#project [s]

[redwyverndht]

[01] The Amnesiac

concept art for project s!!

[ilminnestrone]

Guys, I hate to be that person, but Genesis and Angeal being older than Sephiroth is not a theory: it's the literal narrative of Crisis Core.

Genesis is an academic with a perfect use of language for dramatic purposes, and he told the story of the Jenova Project in perfect order: first Project G, then Project S, using the failures of the former to ensure a good success of the latter.

The progress is clear: Failure (Genesis) < still not there (Angeal) < success (Sephiroth)

Sephiroth being the youngest is not speculation, but intentional storytelling. They could always retcon this, but there was no doubt in the original script, at least the fact that Project G came first.

There could still make Genesis the middle child because their order of birth has not being stated, but there's no doubt about Sephiroth being the youngest, since Genesis stated it in Nibelheim.

Yeah, it would be awkward having a character called "The Origin" not being the first born, but in meta he would still be the origin of the crisis, so it could work. I don't like this option -logically the biggest "error" should be on the first try- but that's the only non-canon thing they could change without retconning.

I could go on telling you that basically Genesis also told us that Sephiroth is genetically sterile. Which makes perfect sense: Hojo could have just made another S by reproduction if it was possible.

I have a bunch of theories about the genetics of AGS, but they could sum up in "Genesis and Angeal are chimeras, Sephiroth is an hybrid" (and most hybrids, expecially males, are indeed sterile due to extra chromosomes).

[getvalentined]

One thing that really gets me about Sephiroth's obsession with his mother is that it had to have been instilled in him by Gast and Hojo. Assuming he was raised by the company and in Gast's care until the guy ran off, after which he was shuffled off into Hojo's custody (all of which is either overtly canon or heavily implied enough to be considered canon), it wouldn't have been particularly difficult to pull him away from the whole concept.

Children are dangerously impressionable for the first several years of their lives, it's indescribably easy to condition them into seeing things as normal—this is why a lot of abused children don't talk about anything being wrong, because that's their normal. It would have been very little work to indicate to Sephiroth starting very young that his mother died when he was born, but it's fine because that's not uncommon and he doesn't need to worry about it.

But Gast (and Hojo) didn't do that. Gast at the very least ingrained this concept into his head that his mother was special; he'd have been the one who told Sephiroth her name, who told him anything about her, because he had him at his youngest and he was the one who was so obsessed with the Cetra. One of them even gave him a photo of her* so that he'd know what she looked like, even if the woman in that photo wasn't Jenova.

They nurtured that longing for a loving parent, something that would only have been worth the effort to instill if being used as a form of manipulation. They knew his mother, she was involved with the company, the only way he'd ever know anything would be if he stayed and listened and did as he was told. The longer he stayed, the more he'd understand, and the more likely it would be that he'd find out about her. They made sure that he knew the only way to ever get any information on the one person who might have loved him unconditionally, who wouldn't have abandoned him or abused him if she'd had a choice, was to be loyal and obedient.

They led him along with the prospect, the hope that someone out there might have loved him for himself instead of for what he could do. Someone out there might have loved him for who he was, not what he could become.

They absolutely must have done this intentionally. Gast started it, Hojo continued it, and Lucrecia never had a chance to intervene. Gast may not have had ulterior motives in the malicious sense, as he believed that Sephiroth was the son of a Cetra—but he never told Sephiroth that, did he? Because Sephiroth was shocked by the discovery in Nibelheim, he didn't know until then that he was, allegedly, the last of the Ancients. Gast never told him.

But he told him his mother's name was Jenova, he told him he was special, he was kind and supportive through Sephiroth's most formative years. We know that because of how he behaves as a young teenager, the values and patterns of behavior that were instilled in him prior to being surrendered to Hojo's abuse in the name of progress. We know that because of how he talks about Gast, and how he compares to Hojo.

Gast and Hojo gave Sephiroth the concept of "mother" as someone that was good and kind and would love him no matter what, and turned it into a leash that bound him to Shinra for life.

Absolutely evil people.

*The photo was given to Sephiroth by Hojo, as a note. Based on FSBR and DoC, Lucrecia was still with the company until around 1984, when Gast left; she was on Project 0 then, not the Jenova Project, and there didn't seem to be any overlap since Hojo also didn't appear to have access to Sephiroth until he got control of the department, but it still would have been a very risky thing for Gast to do. Hojo seemingly got custody of Sephiroth around the same time that Lucrecia ran off into the mountains, which was also around the same time that Gast went AWOL, so Hojo may very well have given the photo to Sephiroth in an attempt to ingratiate himself to the boy during the transition in custody.

It makes more sense that Hojo would have the photo than Gast, anyway—Lucrecia was and is Hojo's wife. Of course he has a photo of his wife. Of course he held onto it all this time. Of course he gave it to the only part of her he had left, the great work they created together. Sephiroth was her project too.

[arminthada]

JJ KRISSANAPOOM as SHAN

PROJECT S: SHOOT! I LOVE YOU — 2017, dir. Cook Tanida Hantaweewatana

+ bonus

[untossedchoclit]

Thinking about posting my space lesbians somewhere to get some beta readers. possibly a locked ao3 og work as that seems to be the "safest" place rn

Any suggestions?

[the-sky-queen]

WITHIN THIS VERY MOMENT I'VE COME TO GRANT YOU THE RANDOM NUMBER: 52

(inspired by an idea I saw on Ao3 once)

At some point, S dozed off. When he finally came to, all of his senses were heightened. It was like he was a computer being fed too much information at once. The cold floor underneath him, the sound of a fan somewhere in the room, loud bangs still going off somewhere outside. If S concentrated hard enough, he could feel the very molecules of the air around him. S whimpered and pressed his eyes shut. It was too much. He stayed curled up.

S couldn’t hear the sound of the scientists’ voices anymore. Did they leave? Some part of S felt . . . something at the thought that they left him. He couldn’t quite figure out the emotion. But then again, why should he care? The scientists didn’t care about him. He shouldn’t care about them.

There was another explosion, this one much closer, and suddenly there was a loud bang. S shuddered as the sound of something heavy and metal slamming into the lab tore through his skull. Someone must’ve blown the heavy security door out from its frame. Someone was here now, someone not friendly. S curled tighter.

A voice that came through a filter spoke. “You see anything, Tony?”

“The lab’s empty. Any we didn’t take care of outside must’ve run away. Cowards,” another voice said, through a lighter filter.

[smidgezz]

hi, me again

hi it's me again, ill save you the pain of me making the same joke about me remembering my password again- or does that count?

watching the last steps of project s export as i plan a release schedule, it's got me feeling heaps of gratitude. so if you're one of my friends or someone who hates me being cringe, go ahead and scroll past this one thanks.

if you really think about it, two years is a long time to know someone. like seriously! in this day and age 2 years is nothing! It's a blink in the eye of media! so the fact that my 2 years is coming up soon is baffling. one because I've finally stuck to something for long enough to have an anniversary for it, but also that there are still familiar faces - or should i say usernames - in my chat. not getting parasocial at all, i am an entertainer that is it, but still, i can appreciate that some of you have stuck around for a while. and if you haven't and you're new, still. thank you.

if you've been here long enough to see the beginning and soon the end of the project come to fruition then you deserve something -anything. a thank you at the very least and at the most, something to be proud of. and i am almost certain what i have made is something to be proud of. for me at least.

okay, i think that's my ramble done unless i can think of anything else. Maybe I'll start using tumblr more around the project because i suspect ill have a lot to talk about. and questions to answer! so go!! ask!! we're quite literally right at the beginning of smidgezz and im so excited to see what you all think.

[untossedchoclit]

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Do you like found family? Queer romance? Enemies to lovers and an epic space opera setting with fantasy elements?

well I didn't write that. You are fucked out of luck.

[jojoroxye]

SUPERCOP 2

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

He should be at the Adventurer's Guild.

[egophiliac]

back from break and catching up on stuff! (belated) congrats Eng on getting dog sensei :D :D :D

[redwyverndht]

"What is your wish, young one?"

I'm trying to not give the story away too early, but I couldn't resist sharing this CG I've been working on for the past week! Hope y'all like weird esoteric stories lol

[corethetrueidiot]

late mzmf animation for valentines based off of this post 😼

[getvalentined]

Apropos of nothing at all, I present:

The Nibelheim Doom Triangle Playlist

Big Houses by Squalloscope (Lucrecia and Hojo and Shinra)

I Come With Knives by IAMX (Hojo to Lucrecia)

Labour by Paris Paloma (Lucrecia to Hojo)

Superman by Ivory Layne (Lucrecia to Grimoire Vincent no it's Grimoire)

Between by Vienna Teng (Hojo and Lucrecia)

9 Crimes by Damien Rice (Hojo and Lucrecia and Vincent)

Die Tonight Live Forever by InnerPartySystem (Hojo to Vincent)

Up In The Air by Thirty Seconds to Mars (Hojo to Sephiroth)

Black Eyes by Radical Face (Vincent to Hojo post experiments)

Castles by Of Verona (Vincent to Lucrecia postcanon)

Veins by Charlotte Martin (Vincent and Hojo and Chaos)

BONUS: Song Unsung by Eden White (Veld to Vincent post death)

All's fair in love and science!

[arminthada]

JJ KRISSANAPOOM and FRUNG NARIKUN

PROJECT S: SHOOT! I LOVE YOU — 2017, dir. Cook Tanida Hantaweewatana

[untossedchoclit]

Today I made the space lesbians encounter BOTH of their shitty dads while also making sure to have rich-shit-dad and poor-shit-dad hate each other for the exact same reason...

I love writing 😂🙌