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lets-jam · 22 days
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you know that moment… in the last fmv of final fantasy 7… where the music changes to that gentle rising, waving tune and the lifestream comes to help holy stop meteor…
file that under moments i will literally never stop thinking about, and moments that never fail to make me tear up a bit
i wanted to try and capture the emotion in that scene, the looks on everyones faces. in the original ff7… well in the end, it really was the end, the entire party knew that, even after defeating sephiroth, even before actually, they went in knowing the world, their lives, their efforts would all cease to exist after meteor fell
i imagine that theyd all be crying, smiling despite it all on the highwind, just silently hugging eachother. all of them complete messes. until the lifestream, the planet itself comes to help, then i think that they’d be overcome with such an intense silent awe, its really hard for me to describe the emotions that i think everyone would be experiencing, i mean like visibly seeing the world end in front of your eyes, only to see that it will survive, beyond you… 
i definitely love the fact that in the original game, its never really specified if anyone (save for nanaki) survived, but with what the game focuses on… it also really doesnt matter whether ‘we’ survived, we start and end on shots of aeris hearing the same little audio jingle we heard in the beginning… a prayer for a future answered maybe
the ending is really just… something else when it comes to this game and i wanted to try and express some of that with this piece
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lets-jam · 22 days
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a small messy comic from a rather sweet scene from the original final fantasy 7
rip to this cloud n tifa tho cause we aint ever gonna see them now 😔
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lets-jam · 29 days
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今夜だけ…
i made a sad connection but u know the ep of devilman crybaby where miki dies and during the end credits we see her dying dream of riding alongside the sunset with akira while konya dake plays?…. yeah….yeah…. much to think about
i dont think this paper could take me cleaning it up any further let alone coloring it since it started tearing and holding in pencil a little too well… but yeah here’s this
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lets-jam · 29 days
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in lieu of parting words
the plan was that this was only supposed to be colored in with pencil i dont know what i was thinking… it spiraled and snowballed, n its messy… but i rather like it and i had some fun doing it
ive been having the temple of the ancients on my mind as of late, there is alot of very emotional scenes for aeris, cloud and company…
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lets-jam · 29 days
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then… this is goodbye, tifa
until we meet again…
just a lil comic i had floating around in my mind for a while
the lifestream is one of my favorite moments for a multitude of reasons, but what always grabs me first and foremost about it is that like… its open communication taken up to 11, that is, alot of the inherent barriers of human communication are kinda gone, tifa gets to exist in that inner world of someone (their mind/soul), which can only be communicated in the physical world with talk, expressions, action etc but even then those are only the closest equivalents. im a sucker for minds and hearts connecting beyond the limitations of communication i guess, across any media im drawn to stuff like that
its also incredibly satisfying that of all people to experience this, its cloud and tifa. who are both notoriously shy, prefer to run from problems, and insist that everything is fine when its definitely not, and both arent very free with their true emotions alot of the time, so to see them fall into an event where they both kinda have no choice but to let the truth come out, i think is very entertaining, and of course at this point in the story they both want to find the truth, or i guess theyve both made the choice to stop running
i find it all incredibly gentle though, sweet, heartfelt and rather poignant. you have kid!cloud (the representation of cloud, or the part of him that survived through all the crazy happenings and alien virus shenanigans that knows the reason behind his own self made illusions) guiding tifa through it all. and shes finally free with herself to be honest about her memories, wanting to help someone she cares for after a very very low point for both of them, which is awesome for alot of reasons, especially since shes been so confused and downright scared the entire game, doubting herself/her memories over and over, not helped by her being an indecisive person, so to see her make the decision to not let the fear control her… is nice i think
its funny too, cause visually we see kid cloud (who we know from tifa and other flashbacks wasnt the most emotionally calm/mature person) as this leader who is strangely emotionally mature and quite honest with his feelings, contrasting his appearance. whereas the cloud we’ve played as the entire game, is the adult who has once again fallen back on his rather pathetic and childish habits, habits he never made the choice to overcome or had the chance to.
anyways i wanted to draw something sweet between these 2, ive always understood by a few lines kid cloud says in the lifestream that the real cloud wont be aware of everything that transpired, so i think tifa like has this window into someone she cares about that no one else can ever see again… not even cloud, but they are the same person of course…  and as such they love their companions a whole lot, so i thought id draw a bit of that 😊
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lets-jam · 29 days
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tifa and kid cloud have a conversation in the lifestream, but we never actually got to see the end result, so i though id have a go at it! 
i think itd be pretty likely theyd share it chillin under the highwind before the final battle, to me that scene reflects how comfortable both tifa and cloud have become with being honest, and a sense of ‘freedom’ they both have with all their companions. when doing this i wanted to convey a sense of levity, not that clouds kid dreams and tifas childish curiosity weren’t entirely sincere (or serious to them at the time), but i think itd be something that they can look back upon fondly, and funnily. theyve all grown and changed so much 
and with tifa, i dont imply that she thinks, or that kid!cloud from the lifestream and cloud are actually separate ppl (they are one and the same), i wanted to try and convey a sense of musing how strange the whole experience was, and how different those aspects acted in comparison to eachother, and also the sense that tifa is kinda the only one to meet that cloud… several lines imply even the ‘cloud’ we are with most the game doesnt even have awareness of him
despite it all i still think cloud might be caught a little off guard, he doesnt need confirmation that a silly kid dream he had kinda came true, but given how the water tower, tifas injury, the resulting fallout it had, remained as we pieced him together in the lifestream, conveys to me that even if not as important or necessary to him now, it still would affect him (to me in a sense of i dont think he’d know how to take/deal with it at first, which would then make tifa a might embarrassed despite how shes developed the courage to be honest with her genuine feelings)
i was cut short of including a ma/still shot in between the bottom half of the second page, but i think musing on the whole situation would lead to reflection on where a chance meeting tifa had ended up for both of them
for alot of the whole game theyve been mismatched in terms of understanding eachother, which is compounded by both of them being shy, confused avoidant (and indecisive) so its cathartic (and fun!) to see/explore them being free and honest and on equal terms
also i destroyed a blue pencil to make this….
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lets-jam · 29 days
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dark hidden secrets…. what does cloud’s hair look like when its wet
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lets-jam · 29 days
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I CANT BELIEVE REBIRTYH SDKJLASDNCV;LKDFMV;LKDFSVMVLKL?!?!?!!??! I HATE IT HEEEERE
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Cloud don’t listen! Close your ears, close your eyes! Don’t think….
ive always been perplexed at how this scene can be taken out of context…
especially the line ‘its your opinion that matters’ given this is right before reunion where cloud completely and finally gives up in all senses of physically, mentally emotionally, etc…
every line he gives (which are more for him than for anyone else) comes across as some desperate final attempt at denial when faced with his story/memory discrepancies (and by this point even he knows something is wrong despite all his ‘i dont care’s- still shutting out the truth because he is straight up afraid of who he really is/could be) by his worst, most personal enemy and himself, suddenly and all at once his illusions of grandeur that he clung to fall apart, and he literally doesn’t know what to do with himself if he doesnt have ‘something’ -so he gives into another lie, created by sephiroth (none of this aided by being infected with a sentient alien virus or the fact that both tifa n cloud are in their worst nightmare)
tifa here too finally comes to a head with all the truth shes kept hidden out of pure fear of what would happen to the last connection she has to a bygone life, shes been so confused and worried throughout the game, never knowing what to do or when to do anything… ignoring the truth and running from it just as much as cloud does, but at the northern crater she cant brush it off anymore, an it clearly takes a toll on her
i do find it interesting that rather that just saying what she remembers to cloud, she opts to stay silent, neither confirming nor denying what sephiroth says…
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lets-jam · 29 days
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something (un)holy
this was actually supposed to be just like a little warmup doodle or something but the second i decide to draw jenova my brain goes crazy stupid and i end up with this
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lets-jam · 29 days
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a messy doodle… but be careful where you travel near the gold saucer
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lets-jam · 29 days
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things a team leader totally says to hype their team up to fight a god
i always imagined this moment would grant the avalanche fam a bit of levity at the end of it all
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lets-jam · 29 days
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one small doodle before i pass out
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lets-jam · 29 days
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i hate advent children so much its unreal
the fact that it wasnt immediate fight on sight as soon as any members of avalanche found out mf rufus shinra was alive… lack of intelligence
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lets-jam · 29 days
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give me a name… a number… anything…
my zine piece for the wonderful, amazing, talented, show stopping @ff7ogzine ! this started as a redraw of an old doodle i did and im very proud of the result.
it was such a pleasure to work with all the mods and to be part of something so awesome as this with amazing creators as well (my first zine too!)
be sure to check it out (free to download!) here! all the art and writing is so amazing and its such a wonderful tribute to the original final fantasy 7 🌠
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lets-jam · 29 days
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lol @ the remake 2 trailer
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lets-jam · 29 days
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7rebirth...
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