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                                                   FFVII (JPN) - January 1997

A special thanks to @ex-atomos, @rhotdornn, @meandering-mind, @mischiefandmystics, @true-strike, @m-iasma for helping and letting me use your characters. 

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It ain’t often I get called on by glorious heroes like yourself. So tell me: what have I done to deserve you?

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When he recognizes you.

More art based on my favorite reaction images. This time, Emet-Selch doing the mic lady.

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snom boots

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“These spectacles look ok, right?”

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Safe zone 🙃

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Alphinaud: Could you guys at least try to see this from my perspective? WoL: *crouches down* Ysayle: *kneels down* Estinien: *sits on the floor* Alphinaud: Alphinaud: I hate all of you.

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imo the most iconic gayle moment is that one where she electrocutes herself using a dog collar to bake an apple pie with the edge of seventeen by fleetwood mac playing in the background 

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Long ago, in a grand palace built by the elves…

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THE WARRIORS OF LIGHT: Coco Cocoda, BRD

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Full and finished short-story of the black cat. Please have a heart for black pets in general, animals do not deserve this kind of hostility. Please give credit when reposting, Thank you :)

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ᴛʜᴇ ꜱʏꜱᴛᴇᴍ ʜᴏʟᴅꜱ ᴊᴜꜱᴛɪᴄᴇ ᴀᴛ ɢᴜɴᴘᴏɪɴᴛ 

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“Every cycle my connection to his crystal grows stronger, I wonder, given the chance, if I’d even desire to go home.” - Marius Septim, the Freeblade

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We’ll split you down the middle, This will only hurt a bit. It’s too hard being two-faced, isn’t it?

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Ok so maybe Emet-Selch was seen as a “”hero”” to his people, I Guess, which is why the WoL/fourteenth presumably dipped from that society/betrayed them as it’s implied - and something that one of my friends brought up that I’m more inclined to believe now- the Amaurotines probably brought about their own destruction, and then more and more by trying to weasel their way out of it. There are a couple throwaway dialogues about hubris/etc that make me think the sundering was in part at least caused by the Amaurotines themselves, and rather than try to stop it from the root of the cause they kept putting zodiark-sized bandaids on it rather than reflect on what and why this was happening- after all, what use to perfect/near-immortal beings have for self reflection and understanding their place in the world besides “we own it”. With the exception of Hythlodaeus the Amaurotines we meet (at least in shade form) seem utterly obsessed with conformity and the discussion of philosophy, advancement of technology, and morality- but only from an “”objective”” standpoint, kind of like Sharlayan but worse and much more widespread.

Their fatal flaw and Probably Purposeful contrast was the fact that they pretty much thought they were invincible and self-contained within themselves, because they could basically live forever, but in the end their desperation to save their own skins and society at the cost of other lives lead to them being completely eradicated and forgotten. Meanwhile, on the fucked up timeline you have generations of people and beastmen and dragons and all sorts of different folk (inter dimensional chocobos too!) who band together knowing they probably won’t they themselves be saved or live to see the results of their efforts- and with tech like what G’raha had that could traverse time and space in a way not even Emet-Selch seemed to understand- wouldn’t it have been easy for them to turn selfish and try to go back and save only their own skins? Except they didn’t, even at the cost of their own timeline, in order to send G’raha and Only Him to the past not with the intention of saving themselves but to unfuck the world and save other people from a world (worlds actually) they’ll never even get to see.

That kind of ability is probably the only thing Emet-Selch doesn’t predict during the course of Shadowbringers, he has no reason to lie about being unsure how they managed to figure out fucking time and space travel, and the irony in that is that he’s never going to understand because it was created in a way that is the antithesis of how he’s lived all these millennia- by passing on the torch from generation to generation, and accepting that someday, someone’s gonna achieve your goal with all this cumulative knowledge, but you’ll never live to see it through. That you can’t go back to the way things were, but you can change the future for the better, not for yourself but for everyone who’s going to be there.

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Flowers for the dead

Spider lilies also fit him very well ;;

A speedpaint video of this will be available at my Patreon on december 1st!

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Feeling cute, might found an empire later, idk. Emet-selch//Hades

by Maegraeth.