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Trip Since: Mar, 2012
#481476: Feb 20th 2016 at 11:45:08 PM

why the flying fuck does everything on and off the Planet hate people jesus christ

WonderSquid Since: May, 2012
#481477: Feb 20th 2016 at 11:50:26 PM

That's what the game was about. Life's a bitch and then you die.

WonderSquid Since: May, 2012
#481478: Feb 20th 2016 at 11:54:29 PM

you guys can just tell me if you don't want to read my fanfic bullshit you know

Trip Since: Mar, 2012
#481479: Feb 20th 2016 at 11:56:33 PM

it's hard to get enthused when you keep saying stuff like that

also norm where the fuck are you

WonderSquid Since: May, 2012
#481480: Feb 20th 2016 at 11:58:18 PM

Norm's offline

which is why i posted this here

everyone i have sent this to goes offline immediately after

and that is why i suspect, to some extent, that maybe they are getting tired of me bombarding them with PMs constantly for flavour text that probably won't ever be relevant to anything anyway

it's like when Prom sends me his novel WIPs and forgets that he's sent me this one three times already but he's really enthusiastic about it so I read it a fourth time anyway

Trip Since: Mar, 2012
#481481: Feb 20th 2016 at 11:59:50 PM

i'm all-ears man

also prom still exists?

WonderSquid Since: May, 2012
#481482: Feb 21st 2016 at 12:01:00 AM

He PMs me about aforementioned novel, yeah. Also birds. Always appreciate a good bird.

So... thoughts?

Trip Since: Mar, 2012
#481483: Feb 21st 2016 at 12:03:24 AM

wouldn't mako production have some r a m i f i c a t i o n s on the planet

i can't imagine having your soul processed is a healthy thing

ChrissieMcNapkins bruhonetta from the traphouse Since: Nov, 2012 Relationship Status: Hoping Senpai notices me
bruhonetta
#481484: Feb 21st 2016 at 12:03:41 AM

I don't know anything about ffvii

but fuck, all that sounds cool

I live in a constant state of fear and misery.
Azure Mahou Shoujo Lyrical Fist from The World Since: Nov, 2012 Relationship Status: We finish each other's sandwiches
Mahou Shoujo Lyrical Fist
#481485: Feb 21st 2016 at 12:05:25 AM

Its an interesting theory on why Jenova and Mako are used in Tandem.

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WonderSquid Since: May, 2012
#481486: Feb 21st 2016 at 12:07:58 AM

@Trip: It does. That's the plot of the game (at first), which is why Cloud and company start blowing up reactors, because at the rate it was going everyone was gonna die.

This is what the areas around the reactors look like. Keep in mind this is from the shitty movie (couldn't find a good picture from the game proper), so this is two years after all mako reactors have been shut down. This is a huge improvement. There's dead grass and everything, and the sky's way less choked with perpetual night-causing smog than it used to be.

[up][up]Most of that's canon. The bit with the mako is speculation, but I think it's pretty well-supported speculation.

edited 21st Feb '16 12:09:05 AM by WonderSquid

Trip Since: Mar, 2012
#481487: Feb 21st 2016 at 12:10:08 AM

is there anything not-shitty that tells where Jenova originated from

or is that just speculation

WonderSquid Since: May, 2012
#481488: Feb 21st 2016 at 12:13:02 AM

If anything the EU reduces Jenova's role to a much shittier Symbiote from Spiderman — it's Super Juices What Make You Sick Sometimes. Which is dumb. OG canon leaves some stuff vague but at the very least gives us enough breadcrumbs to piece together what Jenova's deal is.

You ever seen John Carpenter's The Thing? Jenova's basically that crossed with Lovecraft — scary space monster that's been consuming civilisations across the universe since the dawn of creation that is equal parts character and unknowable force of nature.

Except now she's just Eeevil Super Power Shots and if you have a pure heart or whatever you won't be affected because of reasons

god i fucking hate the compilation

edited 21st Feb '16 12:16:12 AM by WonderSquid

Trip Since: Mar, 2012
#481489: Feb 21st 2016 at 12:15:34 AM

>pure heart bullshit

get that out of here

now

okay so basically The Thing but with extra Yog got it

who's the smartass who decided that processing life itself was a good idea

how do you even do that

LatverianBadger Calamity is a housewife from gacha hell Since: Jan, 2012 Relationship Status: I'm just a poor boy, nobody loves me
Calamity is a housewife
#481490: Feb 21st 2016 at 12:16:38 AM

Sorry about that Squid. Rest assured I read all of that. I just didn't have much to respond with, is all.

My main thought was "Reunion is totally Convergence" and that "Dead Space ripped off FFVII" until I realized it was more "Dead Space and FFVII ripped off the same thing, which was The Thing".

"Shake the dust." - Anis Mojgani
WonderSquid Since: May, 2012
#481491: Feb 21st 2016 at 12:18:11 AM

Especially considering the question posed in The Thing's tagline — "If I was an imitation, a perfect imitation, how would you know if it was really me?" Jenova is that concept with a more psychological spin on it. It's kind of meant to make you wonder how much of anything is actually Cloud's and Sephiroth's own free will and how much is just the virus, and whether or not there's a difference.

[up][up]Science.

Also they never mention it but it's presumed it was President Shinra's grandfather or something, since the technology has been around.

Professors Gast and Hojo were the ones who came up with the idea to use this weird alien ice mummy they found to make supersoldiers, but Hojo was the one that ultimately carried it out when Gast got cold feet due to emotional attachment to the research subjects since he knocked one up. (which resulted in Aeris. Dads in VII are assholes as a general rule)

[up]Hell naw Reunion is wholly VII. The Thing presents an opposite approach — every part of it is independent and will sell out other bits of itself to preserve itself. Hence the hot wire test scene

so yeah i'm saying Dead Space totally ripped off VII

But at least the first game was good

until it got dumb

edited 21st Feb '16 12:19:55 AM by WonderSquid

Trip Since: Mar, 2012
#481492: Feb 21st 2016 at 12:20:24 AM

>dr. gast

the missing link has been found

so why did jenova decide to manifest as eye-nipples

LatverianBadger Calamity is a housewife from gacha hell Since: Jan, 2012 Relationship Status: I'm just a poor boy, nobody loves me
Calamity is a housewife
#481493: Feb 21st 2016 at 12:21:24 AM

When are Dads ever nice in any fantasy media? Really.

This seems like an opportune time for me to shill John Carpenter's The Thing. Go watch it Trip.

[up][up] fair

edited 21st Feb '16 12:22:53 AM by LatverianBadger

"Shake the dust." - Anis Mojgani
Trip Since: Mar, 2012
#481494: Feb 21st 2016 at 12:22:19 AM

bruh everyone and their mother watched that movie do you think i'm a thing virgin

wait i didnt mean it like that

WonderSquid Since: May, 2012
#481495: Feb 21st 2016 at 12:25:16 AM

You're not entirely wrong, I suppose.

That lady was presumably the last thing she "ate" before she went into hibernation. It mimicked her, but not quite correctly. Hence all the parts in places where parts ought not to be.

Azure Mahou Shoujo Lyrical Fist from The World Since: Nov, 2012 Relationship Status: We finish each other's sandwiches
Mahou Shoujo Lyrical Fist
#481497: Feb 21st 2016 at 12:27:11 AM

Well I don't think there's anything canon.

But I once had a theory that Jenova was just a natural predator of Planets.

I like to think that the VII universe is an ecosystem just to itself.

Also Spaz, have you ever gotten into Parasyte?

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Trip Since: Mar, 2012
WonderSquid Since: May, 2012
#481499: Feb 21st 2016 at 12:28:18 AM

Cloud's better at it. Because he had more time and better personal reference to finish his people suit, but still.

But even he didn't quite get it perfect.

[up][up]No, but I'm familiar with it. Kinda, anyway.

There is totally Jenova canon also you just have to remember all the technobabble they throw at you once and then don't really focus on much after that.

edited 21st Feb '16 12:29:24 AM by WonderSquid

ramuf Electric Heart from the Shining Throne Since: Jan, 2013
Electric Heart
#481500: Feb 21st 2016 at 12:29:45 AM

Ah god too much horror stuff.

I'm too squeamish for it.


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