#i've been looking for a reason to remake this gifset

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spoiler warning for chapter 4 of rebirth - if you're after ch.5, you're good to go

a little headcanon & i still haven't played further than chapter 8 so i cant say if there's anything else alluding to this but off of the back of that ask / posting that gifset, i wanted to talk about heid's reasons for doing what he did and a little deeper look into things.

so, firstly - he did it because it's his job. if we're going to be cynical about this - that's why he did it. he's not only the director of security, but he's the right hand to the president. and the right hand to the president is tasked with protecting him at all costs. i've headcanoned before that heid was once essentially like secret service for president shinra. so his job would be taking bullets. personally, i am so happy that rebirth let it be him and not tseng ( im sorry tseng frends ) i just felt this being heidegger gives him an edge to his character that i have KNOWN is there but feel i've been fighting to represent since remake came out.

secondly - he sees rufus as an almost 'son' like figure / the son of his good friend. i can imagine shinra making heidegger vow to protect rufus at some point. be that when rufus was a child or older. heidegger takes vows very seriously. he is not the kind of person to swear by something and be talking shit. yes, he lies. yes, he spins propaganda. but if he swears - and i mean - swears to do something. he will do it. look at how entirely willing he is to jump in harms way. there is not a slither of hesitation. the man WILL save rufus regardless of cost.

thirdly - guilt. this is my little dash of spice into this headcanon because i can't help myself. obviously, i've always written heid as somewhat idolising and looking up to shinra and willing to lay his life on the line for him. well, where was heid when shinra died? who knows. but the fact is, he feels he failed him. his friend is dead and he honestly believes he COULD HAVE stopped it but didn't. now, if anything, that encourages him to protect rufus all the more. he knows rufus can hold his own but fuck he'll be damned if he fails his old friend once more.

forth - a little sprinkle of the self-serving goodness. a little wound to the back for rufus' trust? or even his admiration? well, that aint too bad owo. now, i do believe that rufus already knows heidegger's capabilities / strengths / weakness. and i don't believe rufus is dumb enough to decide 'oh yea, i trust him entirely now' but I DO THINK rufus would at least appreciate it. hell, maybe it's nostalgic for him? maybe heidegger looked out for him as a kid? maybe it'll make them closer? (please ffvii).

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Based on the controversial atmosphere around the movie (especially the marketing around it) at the time of its release, I don't think we'll have to worry about seeing an ill-advised remake any time soon.

Also, there's some misinformation in the notes of my silly meta gifset post and I've seen some variations on the same theme going around and it always annoys me. So—

What I want to do is clarify some things on the real life counterparts of the fictional, often allegorical narrative figures we call Pocahontas and John Smith (the distinction between fiction and reality here is important ☝️).

Firstly, John Smith did, indeed, meet Pocahontas (real name Amonute, private name Matoaka) when she was somewhere around 10-12 years old and he was 28. There was never anything romantic or untoward between them; if anything, their relationship seemed somewhat familial if sources at the time (John Smith himself included) are to be considered reliable. Since the idea of a romance between them didn't exist until a good 100 years after their deaths, I think we can safely assume Smith was being truthful in this regard (her admonishment of him at a ball during her visit to England is an especially amusing illustration of their relationship, if you care to look up Smith's account).

Smith returned to England with an injury to his side and it was after this that Captain Argall decided kidnapping Pocahontas would be a good strategy in pressuring her father to "cooperate." It didn't really work, from what I've read. Pocahontas was probably between 16 and 18 at the time of her kidnapping. She may have been married to a man named Kocoum (age unknown, but hopefully similar to hers) before this, although the sources are a bit unclear and unsure themselves. If she was, she would have been about 14-16 (around the time she started menstruating) when she had this first marriage.

Sometime during her captivity, she met John Rolfe. She converted and married him for reasons we cannot know (survival? Love? We simply can't be sure, as we have no direct sources from Pocahontas herself), but it seemed like Rolfe, at least, was pretty pathetically in love with her.

She visited England with her husband after the birth of their son (she was in her early 20s), reportedly to lobby for more funds to the Virginia Company project. She caught illness and died before being able to return.

The narrative that Pocahontas was raped and poisoned comes from a single source published in 2007 calling itself the "True Story" of Pocahontas, and claiming to be a secret oral tradition from the Mattaponi tribe (and which also claimed Pocahontas's mother to be Mattaponi, just as every other tribe of the former Powhatan confederacy has claimed for themselves at various points over the years). The reliability of this source is incredibly shaky, and often contradictory to other native sources. It can be considered a fictional narrative allegorical to native colonial trauma instead.

This is part of her legacy, I suppose, that two distinct narrative archetypes have sprung up from the life of this one, real human: one a romance, the other a tragedy. Both are valid narrative tools to analyze and use. Disney's rides the line somewhere in-between: mixing romance with native reclamation (or, that was the intention; one which I believe they succeeded in doing, narratively).

Whatever the truth of Pocahontas the human being is, one thing we can say with confidence is that she seemed to leave quite an impression on the people she met: whether it be the boys she goaded into doing cartwheels around Jamestown's fort, or the English socialites she danced with at a masque in the royal court, or those, like us, who still talk about her hundreds of years after her death.

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was there any point for basile to be in s7 and s8 of skam france? I know that in druck carlos did not finish his abi, so was there meant to be a plotline in the original skam where magnus had to repeat a year or something? the only stuff from the seasons i've seen are some gifsets and from my perspective it looks like he was only in one clip.

Hi anon! 🖇 Before I get to the question about Basile, I want to answer the question that's most interesting to me, which is, did remake teams receive any info about where the Skam characters' storylines were going to go in s5 and s6 of Skam? I don't think we could ever know for sure, unless someone working in a Skams answers it, but personally, I don't think they did.

Julie shared on the AMA she did for Reddit that she started writing a season only after she knew what actors were going to be available, so she wouldn't have to write characters out or discard storylines because of actor availability. She answered like this in the context of, did she know Thomas Hayes would be available for s4? And so, I think that means that Noora wouldn't have talked about William from like, clip 1 of s4, if Thomas Hayes' presence hadn't been already secured at that point.

And so, I don't think Julie really knew what the characters would be doing in s5 and s6, beyond maybe a vague idea (like, she had some plans for s3 when doing s1). I'm sure Magnus was pretty low in the list of potential mains, so I don't think there were any plans or vague ideas for him.

I also didn't watch Skam France s7 or s8, and from dashboard watching, I got the same impression as you, that he was in a handful of clips at most. My guess is that Daphné's actress turned down the possibility of guest appearances, but Basile's actor was open to coming back. It would be pretty fucking weird to have Basile show up without Daphné outside of school (like every other gen 1 character did, e.g. Arthur, Noée, Emma, idk who else). And so Basile was held back, to justify why he'd appear in clips without Daphné, WITHOUT breaking them up. For whatever reason, the Skam France fandom really loves those two together (gag), so I figure that was the best option.

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