#does a little twirl

[boomposhpow]

cousins au…. i love you cousins au…. those screenshot edits have stuck with me

[corvidcrowned]

Tryig to figure out how I wanna draw these freaks. Love them <3

[aheathen-conceivably]

Future story snippet tagged by @theosconfessions (not really but I miss posting too much to ignore a good little spoiler game...)

“It was built in 1868, but it’s been abandoned since the crash. Judging from the inside though I’d say it had been neglected long before that.”

Anyone and everyone who sees this please consider yourself tagged and show me your spoilers! I live for them all 🤭

[nihiltism]

the internet is so cool because I have so many friends and very few are humans and that's great. I know like 3 dogs and two dragons and a couple robots and a few birds. I'm sure this will have no effect on my own personal self image though

[not-actually-human]

ears r ringing pretty badly but who the fuck cares a pretty girl kissed me on the cheek AND THERES PHOTO EVIDENCE so im on cloud nine

[peachphernalia]

hello folly ! ^_^ i am here to tell you to have a Good Day / Night and i am here to also tell you goodnight from where iam ^_^

:}}}} -Atlias <3

hi atlias Goodnight !!! thankyou for the well wishes (❁´◡`❁)

[wulfbluds]

⋆｡˚ ꩜ ( ... ) @palespawn , liked for a 𝐓𝐀𝐑𝐎𝐓 starter . | 𝐜𝐚𝐫𝐝 𝐝𝐫𝐚𝐰𝐧 — the TWO of SWORDS [ ⤈ ] REVERSED ⋆｡ 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐱𝐭 : ( lesser of two evils , no right choice , confusion )

here , the river flows home . the trees bow & bend in greeting , & all is peacefully still — quiet . this land appears mercifully untouched by the absolute , goblins , the red paladins . [ because that is where your mind lingers in every spare moment ( ... ) the village , BEFORE . you live here in your sleep , amidst the winding trees & your joyful fey kin . head tilts backwards , face turned to the sky — brilliant sunlight kissing speckled features . ] darkness like spilt black ink , washing across the landscape until only the truth remains ; back sore from the hard ground , stars littering the murky sky above . everything stinks of DECAY , here — the bog itself emanating the reek of death . ethel's doing , one could presume . in the onslaught of sensory attacks , it takes nimue a moment to realize why she'd been roused . the sight of bone white hair ; & as she blinks away the sleep from her eyes , clarity ascends ( ... ) [ astarion , standing above you . though it's difficult to make out the rogue's intent , you don't like the look in his eyes . whether he lusts for VIOLENCE or caladfwlch tucked possessively within your bedroll , your fingers close around the hilt of the ancient sword . ] blade gleams under dim firelight , torn free as nimue bolts into an upright position & angles caladfwlch towards the elf . ❛ ❛ come any closer , & i will wake the others . ❜ ❜

[biscuit-and-jam]

actually i'm not done gushing about the animation in this scene, LOOK HOW SMOOTH, HOW GOOD THE CHOREO IS!!! LIKE VISUAL BUTTER

[shitpostingkats]

Zack Fair has a really fascinating relationship with killing where a lot of the rest of the cast doesn't. He fights people as well as monsters and gradually stops being able to differentiate the two. He helps clear out beasties and ghoulies but he also intros the game with a massive attack on a foreign nation just to shore up corporate interests and for a good chunk of the game places those two activities in the same spot in his mind. One of his side projects at work is quashing the last remnants of rebellion in said occupied country and rooting out the spies in their resistance, at which point he hands them over to his bosses to be interrogated and presumably tortured. But if he comes face to face with the same people in a combat scenario, he won't kill them, because he views their desire to see themselves free as an honorable trait. Then he turns around and attacks hordes of people who defected Shinra. He uses the blunt side of his sword, not to spare lives, but because he doesn't want to damage the sharp edge.

Wutai forces and Genesis clones have a different categorization to him, something he can mentally label as "other". But after Nibelhiem, your primary enemy type becomes other Shinra soldiers. Just after Zack has had his realizations that the monsters he was wiping out share a haunting amount of basic building blocks with his coworkers. And with himself.

Actually, let's pause. Zack is the only character we see have any sort of acceptance of being Jenova-ed. Every other character is unwilling and usually not even a conscious being yet, but Zack A) knows what is being done to him, and B) openly states he wants those monstrous traits for himself. "Those wings / I want them too." Up to this point, every other character has equated being Jenova-ed to being baser, to being subhuman, but Zack at the very beginning tried to convince Angeal that it meant freedom. Power to do what you want.

Zack Fair willingly and with open arms embraced being made less than human because he thought it would give him the strength to break out of captivity.

So he busts out, and the first thing he's greeted with it a horde of enemies that he knows are human, has worked and talked with, and are in fact the same shape and type of person as Cloud. Just a couple cutscenes ago, these were his coworkers.

The easiest way to get through them is to set them on fire and blow up the munitions they're carrying on their person.

(It's such a beautiful demystifying of the elemental system. I love it.)

Oh also, you're on a time limit, so you gotta kill all these guys fast, because they're trying to go for the weak spot, Cloud, who can't fight and is getting dragged away.

After that, the next thing Zack does is find a gun and start taking long ranged killshots.

There's a tangible feeling of a lesson being learned.

Zack is (I think?) the only SOLDIER we ever see use a gun. It's worth noting that even the most fallen of SOLDIERs stick to their flashy blades and their weird swordfights. Other characters even comment how bizarre it is, but ffvii also runs on that fantasy world logic where if you just Get Good enough, swords are just as good as guns if not better. Guns are the lower, more primitive weapon, fit for grunts and hitmen but not elite fighters.

(I could also go into detail on how some of the SOLDIERS weapon are sold as bespoke merch in world, and basically another tool in the toolbox of how to sell these flesh and blood men as mythologized products. But we don't have time to unpack all of that.)

For Zack, we know that his sword is even a symbol of honorable combat and a legacy of trying to do the right thing. Zack picking up a gun is basically debasing himself to being just another man in the field. And it's a sniper rifle. The weapon guaranteed to get him as little contact with his opponent as possible and does not even give them a chance to fight back. But it's whatever gets the job done.

Zack starts the game as someone who kills people, but it's hand-waved aside the same way it is for most everyone else, only for him to bite that awareness apple like five minutes before it becomes absolutely vital he survive at all costs. Zack becomes aware that he's on a slippery slope and due to circumstances has to start sprinting. Over the course of the game, we watch as Zack Fair goes from being someone who kills people to a killer.

[iliveunderarock]

um pjsk lens in maid dresses bc i said so

[gremnda]

Prettiest girl in the ball

aka i'm still not over pangi's ball outfit + i'm mixing it with transfem tr!pangi propoganda

[stars-n-kites]

really an inexplicable train of thought but i feel like taako is the kind of person who in a modren era au would just decide to go to a shooting range and learn how to shoot a pistol for funsies, but would consider learning to spin the pistol all cool like they do in cowboy movies to be his first and foremost priority. like hes already bought a holster and the moment he is given a gun he immediately starts trying to twirl it. the instructor has to tell him to stop or theyll take the gun away from him. he keeps trying to lead the conversation back to it anyway because he really feels like theyre putting the cart before the horse here if hes learning how to shoot the gun before even knowing how to dramatically reholster it if he were to get in some sort of cowboy duel. hes actually really good at the shooting part but he gets kicked out of the class after his eighth guntwirling attempt in which he accidentally flicks the safety off mid twirl and shoots one of their light fixtures

[maokpinaok]

Ok I’ll animate again

Audio from this video (yeah it’s from a YTP 😭)

[songbirdsomi]

kicking my feet and giggling over the fact that between the star and sun endings, kerry and v both point out what the other does to avoid difficult conversations

[bonitchi]

mmm dante

[gio-cosmo]

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