HI AGAIN !!! Not sure if you're still looking for asks or whatnot but if you feel like answering any ;
How do you feel about a regressor! Vincent?
Or !! If you've watched AC, a regressor remnant trio ? :]]
Ohohoho. I hope you liked last round's Cloud HCs! As I vaguely said in some other post, the Remnants are like little brothers to me...
so here's some indulgence!
Remnants of Sephiroth (Kadaj, Loz, and Yazoo) Agere Headcanons!
Fair warning, since we only got One Movie's Worth Of Them and their characters haven't been SUPER explored in canon, this may lean a *little* further into overall HC territory in terms of personalities, how they handle things, etc., especially for Yazoo since I feel like he's just kinda There sometimes. One of the main headcanons that I have that will be influencing this post is the concept of the Remnants also representing more than just what they've been stated to represent. I'm gonna yap more under the cut.
Kadaj represents Sephiroth's rage, but to me he also represents Sephiroth as he was during the Nibelheim incident and after. Yazoo represents his allure, but I also think he represents pre-Nibelheim Sephiroth, quiet, tactical, a bit awkward. And finally Loz, representative of Sephiroth's strength, represents a Sephiroth That Could Have Been, the emotions and sense of self that were never nurtured, and Sephiroth's inner turmoil, which is why he's so volatile emotionally, because I don't think Sephiroth really ever got a handle on that.
Without further ado... HEADCANONS!
They all care for each other. Flippity flip flips. This kinda just seems right to me, as they'd be protective of each other, sticking together through thick and thin...
...so if you act as a CG for any of them, the others will be around to help you as they're more than likely the typical primary CGs for each other... they're a bit codependent in this way, tbh...
Loz is the least obvious about when he's regressed, surprisingly, because there's a lot of overlap between how he usually acts and how he acts when regressed. Honestly, I could see him being a permaregressor? Not fully sure on that one. I see him as easily able to slip in and out of it but not really in control of it. He behaves how you'd expect but he really likes being doted upon. Probably the one to regress the furthest. He's pretty easy to care for outside of when he gets fussy. Fond of any sort of toys, Very babyre to me. Bonk cars into each other with him. Make nyooom sounds with the toys. EVERYTHING IN THE SQUARE HOLE! Building blocks and knocking them down. Busting a move. All of it. Very down with gross motor play.
Yazoo is interesting because I think when he's regressed he gets even more quiet, but instead of it being sourced from awkwardness, it stems from insecurity. All of the Remnants have some mental aches and pains and bad feelings from just... generally being Of Sephiroth and probably being fully capable of having the same humanity debacles he did. Yazoo, I think, would have regression that taps into any feelings of inferiority or not being good enough from Sephiroth's early experiment days, but he can't quite pinpoint them as such. He filters most of his wants through Kadaj or Loz, preferring to cling to them rather than anyone else... saying he doesn't try to be alone the whole time and just supress it. It's an act of vulnerability he doesn't often want to show. Prone to just masking it. Fond of quiet play and storytime. Give him one of those marble maze balls. Or maybe he'd like a dollhouse to play out a gentle life.
Kadaj is a stubborn, stubborn regressor. He wants control, he wants to be a big kid, he wants to do it by himself ONLY. Sometimes his brothers get through to him by letting him play the Leadership card and letting him "organize" them to help him do as he requests. He hates not having any control, feeling unsure of things, and I don't think he even likes regressing initially. Kadaj is the most difficult to deal with. He doesn't want to play. He wants to outright fight you. Sometimes he's harder to handle when tired, but once he's really, really sleepy, he's more compliant. Maybe as time passes, he'd get better, though. Getting him to work with you and not against you is probably the most satisfying feeling. He likes to be rewarded.
All of them occasionally yearn for their mother. They have different ideals of her though. Loz wants to play with her, Yazoo wants to be held by her, and Kadaj wants her praise and approval. Yet all three are oddly a bit disappointed by the reality.
As carers for one another, Kadaj is pretty in-tune with his brothers, so it's easy for him to take charge with either Loz or Yazoo. Yazoo is very gentle and tends to give Kadaj space or just watch Loz play and is especially good at calming Loz down or tactically going with Kadaj's... Kadajenings. Loz is good at getting Yazoo out of his shell and sometimes he's struck gold in entirely distracting Kadaj from whatever he was mad about to something he can actually do.
As carers for others, Loz is somehow the best of the bunch yet prone to accidentally regressing alongside a regressor, going up and down and in and out of regression. Yazoo is very lowkey and content with parallel play-type activities, good for a regressor who isn't very needy. And Kadaj... he tries to take charge but he's less attuned, which throws him off and sometimes frustrates him.
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Age Regressor Cloud Strife Headcanons!
I don't think he regresses on purpose or with any awareness of it being regression until post-Advent Children.
However, I wanna go over both OG and AC in terms of how he expresses it...
VII: Unintentional, subtle regression. It tends to come out as more cranky standoffishness than normal. "Not interested" replaced with "don't wanna." Curling up in a ball in the inn bed and hugging the pillow real tight. Missing his mom. Remembering his mom a bit more. Sometimes even slips when in possession of the Black Materia and this is Not A Good Thing. Get ready for "Yeah, So, Sephiroth Knows You're Regressing Even Though You Don't." Hence this.
I think you can also interp at least the sequence with Cloud and Tifa going about getting Cloud's memories back as not just reconciling Falsified Memory Cloud and Real Cloud, but also a sort of... a coming to terms with Cloud's regression tendencies. Still not a full awareness.
I think Aerith gets a little more gentle with him when he's regressed, but neither of them quite have the words to explain what's going on.
Sometimes he's quieter when regressed, more shy than normal, too.
AC: Aware regression. I'm not sure how he came to the awareness of the concept, or maybe he just doesn't have the right language for it, but he's aware of his own regression, now. He's kind of in denial about it, and furthermore, hesitant to be vulnerable. It's only after the events of Advent Children that he perhaps, opens up to Tifa about it. They talk. Tifa sorta ends up as Cloud's CG-ish, but that's not an exact description of their dynamic. Because neither of them are quite familiar with agere as a whole, they've got clunky ways about it. Cloud will regress and sometimes Tifa checks in on him, or just keeps him company. Sometimes Cloud regresses on purpose now to try and figure this all out. Tifa's there for him. It's weird for him, but he's getting there.
Now, onto less narrative-focused headcanons and more generalized ones...
Cloud, as I stated earlier, is a very subtle regressor. He's only really noticeable when he's pushed further into strong emotion or by subtle verbal shifts. He's staunchly independent and rarely wants to ask for help, which is not exactly a good thing when he's so far slipped that things get more difficult and he's more easily upset. He's not exactly communicative.
Enjoys being taken care of, despite this. He just won't ask for it... most of the time.
Once he gets better about everything in general, I think he's more open to asking those he trusts closely for help. And I do mean trusts closely. I don't even think he'd tell most of the party. Would've told Aerith had he known, tells Tifa, maybe asks Barret for some really indirect advice because he's a dad (masked as advice about, say, taking care of an actual kid, maybe Denzel)... but he's still pretty damn private about it.
He's doing his best, okay?
...regressing makes him consider growing his hair out a bit more again just to tie it back like he did when he was younger.
Do you have any particular favorite toys/plushes that are comforting to you?
Oh yes yes! Many of them are plushies and I generally prefer those. At my strongest want for comfort, I even tuck them into my school bag... the smaller ones, at least. There's such a variety with if I'm fixating on something or want a particular size of toy to cuddle that I'll just have to make a big ol' list!
As to not clog the dashes and searches of whoever stumbles in, I'm gonna throw them down here.
Thanks so much for the ask!
The latest Fixation Cuddlefriends, some Hyuna and Luka Alien Stage bunny plushies!
Previous Fixation Cuddlefriends include some Kim Kitsuragi and Harry Du Bois mini plushes, a Kuja plush, a Sephiroth plush, and a Yuffie Kisaragi plush!
On a related note, before I get plushies of characters, I usually end up with pins or keychain charms of them that get to be my Bring Them With Me equivalents, sometimes
I also once 3D printed a portrait of Kim Kitsuragi and sat it by me at nearly all times. Now he sits on display.
Now, for all the time Snuggle Hits, I have a big Cyndaquil plush I love to snuggle. It's about the size of my torso, so it's perfect to hug. It has a squishy stuffing, too! Nice and soft.
Similar Just Right But Pretty Big Actually pals: A jellyfish, Katsu Wada from Taiko no Tatsujin, a build a bear mantis I named after an OC of mine, a Jabba the Hutt tsum tsum plush I wanted as a kid but didn't obtain until recently, a large Goomba, a Tentomon
I have a HUGE Demiveemon plush I got from a claw arcade (probably unofficial lol) that is so big that it makes me feel small. It's really inconvenient to toss and turn with it, so I only cuddle it when I am really regressed. Similar principle applies to an only-slightly-smaller Astro Bot plush I have
I have a few collections of some Nintendo critter specimens! I collect goombas and the cyndaquil evo line, but I ESPECIALLY like Quilava. I just got myself a magnetic Quilava plush they only distribute from Pokemon Center China.
Car buddies! Not cuddle friends but they hang out in my car. I have a Pokemon Fit/Sitting Cutie quilava, a sleeping cyndaquil, two baby fugglers, a pusheen macaron I got as a top surgery gift, a palm pal axolotl, and a Series & internal Ouioui, and what I have just learned is an old defunct Kidrobot plush series called Fortune Pork? I have the little mushroom guy.
I have a TON of lil keychain plushies that go on different things...
When I get Bad Body Pains, sometimes I utilize a plush I call The Clab (a warmies blue crab) to soothe it. Mostly back pain. I especially like his exaggerated-but-realistic coloration. You don't often see that!
And finally, huge shoutouts to the little guy I've had since I was two, a handsewn sock monster named Baby, jokingly also called Boy and Man since I'm older now and he technically could be those. I adore him.
This is by no means a full list of my plushies... but just the ones that made it into the ramble kshdkdhf
