#lightning farron edit

[neroowuu]

!! FLASHING LIGHTS WARNING !!

lightning edit hehe

she is a reason why i am bisexual :33

[karlachx]

FINAL FANTASY | LIGHTNING X NOCTIS

[uinre]

FINAL FANTASY XIII-2 (2011) | LIGHTNING RETURNS: FINAL FANTASY XIII (2013)

[givelightningherharem]

legit had an epiphany

[darjeelingdelise]

I was reading an FF7xFF13 Fanfiction that focused realitionship of Cloud and Lightning.

This is literally is what it looked like inside my head.

Ngl, I didn't think Lightning looked so fitted there.

Bonus: Zack and Aerith cause they are goated

[scapelost]

FINAL FANTASY XIII-2

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butch lesbian lightning pride icons

requested by anon

like/rb if using + credit

[lureofthesea]

Source: ethernalium

Lightning x Louis Vuitton

[karlachx]

andy plays: FINAL FANTASY XIII: LIGHTNING RETURNS [1/∞]

↳ victory poses

[uinre]

Is that any way to talk to your commanding officer?

FINAL FANTASY XIII-2 (2011)

[givelightningherharem]

the way I saw this meme and IMMEDIATELY knew who this would fit

[sylvanas-girlkisser]

Things I unironically think peopl should be executed for putting on my dash:

Star wars

Gifs

MCU

Astarion

Wrong opinions about my blorbo

Sapphic YA shows/movies released after 2010 (unless i like them)

Karkat

Dragon Age (except for Merril, Isabella, Morrigan and Leliana)

Any final fantasy man who is not Barret Wallace*

Those weird FFXIV edits where people give Allisaie a twin brother

Negativity against The Lord (John Gaius)

Did i mention gifs

That skinny guy from vine who makes old timey recipes

Horny posts about old men (be horny about old women instead #feminism)

*Obviously does not include he/him lesbians like Cloud Strife and Lightning Farron

[otnesse]

Don't really give a darn about Ashman's lifestyle or not (I may have my own personal disagreements with the recollection of the whole AIDS thing, since if anything especially thanks to Fauci they tended to DOWNPLAY the gay community's connection to the virus and instead made it sound as though it's effectively a Resident Evil-level pathogen, that you could get it even if you drank a glass someone else drunk, even if you were straight, but that's a topic for another day). What I will state however is that I personally think those who thought they shouldn't have the Enchantress curse Adam as a child seem to really misunderstand her. This was the same lady who cursed several servants, including Chip (an explicit child, and one who definitely never deserved the curse no matter HOW you slice it, whether it be Adam ticking her off or even how Adam was raised.) and his siblings (who can't have been that much older than him), and also cursed at least one animal just because of a spurn ONE person did to her, not to mention cursed the entire surrounding forest to be a dreary place with what are likely to be demonic wolves prowling about. There was absolutely NOTHING fair about what she did, so why bother complaining about that bit? It still would have been unfair even if Adam was an adult instead of a child (even moreso considering Don Hahn's commentary indicated that the curse didn't JUST make him physically resemble a beast, it was also psychological to the extent of turning him more feral over time, with the added implication that the rest of the servants would flat out DIE by becoming literal inanimate objects had he failed to break the curse in time).

Personally, they really should have kept that bit in, and ALSO make the Enchantress the actual explicit bad guy instead of Gaston. Let's face it, what she did in the backstory was simply irredeemable and unjustifiable, and it really makes me sick that there's no confrontation against her at all (Gaston by comparison was small fry regarding his crimes). I mean, we could have gotten an almost Final Fantasy-esque climactic battle against her, even make her a direct foil to Belle as a sign of how SHE could have turned out had she not tried to attempt compassion to Adam. In fact, expanding on that, maybe make Belle part-Fae or whatever the Enchantress was supposed to be, have THAT form the crux of her background (including being a victim of persecution by the villagers out of fear of what she is), and even have as some character development her having a conflict on which part of her background she ought to embrace ultimately, in addition to dealing with the Beast.

Seriously, couldn't we have as the climax something akin to either the Bhunivelze confrontation or even the Ultimalius confrontation? With Belle in Lightning/Clive's position and the Enchantress in Bhunivelze/Ultimalius's position, maybe Adam in Hope Estheim's position (in fact, have Adam upon the curse being lifted also appearing as a child, the implication being that the Enchantress de-aged him and took control of his body). You know, like these scenes:

Heck, if anything, aside from it actually allowing for it to keep Belle's Fae background from the Villeneuve rendition, the more Final Fantasy-esque climax I think should have been used instead of the one we actually got would also in a way be a neat nod towards Belle's love of a particular genre type.

EDIT: Actually, even better, have Adam in Clive Rosfield's position, have that be an ongoing battle in a metaphysical plane of existence, while Belle deals with the Enchantress in the physical plane of existence a'la Lightning Farron. That would allow for BOTH parties to come out well in this, and even emphasize the true love bit as well.

Still thinking about Disney's Beauty and the Beast and the age of the Prince when he was transformed.

Out of all the creative team, it was Howard Ashman who really wanted the Prince to have been a child when it happened. He was allegedly very angry when the directors insisted the Prince be portrayed as a young adult instead, because the tragic childhood curse was essential to his vision of the Beast's character.

But one of the main arguments that people always make against the idea of the Prince having been a child is that it's unfair. That it would have been too cruel of the Enchantress to punish a young boy that way; that only if he was a man does it really feel just.

Yet maybe Howard Ashman had a reason for wanting that element of injustice in the spell.

Many writers have discussed the impact of Ashman's gayness and his AIDS diagnosis on Beauty and the Beast. I don't need to spell out the ways that the Beast's curse and resulting status as an outcast parallels the life of a gay man with AIDS in the early '90s. Other writers have eloquently done so already. And is AIDS fair? Is AIDS something that its victims deserve? Even if it is their "own fault" that they contract it, does that make them deserve to die of a slow, painful, debilitating illness, which also makes them even more hated and feared by society than they already were for their sexuality?

Of course the Beast doesn't have AIDS. He's under a spell, which is a punishment for having been cruel and unfeeling. Maybe, for the sake of the story being told, it is better for his punishment to feel fully just and deserved. But it also makes sense that Howard Ashman should have wanted an element of unfairness and tragedy to it.

There's a tension in the Beast's character, which I've written about before: on one level, he's portrayed as an unseemly brute who needs to be tamed and transformed, yet on another level, he's a suffering outcast who needs to be understood and accepted. These two different sides of his character make him complex and compelling, but they don't always sit comfortably together. I think this is an area where the tension between those two sides can especially be felt.

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Lightning Farron ✨🗡️

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Etro's Champion

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