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#GUNARMS. an independent + low activity portrayal of barret wallace from final fantasy vii and it's adjacent works. combining original game lore with the remakes + a mixture of headcanons and divergences. by sara, 27, she/her. quick guidelines beneath the cut!

¹ blog navigation: prompts. / ² party: callholy.

001. be normal! usual etiquette applies, no bigots. don't rush me, don't poke & prod, try to keep unhelpful godmodding to a minimum, etc. i don't really care for drama + callouts. if i think somebody is gross, i'll likely just block and move on. however, some things do call for awareness and those will be reblogged — very rare as i curate my space for my comfort, but these will always be tagged appropriately. 002. interaction is welcome so long as we're mutuals ( i follow you, you follow me). inbox prompts are always open & unprompted starters / asks are totally fine! these are usually the best way to start interactions with me & you're always welcome to continue them into threads! replies to threads are usually slower than other forms of interaction but just be patient, they'll come! 003. i'm a bit of a rambler and that carries into my replies which means they tend to get long ( 2-3 paragraphs minimum). with that being said: i never expect my partner to match length or format. write whatever you're happy with, i'll never take it as a slight, just do your best! i use small text primarily + large text for dialogue with some colored text. if you need anything at all changed for readability let me know! 004. i do practice mains/exclusives/affiliates. mains are people that'll likely get priority in reply speed, exclusives are the only version of that muse i'll interact with, and affiliates (*indicating affiliates, ♡indicating ship exclusive ) are muses that are heavily tied into my portrayal of barret and if said muse comes up in a separate thread, it is referring to that specific portrayal of them. 005. i am more or less ship exclusive; i likely won't ship with more than one portrayal of a character. i don't expect the same treatment in return! y'all do you, this is just what i'm most comfortable with. 006. this blog will deal with themes already present in the games! anything triggering will be tagged appropriately using the format 'trigger cw /'. if there's something specific you need tagged just drop a message in & i'll account for it! 007. i don't mind duplicates!! i think they're fun and i'm just chilling. i believe that people can draw the same conclusions from reading the same content, but if i get a weird vibe like it's a little more than that going on, i'll just sb and move on. 008. sporadic activity means sporadic activity; i have a full-time job + family obligations. sometimes i have muse and sometimes i don't. there may be days, weeks, months of inactivity but rest assured i will be back at some point. i'm a notorious hoarder i've replied to things that've been in an inbox for three years before life is just like that. if that's not your vibe you're welcome to softblock 👍 otherwise all you need to know is that my name is sara and i used to write barret on my multi @ kingfished.

#*pinned.#sara / 27 / she+her

notmorbid

the stranger.

dialogue prompts from animorphs #7: the stranger by k.a. applegate.

you always seem so sure of yourself.

i was trying to sound responsible and mature and parental.

turn off the look. i hate that look.

everyone knows you're going to do whatever you feel like doing.

what's got you so serious?

i like doing things, instead of just talking about them.

you were starting to worry me. you were sounding so sensible.

you seem afraid, and your fear is beginning to scare me.

i had to get out of the house.

why don't you tell me what's really bothering you?

you're all weird. you don't seem like you.

you know you can always talk to me, right?

when i'm scared, i get mad.

i don't believe you can tell the future.

you're out of control.

we're okay. we're safe.

let's get out of here.

get some rest, huh?

you don't look too good.

if you're having some problems, i want you to talk to me.

i did the wrong thing.

you and i need to have a little talk.

in my other life, i was a _____.

what am i supposed to do?

it's not like you to get all emotional.

i need to stop thinking.

i didn't see you at _____ today.

don't give me your sarcasm.

i don't have any answers. i'm sick of trying to have answers.

i don't know what your problem is, but you know what? you deal with it.

different things bother different people.

i'm scared, okay? just like you.

i was brave, because i thought that's how i was supposed to be.

the more exits i see, the more scared i get.

i don't like this. i don't even halfway like this.

when did this happen?

i'm so sick of this. what's the point?

we need to think this through.

i'm tired of thinking.

i'm changing my vote.

that's not going to happen. not to me.

you know i would never run from a fight.

events are intertwined in ways we cannot always see.

sometimes small things can make huge differences.

who knows what's weird anymore?

you're wrong. at least this time.

you're bleeding.

i wasn't brave, i was just blind.

what does this mean?

have we changed the future?

everything changes the future.

somehow i knew i'd hear from you again.

are you telling me this was all a waste?

you know, you can always change your mind.

i can take care of myself.

#*inbox.

maybe this week ⁉️

#i was sick then my back blew up then work has been 🫩#but i can almost see the light of the end of the tunnel it's vaguely barret shaped #i'll rb a prompt or two and see where that gets my muse 🤭

i love barret

#wish i knew what writing was !#i was going to yap on and on about him leaving marlene to look for another energy source #and how often the ends DO justify the means for him but how this leads to him being hypocritical and radical whilst toeing the line of his #morals and ethics compared to organizations like shinra but <3 #my brain is fried from the work week w/e sometimes he's wrong even when he's right he's just a man who loves his daughter and his friends #his My Way or No Way attitude wearing off the longer he's with the party as he realizes this about himself and yadda yadda

back on barret soon!

#if u follow me on other blogs u know i'm simply going through it that's all 👍#but i do miss him he is so large in my heart

you know what barret wouldn't stand for the week i've been having at work

#dismantle the corporation ... No more.. 😔#try to be on this weekend to write though!! who's going to be barret's platonic valentine 🫵

miyku

Final Fantasy VII Remake | ▶ dev. Square Enix

#*b. wallace / visage.#*m. wallace.#baby‼️

barret, what was your mom like? i'm sure she'd be proud seeing the man you are today!

growing up 'round where he did, the story was all the same — just a bunch of folk born without a silver spoon, doin' what they could to make it by. the good sort, all of 'em. hearty people, his parents included. ain't often he's asked about them, more pressin' things, usually, so he scratches at his jaw, drawls a, ❝ uh, well. lets see ... ❞ the question doesn't rub on him wrong. jus' that he doesn't know where to start. it all amounts to what he fought for, the first time, that wrong answer. an' he doesn't want to drag his ma's name through the mud. so he starts, ❝ she was the charitable sort. didn't have a helluva lot growin' up but what we did? she gave. she was just' like that. didn't always get it, y'know how kids can be. ❞ maybe that's what it was: that in his mom he saw the ability to harbor a community, to withstand hardship through a love for the world and those who inhabit it with you.

knows when he got blind to it. when he was fooled into thinkin' they needed anyone but them. pulses through him with every beat of his heart, fills him right up with it 'till he's full of it's righteous guilt, ❝ me an' my old man worked the mines. didn't matter how late, she always made sure there was somethin' warm waitin' for us. 'till she got to bein' under the weather. ❞ and what changed: myrna got sick. he felt like a kid again, on the precipice of loss, just waitin' to tip over. he hadn't been scared of heights in a long time, but he remembers the way his body felt in a permanent vertigo. 'cept that time? there was hope. shinra usherin' in a new age, resources, income. turned his back on the community built on his ma's. they rolled a red carpet out under his feet jus' to yank it back out. ain't nothing she'd be proud of.

but he knows this to be true and the idea of it is a stark contrast to reality, ❝ y'all would have got on. when she got goin' she was sorta like you. stern an' stubborn. never felt smaller but you always knew she was doin' good by you at the end of the day. still, y'wouldn't have thought she had all that fire in her, little lady like that. ❞ nostalgia does it's part in alleviating some of the remorse. it brings the quirk of lips, this one directed towards a curious companion, pointed, ❝ almost made you want to bust out laughin' sometimes. least when it wasn't happenin' to you. ❞ hell, it ain't like she brought it up to upset him. an innocent question and no point dwelling on it. forward is the only way now. he's got what he's got and what he's got is a buncha good folk to do good by; they're his, family, ❝ got cloud damn good the other day, you an' tifa. almost had me shakin' in my boots! took me back. ❞

@callholy

#callholy #crushing them in my loving fists 🥹

barret won't remove or cover the arm to make other people comfortable in his presence. people SHOULD be uncomfortable. people should know what shinra's done and that it isn't pretty. he's not always trying to be intimidating (sometimes though absolutely) but if people find him so or don't want to look his way it's just proving his point; people are more willing to turn their eyes away than they are to face the truth.

#means to an end or whatever people are Going to see 🫵

miyku

Final Fantasy VII Rebirth | ▶ dev. Square Enix

#*b. wallace / visage.#he is so Wide 🥰

hithitgone

❛ How are you really doing, Barret? I've noticed lately that .. uhm -- I've been worried about you. ❜

UNPROMPTED STARTER FOR @gunarms

gunarms

slow and easy now, the glass is brought to his lips — measured reaction to a loaded question. he's quiet while he thinks it over. helps to chase it down with a damn good drink. at the bottom of the glass, which he downs in his time mulling it over, there's no real answer to be found. just a reiteration, ❝ been noticin' have ya? ❞ she's been worried and that stings enough. salt to the wound that is the entirety of him these days. nice of 'em to let them stay. ❝ ain't nothin' to be worried about. you and marle got us set up real nice. just thinkin' 'bout how to pay y'all back right. ❞ he doesn't release the glass from flesh hand, just rocks it back and forth on it's edges. teetering. empty. lookin' to be filled, held back by an iron fist. ❝ reckon ... best way i can do that? makin' a couple bastards pay. ❞ maybe he's had a few too many, nursing himself at her bar.

but he's feeling good. he feels like he has a direction, a group of folks who ... who need him. and he's gonna do better by them than he did the ones back home. he has to. ❝ that 'eye for an eye' nonsense? only ones blind are the ones bowin' their heads eatin' the bullshit straight outta shinra's hands. i'm seein' clear these days. ❞ here he goes, off on a tangent again. but she listens, or at least barret thinks she does, and he appreciates the ear with or without a drink. good woman. people like her — 'less he wants to get sentimental, he'll stop that thought now. but the care makes it's way up and out in kind, ❝ y'good, tifa? if all of us ain't a hundred percent then none of us are. ❞

@hithityeah

#hithityeah #thank you for this!!!!! ships it straight to ur fresh blog 💃

to romance barret first you have to beat his dead wife in 1v1 combat (impossible) THEN you have to best his survivors guilt 1vAll the people he's lost that he thinks is on him combat and THEN

#gm 👋

you are so warm.

ain't no use pretendin' to be somethin' he isn't — big boulder of a man, resilient, solid, all the things he needs to be. including warm when the night settles over them, some amount of creepy crawlies makin' their music ; tries not to let it put dread in him. hates gettin' bit, can't always reach 'em when they get at his back an' it's been a long time since he's had someone he'd feel comfortable asking to help with that. feels like cheatin'. doesn't count towards the score of his deeds tonight, though, cause it won't come to be. if ya' ask him? he's in safe company. can't imagine a single critter that'd come for her with cruel intent. she's got him and he's got her, in his gruff, close to his chest where the heart resides way. she holds close to the mass of his arm, he folds the rest over himself, leans his weight into the crags of mountain rock behind them. an' he offers to her a solution, a future, ❝ we just gotta get some meat on your bones. then y'won't need ol' barret here t'keep you nice an' toasty. ❞ but there's some pride in the fact that, for now, she trusts him enough to stick close. he can't help but think of her though as aerith settles in, like he's granted her permission, finally, for somethin' she was planning on doin' anyhow.

caught in thoughts of then: when it comes to the future, marlene is his. all he's got, even if he ain't all she does. blessed, that girl, with folk like aerith an' tifa. hell, even the merc. point is, one day, she won't need him to tuck her in, warm an' safe. reckons she'll have her a husband, wife, don't matter, s'long as she's happy — and he's happy. well, happy enough that he clears his throat of it, at least, a futile attempt at not choking on his own emotion. ah, shit. when he does it again to no avail, he covers it with a heaviness of his arm brought 'round aerith's shoulders, but his hand just hovers. pays to be respectful. knows he wouldn't want some person — grumbles at the remainder of the thought. all that future fills him up, pushes out some of that nostalgia for a time not so far gone with marlene, but it feels like ages now, ❝ when we get somewhere right? i'll cook ya' somethin'. ain't made my mac-an'-cheese since i don't even know when. s'marlene certified an' you know there ain't no beating that. ❞

@callholy / rest and be thankful.

#callholy #the two of them? 😌🫴

blaintism

BARRET WALLACE & YUFFIE KISARAGI FINAL FANTASY VII REBIRTH

#*b. wallace / visage.#*y. kisaragi / dynamics.#pookies 🫵😌

notmorbid

burden of truth: season 4 [2/2].

dialogue prompts from season four of burden of truth.

what was your mom like?

i couldn't do it. i didn't give up.

you're not yourself. i worry about you.

was that supposed to make me feel better?

this could be a really nice place.

it's okay to be nervous.

i need you. we're a team.

no one was supposed to get hurt.

give me the bat.

at least i'm honest about who i work for and what i do.

what you do in this world is who you are.

is it cool if we don't really talk about that right now?

what kind of trouble you in?

i can find somewhere else to stay.

i really hope it's okay that i came.

i said something i shouldn't have.

i'm so sorry i left the way i did.

no one's talked to me like i'm a person in a while. i guess it kind of freaked me out.

you've been so good to me.

the sound travels in this place. i just wish you had told me.

no one noticed i was gone.

i feel like enough of a failure on my own.

apology pizza.

you did your best. and you played by the rules.

the law isn't very good at protecting people. it's better at compensating them once the damage is already done.

you bottle things up. it's not good for you, and it's not good for us.

every time i leave, i just get dragged back.

nobody does anything selflessly. i should know.

i don't even know if i'm allowed to want anything for myself anymore.

to think i looked up to you.

you have no idea what _____ is capable of.

who taught you that? that being scared is a bad thing?

i don't want to spend another night apart from you for the rest of our lives.

i know it doesn't feel like it, but i'm here with you.

oh, i don't trust you. i'm scared of you.

don't wake the baby.

you can come back from this. you're the toughest person i've ever met.

you can't waste time looking back on the past. trust me.

the world can be a scary place. people can be awful to each other.

pretending this isn't real won't make it go away.

i'm tired of waiting on justice to show up.

do your worst. i got nothing to lose.

why are you willing to fight for everyone but yourself?

how do you prove that something doesn't exist?

i'm sure you're disappointed, but i'm not dead yet.

it's more dramatic in the movies, but it's still sweet.

i know it feels like everything right now. trust me, i know that.

i was just trying to do what i thought you would do.

does this ever get easier?

you don't think a lot of me.

i think the world of you. that's the problem.

no one's ever done anything for me before.

it shouldn't end this way. sometimes, it just does.

you were always the one to watch.

i didn't know you were here. i would've reached out.

you want me to forgive you so you can feel better.

you did something wrong, but it shouldn't be fatal.

are you really just gonna be a mom?

that's who you are. you stand up for people.

you have more than made up for any harm you've done.

you are good. you just have to be brave enough to prove it.

if you don't face your past, you will never be free from it.

i didn't used to be like this, you know?

someday, when you're ready, you'll let people in.

i read once, 'be who you needed'.

i think good character is about trying.

you run your life, for better or worse.

thank you. no one's ever been this nice to me before.

i got you a present. to celebrate your success. you need to do that more.

you gave me the courage to be the person i always should have been. thank you for that.

i never thought i could have that. i didn't think i was worthy.

you are so strong. so good. so patient, and so kind.

somehow, you make me calm.

i want it to be you and me. for good. forever.

no one fights harder or loves deeper than you.

you protect your people. i love being one of your people.

i never actually believed i was anything special, but you made me feel like i was. like i am.

your brow furrowed. you can't fool me.

#*inbox.#work tonight but ✌️

miyku

Final Fantasy VII Rebirth | ▶ dev. Square Enix

#*B. WALLACE / visage.#big 🥰

@gunarms. the planet bleeds green like you and me bleed red. / a portrayal of barret wallace by sara.

#*sp.#low effort not tagging back on my brand 😎

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