#rebirth of winter

[aleck-le-mec]

“Where are your pagan gods now?”

Gardening

Comforting your abandoned dead

Reclaiming

Rerooting

[prikarin]

It's my birthday!! 🥳 I've turned the same age as Crowe 🤭💕

It'd mean a lot if you gave my games a try (especially Petrichor, my most recent one) & a little love to my upcoming project Potion Pleasing (by reblogging the updates); the demo is coming out very soon!

Thank you!🥰

[twilidragonrin-art]

Those peaceful moments when the entire family reads together.

[dailydccomics]

the Justice League Dark by Gleb Melnikov

[personaonly]

Winter of Rebirth

“The scent of his cologne” cannot get out of my head so I’m too embarrassed to post the full image 💦💦

[phantomyre]

Winter Fairy Solace

Notice me senpai

[plasticrarity]

He's so unforgivably babygirl

[throwawayasoiafaccount]

some people in this fandom are going to be really disappointed when winds of winter comes out.

you guys. you cannot treat the POV characters as stepping stones for other characters/other POV characters.

the POV characters must have a fitting end according to their character arcs, themes, foreshadowing, etc.

to clarify, the POV characters chapters are about THEM. their storylines are about THEIR journey. you cannot use their hundreds of pages of character development as a brick to build the castle your fav will live in.

this is especially true for the key 5 and for the other younger POV characters. their endings have everything to do with them, they do not revolve around your fav.

us readers out-of-universe reasons for wanting x or y characters deaths does not matter. what actually matters is if you can support your theories with textual evidence from the chapters of the POV character that you want dead.

[elle-p]

By Nyx Core, you can't summon a Persona.

In game, the option isn't available, and Great Seal is cast without one.

In the movies, Messiah dissolves when Makoto gets close.

In the Weird Masquerade, Shiomi attempts to summon their Persona, and fails.

[spahhzy]

Weiss was floating, unsure if she had died from Tyrians last attack. She couldn't move, and everything in her vision was white.

???: Stay strong, Weiss!

Weiss face stirred as she listened to the voice, a voice she recognized.

Blake: You'll make it-but not if you give up-you have to want it!-Fight for it as hard as you can!

Yang: You need to get up now, Weiss... too many people still depend on you.

Winter: Weiss!

Ruby: Come back to us, Weiss! we've got a fight to finish!

Her friends and sister all stretched out their hand to her, ready to lift her up.

She was ready to take it when she saw one more figure walking away from the group. He had his sword, Crocea Mors, on his back, his yellow hair glistening even in the white space, his white and gold armor pristine. It was Jaune... but why was he walking away? That blonde dolt, she is right here in need of assistance!

Then, to her horror , she realized he wasn't walking away but rather following someone and that someone was Cinder Fall.

He grew further and further away from her.

Weiss: Jaune!

She wasn't sure if she yelled or what, but he didn't turn back.

He kept following Cinder, and Weiss could only feel a sinking despair as he grew further and further away. Away from his friends and family...away from her.

Cinder: Your words can't reach him now.

Weiss: No!

She tried to reach out again, but they both were enveloped by a cloud of shadows before finally disappearing.

Weiss: Don't take him too!

[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.

[mysteriousmoss]

AJHHH I MISSED THE ANNIVERSARY BY A DAY! HAPPY ONE YEAR TO WINTERS REBIRTH!

[setoangel01]

Merry Christmas! 🎄What better way to celebrate than Zack and Aerith sharing a kiss after a lovely winter date? Ever Crisis is peak for blessing us with these outfits. 🥹

[sex-death-rebirth]

Allegory of Winter by Remedios Varo, 1948

[pastelcheckereddreams]

Thinking about some kind of "sleeping beauty" post-canon fix-it, were we to interpret Li Lianhua to be still dying at the end of the special episode.

About how it is the simplest tragedy of all, that Li Lianhua just needed more time: Ten years, and Fang Duobing could cultivate yangzhouman powerful enough to heal him.

There is no xianxia magic to freeze time present in the drama, there are, however, nods to it - body-preserving herbs and techniques to stop the breath for three days. And how ice can freeze a body, freezes everything it touches, at the moment of death.

So I'm thinking of that, and I'm thinking about this:

How Li Xiangyi and Di Feisheng were once at the peak of the martial world, and that it is always cold at the summit of a mountain. I'm thinking about Di Feisheng (who recognises only one equal in the world) carrying Li Lianhua up a mountain along a path scattered with pine needles.

There Li Lianhua stays, out of time, a body frozen.

Perhaps he stays frozen the whole time, Di Feisheng a silent guard - standing sentry for ten more years in seclusion. His hair starts to grey at the temples. But what is another decade, if it means Li Lianhua at his side? He is willing to be the one to take the meandering path this time, if it means their zhiji can continue by their side.

Or perhaps Li Lianhua gasps awake - a split second, once every three days, to simply fall back into his breathless stupor. The presence of Di Feisheng a constant in those snippets of consciousness - 1,216 of them. As fleeting as a grain of sand in an hourglass, but a steady trickle of time nonetheless.

It's a gamble. 1216 days - 3 years and 4 months, a decade of stretched time - for Fang Duobing to cultivate the strength to save Li Lianhua.

(Yet it realistically is a decade of Fang Duobing's life - of intense training and focus, the survival of Li Lianhua on his shoulders a constant anxiety in the turmoil of the jianghu - within which he now forges a name for himself without Li Lianhua or Di Feisheng, while Di Feisheng himself has almost passed into legend, unseen since the letter on the shores of the East Sea.)

But even that borrowed time may not be enough: Li Lianhua must survive like this for three years, when he is already down to practically zero.

..It's internal power that Di Feisheng willingly gives.

Every three days, he gives another second of his life.

To die three years earlier - decades hence - with the satisfaction of decades more with both Li Lianhua and Fang Duobing at his side, is no gamble at all.

Such a small debt is meaningless, for love.

[therosecrest]