The Man in the Black Cape

Sephiroth RP and Ask blog.

[rottenpumpkin13]

Some doodles I did over the weekend - younger Miniroth (babyroth...?), more turk Vincent, and Angeal

[snowbanshee]

[altocat]

I still can't believe they chose the fucking dog instead of Miniroth 😭 Ice fucking cold.

[snowbanshee]

Glenn: come with us Rosen, it's a fantastic choice.

Also Glenn: fucking ShinRa, I can't say there for another minute.

Also also Glenn: no Sephiroth, you can't join us, it's too dangerous.

What was his plan for Rosen? To buy a ranch on the country side and live a happy, fulfilling life?

[snowbanshee]

So I'm playing BG3.

[mrstrifvs]

Vincent stole Fluffy. 😆🩷

[salternateunreality2]

Cloud cpmplains to Lazard, Angeal, Genesis and Zack about workplace harassment and stalking by a certain silver haired individual, only to be met with "how cute", "no need to brag" and "he's finally healing".

Hehehe ❤️ Hello Snow! ❤️❄️

Cloud: Hey.

Zack: CLOUD! HI! How's it rootin and a-tootin?

Cloud: Um, I may be crazy, so I wanted a sanity check and, like, maybe some advice on harassment. In the workplace.

Zack, suddenly serious: Cloud, you were right to come to me and I believe you.

Cloud: I haven't said anything yet..

Zack: But I still believe you. Tell me.

Cloud: Um, ok, so...I think Sephiroth is following me. Like, all the time. Whenever I eat in the cafeteria, he's there, whenever I come out of the bathroom I swear I can smell his million shampoos, and I'm 90% sure I saw silver hiding behind boulders during my last mission. And those monsters were killed really easily.

Zack: REALLY?! 🤩🤩🤩 CLOUD, YOU BRILLIANT CHOCOBO, YOU DID IT!!! *big hug* Be right back, I gotta go do something. *Zooms away*

Cloud: Wh-what?

Cloud: Excuse me? Mr. Rhapsodos?

Genesis: Yes? Cadet Strife, I believe?

Cloud: Yes sir. May I ask you about workplace harassment?

Genesis: If this is about a fireball I threw, it was not intended for you and you were not injured.

Cloud: No I know, I'm just...I think Sephiroth is following me? Like a stalker?

Genesis: Yes I know, no need to brag. Who is harassing you?

Cloud: ...Sephiroth.

Genesis: ??? Well, whatever your perceived issue is, I am late for a meeting. You may discuss this with Hewley or Lazard, or HR and your chain of command. *Spins on his heel and struts off*

Cloud: Mr. Hewley, I'm being stalked.

Angeal: What?! Cloud, what is going on?

Cloud: It's Sephiroth, sir, and Mr. Rhapsodos thought I was bragging but I'm not, I just don't know what he wants and it's weird, is this...a SOLDIER thing? Because...Mr. Hewley, why are you about to cry?

Angeal, whispering and pulling out a tissue: *sniff* 🥹 He's healing 🥹🥹🥹 Excuse me, Mr. Strife *leaves to blow his nose*

Cloud, storming in: Director Lazard, Sephiroth is stalking me and no one will take me seriously.

Lazard: He is?

Cloud: Yes! Everywhere I go, he's lurking in the background like, like, like some CAT!

Lazard: Oh my...Well if that isn't so cute! My apologies, Mr. Strife, I will attend to the issue shortly, but please rest assured there is no ill intent. He is embracing his inner child and it is likely sign of platonic affection or admiration.

Cloud: What the fuck, man?

Lazard: Sephiroth dear, please come down from my ceiling.

Sephiroth: *THUMP!* Cadet Strife, Director Lazard.

Cloud: What the fuck, man?! Are you serious?! I'm gonna show you a thing or tw- ARE YOU PURRING WITH EXCITEMENT?!

Sephiroth: Cadet Strife, I have been following you to evaluate your skills and determine if you would make a good candidate for SOLDIER, please forgive my tactics.

Cloud: Uh...

Lazard: Well, now that that's cleared up, you may be excused, Mr. Strife, and I will, er, discuss things with Sephiroth.

[nananarina]

I swear this is just anatomy practice. I’m going to print the first one and hide it into my work desk.

Also a thing about me: I’ll put any character in hawaiian shirts.

[thecalloffantasy]

Writing villains people actually fear (and remember)

It’s not about darkness. It’s about a precise use of habits and small things, their behaviour both when acting the villain and not.

1. Give them a contradiction.

Villains are scariest when they’re almost human. It's alot harder to harm, or even kill, when you can the part of them that is kind.

“He always apologised before hurting someone.”

2. Let them think they’re right.

No moustache twirling ('mustache twirling villain' is often used as a pejorative to describe poor antagonists/bad guys, usually they in comedy) — just conviction. Their ideals and values should stem from something important to them. Doesn't have to be important or make to others, just them.

“I’m not saving the world. I’m correcting it.”

3. Give them a normal habit that becomes unsettling.

• humming off-key

• straightening objects mid-argument

• collecting people’s abandoned pens (this was something I got from primary school where I watched someone collect them and i thought it was evil they were stealing pens😭)

4. Make their kindness selective.

Kind to dogs. Cruel to friends.

Kind to children. Absent to their own.

This really adds to their character and backstory, even if you don't elaborate or tell it.

5. Make their presence change a room.

Not with theatrics — with tone.

“The laughter thinned when he stepped inside.”

Making antagonists who aren’t evil (but still hurt you emotionally)

Some of the best antagonists are just… people.

1. Give them the same goal as the hero — different methods.

Hero wants peace.

Antagonist wants peace.

Hero uses unity; antagonist uses control.

2. Let the antagonist be right sometimes.

That stings.

3. Make the hero almost agree with them.

“You’re not wrong,” she admitted. “But you’re not right either.”

4. Show glimpses of softness.

“He tucked the child’s drawing into his coat.”

5. Let them break their own rules.

Instant complexity, villains change the rules to fit their momentary desires and whims.

(Edit: ive written this up from a book that ive been filling with writing tips and tricks from classes, im putting here a few pages from it

So I get it, I need to change how I format things 😭)

Ive also read "Read This If You Want to Be a Great Writer" a book by Ross Raisin

[childofpasithea]

1. Ketheric Thorm

2. Minthara

[snowbanshee]

He's not an evil villain, he's a sad, confused, kind, longing, betrayed villain. He just wants to sail the darkness of the cosmos with his Mommy and create a better future for himself and Remnants. Maybe the hero's planet gets sacrificed along the way, but that's not the point.

[mandrakepot]

Lazard sketch

[hu-manbee-ing]

when the toad status hits

twitter

[snowbanshee]

Don't show this to Sephiroth

[daily-magic777]

Relax, it's the weekend! 😊

[crylin]

Someone leaked your art to rule 34 website and I was wondering if making Zack look so very young was intentional

I don't know of such a site, I haven't uploaded anything there 😅 actually, all my 18+ arts /renders can be found here >> X/linlin6_ (I haven't updated there much yet, but I'll be back soon 😋) and comics here >> poipiku/crylin6

so how old should Zack look? like a huge grown man? fanon only has that lol 😅 I base my vision of Zack solely on the games, and there he is a very sweet, handsome young man with Suzumura-san's charming boyish voice 🥰💕

[snowbanshee]

(My second attempt, because Tumblr hated the pictures)

Thank you so much for replying!

I'm not saying Zack should look a specific way, but I'd like to know if he's supposed to be 13-16 in those pictures (I hope you understand). I'm only choosing those ages because Zack met ASG when he was 13 and Angeal and Genesis died/disappeared when he was 16.

I'm mostly talking about this (can't post the picture without the post being taken down immediately, but maybe the link will do).

But also

I just want to make sure before I reblog smth, I hope it's okay to ask.

[altocat]

Lucrecia being the one who actually gave Sephiroth his name.

His name means "Tree of Life".

After the tree where she first had her picnic with Vincent.

The tree she'd stood under, alone, in the long, dark days that had followed.

Where she'd felt Sephiroth kick inside her for the very first time...

[snowbanshee]

I think it's a name Hojo would give to his son as the name means 10 qualities of god.

Sephiroth is the plural of Sephira (spellings vary), and here they are:

Definitely suits a mad scientist trying to create a godlike offspring.

[lachispipreciosa]

Now that you mention it… I think Lucrecia would name his son based on a close person that meant so much to her, and I think that would be Grimoire.

And if he was still named Sephiroth regardless, I like the idea of his last name being Grimoire. Or even better, Sephiroth Grimoire Crescent.

…Grimoire looks a lot like Sephiroth too but that’s for another time.

[snowbanshee]

That would make so much sense. Grimoire was someone she knew, trusted and followed when she was a young lady in the unforgivingly toxic and hostile workplace that is ShinRa.

He chose to die, so she could live and even many years later this event guided her through the major decisions in her life.

But let's be real, Hojo would never agree to name his son after another scientist.

[rottenpumpkin13]

Can we please get A,S,L,T+ waking up from anesthesia, being completely and fully honest before their brain starts functioning at full capacity

Angeal: “I preach honor and honesty, but I’ve been stealing from the commissary for three years. Food, new equipment, even materia sometimes. I redistribute them to younger SOLDIERs and cadets who can’t afford proper nutrition and gear.”

Lazard: “I embezzle approximately thousands of gil per month from SOLDIER’s budget. I funnel it to anti-Shinra extremist groups, independent journalists, and a small orphanage in Sector five. I also have a cork board in my kitchen outlining seventeen different assassination plans for President Shinra. I stare at it every morning while sipping coffee with whiskey in it, wondering if today is the day someone will test me enough to actually go through with it.”

Sephiroth: “I frequently have prophetic dreams about the future where I become evil and burn down villages, murder the President, and attempt to summon a meteor to extinguish all life on the planet. But I can’t address that right now because the disembodied female voice that speaks to me in my sleep says not to worry about it, and since I compulsively trust any older female authority figure, I simply listen to her.”

Tseng: *Tseng is so shocked by the previous confessions that it snapped him out of anesthesia, and now his blood pressure is through the roof*

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Lucrecia being the one who actually gave Sephiroth his name.

His name means "Tree of Life".

After the tree where she first had her picnic with Vincent.

The tree she'd stood under, alone, in the long, dark days that had followed.

Where she'd felt Sephiroth kick inside her for the very first time...

[snowbanshee]

I think it's a name Hojo would give to his son as the name means 10 qualities of god.

Sephiroth is the plural of Sephira (spellings vary), and here they are:

Definitely suits a mad scientist trying to create a godlike offspring.

[rosy-crow]

Fandom for years:

“And then General Sephiroth commanded the legions of Shinra to—”

Some rando Shinra troops in canon:

“Erm you can’t tell us to evacuate to safety because of an attack, bro. Not official orders 🤓”

[altocat]

And then he had to run over to help them BY HIMSELF and they only fought beside him because they could see how hard he was fighting, NOT because he gave them an order.

Guy had no power in Shinra. He had STATUS. But status is NOT the same as power. He was a glorified attack dog who won people over through his reputation. But not because he actually had the authority or rank to command them.

[snowbanshee]

Military and SOLDIER are different departments. Sure Lazard steals Heidegger's best men, but Sephiroth can only be a stubborn little shit who gets what he wants when it comes to SOLDIER. Not infantry

[rosy-crow]

Sure, he’s got those “unofficial 1st class privileges” as they’re so fondly labeled (thank Lazard’s leniency) like refusing missions, but he has to commit treason by subterfuge to get what he wants for a reason. SOLDIERS were dogs with fancier collars.

[snowbanshee]

I see SOLDIERs as a SWAT team. They can't command the army and they still have to obey their orders.

Privileges in ShinRa were only limited to Directors. And Lazard used his privileges to make his men less miserable. But other than that, ShinRa had everyone in the iron fist of totalitarian regime.

Even Tseng, the favourite person of Rufus ShinRa, seemed to be pretty oppressed and abused.