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Divine Ruin and Shared Obsession: A dual-character analysis of Bianca Moore and Sephiroth in the FWC / FFVII narrative

In the vast emotional landscape of Fantasy Worlds Collide (FWC), the pairing of Bianca Moore and Sephiroth stands as one of the most volatile and ideologically aligned unions. Their relationship transcends mortal romance, fusing divinity, corruption, obsession, and cosmic ambition into a shared goal of universal annihilation and rebirth. Yet despite their shared apocalyptic mission, their individual desires expose tensions that challenge their divine partnership.

This Tender Tuesday, we examine the interplay between their personal goals, their joint ambitions, and the ideological and emotional fractures that emerge in the pursuit of divine legacy.

Possible Trigger Warnings: abuse, body horror, corruption, emotional manipulation, experimentation, obsession, religious trauma, violence

Sephiroth's canonical trajectory in Final Fantasy VII establishes him as a god-aspirant shaped by human betrayal and Jenova’s manipulations. His ultimate goal is to fuse with the Lifestream and remake existence in his image and derives from a belief that the current world is irrevocably broken and trauma from being lied to about his creation. His motivations are not merely about destruction. They are about achieving an ideal form of control and transcendence.

In FWC canon, his bond with Bianca intensifies this vision. She is not merely a companion but a divine counterpart, the light half of his split soul, whose existence affirms his purpose. He no longer seeks to destroy the Planet alone. He seeks to build a Promised Land with Bianca by his side, even if it means erasing all else.

Bianca, by contrast, begins her journey from a place of trauma, divine fragmentation, and a anti-hero, but this changed after she spent time on the Planet. Her current motivations are rooted not in control but in escape: from a past of betrayal, loss, and bodily violation. Aligning herself with Sephiroth and supporting his destructive ambitions offers her both power and clarity. It becomes a form of apotheosis through surrender.

Bianca’s goal is not purely ideological. It is deeply emotional. She seeks to reshape the cosmos to mirror her fractured soul: a new creation where her pain no longer echoes. Her divine motherhood later introduces conflict. Even as she supports Sephiroth's plan, her children become a living metaphor for an alternate future. This future is one not entirely built on annihilation.

Their shared goal, however, is explicit and devastating: to ride the husk of the Planet across dimensions like Jenova did long ago, annihilating worlds in search of a Promised Land that never materializes. This pursuit of transcendence — Sephiroth through control and Bianca through obliteration — ultimately culminates in a far more radical solution. When no paradise is found, they decide to create one themselves: a new reality born from the death of all others.

The kilonova becomes their final act, marking the birth of their true Promised Land, one shaped solely in their image without humanity, celestials, and demons. This joint pursuit unites them in power, ambition, and cosmology. The pairing is not romantic in the traditional sense. It is apocalyptic and driven by mutual validation and the belief that love can be a destructive force potent enough to burn away fate and the past.

Despite this alignment, their individual goals introduce friction. Sephiroth’s obsession with legacy and order often clashes with Bianca’s chaotic emotions and unpredictable powers. Where he envisions methodical reshaping of existence, she is more reactive, as she is driven by visions, instinct, and maternal impulse. His attempts to mold her into the perfect counterpart echo the control Jenova once exerted on him, triggering instability in Bianca. Her powers, corrupted by Jenova and S-cells, often reject the discipline Sephiroth craves. Moreover, their children challenge Sephiroth’s authority by stirring Bianca’s protective instincts and sovereign agency, reshaping her identity from consort to queen-mother.

Ultimately, their epiphanies diverge even as their destinies remain intertwined. Sephiroth embraces his fractured self as the necessary condition for godhood. He refuses redemption, but evolves beyond the role of destroyer, choosing instead to reign as a god-king devoted to the preservation of his divine legacy and family.

Bianca, however, begins to see her chaos not as flaw, but as raw creative power. Her realization that she can choose her path, marks a subtle defiance against his totalizing vision. Their love is not the key to their salvation. It is a divine entanglement and driven by shared trauma, cosmic ambition, and the unbearable gravity of a fate that neither was permitted to escape, but it's their love.

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can you tell us a lil bit more about Eshani and Namon? 👉👈 just saw you mention them under the unrequited love post and i’ve got very hooked (love that post)

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Thank you for the ask <333

The basic summary of their dynamic is that Namon wants a full-blown relationship with Eshani, but she wants to keep him as a friend and nothing beyond that. (Because indulging him would be wronging Cerigo in her view.)

So the two of them banter a lot, Namon because he was trying to flirt with her sometimes, while Eshani does so to keep him at arm's length from her heart.

He fell in love with her from the moment they first met, and Eshani noticed very quickly he was flirting. So she bantered with him, trying to keep things cordial and friendly (so she could get an ally seeing as she was very new to being a High Councillor) while keeping the true reason a secret.

About three or four months later, she wakes up one morning from a dream/nightmare of her waking up on his chest. She's horrified because she realised she's also attracted to him, and now had to decide what to do next.

She knew the best thing to do would be to tell him outright she sought no romance from him, but worried if she told him that explicitly, it would ruin the tentative bond between them.

So she continued to subtly keep him out, trying to cool things more bluntly if and when his intentions seemed obvious, and in her mind it seemed to work at keeping him out.

And then A Deal Between Dealbreakers happened. He asked "just this once?" and it gave her an idea. If she tied him to a deal where he could kiss her just once, she wouldn't have to worry about his advances on that front again. And she could satiate the desire and curiosity that burned on her end too.

Later on, she did manage to state her intentions outright, and it did annoy him greatly. But after a while Namon came to the conclusion that it was better to have her in some capacity even if she didn't fulfill all of his desires.

So they still banter with each other, but they know where the line's drawn. (Though part of Namon's heart is still broken from yearning for what he can't have. Sure, he could try find someone else, but Eshani's the perfect match for him. None of the other female High Councillors come close to fulfilling his desires, he's not into men and he'd rather be with an equal than someone with a lower status.)

(And for the record, Eshani's also conflicted because she knows her stance is causing him pain, and she wants to indulge him too. But she still values her principles (and Cerigo) more than the cost of alleviating that perpetual gap between them. It hurts, but she assures herself it's going to be worth it the day she leaves Morilaste.)

(it even hurts for me as well, I know they'd be such a good couple but eh, it is what it is.)

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Medicine in the Abyssal Realm is not built on mercy, but on sin. Healing, reproduction, diagnosis, and even death are all commodities manipulated by each kingdom’s vice: hoarded by Greed, rewritten by Pride, seduced by Lust, brutalized by Wrath, ignored by Sloth. This is not a system of care but a marketplace of suffering, where healers act as predators, treatments reflect ideology, and bodies are just another battleground for power.

In this section of Commerce & Public Life, we explore the brutal, transactional reality of medicine in hell: from magical surgeries that alter fate to emotional rituals that double as manipulation, and from elite academies of flesh to the slow decay of neglected souls. Healing exists here, but it is neither safe, universal, nor kind.

Possible Trigger Warnings: Abuse, Body Horror, Death, Medical Neglect, Mental Illness, Psychological Torture, Reproductive Harm, Self-Harm, Violence

In the Abyssal Realm, death is not a conclusion but a commodity. It is ritualized, weaponized, and repurposed to suit the architecture of sin. Each kingdom reflects its ruling vice in how it treats the dead: whether through the cold detachment of Memento-Casters, the grotesque practicality of Bone Chefs, or the sensual extractions of Sensari. Rituals are pragmatic, often cruel, and designed to exploit or neutralize the dead rather than honor them. Mortal spirits, unlike their demonic counterparts, are denied transformation and locked in looping psychological prisons shaped by the sins they committed. In this realm, death becomes a state of prolonged usefulness, a tool to be controlled, feared, or consumed.

Diagnostic practices are deeply shaped by ideology and caste. In Pride, fate magic offers high-precision prophecy, while in Sloth, illness is dismissed entirely. Lust interprets symptoms through desire and emotional flux; Greed calculates by gain; Wrath relies on resilience and pain thresholds. Diagnoses are more political than medical, driven by power, emotion, or status. Misdiagnosis is common and rarely corrected. To be diagnosed is to be exposed, and few in the Abyssal Realm are willing to show weakness unless it benefits them.

Healing is transactional, with each kingdom demanding a different form of payment: memory, suffering, obedience, wealth, or pleasure. Compassion is not a motivating force. Access to care depends on one’s rank, usefulness, or alignment with vice. For the common demon or condemned soul, treatment is rare and dangerous. Most are left to suffer or turn to unstable alternatives. Healers function less as caregivers and more as predators, courtiers, or extortionists.

Training for healers is decentralized and inconsistent. Pride demands academic mastery of fate theory, while Greed favors black-market apprenticeships built on trade and secrecy. Lust relies on experiential, intimate mentorships that blur the line between care and seduction. Wrath forges combat medics through pain and necessity, while Sloth offers no training at all. Its healers, if they exist, are passive enablers. Most healers are shaped by survival rather than ethics. Formal institutions are nearly nonexistent, and knowledge is as dangerous as it is valuable.

Often, the cure is as damaging as the illness it claims to treat.

Anatomical knowledge in the Abyssal Realm is sophisticated but fractured, filtered through the lens of each kingdom’s sin. Pride frames healing as an elite rewriting of fate. Greed hoards anatomical knowledge as capital. Lust’s understanding centers on emotional and sensory manipulation, while Wrath applies battlefield triage and trauma resilience. Envy obscures reality through illusion and mind-fracture; Sloth dulls pain without truly understanding it. Across all realms, healing is never universal. It is always conditional, contextual, and aligned with dominance.

Magical healing varies just as wildly. Pride’s magic requires intense intellectual discipline to reshape destiny itself, while Greed bypasses understanding with enchanted objects and unstable shortcuts. Lust’s healing draws from touch, emotion, and allure, while Wrath’s power stems from instinct and rage. Sloth offers only slow, ambient healing that numbs rather than restores. Magical and non-magical healing coexist but rarely compete. They fulfill different cultural functions. Specialization exists in name, but practice is ruled by sin rather than science.

Reproductive care across the kingdoms mirrors these same dynamics. In Lust, magical contraception and skilled midwifery ensure pleasurable, controlled reproduction. Pride enforces order through fate and permits only chosen births. Wrath’s chaotic conception leads to violent labor and frequent death. Sloth’s apathy leaves births unattended, while Greed turns childbirth into a transactional service available only to those who can afford it. Birth, like death, is shaped by sin, and no kingdom treats it as sacred.

Suffering is widespread but unevenly addressed. Wrath’s population bears intense physical trauma with little care. Lust’s elite may access emotional healers, but others spiral unchecked. In Gluttony, illness is common and care is rare. Sloth decays slowly, apathetically. Pride cloaks suffering behind precision and hierarchy, offering treatment to the few who can perform fate. Across the realm, care is rationed, and pain becomes a fact of life, unless it becomes politically inconvenient.

Treatment methods are equally divergent. Wrath cauterizes and bleeds. Lust seduces and enchants. Gluttony disguises indulgence as medicine, offering relief laced with addiction. Sloth sedates endlessly, while Pride rewrites only what fate allows. Effectiveness is rarely the goal. Power and preservation are. Medicine serves hierarchy, not health.

Madness, too, is not treated so much as reshaped. Pride corrects it through narrative control. Envy traps the unstable in illusions. Wrath pushes it into violence. Sloth lets it rot in silence. Lust cultivates it as spectacle or art. Sanity is restored only when it becomes useful and not before.

Finally, stark biological and metaphysical differences between human spirits and demons create vast complications in treatment. Some illnesses are species-bound. Others mutate across metaphysical lines. Treatments that help one race may poison another due to differences in elemental makeup or spiritual structure. Mortal souls decay in ways demons do not. Demons suffer from magical disorders incomprehensible to the human psyche. Cross-species care is unheard of.

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Character Arc Continuity in a Multiverse Narrative, a Behind-the-Scenes Look at Fantasy Worlds Collide, an original-fandom hybrid

To keep my OCs' arc consistent across canon and original storylines, I rely on detailed organization through Scrivener. Each character gets a comprehensive folder that includes motivation, power sets, personal history, and over a dozen questionnaires to deepen internal logic. I use a master timeline divided into Celestial, Infernal, and Mortal eras to align original events with FFVII canon. This system helps prevent continuity errors and ensures character growth tracks logically across arcs. I also evaluate every scene against the OC’s knowledge, trauma, and development stage at that point in time. My method blends creative freedom with technical structure to protect narrative cohesion across a complex, layered universe.

For Trivia Tuesday, let's dive into how I keep track of everything.

When I’m ensuring consistency in my OC’s arc as it travels through both original storylines and canon events, I rely heavily on structure, documentation, and version control. I use Scrivener as the central hub for all of my organizational needs because it allows me to nest complex layers of development without losing sight of the overall trajectory. My OC’s journey isn’t just about what happens in one scene or arc. It’s about preserving continuity of motivation, tone, and consequence across a multi-realm, multi-era narrative. Scrivener lets me trace those threads with precision, which is essential when crossing from my original universe (Fantasy Worlds Collide) into established canon like Final Fantasy VII.

Every major OC has a master character sheet folder. This isn’t just a personality chart or list of traits. It’s a deeply integrated directory. At the top level, it holds essential info: core motivation, driving goal, basic character info, such as age, and overarching narrative purpose. Nested inside are subdocuments like a key points summary (which breaks down turning points), a synopsis written from the character’s POV, and a Tumblr-style Meet the Character intro sheet, which I copy and paste for all of my character introductions.

I also include a MISC folder which is deceptively robust. It contains OC games from Tumblr, a breakdown of possible languages known, psychological profiling, in-depth backstory, power sets for ease of writing combat scenes, and over 14 different OC questionnaires, including one that’s 221 questions long. I don’t leave anything up to guesswork. Every folder is alive with ongoing updates that reflect my OC’s evolution and how those changes ripple through canon and original material alike.

Another critical tool I use is my master timeline, which overlays canon and original arcs across three distinct eras in FWC: 1st, 2nd, and 3rd eras. This is where things get technical. I treat canon as a fixed structure — non-negotiable unless explicitly AU, such as the biker, Redemption, highschool, and vampire AUs — and map my original events around it. This helps avoid inconsistencies like referencing characters who shouldn’t be alive yet or giving an OC knowledge they couldn’t possibly have.

Each event is tagged by realm, time, and narrative impact. The 1st Era establishes the divine framework and civil war among the Creator’s children. The 2nd Era introduces the Abyssal Realm and Bianca’s conception. And the 3rd Era overlays Earth events with Final Fantasy VII canon directly, including lore from Crisis Core, Advent Children, and the Remake continuity.

It’s not just about structure. It’s about internal narrative logic. I treat my OC’s arc like a mathematical equation: her behavior, relationships, and growth must all add up across every timeline. If I make changes in the Infernal Era that alter her perception of Sephiroth, that will absolutely echo in how she reacts to him during FFVII canon events.

I also double-check each scene I write against the character’s internal compass. What would she know by this point? How would she behave based on the trauma she’s already survived? Even when I cross into my FF 7 fanfiction territory, I’m writing her with the same seriousness and consistency as I would an original novel protagonist.

Ultimately, consistency is not just a matter of memory. It’s a deliberate system I build and maintain across every stage of writing. My process blends deep documentation, timeline control, and careful character curation.

I don’t expect my brain to keep all of this sorted. My Scrivener file does that for me. When you build a multiverse, you have to become your own archivist. And when you're bringing an OC into canon territory, you owe it to the canon and your OC both to ensure nothing gets lost in translation (unless you are writing very canon divergent fan fiction and that's okay, too).

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Introducing Kayla Grace Winters, the Whore of Babylon

Warnings: death, religious trauma, parental loss, apocalyptic themes, divine pregnancy, violent death, body horror, demonic/angelic warfare

🌙 Name: Kayla Grace Winters 🔮 Age: 20 👤 Gender: Female 🌌 Fandom: Fantasy Worlds Collide (FWC) 🌟 Ship: Kayla x Alexander Maloney (Michael) (Kalayder) 📅 Date of Birth: February 29th, 2004 👼 Mother: Rachel Winters 👹 Father: Benjamin Winters 👨 Surrogate Father: Peter (Order of Divvik) 🎭 Faceclaim: Kathryn Love Newton

Character Overview

Kayla Grace Winters is a holy knight of divine prophecy: child of a massacre, heir to the Book of Revelation, and future mother to the messianic Cassian Winters. After surviving a demonic incursion in her hometown at age five, she is taken in by the Sovereign Military Order of Divvik and trained for a sacred war she doesn’t understand.

Guided by Peter and eventually drawn into a prophesied bond with Knight-Commander Alexander Maloney (the human incarnation of the archangel Michael), Kayla is a warrior of contradictions: rebellious yet devout, reckless yet radiant. Her story climaxes not with salvation, but with annihilation, as she is slain by a goddess of destruction and rebirth.

Character Overview

🌟 Persona: Kayla is Chaotic Good to her core: bold, impulsive, and carried by heart over hierarchy. She's the kind of woman who will kiss a boy in the rain, stab a demon in the gut, and climb a crumbling cathedral all in the same hour. Her strength lies in her refusal to accept fate passively. She claws for truth even when it burns. Her fatal flaw is recklessness, but it’s the same spark that makes her fearless in battle and defiant in love. She matures from a zealous trainee into a figure who owns her role in Revelation not with shame, but pride. She is an agent of apocalypse, but also its conscience.

🎭 Personality: A classic ENFP, Kayla is charismatic, idealistic, and emotionally volatile. Her past haunts her, but doesn’t chain her. She challenges authority constantly: not for rebellion’s sake but because she believes systems must earn her loyalty. Despite her hardened training, she retains a strange tenderness for beauty and music, and she treats her sword like a living friend. Her voice is often the first raised in protest, and the last voice whispering comfort after war. Love for her is not a distraction. It’s the axis her revolution spins on.

💑 Transcendent Bond: Her connection with Alexander Maloney — her commander, her celestial angel, and her opposite — is the soul of her arc. What begins as reverence becomes rivalry, then unbearable love. Their bond is not just romantic. Together they birth Cassian, a child of flesh and flame who turns the tide of Revelation's prophecy. Through Alexander, Kayla learns what it means to be chosen not by heaven, but by another person.

⚔️ Courage in Conflict: Kayla rushes toward conflict, driven by a core belief that she was meant to make a difference, even if that difference means dying. Her sword, Luxoriel, gleams brightest when her friends are threatened. She leads with intuition more than strategy and often at great cost. But her courage is unwavering. She kills gods. She challenges angels. She dies standing.

✨ Likes & Dislikes

Likes: classic rock, speed, swordsmanship, ancient texts, the smell of burning incense, meteor showers

Dislikes: liars, confinement, being coddled, demons, institutional corruption

🌿 A Soul of Many Hobbies

Stargazing, motorcycle rides at dawn, collecting sacred relics and cursed objects, cooking as grounding ritual, journaling in margins of holy books

Powerset Overview

💫 Powers and Abilities: Kayla is divinely gifted with True Sight, allowing her to perceive illusions, corrupted souls, and demons. Her blade, Luxoriel, is an extension of her sanctified soul. Luxoriel is blessed, silver, and forged for judgment. She moves at supernatural speed during battle, and her aura weakens dark forces. Though her divine spark lies dormant, it pulses stronger with every step toward her destiny. Her skill set is rooted in both holy tradition and raw instinct: rituals, prayers, and martial prowess.

💔 Weaknesses: Recklessness defines her fate. She rushes into danger, burns bridges with authority, and emotionally implodes under grief.

🌠 Key Moments in Kayla’s Journey:

Survives the massacre of Broken Bow and is adopted by Peter of Divvik

Becomes a top apprentice in the Holy Order and discovers her divine sight

Bonds with Alexander Maloney, the archangel Michael in mortal form

Conceives Cassian, the child of prophecy who shatters Heaven’s lies

Transforms into the Whore of Babylon: executioner of corrupted kings and false prophets

Leads the End Times rebellion and topples the apocalyptic empire

Slain by Bianca Moore during the Kilonova Crisis, the divine reset of all existence

🌟 Themes:

Apocalypse and Rebirth

Motherhood as Power

Prophecy vs. Choice

Holy Rage and Defiant Love

Legacy Through Oblivion

Feminine Wrath as Sacred

Sacrifice Without Recognition

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Kayla Winters and the Quiet Cost of Prophecy: headcanons for Kayla Winters, a FWC / FF 7 OC

In Fantasy Worlds Collide (FWC), Kayla Grace Winters stands at the violent intersection of myth and mortality. Neither angel nor demon but human, she is a woman first: haunted, unruly, and forged by prophecy she never consented to. These headcanons offer a window into the girl beneath the crimson robes and apocalyptic titles: the orphan who never quite learned to sleep, the knight who fights for what Heaven overlooks, and the mother who would dismantle fate itself for her son. What follows is not a profile of sainthood but a reckoning with the human cost of destiny.

Possible Trigger Warnings: apocalyptic themes, bruises, blood, childhood trauma, death, loss of family, martyrdom, religious trauma, violence, war

Battle Style & Philosophy

Kayla fights like a wildfire: unpredictable, fast, impossible to cage.

She strikes first, asks questions later. Mercy is earned: not given by default.

She fights not for the Order, but for the innocent. Their rules mean little when weighed against suffering.

Her battlefield motto: “If the divine won’t act, then I will.”

Every time she fights, a part of her hopes she dies: not from despair, but to escape prophecy’s grip.

Childhood Memories

Her happiest memory is being hoisted onto her father's shoulders to watch Fourth of July fireworks before the sky ever meant death.

She remembers her mother’s lullabies but not her voice. She only remembers the vibration of being held close.

Her brother used to call her “Fox,” saying she was too clever for her age and always running off.

Kayla blocked out the exact moment her family died; she only remembers the red lightning and the feeling of being chosen against her will.

On stormy nights in the Order’s barracks, she still curls up fetal in the corner, like she did in the ruins of her childhood home when she went back to Nebraska at 18.

Divine or Cosmic Role

The Whore of Babylon. She is not a villain, but Heaven’s reckoning in human form.

A living paradox: chosen by Lucifer, loved by Michael, used by Heaven, and hated by Hell. She has parallels to Bianca Moore.

Her soul is a convergence point: a metaphysical pressure valve between Judgment and Redemption.

Though forgotten in the next world, her sacrifice becomes the final price paid to sever prophecy’s grip on future souls.

Love Language

She fights for you. Bleeds for you. Kills for you. That’s her way of saying she loves you.

Touch. She doesn’t say “I love you,” but she’ll hold your hand like it anchors her to Earth.

She defends you when you're not in the room.

She shares her worst nightmares only with those she trusts most.

She’ll offer you her sword, her locket, her last breath but never her heart. That must be earned.

Fear They’ll Never Admit

That she’s not strong enough to survive what’s coming for her son.

That Alexander doesn’t actually love her. He just obeys prophecy.

That the Order will abandon her the second she breaks too hard.

That she’ll become what she was raised to destroy.

Sleeping Habits

She sleeps lightly, one hand always resting near Luxoriel’s hilt.

Nightmares aren’t nightly. They’re hourly. Her dreams are stained with apocalyptic omens and fire.

She sleeps best near natural running water. She believes it purifies the air and keeps demons from whispering.

When she’s emotionally safe, she sleep-talks in Latin prayers from her childhood.

She refuses to sleep lying flat. She sleeps if she is curled on her side or sitting up, always ready to move, much like the goddess that would end her life.

Symbolic Item

A melted silver Saint Benedict medallion she wears on a string. It survived the massacre with her.

A blackened matchbook she keeps in her jacket.

Her heart-shaped locket with her family photo. She rarely opens it, afraid the memory will shatter.

The ring of the Knight-Commander, passed to her when he believed in her enough to disobey Heaven.

A small fox figurine carved from olive wood. This was gifted by Peter when she first killed a demon alone.

What They’d Burn the World For

Her son, Cassian. No scripture or angelic law would survive her rage if he were threatened.

If someone tried to resurrect her family unnaturally, she’d torch reality to stop it.

If Alexander were damned unfairly, she’d drag Heaven down to rewrite its laws.

If the Order ever turned on the innocent, she'd become its executioner.

If the prophecy demanded her son become a savior, she’d dismantle fate piece by piece to let him just live.

What They Lie About

She says she believes in the prophecy. She doesn’t. Not really.

She tells herself she’s not afraid of motherhood. That she’s ready. She isn’t.

She claims Alexander is just her commander. She’s been in love with him since she was fifteen.

She tells the Order she killed a demon solo at age ten. Peter did it. She froze.

She pretends she still believes in the Creator the same way she did as a child.

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Belated Happy Father’s Day to the One-Winged Dad.

This moodboard honors Sephiroth not as a villain or god, but as a father: to Aurora and Lucien, the Fantasy World Collide (FWC) children shaped by his precision, silence, and relentless drive for perfection.

While his version of fatherhood defies softness, it carries a fierce devotion that speaks through action, sacrifice, and legacy. This is not the celebration of a gentle man but of a father who stayed, trained, and endured.

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A Full Scene from Chapter 14 of An Oath Written In Shadows

POV: Milo, and he's just broken out of the palace by breaking a magical barrier and he's now running through the desert as his cursed Manticore form

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“Get the fuck up, Milo. On your feet.” I hear a command being hissed into my ear.

I snap to it, like it’s my father hissing at me. It sounds like my father, but It’s not. it’s Casper in all his glory and he is absolutely pissed. But rightfully so because he’s sworn to protect me and I know he doesn’t want a repeat of my father’s disappearance.

“I will ride you if I have to, to keep you in control Your Majesty. I know what you want and I’m here to help. Where the hell are you headed?” Casper asks again.

“To find Spyro. Get on my back, it’ll be quicker for the both of us and you won’t burn yourself on the sand.” I ordered back. “We need to follow the path that leads to the mountains and then go south of them, if he’s still in Melodia.”

Casper climbs on with ease, in this form I can carry him, but if I was human it’d be him that would be carrying me. I make sure he’s steady and ready to go and along the way as we continue down the path, we start discussing what happened, and what the shattering of the barrier might mean for the rest of the kingdom, and the magic that was holding stuff back. Taking lives.

Maybe I just declared war without realising things. Maybe whoever casts the magic or Death itself is taking pity on me. Maybe they’ll come directly for me and only me now. It doesn’t seem to have damaged anything else, as far as we can tell. Though we’d have to wait and see to the effects of my own stupidity.

“Sire, please don’t shoot poison darts at me.” Casper laughs a little, determination etched onto his face as we look along the horizon.

“I won’t, I promise.” I tell him and I try to pick up speed. “Let’s just hope that Lance and Casper are still together and they have answers for us, and we can catch them up to speed on what’s happened on our end.”

“I’ve already made sure most of the letters have been sent and the Council are being watched by a few guards to help report back to us on what they’re up to. We need to find Mercia and fast, she may be our only hope.” Casper agrees. “Light is also reaching out via the internet to see if any of our respective houses will respond via email on official business, because some more than others know how to work a computer nowadays.”

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Sanctum of Ash and Blood: An FWC / FF 7 Crossover Fic

Summary: In the poisonous stillness of the Northern Crater, Bianca confronts her pain and twisted fate as she clings to the cruel, consuming bond she shares with Sephiroth.

Pairing: Bianca (f!oc) / Sephiroth

Other Characters: Diana (referenced), Hojo (referenced)

Possible Trigger Warnings: Abuse, body horror, cloning, coercion, emotional manipulation, implied physical violence, medical experimentation, migraines, psychological trauma, references to suicide, suffering, toxic relationships, violence, whispered threats

A/N: This piece was written for @flashfictionfridayofficial: a brief dive into the dark and twisted bond between Bianca and Sephiroth. For FFF310: Could have Been Worse

The air in the Northern Crater was a death sentence. Cold, thin, and laced with invisible poison. It made Bianca’s head throb and her bones vibrate with a frequency that didn’t belong to the living.

The mako here wasn’t passive. It was hostile. It reached into her lungs with oily fingers, saturating her blood with nausea, and her skull with pressure. The light twisted into a sickly aurora that pulsed against her temples like a migraine given form. Her wings twitched against her back, half-furled: charcoal, black, and violet feathers acting like antennae in a storm of whispers. Every breath tasted of ruin. But she stayed. She always stayed.

Sephiroth stood before the crystalline monolith. He was like suspended godhood in glacial silence. His coat rippled though no wind. He was motionless, reverent, and inhuman. He was a statue sculpted from divine malice and perfection. The crystal's green light bled into his skin, casting his pale face in a fevered glow.

Bianca watched him with a pain too old for tears. He didn’t turn to her. He didn’t need to. The red thread curling from his wrist to hers pulsed faintly: an ache that beat in time with her nausea. He felt her torment. He let it happen. Compassion wasn’t his language anymore. He had shed that for something greater.

“You shouldn’t be here,” he said, voice smooth as obsidian, sharp as its edges. “Your flesh is unfit for this sanctum. You reek of rejection.”

His head tilted, silver hair catching the unnatural glow like strands of unspooled shimmering silk. “That is not your fault. Not entirely.” He said it like a priest delivering judgment but not comfort. The words cut deeper than her scar ever had.

“I wasn’t made for this world,” Bianca whispered, pressing trembling fingers to her temple. The migraine pounded behind her eyes like a war drum, threatening to split her skull. “Diana made sure of it.”

She swayed, but didn’t fall. Not yet. The mako screamed in her bloodstream, stirred by ancient trauma. Even now, even after threading the line of death months before, her body remembered the needle. Remembered how it hurt when her blood was no longer hers. Was her blood ever really hers? It belonged to Asmodeus, her

He finally turned halfway, one shoulder gleaming white in the fractured light. His eyes, green and bottomless, narrowed. “You crawl back to me now, reeking of pain, and of flesh burned by promise. You are either devoted or suicidal.” He smiled then, razor-thin and unholy. “Or both.”

She wanted to scream. Or sob. Or run her fingers through his hair and pretend none of this had happened. But she had chosen him. This dark, luminous thing. Her monster and messiah. Her sickness and her salvation. Her lover and her consort. She lost her own humanity a long time ago.

“I stay because no one else will,” she said through clenched teeth, tears threatening but not falling. “I stay because you see me as I am. I can’t breathe without that.”

Her wings flared wide, black tips reflecting like holy weapons in a cathedral of damnation. Her shadow on the walls was monstrous. She didn't care.

He approached like a dream: silent, too smooth, and now governed by alien laws. Like her. Like whens he found out she wasn't human years ago. When his hand found her cheek, the red thread sparked faintly. His touch was deceptively tender, a cruel mockery of comfort.

“You are suffering,” he observed. Not sympathetic. Simply true. “But it could have been worse.” His thumb traced the edge of her eye, smearing the bottom of her black eyeshadow. “Hojo might have turned you into one of them.” One of the hollow-eyed failed clones. One of the screaming tanks. Like Cloud.

“I am one of them,” Bianca spat, voice barely audible through the pounding in her skull. “A parasite. Just another extension of your will.” Her voice cracked like ice under strain. There was no self-pity in it. Only the truth she hated.

“No,” he said, voice suddenly sharp: iron beneath soft baritone. “You are mine. Not Hojo’s. Not the Planet’s. Not even Mother’s. Mine.” His hand tightened slightly at her jaw, just enough to still her trembling. "I made you more than what they carved. I, alone, gave your strength.” And in that moment, she believed him. Not because it was sweet, but because it was real.

Her knees gave. Not from weakness, but the gravity of their bond, the unbearable weight of being chosen. She clung to him at the waist, her body screaming, as the thread between them glowing faint red with silent agony: the thread that most revered but Bianca and Sephiroth viewed as both a gift and a curse, the rotting proof of their destiny.

“Then what am I now?” she whispered.

His lips brushed her ear, almost tender. Almost. “The blade of my ascension. The cradle of our apocalypse. The only thing that still bleeds when I speak a name.” He leaned forward, only slightly, and inhaled the pain pouring from her like incense. “And that could have been worse, too.”

Under the veil of green, sickly corruption, Bianca laughed, a small, broken thing that sounded too much like weeping. Because he was right. She could’ve been left behind, rotting in a cage of needles and silence. She could’ve been healed, made normal, and made clean. She could have gone back to her world and forgot about this godforsaken planet.

But instead she was loved. In the only way something like Sephiroth could love. It wasn’t soft. It wasn’t kind. But it was real. And that was more than most ever got.

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Bianca: "Your mom was beautiful."

Sephiroth: "Yeah, she was." He pauses. "Do you ever wonder what life would be life . . . without all this madness and chaos? Just a normal life?"

Bianca: "Promise not to laugh?"

Sephiroth: "Alright, I promise." Not like he was going to laugh anyway.

Bianca: "Sometimes, I fantasize about us leaving Shinra and just living a normal life. Maybe, you are a farmer or something. Maybe, we actually live with parents. Maybe, if I wasn't a celestial, I could have had that." Sephiroth: "You fantasize about that a lot?"

Bianca: "Yeah."

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Writing Emotional Collapse and Control in Sephiroth, a Behind-the-Scenes Look at Fantasy Worlds Collide, an original-fandom hybrid

Sephiroth is a character whose mythos has long outpaced his humanity, but in Fantasy Worlds Collide, we wanted to do something different. This piece explores how we write Sephiroth not as a symbol of villainy or, even, redemption, but as a fractured being whose voice, presence, and emotional gravity are grounded in grief, control, and unraveling intimacy.

We recast him not as a cautionary tale, but as an intimate apocalypse in motion. FWC is written by 🔥⚔️, 🌒, and her Earthbound husband, @armchair-pirate.

Possible Trigger Warnings: grief, isolation, obsessive behavior, psychological trauma, religious imagery, violence

Writing Sephiroth in Fantasy Worlds Collide begins with restraint. Voice, to us, is not merely what he says but what he withholds. It's where the silence cuts deeper than the words he chooses. He’s not a character we allow to speak in casual asides or clipped one-liners unless the moment demands it. Everything Sephiroth says is weighed. Considered. Often rehearsed internally before ever making it to the page. His tone rides the tension between command and isolation. There is often an echo in his dialogue, as if he's speaking to someone far away, even when standing right next to them.

We write him not only as a man trained for performance, via Shinra propping him up as SOLDIER's posterboy, and control, but as one who never truly had the freedom of genuine expression until his breakdown, and especially not until Bianca’s arrival fractures the foundation of his worldview.

Presence is more than poise and posture. It’s gravitational. When Sephiroth enters a room in FWC, the emotional temperature changes. He carries the weight of prophecy without believing in destiny. People look to him as if he were a god, and he walks like he already knows the end of every story, including his own. This is a clue that we are also dealing with the Remake Sephiroth and not the one fresh out of the OG FF VII.

We frame his presence through contrast: stillness against chaos, precision amid decay, silence beneath noise. His body language is calculated but heavy with implication. We rely on atmosphere to express his impact: the hum of mako, the hiss of his coat, and the whisper of his sword unsheathing. Even in his quietest moments, the space around him responds. That’s how we mark his presence, as something felt before it’s seen.

Emotionally, we see Sephiroth as a man whose feelings were systematically dismantled and then violently reawakened. He is not emotionless. He is emotionally miswired. Every relationship in FWC becomes a minefield of what he was never taught to process: grief, affection, regret, and longing. We treat his inner world like a pressure cooker. It is full of contradictions. His bond with Bianca destabilizes that structure by introducing something that Shinra, Hojo, or even Jenova never accounted for: intimacy that isn’t transactional or strategic. Her pain enters him as if it were his own. That’s how we write his emotional undercurrents: reactive, buried, and then eruptive. Not because he lacks feeling, but because he has no learned threshold for regulating it.

We’re deeply intentional about when he is monstrous and when he is merely human, because for Sephiroth, both are true.

In FWC, Post-Nibelheim, Sephiroth is not a villain. He is a man trying to make the ruin make sense. We write his madness as lucid, his obsession as devotion twisted by divine infection. There is a certain beauty in it. And there is horror in the beauty. He becomes a fallen angel archtype not because he wants dominion (even though he would be the first to tell you he does), but because he can’t distinguish salvation from destruction anymore.

Through Bianca, he oscillates between craving connection and demanding surrender. We don’t soften him, but we do make him legible. His mythic scale is preserved by rooting his godhood in very personal grief. He’s not written as the world’s end. He’s written as a man who couldn’t bear its continuance without her.

Ultimately, writing Sephiroth in FWC means treating him not as a villain but as a gravity well. He is something that pulls people into orbit, changes their direction, and warps their truths. His presence shifts the entire shape of a narrative, just by existing in it.

And yet, at the center of all that collapse, there’s still a man with aching hands who once tried to understand who he was by reading moldy files and books in an underground study. We honor canon by not apologizing for his fall. We expand it by giving him a mirror: and a woman who refuses to look away from what stares back.

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Quick And Bitter, Slow And Sweet - Chapter 13!

Some more texting... and some progress!

He knew it shouldn’t bother him, not after everything. Hell, he was used to silence. They’d lasted 5 years without so much as getting CC’d in the same group email. The only problem was now, he wasn’t used to it anymore.  This felt different. This wasn’t the good riddance, no regrets kind of silence from before. This was her, in the thick of something, and him, stuck here, waiting. And caring . That part was new. Or maybe just resurfaced.

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Rebirth through Ruin, a Behind-the-Scenes Look at Fantasy Worlds Collide, an original-fandom hybrid

Fantasy Worlds Collide (FWC) uses a layered narrative structure where each arc is shaped by personal motivations that escalate into cosmic consequences. Storylines are interconnected across timelines and realities, with pacing that blends introspective quiet with high-stakes climax. Prophecy and foreshadowing are used to guide the reader through each stage of the journey, while the FFVII arc introduces dual threads that weave canon and OC developments seamlessly.

Each major arc acts as an act within a broader four-act saga. The climax is emotional as much as it is catastrophic. Through this, FWC balances intimacy with grandeur and personal stakes with universal themes.

Possible Trigger Warnings: abuse, body horror, cosmic horror, death, mind control, religious trauma, violence

The narrative structure of Fantasy Worlds Collide (FWC) is rooted in character-driven apocalypse, where the grand destruction of worlds is not an abstract inevitability but a direct consequence of deeply personal motivations. Each major arc focuses on individuals whose emotional wounds, obsessions, and convictions culminate in catastrophic change. Rather than villainy for villainy’s sake, FWC’s end-of-world scenarios are born of trauma, love, desperation, and distorted faith. These are themes that resonate with us. These motivations humanize cosmic events, creating a rich emotional core that grounds even the most surreal narrative threads.

Across the arcs, FWC’s story unfolds through interwoven destinies and multiple narrative threads. The plot isn't linear. It dances between timelines, perspectives, and planes of existence. Whether it’s Bianca facing her corrupted legacy or Genesis weighing loyalty against self-preservation, every decision casts ripples through other characters’ fates. This synchronicity emphasizes how fate, prophecy, and free will collide. Each arc echos themes from the others in different narrative mirrors. It’s not just about what happens, but how it impacts the whole.

Narrative pacing in FWC is deliberately layered. Each arc builds momentum through escalating stakes, starting in the personal and eventually expanding into planetary or metaphysical consequences. The story often slows for introspection, only to accelerate toward explosive confrontations or divine reckonings.

Key devices like prophetic visions, dreamscape interludes, and Lifestream echoes allow for foreshadowing without dumping exposition. Each moment is tethered to emotion, setting a tempo that breathes between chaos and calm.

The FFVII arc operates on dual tracks: one following the canon storyline (Meteorfall, Sephiroth’s Reunion, Advent Children fallout) and one threading in Bianca’s transformation and Shinra’s deeper corruption. These dual narratives not only intersect plotwise, but thematically. As Sephiroth’s godhood emerges from madness, Bianca’s own power becomes more potent through trauma and cosmic defiance. The arc’s structure is fractal. Zoom in and each scene is shaped by character bonds. Zoom out and you see the apocalypse unfolding, one bloody choice at a time.

Finally, the arcs in FWC are structured like a four-act saga: from the chaos of origins to the end of everything and the beginning again. Each arc offers a different angle on rebirth, legacy, and corruption. Pandemonix is the beginning: Bianca on the run from the cult that created her, Asmodeus in his prime, and Earth teetering on the edge of collapse. It sets the tone of instability and power imbalance that echoes throughout the rest of the saga. The FFVII arc follows as the fall from grace: Bianca’s descent into Shinra’s grip, her soul's long-awaited collision with Sephiroth, and the slow unraveling of her humanity as their bond strengthens. The kilonova arc is the crucible: the reckoning of Asmodeus, Genesis’s betrayal, and Bianca’s devouring of her own father. Godling is the resolution and rebirth, focusing on healing through next-generation characters and the reclamation of fractured legacies. This structure makes FWC both mythic and intimate: an apocalypse that remembers to be personal.

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“Speaking of time in the sun, Millie isn’t the only one showing the signs.” He trails the tip of a finger down the bridge of her nose. “You got quite a bit, too. Shows off your freckles.”

“You know how much you hate them.”

“And you know how much I like them. They’re cute. And like you always tell me, there’s nothing wrong with being cute.”

“He used to make fun of them all the time. Call them ugly. Then claim he wa slit joking and that I was too sensitive and…”

“I’m not him, Esme. I told you that five years ago. I’m not Mark.”

“I know that. I know who you are, Tyler. I know your heart. It’s just sometimes…”

“I’ll never be anything like him.”

“You would think I’d over it. It’s been almost seven years now. Since…him.”

“There’s a lot of things I’m still not over. That I don’t think I’ll ever leave completely behind.”

“Still, I didn’t mean to bring him up. Or get upset over my freckles. I know you mean the things you say; all the compliments and the praise and the adoration. I know you’re not him. I’ve always known that. And I’m sorry that…”

“There’s no reason to be sorry. I get it, Esme. I know the thing he said. The shit he did. And it has been five years. We’re just getting back into things. Making our way back to where we ere. There’s gonna be some hiccups.”

“Why are you like this?”

“Like this. With me. You’ve always been this way; you’re patient and understanding and you don’t get your feelings hurt if I misstep or say something wrong.”

“I’m not some fragile little being that’s going to get his ass in a bunch.”

“You’re just different with me. Than you are with other people. You always have been. Why?”

Tyler shrugs, drops a kiss on the top of her head, then gently lightly taps and squeezes her ass. “I love you.”

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Ashes to Silence - An FWC / FF 7 Crossover Drabble Fic

Summary: Sephiroth and Genesis reflect on Bianca’s devastation of the Abyss and the reckoning that follows, as the world edges toward annihilation and rebirth.

Pairing: Sephiroth x Bianca Moore (f!oc)(referenced)

Other Characters: Genesis Rhapsodos

Possible Trigger Warnings: patricide, death, destruction, psychological transformation, divine violence, post-apocalyptic themes, screaming, burning, and emotional detachment, large-scale annihilation.

“Bianca devoured her father,” Genesis said, watching the Abyss fracture in the distance.

Sephiroth didn’t blink. “Asmodeus lasted longer than expected.”

A brief pause.

“She screamed,” Genesis added, almost softly.

“She screams when she’s free,” Sephiroth replied. "It is a cycle that always repeats."

Genesis’s eyes narrowed. “And what of the princes she burned?”

“They were never gods. They are and will only be memories.”

“Still, my old friend, she’s different now.”

Sephiroth’s lips curled. “So are we.” He turned. His coat caught in the embered air. “This world ends not in fire. It ends in clarity and it begins again with her.”

And Genesis — half alien, half human, and half traitor — watched the silence behind him deepen like a blade unsheathed, wondering just what ending he aided.

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We Fly Now - An Original / FF 7 Crossover Fic

Summary: Bianca and Sephiroth teach their four-year-old twins, Aurora and Lucien, how to glide using harnesses as part of their wing strengthening routine.

Pairing: Sephiroth / Bianca Moore(f!oc)

Other Characters: Aurora Moore(f!oc), Lucien Moore(m!oc)

Possible Trigger Warnings: This piece contains childlike dialogue and depictions of children in flight training using gliders and harnesses. It includes mild physical exertion, teasing between siblings, and parental supervision in a fantasy setting. All content is age-appropriate and lighthearted.

Lucien’s glider wobbled. “Mama! I’m gonna FALL.”

“You’re gliding, cherub,” Bianca cooed, tightening her hand on the rope. “Not falling. Flying lazy.”

From the other slope, Aurora shrieked, “I’m faster than Papa!”

“No,” Sephiroth muttered, running ahead of her glider. “You are not.”

Wings flaring, her tiny back muscles twitching in concentration.

Lucien stuck out his tongue at her mid-air. “You’re still a stinky-face.”

“Am not!”

“Are too!”

Bianca caught Lucien mid-glide with a laugh, spinning him. “You’re both brilliant sky beasts.”

Lucien puffed his cheeks. “I am a beast.”

“Big scary one,” Sephiroth murmured, as he with Aurora on his hip. His voice was tender. “We’ll teach the sky your name.”

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Stillness in Scars: A character deep dive for Bianca Moore, a FWC / FF 7 OC

When we talk about intimacy in fiction, it’s easy to default to grand romantic gestures or high-stakes confessions. But for characters forged in trauma, intimacy often arrives in smaller, quieter forms like the way they allow themselves to be touched.

The first article in this week’s Blorbo Blursday explores the physical and emotional terrain of Bianca Moore, a character whose celestial birthright and corrupted body make even the simplest acts of affection feel seismic. Cuddling, for Bianca, is not just a comfort. It’s a crucible. And in that stillness, we see the parts of her she tries hardest to hide.

Possible Trigger Warnings: Abuse, body horror, emotional trauma, medical experimentation, PTSD, self-image issues, sexual trauma, touch aversion

Bianca Moore was not made for softness. Fate didn't have softness in mind when it created her soul and split it into two halves. She was engineered for survival. From the moment of her prophetic birth, touch was something weaponized against her: a doctor’s scalpel, a cultist’s hand, and a demonic father’s claws. Her earliest associations with physical contact were laced with control, restraint, and pain. Even the touch of those she loved was often a prelude to betrayal or death. As a result, Bianca’s relationship with cuddling, or any form of prolonged touch, was one of volatility. It existed at the uneasy intersection between craving and dread, as well as vulnerability and resistance.

Yet Bianca did crave it, in the way starved things do. Her body remembered warmth even when her mind told her it was a risk. She longed for the kind of touch that didn’t demand anything, just the quiet affirmation of another heartbeat near her own. But she rarely sought it. To initiate contact was to risk exposure. Her strength came from control: of her emotions, of her space, and, ultimately, of her image. Letting someone hold her, or worse holding them back, meant surrendering that control, even momentarily. And for someone whose autonomy had been stolen more times than she could count, that was no small ask.

When Bianca did allow herself to cuddle, it was a rare and sacred thing. After the Nibelheim Incident, Bianca was not casual with her affection. She curled herself around someone only when her walls had already fallen and when her trust had already been tested by fire. Her style of cuddling was guarded at first: tense and watchful. But if the other person remained patient, if they didn’t flinch from her scarred skin or the way her Jenova and S-cell-infused body pulsed with otherworldly energy, she softened. Her limbs would relax. Her breath would slow. And slowly, she’d tuck herself into the space where safety used to live.

With Sephiroth, her most consistent partner in vulnerability, cuddling became a language all its own. They didn’t speak much during those moments. Words felt unnecessary. If Bianca were honest, sometimes words felt even invasive. Instead, they communicated through the tension in their spines, the angle of their heads, the rhythm of their breathing. Bianca would often rest her head on his chest over his heartbeat, as if grounding herself in the proof that he was still there.

Ultimately, Bianca’s capacity for cuddling mirrored her greater arc: a slow, halting reclamation of agency over her body and emotions. She would never be someone who cuddled freely or often, but when she did, it was meaningful. It was a sign of trust hard-won and intimacy made holy.

For Bianca, cuddling wasn’t an indulgence. It was a rite of survival. And in a world that taught her to flinch from kindness, choosing to lean into someone’s arms instead was the most radical act of all.

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