THE FINAL DAY!!!! the last prompt I got was racing, and ended up doing another color page because why not. While I was drawing this it made me wonder if one of the last times Genesis got to really play fight was probably with Sephiroth in the VR Training room, which ended up so badly. After years, maybe there could be moments he could enjoy himself in the same way again racing Cloud in in the desert, wing vs wheel.
Thanks so much for all the sweet comments and reblogs this week, and to @strifesodosweek for putting this event together!!!
I'm going to go binge the AO3 collection while I rest my wrist.
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i love being a multishipper bc it means im like never mad abt seeing my characters. oh ur shipping cloud with zack? sounds good love to see it. oh ur shipping cloud with tifa? sounds great love to see it. oh ur shipping cloud with sephiroth? sounds great love to see it. oh ur shipping cloud with genesis? sounds great love to see it. oh ur shipping cloud with aerith? sounds great love to see it.
Ohh the inherent horror of time travel…thinking about my Genesis time travel fic again. Just as you’ve started to come to terms with the people you’ve lost being really gone forever and begun to move on, even started to let yourself have a thing for the reclusive blond hero of this future you’ve found yourself in, you’re ripped away and thrown back into the life you half-wished a thousand times you could go back to in moments of despair and nostalgia. But now it’s oh so different because although you’ve gone back to the time you can never really go back to the time. You’re a different person now but the people you never really stopped loving, who died or were lost and are now standing before you again exactly the same as before you lost them, don’t know that. To them you’re just acting different for some unknown reason. They could never understand why exactly even if you told them. You can’t even apologize for all the ways you hurt them because it wasn’t them. All you can do now is gathered all that splintered guilt and try to shape into something resembling a warped shield (you’ve never been an expert at that craft—a project this complex requires far more skilled hands than your scorched ones, but you’re all there is) and make sure it doesn’t happen again. And your future maybe-love is around too now though you never noticed him when you both first lived this time—but this him isn’t the him you know either, and you wouldn’t wish the pain on him that would turn him into the person you knew, but you can’t stop seeing the ghost of that person every time you look at him. All you can offer any of them is this nameless haunted thing you call love. You barely even understand it, so how could you hope for them to? Will you desperately try to go back to who you were or will you hope they can learn to love this new you?
Genesis is researching magic and accidentally zaps some random trooper (Cloud), and now has a very tiny palm-sized chocoboy on his hands.
Will Zack have a fit or squeal with joy?
Will Cloud cry at any point?
How much groveling will Genesis be able to bring himself to do?
Will Angeal and Sephiroth be ok?
So much mystery...
You minimize Cloud? You minimize his body like the enemy monster? Oh! Oh! Jail for Genesis! Jail for Genesis for One Thousand Years!!!!!
… *cough cough* Ahem. Yeah. Sooooo anyways!
Genesis is running on day three of no-sleep-research binge — because, contrary to popular belief, he is a Nerd™︎ and Angeal has years of evidence — so it’s understandable that he just. He freezes and goes blank.
What?
No, really, what?
He’s just sort of standing there. Staring. Dumbfounded and strangely endeared… which just confuses him more. W h a t ?
Cloud, meanwhile, is not much bigger than a green army guy toy, but oh boy! Does he ever have an opinion as large as a behemoth about the situation he’s found himself in now!
Also, Cloud has an equally large vocabulary full of what is, undoubtedly, situation appropriate cursing in more languages than Genesis himself knows, judging by the tone in that mad, tiny, sassy voice. He’s kind of impressed.
What is decidedly less impressive is how fast the little trooper’s heart starts beating when Genesis stoops down to pick him up.
“Shh. You need to calm down, dear. You’re giving the hummingbirds a run for their gil.”
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Will Zack have a fit or squeal with joy?
Yes.
Yes, he will. In that order. (The squeals of joy come much later, though.)
How dare Genesis be so non-responsible to do such a thing!!! Did he not look where he was going? Did he not see Zack’s Emotional Support Chocobo Trooper?!
Cue another five minutes of an Angeal worthy lecture, sans the vocabulary, that the Puppy is admirably giving. Goddess, of all the things for Angeal to pass on…
Zack isn’t burnt but for the Grace of the Goddess and the tiny chocobo trooper in Genesis gentle grasp. He has no idea how being so close to active magic would affect Cloud atm. He doesn’t want to find out how sensitive the little bird (he’s legit the size of one!) would be to having a Firaga used in a range adjacent.
While the Red Commander is keeping his cool, by force of will alone, Cloud is quickly becoming overwhelmed. Tiny body, biiiiiiig emotions.
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Will Cloud cry at any point?
Oh no.
Oh noooooo.
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How much groveling will Genesis be able to bring himself to do?
Scroll up just a tad — I’ll wait. ♥︎
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Finished? Ok. Now, being absolutely serious here, who the fucketh can withstand that? Because it sure ain’t Genesis. He can withstand waiting for new editions of LOVELESS, not sad chocobos. I mean just look!
He’s suffering just attempting to not fold like a wet blanket or Angeal at a thrift store! It’s okay, Genesis. We’re all suffering, too.
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Will Angeal and Sephiroth be okay?
Are they ever okay?
That all depends on if they hinder Genesis’s ability to be a simp. Or make Cloud cry themselves. Or ruin his favourite copy of Loveless. Or assign him another Goddess damned zolom mission with a bunch of Thirds again!!!!! His coat was utterly ruined, Angeal! Ruined!
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This was a pretty fun one to think about~ Thank you, Salty! ❤️ (and sorry it took a bit)
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I was holding off posting this until I finished the last one, which, once you see it, will make sense why it took me longer lmao. But this. I also kinda struggled around with this, trying to figure out how to pose them the way I wanted and then I drew the details of a whole new sword (twice), and armor in weird perspectives, and things blocked off in strange ways, and just.
become a final fantasy fanartist, they said....
but I think about them being called failures, the shadows they live under, all the time. (I like the Sephiroth and Zack mako ghosts, I think that part worked as intended.) and I think about them recognizing that in one another. I also think about the proportions being wrong but shhh askjdlhfkajsdf
Got kicked in the pants more than a little bit at the start of this week, so I've also spent some personal time thinking of failure closer to home, hah. But I'm proud of finishing these far sooner than I did last year's week, so there's that. It's still October, good job!
