They grow up so fast! Rufus Shinra is a good dad, but Dark Nation/Dark Star is a VERY good girl who deserves both a big ball of yarn AND a nice marrow bone for the extremely hard job she has of Daddy Blease I Am Doin A Protecc.
I just read that FF7 the First Soldier takes place 30 years before the actual game...Rufus is 30...does that mean we could maybe see baby Rufus!? And maybe his mother!? I so hope that they do some kind of backstory on old man Shinra just for this.
This is wishful thinking maybe, but I would be the happiest fangirl if they did something along these lines.
[video description: a video taken from a high up balcony in New York of the rest of the city, it is only really possible to make out buildings, however, the cheers and other general celebratory noises, such as clapping and ringing bells, can be heard over the ambient noise of the city \End description]
If anyone deserves a raise it’s the employee from four seasons total landscaping who answered the phone and went “yup, we can set up a podium and everything” and just acted like nothing was out of the ordinary.
I was curious to see what Rufus would look like without his coat/jacket so I gave it a try. Once you carefully delete the jacket (it’s really sort of a peacoat) you see that the skirt portion is all connected to the pants and raver belts (looks a bit hakama like to me). I knew that he was wearing a tie & button down shirt beneath the jacket so I reconstructed the shirt. If Rufus were to take his jacket off, then, it should look something like this.
PS–I still can’t believe he wore a tie with raver pants. The man is a legend.
new fan translations for the ultimania are out, complete with a different choice of words for rufus’s bio
translation done by TomodachiTalia on twitter. full gdoc can be found here.
/wiggles butt in chair
rufus orchestrated the attack on shinra hq as a direct response to platefall CONFIRMED (the previous translation merely implied it, this one basically outright confirms it)
am very interested to see if it’s because he was legitimately outraged by it or if it’s because he simply saw an opportunity and took it
considering the fact that reno and rude felt so overwhelmingly guilty for what happened, i am leaning far closer towards the former
pair that with the fact that rufus can see the whispers and i really do think they’re going to give him antihero status instead of villain status moving forward
not sure how that’s going to play out but i can fuck wit dis