#CCFF7R

[hueyoart]

#fanart #cloud strife #final fantasy vii #ccff7r #digitalart #illustration

[artofalassa]

| The Escape |

Happy CC day!

#zakkura #clack #cloud strife #zack fair #crisis core reunion #crisis core #ccff7r #las!art

[rmeow]

quite frankly don't know how to use tumblr but heyyyyyyy

#zack fair #cloud strife #tifa #tifa lockhart #aerith #aerith gainsborough #ff7 #crisis core #ff7ccr #ccff7r #zakkura #aerti #ffvii #ffvii remake #zifa #clerith

[getvalentined]

Friendly reminder that the only reason Genesis is the antagonist of Crisis Core is because Zack is with Shinra. Literally.

Once he's on the run, once Genesis knows that Zack can't help him, he literally brings Hollander to Gongaga for Zack to kill—he tells Zack what Hollander is planning under the guise of it being a joint effort, but once Hollander runs off, Genesis then tells Zack what he intends to do. He talks to him about Loveless and the Lifestream, he shoves a Banora White into his hands when Zack charges at him, and then he leaves. Hollander is left behind—in Zack's hometown, his own turf, so there's nowhere to run and nowhere to hide—allowing Zack to enact poetic justice at last by striking down Angeal's birth father with the very sword that the man who actually raised Angeal died to earn, the sword that honorless Gillian said represented all the honor the Hewleys had left.

And then, finally realizing what's actually going on, Zack sets out to to Banora to save Genesis from dying.

There's no point after Modeoheim that Genesis outright attacks Zack until he's cured at the Light of Doom; there, he calls Zack First Class SOLDIER even though he's not anymore, because Genesis isn't trying to strike down Zack, he's trying to reclaim the right to the only title he's ever had that felt worth anything, and he's trying to take the burden of that title from Zack.

If he wins, Genesis takes the guilt of killing both Angeal and Sephiroth—because he doesn't know Cloud's role, he doesn't know that Zack wasn't the one to strike Sephiroth down, he doesn't even know Cloud's name. Conversely, if he loses, then it's confirmation that Zack is the hero of the story, truly and completely, and that's all right too. If that's how the story ends, that's how it ends. (Minerva intervenes, pulls Genesis from the duel, and he never gets to see the ending. The final act, as in his beloved ancient poem, remains a mystery.)

Genesis is the main antagonist of Crisis Core, but he's never been the bad guy. The entirety of Final Fantasy VII has a single monolith of villainy, and that's always been—and will always be—Shinra. Shinra made the Reactors and dug up Jenova. Shinra made Genesis, Sephiroth, Angeal, and DeepGround. Shinra burned Kalm, Banora, and (partially) Nibelheim. Shinra used any corpse they found or made as research fodder. Shinra killed the last fullblooded Cetra and drove her only daughter to a place where the only way to save the people she loved was through her death. Shinra is the bad guy.

Zack is with Shinra for the majority of the game, and thus the story behaves accordingly. Shinra's enemies are Zack's enemies, because that's the side he's on. Shinra sees Avalanche as enemies, too, but no one ever refers to Barret or Elfe as "irredeemably evil" the way they do Genesis. Barret dresses up his quest for revenge in the guise of saving the planet, but all that matters to him is that anyone even remotely connected to the company suffers the way he's suffered. Elfe allowed Fuhito to experiment on people, to take the corpses of SOLDIER and make undead weapons out of them, violating the sanctity of their final rest and denying them entry to the Lifestream altogether.

"Genesis experimented on his men!" It was a desertion, not an abduction. People who become Copies when they aren't properly enhanced don't get the same enhanced abilities as a First and they degrade very quickly, we see that in Hollander and Lazard—meaning that every single Genesis Copy was one of those SOLDIER Seconds or Thirds that defected with Genesis of their own free will in Wutai after he grew a wing and the world turned upside-down. Genesis' men loved him and they went along willingly.

When Genesis locks himself up in the Light of Doom, his last hope for a cure, he has one last Copy in there with him. When Zack unlocks the gate, he's attacked by one last Copy, even though Genesis has been waiting for him, he's not antagonistic toward him anymore, he hasn't been for a long time.

Genesis took that last Copy, a man with a horrible disease who is definitely too far gone to save, and brought him along to the Light of Doom in the hopes that maybe, maybe things could be set right. When Zack unlocks the gate, that man throws himself at him to protect Genesis, because this is his last chance and Genesis' men love him.

When Zack fights Genesis' Weapon avatar and is attacked by incomplete and twisted ghosts of Genesis Copies, magical inhuman wisps that hold him back while Genesis heals—they're in the Lifestream then, the Light of Doom pulled them both in. Those Copies are literally the ghosts of Genesis' men, unable to diffuse into the Lifestream because of their Jenova infection, fighting to protect him from beyond the grave. Genesis' men love him. They want to save him. They went with him willingly.

"Genesis killed his parents!" The parents who lied to him his entire life in order to keep getting a paycheck from Shinra? The parents that funded his fanclub as a form of marketing for a company that literally wouldn't exist without Genesis' world-changing contribution to food processing as a teenager? Those parents?

Genesis has a little shrine in the Banora Underground where he keeps all his awards and achievements—a little desk with a lantern in an unfinished stone tunnel. They survived the bombing of Banora because they weren't in the house; the chalkboard has sketches of what would clearly become the Banora brand logo, which was presumably made about a decade prior to the Nibelheim Incident, not long after Genesis figured out how to make Banora White juice shelf stable, not long before he left for Midgar to enlist.

Having all the proof of every good thing Genesis has ever done shoved into a tunnel under his hometown, hidden from the public, while his family raked in huge amounts of wealth based on those achievements, indicates quite clearly that Genesis' parents were the exact opposite of good and loving.

But he buried them anyway, didn't he?

Genesis may not be a particularly good person, but he's never been evil, he's never been the bad guy. Genesis was right—more than that, he was justified. His methods were not. He did terrible things. He hurt and killed a lot of people.

But he was only ever the enemy because Shinra said he was. Genesis doesn't need a redemption arc because he already had one, and Minerva herself said he could serve the planet forever to prove it.

#long post #fandom ramble #genesis rhapsodos #crisis core #crisis core reunion #CCFF7R #final fantasy 7 #FF7 #fandom vent #I am so frustrated #characters fandom says are not beyond redemption: #sephiroth and angeal #and barret and elfe #and tseng and reno and rude and elena #and rufus and reeve and gast and lucrecia #characters fandom says are completely beyond redemption: #genesis specifically for some fucking reason

[xaerith]

#final fantasy #gaming #zack fair #aerith gainsborough #cloud strife #crisis core #ccff7r #ffgraphics #gamingedit #ffvii #ff7 #final fantasy vii #final fantasy 7 #mystuff☆ #babies! #not so babies but still babiiiiiieeeees <3

[the-blue-wraith]

#ffgifs #ffgraphics #ffedits #ff7 #ffvii #ccff7r #ccffviir #final fantasy vii #final fantasy 7 #crisis core #crisis core reunion #crisis core ff7 reunion #cc ff7 #crisis core spoilers #cissnei #tseng #myedits #mygifs

[hyruule]

Embrace your dreams. And, whatever happens, protect your SOLDIER honor. –CRISIS CORE FINAL FANTASY VII : REUNION

#zack fair #ccff7r #final fantasy vii #ff7edit #ffgraphics #gaming #mygifs

[lukreva]

Happy CCFF7R day! 13.12.2022  🎉

Crisis Core Reunion //

 Aerith 🌸

#ff7 #ff7r #aerith #aerith ff7 #crisis core #ccff7r #ccffviir #final fantasy vii #fan art #artist #artists on tumblr #drawing #painting #artists on twitter #aerith gainsborough #square enix #ffvii remake #final fantasy #anime #anime art

[elenimut]

Honor & Dreams 😭

Is everyone ready for Crisis Core Reunion?

#zack fair #ff7r #ff7 #crisis core #ccff7r #ccffviir #crisis core reunion #my art

[showyukirie]

CCFF7R

Congratulations on the release!!

#video games #final fantasy 7 #fanart #sephiroth #zack fair #ccff7r #cloud strife

[helsensm]

he's such a gossip

super random Zack and Kunsell sketch for @zimithrus1 (you know why 💗)

#thank you for your kind words <3 #I hope this year will treat you well #my art #kunsel #zack fair #crisis core #crisis core final fantasy vii #ccff7r #ccff7 #ffvii #ff7r #helsensm art

[hueyoart]

Encouragement.

#fanart #final fantasy vii #ffvii remake #ccff7r #cloud strife #zack fair #digitalart

[emy-san]

Flirty 😘

#Zack Fair #Cloud Strife #zakkura #FF7R #CCFF7R #Crisis Core #my art #3D #blender eevee #gift for a friend ♥

[feathercreates]

so I forgot I had this unfinished Station-of-Awakening-style piece for Genesis just sitting around in my files for like 2 years

so uh, yeah

drawing all those Genesis copies was...an experience

#genesis rhapsodos #genesis crisis core #crisis core reunion #crisis core #reunion #genesis #angeal #angeal hewley #sephiroth #soldier 1st class #first class #final fantasy 7 #final fantasy vii #ccff7r #ccff7 #banora #banora underground #project g #kingdom hearts #dive into the heart #station of awakening #crossover #no idea if I'll ever colour it #maybe all the fandom activity will finally inspire me? #lol IDK #I LOVED drawing all the cool crystals in the Banoran caves tho #shiny things float my boat #and ooooh his wing it turned out so good #and my god does angeal need a nap the poor man

[getvalentined]

I saw another of these floating around that was...wrong, so I'm putting this together so people can keep characters' ages straight more easily. I'm not listing everyone, obviously, but characters whose ages get misstated most often.

Does this match up with the wiki or the Ultimanias? Absolutely not! The Ultimania says that Lucrecia was pregnant for three years! The wiki says that Vincent was shot after Sephiroth was born, even though Lucrecia was still pregnant when it happened! The source material, however, is 99.99% internally consistent with regard to the timeline, so I go with that, and that's what we're going by here.

Jenova Project S (1977 · [ μ ] – εγλ 1977)

Vincent: 26-27 (October 13, 1950)

Lucrecia: 27-28 (July 22, presumed 1949 or 1950)

Hojo: 32 (born 1945)

Pre-Crisis Core (2000 · [ μ ] – εγλ 2000)

Genesis: 23 (born early 1977, see first link below)

Sephiroth: 22-23 (born in late 1977, probably Christmas)

Angeal: 21-22 (born late 1977/early 1978, see first link above)

Zack: 16 (born in 1984)

Cloud: 14 (August 11, 1986)

Aerith: 15 (February 2, 1985)

Nibelheim Incident (October 2002 · [ ν ] – εγλ 0002)

Genesis: 25

Sephiroth: 24-25

Angeal: 23-24

Zack: 18

Cloud: 16

Aerith: 17

The Crisis (December 2007 · [ ν ] – εγλ 0007)

Genesis: 30-31

Sephiroth: 30 (physically ~25)

Angeal: 29-30

Zack: 23

Cloud: 21

Aerith: 22

Vincent: 57 (physically 27)

Lucrecia: 57-58 (physically ~34)

Hojo: 62

Advent Children (2009 · [ ν ] – εγλ 0008)

Genesis: 32-33 (physically ~30)

Sephiroth: 32 (physically ~25)

Cloud: 23

Vincent: 59 (physically 27)

Dirge of Cerberus (2010 · [ ν ] – εγλ 0010)

Genesis: 33-34 (physically ~30)

Cloud: 24

Vincent: 60 (physically 27)

Lucrecia: 60-61 (physically 34)

Hojo: 65 (physically nonexistent)

Edited April 2024, when Hojo's age was canonized by the Rebirth Ultimania.

#fandom ramble #FF7 #final fantasy 7 #FF7R #final fantasy 7 remake #final fantasy 7 rebirth #crisis core #crisis core reunion #CCFF7R #dirge of cerberus #vincent valentine #genesis rhapsodos #sephiroth #cloud strife #angeal hewley #lucrecia crescent #professor hojo #ff7 timeline stuff #someday I'll make a proper timeline of events with citations FROM THE SOURCE MATERIAL #instead of the contradictory meta #which say that Sephiroth was born in both 1980 and 1977 #and that Gast was killed in 1977 or 1982 #even though Aerith was born in 1985 and IS HIS KID #it's ridiculous #just do math #just #just do the math #oh my god

[solarasona]

"Cloud! Pose with me!"

#cloud strife #cloud fanart #zack fair #zack #cloud #finalfantasy #final fantasy vii #final fantasy vii remake #clack #zakkura #crisis core reunion #crisis core #ccff7r #ccr #cute #heart