Neverending Sky

18|I'm good at litreture|do Art and music|ff7r fan|Animes? yeaaaaah I've seen enough

[samasteelsky]

A theory

MIDGAR THE CITY OF MAKO (OST)

Chapter 9 vision/ Cloud shedding a tear

As I learned by the time passed ff7remake carries big spoilers through its tracks / songs / themes. Chapter 9 when Cloud shed a tear and that song played had been on my nerves cause i didn't understand it. *SPOILERS* I read opinions abt it mostly *SPOILERS *Aerith death but honestly those didn't fully satisfy me except for Silver-wield's which shed a light upon it.

SPOILERS ahead btw

So this is my opinion on it and I hope u enjoy it :

*Pls relate these terms to mentioned story parts*

*Dark theme: hopelessly/disappointment/misery/pain/u know u can't run away from the fate

*Soft melodies: hope/bright future/new beginning

This track is 04:26 long. It's a dark song with a seemingly dark theme at the beginning, up until 01:57. I break it in parts here

1. 00:00 >>> 01:05 ----> dark theme /horror

2. 01:05 >>>01:31 ---> then it beats up and goes heroic. I got a sense of not giving up /hope/and struggling but being defeated at the end, the sound of a blade and music falls down as well as an individual does |Zack's last stand |.

3. 01:31 >>> 01:57 ---> dark theme/ fearfulness/shock.

4. 01:57 >>> 02:25 ---> music gets soft with a few high-pitched notes (this piece was played while Cloud having a headache and seeing the vision). Soft melodies. | Cloud sees Tifa at train station |

5. 02:25 >>> 03:00 ---> while the soft rhythm remains in the background we get some creepy vibe and ppl singing sth that I didn't understand. Soft melodies being played low-pitche along with dark theme and high-pitched being played and eventually over comes dark theme and it disappears.| all Jenova stuff and the foundation of SOLDIER persona |

6. 03:00 >>>03:12 ----> it goes heroic/SOLDIER mood.

7. 03:12 >>> 03:58 ---> U HEARD THIS FUCKING SOUND? ITS A GODDAMN TRAIN RIDING ON and we all know that's not iconic at all( sarcasm btw).wasn't it played for the ff7remake opening too?. Then goes heroic/SOLDIER style/ rise of the SOLDIER Cloud. drums all kick in...we have a little bit of a dark theme yet again. Goes soft and then we hear the second train noise. | first train noise wanna make sure u know we r at train station the second indicates Mako reactor one bombing mission |

8. 03:58 >>> till the end ----> nothing special. Plays a bit longer and fades.

I believe every single track refers to sth and has an inspiration for its theme. Each one has a story to be told and worth listening.

Back to the vision. The more I think abt it the more clear it gets to me. I dont think its abt Aerith death but how he felt during his journey ( surviving journey I guess) to Midgar, how he lost everything (or thought he lost) he had including his faith in his Hero/idol who he used to praise and wishing to be like.How like a failure he felt. Devastated, useless to save ppl he loves and watch them die before his eyes.

REASONS:

They showed us the visions in which she was praying/ holy falling/ Cloud laying her down in the lake. Zack is a spoiler now. One of the four mysteries mentioned in Ff7remake Ultamania.

Aerith isn't associated with mako (lifestream yes. Water yes . Holy yes. Cherry blossoms yes. Flowers yes. Mako NO). On another hand Zack is and all SOLDIER, shinra, Jenova and reunion related things.

Aerith replied with Zack's line ( I want to spend more time with u in JP = I'm not sick of u yet in EN (Zack seems to be more hidden in EN version))

Aerith pulled out Zack's heroic pose

Aerith hummed THE PRICE OF FREEDOM (tnx to @Silver-wield) while walking away in Japanese version(hidden in EN version yet again ).

Cloud really didnt have the time to mourning on Zack's death . It was last weak according to in game calendars (tnx to @Silver-wield)

All chapter 8 was covered with a trace of Zack in every corner( tnx to @otp-oasis-heavenxearth ) so it triggered his PTSD.

Also why this track? Why not her theme? The city of mako Midgar just doesn't make sense for her. Zack lost his life on the way to Midgar. Escaping from being experimented on and mako poisoning to go to Midgar, the city of mako.

With all the efforts Devs put in bringing Zack back, present him as a mystery and tricking us by not showing the vision, its believable to me that what ever happened in that vision, whatever it was, it is related to Zack.

*also both Cloud and Zack have a similar heroic train scene I didnt included that cause i don't know CC in details so I didnt enter the territory. But that is relatable too imo*

[samasteelsky]

https://youtu.be/JlYMpU8DSqU

I went to watch cc and look what I've found. Notes being played at the beginning are same as Notes which were played while Cloud had the vision.

[samasteelsky]

This is actually getting interesting. I accidentally spotted on another moment too in the remake.

Same notes in lower keys start right at this moment.

Being extended.

And there is no denying in this. Sky symbolizes Zack. This frightening Sky and freedom and stuff all goes back to Zack and CC events.

Should probably rewatch and find another moments if there exists.....

[atelier-melvalda]

Saving the world and fighting bad guys can get a little distracting.;)

Inspired by one of @little-black-dress-zack-fair`s incorrect quotes!

[little-black-dress-zack-fair]

This looking so beautiful darling 😍😍😍😍😍

Both girls looking amazing and this poor guy 🤣🤣

[silver-wield]

Appreciate Sonon's beauty ❤️😘❤️😘❤️

[samasteelsky]

I love every guy who looks like Zack (appearance not *cough* destiny *cough* wise)

[theslowesthnery]

ah yes my favourite trope

[samasteelsky]

FF7 LOGIC EXPLAINED

[samasteelsky]

......Exactly

[samasteelsky]

FF7 LOGIC EXPLAINED

[samasteelsky]

Get yr self someone who gaze at u the same way Cloud does at Tifa. Legit.

[samasteelsky]

Were there other ideas considered beyond the dancing, or was the scene envisioned this way from the start?

No, we did have a few other proposals. One idea, which was perhaps closer to some parts of the original, was that Andrea would meet Cloud in a bathhouse. Being impressed with his muscles after giving him a massage, he would decide he was a great candidate for a makeover.But the idea of a massage overlapped with Madam M, so I decided against this option.

Find the full interview here.

We missed this

*Ignore him in the back ground&

*He got in illegally wanting to scare the shit out of Cloud....AGAIN *

[samasteelsky]

Famitsu magazine interview with Tetsuya Nomura about Strangers of paradise: final fantasy origins

Translated 👇👇👇

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.square-enix-games.com/en_GB/news/stranger-of-paradise-final-fantasy-origin-famitsu-interview

STRANGER OF PARADISE FINAL FANTASY ORIGIN – the Famitsu interview | Square Enix Blog

Creative Producer Tetsuya Nomura, Producer Jin Fujiwara, and Director Daisuke Inoue discuss the bold new vision for the FINAL FANTASY series

[samasteelsky]

Can Stranger Of Paradise: Final Fantasy Origin be a part of the Fabula Nova Crystalis series?

When we first heard of the Fabula Nova Crystalis series, Square Enix announced that there will be 6 games in the series, but up to this date only five games have been released for this series.

In the very first interview with Tetsuya Nomura about Stranger Of Paradise: Final Fantasy Origin, he told us that he had the idea for this game ever since Dissidia 012 was released, which would be the year 2011, the year that the games belonging to the Fabula Nova Crystalis were still in the making.

In one of the leaks related to Final Fantasy Versus XIII, it was stated that Garland is going to make an appearance in the game, and now Garland seems to be the main villain of this new Final Fantasy game.

The graphics of Stranger Of Paradise: Final Fantasy Origin also look like the games that were made for PS3, and also looks like other games that were made with Crystal Tools, Square Enix's game engine for the seventh-generation games they developed.

Since Tetsuya Nomura also said in the next info release for this new final fantasy game, they will show a character that might surprise the players, we can guess that it will be another character from the Final Fantasies that came before, and if it's really going to surprise everyone, we can also guess that this character might end up not being from the first Final Fantasy.

some guy leaked FFXV's story six months ago | up: newer 4chan stuff as of Dec 9th

http://m.neogaf.com/showthread.php?t=1233181 Interesting read. It also explains how troubled FFXV's development was. Spoiler warning obviou

If those old leaks from Final Fantasy Versus XIII turn out to be true, and this game does turn out to be the sixth installment in the Fabula Nova Crystalis series, then maybe the character is going to be from Final Fantasy Versus XIII.

Maybe the developers were making this game for PS3 but since the Final Fantasy XIII series became infamous among players, they cancelled it but now with the overall success of Kingdom Hearts 3 and Final Fantasy VII Remake they want to release this game as well.

Click Here and here for more info.

Shout outs to one of my dearest friends @General Clive rosefield (who is nowhere to be found lmao)for providing this wonderful theory!

[sneakymage-thief-deactivated202]

Prince of Persia 2008 - Elika + concept art

[zilodak]

white trans people stop identifying with Orientalist depictions challenge

[zilodak]

Okay so I am going to make this as… short and clear as I possibly can but essentially, Orientalism is the way the colonial West depicts the East.

Orientalism was first coined by Edward Said in 1978 with his book, “Orientalism.” Essentially it’s a critique of how the white West portrays the East (the Orient) as this exotic yet dangerous place while simultaneously fetishizing its people. It’s the way Western white scholars or artists depict the people in the “Orient” and how this single monolithical depiction of the East can build up harmful stereotypes as there is nobody to counter-claim them because of their “credibility.” The book goes into a lot more detail, it explains why the East is portrayed as it is by the colonial West, how a lot of white people view the East as something they can fix and unfortunately it’s still very prevalent today.

It’s why Hollywood tends to put that piss yellow filter on geologically Eastern countries, or why Asian or African countries are often depicted as a monolith or why Sci-Fi and Fantasy genres are the way that they are. There is this fear of the East but also this perverted interest in their culture through a colonial lens. 

So why am I bringing this up? Have you heard of the Orientalist art movement?

It was an art and academic movement where the West scholars and artists would travel to the East (mostly Southwest Asia) and depict these regions and their people through their white Western lens. Often hyper-sexualizing their people in grotesque ways, writing cheap penny novels depicting Southwest Asian men as sexual predators, fantasizing about Harams, drawing women in skimpy innacurate outfits often tailored to the Western gaze and boil down to “pale woman in skimpy thinly veiled outfit does sexy belly dance.” 

What I’m trying to get at is that these Western “credible” people would go out of their way to dehumanize and portray Eastern people and cultures as their “costumes” or “leisure.” The East became the colonial West’s carrier as they profited off of them.

These depictions are of course… innacurate, but they still live on. A lot of media nowadays, especially Fantasy and Sci-Fi media, portray these rich and diverse cultures as "very sexually charged people,” and “dangerous, but for us to conquer and fix”

So where does gerudo link come into this? And why did I make this statement?

There’s this… weird phenomenon especially on the internet where people tend to over-sexualize or effeminate men by putting them in these Orientalistic outfits. If you’re active in Fantasy spaces, then chances are you’ve seen characters in thinly veiled clothes, this weird sensual bikini or gold ornaments to “sexualize” them (this is especially common with Southwest Asian or North African coded characters).

Why is it bad when white trans people identify exclusively with these depictions?

Because you’re not identifying with the character’s gender as you think you are, you’re identifying with years and years worth of racist and dehumanizing depictions of our cultures. Drawing men in gold ornaments or “sexy ‘middle eastern’ bikini” outfits isn’t as progressive as you think it is.

[zilodak]

If anyone’s interested, I didn’t know where to put this but here’s an article from 2012 by Serkan Gorkemli called “’Coming Out of the Internet’: Lesbian and Gay Activism and the Internet as a ‘Digital Closet’ in Turkey” where they state that LGBT+ acceptance was hindered in the late Ottoman Empire because of Orientalism.

Link: https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2979/jmiddeastwomstud.8.3.63?seq=1

Here’s Dror Ze’evi detailing that point further in “HIDING SEXUALITY The Disappearance of Sexual Discourse in the Late Ottoman Middle East” where he discusses the slow gradual disappearance of sexual discourse and identity throughout the history of the Ottoman Empire.

Link: https://www.academia.edu/9535498/Hiding_Sexuality_Disappearance_of_Sexual_Discourse_in_the_Late_Ottoman_Middle_East 

Finally if you’re curious, here’s the link to Edward Said’s Orientalism

https://www.eaford.org/site/assets/files/1631/said_edward1977_orientalism.pdf

[gabitzart]

how dare you

[yuyevons-child]

thinking about how aerith is the only florist in midgar

and tifa owns a bar that's so good and frequented by residents of midgar's slums

yet, for some weird reason, they've never met one another, not until cloud comes into the picture. it honestly doesn't make sense to me at all

they only live like... 2 sectors away and aerith often sells her flowers to the upper plates. why would she not sell them to those living in the lower plates, and then encounter tifa? i also refuse to believe that tifa never heard of this florist who sells flowers that rarely grow in the city. and if she knew such a person exist, i refuse to believe that she wouldn't want to buy some flowers, considering that - among other factors - that she's a member of Avalanche (a movement that's essentially fighting for all things nature)

like... come on

[c-rowlesblogs]

Working in food service is so surreal because like... nothing I do for people is anywhere close to life and death, but some customers absolutely act as though it is. I look a woman dead in the eye and solemnly inform her that unfortunately we are out of oat milk, and I see her heart shatter in front of me, right there at the bakery counter at 8 in the morning. I feel like a handsome TV surgeon informing someone that their beloved fiancée died on the table. He’s gone... I’m so sorry. We lost him. We are out of oat milk

[adamarart]

Here is the illustration for the 8K followers! So so many of you asked me for this illustration. They are Cordelia and James from Chain of Gold by @cassandraclare. I kind of have a love-hate relationship with this illustration but I hope you all like it! The next one will be Hunt and Bryce.

[illolila]

A Chain of Iron inspired Cordelia Carstairs for day one of @llaertes coi countdown. Cordelia is my favorite so I had to, and I’m so proud of the details on this one. Jasmine flowers on her dress, the daisy, the little moth charm on her bracelet, and the mysterious globe necklace.

She’s up on Instagram too, likes and saves are so appreciated :)

https://www.instagram.com/p/CLjwEthh4lg/?igshid=td2ocp6rn77r

Character is from @cassandraclare and cortana is based on Cassandra Jean’s design.

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