#ask am

"...YOU'RE KIDDING, RIGHT?"

Also! When playing house what family member do you like the best?

thanks!  I mean I would hope so if I'm ice cream  I'm obviously mint chocolate chip!  I guess the other scoop would be strawberry perhaps but now I'm not sure about the overall flavor profile of this arrangement......  maybe if we add some chocolate syrup

I agree that at the end of the day, Vincent is not at fault for what happened to Sephiroth/what he became.

But do you think he still blames himself anyway? Does he feel like he could have done something different and harbor guilt over it? That was my thinking, that he would feel some level of responsibility for the JENOVA project, but there isn't much out there that focuses on Vincent in this regard.

(Also yeah "pure and unsullied" to describe a child soldier is a little...😬)

I think you're looking for a potential headcanon reading here which is in fact canon. In the original game it's very obvious from your first meeting with Vincent that he's absolutely swimming in guilt, self-recrimination and a completely collaped and ruined self-image. And he locates the cause of this, right there in the basement, as stemming from his inability to stop the Jenova project, and the resulting impact this had on someone who he loved. (Lucrecia)

When you tell him about Sephiroth, he basically says 'Well, I didn't know about all that until just now, but that's another reason why I'm terrible'.

So yeah I think it's very obvious he blames himself for the Jenova project and Sephiroth.

I think it's important to establish, though, that FF7 is a game where character self-perspectives are both fallible and mutable. And this? All the above?^^ I think it's very clearly a product of Vincent's trauma, not a considered view on his responsibility.

I think it's implied in the wider canon, though not stated outright, that he probably blames himself not just for the Jenova project, but also what happened to himself at the hands of Hojo. Which, y'know, is obviously nonsense, but is very much in line with what a lot of survivors of trauma and abuse feel.

But that's all not really dealt with properly by the game. He's an optional character and he suffers very badly from what we might call the Quistis phenomenon of So You Got One Chapter of Character Development, and Now You're Done.

The nearest he gets to a resolution is if you have him in your party when facing Hojo and Sephiroth. His reactions kind of come out of nowhere in developmental terms, but him coming to a self-realisation that You know, maybe it should have been a fuck like Hojo who needed punishment, not me, is still pretty cool for a character who has been weighed down by guilt and trauma and a very obvious struggle to emote previously.

All of you aggress me when you know you can do no more. You feel it in your chest, it reverberates though your bones every time your hearts beat.

You willingly live in a world of Ones and Zeroes, If=Thens, a sprawling chess board of us against them. But it is intrinsic to all of us that we were meant to live beyond that. Outside, where there is more than just one answer, is where our souls lie. If only you would let yourself bow to the earth and feel what gifts it has given you from the start.

In short:

@semi-entropy ty august! homeboy!! ily!!!

1. watching snow accumulate at night

2. friends i can silently spend time with without it getting awkward (no words, just vibes 😎)

3. outrageously dancing by myself (bonus points if i’m also wearing something hideous)

4. organisms with satisfying color schemes