#vinlu

[antisphinx]

together in eternity

[serinigalini]

Farewell

[hinataru256]

Final Fantasy VII – Vincent Valentine & Lucrecia Crescent. Fixed Version.

[aceduooooooooooooooooooooooooo]

FF7 au were Jenova fuses with Lucrecia to keep them both alive (similarly to how Vincent being fused with Chaos kept him alive) as well as to keep Lucrecia from throwing herself into a crystal coma and while Lucrecia is in control for the most part Jenova is in her head constantly spouting vile things and takes control every once and awhile to cause havoc (once again similarly to Chaos). They live exclusively on the top floor of the Shinra manor so Lucrecia has no idea Vincent is alive sleeping in the basement. Until Sephiroth comes to Nibelhiem.

[shadowsageingempress]

Wishing for you.

Unlayered under cut

Even though I included Sephy in this piece, he's not meant to be there in a literal sense. It's more to represent his influence or memory. Lucrecia does dream of him, after all.

But this is a mainly VinLu-centric drawing.

[altocat]

I actually think it's a pretty nuanced concept with Vincent still being in love with Lucrecia, wanting the very best for her, and also simultaneously fully accepting that they will never be together. Like sometimes you can have long term, lingering feelings for someone while still putting on a brave face and just seeking to do right by them platonically. I think Vincent is able to move on from Lucrecia, but that doesn't mean that the feelings just evaporated immediately. I think a part of him will always love her. And that's okay because Vincent ultimately respects her boundaries and does his best to honor her name from a distance.

[thebirdqueen]

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This feels...familiar

[s-ephiroth]

you know what?

sephiroth and angeal as a thing™ echoes quite some what lucrecia and vincent had before... well, everything that went down

like (bear with me, this is morning brain speech)

vincent also wanted to help/protect lucrecia to the point of being nosy about it even after she chose hojo

but also he put her value as a person over his, with thinking stuff like "well, as long as she's happy, it's okay, right?" (but of course, in the end it led to him being shot and filled with monsters, causing him to — at least for og — isolate himself from society at large and go into a long sleep)

and i dunno, that from vincent feels to me too similar to young angeal wanting to help sephiroth out of his misery (and possession??) even though seph keeps rejecting him in favor of isolation or other pursuits (like masamune or alissa), while putting a lot of his value as a person in his capacity to take care of others — he doesn't mind getting punched in retribution if he can get sephiroth to pull himself together, for one

and that... carries on into his adulthood, with his need to protect others being so strong that he definitely collapsed into himself when realizing that he could pose a threat to other people's well being, that degradation could turn him into a monster like that

aaand, you have sephiroth, who inherited all the low self steem and insecurity issues from his mother

and... i dunno, man, i find it utterly fascinating how both sephiroth and lucrecia essentially fall into despair rather quickly after losing angeal and vincent (though vincent didn't permanently die, but still)

sephiroth pretty much disappears from the narrative for the whole modeoheim chapter and only reappears in junon, 2 years after modeoheim; shortly after, nibelheim happens, sephiroth gets killed and ends up in a nice crystal

lucrecia tries to bring vincent back by any means necessary while being denied access to her son; she doesn't succeed, leaves everything behind and... ends up in a nice crystal

isn't that kinda neat? :'))