I like how the party was like “yo could we buy horses?” And Matt was like “well you’re in Xhorhas! So the only mounts you find are these terrifying monsters that are expensive and hard to feed and might kill you”
And when they buy the monsters literally Everyone they meet is like “why do you have monsters, that’s so weird.” And three episodes later they notably run into a guy riding a horse like it’s normal.
I like to think that despite canon's ambiguity on the subject that Phoenix became good friends with Iris after BttT and she sends him handmade scarves and gloves and stuff in the winter. One day Phoenix goes to visit Kristoph in prison while wearing one of those scarves and is like ":( Kris.... we were toxic with benefits for 7 years and you never made me anything. You're in prison this long and you didn't bother learning some arts and crafts??? Cmon you never even knitted me a scarf" and Kristoph makes some snide remark about it but then a few months later Phoenix gets an unlabeled box on the porch of WAA that has this really shittily made scarf in it and Phoenix refuses to let anyone touch it bc he is convinced it's poisoned somehow. And he's right.
you can't do that to me you take it back right the fuck now
I DONT NEED FLASHBACKS I DONT WANNA KNOW
SHES ALIVE GUYS ITS FINE ITS FINE THIS ISNT SAD CAUSE SHES ALIVE THIS IS JUST A NORMAL CONVERSATION AND IT IS NOT AT ALL CAUSING ANY SORT OF EMOTIONAL HARM TO ME
So about that part in Ever Crisis where Sephiroth tries to call Genesis, I used Google Translate to try and see the actual translation of the original Japanese script. "頼む・・・・・・出てくれ•"
Google Translate translates it as "Please...please come out."
I looked up 頼む(tanomu) and it translates as "to ask; to beg; to request" and 出てくれ(dete kure) translates to "to appear or to come out."
Is Sephiroth literally begging for Genesis to reveal himself?
Aaaa!! Yes, he is! I actually hadn’t translated this bit yet, but yes that phrase is very…pleading.
"頼む・・・・・・出てくれ•"
“Please…please come forth…”
The second part of the phrase does indeed mean to “come forth, reveal oneself.” Sephiroth is pleading for Genesis to appear out of…wherever he is. The tone is desperate.
So yes, it works in context with the phone-call. Sephiroth wants Genesis to show up on the other end.
Yet knowing the deeper context of the current events, and Genesis’ desertion, it is almost like Sephiroth is saying,
“Please…please come back…”
He is terrified for Genesis. This is one of the few times I have seen Sephiroth express genuine anxiety and desperation as an adult.
LISA FRANKENSTEIN NATION I WAS LISTENING TO THE BOOK OF MORMON SOUNDTRACK AND I HAD AN AWFUL REALIZATION.
JOSEPH SMITH “FOUND” THOSE TABLETS IN UNDER THAT TREE IN 1823 AND WASNT MADE AN OFFICIAL RELIGION UNTIL 1830.
THE CREATURE DIED AS A YOUNG ADULT IN 1837
THIS MF IS OLDER THAN THE WHOLE ASS RELIGION OF MORMONISM
THESE MFS WERE ALIVE AT THE SAME TIME
NOT ONLY THAT JOSEPH SMITH LIVED A LONGER FUCKING LIFE HIM
god was absolutely not on my man’s side while he was alive like wow idk what’s worse: having your death be spent in a hell of semi-consciousness for 150 something years or having some random probably schizophrenic dude be more well remembered than you 😭