#ever crisis

[onewinged-sephiroth]

TIFA IN FEATHER STYLE

[rosy-crow]

Every time we joke about Sephiroth not knowing crass slang, I’m like “Hahaha yes this is joke” but then I remember that this kid….

LITERALLY DIDN’T KNOW THAT WHISTLING TO ROUND PEOPLE UP WAS A RUDE GESTURE FDGBHJS

I shouldn’t laugh because it’s horrible and clearly Hojo didn’t teach him how to socialize normally, but it’s funny how the “not being familiar with crass slang” thing would probably have been pretty accurate actually. He’s apparently suuuper polite speech-wise in the Japanese translation as a kid, but not as formal in CC, so hopefully Gen and Angeal taught him slang and whatever else.

[priceofreedom]

good morning Zifa nation we've been blessed today 😍😍😍😍

[robboyu]

beat her to it

[phoenixcatch7]

Okay but why haven't we had a time travel/fix it fic where after some shenanigans everyone decides to take down shinra, they split up to take out the important figures, sephiroth obviously takes hojo for any and all of a dozen good reasons.

And then hojo pulls a winter soldier sleeper code on him.

And then everyone is suddenly dealing with a brainwashed sephiroth.

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Hojo has to have some way to control sephiroth as he grew into his monstrous strength and power, yes? And learned helplessness isn't enough of a reassurance your prized military leader powerhouse isn't going to wake up one day and realise just how easily he could paint the labs walls red with chunks of you. And because hojo is obsessed with total power and control, dealing with a murder machine with huge mental issues, it'd only be fitting he create his own emergency shutdown.

In the most needlessly traumatic and mentally violating way, of course. Would sephiroth even know, if he couldn't remember? Would he have long stretches of emptiness in his memories that never get explained to him, or would he wake up where he'd blacked out, just another day in the labs?

Imagine, his allies watching on the cameras, as sephiroth stalks into the labs, a predator sighting its prey, exchanging a few cold words with hojo, raising masamune... And then hojos mouth opening, sephiroth going stiff like an animatronic, rearranging himself on the floor where he stood, face hidden behind his hair. Hojo leaves the room and he doesn't move, doesn't respond to any comms or passing scientists accidentally rolling a cart over his coat and hair.

Hojo ordering sephiroth to reveal their plans, their allies, their resources. Sephiroth doing it. Hojo deciding to punish sephiroth for the rebellion with lab procedures, or hojo ordering him to hunt down his co conspirators and end the takeover. Sephiroth doing so, heavy in his steps, crashing through walls and doors, heedless now of morals or civilians, silent, unresponsive. So completely unlike the jenova malice they'd been prepared to fight, that sephiroth had been bracing against. No arrogance, no mocking, no dramatic battlefield or hungry glowing eyes.

The puppeteer becomes the puppet, and with it, every trace of holding back. The perfect soldier.

I imagine the first trigger word would be lucrecia.

[altocat]

When you have exhausted every possible theory for the First Soldier ending and it’s 3 am and you can’t take it anymore:

My brain is so fried I've self-gaslit myself over the plot so many times I don't even know what's real anymore vjckfkdldkxkckdkxkcnsbshsjsk

[hiwthi-sh]

Glacier Armor

[getvalentined]

Ever Crisis: The First SOLDIER [September 7, 2023]

[allisonmckenzieart]

The new Garnet!Aerith along with my concept for a Freya!Aerith! Thank you for the food, Ever Crisis!

[crisp-art]

ever crisis (I haven't played it yet)

[pink-linoleum]

Recommended For Deployment.

[guardianot]

Hypocrite

[rosy-crow]

“One of Professor Hojo’s SOLDIERS”

[ittybittypixel]

You know Sephiroth had to have gone through an awkward hair phase, trying to grow out his short hair to what it is now. 😩

[crylin]

"you're my Hero!" 🌻✨

[onewinged-sephiroth]

😞