monsoonpanda's ff7 fic updates/moodboardcurrent WIP: https://archiveofourown.org/works/54933754/chapters/139250587
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final chapter list for At Dawn
it's about to hurt for a couple chapters, sorry
but they say it's always darkest before the dawn...
Cloud Strife in Final Fantasy VII Remake 7/?
☁️✨🩵 Inspired by scenes from FF7 Rebrith and also an homage to my last Cloud piece after Remake [x]. I personally STILL love the direction they are taking the story! Agonizing wait for part 3...
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So this is neat. The new chapter makes it interestingly clear that Sephiroth, for all his rank and reputation within Shinra, doesn't actually have any real authority within the system.
For years we'd been giving Sephiroth the fanon rank of "General", but the truth is that his hands are pretty tied with the inner workings of SOLDIER. The company that raised him, abused him, dehumanized him, and exploited him for profit didn't even have the courtesy to give him a position of actual legitimate authority.
Sephiroth is basically just their trained dog. Their Stamp. He acts as their mascot. He does tricks for them on command. He has the "privilege" of being famous and respected. But he's still very much on their leash. And that's all he can ever have.
"What I want, Cloud, is to sail the darkness of
the cosmos with this planet as my vessel."
I was going to post this for Cloud's birthday, but well, it is what it is. Belated happy birthday little dude ‧₊˚ ☁️
As always, prints available at INPRNT
AerTi In Space: AU concept
When the team fight their way through Hojo's lab in the Shinra building, Tifa and Aerith pass the central pedestal and see cracks in Jenova's tube. In a split second, glass shatters, mako splashes, black tendrils are everywhere. Around Tifa's throat.
This body fades. And you are...
Compatible.
We must continue. We must endure.
Bluish veins snake down Tifa's limbs as Jenova's infection spreads, dissolves into her.
One eye jitters and flashes scarlet when Tifa first connects to the hive mind. She summons a lightning storm which shorts out most of the containment in the lab, then blows a hole in the ceiling and ascends to the roof of the Shinra building.
By the time Aerith and the team reach her, she's surrounded by robed figures, R&D monsters, flanked by Cloud and Sephiroth.
They all call her 'Mother' now.
Aerith, one of the few not under Neo-Jenova's thrall or restrained by those who are, fights through and begs Tifa to wake up, to come back.
But when she touches Tifa's hand, she feels something more invasive, more wrong than she's ever felt in her life. Aerith's skin bubbles where they touch, something is crawling and burning through her veins, and she screams.
The awakening of a new Jenovan node has caught the attention of both the Jenovans and a spacefaring sect of Cetra who departed thousands of years ago and evolved separately to those who remained on Gaia. Two warships glitch into existence in the blue lightning bruised-sky maelstrom above the Shinra building.
Tifa and Aerith are whisked away by their respective alien peoples. (To avoid making Gaia even more of a mess, and because Tifa's now a crucial, living part of the Jenovan collective.)
Aerith tries to understand what it is to be Cetra far from Gaia's lifestream. The Cetra who left and became space-farers are entirely different - the only similarity is their connection to the energy flow of the universe, but it is strange, and unfriendly, and metallic, and far too big. Where does Aerith belong now?
Kept apart by their peoples, who are bitter enemies, Aerith and Tifa maintain a mysterious mental connection across the galaxy.
They meet in dreams, but when you're both lifeforms whose consciousness transcends physical bodies, where is the line between dreams and reality? And how much are the Jenovans, watching now that Tifa is the centre of their everything?
If they escape, will there even be a home to return to?
Chapter 7 is up!!
They're more and less comfortable together now.
For some time they proceed as they were before, because that’s what feels simplest in the plain light of day.
Sephiroth’s understanding of where to go has become more nuanced since his ordeal, and he leads them with purpose.
He hears whispers, sees flashes of other lives lived in these lands as they pass through. Insubstantial farmers waking with the dawn and working until the sun is high; ghostly hunters stalking their prey at dusk; a robed group of nomads from long, long ago whose apparitions sing their way through the landscape each night with twinkling viridian flecks swirling around them like dust motes.
The hills here are gentle and covered alternately with kaleidoscopic floral expanses and long, yellowed, rusty-dry waving grass that looks soft from far away but whips and prickles if you reach for it as you walk.
As they carve their long parallel paths towards the horizon, twin memories of the silvery twilight forest and the amber-gold afternoon meadow simmer under their skin and flash unbidden in their minds.
Midgar Nights / Liam Wong / twitter.com/liamwong / instagram.com/liamwong
I took these pictures at a factory outside of Tokyo and the location reminded me of Final Fantasy VII.
revamped the inspo playlist for At Dawn and feeling hyped to drop the next chapter this week - we're about to hit the song 'Apocalypse'.
<3 as always to all the other sfkr inspirations for this inspiration - you have amazing music taste! If you have any other recs I would love to hear them
if you're into 'how it's made' rambling, themes to listen out for are:
Flowers/growing/bodies/organic motifs (got a wolf or two in there for Cloud)
lab/tech/medical vibes/sickness/wounds/infection
Water/washing away/cold/falling/floating/drowning/baptism
Fire/destruction/heat/burning
Sun/moon/stars/planets
Dawn/day/night/twilight/light/dark
Life/death/apocalypse/rebirth
Dreams/memory/transformation
Love/longing/safety/togetherness/ties and threads
Silver and gold/Green and blue
”Crowww stop being so emotional over every minuscule Sephiroth detail alre—” I REFUSE.
I just can’t believe they added this detail of him being struck by Nibelheim’s natural beauty. He had never seen anywhere so picturesque before.
And it was his hometown. He didn’t even know that he was smitten with the beauty of his own hometown.
Different chemicals in meteors produce different colors; the faster a meteor moves, the more intense the color may appear(x)
writing is going great thank you for asking
