Are Seph and Chadley brothers?
On a technical level, yes!
I think it's pretty clear Chadley himself was likely designed after Seph. Or at least, that's what they imply. Idk the full level of sentience and autonomy for androids in this universe, but Chadley is essentially Sephiroth's baby robot bro.
They should team up and curbstomp Hojo together.
If Seph hadn't been injected with Jenova cells, do you think he'd still love the stars?
Definitely! He has an eye for science, Jenova cells or otherwise. Some of it comes from his close proximity to Gast as a child. They also represent a sense of freedom and curiosity.
Of course, if Sephiroth hadn't been injected with Jenova Cells, he probably wouldn't BE Sephiroth so much as just a random human living a normal life.
Sometimes I get randomly hit by the thought of how Angeal’s character is just straight up heartbreaking. Like the more you think about his whole life the more fucked up it becomes
We all remember how he grew up very poor, but like we never really mention how he was poor to the point of stealing apples to eat. He had almost nothing. A kid with a too big sword his dead father left behind and nothing else. Shinra was one hell of a propaganda machine, but aside from that, Shinra would actually feed their troops three meals a day and what not. Angeal had his own honor and ambitions plus Genesis’s ambitions on the side to push him, but like how much of a push was the idea that the army might have actually been a step up from what he had in Banora?
Now we all like to laugh at good old mother hen Angeal, but again. That’s kinda fucked. Because we’re talking about someone who joined the army in his early teens, and was already a commander by the time he was twenty or so. This is a kid who has had to become obscenely responsible when he was obscenely young, because he was literally responsible of other people’s lives when he was still a teenager. Not just subordinates, but his friends too. Genesis was always a self destructive mess, Angeal had every responsibility in the world and his idiot reckless buddy too. And then Zack! Angeal was raising a teenager when he was just barely not a teenager himself
Also the poor thing and the mother hen thing also tie together. Use brings wear, tear, and rust, that’s funny too, but Angeal had nothing in his childhood. Just the Buster Sword. It’s one of the few memories of his father, and in itself that would be enough to justify him not ever wanting to ruin it. But also there weren’t many guarantees that if he had gotten the sword damaged as a child he would have the money to do any kind of maintenance on it
You can’t tell me this man wasn’t powered by anxiety for most of his life. He disguised it well surely but Angeal’s inner monologue had to be a constant stream of everything that could go wrong and how to remain in control of a situation and how to protect the few things (people) he had and keep your best friend leashed and keep your pupil leashed and be a good commander and a good SOLDIER and-
Of course he ended up suicidal when CC went down! It wasn’t just the DNA thing, although discovering he wasn’t human had to already be a massive blow. Everything was going down fucking hill and he could do nothing to stop it. Genesis went out of control, Angeal himself had no guarantee he wouldn’t also start falling apart soon, and defecting meant abandoning Zack, who was Angeal’s reponsibility, so another source of guilt. Plus the father he probably had some level of idolization for turned out to not be his father after all, and his own mother killed herself when things started going down
It’s just. His whole life did more than fall apart. Trying to make the situation better was the only thing Angeal could have done for most of his life and now he couldn’t. Even admitting that he could accept himself whether human or monster, that’s only one issue. He failed. At least he did in his opinion, and it doesn’t matter if he had been asked far more than anyone his age should have. Dying was easier at that point than fixing everything
This guy was such a weirdo!! Guy who carries around a sword that weighs as much as he does but never uses it and makes dry jokes and has that terrible teenage boy stubble despite being twenty!!! He’s the responsible one because he’s got enough trauma for an entire town and his friend group includes a literature obsessed pyromaniac, a walking ice block with his own trauma pile, and a human golden retriever
This man deserved so much and needed as much therapy as Genesis and Sephiroth but all he could do was being the therapy for everyone else and in the end he just fucking crumbled
CAN I PLEASE HUG THE FIRSTS
Angeal: *Hugs back right away, both arms and all, probably lifts you off the ground. Also asks if you've eaten already*
Genesis: *A little apprehensive, but never denies a fan and loves being adored so he hugs back. Just don't touch his hair*
Sephiroth: *clings onto you*
Angeal: Sephiroth
Sephiroth: *Still clinging onto you. He's now purring*
Genesis: SEPHIROTH LET GO
i had to
*me hugging sephy bc i'm only 5'7"* 😭😭
WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU'RE "ONLY" 5'7???? THAT'S A WHOLE ASS GIRAFFE. I WOULD LOOK LIKE A GARDEN GNOME NEXT TO SEPHIROTH IM LIKE 5'2
BRUH SEPHIROTH STILL DWARFS ME HE'S LIKE A HEAD TALLER 😭😭😭
THIS IS WHAT I'D LOOK LIKE NEXT TO HIM:
I'D HAVE TO TIPTOE TO WRAP MY ARMS AROUND HIS NECK OR EVEN KISS HIM 😫😫😩😩
perhaps being shorter than him is a blessing in disguise. when you hug him you'd just get a face full of:
Someone once taunted Genesis for being ticklish but are the other idiots ticklish 🤨🤨
Sephiroth - No one knows wether or not Sephiroth is ticklish because he has the reflexes of a mongoose. Trying to tickle him is an Olympic sport.
Angeal - He's the type who's only ticklish in very specific places, particularly his stomach and his feet.
Zack - Ticklish in really weird places like his forearms and his thighs. They've held him down and tickled his thighs before. The kid screams.
Genesis - Again, he denies being ticklish. But if someone so much as suggests tickling him he'll simply:
for some reason seeing seph associated with koalas melts my heart thank you user rottenpumpkin13
here, have a koala-roth doodle you didn't ask for
Tseng: what's wrong,General? Afraid Cadet Strife would be interested in my offer to a Turk?
Sephiroth smiles cordially, then goes back to stirring his teacup. "Of course not. Whichever career path Strife chooses to pursue is entirely his decision."
Tseng nods. "So if I told you he passed the Turk's entrance exam with flying colors, your response would be....?"
The teacup shatters in Sephiroth's hand.
How would everyone react to sudden surprise younger sibling? I’m interested to see what dynamic there may be
Angeal is overjoyed by the prospect and immediately adopts the nurturing protective older brother persona. That quickly goes south when younger sibling starts to bond with Zack, the questionable influence. Zack and younger sibling terrorize and tease Angeal all the time.
Genesis is like that cool older brother from the 2000s (think Rodrick Heffley but a priss). He loves to torment his younger sibling and rat them out to their parents back in Banora. "Don't tell mom and dad you got arrested? Sure!" *proceeds to send their parents a tell-all book detailing every misdeed younger sibling did that got them arrested* He also gives terrible life advice, don't listen to him.
*Sephiroth drags Chadley out of the labs*
Hojo: YOU CAN'T JUST TAKE HIM!
Sephiroth: YoU cAn'T jUsT tAkE hIm—OH, FUCK OFF!
Let's be real, Genesis would be a terrible influence on EVERYONE'S baby sibling. What else are vodka aunts for?
leave poor seph alone and let him get some affection (holds him gently) (i will kick them if they get any closer)
Sephiroth: Thank you.
Genesis: WHO?? WHO'S AFTER HIM??
Sephiroth: I appreciate your kindness.
Genesis: NO ONE IS AFTER THIS MAN.
Sephiroth: I'm also humbled by your offer to protect me.
Genesis: FROM WHAT? HE'S A SPOILED LAB EXPERIMENT. WHAT HAS HE DONE TO DESERVE YOUR AFFECTION?????
Someone sounds jelly.
Just sayin.
Amgery birbs are welcome to join my genocidal Sephikitty hug too. Speaking of...Cloud!
How come touch repulsed Sephy accepted the hug so easily.. (<- jealous)
Because Anon asked nicely
Genocidal Sephikitties need affection too 💙🐱💙
On a scale of 0/10 who who in the Firsts plus (Zack and Cloud cried the hardest in The Green Mile?
My dude everyone cried. Everyone. Even Sephiroth shed a tear. Angeal couldn't stomach the last act and left. Zack was screaming "NO NO NO WHY???" while shoveling popcorn into his mouth to self soothe. Cloud and Genesis were holding each other while crying.
Who is the most/least passive-aggressive?
Most passive agressive: Angeal. He's the type that doesn't tell the boys to help him with the dishes, just starts them on his own while smashing the plates into the sink. He also says things like "Sephiroth you look well today. You'd look even better if you WORE A DAMN SHIRT IN THE OFFICE"
Least passive agressive: Sephiroth. He's too stoic to be easily pissed off by petty grievances. But when he is, he prefers to be direct with people. Like Genesis will sit down for lunch and Sephiroth goes: "Why are you such an abrasive and unlikable person?" and Genesis: "Sephiroth I jUST SAT DOWN."
Puppy: *purposefully pushes brussel sprouts around on plate and saves them for dead last because Angeal KNOWS he hates them* hmph!
Genesis "Petty King" Rhapsodos, like Sephiroth, is to concerned with justice aka revenge to be *too* indirect. *Sounds of fireballs in the distance*
CAN I PLEASE HUG THE FIRSTS
Angeal: *Hugs back right away, both arms and all, probably lifts you off the ground. Also asks if you've eaten already*
Genesis: *A little apprehensive, but never denies a fan and loves being adored so he hugs back. Just don't touch his hair*
Sephiroth: *clings onto you*
Angeal: Sephiroth
Sephiroth: *Still clinging onto you. He's now purring*
Genesis: SEPHIROTH LET GO
Zack: hugged you first and also hasn't let go. You are a puppy-kitty sandwich and can now die happy.
tell us about some of the dumbest hijinks sephiroth, angeal, and genesis have ever gotten into together.
I think my entire blog is a pretty good answer to this question. However, considering I only ever write them inside the building, let's explore what they get up to out in public/ on missions.
• The time Genesis set Lazard up on a date. The trio went out of their way to disguise themselves as civilians (Genesis and Angeal as wife and husband, Sephiroth as their real estate agent) to spy on him at the restaurant.
• The time they went dirt biking in the wastelands and it resulted in Genesis loosing a tooth, Sephiroth breaking his nose and Angeal spraining his ankle.
• The time they went out to Karaoke and ended up doing a drunk rendition of Careless Whisper together.
• The time they took a cooking class for shits and giggles and Sephiroth blew up a microwave.
• Taking a company (convertible) car for a joyride around the city, then deciding to go through a carwash with the top down. Sephiroth's hair got stuck on the rotating equipment.
• The time they convinced Sephiroth to come with them to the Honeybee inn and lost him somewhere in the building. They had to contact the base to send in personnel to aid in the search. It was all over the news with speculation being that the General got kidnapped. Turns out Sephiroth found an empty room and decided to take a nap.
• The time all three of them got arrested. Sephiroth dared Genesis to jump in a fountain in sector downtown sector 4. He then jumped in, pretended to drown, and had Sephiroth and Angeal jump in after them. The Midgar PD took them in because they believed all three were high and a public hazard.
• "What could possibly go wrong if we steal borrow a company helicopter and fly to Junon for a music festival?" Nearly being shot down by a military aircraft who believed they were Wutai terrorists.
• The time they went bowling. Genesis and Sephiroth's quarrel involving their swords and materia wasn't what got the military involved. It was a heavily drunk Angeal going "It's better this way!" and hurtling bowling balls like footballs at the pins. They had to sedate him.
• The time Angeal and Sephiroth ended up on the tabloids after many paparazzi pictures of them exiting a hotel with a "mysterious prostitute." It was Genesis in drag and they were dragging him out of a classified Turk mission he had infiltrated.
• The time they went back to Banora for a holiday and brought Sephiroth with them. The country side shenanigans arc™ included gems such as:
- Genesis insisting he can drive a tractor, stealing one from his parents' farm, then knocking down a total of 17 Banora White trees while Sephiroth and Angeal screamed at him to "STOP THE TRACTOR"
- (I mention this somewhere) The time Genesis angered a chocobo and it chased him for an hour. Sephiroth laughed so hard he nearly threw up.
- Going apple picking together and having an apple fight that resulted in Genesis being knocked out by an apple. Angeal and Sephiroth freaked out, then dragged an unconscious Genesis back to his parents' house where they proceeded to explain that Genesis was just drunk and passed out.
A) someone needs to draw the carwash scene please and thanks
B) ok, I know it was Genesis who dressed up as the wife, but I really want it to be Angeal, who gets fake offended when people ask questions and make assumptions about her being a giant hunky gal with facial hair and a smol-ish, pretty-boy husband.
*Cloud after AC drinking at seventh heaven*
Cloud, sarcastically: You know what? If another Sephiroth-related, JENOVA cell thingy appears I'll just sleep with it. Maybe that'll calm it down.
*Genesis walks in*
Cloud: FOR FUCKS SAKE.
Aerith managed to give Sephiroth catnip back when they were in the labs. He questioned her at first, but she said "It just makes your eyes bigger!"
Hojo opens the door to separate them and Sephiroth comes shooting out, Aerith giggling riding on top of his back, absolutely wrecking shit from the sheer speed of his movement.
⏤ Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII, Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children
⏤ AU, Angst with a happy ending, Cloud Strife/Genesis Rhapsodos, grief, feelings of guilt, major character death but the characters are already dead.
⏤ WC: 1620
⏤ Genesis’s coping method these days include a phone number that no longer exists.
⏤ My writing is extremely wonky in this because I’m getting over yet another wave of writer’s block, but I cried to Yellow by Coldplay while thinking of this and now you get to feel my pain too :,)
The shutter of the camera echoed faintly across the vacant parking lot. It flashed, capturing the moment in color, but never in its full glory. It’s what Genesis found the most annoying about photography.
"Did I…?" Sephiroth asked innocently. "Yeah, you did! See that look on his face?" Zack asked, pointing at the blond. "He's gonna try to kill you later!" A sly smile spread across Sephiroth's face. "One can only hope." "…is this some kind of bizarre forepl—know what? Never mind. I don't wanna know!"
Happy Sefikura Saturday!
It's been a busy week, so this is actually a remake of a birthday gift I made for Froot last year. Well, it's not a complete remake, I just switched out which shot of Cloud I used because the other one was too out of focus. I'm not entirely happy with this, the angle of Cloud really isn't right, I think...but I didn't have time to go into the game and take a better one. Sorry. 😥 Also, this originally had much more threesome vibes(made around the time that Crisis Core Reunion was set to come out), but well...sefikura is my jam. You guys know this. And I think the dialogue works to that end, right?
What I started with:
