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I recognize that Sephiroth post-Nibelheim feeling like a completely different character than human Sephiroth is intentional and is good writing.

But I still prefer sane Sephiroth. A lot of what makes Sephiroth an interesting character to me is from when he was still human and still sane. His compassion, his love for the people he cared about, his self-sacrificing nature, that’s all gone after Nibelheim. I can appreciate Jenovaroth for what he is, but sane Sephiroth is the character I most care about.

And that is why I will never understand the people who genuinely hate it when Sephiroth’s character is fleshed out and would prefer if he was a generic mysterious villain with no backstory. Jenovaroth is a good and interesting character because we learn his backstory and get the payoff for the mystery around him. Say whatever you want about the compilation, but I much prefer what we get of Sephiroth in the compilation over the hypothetical world where we never learn anything about him at all

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@foreststarflaime

Have been dealing with both art block and writer's block, so I tried to break the former with some sketches of a certain silver soldier (+ my design for his dragon version).

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Socially Awkward-Roth

Miniroth: "WAIT FUCK THAT CAME OUT WRONG NOOOO"

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It’s like seeing a ghost….

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EXCUSE ME @ryanthel0ser THIS FUCKED ME UP

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EXCUSE ME @ryanthel0ser THIS FUCKED ME UP

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NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

The funny thing is that Sephiroth is just impressionable enough to take Angeal and Genesis to the Honeybee Inn thinking it's going to be a wholesome bonding experience.

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“The Honey Bee Inn? What’s that?”

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I know mods and artists are doing it for us but I find it amusing when Sephiroth has no pauldrons he looks easily throwable.

He looks tinier even for a 6’7 cat man.

Hc that those pauldrons help him look big and intimidating.

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ON IT

Does anyone have a gif of Miniroth's cat head tilt from the newest chapter of First Soldier, I fear I need it

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@altocat Made this for us lmao

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5 likes to hug a Miniroth

10 likes to give Sephiroth a comfy sleep

20 likes to give Sephiroth pumpkin soup

35 likes to bring Angeal and Genesis back to Sephiroth

50 likes to provide Sephiroth with free therapy

75 likes to rescue Sephiroth from The Horrors™ of Hojo

100 likes to find Sephiroth's missing necklace

1000 likes to Prevent the Nibelheim Incident 😈

EDIT: Your love and prayers have awakened the will of the Lifestream

1000 NOTES to Prevent the Nibelheim Incident 🌠🌠🌠🌠

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Yesssssss!! Homeschooled dork Sephiroth is real.

I love how he’s still like a shy kid around Glenn even almost ten years later

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I love how he’s still like a shy kid around Glenn even almost ten years later

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Every time you write Sephiroth angst ^

I regret nothing.

You love it.

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What if Sephiroth had his break down in Midgar instead of Nibelhelm?

...This is Part 4 of the little angst fest I was cooking up last night. The plot being "what if Genesis died of his illness a bit later in his 30's" 😈

After receiving Angeal's letter and forbidden from attending Gen's funeral in Banora, Sephiroth...gives up. Shinra has become extremely restrictive of his comings and goings, still forcing him to fight, refusing to let him retire without some measure of full control over his life. When he's not on the battlefield, he's in Midgar. And he's always heavily monitored. They sense he wants to run. They sense his mounting frustration. It doesn't matter if he's getting older--he belongs to THEM. He still is of use to them. They cannot let him go.

So when they prevent him from seeing Genesis and threaten to permanently lock him up if he misbehaves...the subsequent loss of one of his dearest friends breaks him. Sephiroth becomes a mindless shell of his former self, drifting like a sleepwalker day after day. He takes a cocktail of tranquilizers every morning just to be able to function, completely mindless to his surroundings, puppeted by his handlers, without expression. He spends lot of his alone time sleeping, or staring blankly at the wall. Hojo makes himself responsible for having Sephiroth on a strict schedule, constantly carting his son around, admittedly troubled by Sephiroth's zombie-like state, but at least thankful that Sephiroth appears to have finally stopped talking about retirement. Sephiroth actually doesn't really talk much at ALL. He just stares. Sometimes he needs someone to bathe him or feed him. Sometimes he's just...empty. Devoid of a soul.

When the breakdown comes, it's unexpected, seemingly at random. On a calm summer night, cadets and troopers are awoken to the sound of a siren going off, shocked to find that a cataclysmic fire has begun to engulf the entire building. In their efforts to escape, they fail to see Sephiroth's looming form gliding directionlessly down the halls, still covered in Hojo's blood, unblinking, mumbling vaguely about "reunion" and his mother calling to him. He will go to her. She will stop the pain forever. He needs her. He can feel her now, so very far away. But he will find her.

After he's done with the city.

Zack and Cloud get out just in time to watch all of Midgar go up in flames, the streets overwhelmed with screaming civilians, the very plate itself collapsing from the titanic force of the blaze.

"It's horrible..." Zack mutters. Cloud shudders and covers his face with his arms.

Above, outlined somewhere across the milky slit of the summer moon, Sephiroth overlooks the chaotic spectacle, his eyes dull, his face still without expression, watching the world come apart.

He feels nothing. Not joy. Not vengeance. Not regret.

He's just....tired.

So very tired.

But it's almost over. She waits for him. She calls to him.

It's time to let go....

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Something about that little side-quest in Rebirth where the monster in the Shinra Manor basement is singing the “trail of blood” theme to possibly console itself and Vincent is the only one that grasps that and knows the monsters of Hojo in particular are miserable creatures just all feels like Big Foreshadowing (TM) for Part 3 when Hojo will reveal he “created” Sephiroth via his part in the Jenova Project in that gloomy ass Manor all those years ago and the Trail of Blood theme will play like it does in the OG and Vincent will have the most visceral reaction because for fucks sake, he knew it was bad but still, what a tragic tale of monsters and their creators