[ SECRET POST #1981 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #1981 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 03 pages, 68 secrets from Secret Submission Post #283.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[askerian]

Prefacing this to say it's all highly personal pings (of course) but I played that game back when it came out in my language and I wasn't in fandom then and not for several years after that, and I didn't actively join until the compilation reminded me I could do more than read in it. XD;; But anyway:

The dystopian worldbuilding = hngh my pings.

SOLDIER => Military organization (mm military men, mmm band-of-brothers) that still valued ... not "divas" but men who were so above badass it redefines the world = hngh some more pings

Unethical scientific experiments on people leading to weird, badass but angst-causing and potentially lethal and not always entirely functional results = *__*

Avalanche => disparate people who should not even get to meet forced to learn to understand and rely on each other and who forge a friendship and solidarity that'll endure forevers yes shut up it will NAKAMA FOREVER = ... iyaaaa~n.

There was a time everyone could still have been happy! BEFORE THE GAME BWAHAHA. After that you can fix things but it's one of those worlds/casts where you know there'll always be visible cracks, no matter if they're glued stronger than before there's no erasing that shit. (i think that's also what appeals in pre-game divergent AUs and timetravel so much in that fandom.)

"Who the fuck am I D:" = bwahaha yesplz.

I love that Aeris and Tifa are the Nonfighty Healer Who Gets Cloud In A Dress And Is So So Brave and Tifa is the Kickassy Kungfu Woman Who Is Kinda Shy. It's a bit like they flipped the tropes. And I REALLY love that both being interested in Cloud romantically didn't make them bitches to each other. They never did compete over him and were always friendly even in matters unrelated to his great penis-bearing awesomeness. I really hate it when fans make them enemies for stupid fucking reasons NO THEY WEREN'T REPLAY YOUR F** GAME AAAA sorry pet peeve.

Even the characters I don't care a ton for usually have some depth to them and are sympathetic in some way. Those who aren't really (ex. the Turks) are badass enough that I still can admire them a bit. I like the whole cast! not a one of them annoys me or gets on my nerves because X. I love Barret because he loves his daughter and Tifa in a way that's totally at odds with his rough and loudmouthed usual attitude, I love Yuffie because she loves her people, I love Cid because his grumpiness is hilarious even when he's being a dickhead, I love Red because TALKING FIRETAILED LION *and* because so serious for a teenager, etcetera.

Cloud is secretly a dork. This will never not be hilarious.

Sephiroth's hair.

Sephiroth's cat eyes.

Sephiroth's bondage cloak.

Sephiroth's whoops I used to be a decent guy who protected his men.

Sephiroth and Cloud having a sort of mental bond (i feel I should mention that my hugest ping *ever* is psychic pack-bonding. The deal with Sephiroth and his clones is not quite that but it edges in on it, even if in a really dysfunctional, terrifying, erasure-of-self way.)

Sephiroth.

Some of the towns are really awesome and I'd love to visit. Okay Midgar seems like a creepy and dangerous place but Cosmo Canyon's warren houses and green energy schtick, the Gold Saucer, the City of the Ancients, they really make me want to visit. Even that little town lost in the jungle down the map with watchtowers and stuff.

Also, chocobos are the cutest fluffy mounts ever and I want one. I'll bankrupt myself forever to buy a tiny hobo shack in a hugeass field if I can get to put a real live chocobo in said field.