#this time with lazard!!!!!
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#that's right everybody xander's drawing zack angeal hug again#this time with lazard!!!!!#like man. Man. you've already been seeing your mentor's cold dead face on all these monsters and then his corpse starts walking around#talking about how he's been trying to find you and how he used to crave revenge but now he just wants to protect you#because literally to the core of who angeal is he loves zack. to the point that it bleeds into his clones. ARE YOU KIDDING ME!!!!!!!!!#AND ZACK HAS TO WATCH EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THEM DIE. EVERY ANGEAL IS DESTINED TO ROT AT HIS FEET.#BECAUSE ANGEAL LOVES HIM. I FEEL SICK#did you let me die in your arms in the timeloop esque#GRRRAAAYUYUYHGHYUHHYYHH I HATE THEM!!!!!!!!! I CAN'T STAND THEM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! they mean everything to me.#ff#ff7#ffvii#zack fair#angeal hewley#zack#angeal#hh art#lazard deusericus#ALSO APPARENTLY LAZARD'S NAME MEANS GOD HELP HIM? DEAR CHRIST? HELLO?
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I do wanna say that there is one (1) Cloud Shinra theory that I really like, and it's my kid sister's, and it's that Claudia is President Shinra's estranged younger sister who had serious ideological differences and fucked off at like 14 because the old man expected her to raise Rufus after his mom died and she was like "ABSOLUTELY NOT."
This would explain why Lazard came to Nibelheim after defecting (visiting Aunt Claudia because if she could disappear and not have the company chasing her down then surely she has advice for him) and also it's just super funny to imagine Claudia being so down to clown in poor folks' town because she just hates her family so much that eating raw potatoes that she grew herself and then tore out of the ground with her bare hands is the most liberating thing she's ever experienced.
It's not a headcanon I've ever used or incorporated into anything, but it's genuinely one of the best subversions of common fanon theories that I've ever had the honor of engaging with.
#headcanon warning#fandom bullshit#claudia strife#cloud strife#lazard deusericus#cloud's file hits lazard's desk just before modeoheim#lazard goes '...uh.'#frantically buys a burner phone#calls claudia#'hey you know how you said I could call you if I was ever in a tough spot'#'yeah well I am in a tough spot and its name is WHY IS YOUR KID HERE'#'auntie I am in the middle of the most fucked up embezzling scheme in the history of the world'#'auntie this is the worst possible time for this to happen'
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#ffvii#crisis core#lazard deusericus#zack fair#cloud strife#angeal hewley#sephiroth#genesis rhapsodos#ffvii:crisis core#ffvii:cc#ffvii crisis core#if you're wondering about the choice of images#they're dwrp icons of me and friends#anyway the Firsts and co#genesis and angeal have played this game with each other many a time before#and will not relent to one another#meanwhile everyone else has to deal with this bullshit
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How long had it been since the incident? A year maybe? Emily had been put under Rufus by his request and Heidegger didn't seem too thrilled. He wanted her gone because of her closeness to the first. What conclusions he came to, she didn't want to know. She went through the motions every day and those SOLIDERS who were left were reassigned.
Though the only ones she knew anymore were Roche and Kunsel. The former being a third class that she wasn't really close to. He knew Zack and Cloud pretty good from what she could tell. So it made it easier to choose to stick by him.
It was another quiet day in the office, Emily finishing her reports that were the only thing keeping her sanity some days. She didn't talk to Rufus much outside of daily interactions. No one really went near her anymore anyway.
So when she felt pressure on her left shoulder she was startled and looked to see Roche had come in, pulled a chair up to her quietly and leaned against her. From his soft breathing she knew he was alseep.
A smile formed on her face as she looked at him. Right, no one but a few turks and Roche and kunsel came near her. They understood she was human. That she wasn't being manipulated through the shadows. How that would happen was beyond her. Sephiroth was dead. Just because she was close to him doesn't mean it was that type of close where he would want to use her from the great beyond.
"Must've been some mission." She whispered quietly. What Roche did on ShinRa’s time she would never tell.
@speedchasing
#speedchasing#emily would stick close to kunsel and roche bc she knew them from her time with them under lazard#and they would also probably understand that she is hurting like they are too#so if roche does....his own thing on the clock she wont spill
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If we explore the alternative to the medical community’s elusive explanation, we are left with a disease that is the result of unchecked capitalist production and its runoff. Just as autoimmune disorders have the confused body attacking itself, capitalism has humans attacking the natural world. Capitalism delineates a boundary between human society and the natural world; by separating them, it becomes easier to exploit the latter. What we are left with is bodies that are confused: incapable, on molecular level, of maintaining the basic boundaries that are constitutive of self. Mimicking, on a molecular level, the degrees of alienation and commodification that happen to the body on a social and economic level.
There are currently no known cures for most autoimmune diseases. They are discussed as chronic conditions that must be in a lifelong process of mitigation through biomedical means.
[…] My doctors’ assurance was that I would get well. I would be able to get a job with benefits that would allow me to pay for insurance. Biomedical treatment operates on a capitalist understanding of time. Rather than embracing the regenerative powers of the body, the idea is to get back to work as quickly as possible. It is the body’s radical autonomy that resists commodification. To spite our optimal productivity, it gets sick. Sickness can be masked and treated but the body responds nonetheless. It reacts. It may take longer to recover than is convenient to your boss. We do not have time to get you better. We have time to make you functional.
Carolyn Lazard, How to be a Person in the Age of Autoimmunity
#‘We do not have time to get you better. We have time to make you functional.’ OUCH.#Carolyn Lazard#How to be a Person in the Age of Autoimmunity
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"The abject body aside, it is difficult to conceptualize the body in general under the current cult of health. Descartes discusses the body in mechanical terms. Sontag notes the metaphor of the body “as a factory, an image of the body’s functioning under the sign of health.” What happens when our bodies “revolt” and the factories stop functioning so smoothly? Perhaps they are trying to tell us something about their working conditions." – Carolyn Lazard
"Disability ... signifies a particular relationship to one’s environment. Disability is the reflection of barriers that prevent people with impairments from participating in society. ...For example, when I have difficulty walking ... I am disabled not by my physical impairment, but by the fact that many buildings don’t have ramps or elevators."
How to be a Person in the Age of Autoimmunity.
Carolyn Lazard. [pdf]
#chronic illness#autoimmine disease#chronic pain#lived experience#capitalism#time#carolyn lazard#disability
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This is so close to being canon. But also, so far
Hollander: You’re sure you’re okay with this plan? Not going to change your mind?
Lazard: What is your problem, Hollander? We had discussed this ad nauseam, are you having second thoughts yourself?
Hollander: Me? Oh no, no. But you seemed to be close to some people… I thought you wanted to protect them.
Lazard: Protect them?! Here in ShinRa? And who is going to protect people in the slums if everyone is so eager to protect ShinRa? Don’t they deserve protection, Hollander? Have you ever thought about millions of suffering people down there or are they just some unimportant statistics to you? There are children dying. There are mothers dying. Who is going to protect them?
Hollander: okay, okay, calm down. So, Genesis copies are going to attack the Tower in two days. Angeal is missing, I’m not sure if he’s alive. Genesis is alive, but at this rate of degradation, he won’t last long. And what about Hojo’s project?
Lazard: Hojo’s proj… what? You mean Sephiroth?
Hollander: Are you going to send him after them?
Lazard: No, no. He’s already traumatized, he doesn’t know why his friends disappeared like that, he’s confused.
Hollander: Good. If you push him hard enough, if you tell him he’s the reason they-
Lazard: Leave him out of this! He is innocent. He is pure. He did nothing to deserve this, Hollander and I swear to Gods, if you say something to him, I will personally see to your demise
#Lazard#Hollander#Headcanon#Lazard: Kill! Destroy! Annihilate!#but also find time to spoil Sephiroth
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#nfl#allen lazard#hottest man in the nfl#gonna match w him on grindr next time i’m in northern wisconsin
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Out Of Context Things Director Lazard Has Seen On The SOLDIER Floor
• Sephiroth carrying an unconscious, bloody-nosed Genesis in a fireman's carry out of the men's room. When asked, his only response was "Don't worry, he's not dead yet."
• Angeal crawling out of a cupboard in the break room with a neck pillow.
• Zack carrying around an iceberg lettuce, a bottle of ranch and taking bites out of it like a sandwich.
• Genesis rolling around in an office chair using a broomstick as a makeshift paddle.
• Sephiroth and his salad bowl filled with Udon. This has been seen a total of 8 different times.
• Angeal giving Genesis a piggyback ride, Sephiroth giving Zack a piggyback ride, they're having a race.
• Zack hanging up a poster that reads "HAVE YOU SEEN THIS GUY? NOW YOU HAVE :)" and it's just a picture of Cloud Strife.
• Genesis and Angeal stuck on opposite sides of a chinese finger trap while Sephiroth loses his shit, on the floor laughing.
• The following dialogue:
Angeal: Genesis, sit up straight.
Sephiroth: Let him sit gay.
• He walked by Sephiroth's office and he was in there, working at his desk, with 6 glow stick necklaces around his neck.
• Angeal dragging Zack and Cloud by their ears while the pair goes "ow ow ow ow ow ow ow ow"
• Genesis sitting in the break room, swirling a glass of wine and completing a coloring book.
• Zack dropping down from an air vent with a super soaker strapped to his back.
• Sephiroth walking around with sunglasses at 9 PM.
• The elevator door opened to Sephiroth, Genesis and Angeal standing there while Genesis' sentence ended with "—and that's why we should adopt a capybara."
• Angeal approaching a sleeping Genesis with a permanent marker.
• Sephiroth casually laying in a hammock he set up in the training facility while the 2nds run drills on their own. When asked if he's ashamed of himself, he replied "I'm ashamed I didn't think of this sooner"
• Genesis pursuing Zack with a megaphone, quoting LOVELESS at the top of his lungs while Zack covers his ears.
• Angeal having a fight with a revolving door and losing.
• Cloud Strife in his infantry uniform, sitting in Sephiroth's office reading a magazine, lemonade in hand, 2 PM on a Tuesday. When asked he said he was answering the phone while Sephiroth was out. The phone was actively ringing during this and he was ignoring it.
• Sephiroth, Genesis, Angeal, Zack and Cloud all piled onto a luggage cart, using their legs to maneuver it. Zack is standing up going "HEAVE—HEAVE—HEAVE"
• He's seen either Sephiroth and Genesis minding their own business when all of a sudden the other attacks them.
• Angeal sitting in a cardboard box eating a sandwich. The box says "THE CALM DOWN BOX"
• Sephiroth boiling pasta in the electric kettle in the break room.
• Zack sitting in the Calm Down Box™ with his face literally looking like ">:(" while Angeal stands over him with an electric fly swatter.
• He heard Genesis's loud singing echoing from the men's room, followed by Angeal's quiet "we can't even pee in peace anymore"
• Sephiroth and Genesis sitting in the Calm Down Box™ arguing over the correct pronunciation of "data"
#ff7#ffvii#final fantasy 7#sephiroth#ffvii crisis core#final fantasy vii#genesis rhapsodos#ff7 crisis core#angeal hewley#crisis core#zack fair#cloud strife#lazard deusericus#headcanons
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Anytime, Anywhere (ft. Reno, Sephiroth, Zack, and Cloud)
Warnings: smut, fem!reader, not edited, semi-public sex
A/N: If this does well I might do a part two with Rufus, Tseng, Vincent, and Reeve.
Reno Sinclair
Reno is down to fuck anytime, anywhere. In his line of work, he’s learned it’s for the best not to be too picky about those kinds of things because if he was he’d never get his dick wet at all.
In his personal opinion, the riskier the better. There’s just something about the risk of getting caught that’s just too tantalizing for him to be able to resist. He’s simply a daredevil to his core.
If you set some ground rules he will follow them, albeit sometimes with a pout. However, that doesn’t mean he won’t try to talk you into taking a risk sometimes.
Reno has you bent over the couch in the Turk’s office. He’s gripping hard on your hips as he drives his cock into your soaked cunt hard and fast. He wouldn’t do this if he wasn’t certain you weren’t going to get caught, but he won’t let on. You’re whining and mewling, trying so hard to bite back your pleasured noises. As far as you’re concerned someone could walk in at any moment.
Reno never thought this moment would come. He’d fantasized about it so often during work hours. You had started work a few months back as Tseng’s assistant, and Reno had so quickly charmed his way into your life. Then, into your panties. You always had this shy, cute approach to the relationship. Even just a quick kiss when nobody was looking would have you flushed for the next half hour. It had taken a little work to talk you into doing something like this with him. He had mentioned it for the first time just a few nights ago at your place after a date. He was stretched out on your bed after mind-blowing sex with a cigarette hanging from his lips.
“Wouldn’t it be hot to fuck at the office?” he’d said with a smirk. He had to resist a soft laugh when he saw how embarrassed you were from even mentioning it.
Now his dirty little fantasy was coming true. Your walls clamped down around him as he fucked you closer and closer to your orgasm. His name fell of your lips in frantic whines. Every so often Reno looks at the door, inspecting the bottom for shadows and the knob for signs of movement. He had plenty of time to blow your mind. He knows he’ll be fighting a hard-on every time he looks at this sofa from now on.
Sephiroth
Sephiroth is not bothered at all by the idea of public sex. After all, he went through the most formative years of his life in front of at least one person who was scribbling notes to track the changes he went through.
Sephiroth is overly confident in his position at Shinra. He knows that even if he was caught balls deep inside of you, nobody would dare say a word to him about it.
There’s just something about the slight rebellion of fucking you in the Shinra building that he can’t resist, even if he is more cautious about it then he tries to pretend to be.
Sephiroth had just gotten back from a mission when he saw you sitting at your desk obediently typing up the last of the reports you’d received. When he’d first arrived, it was just you, himself, and Lazard. He’d purposely made it seem as though he wanted to do a bit of training after the mission, but he was truly just biding his time to wait for Lazard to leave the office. He sits by the door of the training room listening carefully.
“Goodnight,” Lazard says with a soft drop in his voice to show how tired he was.
“Goodnight, director,” you say as cheerfully as ever.
“Make sure Sephiroth doesn’t destroy the training room,” Lazard says somewhat absentmindedly on his way out there. You chuckle under your breath at his comment before returning to work.
Just a few short minutes later, Sephiroth has you pinned against your desk. He’s never imagined himself as a man to kneel for anyone, but for you, he’s happily on his knees. His soft, warm tongue draws circles on your clit. He draws out every bit of pleasure he can. Sephiroth takes delight in every moan falling from your lips as he so easily teases you to orgasm.
By the time he lines his cock to your entrance, you’re almost delirious. Your eyes are heavy-lidded and full of lust. The knowledge of the lower ranking SOLDIERs being in the barracks close by is on your mind, but not more than the pleasant fullness of Sephiroth pushing himself into you inch by inch. He loves to watch you squirm. The fact that you still whine and pout about getting caught is just icing on the cake. He knows even if someone catches you, they wouldn’t dare say a word about it.
Zack Fair
Zack is a little flushed the first time he thinks about fucking you somewhere public, but once the thought is there he can’t get it to go away.
He’ll find himself imagining you in different places, trying to think of what position would be best. He has to do squats to distract himself from the growing pressure in his pants.
Zack won’t put you in a position that you’re uncomfortable with, but he will definitely bring it up at least once to see if you’d be okay with something like that.
Zack is giddy with excitement as he drags you into the nearest broom closet he can find. Truth be told there’s basically no chance of someone finding the two of you here. The Shinra Museum closed an hour ago, and he used his ID badge to sneak the two of you in here. There’s always a chance though. A maintenance worker staying late or security doing their rounds could easily decide to do a walk through. His hands are on your hips as he pushes you against the wall, his lips never leaving yours even though you’re both dizzy from the lack of air.
“This is so exciting,” he whispers as he finally pulls out of the kiss and reaches down to open his pants. He’s as eager as ever, and you know there won’t be much time for foreplay. Although Zack’s infectious happiness and the excitment of trying to find a safe spot to do this is more than enough for you. While Zack is opening his pants, you slip out of your panties and tuck them into his shoulder strap with a smirk.
“You’re so cute,” you giggle before kissing him again.
“Yeah, but you’re cuter,” he winks at you playfully.
Once his pants are finally open, he pushes your skirt up past your hips and guides his cock to your slit. You bite back your moans as he starts teasing you with the head of his cock, working you up as much as he can. Soon, he’s picking you up and guiding your legs around his waist. You both let out breathy laughs as he slides into you.
Maybe next time you’ll actually choose a riskier spot.
Cloud Strife
Cloud absolutely will not suggest fucking in public. If that’s something you’d want to do, you’ll have to be one to suggest it.
He’ll resist at first. The thought of getting caught makes him want to melt into the floor. If you were to actually get caught, he’s pretty sure he’d die on the spot.
However, once you suggest it he finds himself thinking about it more and more. He just needs a little push in the right direction.
The push he needs comes at Seventh Heaven. You’d left him sitting at the table while you went to get another round of drinks. In the few minutes you’re gone, someone else has their eye on you. The strange man slides into the seat beside you as you wait at the bar for Tifa to make your drinks. Cloud feels his stomach heat up with jealousy as the man starts talking to you, and his eyes are trailing down your body. An idea snaps into his head as his trail from the scene to the office in the backroom. He knows he’d be able to lock that door. Cloud comes over to you and wraps his hand around your arm.
“We need to talk,” he says curtly.
As he leads you to the office, you’re trying to stutter apologies and attempt to explain you weren’t flirting with the man. Cloud closes the office door and locks it. For extra security, he pushes a table against the door.
“Stop apologizing,” he says finally.
Your eyes widen as Cloud cages you in against the desk. You’ve never seen him like this before. Those Mako blue eyes are dark with passion. He leans in to kiss you roughly, and you think you must be dreaming. Cloud wouldn’t agree to this, right? Yet, he hoists you ontop of the desk and his hands go up your dress to knead at your thighs.
“Cloud,” you gasp softly. “Are you sure? Someone could hear us-”
He shushes you with a rough kiss, “I hope someone hears. I hope he hears.”
#reno sinclair x reader#reno x reader#sephiroth x reader#zack fair x reader#cloud x reader#cloud strife x reader#ff7 x reader#🌟written in the stars
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Shizuroth, part five.
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Sephiroth looks panicked.
Genesis looks him over with an experienced eye, swiftly and with increasing concern.
Defensive stance with his back to a wall and the Restroom's only exit clear in sight. His face is pale - well, it's always pale, but now he looks practically grey. Shadows under his eyes, wide eyes, mouth slack. Well, for Sephiroth, anyway. The man has a resting face of a statue carved by the thirstiest of hands, and sometimes Genesis wonders if he has a partial facial paralysis, so little does it change. But he can tell the difference between Sephiroth with a resting face and Sephiroth with a spooked face.
"Sephiroth," Genesis greets him.
"... Genesis," Sephiroth says, and it doesn't sound even vaguely irritated. Mostly he sounds confused.
How concerning!
Side effects, then, bad ones. He'd managed to get out of Injections without being held back, so they're not physical. Mental.
No outward aggression, his pose is subtly defensive, shoulders ever so slightly curled in, holding his PHS in both hands. Was he messaging someone? Unlikely, with Sephiroth, he must've been reading something, trying to distract himself, misdirect whatever is going on in his head. Or…
Or it's that… other side effect.
Genesis had been gearing up to annoy Sephiroth back into sanity, but with this new information he quickly changes tacks. Sephiroth isn't about to lose it - he already did. "I heard you were locked up in injections for a full day. How bad was it?"
Sephiroth hesitates and his fingers tighten around the phone. Then he looks down. Demurely?
What?
"Three times the maximum dose," Sephiroth says.
Oh. "What, are they trying to kill you now?" Genesis asks incredulously. "See how far they can push the envelope before it bursts into flames? Questionable indeed is the wisdom of a professor, by the Goddess." Sephiroth's doses are already the highest in the program.
Sephiroth looks at him weirdly. "... Well, my heart did stop," he says finally. "Apparently."
Genesis makes a face. "Condolences," he says, wincing sympathetically. That was always the worst. "What's the damage?"
"I'm fine," Sephiroth says quickly.
"Ha! My friend, legend shall speak of this day," Genesis points out, motioning around them, at the restroom. "Of the greatest warrior - holed up post-op in the Restroom. You scared the poor Third Class who was here, he sent out an SOS."
Sephiroth scrunches up his nose at that, mouthing that, SOS. "And so you're here to save my soul?" he asks bitchily.
Heh, already he's starting to feel better. And to think Lazard panicked about Angeal not being in Midgar to take care of it. Little does he know - Genesis is the best at this.
"I shall be your hero of dawn at this hour," he agrees and steps closer. No defensive reaction, so he dares to reach out. "It's alright, my friend - we've all been there."
Sephiroth looks uncomfortable with Genesis' hand on his arm but doesn't try to knock it off. "I…" he says and then glances down at Genesis' chest. He looks resentful.
Being such a big man, he does small and defensive poorly. It's like watching a dragon curl in a corner. Tragic and kind of terrifying.
"Feel like you got a hole in your head?" Genesis says knowingly. "All your thoughts rattled, memories all up in the air? Any idea about how much you lost?"
"I'm fine -"
"Last year I came out of the labs and I couldn't recite half of the dialogue from LOVELESS!" Genesis admits bluntly. "It was unbearable, I was beside myself for a week - I had to re-memorise the whole thing."
Sephiroth looks confused at that, giving him a wary look. "That's…" he trails away, uncertain.
"A common side effect. Happens to everyone, to some extent," Genesis assures him easily. Honestly, he thought it happened most to Sephiroth. He has the personality of a man chemically lobotomised… like a lot of the early SOLDIER candidates. "Mako gives and Mako takes. In the wake of these crashing waves, we do our best to fill in the broken flood barriers of our minds. So. What is the damage?"
Sephiroth hesitates. "It's… nothing I can't figure out on my own."
Obviously, and even if he couldn't, it wouldn't matter - Shinra didn't keep them on Mako for their brains or their wit. Sephiroth could lose his mind and become a drooling idiot, and Shinra would still pump raw force into his veins, so long as he did their bidding. Which is honestly a shame - Sephiroth, when he could be annoyed into it, had a poetic sense of humour and came across as an intellectual.
"My friend, fates are cruel," Genesis says, shaking his head. "But we need not face their winds alone. What can't you remember?" He was obviously trying to look up something, after all.
Sephiroth looks away, his eyes troubled, and hides behind the PHS. "... My room," he admits finally. "I can't… figure out where my room is."
Genesis carefully doesn't laugh at that. It's not funny. It happens to a lot of fresh SOLDIER, and it's never not hilarious, watching baby Thirds bumbling around like lost ducklings - but it's not funny now. Sephiroth must be seriously distressed. He doesn't know how to get home!
A snicker manages to slip through, and Sephiroth glares at him, hard. "Apologies, apologies, my friend," Genesis says and grins. "Happens to the best of us. Apparently! Did you not check your key card?"
Sephiroth scowls and digs around his pockets, bringing our four key cards. He looks at them with embarrassed frustration and Genesis picks out the one to his private room. "Here - the floor and room number is written right here."
"... Ah," Sephiroth says.
Oh! Genesis didn't know Sephiroth could blush!
Oh… oh, that is terrible, that's utterly horrible.
Genesis clears his throat. "Come, my friend, let me escort you to your dwelling," he says and motions grandly to the door. "Where we shall partake in that awful tea you favour and lament our pride lost!"
Sephiroth, still looking a little flushed, makes another bitch face at him and then allows himself to be herded out of the sanctuary of the Restroom.
Genesis despairs.
This man, this most devastating of individuals, tall and broad and proud and terribly handsome, isn't supposed to be cute!
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I have decided that Genesis has the emotional intelligence brain cell and that's how he convinced bunch of SOLDIERs to defect with him; he's the wine mom friend.
Also watch me headcanon SOLDIER lore up the wazoo...
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Sephiroth: *to Angeal & Genesis* I just saw Director crying in his office for five or six minutes, and then his phone alarm went off and he just... stopped crying and went back to work??
Lazard: It’s called time management boys.
#incorrect quotes#sephiroth#angeal hewley#genesis rhapsodos#lazard deusericus#ff7#ffvii#ffviir#final fantasy vii#final fantasy vii remake#ff7r#final fantasy vii crisis core
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In the West, poetry is written primarily for the afficionado, often other poets. In recent years, I can think of very few poets whose work is on everyone's lips. Perhaps Maya Angelou comes close, maybe Dr. Seuss.
But in Indian culture the situation is different. Tagore's poems - not only his songs, but the words themselves - are known to even the illiterate. Poetry is mass culture.
So it was with Faiz, and before him, Iqbal. Lazard writes:
When he read at a musha'ira, in which poets contended in recitations, fifty thousand people and more gathered to listen, and to participate. People who barely have an education know Faiz's poetry not only because of the songs using his lyrics but also the poems themselves, without musical accompaniment.
But poetry, in these cultures, as in Palestine, has a wide reach, and becomes an instrument of power. Faiz, Iqbal, and Darwish knew it. Like Tagore, they were not merely poets - they sought to transform society.
In an earlier version of the present introduction, written immediately after Faiz's death, Lazard was more personal, more elegiac:
Once when we were saying good-bye after our time in Honolulu I asked for his address. He told me I really didn't need it. A letter would reach him if I simply sent it to Faiz, Pakistan.
The reason - he had helped found the postal workers union. They were his people. They knew where to find him anytime.
So this is where Faiz came from when we met in Honolulu in the winter of 1979.
(Annual of Urdu Studies, v. 5, 1985 p. 103-110)
text from review by Amit Mukherjee of The true subject: selected poems of Faiz Ahmed Faiz translated by Naomi Lazard
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Miscellaneous FF7 Floofcanons To Heal Me From Rebirth 💕
• Zack, unsure of how to properly use chopsticks just sticks them in his mouth and pretends to be a walrus. Angeal tells him to have some respect just before Sephiroth picks up his own chopsticks and imitates Zack
• Genesis, quietly reciting Loveless lines to Sephiroth as the man lays ill in bed. There’s a steaming bowl of soup on the nightstand that Angeal just brought in. Gradually, Sephiroth begins to fall asleep in the presence of his two treasured friends. Friends who had been gone all week on a mission, all the way across the continent, and now were back safe and sound by his side.
• Zack, bringing Aerith a handmade Cactuar plushie for her birthday and then proceeding to do the Dance™️
• Zack and Cloud, having claimed a table in the mess hall that they eat at every day together. Zack is often invited to sit with his posse of other SOLDIER buddies, but always chooses to stay right there with Cloud. The two share a bucket of french fries every Friday.
• Lazard, having access to the files, sending out a mass email to everyone in ShinRa informing people that it’s Sephiroth’s birthday; everyone chips in to throw a surprise party for their general—all orchestrated by Genesis and Angeal, who keep Sephiroth out of the base by taking him on a picnic
• Sephiroth and Zack, devising a plan where Seph secretly stitches Zack’s clothes back together every time he rips something on a mission. He always makes sure to mend the uniform before Angeal ever finds out.
• Cloud, writing anonymous appreciation letters to Sephiroth that he asks Zack to deliver; Zack delivers them personally, and Sephiroth always writes back thank you notes for Zack to deliver back
• Angeal and Genesis, getting Sephiroth a little fish to brighten up his office. Sephiroth names the animal “Yūjō”, which translates to “friendship.”
• Angeal and Genesis and Sephiroth, rotating between their apartments each Saturday for movie night. When Angeal invites Zack into the friend group, he added the tradition of bringing candy and soda.
• Angeal and Genesis, always making sure their schedule is clear on Mother’s Day so they can stay by Sephiroth’s side. The first time Genesis and Angeal used their permission to deny a mission as a First was so they could be with their friend that day.
• Angeal, always making sure to have Zack’s favorite dinner prepared for whenever he returns from missions. Genesis always makes sure the TV remote is free while Sephiroth greets Zack in the hallway. He asks for his usual “secret Zack hug”, and the two only go inside once it’s been given.
• Angeal and Sephiroth & Genesis, all tutoring Zack to give Zack the education he missed out on when he ran away from home at age 13. Genesis focuses on art and literature, Angeal focuses on history, and Sephiroth focuses on math and science.
• Tseng, delivering Zack a hefty check on his birthday with a little note that reads “SOLDIERs really should be paid equal”
• Zack, putting up a bulletin board over his bed that reads “Home”. Over his time at ShinRa, the sparse photos of his parents and childhood are gradually joined by photos from missions and his fondest memories with Genesis, Angeal, Sephiroth, Cloud, Kunsel, the Turks, and all his other treasured friends
• Zack and Sephiroth, cocooned in each other’s arms as they lie in bed together. Their heads are touching, their eyes are closed. And in that delicate moment Zack mumbles, “you and me, Seph…” To which Sephiroth softly completes with, “forever.”
This has been your friendly dose of Pichu. Hope you have a wonderful night! <3
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I am so sick of people asserting that Cloud's father is some super special important person like it's some explanation for the fact that he was able to save the world. Superior bloodline stuff never sits well with me in the first place, but in this case it's just so antithetical to the actual thesis of FF7 and does such a huge disservice to multiple characters that it makes me white hot angry.
The most popular contender is President Shinra, because Cloud being a Shinra bastard would (somehow) explain why he's allowed into the company at such a young age (even though enlistment age appears to be 14 and Cloud left Nibelheim to enlist at 14) and how he wound up on so many important missions—because it can't possibly be that he's actually competent, he's so pretty, how could he possibly be competent? It's not as if we see him being staggeringly competent from jump in every title where he's featured, including those that start prior to him being forcibly mako enhanced by Hojo. Clearly this is nepotism.
After all, we know that President Shinra is always so supportive of his bastards! That's why Lazard hid his identity and worked his way up the ranks to become director of SOLDIER at the youngest possible age and then set about trying to orchestrate a hostile takeover of the company by allowing all three of his best operatives to defect in the middle of a war, a process that was only thrown off because one of them passed off every single mission where he would have had an opportunity to go AWOL.
This was clearly the result of nepotism. There's just so much nepotism going on there. Obviously.
The newest contender is Glenn Lodbrok, the lead character from the First SOLDIER section of Ever Crisis, because he's blond-haired and blue-eyed and presumably one of the first people in Project 0 to survive some level of the mako enhancement process. I guess this is supposed to mean that him being Cloud's father would be a perfect explanation for Cloud actually being capable of literally anything, since the only way for him to become the hero that was chosen by the planet to keep it alive would be if it's part of some bloodline destiny.
There are a whole host of issues with Glenn as an option here, not the least of which is the canonical lore about Cloud's father, namely that he was some nobody traveler who kinda passed through and got Claudia pregnant and then left; he may have died up in the mountains, but apparently all that was ever found was his pack, so there's no way to be sure. Further, Claudia was very young at this point—according to her original concept art declaring her to be 33 at the time of her death, she gave birth to Cloud at 16-17 years old.
Glenn is one of two possible age ranges: if he was active in the early stages of Project 0, being a character in the First SOLDIER battle royale game, then he was around 21 in 1985, meaning a 21 year old knocked up Claudia Strife when she was 15 and then walked out on her. If he's 21 during the events of Ever Crisis, which seems likely based on his character design, that would make him 14 at the oldest when Claudia got pregnant.
Okay, I know this kind of thing happens IRL, but I feel pretty confident in the statement that there is absolutely no way that that's the direction SE is taking this timeline and characterization. I'm not even sorry. That's not happening. Either he's giving "predator," or he's Deadbeat Dad: High School Freshman Edition.
But that's honestly not even the worst of it, the math not matching up is entirely irrelevant when the implications of this assertion are applied to the actual thesis of this series as a whole, to the characters we already know, to the actual lore. Claiming that Cloud is only special because of the sperm donation of a man who abandoned him literally removes any concept of his competence as a character, declaring that he's just the newest iteration in a line of "worthy" men. He can't be worth anything unless his father is worth something. He can't be good at anything unless his father is good at something.
Beyond that, it casts Claudia aside entirely, asserting that the fact that she raised Cloud doesn't matter—she may have brought him up entirely on her own, but that doesn't actually matter. She didn't instill values and morals and guidelines into him that would allow him to grow up into a man who could save the world, she was just an incubator, a nursemaid, a nanny, a cook. She was just a servant who kept him alive long enough for his father's bloodline to awaken within him and make him into the hero he was always meant to be.
Insisting that Cloud's value as a character hinges in any way on his father, a person who had no place in his life whatsoever and whom he doesn't even remember, takes away his agency and declares Claudia to be irrelevant. It says that a sperm donation matters more than an upbringing. It says that the place he started is the only thing that defines where Cloud will end up.
This is literally, 100 percent, the opposite of the thesis of this series. The entire concept of these games, of these storylines, is that the way you were made doesn't have to dictate what you can be, who you are, where you're going. Your genetics do not define you, and assumptions to the contrary are literally what make people into monsters. What matters is the people you love, the people who love you, and the person you are now as a result of those people.
And the fact of the matter is that regardless of timelines, regardless of characterizations, regardless of theories, Cloud Shinra and Cloud Lodbrok didn't save the world.
Cloud Strife did.
Claudia Strife's son did.
And I think people could stand to give both of them a hell of a lot more credit.
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So, I'm playing Crisis Core, and I saw this mail from Kunsel:
If Gen doesn't like group activities, what does he do in his free time when he isn't forced to be part of a group?
Bother Sephiroth (who also doesn't like group activities)
Bother Lazard (Who WISHES Genesis AND Sephiroth liked group activities)
Read Loveless for the ninth time that day
Gossip about other soldiers in Burn Book
Clubbing
Flirting
Clubbing AND flirting
Loveless book club with the groupies
Trip Zack whenever he runs by
Text Sephiroth and Angeal drunk memes at 4 in the morning
Train alone
Lurk on fan club website
Watch soap operas with witty commentary to no one in particular
Fuck around in Hojo's lab without getting caught
Set the training room on fire and tell no one
Raid the fridge in the main lounge for snacks. Steal everything. Tell no one.
Hair care
Get a smoothie
Sit in front of a mirror and try not to let the wailing demons of eternal self loathing and insecurity eat you alive you're a fraud they'll never respect you they probably are all laughing at you right now and why not you're a complete failure you're pathetic why do you even try when you're just an imposter and you're wasting everyone's time you're going to die alone and unwanted
Yoga
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