#argento ffvii

[someartistsammy]

Some random sketches + a wip

Most of these are from July-Now with exception of the Sephiroth and Lucia wip piece actually being from back in January.

Continuing to push my Lucia-Argento bs

[tiredvampire92]

An old Argento/Rosso I’ve always loved🥰

[sasammy]

Started this piece over a year ago and finally finished it (which is why she has a sword) but I have a bunch of thoughts about Lucia Lin becoming Argento from DOC.

[aiki-art]

Idont know anything abt her i just think she’s neat ^-^

[buffaloborgine]

What do you want to see in part 2 of the remake?

Playable optional members of the Cloud & Co party like Vincent and Yuffie joining the team. Also Cid.

And a glimpse of Genesis along with Rosso and Azul will be great.

And we should get information about what the eff is going with Zack.

[terra-fatalis]

Is Sonon really dead?

Yuffie’s mission in Midgar ended unsuccessfully. Shinra destroyed the base of her allies in Sector 7, she couldn’t get hold of the Ultimate Materia and, most importantly, Sonon died in order to save her.

His death gives a sense of closure to this newly introduced character. Although being quite short, the DLC is full of clever parallels between Yuffie and Melphie, Sonon's younger sister who got killed in front of his eyes during the Wutai war. He failed to save Melphie back then, but he can save Yuffie now.

But the big question is: is Sonon really dead?

The OST playing during the death scene is Seeing Melphie again. After getting stabbed, he has a vision of his little sister (a very touching moment tied to FFVII theme of reunion in the afterlife) accompanied by a bitterweet piano melody, that gets always softer until his last breath. But just when Nero seems to finish Sonon off, instead of mercilessly swallowing him into the darkness, he gently picks him up while the music digresses in an ominious and mysterious tone, hinting that his role may be not over yet.

But what could Nero want from Sonon?

I think the answer may be deduced diggin a bit into Dirge of Cerberus lore.

There's a not very well known entry related to the main DoC game (especially by the western audience since it had been released only in Japan and for a very short period of time): Dirge of Cerberus Multiplayer on-line. While some of the missions were later included in the international release of DoC, the plot of this game got lost despite its importance for the full understanding of the Deepground dynamics.

Here is a link for an excellent article from thelifestream.net that tries to keep a record of this expired entry, and here's a playlist of cutscenes from the game with English subtitles that helps understanding the main plot (btw, a great YT channel where you can also find localized playthroughs of rarities like DoC Lost Episode and Before Crisis).

A quick summary about Deepground and the Multiplayer game.

Deepground is a top secret facility created by President Shinra and located beneath the slums (remember that underground lab where Cloud, Barret and Tifa went to save Wedge? That's Deepground) where troopers and SOLDIERs - but also unaware civilians - endure severe experimentations that push their bodies and minds to the limit, aiming to create ruthless SOLDIERs with no moral boundaries. The elite DG SOLDIERs are known as Tsviets, like Weiss, Nero, Argento, Shelke, Rosso and Azul. To avoid any rebellion each candidate and Tsviet has a restriction chip implanted in their brain controlled by four Restrictors loyal to President Shinra. This mechanism is particoularly useful to control those Tsviets who don't make a distinction between allies and enemies.

Because of this the Tsviets started to secretly plot against Shinra until they finally understood how to cheat the system. Shelke and Argento found a way to implant a non-working chip in a candidate, so that they could kill the Restrictors. The protagonist of DoC Multiplayer is indeed this candidate (gender and name chosen by the player). Thanks to her special abilities Shelke tricked the candidate into seeing a supporting partner, Usher, who helped them into ranking as a Tsviet, and most importantly she instilled the hatred towards the Restrictors giving to the candidate false memories of a little sister brutally killed by one of them. In the end the candidate managed to kill one of the Restrictors but got stabbed as well. This is the final dialogue of the game:

Weiss: Can this one still be of any use?

Shelke: Negative. The prolonged SND [Synaptic Net Dive] has rendered most of the brain inaccessible. It's only a matter of time before it breaks down completely.

Rosso: Really? After all that hard work. What a shame.

Weiss: Then hurry up and find a suitable replacement. After all no one knows what the Restrictors really look like.

Azul: So we have to find another one? This is becoming frustrating.

Weiss: It can't be helped. Only one out of hundreds can make it this far.

Rosso: Ordinary humans simply aren't as strong as we are.

Weiss: Precisely.

Shelke: Well, it's actually quite simple. With the help of the HJ Virus I am able to hack into Patricia [computer system] and bypass security. Then all that's needed is to pick a suitable subject before it's implanted with the chip.

Weiss: Shelke, find a new one quickly.

The devs had never provided any time reference for the Multiplayer story but now, with Intergrade, we know for sure that the Tsviets are still under Shinra's control when Yuffie and Sonon met Nero on December 12, and, while the President will be killed the next night, it seems clear that Scarlet is the one who will take full control of Deepground until her defeat the next month.

Conclusion

My theory is that Sonon could be the perfect person to replace the Tsviet-candidate and the dead Restrictor, so that Weiss and the gang can pursure their plan of rebellion gainst Shinra:

Unlike many soldiers Sonon has proved to be an extremely strong and capable fighter standing up to Nero.

He has the right motivation as he seeks revenge against Shinra - especially Scarlet - for the death of his younger sister, which Shelke could further manipulate.

Unlike any other Deepground candidate, he has no working restriction chip implanted.

Sure, one could argue that Nero severely wounded him, but the game clearly reminded us before the battle that Nero can easily disintegrate the bodies of his victims, while he reserves a different treatment to this particoular character. And, by the way, this wouldn't even be the first time a Tsviet pretends to kill someone as Shelke did the same with the Tsviet-candidate. As far as I know the main DoC game never explained how the Tsviets overpowered the remaining Restrictors, who replaced the Tsviet-candidate or what happened to Argento - who isn't part of the DoC cast. Sonon might be the missing piece of this sub-plot that may lead to new secondary arcs that could tie a bit more Deepground to the main FFVII story.

[silver-wield]

I think it was you that proposed the theories, but I have some questions: 1) What was your thoughts on the idea of Argento possibly being Tifa's mom & that they're from Wutai (due to her maybe putting Leviathan's Materia in the town well)? I DID look & Argento seems to have blue eyes (eye because eye patch) from the shots I could make out from them. Plus the only info we DO know about Tifa's mom is that she dies from an illness & we haven't physically seen her any from what I'm aware of.

2) Do you think they'll ever go into why Tifa has red eyes in the games? And/or if they'll hint to her & Vincent maybe being related somehow, like that they're cousins or something? I DO know that I saw your post where you pointed out they were the "original versions" of what would end up being Aerith & Sephiroth in the early "relationship chart" concept pic. (I don't know if her also being related to Yuffie somehow due to Wutai ties would be too much.)

3) Do you think Usher (the Dirge multiplayer character's guide) could have been turned into the Restrictor we meet in its story mode? We know who the VA of the latter is but we don't know about Usher's from what I was able to find, & it's been a bit since I've watched the cutscenes so I haven't compare them.

4) Do you think they could repurpose the plot point of the Player Tsviet being able to resist the Restrictor's control being either the previous Usher connection idea where his SOLDIER version is him trying to help & guide the player, or possibly Hojo trying out a "prototype" version of the plot he tries to preform with Weiss where he tries to mentally hijack him?

Hi 👋👋👋 welcome to the random weirdness that is my Tumblr 🤣

So the theory about Argento came before we got any info from ToTP, where we see that Tifa's mother is called Thea and she grew up in Nibelheim. It really was just a random shot in the dark all based on this one fact that Argento came from Wutai and looked a bit like Tifa and I have a weakness for super cool badasses. So it wasn't really anything serious, outside of looking up a bit of character info and connecting some very tenuous dots for fun and fanfiction fodder. I think I did actually use that HC in a fanfiction, so some of what I said at the time wound up being because I was working out stuff for that reason and thought it was a fun topic to talk about. There's so many characters and stories in ffvii and a lot of them get overlooked for the main cast or because salty dumdums don't want anybody to acknowledge anything, besides what they decide is important. So, it's actually a fact that Argento isn't Tifa's mother and isn't responsible for anything that happens in Nibelheim. We never find out why there's a materia in the water tower, but apparently it's been there for a long time.

Turns out that Nomura originally chose red eyes for Tifa because he liked the colour on her and how it fit with her aesthetic. Doesn't go any further than that with her design. Nojima is the one who had to work that into the world build, and I think at the time they didn't really pay it any mind and thought most people wouldn't either. Somewhere down the line they understood people's curiosity about Tifa's eyes, especially when they couldn't match the colour in AC and made them brown, so that really put attention on that aspect. With the expansion of world building through the compilation, we see several other characters with red eyes. Besides Vincent Valentine, there's also Rosso the Crimson from Dirge of Cerberus, and Matt Winsford from First Soldier, so I think the devs are trying to make an effort to normalise the eye colour while still getting the impression across that it's a fairly rare shade. And yeah, in early development Tifa and Vincent were brother and sister, and that's why they both have dark hair and red eyes, but they're clearly not related by the end of development, especially since Vincent is old enough to be her grandfather. As for Yuffie being Tifa's relative, that was a HC based mostly on ffx Yuna and Rikku being related because Nojima wrote both scenarios. I doubt it'd be true, but it's fun for fanfiction.

I honestly can't remember anything about the multi player mode for Dirge, so I can't really answer this. Last time I looked anything up for it was about 2yrs ago and it wasn't all that interesting for me so I very likely purged it from my brain 🤣

I doubt Nojima will pull any of the player aspect of Dirge from the game because that would take focus away from ffvii. At most, the devs have said they want to include a few references and locations from the compilation.

[sixrealmsbeneaththesea]

when in doubt, draw familiar things. i’m sputtering in the wind atm but at least things are done. i’m trying. just... this weather, you know? dreadful.

second experimental cover for one of my ancient ass fanfics. what does it say? what doesn’t it say? but moreover, when is and isn’t it appropriate to slap characters on the front cover of a story? versus, what... just... visual metaphors? idk lol.

tank top is very fitting. it says “i lost my old clothes in a hardcore chemical bath, them shits was one of a kind. but i can still rock normie gear. trust.”  good night

[vampireamon]

So I haven’t ever succeeded in doing a full month of October art. It’s always extremely busy with school. But I am setting a personal challenge for myself with a theme of drawings!

FFVII - Men (mostly) with Flowers. (Shinra Edition)!

For now the list!

1. Tseng (red roses) - status completed!

2. Lazard (lavender) - status completed!

Characters (to be drawn!)

Turks:

3. Reno

4. Rude

5. Elena

6. Veld

Executives:

7. Palmer (be ready for tea and lard friends)

8. Reeve Tuesti

9. Rufus Shinra

10. President Shinra

11. Scarlet

12. Professor Hojo

13. Heidegger

SOLDIER:

14. Sephiroth

15. Cloud

16. Kunsel

17. Zack

18. Angeal

19. Genesis

Science Department:

20. Chadley

21. Jenova

22. Lucrecia Crescent

23. Grimorie Valentine

Deepground:

24. Nero the Sable

25. Weiss the Immaculate

26. Shelke the Transparent

27. Azul the Cerulean

28. Rosso the Crimson

29. Argento the Silver

Special Extras!

30. Evan Townshend

31. Vincent Valentine

Wish me luck! I’d be really encouraged by any support as I really want to give this a go!

[raioseucliffe-cheney]

Sabertooth/Deepground

I just wondered what mage of Sabertooth could come along with the Tsviets on a mission?

Here is what I came up with ^-^’

Sting - Weiss

Rogue - Nero

Minerva - Argento

Yukino - Shelke

Orga - Azul

actually I haven’t found anyone suited to face Rosso, but maybe someone else knows who ;)

@weisstheimmaculate; @boundwithindarkness

[ao3feed-sephcloud]

Polarity

read it on the AO3 at https://ift.tt/2QJK2d7

by Sakibi

The planet is dying. Cloud is the last man and human on Gaia. In a last attempt to save itself from destruction, the planet, using the lifestream, puts its remaining strength in sending Cloud’s consciousness to the past. He wakes up to find himself 8 years old and very much the boy he had physically been before the enhancements. Too bad that he had to be sent back in time only to be caught up in the middle of Shinra’s war with Wutai. Cloud destroys Jenova and attempts to dissuade the war from further going too far. Unfortunately, the war’s casualties are far too much for Shinra to consider surrendering anymore and the sides are racing against the clock to forge a different future.

Words: 6488, Chapters: 3/?, Language: English

Fandoms: Final Fantasy VII, FFVII, Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children, Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII, Before Crisis: Final Fantasy VII, Dirge of Cerberus: Final Fantasy VII, Compilation of Final Fantasy VII

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences

Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Major Character Death

Categories: F/F, F/M, M/M

Characters: Sephiroth, Cloud Strife, Vincent Valentine, Lucrecia Crescent, Aerith Gainsborough, Zack Fair, Tifa Lockheart, Yuffie Kisaragi, Barret Wallace, Reeve Tuesti, Red XIII | Nanaki, the Turks, Rude, Reno, Tseng, Rufus Shinra, Elena, Hojo, Cid Highwind, Veld, Cissnei (Shuriken), Emma (Gun), Freyra (Shotgun), Alvis (Rod), Maur (Martial Arts), Judet (Martial Arts), Ruluf (Two Guns), Balto (Katana), Enzur (Nunchaku), Same (Katana), Avalanche - Character, Elfe, Fuhito, Shears, Sapphire WEAPON - Character, Emerald WEAPON - Character, Diamond weapon - Character, Ruby WEAPON - Character, Ultimate Weapon - Character, Jade WEAPON, Godo Kisaragi, President Shinra, Kunsel, Genesis Rhapsodos, Angeal Hewley, Hollander, Nero, Weiss - Character, Argento, Original Characters

Relationships: Sephiroth/Cloud, Vincent/Lucrecia, Zack/Aerith

Additional Tags: repost, Yaoi, Heterosexual, Homosexuality, Gay, Lesbian, straight - Freeform, Time Travel, War, Shounen-ai, Shoujo-ai, SOLDIER - Freeform, Avalanche, Wutai, Shinra Electric Power Company - Freeform

read it on the AO3 at https://ift.tt/2QJK2d7

[someartistsammy]

Posting my stupid little ff7 idea here. It probably holds literally zero ground and I'm going to cling to it with my entire being <3

[ao3-clack]

FFVII: Revival Unit

by PleaseForgiveMe (Equallady)

4 years after the Deepground Incident, Gaia is in grave danger yet again due to the newly-revived Shinra. As disaster strikes the Planet yet again, a resurrected boy with amnesia must survive with the help of his new friends. However, as he learns more about the history of Gaia and himself, he must confront the sinister truths behind his past.

Words: 26266, Chapters: 10/10, Language: English

Fandoms: Final Fantasy VII, Compilation of Final Fantasy VII, Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII, Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children, Dirge of Cerberus: Final Fantasy VII, Before Crisis: Final Fantasy VII, On The Way To A Smile: Final Fantasy VII, Final Fantasy VII Lateral Biography: TURKS ~The Kids Are Alright~ - Nojima Kazushige

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Categories: F/M, Gen, M/M, Multi

Characters: Sephiroth, Denzel (Compilation of FFVII), Marlene Wallace, Moogle Girl (Compilation of FFVII), Moogle Girl's Brother (Compilation of FFVII), Zack Fair, Angeal Hewley, Genesis Rhapsodos, Lucrecia Crescent, Cloud Strife, Tifa Lockhart, Aerith Gainsborough, Barret Wallace, Cid Highwind, Shera (Compilation of FFVII), Red XIII | Nanaki, Yuffie Kisaragi, Cait Sith (Compilation of FFVII), Reeve Tuesti, Vincent Valentine, Rufus Shinra, Tseng (Compilation of FFVII), Elena (Compilation of FFVII), Reno (Compilation of FFVII), Rude (Compilation of FFVII), Dark Nation, Shinra Electric Power Company, President Shinra, Scarlet (Compilation of FFVII), Heidegger (Compilation of FFVII), Hojo (Compilation of FFVII), Jenova (Compilation of FFVII), The Turks (Compilation of FFVII), Weiss the Immaculate, Nero the Sable, Rosso the Crimson, Azul the Cerulean, Argento (Compilation of FFVII), Shalua Rui, Shelke Rui, Lazard Deusericus, Hollander (Compilation of FFVII), Original Characters

Relationships: Sephiroth & Denzel, Sephiroth & Marlene Wallace, Sephiroth & Moogle Girl, Sephiroth & Moogle Boy, Denzel & Marlene Wallace, Denzel/Moogle Girl, Moogle Girl & Moogle Boy, Zack Fair & Sephiroth, Zack Fair & Angeal Hewley, Zack Fair & Denzel, Zack Fair & Genesis Rhapsodos, Angeal Hewley & Genesis Rhapsodos & Sephiroth, Denzel & Genesis Rhapsodos, Lucrecia Crescent & Sephiroth, Lucrecia Crescent/Vincent Valentine, Vincent Valentine & Sephiroth, Sephiroth & Hojo, Lucrecia Crescent & Hojo, Vincent Valentine & Hojo, Cloud Strife/Tifa Lockhart, Cloud Strife/Aerith Gainsborough, Zack Fair/Aerith Gainsborough, Cloud Strife/Zack Fair, Tseng & Aerith Gainsborough, tseng & elena, Reno/Rude, Sephiroth/Cloud Strife, Sephiroth & Cloud Strife

Additional Tags: Amnesia, Memory Loss, Loss of Identity, revival, World Travel, Human Experimentation, Child Soldiers, evil corporation, past sins, Forgiveness, Friendship, Reunion

from AO3 works tagged 'Zack Fair/Cloud Strife' http://ift.tt/2FYQ0kM via IFTTT

[sasammy]

Warmup / Sketch / WIP drop

[sasammy]

Sketch/practice/wip dump

[sasammy]

We barely have any content of her and yet I think the things she's done 2 my brain need to be studied.