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FFVII / BG3 / CO:E33 / KH / Twilight / Et Cetera Sephiroth and Genesis Rhapsodos apologist

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Sephy :) 🖤

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a bundle of Seph

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pre-AVALANCHE

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"Angeal is the adult, responsible one who parents everyone else and lives life completely by the book."

Angeal Hewley? Angeal "I stole shit all the time, just not from Genesis" Hewley? Angeal "Sephiroth was pissing me off so I punched him in the face" Hewley? Angeal "bad jokes" Hewley?

That man is about 24 at the oldest. He's a poverty survivor, not a straightlaced father of four. He's going to feed you because he knows what hunger feels like. He's going to garden because he still has an ingrained need to have a food source if times get bad. He's going to train you hard because you gotta be fast and daring when you're running from cops, and he's gonna teach you to take care of your gear because your gear's gonna take care of you.

Angeal Hewley is a big city soldier whose superiors don't know he's got an unpaid citation for driving a stolen riding mower on a country road. He's got at least two scars from wanting to know what being shot with a paintball gun at close range feels like. He's nearly died three times after going hunting without wearing visibility gear. He has consumed enough car engine moonshine to kill a city man, before he was 16.

Somewhere, an old sheriff who retired and left Banora before it got firebombed still remembers Angeal Hewley simply as "one of those shit-talking little assholes."

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Don’t worry, chat—Angeal loved sushi.

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This is taking AGES, AGEEEEESSSS

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I like pulling at random threads, so I'm going to pull at this one:

Sephiroth is shown repeatedly, vividly, almost beat-the-player-over-the-head blatantly to be a decent, if not good, person. I estimate him to be 24 years old when he died.

That means 24 years of an unblemished record (as long as you're not counting Shinra war crimes). Then a mental break happened during a week-long stretch of reading highly-emotionally-volatile reports, allegedly without eating or sleeping during that time.

Then came Nibelheim burning. Which took...what? An hour for him? Two hours? Which I bring up because his 24 semi-well-behaved years culminated in a very short stretch of unprecedented violence.

Which is something we've seen elsewhere in someone who's already been mentally pre-weakened:

Cloud is also shown trusting Sephiroth's warning about Tifa:

There's no reason for him to. He KNOWS they're allegedly chasing Sephiroth. If given a choice between Sephiroth and Tifa, he should pick Tifa every time. But he doesn't, because he's already been primed to trust Sephiroth through years of Shinra's propaganda about him being the hero. Which means all that needs to happen is for his perception of the immediate situation to be twisted just a little bit...and in those moments, he's devoted to his hero.

Just like somebody else was primed to not trust their own senses, and to react a certain way when triggered:

Because of course, Sephiroth has a tendency to get very tired and forget things. And when that happens, when he can't trust his own senses, there's only one person he CAN trust. She's promised to always protect him and he believes her, and he'll protect her in turn.

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I may not ever finish this, but here's the almost done section of my AGS piece for MerMay. Currently working on a writing project, but maybe after it's complete I'll get back to some art. Here's part of in-progress Merphiroth.

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Full piece on ao3 here 🖤

(Please note this is the spicy art archive)

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professor hojo about to be struck by a large cartoon anvil

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AU wherein Zack’s has a scar on his nose instead of his cheek

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this is a little bit how i feel about roche in general

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Shedding all the Armor by @halebobgr

　|| Grandpa Vincent and the kids

pose by @intro_dgu

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Also touching again on the "Did Vincent have beef with a toddler' when wondering why Vincent's got unfinished business with Sephiroth despite them supposedly never meeting:

I choose to believe it’s because Vincent tried to pull the "I'm security" on Sephiroth when he was investigating the Shinra mansion basement pre-Nibelheim fire and Sephiroth just shoved him back in the coffin and put a heavy rock on top of it.

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I'm a Vincent Is Sephiroth's Bio Dad truther, but there's too much "all Vincent ever did was love Lucretia" out in the world. I need Square to step in and make that whole relationship more real and messy in Revelation.

I want to see "Vincent knocked Lucretia up but refused to step up because it could wreck both their careers, leaving Lucretia to try and leverage Hojo against him, only to be left with no option when Vincent still refused except settle for Hojo to avoid being a scarlet-lettered single mom in a misogynistic science community."

There's no way you sleep in a coffin for thirty years of self-flagellation unless you REALLY fucked up. Deadbeat dad leaving his kid to be an experiment rather than step up and give the misled mom a viable other option feels much more coffin-able. Former Turk who banged his charge against company policy then bailed to avoid being fired. The only man in FFVII who could have realistically rescued Sephiroth from Shinra and reunited Lucretia with her son, left her in a mako crystal to avoid accountability instead. Doesn't leave the coffin because then he'd owe Hojo child support.

You don't become a Turk by being an emotionally fragile little bean. "I'm just really sad I couldn't stop her but I totally had nothing to do with it personally" cannot be the only reason he's been in the basement for decades.

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dumb apple 🍎

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I’d like to imagine Angeal & Genesis stood beside Sephiroth during press meetings to help keep their friend’s anxiety at bay.

But also so Genesis could claim that everything the reporters asked was stupid and baseless af.

Reporter: So, General, what does your hair routine entail?

Genesis: idiotic question.

Reporter: do you really eat grilled cheeses with a spork?

Genesis: Moronic query.

Reporter: Is it true that you have no—

Genesis. Dumb. Wrong. Get out of here.

And Angeal doesn’t even intervene.