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/new anon A FFVII/BLEACH CROSSOVER YOU SAY have anything you wouldn't mind sharing about it? 👀📝

more of a universe/worldbuilding crossover than an actual “these characters meet each other” crossover but yeah!! there are enough strong parallels between certain characters/situations (zack and cloud vs kaien and rukia, the black/white materia vs the two halves of the hogyoku, the general corruption/uselessness of shinra vs the gotei 13, degradation vs hollowfication, ihihihihi big sword etc) that i felt like it would be interesting to explore a general “what if ffvii’s plot took place in a world like bleach”

there is no 1:1 for the plot-- for one, active involvement of the human world is scrapped because the dead can take care of their own fucking problems, please and thank you also because bleach has WAY too many characters and most of them had to be booted -- but you’ve got the general shinra company as the gotei 13, avalanche as arrancar, cloud as (not actually a) former shinigami who works with avalanche, hojo as the shady motherfucker in the bg pulling experimental shit with the hogyoku, sephiroth as sort of an aizen figure but he’s also being manipulated in this case...

actually there is no real plot past that. i just went apeshit with worldbuilding hcs about how cloud’s identity crisis would factor into his zanpakuto manifestation, and then spent way too long trying to figure out stuff like “which division would fucking palmer lead” and “what would aerith’s resurreccion be”. but [tosses random disjointed character ideas below the cut] here y’all go ig

- cloud was actually just in the academy and never managed to become a shinigami before zack was infected with metastacia. when he killed zack hojo took him in for experimentation with the hogyoku

- cloud doesn’t have active shinigami powers to fuck with his hollowfication, but he’s in soul society so he can’t become a hollow naturally, so he ends up somewhere in between arrancar and visored

- hojo thinks he’s a failure and dumps him in hueco mundo, where tifa and co find him. his memory is basically just as fucked as it is in canon

- cloud’s shikai (or resurreccion, it’s really interchangeable for him, but since he thinks he’s a shinigami it works more like a shikai until he learns the truth) takes on the appearance of zack’s (the buster sword) at first. his real shikai is tsurugi

- his mind makes up a fake zanpakuto spirit accordingly and it looks like zack canon parallels where zack’s spirit quite literally lingers to help cloud out but things go very wrong hahahA im! sad now!! the real manifestation of his hollow/shinigami powers is a wolf

- cloud probably has the hogyoku shoved in his chest at some point a la rukia courtesy of hojo because why the fuck not

- he pretends to be an arrancar for a bit so no one in heuco mundo freaks out, but all of avalanche know he’s actually a defected shinigami except he isn’t rip

- nanaki is still a vasto lorde, which is why he looks [gestures] like that

- vincent is a bat. no i am not taking constructive criticism

- barret, tifa, and yuffie’s resurreccion are based on a bear, mountain lion/puma, and lemur respectively

- aerith has orihime-esque powers, but with summons! probably the triad of ramuh, ifrit, shiva

- cid is an actual defected shinigami lol rip cloud

- i actually went through with a friend (who actually knows very little about bleach and suffered through my rambling, thank u for that) and tried my best to assign captains in a way that somewhat made sense (it still doesn’t, a lot of people just ended up as slot fillers). tbh the idea of palmer or heidegger in battle makes me want to wheeze but here they are for posterity anyways:

1st: shinra 2nd: veld/tseng (depending on when) 3rd: genesis 4th: shinra hospital 5th: sephiroth 6th: scarlet 7th: angeal 8th: palmer 9th: lazard 10th: rufus 11th: heidegger 12th: hojo 13th: reeve

- .....i think i ended up deciding that other than the three divisions led by ags + the turk division captains aren’t actually selected by combat ability

- yes, genesis and angeal are love and rose and they also get to be the only visored because bleach has..... a really large cast,

- the shinigami uniform is just the soldier, trooper, or turk uniform depending on your division. colored scarves show rank

- kunsel monitors hueco mundo under reeve and most definitely knows what avalanche is up to. he chooses to say nothing

- reeve also monitors hueco mundo using a hollow-like robot aka cait sith

- limit breaks are zanpakuto abilities! blade beam is basically getsuga tenshou anyways

- there’s probably more but that’s all i can dig up for now!! it’s not getting written unless i hash out some kind of coherent plot from this so. hope y’all enjoyed

#skadren rambles #long list below the cut #i'll get to the other asks tomorrow sorry!!#love u anon <3 #Anonymous

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