#gencloud

[rottenpumpkin13]

Can we have a moment of Cloud, mentally breaking Genesis just by flirting with him?

*Post-canon, Genesis is at the bar*

Cloud: What do you wanna drink?

Genesis: I'm not sure...what would you recommend?

Cloud: Something sweet.

Genesis: Oh? And why is that?

Cloud: I don't know. Sweet things remind me of you.

Genesis: !̶̡̢̹͈͇̙̲̟̖̘͉̣͍̣̭̗͊̈͛̂́̆̀̎̅̒̇?̷̛͓͙̥̩͇͒̂̒̔̈́̀̒͐̾͑!̴͔̲̰̦̣͈̭̖̱̠̲̤̩̂̿̄̓͊͋̉̾̎͑̊̃͛͠?̶̛͉̘͇͕͇͎̼͓͙̭̼̺̗͖̯͚̈́̌̇̓͑́́͊̒̉͑̌̓̄̉͒ͅ!̸͕̳̣͎͈̜̭͒̈́͗̓?̵̧̡̗̝͕̺̹̘̜̘̰͇̠̻͖̙͔͓̂̑̍̓̾̆̓̂̚͜ͅ!̶̡̢̹͈͇̙̲̟̖̘͉̣͍̣̭̗͊̈͛̂́̆̀̎̅̒̇?̷̛͓͙̥̩͇͒̂̒̔̈́̀̒͐̾͑!̴͔̲̰̦̣͈̭̖̱̠̲̤̩̂̿̄̓͊͋̉̾̎͑̊̃͛͠?̶̛͉̘͇͕͇͎̼͓͙̭̼̺̗͖̯͚̈́̌̇̓͑́́͊̒̉͑̌̓̄̉͒ͅ!̸͕̳̣͎͈̜̭͒̈́͗̓?̵̧̡̗̝͕̺̹̘̜̘̰͇̠̻͖̙͔͓̂̑̍̓̾̆̓̂̚͜ͅ

(Later)

Tifa: Why were you flirting with Genesis?

Cloud: Huh? I wasn't.

Tifa: Sweet things remind me of you.

Cloud: The man carries around an apple and dresses like a giant red candy. What was I supposed to say??

Tifa: Well now he thinks you love him.

Cloud:

Cloud: Oh.

Cloud: Okay. Nice. Just as I had planned.

Tifa: Really?

Cloud: No.

[strifesodosweek]

Let's do the time warp Strifesodos Week again!

UPDATE: Spin The Wheel!

First off - for anybody new here:

What the heck is Strifesodos Week??

A whole week to celebrate the relationship between Cloud Strife & Genesis Rhapsodos - From the Compilation of Final Fantasy VII. Stories set in any part of the timeline are welcome, as well as totally out there AUs and Crossovers of any kind. 

Are there any rules?

Only a few! 

Keep your story focused on the relationship between Cloud and Genesis. Background relationships between them and other characters, like AGSZC or anything else should stay that way, in the background. There are a lot of stories of all the guys together but not as many with just these two so this fan week is important for adding to the ecosystem (and, frankly, enriching our enclosure okay??)

NSFW is totally acceptable, just make sure you tag everything appropriately wherever you choose to post it

When you make a post here on Tumblr put a little @strifesodosweek so that I can make sure you’re shared here for everyone to see! If you post on AO3 please add it to the collection so that everyone can find it there as well!

You must write the fic specifically for the event, using the prompts you get!

Please share this so other people can know its happening to participate!

So where are the prompts?? Right HERE!

Well, we’re going to do things a little bit differently this year! Instead of having one specific list of prompts that everyone is assigned each day, we're going to work together to create a whole wheel of prompts! Some I came up with myself, most I'll be choosing from submissions, and I will smash them all together so that everyone has a much broader range of things to choose from.

I only have a few guidelines I’d like people to adhere to for this, and they are as follows:

Spin the wheel seven times + one do-over if you get one that you really hated or have no idea for

You’re free to do the prompts in the order you were randomly assigned or whichever order you want, I’m not a cop

Since I’m not a cop, I can’t stop you from just choosing what you like from the list instead of spinning, but it would be a lot more fun for everyone involved if you played along the way the system is set up :) 

How about we come up with a prompt list together, just like last year but a little bit to the left. Click here to submit up to five prompt ideas for the list. I'll choose at least one from each person or more if I really really love it. Deadline to submit prompts is MAY FIRST!

[merriweather-boat]

How did Genesis get Cloud hit by a car?

lol.

Color and light smear across his vision in neon brushstrokes, a divine act, the whole world turned upside down in the reflections on the asphalt and in car windows and in the rain, rushing down storm drains at a constant, roaring pace. Angeal's presence at his side is the only thing keeping him upright; otherwise, Genesis is absolutely certain that he would have tipped face first into the street and drowned in a puddle—more by grace of his blood-alcohol concentration being what it is than anything else.

Caged in by Angeal's solid form, Genesis takes the time to appreciate the road that they're stumbling their way down, which leads him to appreciate the few individuals on it, which leads him to appreciate—

Goddess. Maybe Genesis did drown in a puddle after all.

The man in front of them might as well be an angel, soaking wet blond hair haloed in the pale white light of a liquor-shop display, soggy black turtleneck clinging to him in all the right places, black eyeliner smudged expertly.

Heavens above. His eyes are beautiful. He can't help himself, really—something must be said.

"Your beauty is the gift of the Goddess!" Genesis says, trying to make himself sound a little bit less drunk than he actually is. He does what he believes to be a spectacular job: he only sounds tipsy.

The angel immediately steps off of the sidewalk, walking in the gutter to avoid him. "Not interested."

"Shut up, Genesis," Angeal, who clearly does not understand, hisses. He presses Genesis firmly into his side, secured at the shoulders, to keep him from pursuing that absolute slice of heaven of a man.

"No! Come back!" he despairs. "Do you fly away now? To a world that abhors you and I?"

"Uh, whatever that means? Yeah," the angel says, his face falling into sharp relief as he walks closer, beautifully balanced features highlighted in all neon colors. It's a good look on him.

"Truly, the fates are cruel," Genesis murmurs. "Your desire would be the bringer of life."

Genesis barely makes out a "screw this," before his angel steps out of the gutter, storming across the street, taking little notice of the inch of rain water on the ground. He looks back at Angeal and says something that Genesis doesn't quite catch, and Genesis sees a light coming, but he feels all warm and fuzzy and can't quite get his mouth to work right—

[ff7-has-taken-me-over]

The way Genesis would go fucking feral over Cloud dressed as Alphried from Loveless but be so woefully wounded by his terrible acting 😂

He’d be equal parts mortified and hopelessly in love at the sight of him

[spockandawe]

I feel like my creative output doesn't properly reflect how much @sunderedstar's raksura core writing has consumed me lately! Also since its inception, but especially lately. So it's time to address that! Which, tragically, means that I need to figure out how to draw raksuran queens, but god gives his toughest battles to his most hyperfixated soldiers, etc. But the scene where Genesis flirts outrageously with Cloud while Cloud is in a certain popular backless ensemble was too good to pass up.

If you don't know what the books of the raksura are, I highly recommend it (it's the fantasy series martha wells wrote before murderbot), and then, you just need to take the ffvii/crisis core cast and drop them into this setting, where everyone is a bunch of lizard bee shifters in a society of feral homesteaders. It's so good, I swear. And the universes slot together better than you'd think! There are remarkable parallels between Cloud and the protagonist of the book series, Moon. And in this setting, Angeal, Sephiroth, Genesis, Zack, and Cloud are able to make out extensively without anyone being tragically dead before that's an option, which is very personally important to me. With any luck, this won't be the past piece of art! If I'm going to work on figuring out how to draw queens, it's ABSOLUTELY getting inflicted on everyone around me!

[merriweather-boat]

Seven words: Gencloud medical insurance fraud fake dating AU.

do you sometimes look at something you're doing and just hold for a moment and wonder how far the brainrot has gotten?

[catboyidia]

been thinking about young zakkura on their honeymoon phase where they can't keep their hands off each other anywhere. how do you think asg would react after finding zakkura making out in a very risky/inappropriate place?

i think angeal would initially try to scold them for being so inappropriate in a space where anyone could see, until genesis and sephiroth point out that angeal was no better with them when asg were in their honeymoon phase! but i think he will still try to remind zack and cloud to be more careful about where they decide to do that stuff

genesis probably wouldn’t care too much but he would try to tease them about it and tell them to “get a room”! but i think he would also go behind cloud to give him a subtle little pat on the back in support, proud of how shameless he’s become, all thanks to genesis’ “help”… and genesis definitely gave them advice on how to do they’re thing in places they’re less likely to get caught and in more subtle ways too, to spare all the other poor shinra employees

sephiroth just doesn’t care much either, he’ll go about his business like nothing happened, but he’ll probably show some kind of support for them and be happy for them, although in the future he will bring it up and thoroughly humiliate them as well

[freckledbastard]

It's real hard to find just gencloud content, a lot of it is tied into AGSZC content which is obviously fine but not actually what im after

[rhapscdos]

A little strifesodos, as a treat

[rottenpumpkin13]

Guys clearly the suspiciously-shaped cloud is Genesis 😞/s

GUYS CALM DOWN I FOUND A SECRET SECOND ARTWORK WITH GENESIS. IT’S OKAY, HE’S HERE!!

[fixationcentralart]

me: *reads ffvii fics for the first time in months*

me: ....

me: what if I host a strifesodos week again?

[rottenpumpkin13]

What are the dorkiest and smoothest things Strifesodos have said/done to each other?

Genesis: Nice shirt. Can I talk you out of it? ~

*Cloud sighs and removes his shirt, then hands it to Genesis*

Cloud: What do you need it for?

Genesis: ?

Cloud: Wait, was that a pick-up line?

Genesis: Oh my goddess.

Cloud: WAIT—

Genesis: I JUST TALKED YOU OUT OF YOUR SHIRT!

Cloud: THAT DIDN'T COUNT!

Genesis: TOO LATE! WHEN'S OUR WEDDING?

*Cloud yanks the shirt back and starts beating Genesis with it*

[strifesodosweek]

Strifesodos Week 2025 Guidelines

Let's keep things simple!

When is this going to take place?

The first full week of October, so the 6th-13th

What are the rules?

Keep your story focused on the relationship between Cloud and Genesis. Background relationships between them and other characters, like AGSZC or anything else should stay that way, in the background. There are a lot of stories of all the guys together but not as many with just these two so this fan week is important for adding to the ecosystem (and, frankly, enriching our enclosure okay??)

NSFW is totally acceptable, just make sure you tag everything appropriately wherever you choose to post it

When you make a post here on Tumblr put a little @strifesodosweek so that I can make sure you’re shared here for everyone to see! If you post on AO3 please add it to the collection so that everyone can find it there as well!

You must write the fic specifically for the event, using the prompts you get!

Please share this so other people can know its happening to participate!

So where are the prompts??

Well, we’re going to do things a little bit differently this year! Instead of having one specific list of prompts that everyone is assigned each day, I’ve created a whole wheel full of prompts! Some I came up with myself, some I'll be choosing from submissions, and I will smash them all together so that everyone has a much broader range of things to choose from.

I only have a few guidelines I’d like people to adhere to for this, and they are as follows:

Spin the wheel seven times + one do-over if you get one that you really hated or have no idea for

You’re free to do the prompts in the order you were randomly assigned or whichever order you want, I’m not a cop

Since I’m not a cop, I can’t stop you from just choosing what you like from the list instead of spinning, but it would be a lot more fun for everyone involved if you played along the way the system is set up :) 

[merriweather-boat]

For the absolutely blessedly buckwild insurance fraud AU (speaking to my SOUL with that premise), I have the following inquiries:

Do Cloud and Genesis have to live with each other at some point? If so...

Do they do anything at home that drives the other person absolutely buckwild? No in a sexy way. In an infuriating way. (For example: Does Cloud, who comes from a region with no mayonaise, eat mayonaise directly out of the jar like it's Nutella?)

What the actual hell is up with the marriage/partnership situation in Midgar that couples that aren't legally bound to each other get legal benefits? Would they need to register partners? Or does Shin-Ra have a mandatory "do they kiss and fuck?" test for everyone who registers a new partner?

Who does the investigating? Is there a dedicated department? Privates Eyes? Like Private Eyes, but the look for where your privates are going?

Speaking of marriage, is it less a Christian set up and more like a Jewish situation where you're married if you decide you're married? In which case, does marriage not exist as a formal legal binding in this setting? And what does this say about the rights of women, considering the origins of marriage in our world and their human-property-adjacent BS? I'm sorry, i have so many thoughts about this. What? Why is this number here? There is no fifth question.

I would like to formally apologize for 90% of what's in this ask.

DON'T APOLOGIZE FOR THIS ASK. I should be apologizing. I just wrote 1.7k words to respond to it because I got a bit… overzealous, to say the least. Expect: Analysis of Shinra as a tax administrator (and why that's relevant to its "marriage" situation), a couple of excerpts (I apologize for quality/mischaracterization, they're essentially first drafts), and a brief list of silly HCs.

I'm going to respond to this ask's questions out of order, so the answers to different questions will be responded to as the conversation moves in that direction.

Let's start with the Shinra Electric Power Company and how it exerts power in the world of FF7 (this is related to their ability to impose taxes). We know that Wutai was an independent nation up until Shinra started its imperialist war there, which leads us to the natural conclusion that before the Shinra Electric Power Company existed, the geopolitical situation on the Planet was far different. However, I'm under the impression that Shinra superseded whichever powers came before it and used its control of global media to censor discussion surrounding those original powers, effectively erasing them from conversations about government and—based on the fact that Cloud & other characters in his age group never talk about the governments of "before"—the collective memory of the world.

You might be thinking, "wait, but didn't Nibelheim and Midgar have mayors, implying the existences of governments separate from Shinra?" And you're right! They did have mayors. But Midgar's mayor literally called himself a "librarian" because Shinra held all the real power, and Nibelheim's mayor deferred to Shinra's directives whenever the opportunity presented itself. So aside from Wutai, Shinra had total control over the general affairs of the world. Which is insane, by the way, but I think we're all on the same page about that.

I imagine a lot of their takeover was negotiated with local leadership from Before, anyway. "We'll build you a reactor and handle any conflict in the region, just give us a plan for how to tax you all—designate businesses and households, infrastructure, provide financial statuses, marital statuses, the like. Handling your affairs is expensive, but wouldn't you agree it's convenient? It'll make things easier for you, really." Yeah. Picture that. Shinra made a good case for themselves, didn't they? Didn't it sound solid? Reasonable? Convenient, and exciting?

Also, marriage is a near-universal cultural phenomenon around the world, though it takes on different forms. So it definitely existed, and it meant different things to different people in their unique cultural contexts. (Banora, Gongaga, Nibelheim, and Cosmo Canyon would all have different approaches to marriage.)

Long story short, Shinra totally taxed people who lived in areas which "benefited from the reactors," as I imagine they would phrase it. Anyone living in Midgar would be taxed even more, because Shinra runs the city. They built all of the infrastructure, they own the land, they own the industry—if you can name it, Shinra owns it.

A modern government/company/shitfest like the Shinra Electric Power Company, given its need to tax people and turn a profit on its "investments" (re: colonialism-fueled mako reactor construction), would need to set up an effective tax structure including brackets & things like marital status & dependents. Much like in our world, you can absolutely get married for tax reasons! Shinra does a god awful job of tracking it, though. They're not very good at dealing with civil affairs. As long as you and your partner both file the appropriate forms, they'll tax you as a couple with very few questions.

Shinra also insures its own employees, which will pretty much get you covered at any office that doesn't have a grudge against Shinra. If you are a Shinra employee and file for taxes with any dependents or a spouse, Shinra automatically puts those people under the insurance plan. I think that an interesting exception here is SOLDIER cadets, who receive SOLDIER training, room, and board during their application process, but as they aren't officially Shinra employees/the whole training process is part of the job application itself, they actually don't get insurance benefits. I made that up to suit my AU by the way. Reality can be whatever I want it to be. It's in line with corporate BS either way. SOLDIER doesn't have the highest return on investment, so why would Shinra want to cover people during that application process?

So how, exactly, does Genesis get Cloud covered by insurance at the hospital?

"Huh? Genesis?" Zack's voice crackles through the speaker. "Zack Fair," Genesis hisses. "I know you're with Soldier Second Class Kunsel. Put him on immediately." "Huh? Wait. What's happening? Are you, like…?" Genesis can feel the headache building behind his eyes already. "Just hand him your PHS. It's urgent." Kunsel speaks a moment later. "Soldier Second Class Kunsel, sir, what can I—" "Can you falsify marriage records?" "Sir?" This headache is going to be positively vicious. "I asked you a question. Are you or are you not capable of falsifying marriage records within the Shinra company system?" Genesis spits, his eye twitching. The urge to throw his phone out into oncoming traffic, where it will ideally face the same fate as Cloud Strife sans recovery, grows stronger by the minute. Fools. He's surrounded by obtuse, incompetent fools, and if he wasn't already drunk, he would have attempted to be within the hour. Kunsel pauses. "Who told you about that?" Zack Fair. Who else? Genesis doesn't even bother to respond—the answer should be immediately obvious. If the Puppy's friend cannot identify the prime suspect in this situation, then he is certainly not qualified to muddle about in Genesis' personal records. "Not me!" Zack says cheerfully. Kunsel says, very calmly, "I'm going to burn your eyebrows off, Zackary Fair." That's when Genesis decides that he quite likes this… Kunsel. "Aren't you a doll," he murmurs, an unwitting smile blooming across his face. Oh, yes. They are going to get along quite splendidly. "I need to be married to SOLDIER cadet Cloud Strife within the hour." He jerks the phone away from his ear as the speaker screeches, Zack's voice—yes, he's certain that it's Zack, Kunsel would never conduct himself in such a manner—almost entirely incomprehensible through the volume distortion. "STRIFE?!—LITTLE—YOU'RE MAR—DIDN'T EVEN—ME?—FUCKING BITCH! HE'S—A SHOVEL—WEDNESDAY! I'LL—" Genesis hangs up. Kunsel will handle it. What a sweetheart.

On the topic of questions 1 and 2, um… I just wanna talk about the mayonnaise comment. Do you do that? Do you eat mayonnaise like peanut butter, straight out of the jar? Do you know someone who does? Sephiroth would. He totally would. But how did you come UP with that? I'm genuinely afraid?? Consider my timbers shivered? My boots quaked in?

Question 1: Yes, they do.

And, of course, just as Genesis settles into his couch-cocoon with a glass of Junon Noir wine, some fool begins to pound incessantly at his door. Really, everyone at this company has a death wish. When Genesis slams the door open, he has death in his eyes and fire in his hands, and he has every intention of making whichever cadet knocked on his door on his night off regret being born— "What's wrong with you? Why do you keep screwing everything up for me?" —except for the fact that the cadet in question is Cloud Strife in baby blue pajamas that cling to his body like they're one size too small, emphasizing the low taper of his waist and the slightest bit of muscular definition. And that doesn't protect Genesis from the way that Cloud's words sting, so it doesn't matter at all that the man is beautiful if he's going to throw the same accusation at him that Genesis has heard all his life, does it? "I'm serious. Why do my dormmates know that we're—we're married? They won't leave me alone!" Cloud hisses the word "married" as though he resents it, and it shouldn't hurt at all, but there's that ever-present monster inside of Genesis that can't help but wonder if it's truly so terrible to be married to him in no form but on paper. "If you resent our 'marriage' so much, I advise you file for divorce," Genesis murmurs coldly, turning to go back into his apartment. "No!" Cloud yelps. His hand latches onto Genesis' wrist, rough callouses scraping against smooth skin. The texture makes him wince, but it stops him in his tracks nonetheless, so he supposes that Cloud has accomplished something. "And why not? If I'm ruining everything, would it not be better to simply be done with me?" Genesis spits, letting the words fall at Cloud's feet, staring straight into the eyes of a man who won't even look at him. Cloud lets go of Genesis' arm. It falls listlessly to his side, pathetic and shaking ever so slightly. It feels cold where Cloud's hand just was, like his skin misses the warmth already, even though it was just fine before. "You know why I can't do that," Cloud finally says, pained. "I just…" "Just what?" "I—" "What, Strife?" "I can't sleep in my dorm right now, and Zack's gone." Cloud says. "I swear to Odin, Rhapsodos—" "Just get inside, Strife." Genesis lets out a long-suffering sigh, his eyes drifting towards the ceiling, all popcorn-paint and smoke stains.

Question 2:

After 6 hours of Genesis' impromptu one-man performances of Loveless, Cloud hits his breaking point and starts tweaking out the same way he does when Sephiroth tries to take over in Rebirth.

Genesis leaves all of the lights on, like a magical fairy will just walk through each room after him and turn them back off. This gets not only on Cloud's nerves, but Angeal's, too. They are the magical fairies turning the lights off.

During Yule, Cloud gets crazy into it in a way that you just wouldn't expect from him. Cloud's ugly sweater, which has Sephiroth on it, is the bane of Genesis' existence; he's literally tried to assassinate it. Shrink it in the wash, light in on fire, put it in the in-sink garbage disposal—nothing works. It just keeps coming back.

*marriage is a near-universal practice, though the details of the ritual/rite vary by culture and religion. It's difficult to say what the implications of marriage in the FF7 context would be, and I'm having a hard time figuring it out right now, but I'm certain that sexism is present in FF7. It's ingrained in the writers, which means that it'll end up ingrained in the story, which means that it'll end up ingrained in the world.

OH MY GOD I FINISHED IT. Almost 1.8k later and I finished answering this ask. I'm so glad you sent it. It took me an insanely long time to put together my answer, but I had a wonderful time! Always in the mood to talk about FF7 worldbuilding + give that some extra attention, and as usual, always excited to talk about my AUs! Again, thank you for this ask. It was a joy to work on lol.

If you're seeing this and you sent an ask earlier, this is why I haven't responded to you yet!

[blackkatmagic]

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Final Fantasy VII Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Genesis Rhapsodos/Cloud Strife, Zack Fair & Genesis Rhapsodos, Zack Fair & Cloud Strife Characters: Cloud Strife, Genesis Rhapsodos, Zack Fair Additional Tags: Dreamsharing, Time Travel, Developing Relationship, Humor, Hurt/Comfort Summary:

“I must say, I expected rather more.”

Cloud doesn’t even bother to open his eyes, refuses to look up at the figure standing over him. “Sephiroth said the same thing,” he tells Genesis. “And look where that got him.”

My gift-fic for @uintuva for the FFVII exchange on my server!

[makoed]

well ,   i’m  still  here  like  a  cheap  threat  .