy vii AU that we’re in the process of writing, though i took a decent sized break to work on this. i’m quite pleased with how much i think i was able to communicate without spoiling any of the biggest plot points. maybe my favorite element of this project is all the B roll i collected to synthesize with my art, which is almost entirely home video or documentaries produced in the 1990s (or 70s/80s for the “backstory” segments). i thought i was going to have to post this in two parts because of an arbitrary 3 min video limit but i guess not!! yay! with this done i’m looking forward to getting back to writing + my usual illustration cycle. HUGE thanks for watching if you do end up sitting through the whole thing, as this was a big personal achievement for a very personal project and personally meaningful piece of music. i hope it’s enjoyable even without knowledge of our plans or FFVII as a game. i also hope you can all forgive me for unleashing buzzcut sephiroth into the world but it had to be done. the audio sample i spliced into the beginning btw is a clip of the old CTA announcement recordings, isn’t that cuuuuute?

[branules]

carnal flowers

[branules]

finished up a wip from a while ago

[mikey-hunter]

"Go to Hell" is basic. "I hope your favorite game gets remade by and for people who believe its gameplay is an unplayable relic of a bygone age that you only put up with because today's objectively superior mechanics hadn't been invented yet" is real. It's terrible. It's happening every day.