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Morning stretchess!

I wanted to draw something like this cuz i was bored- plus,i haven't drawn muscles in a while and i really wanted to! I chose Sephiroth cuz he's very pretty🩷 It was so fun to draw! For now ima post this cuz i keep making new things cuz im impatient and curious- enjoyy!!✨️✨️

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Ever Crisis, Blue Bramble

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Ever Crisis, Blue Bramble

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SEBASTIAN STAN as BUCKY THE WINTER SOLDIER CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE WINTER SOLDIER (2014) Dir. Anthony & Joe Russo

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I miss summer already! Lying in bed with all the windows open, the soft warm breeze carrying in the typical scents of summer flowers and bushes, the calm stillness of the night only lightly disturbed by the crickets and cicadas, the occasional bark of a dog or yelp of a fox in the distance. My peace, my favourite time of the year. It was most likely the last time I got to experience it and it's already over, too soon.

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I see so many online analyses say that Sephiroth was an arrogant, self-important person even before Nibelheim. That he always had a superiority complex. And yet, what I love about First Soldier is how it shows that this was never the case. It wasn’t his norm. He was raised by the egotistical Hojo but was far more like Lucrecia.

His self-worth, self-love….it wasn't very strong.

Apart from the illusion of his mother, he didn’t believe anyone truly cared for him. He rejected Angeal partially from the standpoint of, “Who wants to be friends with something like me?”

He didn’t believe anyone loved HIM. Just his image. And he didn’t believe his real self was human enough to love anyway.

An expendable, inhuman monster that could be risked the way others couldn’t. A weapon thrown into the fray to take the heat and survive it all to spare others.

Even though, he didn’t want to be that.

But he had to face his “special” status and what it cost him.

And while he perhaps came close to seeing himself as worthy of care and understanding, when Angeal and Genesis left, he even wondered if they were ever close, if they had ever truly cared at all.

In the end, maybe only Jenova could love the monster.

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sector five slums

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Lúcia and Matt are people too! And he gave Glenn a few more years and, hopefully, the chance to be more true to himself and an actual hero like his granny wanted, by leading the resistance against Shinra.

@heraldofcrow and I were talking about FS, which is NEVER a good thing because we're horrible 😈

Anyway, so Glenn got shot/probably killed by Rufus. And somehow, Sephiroth found out. And was possibly even THERE when it happened.

So this means that, during the CC era when Sephiroth is at his MOST emotionally vulnerable, he literally has to contend with the idea that he killed Rosen for NOTHING. Glenn still dies. Sephiroth just bought him a few short years, which wasn't even worth THAT much since Glenn spent most of them on the run.

It isn't just that he loses Angeal, Genesis, AND Glenn. He now has to live with the fact that Rosen's sacrificial mercy-kill was all in vain. ALL of it was in vain.

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is that why Sephiroth wanted to save the troopers? Because he couldn't save rosen?

I think that is exactly what the game was suggesting. Sephiroth has become a more compassionate person as an adult, but he also seems to carry a guilt complex over killing Rosen, to the point where he wears himself to exhaustion in order to rescue the troopers. This guilt complex could even stem as far back as him blaming himself for "killing" his mother at birth. He also ties his ability to save lives with his hero status. It's how he will "become" a hero, indicating he still doesn't think of himself as one. It will never be enough.

Not many people address the fact that for all his brave words and composed appearance, Sephiroth actually thought really poorly of himself and probably had some level of internalized self-loathing. This, coupled with his guilt, makes him so much like his mother Lucrecia. Scarily so. He is literally following in his mother's footsteps.

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i've been rewatching crisis core cutscenes recently, wondering if I'll notice something different after knowing what I know from Ever crisis.

This scene in particular stood out a bit because why does Sephiroth look as if the Apple reminds him of something, like he's momentarily considering truce— only to look towards that Jenova sign and change his mind. It's not just that he looks towards the sign, but there's a bit of that glitchy effect that we normally see in Remake associated to the "headaches" too.

I wonder if he can hear Jenova inside his head in Nibelheim the way he does in Robio. Her voice Influencing him, playing into his weaknesses and telling him that she is the only one who will be there for him.

Honestly, It would be so interesting to see the Nibelheim incident from Sephiroth's POV. I also wonder how strong Sephiroth's hallucinations (is that the right word?) could be when she's literally right there. Like when he looks into the tank the first time, does he actually see Jenova's alien form? Would he see Lucrecia's face on it the way he did in his dreams in EC? Ahhh so many questions

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Final Fantasy VII Rebirth | ▶ dev. Square Enix

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If it's possible, could I request a drawing of Sephiroth crying, please?

Thank you for your request(o´罒`o)I hope you like it~

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aeriseph sketch

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what is sephiroth's perspective on nakedness? i doesn't seem like he grew up with a postitive sense of privacy, constantly being prodded and poked. would he be confused if someone seemed flustered if they saw him like that (idk how given the circumstances) or would he just relate that to him looking unusual? i also don't know if age would play a role here (him being young and more 'green' vs crisis core era when he had some experience with normal human behaviours)

Sephiroth's relationship with nakedness is kind of complicated.

He's very used to being naked for specific procedures and operations within the lab. It's gotten to the point where he can literally walk around in his birthday suit being poked and prodded by other scientists with complete and total indifference. This clinical approach extends to the public showers as well. Sephiroth doesn't care if he turns any heads. It's all just going through the motions. Another day being studied like a lab animal.

During...intimate situations though? Sephiroth is deeply uncomfortable. Because now it just feels WRONG. He's suddenly all too aware of just how different his body is, how there's something about him that isn't correct, isn't human, compared to that of his partner. Additionally, he doesn't WANT to feel like a studied specimen when they touch him. He doesn't want to feel like a lab rat. He wants the same thing as everyone else. He wants a sense of privacy, security, physical expression. But lying there with their hands all over him, what else could it feel like but Hojo's table? His partner would have to be extremely patient with him. I'd imagine they'd try out various scenarios to try to ease him out of that mentality. They want Sephiroth to feel beautiful, not like a caged beast being put on display. Sephiroth gradually improves once he's been given the chance to just be held and cherished for a bit. But even then, he always sorta gets a little shy.

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I really like how they have established that Angeal is the type who will acknowledge Sephiroth even if he is “inhuman” or not perfect, but Jenova absolutely erases his flaws and loves him from that standpoint. It’s sincere vs toxic love. Jenova doesn’t want to know the real Sephiroth. She wants him to sleep forever. Angeal wants Sephiroth to wake up so they can talk.

Angeal will see the “killing machine” and find something inside to love and talk to. Jenova will tell Sephiroth that there’s nothing wrong with him ever and that he’s essentially faultless at every turn. She’s not loving the real Sephiroth any more than Hojo does. The real, broken and damaged human who is dehumanized and idolized constantly.

Sephiroth is just so disillusioned and hurt at this point that he is falling for the false “unconditional love” that Jenova, the supposedly ideal mother, offers in dreamland while pushing Angeal’s real care away. He doesn’t trust that anyone can love him for the othered and fractured being that he is.

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Believe me, nothing is trivial.

Brandon Lee as Eric Draven THE CROW (1994) dir. Alex Proyas

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Compilation of Stupid af Sephiroth edits! 🐁💖

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