Utsusemi

And while it is very sad that Sephiroth's VA has changed, I think we will get used to it after enough exposure to it and ultimately the thing that matters to me the most is having Sephiroth's story told in the best way possible. So really LMAO nothing can bring me down right now. NOTHING. I LOVE THIS MAN AND I CAN'T WAIT TO SEE THE FINAL INSTALLMENT WHERE ALL HIS MYSTERIES FINALLY GET SOLVED.

Thank you for everyone that suggested me some pretty tails✨

爱人错过 / Loves Missing

走过 路过 没遇过 / walk by pass by never met

回头 转头 还是错 / turn back turn around yet still wrong

你我不曾感受过 / you and I have never had

相撞在街口 相撞在街口 / at the crossroad collide at the crossroad collide

*It’s immediately after Sephiroth was helping him with maintenance on the training swords for the Second and Third Classes, and accidentally knocked over the container*

Sephiroth: Don’t panic! I can fix this.

Angeal: It’s fine. I’ll sort it out myself, it’s okay.

Sephiroth: The responsibility is mine, I knocked it over, let me handle it.

Angeal: I appreciate that but I sincerely doubt you know how to repair a partially melted—

*Sephiroth whispers to Masamune. The lights flicker, a void opens mid-air, the Buster Sword goes in, the void closes*

Angeal: !?

*The void reopens, the Buster Sword comes back out perfect and completely restored*

Sephiroth: Good as new. See? Everything is fine.

Angeal: NO. NO, IT’S NOT “FINE.” WHAT WAS THAT. WHAT DID YOU JUST DO??

Sephiroth: The void dimension where Masamune rests when not in active use contains a residual presence of the swordsmith who forged it. The entity is, for lack of a better word, bored. It was happy to have something to work on. This is all quite normal.

Angeal: NORMAL? NORMAL IS MY FATHER WORKING HIMSELF INTO THE GROUND TO PAY FOR THAT SWORD. NORMAL IS YEARS OF SAVINGS. NORMAL IS NOT A HAUNTED POCKET DIMENSION DOING METALLURGY ON DEMAND.

Sephiroth: Luckily the swordsmith is already dead, so no one had to die for it this time.

*Angeal takes off his boot and hits him with it*

*Genesis and Angeal open Sephiroth’s bedroom door early in the morning. The bed is completely buried under Sephiroth plushies, Shinra merch spilling off every side*

Angeal: I told you not to take Zack out drinking! One sip of alcohol and look what he does!

Genesis: You’re the one who encouraged me to bond with him. How was I supposed to know he becomes terrifyingly proficient at claw machines while intoxicated?

Angeal: And then he dumped them all on Sephiroth as a gift—

Genesis: ~of the Goddess—

Angeal: NOT NOW.

Genesis: ...

Angeal: Help me get some of these off him before he wakes up. Assuming he’s even in there.

*They begin excavating plushies*

Genesis: He must be. Though if not… heh, look, his bed has every model.

Angeal: Shinra is alarmingly thorough with the merch. Look: cowboy Sephiroth, doctor Sephiroth, angel Sephiroth, devil Sephiroth, Sephiroth who sings happy birthday.

Genesis: Beach fun Sephiroth, chocobo jockey Sephiroth, winter sweater Sephiroth, chef Sephiroth …“business casual Sephiroth”

Angeal: There’s also farmer Sephiroth, sailor Sephiroth, even sleepy grumpy Sephiroth.

Genesis: Angeal dear, that’s the real one.

Angeal: oH— sorry, sorry—

@exhausted-pigeon gets credit for helping me fix this chart:

AND. Since Leslie eventually finds Merle, this means Sephiroth too will reunite with Lucrecia.

You know when you wake up and you just HAVE to draw Seph? yeah...