#ff7 lore

[ladykf-writes]

So I have a FF7 Lore Thing I'm going to write.

Basically I want to share all the magic system, Planetary cycle, Gods/WEAPONs/Mortals etc that I've developed based off of the FF7 Compilation and trying to make it make sense. I have...uh. A LOT of information amassed through observing how things work in Compilation media / playing the games; reading and writing fanfic; many, many roleplay opportunities; talking to other creatives who know the fandom well... the list, it goes on.

I have one request for you guys, especially you guys who are a fan of my work specifically. And that is to reply/comment on this post with topics, OR reblog it for visibility with your thoughts.

This will be posted initially on Tumblr, but probably be turned into a meta fic on Ao3 because meta is a fanwork.

This has been a really long time in coming, and it will be a very long, very thorough exploration. I will be sure to clarify what bits come from where in canon, in combination with things that have been inspired by canon, and things that make sense but are not actually rooted in canon, if anyone is concerned.

I'll probably be looking at a lot of scholars and specialists through the lens of canon and parallel to my creative endeavors. Here's what I have so far -- under the cut because it's already long. Most of this won't be a surprise to people who've been reading my stuff.

MECHANICS

Types of Materia

Natural

Seeded

Celer

Anchor Points

Bracer / Weapon casting vs Freecasting

Limit Breaks

TECHNIQUES

Sub / Max spells

Spell Jumping

Networking

Multicasting / mixed spellwork

Power sync

LORE

Powers that Be

Avatars

Chosen

Favored

Planetary Lifestream

Personal Lifestream

WEAPONS

Cetra

Jenova

Materia

Creation

Summons

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[evil-robot-cat]

Sometimes I think about Vincent finding and helping Annette, and listening to her story about how she was working for Shinra to try to maintain/undo the fallout of Project S for the sake of her son.

What must that have been like for him?

Annette didn't look anything like Lucrecia, of course, and Annette's job was just to keep watch over (and then track down) the victims, not to make anything. And Evan certainly wasn't a toddler locked away in a lab somewhere. But the parallels are pretty strong.

I'd really like more than the meager two sentences we got about that incident.

[breezeinmonochromenight]

Thoughts on Vincent canonically being Sephiroth’s father?

That’s a nice headcanon.

But Hojo is Sephiroth’s father.

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Because if the Planet was already enforcing fate, dictating events, and trapping both lives and souls in a suffering-producing system… then Sephiroth’s promised land may not be a rejection of control.

It may be a rival form of it.

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That’s why I think his utopia matters so much. The real fear is not destruction. It is being “saved” into a reality where freedom has been replaced so seamlessly you never notice it happened.

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They Didn’t Need Heroes Anymore | Cloud Strife Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth

“They didn’t need heroes anymore” feels like such a Cloud Strife line even when it isn’t one. In FF7, he carries the weight of a world that made legends, broke people, and left the survivors to figure out who they were afterward. 

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[breezeinmonochromenight]

i don't really get why people want vincent to be sephiroth's father? it can't change anything for sephiroth by the time vincent wakes up, and all the what-ifs and could-have-beens have more to do with the choices lucrecia could have made but didn't than whether or not vincent has a biological claim to her fetus.

Honestly? My thoughts exactly, Anon.

The Sephiroth that could maybe have been reasoned with is long dead and gone by the time Vincent wakes up. It doesn’t change the events of the game at all unless Vincent were to, in an alternate universe/timeline, wake up early and manage to pull off a Hail Mary and keep Sephiroth away from Nibelheim and/or talk him out of the mansion basement. Like. You’d either need Vince with the future knowledge (time travel) to do it or for him to hinder a chain of events with such specific timing that calling it “miraculous” would be a gross understatement.

And like... by that point, anyway? Sephiroth is a grownass adult. It might be nice, knowing he has an actual father that wasn’t present because of extenuating (Hojo-related) circumstances, sure. But... by that point he’s weathered Hojo’s storm for years and Having A Real Dad that’s Not Hojo doesn’t just make that shit just go away.

I honestly feel like people like Genesis and Angeal and Zack would mean more here in terms of support than just ‘having a dad that isn’t Hojo’. They were actually there for Sephiroth (up to a point, obviously) and I feel like that would mean far more than your sperm donor’s identity. Maybe that’s just the whole “actually you can choose your family” in me rearing its head, but yeah.

I do agree though — most of this ultimately lies on Lucrecia, paternity be damned. At the end of the day it was her rejecting Vincent, her child that she carried being experimented on, etc. So yeah. Most of the hypotheticals here lie with her, not with Hojo or Vincent being Sephiroth’s father.