replaying the opening of FF7 (not the remake, i am a lowly xbox player)
after years of being in the DA fandom as an Anders fan
where posting anything remotely positive about Anders that spreads beyond your tiny carefully-curated tumblr bubble inevitably summons BUt hE’s A tERroRist wank
staring blankly into the far distance as i, an anders fan, watch our FF7 heroes cheerfully being introduced to us as terrorists blowing up a building
(specifically in the center of a city, specifically commented on in-game as causing civilian casualties, specifically listening to your terrorist companion talk about how the damage was worse than they thought it’d be in a near-perfect paraphrase of what anders will say in a game released years later)
does FF7 fandom have terrorism wank
does meta about cloud’s motivations get shot down with HE BLEW UP A REACTOR, do you get hate in your inbox if you ship barret with anyone
(i know i know i know, people react differently because the stories frame them differently, the stories are functioning as intended. this is our literal introduction to the FF7 characters so players are not taken off guard, a shocked and horrified reaction is not the goal here. you are supposed to see Dragon Age’s Last Straw as terrible-yet-necessary because anders himself does and because the entire plot of the game was devoted to showing you exactly what could drive a person to this point and if this point is not both terrible and understandable then all that build up had no purpose)
(it’s just)
(so many years of BUt hE’s A tERroRist comments)
(imagine a fandom where you didn’t have to wade through the BUt hE’s A tERroRist comments)
(luxury)







