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cloud’s emotional output varies from timeline to timeline,   with him holding a much brighter,   more openly pleasant disposition pre-game   ;   a much harsher,   more indifferent disposition during   &   shortly after it   ;   &   a more combined placement of the two where he’s still relatively closed-off,   but less sharp at the edges than he is during the events of the game.

#the first is the way he used to be ; the real cloud as presented before trauma #the second is in it a blatantly false front presented as a coping mechanism to survive #the last is... what's left #the attempt to piece together the fragments in a way that makes some sense on some level #the road to recovery is a rough one but what can you do #* ooc / sometimes cryptids want to be heard you know.

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canonically cloud is a virgin   &   what a thought that is

#like....... it makes sense #bc he's not overly interested in personal attachments in general much less looking for companionship #but like #how tragic truly #* ooc / sometimes cryptids want to be heard you know. #suggestive cw

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on the way to a smile is a strange combination of very confusing writing & genuinely interesting background information

#not terrible? but feels a little haphazardly thrown together? #which is weird considering it came out like four years after advent children but you know #that could be owed in part to the translation itself that awkward feel of it #mobile.

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                                                         open.

A SIGH BEHIND HIS TEETH.      ❛   . . .   look,   i’m just trying to finish this job   ——   i don't want any more trouble than i already have.   ❜

#cloud vc : leave me Alone #here have an open bc....... i don't have anything else going on here rn #he's just trying to make a living okay #* interaction / open.

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as far as kingdom hearts goes,   i will probably be.   divergent in some regards after the first game   ;   mostly bc cloud’s obsession with tracking sephiroth makes little sense in the context that the second game’s timeline is intended to fall in line with advent children   ( based on cloud’s costume   &   weapon in the second game,   both of which bear actual significance on cloud’s character arc )   in the vague timeline of how cloud’s life goes.

instead,   i’m marking him as having had some kind of confrontation with sephiroth between games outside of sora’s view.   his wishy washy behavior in the second game in regards to his leaving radiant garden with some regularity isn’t tied to sephiroth,   but the belief that,   since he didn’t die in this timeline,   zack is lost out there somewhere in another world   &   cloud is searching for him.

#much of cloud's character in the second kh game makes very little sense #bc he wasn't a primary character so you couldn't see the way his life unfolded #therefore they couldn't give him the same development changes in personality & motivations #that he saw in the ffvii compilation #they were pretty much stuck on leaving him in his first game characterization but that doesn't vibe with me so #i'm gonna be changing it so that things happen to cloud off screen where sora isn't present #& he still has the same leaps in his life that leads him to the better places he ends up at #the scene where he charges off after sephiroth during / after the 1000 heartles battle #is even incredibly reminiscent of his final battle with sephiroth in advent children so #overall it seems like cloud's life is intended to follow the same stream but since they can't focus on it #& if they just changed his personality entirely it wouldn't make a lot of sense to players #that didn't play ffvii or see advent children #i'm just gonna take his characterization & slightly alter it for the new base in kh #i feel like i had this conversation with mari before but like i can't remember so here it is for my & others reference i guess #* ooc / sometimes cryptids want to be heard you know. #tag.

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                                             @phantomdream​

THE TRAIN RATTLES IN MOVEMENT   &   SHE’S STILL FOCUSED ON IT,   the bomb.   muttering under her breath   &   tracking her thoughts across a thousand tiny details in memories that will only lie to her now,   hoping to find something that tells her what went wrong.   it’s pointless,   dangerous.   ( ignore it,   it’s not your problem,   she’s safe on the train now   ——.)      ❛   hey.   ❜      damn.   he stalls on his attempt to go past her to the next car,   hesitates for a moment too long to play it off now.      ❛   you know it doesn’t matter,   right?   your fault or not,   they’re gonna pin it all on you   &   wait until you get too distracted thinking about it to see them coming.   let it go.   ❜

#phantomdream #softly in my return : / hello / #pls have cloud being absolutely insufferable for your evening mayhaps? #* verse / final fantasy vii remake. #* arc / part one. #* interaction / phantomdream : jessie raspberry.

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nintendo really wouldn’t let cloud recover from his trauma (sephiroth)

#i'm fuckin lo sing iT #* the wolf / the weight of the world's getting harder to hold up. #* images / art. #crack tag. #* enemy intel / sephiroth.

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i really did forget how much i enjoyed writing cloud

#me one reply into this blog : i have missed you my dumb sharp boi #* ooc / sometimes cryptids want to be heard you know. #delete.

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                                               @havocbringer

FINGERS PLAY LIGHT AGAINST THE LEATHER BINDING of his sword,   bright blue eyes set ahead with combat set deep in his bones   &   a mouth full of instinct that puts him on edge long before they’ve engaged.   this one’s gonna be a tough one,   one he’d rather handle himself than put her in danger for   . . .   but, that wouldn’t really be her style,   his be damned.      ❛   alright,   if we’re gonna do this,   we’re gonna have to coordinate.   i’ll go through the middle   &   when they turn on me, you hit ‘em from behind   ——   you got this?   ❜

#havocbringer #softly waggles eyebrows @ you #i wrote this with aerith in mind but i tried to make it open if you wanted to use smb else! #i hope it's alright for you #* verse / undetermined. #tag.

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will i ever emotionally recover from them not releasing yuffie on ps4

#how upsetting actually #also mildly confusing bc..... why #is it an attempt to get more people to upgrade? who knows but I’m sad about it #anyways gonna get on in a bit & do a few starters #but first. food #mobile.

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as a result of his broken memories   &   attempt to fabricate new ones to cope with the trauma of the experiments,   cloud doesn’t actually. . .   remember how old he is or when his birthday is   ;   he has a series of very vague memories that don’t tell him a whole lot   &   with what little he does have in specifics he can never be truly sure whether he’s right or whether his memories are playing tricks on him.

he does manage to get his age of twenty-four in his post-doc timeline   ( twenty-one during the events of vii )   &   his birthday of august 11th correct,   but not by his own remembrance   ——   the timelines are information he got from tifa,   after he began to try to piece his old life back together.

#smb : when is your birthday how old are you #cloud : tifa says......... #listen he's trying okay but you can't expect him to be on the ball for timeline things #there's a lot going on up there don't @ him #this does work under the assumption that tifa knows his birthday but it's......... not unlikely #they're not portrayed as being super close ( or they're portrayed as really close it's very unclear depending on which is telling it ) #in their childhood but given the size of where they grew up it's not unlikely that she would know #so i assume that it's not unlikely that after after they started living together to care for the kids #& for him to work on strife delivery that at some point it would have come up in some way #* ooc / sometimes cryptids want to be heard you know. #* the wolf / headcanon.

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sentences / starters taken from black widow   :   name of the rose,   #5.   feel free to change pronouns / tenses as necessary.     /     part one.   part two.                                           TRIGGERS   :   espionage,   death.

you tell yourself that there are things you will never forget.   tell yourself that you will always remember what is important.

tell yourself that everything you love will stay with you,   forever.   even though it won’t.   not even a little.

in the end,   all we have is ourselves.

but unless you are strong…   and careful…   that will not be enough.

you weren’t worth my time,   [NAME].   you still aren’t.

you’re either scared of me…   or too weak to come after me directly.

talk is cheap,   [NAME].   what matters are results.   and i’m getting exactly what i want.

that’s how i like it.   hearts are too fickle,   [NAME].   greed is dependable.

i’m [NAME].   and i could eat you for lunch.

which means he doesn’t care if i kill you.   and neither do i.

yes.   this would be a good time to start praying.

old man.   weak bladder.

you’re not out of the woods with me,   yet.

look at them run.   not a single one loyal enough to stand by you.

both of us feel stronger in solitude.   it’s our nature.   because we’re killers.

i don’t want to beat you,   [NAME].   i just   ——   want   ——   to kill   ——   you!

you’ve spent your entire life trying to get the upper hand.   and it means nothing.   because you’re nothing.

get up or surrender.

how much longer can you go on?   how strong is your will to live?

i never think about giving up.

you’re on your knees,   [NAME].   you lost the fight.   you are weak.

don’t give up yet,   [NAME].   live a little.

you can’t win this by walking away,   [NAME].

you’ll die one day.   so will i.   but unlike you…   i’ll show some spine.   and i won’t be alone.

thank you for handling all the details,   [NAME].   you know how i hate paperwork.

but words on a page didn’t teach me that lesson.   i learned it on my own.

i learned it from death,   and hardship,   and brief acts of inexplicable kindness.

i learned love from sacrifice.   i learned love from living.

it’s not the length of a life that matters…   just the depth of it.   the chances we take.   the paths we choose.   how we go on after our hearts break.

hearts always break.   and so we bend with our hearts.   and we sway.

but in the end…   what matters is that we loved…   and lived.

#* interaction / meme.

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starters  /  prompts taken from f. d. soul’s work ,  between you and these bones .  feel free to change pronouns  /  tenses as necessary .

‘  the problem is you keep trying to use your eyes  ’

‘  how i soften when you pull me against you  ’

‘  you are teaching me to love  ’

‘  i will pretend that i have not already heard the question in your eyes  ’

‘  you perhaps will become my swan song  ’

‘  it is a very human thing to love  ’

‘  you are my good days  ’

‘  i have been loved dearly  ’

‘  i promise you will not always be this war  ’

‘  thank god for the stubbornness of organs  ’

‘  it takes me seven days to stop being in love with you  ’

‘  there will always be another day  ’

‘  there will always be another mercy  ’

‘  perhaps i will take up dancing again  ’

‘  what a pretty little disaster you will be  ’

‘  i am terrified for you  ’

‘  i will fold inside of myself  ’

‘  today i am thankful  ’

‘  i didn’t want to sleep because i didn’t want to wake  ’

‘  come and get me  ’

‘  i tell myself i do not need you  ’

‘  i think i broke again last night  ’

‘  i’m just trying to connect with you  ’

‘  you are an ocean that will perhaps never stop crashing  ’

‘  burn the house down in search of yourself  ’

‘  don’t you dare ever stop looking  ’

‘  i struggle not to feel guilty  ’

‘  you are a wild  ,  unkempt thing  ’

‘  sometimes it is a very sad thing to be human and longing  ’

‘  find that you are made of russian nesting dolls  ’

‘  the trees are always kindest with spring comes  ’

‘  teach yourself the hymns again  ’

‘  he is every amen i have ever laid down on lips  ’

‘  this life is an altar  ’

‘  i am sorry i do not have more time  ’

‘  there is a mountain in me  ’

‘  by the morning i am a triumph  ’

‘  there are words playing hooky in the back of your throat  ’

‘  today is by far the most beautiful creature i have ever come across  ’

‘  there are many things that will fit beneath your skin  ’

‘  forgiveness does not take up much room  ’

‘  some days you will breathe and it will be enough  ’

‘  you do not have to hold it quite so tightly  ’

‘  there is a prayer in me  ,  still  ’

‘  you scare me a little  ’

‘  you can be a good thing and not a whole thing  ’

‘  there are flowers in my chest again  ’

‘  the rain comes and sounds like you  ’

‘  i cannot tell you why i still trust god  ’

‘  find peace and build a home out of it  ’

‘  there is never an end  ’

#here we go i'll probably just turn these into starters #* interaction / meme.

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the intention to emulate zack but the reality of not actually displaying any of his personality traits is the attachment to things that make cloud feel safe, but the rejection of things that compromise the feeling & in this essay i will —-

#cloud attaches himself to all the aspects of zack that project the illusion of safety #his skill ; sword ; determination #his desire to become a mercenary to support them #while he explicitly detaches himself from the aspects of zack that would cause him to confront his reality #his optimism ; light hearted outward responses ; helpfulness to others #i just think it’s.... Neat okay #mobile.

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         𝐘𝐄𝐓 𝐎𝐍𝐋𝐘 𝐀 𝐁𝐑𝐀𝐕𝐄 𝐌𝐀𝐍 𝐖𝐈𝐋𝐋 𝐀𝐂𝐓 𝐈𝐍 𝐓𝐈𝐌𝐄𝐒 𝐆𝐑𝐄𝐀𝐓 𝐀𝐍𝐃 𝐒𝐌𝐀𝐋𝐋.                                                     𝐂𝐋𝐎𝐔𝐃 𝐒𝐓𝐑𝐈𝐅𝐄,   𝒇𝒊𝒏𝒂𝒍 𝒇𝒂𝒏𝒕𝒂𝒔𝒚 𝒗𝒊𝒊.

you carry the heavens in your eyes like one of those old greek tragedies,   and i'd call you atlas,   but he wasn't given the choice to hold the stars.   you were. yet still you break your back by holding the stars in your palms.

independent   &   highly selective writing blog for cloud strife of square enix’s final fantasy vii compilation series.   primary characterization based in the first game,   with some influence from other appearances   &   the remake.   sideblog,   follows back from @warode​​.

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