#Cloud has magic

[thequalityrunaway]

Cloud and Squall start bonding, Cloud's internally panicking that he's talking to his crush, and Xion cannot help but tease her poor Sorcerer.

#strifehart #strifehart sunday #squall leonhart #cloud strife #cloud x squall #cleon #kingdom hearts #Sorcerer!Cloud #Knight!Leon #Familiar!Xion #Xion is a black cat #Cloud has magic #meet cute #teenage crush #my art #my writing

[hecksupremechips]

Come back home when you have some sense

You can throw your life away just not at my expense

You’re not the son I raised

#jhariah #this one just rawrrfrrr #and then uh another line thats like ‘tell me did you raise a man?’ #nice #im just listening to the new album to cope with nasty sickness and feeling out of it #god this album is really good it has every emotion in there like this song for example just the part where they scream the chorus its like #hnnnghhh #hm some other moments from the album im liking a lot uhhh i love re: concerns a lot #the part where hes like reading off the complaints and then the part where hes just screaming and its like BAM BAM BAM BAAAM #sasuke is so good and the bit at the end where its like ‘i just want you to know im so so...’ #like hes gonna say sorry but cant seem to say the word for whatever reason and i know nothing about sasuke #but i has to imagine the fan girlies are eating gravel over that one lol it gets me #and theres just that like spooky echoing afterwards #the intro to fire4fun goes SOOOOOOOO hard i was losing my shit its awesome #the entirety of trust ceremony is giving me big feelings but specifically that part towards the end where its all quiet and you hear #its like whistling i think? like a marching band is coming in maybe #but it also kinda sounds like nature too and idk i like got a little bit um magical at that part cuz i was driving down a big hill #and it had been raining but there was a clearing in the clouds and the sun was bright and like at this particular hill #you can just see everything like the land stretches for miles theres trees hills the river farms all that shit #and idk with the extreme stress and depression ive been feeling its hard to have these moments where life seems worth it #and its hard to really feel anything anymore or to feel in the moment but idk i was just going down that hill seeing everything and it was #very majestic so yeah that song is definitely gonna have the same effect as pin eye for me #which i must mention pin eye again its still OOOOGHH very good it came at a pretty good time for me #yeah basically this album is uhhhh whats keeping me somewhat grounded rn i recommend 👍

[twoa-plus]

gay horses my beloved

#tatsumayo #tatsumi kazehaya #kazehaya tatsumi #mayoi ayase #ayase mayoi #enstars fanart #enstars #ensemble stars #ok if u read this far in the tags #I CAN EXPLAIN #ok so tatsumi is an earth pony bc i feel like that’s what human tatsumi would pick #like i think if u asked him he would think havig magic or wings would be some kind of unfair advantage #so. earth pony :3 #mayoi is a pegasus bc of the extra movement #easier to get into vents on the ceiling and also he can hide in clouds :3 #uhh cutie marks. main thing for both of them is their symbols within alkaloid obv #u can’t see it but mayoi has a little fine brush to represent his little dioramas :) #and tatsumi has a cross bc jesus. i couldn’t think of anything else :( #i was actually going to replace it with some like mlp-equivalent religious symbol #but then i realized that i don’t think mlp really has religion? #it’s been a while since i’ve watched it maybe im forgetting smth but the closest i can think of is the princesses #and like yeah celestia and luna are basically sun/moon goddesses but they’re not really worshipped as such #like they’re just. government officials #so. i just gave up and went with horse jesus #which is like actually pretty funny to imagine now that i’m thinking about it LMAO #anyways. enjoy #i love ttmy so much i need to crush them into a fine paste and eat them #twoadrawstuff

[dark-elf-writes]

Rita skeeter still tries to interview Harry in the broom closet and clouds dad senses start blaring

That man was telling the players not to be weird and to leave tifa alone in remake, he is sooooo going to be worse (better) with Harry

They specifically didn’t tell Cloud about the weighing of the wands which is A) against the very clear ground rules Cloud set incredibly early on (him saying how things will be and everyone staring in terror at the sword as big as he is, the man with the gun for an arm and Vincent just in general) and B) futile considering this is Cloud Strife.

All this to say instead of Dumbledore interrupting the interview and still letting it get published Rita gets maybe two questions out before the door is ripped off its hinges by a very angry man with glowing eyes. Her notes and quill die a quick death thanks to a fire spell that does more psychic damage than anything because what do you mean this man is strong enough to reduce a door to splinters with his bare hand AND can cast magic wandless and wordlessly.

#the elf talks #ff7 #harry potter #cloud has been sitting on the reveal that he can also use magic for just the right moment tbh

[rocktis]

fanon my beloved vs. fanon my beloathed

beloved - zack's nicknames for cloud (spikey, sunshine, cloudy, etc) - kunsel has hacked into shinra's database and could cause massive damage to the company on a whim by tapping a few keys beloathed - "zack's so stupid lol he's such a himbo" - "cloud's just a cocky asshole who doesn't care about anything but money and himself"

#kunsel #zack fair #cloud strife #crisis core #final fantasy vii #final fantasy vii remake #these are just a couple examples #there are some things i really love about fanon but #some of the stuff i see in fics makes me wonder if we played the same game #free my man (zack) he has adhd #free my man (cloud) he has autism #they've both got a ton of trauma too #also cloud's got a gap in his development from being stuffed into a pod of magical goo at 16 and being stuck there for years #he didnt have any friends growing up either #i rarely see people talk about these developmental gaps and that can really change how someone interacts with people #but like cloud deeply loves all of his friends even though he's awkward at showing it #he only knew jessie biggs and wedge for a few days and he cared about them all so much already! #cloud isnt even actually cocky either #but he's got a lot going on with his identity and memory that i could write a novel about so i'll stop here #dont even get me started on people thinking zack is an idiot #there's already been a lot written on the subject of zack's adhd so i will refrain from going off about it #okay done rambling for now

[xiaoming56]

Cursed kumo sketches that my wonderful brain came up w :D

#oboros a disney princess btw #magic hair magic hands saved sushi the cat wasnt poisoned but murdered so same same and was enslaved by afo #and ofc he has eraser n mic to ‘show up n solve his problems’ #shirakumo oboro #oboro shirakumo #loud cloud #present mic #hizashi yamada #yamada hizashi #shouta aizawa #aizawa shouta #eraserhead #bnha #mha #boku no hero academia #bnha fanart

[the-dragon-girl-27]

Also cuz I just posted an animation of this guy may as well post this funni I made a while back

I'll post this here before someone compares this man to Tenma Tsukasa on here

(this man is what the Sekai fandom WISHED Tsukasa was like lmao he's a pathetic emo angsty edgelord)

#oc #meme art #Vincent Zero #like this man would have Fools Are Attracted to Anomaly as his “just like me fr” song #wink wink nudge nudge #i mightve just like blanked out for 2-3 hours and magically had an animatic of that done #fun fact he was named after vincent from FF7 #who manages to be the bigesst edgelord in that game even with his competition being fucking Cloud Strife and Sephiroth #also his desin was inpired by Kyo vocaloid so hes still somwhat linked to vocaloid i guess #i know kyo has like 20 desins so im refering to the one where he has wings aka the only good one #i say this as if i listen to any Kyo songs besides Igniter #you should listen to that btw if you veiw EZFG as just the “totemo itai and cyber thunder cider guy” you are missing out #oh right i was talking about this meme #uhhh its hard to draw someone dummy thicc when they have a tail

[my-current-obsession]

To be fair, the whole, “I’ll come back to you even if you don’t promise to wait,” is a line pulled directly from OG FFVII. It’s mentioned late game by Cid (who hilariously went to see a showing of loveless in Midgar but fell asleep then woke up just in time to view this ending scene 😂). But if you wanna deep dive on the meaning of this line, it’s worth noting that a version of the line is used in FFVIII in reference to the main ship of that installment — Rinoa and Squall — who also happen to be another mage/swordsman pair. And if you wanna go big brain square enix energy, there’s also the famous, “I’ll come back to you; I promise…I know you will,” between Sora and Kairi in Kingdom Hearts when he goes off on another journey while she awaits his return. If you go down those rabbit holes, it seems square really has a type for their main pairs, no?

I don't remember that line in OG FF7, but it's been years since I played it so I'll take your word for it. But you're right that similar lines/sentiments pop up frequently in other FF and KH games, so yeah, Square has a type. I still think the conversation between Cloud and Aerith in KH2 is the quickest and easiest parallel to make here though, considering the same pair can have basically the same interaction, in an entirely different game. Yes, Cloud could also have this conversation in the play with T or Y. But only Aerith's would have the added depth of being a potential callback/reference to another moment the pair shared.

And considering this game liked to callback to several moments between Cloud and Aerith in the previous game (him remembering their first meeting being what snaps him out of Sephiroth's control, the "will you be okay getting back", "if I said I wasn't" in the ending...) I think it's totally reasonable to assume that Square might have subtly referenced at least one Clerith moment from outside the compilation.

#clerith #final fantasy #final fantasy vii #i had to restrain myself from going on about how clearly aerith is meant to be rosa and she's absolutely the canon date #which. is true but is a bit of an unrelated tangent is this case and also i don't want to get dragged into ship wars #i'll just say that even beyond the surface level of rosa being a magic/staff user... there are lots of little things in aerith's favor #(specifically certain lines and physical gestures) #and those things add up. anyone paying attention (& knows the OG 7 plot) should know. it's OBVIOUS she's meant to be rosa #which is a huge contributing factor to why she's canon. just from a narrative perspective... #it makes WAY more sense to have the plot focus on aerith from just before the date (the battle square convo with dio. her writing NPTK)... #and STAY on her for the literal rest of the game... than it does to focus heavily on her before & after a sudden interlude with someone ELS #(hell and DURING. considering she ALWAYS sings after the play. and cloud ALWAYS gets a closeup looking enamored) #especially if half of that interlude - the play - has that someone else playing a role CLEARLY meant for aerith

[dreamcrow]

have you done a “how I would fix that movie” meta post? I’m also interested in your stricklake manifesto or something about guillermo del toro’s horror sensibilities and toa

send me a meta prompt (currently closed); thank you for the ask!

how did you know exactly what prompted this lol

stricklake manifesto is...tentatively forthcoming. possibly. probably. stay tuned. while i know i've certainly thought about how i'd fix the movie (and not even purely for niche side blorbo reasons), but i'm not sure how compelling (or coherent) that end product actually is. 🤔

unfortunately my fixit of the movie starts roughly thirty seconds after bellroc vaporizes that poor pigeon in chicago (or wherever metrocity is) and diverges wildly from there. tldr: someone on team trollhunter remembers they're in a gdt show, and asks just why are they all blindly following merlin, anyway. is it barb? god, i want it to be barb. obviously blinky is like "because he's the esteemèd merlin ambrosius, duh" while all three changelings just look directly into the camera. merlin blusters. barb backs off. 

then, once merlin wanders out of earshot, she asks again.

i do think that would be probably the biggest single change. i'm very self-conscious when i sit down in my lil sandbox that i don't want to give barb another job; she has enough already, and she gets mommed by the fandom in a way i don't always think is malicious but which nevertheless generally rubs me wrong. but truly: who else is doing it like her? okay, sure, there's jim: until the last four episodes of trollhunters, his actual, textual superpower is his humanity. he then gets browbeaten into discarding it—the quality that has, until now, been his unique and cited qualification—because the guy who made an amulet out of his student's severed hand acted like he had some kind of moral high ground.  

barb, meanwhile, is also an extraordinarily human human. she's the normie! she's the clueless mundane, a single mother dragged into the supernatural by her only son.  and while she does freak out—rightly! understandably!—when the supernatural puts her and her loved ones in danger, she never speaks against it just for being different. obviously stricklander is the example i've thought about most here: she's mad when he comes back (again, rightly), but her objections are because you lied to and endangered and my son, not because you're a dirty changeling. she's mad (and hurt) when jim lies about fighting off goblins, but because she's scared for him! once the masquerade is broken, she's immediately on his side. she's also the only character to even try to make merlin answer for trollifying jim, even if it's presented humorously. best girl.

so. back to this theoretical fixit: i think barb would be the most natural choice to start the questioning, here. blinky would still push back a little, but with merlin elsewhere, nomura and stricklander don't have to worry about being nice; maybe aaarrrgghh would even chime in on their side (what exactly do the gumm-gumms think of emrys, anyway?). it's not an easy conversation. it's also not the last one. but it starts. for a series that is otherwise unusually arthurian, arthur in trollhunters is conspicuous by his absence. but you have merlin. you have morgana. you also—pace wizards' giant slimy monster, who was cute, but completely overlooked preexisting developments—have the lady of the goddamn lake: legendary enchantress, giver of excalibur, single mother of the best of knights. 

and, most importantly, the one who seals merlin in a fucking tree.

u see where i'm going with this.

once barb starts that question—well. i make no claims that this is recognizable, but you did ask how i would do it, lol. from this i can't help but feel it would cascade pretty dramatically. if stricklander and nomura united behind her, i think jim would follow. claire and toby after him. once the humans (and adjacent) are convinced, i don't think blinky could hold out any longer; maybe the smarter version of him other people keep seeing could be brought around to some kind of "trust, but verify." soft and stupid as i am about wretched wizard blorbos, obviously the order are still being assholes. we don't want them to actually burn it all down. but is that what they're actually trying to do? or is this just another received merlinian dictum? 

god—and if they got to talk to nari about it! once again, one of the biggest failures of wizards (and rott) was how utterly it sidelined its characters in favor of punchy punchy bang bang. this i know have written about somewhere: jim's reduction to a vicarious highschool bully fantasy, how bellroc was flattened into cartoonish, beautifully rendered cardboard-cutout evil, while somehow still staying the most consistent character in the room. stricklander—whose entire character arc in trollhunters was built on 1.) the infinite possibility of an individual for change and 2.) being the smartest bastard in the room—took the first step into his new life by marrying barb and then immediately paid for it with the stupidest death possible. (see a longer and much keener essay about this here, from @millennialmoviereviews.) i cannot overemphasize how frustrated i am—still, yes, i know, about a children's cartoon—about how that movie treated its characters, even ones (the tarrons! douxie! steve!) i don't normally have any investment in.

...but what if that changed? what if we took what used to be the gdt hallmark—sympathy for monsters, without excuse—and committed to the goddamn bit? jim reached out to bular back in trollhunters. yes, what you're doing is wrong; you're hurting people i mean to protect; but i understand you're hurting too, and why, and how we might not be so different. you don't have to do this.

then barb sends merlin to treeby deeby, and bellroc and skrael fucking kiss.

(and then go about actually protecting/repairing the balance of the world or whatever, but i know what i'm about.)

postscript. i admit i pick a lot on merlin. don't get it twisted: i think my own evil wizard blorbos were also complete dumbasses here. but i think part of the reason i am so invested in merlin experiencing a goddamn consequence is pretty closely related to the original reason i was so drawn to gdt's stuff in the first place, namely: decoupling "good" and "evil" from "normal" and "monster," respectively. i don't think this is too much to expect of a kids show, especially one for toa's age group. trollhunters does a great job of doing this—of allowing nuance, of showing how it's possible to think outside the frameworks you know, while still remaining accessible to children—and 3below kind of? tries to keep it up. i think. but wizards...doesn't. even for all it does (inadvertently or otherwise) end up pointing out how merlin and arthur, founts of the same authority, massively screwed up. i've also had many people point out that wizards was pretty much set up to fail: executive meddling, rushed production, etc. etc. which i do sympathize with. 

but it's still. tremendously bitter. to see six seasons' worth of such a unique message get discarded so easily. especially when this was done with such breathtakingly little love for the material.

#tales of arcadia #trollhunters meta #trollhunters #rise of the titans #barbara lake #first meta prompt out!! old man yells at cloud etc. #i worry this is not a terribly well-developed fixit manifesto but tldr: barb should've gotten to learn magic and dethrone god #also jim has done his child soldiering. he's paid his dues to the genre. he can go to therapy now #also also i want five seasons and a movie of arcane order domestication but u know how it is #mine #q&a #ask games

[empressofthelibrary]

how the fuck do you have a whole region of the country where it doesn't storm

that doesn't make sense

weather doesn't do that

#HI I JUST FOUND OUT THE PNW HAS RAIN BUT NOT THUNDERSTORMS #HOW THE FUCK DOES THAT HAPPEN #RAIN ALMOST ALWAYS COMES WITH A LIGHTSHOW AND A CONCERT HERE #how do y'all just... NOT experience the fury of the skies every couple of weeks #the strange magic that keeps you safe standing on the porch while you watch the trees bend and twist #the terror of hearing a tree snap outside your front door #the wonder of watching lighting spiral through the clouds #dancing streaks of purple and yellow and white and blue #the knowledge that You Are Very Small and Very Mortal and the World Is Very Large #how do y'all not have that #what foolish acts of hubris fill your reckless hearts if not the urge to run headlong into the wind and laugh #what phenomenal acts of uncaring power keep that hubris in check if not watching a tree the size of your house tip over and snap like a twi

[shewhoeatssand]

I LOVE KANEKI!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

#HE IS MY FAVORITE BOY! #he is like a magical pegasus dancing across the clouds #but he’s a weird 19 year old who beats people up & eats them #HE EVEN WEARS PANTS #I love his pants and he has this funny suit that clings to his skin and it looks like he’s wearing leggings 😊 #I will never stop thinking about how he has legs like is he fr? #u really use those to get around? #I do too but like cmon #love him and his leggings ❤️❤️ #he should give it to me I’d suck on the ankle part for dayssss #kaneki time

[vanlegion]

You know, I don't think it would have been very difficult to have S19 be what it will be, and keep S15-17 canon. (S18 still gets cut, if what I read about it was true [since i've only seen the first three episodes])

Like the way I see it, they could start off 19 with the Staff of Charon fight... but like say in the corner, 6 months ago, or however long it would be. They have the epic fight, they win, the Meta suit goes inert and there's some sadness finding out Church is fully gone, then they party to celebrate the planets freedom... then we jump to present day. That's literally how they set up seasons 9 and 10 There could be some kind of background chatter or bullshit banter going on about how Tucker not begin able to find the Meta helmet because he used the suit to fool the cyclopes. (During this fight he distinctly said "Man I wish I had my other suit!") Grif could find out what the message from Locus was that he never opened to read. They could find out what was going down on Chorus that the Luttenits alluded to. Maybe something weird with comm signals on Chorus? Maybe people are going missing? Maybe reports of minor crime? What if Locus was saying he intercepted a message about some Pirates who raided Iris while everyone was gone? Explains why The Meta helmet is missing. All of these minor background lead ins. And then the main start up of the season, main conflict, things progress. But you know what would be truly a Divergence of Expectations? That this new Meta, has now become the personal foe of all of Red Team, because not only did those three toss him off a cliff with a fucking car attached, but also because maybe, just maybe, it's not Tucker under that gear. Maybe it's someone who has a personal vendetta against Tucker and Simmons . . . being as it was those two who blew him off the platform into the abyss.

#rvb #red vs blue #lavernius tucker #dexter grif #richard simmons #sarge #im talking about Felix #it's like Grif said #No Body No Death #He felt into the clouds #Maybe that Fuck landed on something #I dunno #Point is #he also has glowy glowy magic sword #but thats just spitballing and its prob just Tucker going crazy from all the Voices #THOUGH i do think that kinda sucks cause #have all the AI in one is like a bad thing i feel #I kind of want my theory of Church sending all the Fragments to different people to be real #but also this is just me grasping at straws #cause GDI 15-17 were GOOD #We go so many good Character moments #So many GOOD animations #Wonder if they'll use them again - or similar ones to them #Cabooses little heart to heart with Simmons still gives me feels #1230AM rambles

[superconductivebean]

#391

FOR THE RECORD:

now i have:

The Fic aka The Main Verse aka ULtItD where Wright has to deal with… a lot, but against Rookwood, she barely has any powerful allies to back up her case against him as a sole proprietor whom Rookwood tried to extort and blackmail and kill (her previous case, in which she was stated to be an endangered student, wouldn't be even properly registered by a certain local officer and Black wasn't really interested); the case will start going somewhere ONLY after the scale of his actions is revealed to the general public AND it was confirmed by foreign ministries for magic he repeatedly breached The Statute. Otherwise, Rookwood might've lost Harlow---TO AN UNFORGIVABLE CURSE but not really to other things---but remained a free man and an eminent danger to Wright; her only chance to get Rookwood rot in Azkaban would've been jeopardized, and just killing him off or anyhow else to deal with him permanently wouldn't be an option anymore because Ministry set up a watch on her either way AND because Rookwood's allies are a terrible lot of people who are neck deep in the blood, some are die-hard blood-purists (and Wright was assumed to be a mudblood but being a half-blood wouldn't help her either), they will not turn back at one another, and if anything, would love to have Wright locked in Azkaban instead EVEN IF they're sorry for her or wholeheartedly support her;

That same The Fic but where Aesop's partner survived and this happens:

rambles in tags again!

#днявочка #днявочка: hlegacy #eng tag #днявочка: фандомное #днявочка: фанфики! #that darker turn in the story could still be averted because wright'll get to know her uncle in her sixth year and that man #that man dedicated his life to track down poachers and snap their spines in every possible sense #especially if these poachers were from the Rookwood's gang #he's spiteful revengeful and his patience for people like Rookwood and or Officer Singer is short; he'd kill them both if had a right chanc #'sides if sharp is vigilant; wright's uncle is a vigilante and his judgement is clouded more often than not #although in that scenario he will kill rookwood and using the powers of diplomatic immunity will flee the country taking murder on himself #(immunity being british ministry for magic's lack of reaction speed) #he #well #as the story went in her 6th year #she and him will have a grizzle fight because wright happened to inherit something her uncle didnt know she had a full right to #it'll be a gruesome scene; not gonna overshare much but sharp has never felt so hopeless ever before in his life #he couldn't had helped her even if he fought that man alongside her because that man was a manslaughter powerhouse #wright survived ofc but her mental state........................................ #back to square one aka jan of the year 1891 #eng fic

[fruitbatvalentine]

Making OC's for post WDGFIL Valentine to become friends with because he's a sad wet cat to me and deserves friendship

#also writing a fic ill never post lmao #the OC's r like. semi already existing. im just making adjustments to throw them into the MH universe #changing my beloved Logan's name to Aero and then also changing everything abt him except for like. 2 personality traits #and making Sam look way more cunty and also making him only Half vampire instead of just a straight up vampire #haven't figured out Rayne yet we'll see if i throw her in there #created a new zombie oc her name is Cammie #like part of his redemption is befriending Draculara but also #but he needs some other friends too that arent an extension of being Draculara's friend #like get out there my love. make some friends. experience being an akward loser teenager just trying to be nice #hes also broke as hell and has been disowned by his mother and told the homophobic clouds to kill themselves #so hes not having a great time #lets get this boy a support system #whisp hangs around but he doesnt want to use his last wish bc she'll have to return to the lamp and that would be sad. #eventually she convinces him to say bye tho #in that the last wish he makes is like. hey gurl gimmie a magic phone or smthn so we can talk while ur in there #ill figure it out. doesnt matter rn #kieran valentine #mh #why do ghouls fall in love

[whimsicallywiddershins]

#i feel like his resurrected form would be beserker #and he is a hitman #so assassin would fit #but he uses a lot of swords #so saber #but playful cloud would make him a lancer #i put all the classes #but caster would be impossible #since his whole thing is he has no magic #but either way #the fights would be epic af #fushigoro toji #toji #jujutusu kaisen #jjk #fate #type moon #poll #servants #fate stay night #fate zero

[cisphobie]

this is random as fuck but designing disabled characters is fun asf because of all the different ways to design mobility aids n shit

#this is about my selfship au that also has ocs in it #this girl with storm powers is gonna have like #a wheelchair with water in the wheels #hard to describe i probably saw something similar #but her magical girl transformation has her kinda sitting on a cloud #and then also girl with pots + chemistry powers whose service dog comes with her on battles #i named the dog mercy bc of historical ‘mercy dogs’