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What I would wish the third title was named…

So, before they start to (potentially) drop the official subtitle for part three, I just want to quickly throw my personal favourite out there. (Though, I don’t think that this will actually be the real title.)

Please be aware, that there might be spoilers up ahead for those who do not know the original game.

Final Fantasy VII Regained.

What doesn’t fit the bill about it?

Mainly, the outward appearance – though no one knows for sure if there actually is an outwards appearance system or if it’s just a mere coincidence for the two titles.

As other players have already stated, there are some characteristics the words “Remake” and “Rebirth” share:

1) Both words are nouns.

2) Both words start with the prefix “re-“

3) Both words consist of two syllables in English or are written with four characters in katanaka.

“Regained” doesn’t fit in with characteristic number 1 as it is not a noun and not with characteristic number 3 as it would be written with in katanaka with five characters.

(But as the word “reunion” seems to have been out as a title candidate as well and this counts more than two syllables and would be written with five katanaka characters, it is rather unsure how much point three actually counts.)

Arguments in favour of “Regained”

1) The meaning. It is pretty similar to “Reclaim” which has already been discussed by other players.

But, reclaim has an active connotation, while regained could be understood as either active or passive. And it ties in with most characters:

Cloud – like regaining consciousness, will regain his real self

Tifa – regaining her childhood friend

Barret – regaining his “home”/reputation in North Corel

Red – regaining his family/tribe

Yuffie – regaining her pride of her family/Wutai

Cid – regaining his dream (of travelling to space)

Vincent – regaining his peace of mind/honour

Cait Sith/Reeve – this is a bit tricky, but it could be regaining his responsibility (as he was as a Shinra manager always on the more on the oppressed/powerless side) or maybe purpose

Aerith & Zack – highly depends on how this will be played and how much their roles will be diverted from the original

Sephiroth – also depends on what we will be shown or how many possible “endings”/worlds will be shown; could be regaining his “birth right” or regaining his humanity

2) Further levels

- “Final Fantasy VII Regained” could also apply line up with the concept of “when worlds unite”, returning back to the original world/game

- “Final Fantasy VII Regained” might reference to John Milton’s biblical poem “Paradise Regained”.

Since the original game, there have been theories analysing a connection between the game (especially Sephiroth & Jenova) and religious/spiritual/biblical contexts.

Furthermore, there is also the search for the “Promised Land”. Though strictly speaking, the Promised Land is not completely identical with Paradise; but one could argue that the Promised Land is something like Paradise on Earth.

In this regard, it would also tie in with the slightly more spiritual ring of “Rebirth”.

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Dialogue tips that actually work:

You are not writing a movie (ignore this if you are). The reader doesn't need to know every word the characters say for the duration of the story. Less is more.

Dialogue can happen within the prose. "And they awkwardky discussed the weather for five minutes" is way better than actually writing five pages of dialogue about the weather.

Balance your dialogues. Surprise yourself with a monosyllabic answe to a dialogue that's ten sentences long. Don't be afraid of letting your character use half a page for a reply or nothing at all!

Don't write accents phonetically, use slang and colloquialisms if needed.

Comma before "said" and no caps after "!?" unless it's an action tag. Study dialogue punctuation.

Learn the difference between action tags and dialogue tags. Then, use them interchangeably (or none at all).

Don't be afraid to use said. Use said if characters are just saying things, use another word if not. Simple. There's no need to use fancy synonyms unless absolutely necessary.

Not everyone talks the same way so it makes sense for your characters to use certain words more often than others. Think of someone who says "like" to start every sentence or someone who talks really slow. Be creative.

Use prose to slow down the pace during a conversation.

Skip prose to speed up the pace during a conversation.

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ラッピングリボン　　(´▽｀*) ﾜﾊｰ Holiday craft!

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繕い　　(；ﾟДﾟ) ﾅﾝﾄｫ Mending a sweater

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Male Scifi and Fantasy writers: Look at this !Strong! female character! She can fight and solve puzzles, and ends up with the sidekick not the hero! Isn’t she a great character?

Everyone: No, she’s one-dimensional and still only exists to please the hero’s ego

Male scifi and fantasy writers: You’re never happy! This is how characters are written! Besides, it’s much harder for us to write women because we are men!

Terry Pratchett: *creates a female character who is literally the embodyment of a dog, sets her up to be the love interest of Protagonist Hero Man.* *writes her as clever, emotionally tortured, lonely and powerful* *uses her to explore difficulties of bisexuality and masculine dominated workforces*

Terry Pratchett: *Creates a pair of old witches, one of whom is a virgin and the other who has slept with lots of men.* *makes them best friends, never dismisses one lifestyle of the other, explains lifestyle choices based on characters history and personality, uses this to develop each character as the books progress*

Terry Pratchett: *Writes Sybil Rankin* *makes the powerful rich lady heavy set but beautiful, never plays her by her looks, develops her as she ages, acknowledges the way society views such people and then spits on their attitudes* *does it again with Agnes*

Terry Pratchett: *Writes a book about an entire army secretly being women, creates complex female relationships, introduces same sex relationships completely naturally*

Terry Pratchett: *takes old joke about female dwarves and uses it to explore gender identity without making it seem forced or unnatural, carefully discusses some of the issues and complextities whilst still making funny and witty observasions and maintaining genuine fantasy tropes*

Terry Pratchett: *DOES THIS ALL OVER AND OVER AGAIN, DEVELOPING CHARACTERS AS HIS VEIW OF THE WORLD DEVELOPS AND CAREFULLY APOLOGIZES FOR EARLY MISTAKES*

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Ancient lock mechanism

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this is such incredible advice for creating any kind of art i have to put it over here to remind myself

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Reblog if you think public libraries are important and should be maintained.

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Physical painting impact ❤️

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writing and craft and stuff

"Mia do you have any writing advice pet peeves"

why, yes i do. presented without too much comment:

it's a scam because you need to use both things to tell a story effectively. if it's all show, your novel is going to be over 200k words and half of it will probably be a travelogue. if it's all tell, we'll have a hard time getting into the characters' thoughts and feelings. show, don't tell exists to help newer writers explore what's going in their characters' minds. it's not a hard and fast rule once you've learned how to characterize and give context. so please, do some telling. do some beautiful telling.

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No, Sir Galahad is not in the Bible, and I never said he was.

OK, so in my series of posts and lectures about my work on Neil Gaiman's Chivalry, I pointed out that Sir Galahad's first appearance in Arthurian fiction was in the Vulgate, and that his name was originally spelled Galaad. Therefore the spelling in Neil Gaiman's Chivalry is correct, and Galahad is a later variant spelling.

Someone recently took me to task for saying this meant that I claimed Sir Galahad was in the Bible, and yet Sir Galahad appears nowhere in the Bible.

I never said Sir Galahad was in the Bible.

I said he was in the Vulgate.

Vulgate means "common version" in Latin.

The confusion here stems from the word "vulgate" which often refers to the 4th century Latin translation of the Bible commonly known as the Vulgate Bible.

But "vulgate" is also a term used to refer to The Lancelot-Grail Cycle, a 13th century French Arthurian cycle which is also known as the Vulgate or Vulgate Cycle -i.e. common version. Later translations of this work are known as Post-Vulgate.

Specifically, Galahad or Galaad appears in the Vulgate Queste del Saint Graal.

Happy to help.

Chivalry is available wherever fine books are sold, and you can come see me at the San Diego Comic Con Museum on October 4 where I will be signing and lecturing and showing art. Thanks.

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You ever think about how crows are acting not unlike how early humans probably did and you're just like. Oh ok

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May Sarton, from Recovering: A Journal

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Location found?

I haven't seen this mentioned as of yet - and maybe I am off -, but I think there will already an out-of-order-sidetrip down to Mideel.

Those curtain like things in the background could easily be partionings for patients.

And this guy bears a certain resemblance to the physician in Mideel from the original game, who was treating Cloud.

For comparisons sake:

And one more guess would be that also the temple of the Ancients might be included.

If I remember correctly at least one Sephiroth clone was present at the Temple of the Ancients in the original game.

PS:

Is that Elmyra in the background?

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saca kintsugi

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Saying goodbye to summer, another piece from a gallery show opening next year! 🌿