Be the cryptid you want to see in the world

“Grace says he would like half of dome to be water.”

“Oh, is necessary for humans to have large amounts of water question?”

Small Eridian equivalent of a sigh. “No. Not needed for life. In fact Grace will die if he falls in water and does not get out.”

“Tell him we give him water in containers that won't kill him. Lots lots lots of water on Erid for Grace to drink.”

“No. Grace say he want water on ground. Also want it with excess sodium chloride compound so it will be unhealthy for drink.”

“Grace want this liquid for celebration.”

“Of course.” They scan it. “You have wrong liquid. This contain compounds which are poisonous for humans.”

“Yes yes yes. Grace say humans like feeling of being slightly poisoned.”

a usually reserved and mild-mannered character

going apeshit for the first time

on behalf of their loved one

who, as they think, is being horribly mistreated by the target of their rant

(even though the loved one endured some great hardship for the sake of the target in the past)

and so despite knowing that the target isn't aware of their loved one's suffering

(and the speaker themselves being involved in inflicting that suffering)

"WELL THEY SHOULD FUCKING KNOW ABOUT IT, THEN"

they deliver the truth in the most accusational way possible

to make the target feel bad and leave their loved one alone and stop causing them harm

while, crucially, not knowing that the target cared about their loved one just as much

edit: this post is a severely different experience with the sound on

Rocky lost his entire crew to an unknown illness and has been alone in space for forty six years. Lil guy wasn't impatient he was freaking frantic that something had happened to the only other being he'd met in the past fifty years and relieved and understandably worked up when Grace reappeared and was just fine but oh my word, can you imagine? You've been alone for so long and you don't even know what killed your crew or why you survived and you finally, finally meet another person and they leave you a note for when they're gonna be back AND THEN THEY DON'T SHOW UP ON TIME?! where are they question?! are they okay question?!

Terry Pratchett: "!" said the stranger.

AU where the COI actually does pull Simon out of the blood ocean, gets assigned a shitty job as a shuttle operator (glorified mailman), and still has to deal with the Ocean's hivemind in his head. Cue the bitching.

Ok ok let me explain because I promise I’m not (completely) nuts. I mean I am, BUT THIS IS MY NICHE BEAR WITH ME

So in spirituality, (a) revelation equates to a final unveiling, the moment where everything once hidden gets revealed and laid bare all at once, the ultimate truth. Hence the last book in the bible being Revelation, the end of everything.

And when you look at what they actually named these four games:

(Crisis Core) Reunion, Remake, Rebirth, Revelation.

This made me think of the four stages of the Magnum Opus in alchemy. I’m doing a piss poor explanation, but essentially there’s

1) Nigredo; the death and rot where everything falls apart so transformation can even begin.

2) Albedo after the destruction, where truth starts separating from debris, it’s the illumination, clarity, purification

3) Citrinitas is the awakening, the growth where you realize you’re the one creating the path now and have to work with what you have.

4) And Rubedo is the completion, the full synthesis of everything that came before it

BUT ANYWAY, if you take stages into account, that’s not four random titles, but kinda sounds like a map.

1) Reunion is about the scattered pieces before anything else can happen. Sephiroth, Zack, Cloud, even Angeal and Genesis and Aerith and Tifa, so on because Crisis Core is the pre-everything. It’s Zack inheriting the sword, Cloud being forced to carry S cells, absorbing Zack’s identity, losing his own memories. Reunion is also literal in the lore. The Reunion is Jenova’s cells calling her pieces home, fragments returning to the source. You cannot build anything new until all of that is gathered in one place. Even if you don’t take Crisis Core as canon, there’s still the Nibelheim incident, and the whole tragedy of what happened there is that it’s doomed and it has to happen first.

2) Remake is looking fate in the face and refusing to give into it. The Arbiters of Fate exist in this game because the story knows it was supposed to go a certain way, but that doesn’t happen because Cloud and the others are choosing, against the literal fabric of destiny, to rip up the predetermined script. You can’t change a fixed outcome from inside it, so you have to break the walls first.

3) Rebirth is what happens the second after you burn the predetermined script and step into the open world (LITERALLY) but there’s no guide anymore and fate is off the table. Everything is raw and new and Zack is alive in diverging timelines and nobody knows what that means yet. The rules are gone and you’re breathing in air that has never existed before. A rebirth isn’t supposed to be safe or clean, especially one that is alive when it was never supposed to be possible.

4) Revelation is (and I’m just speculating here bc all we know is the OG story) when the mask, the veil, the illusion all drops completely. You see the whole thing for what it actually was and that’s why this word that works for the finale of this story. Rubedo is the final and most sacred stage of the great work where everything that died in the Nigredo, was purified in the Albedo, and birthed in the Citrinitas merges into one single point and completes. It’s the full transmutation where nothing is hidden or false anymore and you get the total, undeniable truth of what the entire process was building toward.

Revelation in the Bible is the Apocalypse, which people hear as destruction and world ending BUT !!

apocalypse/əˈpäkəˌlips/The word apocalypse originates from the Ancient Greek term apokalypsis (ἀποκάλυψις), which literally translates to “an uncovering,” “disclosure,” or “revelation”. It combines the prefix apo- (“away from” or “off”) with the verb kalyptein (“to cover” or “conceal”).

The word literally means unveiling. It’s the moment where every prophecy, death and resurrection and promise made across the entire scripture converges into the finale. In the bible, what was always true becomes visible for the first time because everything that obscured it has finally been burned away.

And for FF7 specifically, every false thing gets named in Revelation: the lie Cloud built his identity around, what Sephiroth actually is, what Jenova was always doing, what the Planet has been up to, and all the timelines. That’s the great work proving it was real, Rubedo, the Revelation.

Zack being in the Remake trilogy always confused people. I mean the man died, his story was told, Crisis Core was his game and it ended, so why is he here?

But what if it’s because this map requires him. Reunion being released gathered his pieces back into the narrative of the remake trilogy: his sacrifice, his memory living inside Cloud, the question of what he was owed by the universe. Remake broke the fate that killed him, Rebirth let him breathe in a timeline where he survived, and I assume Revelation is where it all converges.

If anything, (and I’m biased because that’s my guy™) Zack’s presence in the trilogy +whatever else happens is the game showing its work (like the great work) and demonstrating that Reunion, Remake, and Rebirth actually did something, that fate was actually broken, that the pieces actually came back together into something new.

Dracula book: an evil count who only sees the world as a resource to be drained for his own pleasure is stopped by the group of people who deeply care for each other

Dracula in media: a tragic romantic hero, main love interest of one of the protagonists who must be liberated from her dull little life

Frankenstein book: any human has capacity for evil when completely abandoned and shunned by the world and the people who brought him into it

Frankenstein in media: don't play God because it's against nature's laws

Jekyll and Hyde book: repression and only caring about external appearances can cause your worst impulses to indulge themselves in dangerous ways if ignored for too long

-Elif Batuman

Dracula: I’m a powerful man who sees the world as nothing but a resource to be drained. My name is Executive Producer. This book is awesome but these Power Of Love idiots don’t understand how Cool and Relatable To Me Dracula is.

Frankenstein: I’m not a Bad Parent. It is the Children who are wrong, they should be more Grateful for the Harsh Lessons I teach them so that they’ll grow up to be Hard like me