#tseng x zack

[emeraldblonde]

Zack & Tseng after work hours at the Honey Bee Inn

mod credit: x x

[little-black-dress-zack-fair]

Tseng: Do I look like Cadet Strife to you?

Zack: No??

Tseng: Then why are you trying to screw me?

[elenachatnoir]

The FF7 gang is going thru Jill and Clive romance in FFXVI❤️👀

[kay-i]

💕(late) Happy Valentine's Day💕

~Aerith's ships~

[catboyidia]

my ffvii ships new years kisses:

- zakkura: zack gets really giddy and excited and kisses cloud as soon as new years hits, flustering cloud really badly in the process but afterwards they both cant help but smile at each other and giggle

- asg: they’re all about to just go for it but then they need to pause for a moment as they realize theres three of them… they debate trying to figure out how to make a three-way kiss work but quickly realize that wont work as they all literally butt heads, so instead they have to debate which pair kisses first and just alternate until they all get their kisses from each other, but it takes quite a while because if its genesis and angeal, sephiroth will get upset, he already feels like the odd one out in the relationship, but if its angeal and sephiroth, genesis will absolutely get jealous and throw a fit, so ultimately angeal takes one for the team and decides to let sephgen have the first kiss, and then they promptly decide to shower angeal with love and kisses afterwards, so he doesn’t feel upset about it

- tsengru: rufus goes in for the kiss immediately but tseng, being the rational one, puts his hand up to stop rufus and looks around to make sure no one else is looking, and once he’s sure the coast is clear he lets rufus kiss him, holding up his champagne(?) glass to block the view of their lips from anyone else (i dont know what people drink for new years or many kinds of glasses…)

- renorude(?): they’re absolutely all over each other, like full on making out, even before the countdown, without a care in the world, even as the excitement dies down and everyone else is done kissing, reno and rude are still going at it, leaving everyone else to just kind of awkwardly stare at the spectacle and just pray that they keep their clothes on

- aerti: they’re holding hands and leaning against each other, and as new years hits they both look at each other and giggle happily, just full of nothing but love as aerith leans in and kisses tifa, even as tifa seems a bit bashful about it

- tuestine(?): reeve is really reserved and nervous about it, but lets vincent lean in for the kiss first and then gently pulls down the collar(?) of vincent’s cape hiding the lower half of his face, making sure vincent’s okay with it first, and then they kiss, soft quick and sweet, though reeve is still a bit of a blushing mess that doesn’t know how to keep himself together afterwards

- valenwind: cid just grabs vincent by his stupid collar and pulls him down and gracelessly kisses him

[rand0msmil3z]

Chasing Shadows chapter 1 has been posted! I consider this chapter as more of a prologue, since it eases us back into the characters, plot, and the story so far.

Enjoy! 💐

➡️Fandom: FF7

➡️Rating: T

➡️Ao3: https://archiveofourown.org/chapters/140194330#work_endnotes

➡️FF: https://www.fanfiction.net/s/14347954/1/Chasing-Shadows

[final-fantasy-imagines]

Quick reminder that my 1k followers event has started. :) More information in this post.

[gammachao]

I just want to make tsengru and zackseph and valenwind art and fanfics 😭😭😭😭 (pls life)

•• I have a zackseph fanfic up but I’m currently rewriting the first two chapters because I need more cuteness involved to set up romance🤔🤔

•• I actually need help writing tsengru 😵‍💫(they’re so difficult! 😂👊🏻)

•• Valenwind is hard to write about too 🛌

[cantillat-moved]

@sentofight “Why are we here again?” [zack > tseng]

❝ Because that is the job. ❞ Tseng could understand why Zack might feel slightly uncomfortable. He’d seen it time and again among the ranks of the TURKs and someone so idealistic as his companion could find certain jobs distasteful or unfair. There was a part of him that was grateful to be paired with Zack – someone capable of empathy and wouldn’t think twice about voicing his discontent. ❝ The truth is that the public security forces suspect the people in this area might support dissident forces against Shinra. Whichever it is the truth or if the evidence is sufficient, they seemed to think it is at least something that warrants a closer look or a shake-up. However…The way we conduct this is entirely up to our discretion. ❞ That meant he fully intended to allow Zack to exploit this loophole as pleased.

[silverflqmes]

i know you got like 37393793749 requests already but HEAR ME OUT BABES.

genesis x reader where he's at banora making plans to revolve against shinra but his (other) childhood best friend still lives there. zack is coming too with tseng and they're planning to 'get rid of the evidence' right??? what would genesis do once he finds his other childhood best friend in banora and would he save them from certain death by the hands of shinra???

໒⦂ 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐆𝐑𝐄𝐀𝐓 𝐖𝐀𝐑.

notes. hi anon, you’re so real for this request let me slap you with some angst real QUICK — or um, hurt / comfort.. ahem, luckily i finished this part in cc a couple nights ago otherwise i would be clowning🫥 ALSO THE GREAT WAR FR FIT A LITTLE TOO MUCH HERE

genre. angst + hurt / comfort

tw. detailed descriptions of injuries

genesis rhapsodos x gn!reader.

the smell of smoke polluted your lungs as a cough left your lips, eyes barely half lidded.

how.. had it come to this?

the logs holding your home childhood home together began to scorch, crack and cave in on itself — blocking most, if not all, plausible escape routes.

what had banora — or rather, the people of banora — done to earn such a cruel kismet?

sweat trickled from your forehead down to your chin, the heat sweltering —growing even more unbearable by the minute. had your predecessors known an aerial assault like this would befall their homes one day.. perhaps they would have reconsidered their building materials. alas, it was too late for that.

had you caused something to share part of this punishment, too?

blends of warm colors engulfed your vision as you ascended the decaying steps to what once was your chambers. a place of solace, where you would read to your heart’s content and indulge in your hobbies. the stairs that once led up to your happy place now groaned in protest, waiting to wither away into dust.

would there be enough time to evade fate?

the darkened planks snapped beneath your battered boots, throwing you forward onto your knees at the top of the stairwell with a stuttered yelp.

or was there truly no way out, but death?

ash and grime painted the surface of whatever skin you had left exposed, eyes glossing over with tears as the flames kissed your limbs. it was painful, unlike anything you’d felt before, but you told yourself to endure.

what choice was there but to tolerate it?

you wouldn’t trust in help being on the way, not with banora deserted — oddly deprived of its population. the only one left.. had been the mother of a childhood friend of yours.

was she suffering the same as you were? or had she been lucky to make it out, likely not unscathed, but alive at least..?

or.. would she suffer worse? as the parents of your other childhood friend had a few days ago.

such was karma, sadly. but with the mother, stuck in that house alone for years after the loss of her remarried husband, and the later departure of her son going off to join the elite SOLDIER program.. perhaps death was the solace needed to be set free and return to the planet at last, sailing the lifestream in peace.

you forced yourself back to your feet, wincing at the chars and cuts poking through the holes of your clothing. exhaustion was creeping up on you — coercing you into dropping your efforts and allow yourself to be consumed entirely by the great inferno.

but something — a gut feeling — told you it was not your time yet. whether or not that had been a fear of dying or a selfish desire to defy destiny.. remained unclear.

all you knew, is that you needed to hang on and get out.

“almost there..” you whispered to yourself as a reassurance, despite feeling as though your skin had been peeling off. layer by layer, tissue by tissue, melting down into a pathetic pool of residue.

a final stumble towards your windowsill and you nearly breathed out in relief. the casement thankfully had no fallen logs or debris to block your exit, however, the real obstacle would be the drop that awaited you.

grabbing ahold of a stool that once paired with your now destroyed vanity, you lined the pegs up with your window, heaving a breath. “here goes.”

not wasting another second, you drove the piece of furniture into the glass, watching as it shattered into thousands — millions of pieces.

the flames howled against the breeze, growing with fury as you hissed when they grazed your skin.

there was no luxury left for stalling, you needed to get out and fast.

overcome with sorrow, you threw one final glance at your precious, shriveling, home before stepping onto the charred outline.

escape was at last within your grasp, and yet..

your breath hitched, trapping in your throat when you realized how far the fall had been, and no less.. into a field of fire.

..it continued to be so far out of reach.

stay in your home and die with it, or flee your home and die before it — those had been the options that had presented themselves to you. both equally gruesome.

a series of cracking halted your train of thoughts, panic flooding you as the wooden trim fractured beneath your weight.

stripped of a surface to stand on, your hand flew out to seize the splintered frame, eyes widening as you did so.

was this.. the end?

the log crumpled beneath your tight hold, nails clawing helplessly for dear life as your vision began to blur.

maybe.. it was.

not wanting to witness your demise, you squeezed your eyes shut despite the tears that leaked out. it was probably wise to just give in.. and accept fate for whatever it was.

only, it never came.

a feather-light touch caressed your body as a pair of arms secured you against a firm chest, lifting you into the air.

startled, you opened your eyes despite your fears to find a crimson jacket — mixed with charcoal. it.. it couldn’t be.

“falling out of a window, my dearest?” a chuckle seemed to follow as your body was cradled closer to your savior. “you would be wise not to do so while in my absence.. who would be your hero, then?”

had your eyes deceived you amidst the calamity brought upon your homeland? had the fumes gotten to you so badly that your mind had created an image of your friend, now winged, rushing to your aid..

or was it all real?

“ge.. nesis..” you winced, dragging your gaze over to the dark wing protruding from his right shoulder blade before looking up at the ginger. “is it.. really you?”

the former first class SOLDIER regarded you for a moment, an absentminded smile on his lips as he let out a mirthless laugh. “does my monstrous appearance frighten you that much, y/n?”

monstrous? “where did you get that sort of conclusion..? i’m over here thinking this is all.. just a dream, a-and that’s what you assume i think?” you scoffed, reaching a hand to pinch his cheek despite your wounds before closing your eyes. “you are completely mistaken, do not ask me that ever again. you, genesis, are not a monster.”

he stared down at you for a brief second, descending slowly as his boots at last made contact with the ground. “a man who brought discord upon his homeland is anything but a ‘hero’, therefore ‘monster’ emerges as the more suitable term.” the mako-eyed male answered softly, casting one final glance toward his crumbling home — the banora apples melting away with his memories.

knitting your brows together, you lifted your gaze, frowning. “you.. did this?” your voice came out as a whisper, heart trapped in your throat. genesis couldn’t possibly have done so.. it couldn’t have been his doing.

his eyes lowered back down to yours, the sullied smile still tugging at his lips. “indirectly, i suppose, yes.” he affirmed, looking up at the smoke filled sky. “shinra did not take kindly to mine and angeal’s resignation. this, it seems, was their response.” burning a town off the face of the planet until was unrecognizable.

as if it had never been there to begin with.

you gripped his jacket tighter, dropping your head to his chest. “i’ll never forgive them..”

genesis petted your head gently, gaze sharpening. “you would be right not to.”

notes. oki finally finished this, several sittings were taken but here you go anon, i hope you enjoyed it😭 there was not much genesis but he saved the day, um kind of??? maybe.. but yeah🥹

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[rottenpumpkin13]

Ok that’s a good scenario though! Karaoke night with the boys. Who is singing what? How well is everyone singing? Who blows everyone away unexpectedly? The whole bit lmao.

Pure self-indulgent crack under the cut ASDFHDJFKFLF

• After a huge and difficult mission with heavy SOLDIER + Turk involvement, the two departments decide to get together at a karaoke bar for drinks and a night of what will surely be next-day regrets.

• Some highlights of the karaoke from hell include:

• Reno kick-starting their collective embarrassment with a drunk (and lewd) rendition of Everywhere I go by Hollywood Undead.

• Lazard and Tseng belting Blitzkrieg bop.

• Genesis getting hammered and performing Helena (MCR). And I mean he performs. He's sinking to his knees, hitting all the notes, everything.

• Reno crawling back to the mic because the next song is Sexy and I Know It. This time he's joined by Zack and the two are hyped.

• Zack being upset that Sephiroth isn't participating, so he chooses one of the only songs Sephiroth is familiar with. Anyway, Sephiroth sings poor unfortunate souls and scares the crap out of everyone.

• Rude finally caving when Gasolina plays and somehow this is what it takes for Angeal to lose his shirt and composure.

• Zack and (drunk) Angeal dragging Sephiroth and Genesis up to sing Bye Bye Bye (NSYNC).

• Everyone finds out Rufus Shinra can sing when he does a flawless rendition of careless whisper.

• Alllll the Turk girls (Cissnei, Gun, Elena, Freyra, Knife +more) singing Mamma Mia with one drunk Director Lazard in the mix.

• Zack jokingly serenades Cloud to Jenny (Studio Killers) and this results in Zack chasing him around the room while singing.

• Sephiroth and Genesis singing Anything You Can Do which ends in a fist fight.

• Angeal raps Bark Like You Want It and 3 waitresses give him their numbers.

• Genesis and Zack singing Call Me Maybe with Elena and Cissnei.

• Reno jokingly serenading Rufus to Money Money Money (ABBA).

• Sephiroth singing Mad World (The original one by Tears For Fears) and Tseng has to drag him off the stage because he's getting progressively more aggressive with the lyrics.

• Zack and Reno AGAIN except this time they're singing Don't Trust Me (3OH!3)

• Cloud, Zack and Kunsel singing Teenagers (MCR)

• Sephiroth sings Where Is My Mind?

Tseng and Lazard once again have to drag him away mid-song because the lights in the karaoke bar started flickering.

• They pester Tseng enough that he caves and sings Cheri Cheri Lady.

• Genesis loses his shirt too and sings Bad Romance. Lazard bans him from the mic after this because his performance was quote "inappropriate and frankly, I'm convinced you were a stripper in your past life."

• Sephiroth sings Space Song, three people start sobbing, and then Lazard also bans him from the mic because quote "It is imperative that you seek therapy when we get back to the base."

• Angeal and Zack do an Anaconda x Baby Got Back mashup and everyone discovers that Zack can and will twerk when given the opportunity.

• Everyone does a group sing along to Mr. Brightside and then Ho Hey (The Lumineers)

[getvalentined]

I love when folks ask me Fandom Old questions and I get to be like "Yeah, uh, that's from my old online RP group, no it's not canon at all, yes we just made it up, no we did not claim it was canon but the mid to late aughts were a strange time."

It's honestly a shock to realize how often this has happened. I mentioned earlier that Reno's fanon surname came from this same group, but that's not even the half of it. I once made a bunch of screenshot manips based on the most ridiculous ships anyone could think of—someone slapped a random line of text onto one of them and to this day it's used as a "cringe FF7 fandom" meme. I saw it on the twits a bit back and almost fell out of my goddamn chair.

If you've ever heard Scarlet referred to with the surname "West," read about Tseng fighting with metal fans, seen Elena's older sister being called Anna instead of Emma, come across Vincent portrayed as having a PhD in spite of being a Turk, or caught references somewhere to Grimoire experimenting on Vincent as a child, that started with this group. That was us.

One of the funniest examples of this, for me specifically, is that we don't actually know which arm Veld is missing? The fandom generally goes with his left because that's how I drew him in the first picture of the guy ever posted on devart way back in 2005, but it may very well be his right. I've seen people offer "proof" that it's his right based on a scene in the opening cutscene, but you can't tell there either, and with BC's graphics there's literally no way to tell on his sprite.

Hell, this year we found out everyone's assumed timeline of the Kalm fire is wrong, and that's our fault too because we made some assumptions about Felicia's age for an LJ RP that were entirely wrong. She's around Zack's age, not Sephiroth's! She's old enough to run with a terrorist group in BC, but she was a child when Kalm burned, and that happened in 1997—we know this because NPCs in Rebirth literally refer to the fire in Kalm having happened "just ten years ago." Veld has only had his prosthetic for three years when BC starts. (This also implies that, contrary to popular belief, Veld may actually be younger than Vincent. Vincent may have been the senior partner, and that's why he was sent to Nibelheim alone while Veld was left at headquarters.)

We were really wrong on this! But we were working with what we had. There's no canon evidence for the vast majority of these things (the most notable exclusion here is Vincent being educated) but we weren't claiming there was. We were filling gaps, and canon was so sparse that we had a lot of gaps to fill. So if it turns out that Veld lost his right arm, then I'll just have to start drawing him that way—because losing his left was never canon.

Tragically, there's nothing any of us can do to make people stop assuming these things are canon at this point; there aren't a lot of us still in the fandom, and it's not like any of us have those old chatlogs anymore. People from this RP group have DIED since those days. It's been over 20 years since most of us met, and around 15 since most of us were in a public fannish space together.

"Prove it," people say, and I literally can't. Do you know how many computers I've been through since then? 75% of the platforms we used no longer exist. This all started on a BBCode forum! There is no proof!

But...there's no evidence any of these things are canon, either, so maybe think about that? The Kalm fire, Tseng's weapon of choice, Veld's arm, character surnames—none of these are retcons because there was no lore there to retcon. We made it up for our specific purposes, and it escaped containment in an era when there was really no way to do online contact tracing.

It's just one of the weirdest feelings in the world to see younger folk arguing about A or B point in canon, about X or Y retcon—referencing something my friends and I thought up at like 10 o'clock at night on a now-defunct IM client in August of 2005, because we needed something to refer back to for a specific scene in an RP and the source material had nothing to offer.

Absolutely fucking bonkers.

[little-black-dress-zack-fair]

Tseng: You’re too big to be a little spoon.

Sephiroth: :(

Zack: You can be my little spoon.

Sephiroth: :)

Zack: *turning to Tseng* Don’t talk down on my Seph’s dreams again.

Tseng: Damn, skipped the dating part and just dove into marriage.

[elenachatnoir]

It was Zack's fault

[ceaselxss]

Tseng kept track of his hands; Zack had all the training that would translate to being adept with firearms but not if he couldn't overcome his nerves. Fear was not something he was used to himself; not since he was a rookie. But Zack seemed to want his normal approach to teaching, which he could give easily enough.

"Well, I joined ShinRa 15 years ago... But I was able to use guns since I was... 13, perhaps? It's hard to remember the specific year."

He walks a slow circle around him, noting the eyes that followed him. It would take time to make him truly comfortable, but Tseng wasn't the type to baby anyone.

"Tell me how it feels; verbalise it. Talk it through. The physical, and the mental."

@mezzomorendo | x

[catboyidia]

assigning a valentines day gift to some of my ffvii ships:

zakkura: cute heart shaped candy and zack gives cloud silly (strange) little valentines cards

asg: matching rings that have each of their initials engraved on the inside/their birthstones/something that uniquely reminds them of each other or represents each of them

aerti: hand picked flowers and the cutest matching necklaces/bracelets

tsengru: an extremely expensive but very romantic dinner date

tuestine: traditional chocolates with a large bouquet of red roses, and reeve gives vincent a little red cat plushie

renorude: also silly little valentines cards (except extremely graphic 18+ nsfw edition) and a surprisingly sweet, heartfelt and serious talk after (to make up for the “joke” gift)