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so one of the side effects of the mako procedures that everyone in SOLDIER underwent is that if you focused really hard, you could make the mako in your eyes glow. (like, actually, vibrantly shine, not just the inate glow usually associated with mako eyes) no one could hold it for more than a few seconds without getting a wicked migraine

so, of course, when we were like 15, zack was once out of commission for two whole days because he wanted to make his eyes glow for a full minute.

(and no, he did not succeed. he hit maybe 15 seconds, which was still impressive. and i know he would've kept trying if angeal hadn't given him hell for it lmao) -kunsel, ff7

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canon pilfs:

i don't think i ever actually properly met the man, mostly just saw him from afar and was vaguely aware of who he was, but barret wallace can GET IT 👀👀👀👌👌👌👌 -kunsel, ff7

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you know what's funny? i think the shinra execs were so preoccupied with cloud's group after the plate fell that no one really seemed to notice i just fucking. left. and never came back.

like. ok, after the plate fell, i hauled my ass down to the remains of the sector 7 slums because i joined SOLDIER in the first place to *fucking help people* so after a minor emotional breakdown/confession after finding zhijie to be alive and ok (... as ok as someone can be after that), i stuck around to help out the survivors from sector 7. and just kinda.. decided to not go back to shinra. because how the fuck would i be able to stomach going back to work there when they just killed thousands of their own citizens in one fell swoop.

and i would still get all the shinra update emails, whether that be about the movements of "the avalanche fugitives" (aka cloud's group) and the plans/orders to apprehend them or the president's death and rufus's subsequent promotion. and i would keep getting all these emails pretty until shinra crumbled.

like, granted, it wasn't like i announced that i was leaving or anything, i did literally just leave and not go back, but. after everything that happened with the 1sts, shinra kept a pretty tight leash on members of SOLDIER, so under normal circumstances i would have been, at best, dragged kicking and screaming back to the company.

so hey cloud (and company), thanks for being such a pain in shinra's ass that they didn't even notice me straight up deserting. -kunsel, ff7

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replaying crisis core reunion bc i just love suffering or something

and. why did they change the pronunciation of my name between 7 remake and cc reunion. did they just forget that it was already said out loud, or did they just decide "ACTUALLY,"

(for the record, at least for me, it was with an "oo" sound, like the nameless infantryman says in in 7 remake, not the "uh" sound that i say in cc reunion) -kunsel, ff7

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(spoilers for the state of play final fantasy vii rebirth trailer)

not watching the state of play trailer bc square enix just loves spoiling major plot shit the closer to release their games get,

that said people on twitter aren't tagging shit from that trailer so-

WHAT THE FUCK DO YOU MEAN CISSNEI'S BACK?????? LIKE I'M SUPER HAPPY, I LOVE HER TO DEATH, BUT SHE JUST VANISHED FOR ME AND NOW IN REBIRTH SHE'S JUST ROLLING BACK IN??????? CISSNEI CAN YOU *PLEASE* JUST LET A GUY KNOW YOU'RE OK NEXT TIME I WAS WORRIED SICK -kunsel, ff7

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oh quick follow-up from kunsel about cissnei-

i really like the new outfit, cissnei. it suits you. it's good to see you in something other than your uniform

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for minor/background characters we think about a lot - zhijie from the intergrade dlc

legit i think i might be the only person that cares about him and it blows 😭 i've mentioned before that we were fwbs and also i was his squad's main inside informant on internal shinra business, but he was also genuinely one of the only people i felt close to, especially after zack disappeared. like, as far as people i went so far as to actually consider friends... it was pretty much just zack, cissnei, and zhijie. and of those three zhijie is the only one that didn't just up and vanish one day.

i... hope he knew how much he meant to me. i really don't know what i would've done without him. i remember him saying he'd like to take me back to wutai with him, once i cut ties with shinra and deserted. i remember thinking it'd be really nice to have a life with him there... we did really bad at the "no romantic feelings" part of the friends with benefits arrangement. i really love him. -kunsel, ff7

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oh follow up for the rarepair ask game from kunsel:

a lot of people just assumed me and cissnei were a thing because after zack disappeared we were together A LOT; we never corrected people despite being a gay man and a lesbian respectively because being in a relationship was far easier less likely to get us in trouble than the truth of "we were trying to dig up as much info the company was hiding from us as we could"