#tseng!elena

[elenachatnoir]

It was Zack's fault

[icapturedthecastle]

FFVII + some of my favorite shitposts, part 1

[brilcrist]

Compilation of all my Shinra member's art countdown without text l~

Enjoy fam!!!

Also Happy FF7R Release Day, worldwide!!!🔥

[jojo-the-dogg0]

Kadaj be like..

[kakyoindeservedbetter]

How the Turks carry Rufus

[extinction]

Rufus & The Turks

[raintides]

sinking into the ff7 hole

[kanafnwe]

the turks!

[little-black-dress-zack-fair]

Elena: Things people look good in regardless of gender: suits, lacy lingerie…

Tseng: Eyeliner.

Reno: Ball gowns.

Rude: Battle armour.

Shotgun: The blood of your enemies.

Cissnei: Flannel shirts with the sleeves rolled up.

Veld: Glasses.

Elena: That went from zero to a hundred to zero, real fucking quick.

[turklights]

[elenachatnoir]

Partners 😎

[thediktatortot]

These are some chibis I did a long time ago too of the shinra babes

[getvalentined]

Friendly reminder that the only reason Genesis is the antagonist of Crisis Core is because Zack is with Shinra. Literally.

Once he's on the run, once Genesis knows that Zack can't help him, he literally brings Hollander to Gongaga for Zack to kill—he tells Zack what Hollander is planning under the guise of it being a joint effort, but once Hollander runs off, Genesis then tells Zack what he intends to do. He talks to him about Loveless and the Lifestream, he shoves a Banora White into his hands when Zack charges at him, and then he leaves. Hollander is left behind—in Zack's hometown, his own turf, so there's nowhere to run and nowhere to hide—allowing Zack to enact poetic justice at last by striking down Angeal's birth father with the very sword that the man who actually raised Angeal died to earn, the sword that honorless Gillian said represented all the honor the Hewleys had left.

And then, finally realizing what's actually going on, Zack sets out to to Banora to save Genesis from dying.

There's no point after Modeoheim that Genesis outright attacks Zack until he's cured at the Light of Doom; there, he calls Zack First Class SOLDIER even though he's not anymore, because Genesis isn't trying to strike down Zack, he's trying to reclaim the right to the only title he's ever had that felt worth anything, and he's trying to take the burden of that title from Zack.

If he wins, Genesis takes the guilt of killing both Angeal and Sephiroth—because he doesn't know Cloud's role, he doesn't know that Zack wasn't the one to strike Sephiroth down, he doesn't even know Cloud's name. Conversely, if he loses, then it's confirmation that Zack is the hero of the story, truly and completely, and that's all right too. If that's how the story ends, that's how it ends. (Minerva intervenes, pulls Genesis from the duel, and he never gets to see the ending. The final act, as in his beloved ancient poem, remains a mystery.)

Genesis is the main antagonist of Crisis Core, but he's never been the bad guy. The entirety of Final Fantasy VII has a single monolith of villainy, and that's always been—and will always be—Shinra. Shinra made the Reactors and dug up Jenova. Shinra made Genesis, Sephiroth, Angeal, and DeepGround. Shinra burned Kalm, Banora, and (partially) Nibelheim. Shinra used any corpse they found or made as research fodder. Shinra killed the last fullblooded Cetra and drove her only daughter to a place where the only way to save the people she loved was through her death. Shinra is the bad guy.

Zack is with Shinra for the majority of the game, and thus the story behaves accordingly. Shinra's enemies are Zack's enemies, because that's the side he's on. Shinra sees Avalanche as enemies, too, but no one ever refers to Barret or Elfe as "irredeemably evil" the way they do Genesis. Barret dresses up his quest for revenge in the guise of saving the planet, but all that matters to him is that anyone even remotely connected to the company suffers the way he's suffered. Elfe allowed Fuhito to experiment on people, to take the corpses of SOLDIER and make undead weapons out of them, violating the sanctity of their final rest and denying them entry to the Lifestream altogether.

"Genesis experimented on his men!" It was a desertion, not an abduction. People who become Copies when they aren't properly enhanced don't get the same enhanced abilities as a First and they degrade very quickly, we see that in Hollander and Lazard—meaning that every single Genesis Copy was one of those SOLDIER Seconds or Thirds that defected with Genesis of their own free will in Wutai after he grew a wing and the world turned upside-down. Genesis' men loved him and they went along willingly.

When Genesis locks himself up in the Light of Doom, his last hope for a cure, he has one last Copy in there with him. When Zack unlocks the gate, he's attacked by one last Copy, even though Genesis has been waiting for him, he's not antagonistic toward him anymore, he hasn't been for a long time.

Genesis took that last Copy, a man with a horrible disease who is definitely too far gone to save, and brought him along to the Light of Doom in the hopes that maybe, maybe things could be set right. When Zack unlocks the gate, that man throws himself at him to protect Genesis, because this is his last chance and Genesis' men love him.

When Zack fights Genesis' Weapon avatar and is attacked by incomplete and twisted ghosts of Genesis Copies, magical inhuman wisps that hold him back while Genesis heals—they're in the Lifestream then, the Light of Doom pulled them both in. Those Copies are literally the ghosts of Genesis' men, unable to diffuse into the Lifestream because of their Jenova infection, fighting to protect him from beyond the grave. Genesis' men love him. They want to save him. They went with him willingly.

"Genesis killed his parents!" The parents who lied to him his entire life in order to keep getting a paycheck from Shinra? The parents that funded his fanclub as a form of marketing for a company that literally wouldn't exist without Genesis' world-changing contribution to food processing as a teenager? Those parents?

Genesis has a little shrine in the Banora Underground where he keeps all his awards and achievements—a little desk with a lantern in an unfinished stone tunnel. They survived the bombing of Banora because they weren't in the house; the chalkboard has sketches of what would clearly become the Banora brand logo, which was presumably made about a decade prior to the Nibelheim Incident, not long after Genesis figured out how to make Banora White juice shelf stable, not long before he left for Midgar to enlist.

Having all the proof of every good thing Genesis has ever done shoved into a tunnel under his hometown, hidden from the public, while his family raked in huge amounts of wealth based on those achievements, indicates quite clearly that Genesis' parents were the exact opposite of good and loving.

But he buried them anyway, didn't he?

Genesis may not be a particularly good person, but he's never been evil, he's never been the bad guy. Genesis was right—more than that, he was justified. His methods were not. He did terrible things. He hurt and killed a lot of people.

But he was only ever the enemy because Shinra said he was. Genesis doesn't need a redemption arc because he already had one, and Minerva herself said he could serve the planet forever to prove it.

[johanirae]

FFVII:Rebirth | Spoilers for chapter 13

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When Vincent appeared in front of the Turks I was kinda expecting him to help out a bit more. I am sure Galian Beast could have carry all 4 of them out the temple.

[kakyoindeservedbetter]

Turks (and Rufus) investigating

[rottenpumpkin13]

What if Tseng and Angeal switched problems for a day. Like you leave Tseng with Sephiroth, Genesis, and Zack and Angeal with Reno, Rude, and Cissnei

14:43 Hours on the SOLDIER floor

[Director Lazard walks past Sephiroth's office and sees a curious scene, so he decides to go inside]

Lazard: Tseng! I must applaud you. I've never seen these two so quiet and hard at work.

[The two in question refers to Sephiroth and Genesis, who are both trembling in fear. Sephiroth was made to tie his hair up. Genesis was forced to move his desk into the office and place it directly in front of Sephiroth's. Tseng is sitting on a tall chair between the two desks watching them like a hawk]

Tseng: Ah, it's not a hard task. I just implemented the use of my own method.

Lazard: Oh, and what's that?

[Tseng pulls out a giant electrical rod]

Tseng: Any time they deviate from their SOLDIER duties, I sick them with this.

[Genesis kicks Sephiroth under the desk. Sephiroth returns the favor and the two start a kicking fight]

[Tseng flares up the rod. It crackles and buzzes with sparks. Sephiroth and Genesis gasp, then immediately put their heads down and return to work]

Lazard: And how did you get Genesis to stop quoting LOVELESS?

Tseng: I made him eat his book.

Meanwhile on the Turk Floor

[Angeal plays therapist and consoles Rufus on the couch in his office. He offers Rufus homemade cookies and tissues while he sobs]

Rufus: And I feel that I try so hard, and yet he never appreciates what I do! It's as if I don't even have a father, I have a higher-up that I can never please! *continues to cry*

Angeal, rubbing his back: I understand, I understand.

Rufus: Sometimes I think that the only way for me to finally find peace is if he were dead!

Angeal: I understand. Your feelings are valid.

Rufus: I've even crafted multiple plans to assassinate him!

Angeal: I understan—WAIT, WHAT!?

[At that moment, Reno and Rude fly past the office door. Reno is holding a flamethrower and positioned on shopping cart as if it were a pirate ship. Rude is pushing him while Reno shouts "HEAVE, HEAVE, HEAVE"]

[Then Cissnei and Elena walk by casually carrying a crate that reads EXPLOSIVES]

Cissnei: Let's wrap it like a present and place it in the labs!

Elena: I love it when Tseng's not here!

Angeal: WHAT THE FUCK!?

Somewhere Else (A dog cage in Angeal's office on the SOLDIER floor that may or may not have been placed there by Tseng)

[Zack and Darkstar are playing with a deck of cards]

Zack: You got any two's?

Darkstar: Woof!

Zack: Dang it! How are you so good at this?