#Ever Crisis is just going to retcon everything anyway probably 🤡

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Unused AMT Fic Plot Concepts

Sooo I was chatting with a reader the other day about some of the very early ideas I didn't use for A Monster's Threads back while I was writing it.

While I definitely had a decisive sketch of its general layout, especially regarding the (mostly) canon timeline --Ever Crisis, First Soldier, and Before Crisis taken out of the equation --there were a lot of crazy and out there ideas I had that I sort of wish I'd included. So I'm placing a few here if you're curious.

...some of them were really stupid. In hindsight, I probably should have just included a few more Gast chapters, along with an extended look at the Wutai War. But oh well. The fic's basically a giant soap opera with a focus on friendship so whoops. It's already melodramatic (and LONG) enough.

The fic originally was not going to open up with Sephiroth's birth, but instead a bunch of elders in Cosmo Canyon discussing strange omens brewing across the planet. It was to culminate in the discovery of a huge blood moon that evening, basically as a cheesy way to evoke a sense of dread and foreboding before the birth of our main man. What does it have to do with anything? No clue. I was being ambitious and artsy lmao

Sephiroth was originally going to have selective mutism during the early chapters, only speaking out loud for the first time when Gast leaves him. I actually might have kept this. But it would have been difficult because of the heavy degree of descriptions.

Babyroth also would have worn a shock collar until his Wutai deployment, mostly as a way for Hojo to keep him in line.

Aerith wasn't going to be featured. But due to the immense amount of fanworks featuring her and Seph together as kids, I caved.

Sephiroth and Hojo were still on speaking terms by the time he was deployed to Wutai. Hojo gave him a scarf and claimed it was something his mother had made for him. Sephiroth wears it throughout the majority of Part 2 only to discover upon his return that it had a tracking chip sown inside so Hojo could keep tabs on him--ANOTHER collar. And Sephiroth beats the hell out of Hojo then and there. Changed it because by Chapter 23 Sephiroth was clearly done with Hojo's shit.

Sephiroth acquiring the Masamune would have been different, with him obtaining it in the penultimate battle towards the middle of Part 2. Ever Crisis will probably actually show us how he got it anyway so shrug.

There was going to be a filler chapter of teen Genesis, Angeal, and Seph getting drunk off their asses and going on a little joyride after finding a case of some high grade alcohol in a pile of debris. Would have mostly just been stupid shenanigans.

Sephiroth's failed one night stand was originally going to be with Scarlet.

Sephiroth and Genesis were originally going to have physically consummated their rocky relationship before Genesis' departure.

Zack and Seph would have had a chapter of them "training" in Angeal's absence.

Following Angeal's death, Zack and Sephiroth would have gotten into a full fledged physical fight that ended up knocking Angeal's recovered corpse off the table. This was...kinda gruesome. And too much. Hence, Zack gets a good punch in and that's all.

Jenova was originally going to speak directly to Sephiroth in full sentences.

Sephiroth was originally going to jump to his death the same way he does in The Last Order. But other, more talented writers had already done something like this in the past, so I went with the traditional route.

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