#cloud is so very pretty

[ff7-has-taken-me-over]

Logically, Zack knew that the Mako enhancements would’ve somewhat changed Cloud’s physical appearance, they definitely worked some wonders on Zack’s physique. Especially so once he’d started regularly working out and started all the SOLDIER missions.

But knowing something in theory and then knowing it in practice were two, very different things after all. Hence why Zack was now staring wide eyed and open mouthed as Cloud and the girls walked down the steps toward the beach he and Barret were on.

The girls looked wonderful of course, Aerith’s chosen beach wear as flowy as her usual dresses and Tifa’s clothes doing wonders on showing off her hard earned muscles. Honestly Cloud’s board shorts and sandles were stupidly simple in comparison.

But Zack had also never seen him in anything less than a t-shirt and jeans. So being suddenly faced with miles of pale, soft looking skin going just a little pink under the sunlight? And the slim yet cut muscles that gave him broad shoulders and a sinfully thin waist?

Zack felt like he was gonna suffer a heat stroke even though he was in the shade. Barret was glaring at everyone around them, whether it was cause of the people picking on the black robes or cause of the amount of eyes leering at their three companions, he wasn’t sure.

But he knew he was glaring at the guys walking up to the three of them, especially the ones talking specifically to Cloud. Zack could feel his hackles raise when one of them got a little too close for comfort, Cloud reeling back a little with an uncomfortable frown.

Tifa and Aerith didn’t seem to notice, talking to some girls that had come toward them and asked about their clothes. Zack took it as his chance to intervene, walking over and shoving between the guy and Cloud just a touch too roughly.

The guy made a disgruntled noise but Zack paid it no mind when he had his blond in his arms, looking up at him with a hint of amusement in his stoic features. The older man merely smiled back at him, squeezing his waist between his hands and silently crying over just how far his hands went around it.

Zack took another moment before turning toward the guy still standing there, shooting him a smug smile as he let his arm rest around his shorter counterparts waist, fingers dipping just under the waist band. The small peek of blue boxers nearly sent Zack running back to Johnny’s crappy little hotel, Cloud slung over his shoulders and subtlety thrown out the window. Not that he was being very subtle in that moment.

[hecksupremechips]

Come back home when you have some sense

You can throw your life away just not at my expense

You’re not the son I raised

[bird-inacage]

A Fuaiz Thanawat Gifset | He Brings Flowers

[yuriyuruandyuraart]

sunset

[demigod-of-the-agni]

Peter Parker if he got bit by a radioactive sword ☢️🟢⚔️

if I had a nickel for every time I made a Spider-Man au based off a video game, I'd have three nickels, which isn't a lot but it's concerning that it's happened three times. This au is the spidey/final fantasy vii mashup, where Peter becomes the Unreliable Narrator

anyway someone pretty please write this au for me <333 I'll pay you <3333333

bg variants under the cut

the BIGGEST dilemma(s) was figuring out if I should

A) keep the eyes in my art style (no colours, just the highlight), bc ngl it makes him seem more babey (pic 1),,, or

B) add the mako-glow to the eyes so i could be lore-accurate.... also I spent a lot of time!! on colouring in those pixels!!!!! dammit!!!!!!!!! (pic 2) and

C) OF COURSE i was struggling to choose between the white and red backgrounds!!!!! evil me!!!!!!! making difficult creative decisions!!!!!!

i will,,,, try to draw the other peeps as well (mj as tifa and gwen as aerith ,,, mmm yesss esysey yes ssss) but i fear the monkey brain has already died........ i will try tho,,,,,,,,,,

[haunted-xander]

A big part of why Zack's death hits so hard (for me at least) is that Zack is someone who cares so so so much for people and managed to get so many people to care about him in return. Angeal cared for him enough to the point he prefered to die by Zack's hands over anyone else, and entrusted him with a precious family heirloom. Even Sephiroth (prior to the Nibelheim incident) very clearly has somewhat of a soft spot for Zack, being one of the few people he's shown deliberately being nice to.

Even the turks care for him! Cissnei is obvious as she and Zack formed a pretty personal connection throughout crisis core, but even Tseng clearly enjoys his company and often plays along with his jokes and antics.

I'm not gonna dig deep into his relationships with Aerith and Cloud (that's for another post if I ever feel like it), but they are also so so so important to him.

And, personally, what makes this all even worse, is that Zack probably knew he'd die by Shinra's hands eventually. By this point, he already laments the situation he's in, being stuck working for a company he KNOWS is massively corrupt and doesn't care for anything but their own agenda, and being unable to do anything about it. Acting out and rebelling against them doesn't work (as proven by Genesis and Angeal) and he can't just leave and be done with it (Zack knows too much for Shinra to just let him go, and even if he COULD leave, it wouldn't change anything)

But, at the very least, his death wasn't meaningless. Zack managed to save one of the people he loved the most, and that person then went on to do what Zack couldn't. It's all because of Zack that Cloud is not only alive, but also has the strength necessary to move forward.

Zack, man.

[gummi-ships]

Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep - Olympus Coliseum

[donutsalami]

The sky is so fucking pretty, how is it allowed to go from beautiful to beautiful to beautiful to beautiful to beautiful to

[intermundia]

a couple hours of cloud shadows

[fruitybashir]

A SEM TI POVEDAL TOMORROW!!

a sem ti povedal tomorrow!!!!! <3333

[thethingything]

this week's progress on the Big Drawing has once again been mostly lighting and shading again but we are having fun with that and that's the most important thing. anyway here are some close up screenshots because I feel like we haven't done many lately

[peanutblowandjobsandwich]

pmdd behaviour fr oof

[veeloopz]

@arikad0 :D

[darkclouud9]

I may have thieved some colours....

drew what I'm wearing but HELLA simplified

[keeps-ache]

i'm sitting here thinking 'oh i should draw something' while forgetting that i am actually in the middle of drawing a something. the wonders of the human braaain

[b3tweenworlds]

(ocean and wave thing, so pay no mind)