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I think Dreamer and May would be good friends.

Oh! This is really interesting... I have given zero thought to this sort of thing, tbh. I’d love to hear more!

Yeah! I actually kinda like that? As a friend said yesterday, there are some similar parallels and such - even with Sephiroth not being a hero in the true sense of the word, the underlying... sense of how he’s essentially the only one who’s as strong as he is, and that they’re both capable of things that no one else is.

And of course, the fact that they foil each other in the aspect of; Clark Kent was born to people who loved him of alien origin, but was taken in by loving parents once found on Earth, grew up normally, and grew to see people as more than the horrors humanity could inflict, and to see himself as more than just what his powers were capable of, and his father is (for the most part, as far as I’m aware) benevolent -

And Sephiroth was born an experiment, grew up as such, as well as under people who raised him as a child soldier and to see his power as something that was purely a weapon, and ultimately his mind cracked because of all of his safety nets being taken out from under him, and the pressure from every single person in his life who expected things from him, until he just went “you know what, just, screw it. I’ll listen to the only person who’s ever made me feel loved.”  And of course, that being Jenova, wasn’t good for anyone.

I’m... actually reminded of something I read about re: Dostoevsky the other day? 

That there seems to be a running theme in his books of people having had a crisis of faith, and wondering - who is god? Is god real? If god is not real, then does all the power lie with me? Am I the god of my own destiny?

oh boy.