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Hey I’m usually more active over on Twitter now - https://twitter.com/SchalaKitty - but if anyone wants to see my thoughts on the FF7 Remake, I made a Pastebin post! Spoiler Free TL;DR - I absolutely adored it and I look forward to so much more.
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Today is @inevitablesurrender‘s birthday and S-E also released the new Dissidia render of Safer Sephiroth. Since we’re both massive Sephiroth fans, I figured that a sketch made in their honor was an appropriate gift.
I spent a few hours on this and am really proud of how it came out. It’s probably my favorite drawing of Sephiroth in a long, long time and I’m happy to see how I’ve improved over the course of this year. Also, Orin described this as “Bedroom Eyes AF” and I consider that to be quite a compliment.
Anyway, all the love to you, Orin, on your birthday. Thank you for supporting me and screaming with me about big important things and small silly things alike. <3
I spent four hours on stream on this so it’s getting shared…. I heard that if you’re an artist who has seen Promare you are then legally obligated to do fanart So have my take on One Good Burnish Boy, Lio.
Thank you everyone who hung out with me for hours as I experimented with with lines, color, and above all TRIANGLES.
Haaaaa, trying to experiment more, had a lot of fun with this, even with the frustrating parts.
Lazard, neutral good: I can’t tell anyone what dangerous long-term stunt I’m planning to pull with my entire life, so the only ethical choice is to avoid close personal relationships where the other person could be hurt or implicated
Lazard, a fool: I can’t tell him what I’m planning and it means lying about some things, but I can firewall him enough that he won’t be implicated. And it’s all theoretical, years and years away. it might not be right and it’s selfish to be with him at all, but I can’t stop myself
Lazard, increasing foolishness: i won’t say anything untrue about my feelings, or when we’re in bed. This is all still justified by the end result being freedom for everyone, he can hate me then and I’ll be okay, if i survived, because he’ll be alive and free
Lazard, true neutral: I have lost track of what’s actually authentic in myself, and my belief that i would be able to pull this off was probably naive. I do not know what success looks like anymore, and I definitely do not know how to extricate myself from this situation without destroying something important to me
Lazard, moral alignment in tatters: this kiss is one for the road. he’ll be okay, somehow, he’s mad at me anyway, he won’t miss me
*slides in* This is a really good timeline with Lazard’s shifting alignment with regard to a SephLazard ship.
S-E did comment on his duality a few times - during the lead up to the game, they used the terms “He wears one face while at work, and another when he’s not” and haha, joke was on all of us ‘cause they were being literal when it came to his Angeal copy transformation......
The other way they talked about it was that Lazard’s front facing personality is “like a honor student, who always knows the right answer to give.” So, someone who knows how to say what the other people want to hear or what they expect to hear from him. Perfectly reflecting the image they have of him right back to them to further enforce that image.
His true personality gets referred to in more vague terms, referred to roughly as an inner core of “dark fire.” So it’s hard to tell exactly where his moral compass was truly pointing. I would like to think it was towards a mostly good place, but I can’t put aside that a lot of the stuff he was involved in was deeply morally flawed.
(Like a big question is exactly how willing the SOLDIERs who became Genesis Copies were. If they were experimented on without consent, that is actually kinda worse than stuff with SOLDIER or even the RAVENS of Elfe’s AVALANCHE. Even if they willingly deserted because they agreed that Shinra was wrong and then agreed to undergo the copy process, it is still super unethical since it basically took away their personalities and agency.)
But yah, I’m kinda on the side that if you do the whole thing of “The President rules with money, and Rufus rules with fear” ....Lazard rules with deception and is probably just as Machiavellian as the people he hates most and had to literally have his Shinra DNA overwritten before he realized what a deeply terrible person he had been, even in his pursuit of a good cause.
(Consider my quotes paraphrased because I don’t have the original sources right in front me, but this is the gist of what I translated.)
i hc that ethari lost his horn tip jumping infront of something for runaan (because i also hc his fighting style is more bruiser-esq rather than graceful like the assassains) and then runaan got the tip cover made for him bc he felt bad/wanted to do something nice for his crush. i just think where runaan would teach rayla to dodge, ethari's the type who would just throw himself infront of the attack to protect his loved ones.
I can see that, anon. Ethari is very solid and strong. Solid muscle is very dense, so he’d definitely outweigh Runaan. He’s possibly the strongest elf in the Silvergrove, and if he ever fought, he’d do so with that in mind.
Ooh– Runaan may be a sword, but Ethari is a shield. Just like Janai and Amaya, but with a twist:
Janai = hot swordAmaya = cold shield
Runaan = cold swordEthari = hot shield
Okay, where was I? Right. Ethari protecting Runaan. He’d absolutely take a hit for his husband, whether he expected to survive it or not. Tbf, though, so would Runaan. Do you know that comic where two people keep bending around each other to protect them from the villain, saying Noo, Nooo, Nooo? Basically Runaari.
If Runaan ever got downed, Ethari would plant himself between his husband and the threat. But if Runaan saw him do that, he’d basically panic and yeet himself at Ethari to knock him out of the way. I could see them both getting struck at the same time that way, with Runaan more in the strike zone than Ethari because he’s fast, even if he’s hurt. They’re the perfect storm of dedicated and adorkable, and I’m just glad they haven’t killed themselves off yet.
Ah, thank y’all for the cool additions to the meta - including @beautifulterriblequeen‘s really neat idea regarding Ethari, Runaan, and Rayla’s Parents all fighting together. I’m really enjoying all the discussion and I was very flattered that you reblogged and shared my meta since I really enjoy reading all of yours! In particular, I really wanted to acknowledge these comments because I really liked the sword and shield comparisons between the two couples as well as the thoughts about Ethari’s possible fighting style. There is part of me that wants to be like, “No, Ethari is soft all the way through and would never fight someone...”
But, on the other hand, we’ve seen the armory he keeps in his workshop and all the clever weapons he’s designed and there is no way he’s made those without rigorously testing them out himself. So yeah, if he was pushed to fight, Ethari would totally be a formidable opponent and I could see him losing his horn in the heat of battle, especially if it meant protecting Runaan. And well, I’m from the Final Fantasy fandom, I totally have a thing for soft, but passionate weaponsmasters....
[TDP Meta] On Broken Horns
*waves* Hi, I binged watched all of the Dragon Prince on a rec and really enjoyed it and have been lurking around the edges of the fandom, quietly poking at art, fics, and meta. I had an observation that I hadn't seen anyone else make (or maybe this is something that was brought up earlier and I just haven't bumped into 'cause I'm new to the fandom? I'm sure I'll find out!) I've seen people bring up the idea that after Runaan would get released from the coin, Ethari would create a cosmetic replacement for his husband's broken horn. (This is setting aside the whole discussion about if Runaan is going to lose his arm and what would happen after that vis-a-vis prosthetic possibilities. I’m not attached to any particular narrative direction there and am fine with any of the probable outcomes.) But I don't think I've seen anyone talk about the fact that Ethari is probably already wearing a horn tip to cover up a broken horn.
(reference renders upscaled for the sake of detail.)
I looked at the horns of pretty much all the elves with speaking parts (so this is not taking into account any random background elves but I didn't catch anything just watching casually) and he's the only one I noticed with very clearly asymmetrical horn decorations, to the extent that it looks like a cosmetic cover-up for a break.
Given this series' tendency to have little details like this matter, I'm just wondering if there is some kind of story behind Ethari's broken horn and the metal tip that covers it and if it will ever be touched upon. It feels like there might be something significant in there - like the whole possibility of the missing gem on one of his horn decorations that remains a mystery outside of the credit art due to giving him only one model for both the flashback and the present. (Also I’m aware that his credit art kinda wavers on if he does have one, two, or no horn tip covers so I’m just sticking to the official in-show renders for developing this theory.)
Anyway, basically until told otherwise, I'm kinda hoping that Ethari's broken horn ties into his and Runaan's backstory in some way. Like it was broken during an event that made Ethari give up ever fighting. Or even something less dramatic like he was self-conscious about having a broken/misshapen horn but Runaan didn't think it detracted from his beauty at all and Ethari gets to offer the same assurances in kind when seeing Runaan's now broken horn. Just give me a gentle, heartfelt elf husband feels, okay.... (Also I am very much fully invested in the idea that bands that cover the horn base are a marriage symbol given the patterns I saw.
But on that note, what is up with this one Moonshadow Assassin's horn decorations? Like is this just fashion? Is it something more? (My personal HC is that she's in a polyamorous relationship but that's me.))
FFXV people, is this real? Like, does this happens in the game?
Short explanation - Square put on a short stream with the Japanese cast the evening before FFXV released called “The Mystery Disc” which is a very weird piece of in-house fanfiction? It’s probably best to just watch the damn thing, though it is exceptionally weird to watch completely sans context. (FFXV has many instances of just not taking itself seriously at all which is part of the charm in my book.)
@schalakitty Thank you for translating 😘😍😚 yeah, my thoughts exactly, why would Rufus give her Zack’s info? Does he even know Zack exists? It’s a non sequitur. Meanwhile Lazard has a proven track record of messing with Zack like…. kind of obvious
Reblogging to the personal account Literally the reason why TheLifestream.Net has as much info about Lazard as it does is because I either actively worked to translate his stuff or asked other translators if they would. Also yes, Lazard does like to mess with him (like Zack’s presence at Ft. Tamblin actually wasn’t a SOLDIER 1st Class promotion exam, but Lazard assessing if he was going to be a threat to the whole Genesis Army plan) but if I remember right - he gave Yuffie like the entire SOLDIER contact info database, Zack was just the only one who actually answered the emails. All of Yuffie’s messages get sent to the Spam folder after all. ;)
“My goodness. Sit down so I can get a look at you. Mon dieu, quel bel homme.”
“Maman, be nice to him.”
“…Lazard, darling, can I talk to you for a moment? – You, young man, you just stay right there and eat as many scones as you want.
”…….I know I didn’t always tell you the kindest things about relationships. I know, I know! I was trying to look out for you. But I was wrong. And – no, mister, you listen to me! If you break this boy’s heart, I will make you regret being born, understand?“
"Maman! Je sais!!! He can hear you.”
"Good! Sephiroth, mon beau fils – if he has a lick of sense in his head– if my son ever gives you any trouble, you just call me and I will set him right on his ear!“
"Maman……!”
(Hi, I’m quiet on here basically 99% of the the time but this is so intensely my headcanons that I needed it on my blog.)
I really like that you can talk to your party members in the Highwind, of all of them I think Vincent and Cait Sith/Reeve have the most interesting things to say.
Somehow I think the first line won’t be in the remake, I wonder what Vincent said in the original translation. (and just what changes they made in translation between Japanese to English altogether.
*slides in ‘cause I was curious* I managed to track down the original lines in Japanese. The rest of the lines are translated well enough, but the first one is indeed off the mark. The term used is “不幸な男“ which you can translate as “Sorrowful Man,” “Unfortunate Man,” “Unhappy Man,” or even as, if I got a little loose with the localization, “What a disaster of a man.” The full original text is - 「宝条…不幸な男。 」 「科学的センスのなさ…つきまとう天才ガスト博士との比較…… 」 「 ルクレツィアは宝条を守ろうとしてあの男を選んだ…… 」 「 今ならわかる……わかるが……しかし……」
I’m so struck by the idea of Sephiroth killing Leviathan and i don’t remember if the Leviathan is a real thing in the game or just a Wutaian mythological figure because i hate having to get my fucking materia back
if it’s real obviously Sephiroth has to kill it. I don’t know how he’d kill something that lives in the ocean but I’m sure he’d figure something out, he can probably hold his breath for a long ass time. And if it rears up out of the water he can run and jump around on it slicing as he goes
A thing i always noticed on the world map is that Wutai is pretty close to the Eastern continent if you go east, but Shinra has its military stationed in Junon, heading west towards Wutai, the long way around. My idea is that Leviathan made it impossible to attack Wutai from the east. Taking it out would be 1) a strategic and propaganda coup 2) significantly affect the outcome of the war and 3) have heretofore been considered impossible
Can you fucking imagine being some random Wuteng person growing up having Leviathan holidays where you celebrate it protecting your country from some long-ago invading fleet or something. You curse and swear by it. Its priest does burials and blessings for your village. It’s literally your god???? And then one day some freaky foreign goth motherfucker turns it into a thousand tons of rotting sashimi????? Wtf
(This was too long for a comment, so quiet reblog to share my thoughts) Leviathan in the game is a summon, only obtainable by defeating Godo – Yuffie's dad and leader of Wutai. I generally hold that idea that summon materia are created from a culture's mythological and folk heroes – if a single magical materia forms around a memory, a summon materia is formed from a collective unconscious concept. So while Leviathan doesn't exist as an extant flesh and blood deity, as they do in say FFXV, the summon version is still a manifestation of Wutai's belief in their existence as a patron god and is controlled solely by the leader of their country.
AC and Remake rules around summons though do present them as – while active – physical entities that can be fought and destroyed so your concept can still come into play that way - Godo making a show of summoning Leviathan only to have it be destroyed in combat by Sephiroth. Even if Leviathan could be re-summoned, knowing that it would make no difference against Shinra would still be a huge blow.
Lazard fans quick questions
1) what do you think his real last name is?
2) do you think he needs his glasses?
3) when did he start planning to destroy shinra? When did he start acting on it?
4) how and when did his mother die?
5) did he ever have any interest in being legitimized or succeeding within the system of the Company?
6) what’s his end goal? What’s his dream world look like?
a leading question but 7) does anyone not think he’s gay?
(Actually doing a thing to reblog this) 1) I came up with a name before he was given on in canon, so I’ve always used it - Delacroix. I’m on the side that Deusericus was something he came up with as it is an translation of Shinra. 2) Yes, but I like glasses so biased. 3) Teenager. I think that as soon as his mother told him the truth, he started making plans for revenge. 4) Before he joined Shinra, so he essentially buried their shared surname with her. I believe she canonically died of an illness, I’ve usually been on the side of some form of cancer. 5) This is questionable. Kunsel at one point wonders if Lazard wanted to be VP instead of Rufus and Rufus isn’t officially promoted to the position until during CC. I’m generally of the mind that Lazard was smart enough to realize that the only way to topple Shinra was from within though which is why he sought out SOLDIER - Just independent and powerful enough to have a legit chance to wage war against the rest of the company. 6) A return to what the world was before Shinra would be his ideal, both pre- and post-copying. Just pre-copying, he was totally fine with razing Shinra to the ground if need be. I’ve wondered what he’d think of how things turned out in AC/The Kids Are Alright. Overall, things are better, but the realities of recovering from Shinra are very much a strain on the remaining population. 7) I’ve been all in on gay/queer Lazard from the very start and I’m not about to stop now. (And from the very start, I mean from when he was first announced)
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Tumblr’s on Fire so I Have to Post These Before My Birthday Drabbles - 10/10
Series: Final Fantasy VII, Crisis Core-specific Characters: Sephiroth and Zack Request: Please something with Sephiroth (or Safay!) in kinky heels. And maybe a corset too for good measure. Notes: I’m aware that there can never be enough Seph/Lazard in the world, but I decided to revisit an old favorite here. …Also, this tuned out to be deeper emotionally than I was going for, but I’m kind of happy about it, so. It’s like crack and feels with a little oldschool “silly” Zack.
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Tumblr’s on Fire so I Have to Post These Before My Birthday Drabbles - 6/10
Series: Final Fantasy XV Characters: Ignis and Noctis Request: The two of them absolutely *spoiling* each other after ten years apart. Notes: Spoilers for FFXV I guess. I’d intended a… “proper” spoiling, like a nice dinner and a romantic night in a bed with silk sheets, but this? This felt… a little more right, for some reason. You’ll see what I mean. I hope.
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