#emo chocobo

[thatdamn-honeybadger]

[thatdamn-honeybadger]

Cloud Strife:

SEPHIROTH IS THE BUSTER SWORD

Damn. xD

[koobiie]

bestowing my highest honor as an artist to ffxv (drawing the characters in fun outfits)

thoughts under the cut

RREAAAGHHHH SO EXCITED TO BE DONE WITH THIS!!!!! it took me forevarrrr but i soldiered through as an act of love. now excuse me. yap time

OKAY SO the concept behind this was originally specific fashion subcultures for everyone!l ike noct emo ignis dark academia etc. but then decided i didnt want to pigeonhole it all and just freestyled outfits i thought would look nice on everyone

noct - i do think noct would still be emo-ish but also opt for comfy baggy stuff a lot. something you could just fall asleep in on the spot. note the details of bass pro shop shirt (of course) XV necklace, little moon + stars accents, carbuncle + fish keychains. i also wanted his metal band logo shirt to spell LUCIS but i forgor some letters but its not very readable anyways

ignis - ignit ooohghh ignos ignaurs. sorry i made him serve so much cunt it will happen again. i drew him first cause that kind of inspired this whole thing i love him so bad if i didnt draw it id explode. not much detail to note except his collar pins are like his double blade thingies

luna - lunaaa the concept was “clean girl aesthetic” idk if that happened but im actually really happy with how it came out! might be my favorite of the bunch just because she looks so pretty and happy. your honor she should have been able to just be a normal girl and just. chill

prompto - prompotoooo i had trouble picking his vibe!!! my first thought was techwear?? because weeheeeehee he loves tech and well... you know... but then i realized i didnt really like the look of anything i saw + it was so bulky and dark and serious for him! ending up going with some more youthful and baggy. i was considering something more loud and colorful but ended up not going with it. i feel like in canon he'd be too nervous to have such a flashy fit and would want to just look "cool" to fit in with the boys lol. itty bitty details here - chocobo keychain, pompompurin and bi miku buttons, and his lanyard is kings knight themed! i also thought it was funny to write LUCIS on his shirt like you know those shirts that just say BROOKLYN or TOKYO or SAN FRANCISCO and thats it. thats what its like

gladio - okay i know this is going to sound like a lie but im not horny for gladio like at all, hes my least favorite, i think he's just alright. but also i KNOW in my heart of hearts that he would LOVE being a leather daddy and so i had to make it happen. main detail to note here is that his tank top has the motifs of a cup noodle! i didnt know what else to add cause you know.. hes the cup noodle guy.. but also i didnt want it to be so in your face about it with a big as logo so kept it subtle!

(side note the leather daddy gave me an idea for a post where its like noct and prom go to a gay bar all nervous but then they run into gladio and its like "p: GLADIO YOURE GAY?" "n: nevermind that PLEASE dont tell ignis we snuck out" and then ignis walks up and theyre all like WHAT THE FUCK!!!! caption would be "the gang finds out theyre all bisexual." probably wont draw it but i think its very funny lol)

iris - iris my sweetheart.... definitely leaned into the scene vibes here and also that one image of the blonde emo anime girl. details here - of course the moogle big ass backpack and keychain (can you tell i love keychains), but also her buttons are an iris (the flower) and also a crown with hearts (haha symbolism)

anyways oh god i didnt mean to write an essay down here. usually i keep this in the tags but this time i just had Too Much To Say. can you tell i put a lot of thought and love into this . anwyays. *walks off into the sunset and fuckig dies*

[rottenpumpkin13]

What's the worse fashion trend AGSZC followed?

• Shinra had a period where they tried to make Sephiroth (purposely) appealing to teenage girls, but this was unfortunately during Midgar's emo craze. Sephiroth had several photoshoots done where he wore heavy eyeliner. This wasn't sustainable as a daily look because Sephiroth was a developing teenager who ended up sweaty and with raccoon eyes after every assignment.

• The only reason Angeal stopped wearing Hawaiian shirts is because Genesis refused to be seen in public with him.

• Genesis claims to be too original and one-of-a-kind to follow trends. "If anything, I am the trend." Which means that if you mention the deep end of his emo phase—complete with heavy eyeliner to match Sephiroth's at the time—he will deny it.

• ☆ . ° .• °:. *₊ ° . ☆

Zack: Hey, has anyone seen my jorts?

Sephiroth: Genesis found them in your closet, had a nervous breakdown, saged the apartment to, quote, "banish the entity that possessed you to purchase them" and then burned your jorts in a fit of rage.

Zack: .......

• ☆ . ° .• °:. *₊ ° . ☆

Cloud: My ponytail phase is the worst fashion trend I've ever followed.

Zack: You mean the chocobo hair is supposed to be an improvement? Hahaha

Cloud:

Zack: .....haha?

Cloud:

Zack: Please don't murder me.

[dragonofeternal]

I fully believe that Kingdom Hearts Cloud is so edgy and emo (despite Aeris being alive and other FF7 plot stressors outside of Sephiroth not being an issue) because he lives in a world without chocobos.

Someone get KH Cloud a chocobo to pet. It would fix him.

[thatdamn-honeybadger]

"FUCK! I forgot to take the chicken out of the freezer!"

[ffocarchive]

he's taller than me and I am a simple man. don't click to keep reading.

I MAINTAIN, 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘢 𝘴𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘭𝘦 𝘤𝘪𝘵𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘵𝘰 𝘣𝘢𝘤𝘬 𝘮𝘺𝘴𝘦𝘭𝘧 𝘶𝘱, THAT 𝐑𝐀𝐕𝐔𝐒 𝐍𝐎𝐗 𝐅𝐋𝐔𝐄𝐑𝐄𝐓 is the only character who both cared about Lunafreya and actively tRIED to PROTECT HER over the course of the game. Everyone else was asleep at the wheel. Including Shiva.

If Lunafreya has 1 fan, it's Ravus. If she has 10 fans,

⭒⋆｡˚ It's R a v u s ˚｡⁺⭒

and 9 empty slots.

As an older sibling myself, I feel a camaraderie with him.

AND I appreciate that he disliked Noctis for solid reasons. If my sister was bent on some dinky little emo kid who has the gall to respond to her notebook messages the way you're allowed to in-game, I would simply. kill him. I love Noctis. Genuinely. But from Ravus's vantage point, that dreary walking mop is a menace. ᴬᴺᴰ ʸᴱᵀ, TO HIS OWN DETRIMENT, Ravus tries to honor Lunafreya's feelings and the prophecy she believed in by acquiescing to Noctis in the end. It's so sweet. He is ALL in. And then he's dead. Caelums are not trustworthy. I extend that criticism to every last Caelum ever, not just Ardyn — can't trust ♚Noctis♚ because if you are in danger he will find a chocobo and ride it. not toward you, just, in a big circle, meandering.

Ravus had an admirable little arc that's undoubtedly 80% happenstance and 20% purposeful character building, given the unequal force with which plot rewrites smacked Ravus specifically off a cliff, so he gets extra points for being such an underdog in this story. And then there was this book Squinex let happen because their company exists in some bizarro pocket dimension where All the Bravest was a good idea that deserved to stay on the app store for t͟e͟n͟ ͟y͟e͟a͟r͟s͟, and in this book Ravus is mentioned 13 times. These mentions are, in order:

Recalling that Ravus slept soundly when he was a kid

Recalling that Ravus didn't much care for the gods

Musing that Ravus might still live with his family if not for Ardyn

Just his name followed by a full stop.

Noting that Noctis is between Ignis and Ravus on the ground

The line from Episode Ignis where Ravus asks Luna not to leave

Noting that the above line was spoken in anguish

Recalling something Ravus said to Noctis at Aracheole

Remarking that Ravus watched Luna waste her energy on Noct

Remarking for emphasis that Ravus did not like Noctis

A passing insinuation that Ravus is good at five finger fillet

Musing that there's more to Ravus than Noctis knows

Regis wants to ask Ravus the identity of another character, but doesn't, so Ravus doesn't move or talk and that's the end of the book

Which is to say, in the longest way possible, that the book further compounds his underdog status, as does that concept art where everyone is hanging out with Luna's kids, including the man who backhanded her and killed her for fun, BUT RAVUS IS MISSING??? THEIR UNCLE??? THE UNCLE WHO HASn'T HIT A WOMAN ON-SCREEN FOR ALL OF US TO SEE??????????? THE UNCLE WHO DIDN'T KILL THEIR MOM????????

Also he looks hella good standing next to Ignis... 👀👍 i like ravnis

and that is why jaksndsjknawjklnesdfzxcd send post

[protemporescitor]

Finishing the last of FFVII Rebirth's VR challenges. Just wrapped up "To be a Hero" a couple of days ago. Taking another stab at "Bonds of Friendship" tonight. Anyway, I just had a revelation of sorts: Both fights involve Cloud plus an "assistant" character with Sephy and Zack, respectively. Both gauntlets end with Odin, who, with all due respect, is a bit of a see-you-next-Tuesday of a boss fight... BUT I am now fairly convinced that the Lord of Frenzy's position at the head of this hellish and interminable 10-round boss rush is NOT a coincidence.

Think about it. Cloud Strife's animal motif is that of Fenrisúlfur (Fenrir), the deiform wolf destined to slay Odin, the ruler of the gods, during the battle of Ragnarök at the end of all things in Norse mythology. I know that Square ran that boring-ass "chocobo hair" joke into the ground with Rebirth, to the point where newcomers to the series might actually be fooled into thinking that it's his real animal motif (and not just some tedious dad joke that has long since worn out its welcome), but prior to the new Remake series, the developers kept giving Cloud strangely villainous motifs, such as associating him with Fenrir, ostensibly one of Norse mythology's worst malefactors, or gifting him bat wings in Kingdom Hearts (unambiguously Satanic imagery).

More basic takes on this character usually involve some combination of the terms "emo", "loser", "boifailure", etc. Monosyllabic linguistic butchery aside, some of these descriptions may be partially true, but they often miss the real point: Whatever else he may be, Cloud Strife is anything but a harmless softie. If anything, post-canon, he is a psychological ticking time-bomb, one whose mental state depends largely on the company he keeps. With good friends keeping him on the straight and narrow, he'd undoubtedly be the gentlest soul. In the wrong company, however? He could easily end up becoming far more unhinged and dangerous than even his greatest nemesis could aspire to. Kitase once described him as having "a real dark side", one that presumably has less to do with Sephiroth's mind games than his own struggles against the world, ones that have rendered him a near-misanthrope, and which almost certainly would have if not for his ties with his friends and found family (Aerith, Tifa, Barret, Yuffie, etc…).

We catch glimpses of this side of Cloud's character every so often, such as when Yazoo and Loz shoot him in the back near the end of Advent Children. His reaction is telling. His face betrays not the dejection of someone ready to give up the fight, but the sheer vitriol of someone ready to tear apart anything and anyone foolish enough to get in his way. The same goes for his final confrontation with Sephiroth at the Northern Crater during the original story's ending. Sephiroth falls back on his usual intimidation tactics, not realizing that his hated enemy has long since cut his strings, and that his attempts at terrorizing and gaslighting the "nobody" who humbled him at Nibelheim are destined to fail. Cloud, though initially shocked, does not shrink away. He narrows his gaze. He knows the fight is over before it's even begun, and proceeds to deliver his foe an absolutely merciless beatdown.

Amidst the relentless meta pookie-posting and metaphorical cheek-pinching, people forget that there's a lot of hidden rage within this character. It is not a side of his personality that he is proud of, per se. But it is clearly there. More enlightened fans will understand this implicitly. One does have to wonder what missed opportunities Square had after AC/DoC for further character development in this regard. Sadly, as of the failure of Dirge of Cerberus to meaningfully advance FFVII's story, and Square's subsequent overreliance on contentious backstory additions instead, we may never know. Still, hope remains that the fandom could help fill in the blanks from time to time.

"The wild still lingered in him, and the wolf in him merely slept." —Jack London, White Fang

[levelup-bah]

🎮 logging in, cloud ! 🎮

🎮 names- cloud, nimbus, mac, strike, blaze, carter

🎮 pronouns- he/bust/strike/slash/sol/blade

🎮 roles- protector, job fronter

🎮 age- 23

🎮 gender- hollowboy, loyalmuttic

🎮 orientation- gay

🎮 source- final fantasy 7

🎮 emoji signoffs- 🗡️⚔️☁️❤️‍🔥🐣

🎮 front triggers- the body being threatened, chicken parm, chocobos

🎮 aesthetic- mildly scene and emo

🎮 fashion sense- baggy pants, torn tshirts, studded belts, lots of accessories, arm guards

🎮 favorite games- kirby, terraria, ghost trick, blades source

[thatdamn-honeybadger]

I am *so* normal for these two.

Gay gay homosexual gay gay

[thatdamn-honeybadger]

I'm gonna let y'all know right the fuck now.

As soon as the modders for Rebirth give us the Sefikura kiss, I'm not gonna know how to act. I'm gonna go feral.

[the-waking-sands]

9 (favorite song) and 25 (favorite Minion)!

Favorite song... Hard to pick but I think I'd have to go with the dragonsong! It makes me so fucking emo everytime. Ive started to make a playlist of all my fav FFXIV tracks as I go through the game though! You can listen to it here!

As for my favorite minion, wind up alpha without a doubt. I recently finished the omega raids and oh my god I would die for this fucking chocobo. The ending cutscene genuinely had me full on weeping. Very very good raids, which certainly was a nice change of pace after uhm... The everything of stormblood. (I have a lot of thoughts on this expac, most of them not that positive... Maybe I'll write a whole post about it.)

[silverglass83]

Everyone shut up. I need a moment. My first love has been confirmed to be in FFVII Rebirth. Vincent Valentine cemented my love of damaged emo boys with sad, angsty hearts and morally gray motives. There's chocobo content (breeding them?!?), gold saucer shenanigans (MINI GAMES!), the flash backs we wanted (Sephiroth x Cloud fanfics gonna explode), playable Cait Sith.... I'm too old for this much excitement. I might need heart medication after this

BG3 was like - here's an amazing game players have wanted for years Meanwhile FFVII Rebirth is all - hold my beer

[familiarflower]

its not so much the words. the frame or his aversion to looking in her direction. its the feeling. she had always sat in the background to so many on goings between adults and between adults and children in the streets. while doted on by her father and tifa it was easy to slip away and be quiet and observe. there was always some problem for the adults to wrangle. oil investigations. setting up the bar. helping others in need. she had learned to read people and read them well.

the no stung, but not as much as the weariness she saw burdening him.

she knows an excuse when she hears one. kids are given them all the time. she's no exception. except... she can tell its more than what he says. more than what seems obvious though its still vaguely beyond her comprehension. all she knows is that he feels burdened. emptied. sad. alone. things she had felt somewhat familiar with even if it was shades different.

fingers press into the barstool and she hoists herself up to sit at the counter beside where he stood. delicate hand reaching out to the parcels. " i can help you sort? " she had already seen how he organized his deliveries in his room. " that way you can get some rest before you have to go again ? "

𝗖𝗟𝗢𝗨𝗗 𝗞𝗡𝗢𝗪𝗦 𝗜𝗧'𝗦 𝗦𝗔𝗜𝗗 𝗧𝗛𝗔𝗧 𝗞𝗜𝗗𝗦  are more perceptive than people give them credit for, but sometimes Marlene is...unsettlingly  observant. Or perhaps she's the only one that gives any thought to voicing her observations, everyone else too worried about delicacy to speak up. He himself, of course, also falls into that category. Her penchant for voicing her thoughts, a trait she alone carries in this house, with very little filter would be irritating on anyone else, but it's  endearing  on her. Endearing, and perhaps a bit inconvenient for him, at this moment.

The look he offers her is strained and weary, a weak, barely-there little thing that could only even be considered an expression at all because it comes from him. A nearly inaudible grunt, and he's setting down his parcels  ( an assortment of items that need to be separated and grouped into the proper orders )  on the countertop, just barely turning his head in her direction, avoiding looking at her completely.  ❝ I've got a few more deliveries to make first. ❞  His voice is soft, both in volume and in tone, sounding every bit as  exhausted  as he's sure he looks.  ❝ But once I've finished those...we'll see. Gimme a few days. ❞

He knows better than to make promises; he holds so few of them, these days. He's certain, with how intuitive she is, she'll read the true answer hidden in his words anyway: No.

[ragequitezekielrants]

Final Fantasy: the dumpster fire that won't die.

Alright, time to dive into the Final Fantasy franchise. Or as I like to call it: The world's longest-running experiment in how much nonsense gamers are willing to tolerate. I promised I'd rip this series a new one, and honestly, the only hard part is deciding where to start.

Let’s just get the obvious out of the way: How the hell do you call something Final when there are 16 mainline games and about 700 spin-offs? Final Fantasy? More like Never-Ending Fever Dream of Chocobos, Crystals, and Characters With Dumb Hair.

Let’s talk about those protagonists for a second. Every single one of them looks like they walked straight out of an anime convention after a failed Hot Topic shopping spree. You’ve got Cloud Strife, the moody emo kid with a sword the size of a car door, and Squall—who’s basically Cloud but somehow even more insufferable. And then there’s Tidus from Final Fantasy X. What kind of protagonist laughs like he’s trying to audition for the world’s worst infomercial? I mean, there’s a reason that scene is memed to death. It's like the developers were trying to make you cringe so hard you’d forget how awful the rest of the game was.

The stories? Don’t even get me started. I mean, try to summarize the plot of Final Fantasy VII without sounding like you’re high on three different types of hallucinogens. “So, there’s this corporation that’s draining life energy from the planet, and then this dude named Sephiroth—who’s supposed to be the villain but looks like he’s auditioning for a boy band—wants to destroy the planet using some meteor thing while being possibly related to this ancient alien species? Oh, and also your best friend dies but don’t worry, you can bring her back in Kingdom Hearts.” Yeah, makes total sense.

And don’t think Final Fantasy XV gets a pass just because it came out more recently. Oh, no, that road trip from hell is just as bad. Who thought it was a good idea to turn Final Fantasy into Bromance Simulator 2016? I don’t care how good the food looks in the game; I’m not here to watch a group of whiny, brooding man-children try to "bond" while driving around in a car like they’re on some ridiculous Final Fantasy-themed season of Top Gear. Also, side note: if I wanted to do chores, I’d get up and fold my laundry, not hunt random monsters to earn gil so I can stay at a digital hotel. Thanks, but no thanks.

And let’s be real: The combat system is like a fever dream that changes every game. Want turn-based combat? Sure, until they decide they hate it. Want real-time action? Okay, but expect it to be as clunky as a 1990s arcade machine. Then there’s XII where you just program your characters to do everything for you while you watch the battle like some kind of lazy overlord. Auto-battle is not gameplay, Square Enix. It’s just pressing "Start" and hoping the game wins itself.

But the best part is, no matter how many Final Fantasy games come out, people act like every new entry is going to be the second coming of gaming Christ. Spoiler alert: It’s not. It’s going to be a shiny mess of convoluted plot threads, melodramatic characters, and combat systems that make you wonder if the developers have ever actually played a game before.

Yet, somehow, year after year, the fanboys flock back. "But Ezekiel, Final Fantasy VII is the greatest game of all time!" Yeah, if you’re stuck in 1997 and still think polygonal characters with Popeye arms are cutting-edge. “But Ezekiel, the FF7 Remake!”—Oh please, they turned the first ten hours of the original into a 40-hour nostalgia cash-grab with even more filler than the plot already had. And don’t even get me started on the absurd "multiple parts" scheme. Of course, they’re milking it. It's Square Enix—milking things dry is their specialty.

At the end of the day, Final Fantasy is like that band that used to be cool but has been coasting on past glory for so long that nobody realizes they haven’t made a good album in decades. The series should have been laid to rest after X—the last halfway decent entry—but nope, here we are, 15 more games deep and still pretending like this bloated mess is worth our time.

n conclusion, if you’re still out there defending Final Fantasy, you’re probably the same person who insists pineapple on pizza is a good idea. Go ahead and keep wearing those rose-tinted glasses while you wander around aimlessly in the land of chocobos and crystals. The rest of us will be playing something that hasn’t been running on fumes for the past two decades.

Until next time, stop playing bad games. Seriously, it’s not that hard.

– Ezekiel

[starxscream]

Funny little spotify wrapped moments