Mahkohime's Musings

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Don’t have to ask me twice 🫡 Idk how to do tooth-rotting fluff though, so behold—

Zack: Cloud, buddy, good news!

*Zack slaps a printed PDF onto Cloud’s lap*

Zack: Read this.

Cloud: If this is another petition to put a soft-serve ice cream machine in the armory, I’m not signing it.

Zack: It’s better than ice cream! Kunsel just pulled up the Executive Benefits Clause! Apparently, married military personnel get a thirty percent stipend bonus, double the hazard pay, and a private two-bedroom suite with a balcony!

Cloud: For the last time, no. We’re not getting married for the benefits.

Zack: Why not!? It’s free money! We just turn in the paperwork, get the keys to the apartment, and boom—we’re swimming in Shinra credits!

Cloud: Because it’s fraud! If Angeal doesn’t kill you, the Shinra Accounting Department will.

Zack: Man, the higher-ups don’t care! They’re not gonna audit our souls! They’re just gonna see two handsome, hardworking guys who fell in love in the line of duty.

Cloud: You do realize that to keep those benefits, the marriage has to be legally binding, right? As long as you work for Shinra—which, knowing your contract, is for the rest of your natural life— we have to stay married.

Zack: Yeah? So?

Cloud: So we’d be married forever.

Zack: And?

Cloud: And we’d be forced to go through with actual, total domestic commitment. We’d have to move in together. The Turks do random spousal compliance checks to prevent benefit abuse, which means we’d have to share a bedroom. We’d have to split household chores. We’d have to buy matching couch cushions. We’d end up adopting a stray cat from the slums just to make the marriage look authentic. In thirty years, when we retire, we’d be stuck in a seaside cottage in Costa del Sol, sitting on the porch, taking care of cats and arguing about whose turn it is to make the morning tea.

*Zack, enamored, takes Cloud’s hand*

Zack: Don’t threaten me with a good time.

In Rebirth, we just see an image of her scrawled on a wall and hear that she worked for Hojo.

Speaking of Revelation, I do hope that they do her justice. Even if it’s just a recreation of the crystal cave scene from the original game, I’d be fine with it. But I’m also worried about it, given all the other things that have happened.

Hell, during my first (and current) FF7 playthrough, I first used Chaos in the fight against Hojo. Or at least I wanted to but I accidentally used it once before due to a misinput but I’m ignoring that. And the entire boss fight was pretty much just Chaos-Vincent beating the fuck out of him with the other party members mostly acting as support and occasionally attacking.

Fluffy: Mrow.

The baby inside her is squirming in agony as its body is transformed and twisted by the foreign cells. It clearly hurts.

Sephiroth is born in pain and it lingers for years afterwards. He cries more than most infants. They can’t comfort him.

He’s inconsolable and everyone knows that likely only Lucrecia’s love and affection could soothe the ache. But she’s gone, and the baby keeps crying until he’s old enough to start asking for her instead.

Jesus fucking Christ Crow that's so dark 💀

...Good thing Sephiroth never ever suffered from any physical or emotional pain ever again as he grew up. Yep! All rainbows and sunny skies from here!

I'm so fucking excited. I really, really wanted to paint Vincent similarly to how I did Cloud and Sephiroth a few years ago, but I wanted *official* (yes with asterisk stars it's 1997) imagery to build his clothes from.

I... was hoping similar for Cait, to dress Reeve in, but I also knew anything they put Cait in would probably be way too whimsical for Reeve. Then again, there is the Monster Hunter costume... 🤭 No, no, not for Reeve. I guess I can just dress Reeve up as some lord.

I wanna say nobody knows how much I wanted this, but everybody knows how much I wanted this.

I mean you guys saw! I bought an entire Nendoroid new in box JUST to harvest its yukata for Vincent! And now I want to make him a custom body with THIS yukata, too...

God. The fan. The mask. That PONYTAIL. THOSE KNEES.

Guys, equip Death Penalty and make him do a flip- Wh-who suggested such a thing. 🤐🤐🤐😨😳

Aaaand you're welcome.