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Sephiroth Week Day 1 - Beginnings (@week-of-silver-winds)

Young Sephiroth is obvious, but I wanted to try drawing a bit like that older style as well, the one used for portraits in the OG among other things. It's far from a perfect replica but it was still fun - something to try again sometime I think!!

(Pretend that the tiny resolution is On Purpose and not me working in a tiny corner of the canvas for no apparent reason again)

Sephiroth Week Day 2 - Dove

Speaking of young Sephiroth, I'm getting the implication from EC that if his wing were to currently exist it's white. my guy shedding feathers constantly

Bonus silly time drawing: pigeons and doves are part of the same family

something something doves of symbols of peace and sephiroth just barely glimpsing it from his closest comrades (even though war and science and bad times) does it make sense

...also i just wanted to draw zack and seph together because

AW YEAH I love to see it!! Especially since Hypnocatrice hasn't shown up since 2nd gen. Digging into some of the spinoff species too. Hmm, someone ought to get Forokururu... I think Aerith would fit well with that one (notes it down)

I guess this is just my thing now huh. Man I have so many things I want to draw about this stuff. After Seph week, perhaps. Seems people are really enjoying this and so am I

@winter-doggo i made an adition to the ff7xmh crossover

Cloud and his Gold hypnocatricr friend

Most of the horrible thingd are prevented cause Seph gets a nap wether he likes it ot not

Sephiroth Week day 3: Weapon

Originally it was going to be a fic, but long story short, there was no way I'd finish writing it on time and be satisfied - so I decided to adapt the idea into something I could draw. Thought this would be a fun way to do it :]

The day he became playable in Ever Crisis, I saw the weapons list and the thoughts started stirring

GREETINGS

I commissioned the amazing Teru to draw Zack and Valstrax together!! (Twitter link, shared here with permission) Look look it's SO COOL

Sephiroth Week day 4: Free Day

ace sephiroth thoughts (just like me fr)

Was a little tired today, and zero plans for the rest of the week so I will probably very much be winging it, but I have been having a very good time!! Let's see if I can do the full 7 days

FF7 Headcanon: Zack has ADHD

I know that this has been headcanoned before by people probably more articulate than I’m going to be, but I wanted to put this down both for my own purposes and also so I can link back to this later when I do up some other pieces.

It’s never stated that Zack has ADHD in canon, but he’s very coded towards it. The symptoms all tend to boil down to three categories (inattention, hyperactivity, and impulsivity) and it has three subtypes accordingly (predominantly inattentive, predominantly hyperactive, and a combination of the two). Zack falls squarely into the third category, having both inattention issues and hyperactivity/impulsivity.

With Zack, there is a constant refrain from Angeal - focus. He says it multiple times, in a tone that suggests he’s said it much more than we’ve heard. This addresses the “inattention” in that he’s easily distracted/forgetful and loses things. There’s a DMW flashback with Angeal that illustrates this perfectly (found here) where he has realized he’s forgotten his materia before a mission and is frantically looking for it, only to have Angeal point out that he’s forgotten his sword as well.

Literally the second thing you hear out of Angeal in the game is “get serious” which is immediately followed by “Zack, focus” - again, referencing difficulty staying focused on a task. Angeal proceeds to explain “there are no ShinRa troops on this train” before setting Zack off to fight what certainly appear to be ShinRa troops. It takes him a remarkably short amount of time to finish the task, and yet as soon as he’s on the phone with Angeal to receive his next set of instructions, he’s asking “why are we fighting ShinRa troops?” showing that he either has trouble listening, or remembering information - possibly both.

Kunsel later echoes this, saying that Zack has trouble remembering things, and this is such an issue for Angeal that it even earned a remark in a letter to his mother - “zero attention span, restless as a little puppy” which brings us to the second matter of hyperactivity.

Zack cannot stay still. While not necessarily what someone would immediately think of as “stimming” it’s obvious that Zack has to be in constant motion, most obviously referenced with his repeated habit of doing squats when he’s not immediately occupied. He’s very clearly high energy, always on the move. He also fits into the “impulsivity” in several ways.

He’s not particularly good at waiting, and is prone to fidgeting - both seen even as early as the Fort Tamblin mission, when he breaks cover to pace. He also is seen interrupting others speaking multiple times, something Angeal seems used to as he tends to leave pauses for him to jump in. Additionally, the entire existence of the DMW is in itself a good gauge of another symptom - not being able to regulate his emotions; Zack feels strongly, and acts impulsively on how he feels.

One example that stands out to me was how he automatically jumped to the assumption that Angeal had killed his own mother, despite Angeal never showing any inclination to, even going so far as to physically shake him and then punch him while shouting the accusations.

So the points continue to add up, the symptoms of ADHD (particularly in teenagers) matching Zack’s canon behavior enough to support the headcanon. I’d like to briefly address the fact that some people do like to try to write him off as either airheaded or unintelligent instead.

While it’s easy to brush off SOLDIER as just being brute force (especially after playing a game where you can get pretty far button mashing), the fact is that it takes skill to manage a sword, and there’s definitely a certain level of knowledge and comprehension required to successfully use materia. Not only that, but Zack has risen to Second Class and is up for promotion for First at the age of sixteen. Though we don’t have stated guidelines of how long it took him to get to that point, it’s still suggested by his eventually managing to go toe-to-toe with the big three that he’s a prodigy as well.

I would also like to propose the headcanon that it’s not always that Zack can’t focus at all - it’s that he hyperfocuses on too many things. An average human with ADHD can face overstimulation issues very quickly, due to difficulty or even inability to properly filter out unimportant things that they should be ignoring. Now add the results of SOLDIER enhancements, heightened senses, and it follows that at any one time, Zack might be thinking about physical sensation, his own racing thoughts, his trained environmental awareness, and the actual thing he’s supposed to be doing. That could overwhelm anyone, and yet he’s still largely successful.

I was talking with @vorpalgirl earlier, and she pointed out that by the nature of the disorder, many of the medications that are used are in fact actually stimulants. Given that mako enhancement stimulates the rest of the body, one can assume that the brain - also an organ itself - is likewise enhanced, which may help explain part of why he calms down some on reaching First Class and getting the next level.

Of course, none of this is ever explicitly stated, but I find it very interesting that several FF7 characters appear to be non-neurotypical and wanted to explore the very clear coding given that Zack has ADHD.

little gifs i made for my highlights video of caleb pierce and briana white's streamily signing!!!

A banner @prismaticpichu asked me to make for her :] smush your favourite things together folks!!

After many a year of seeing friends turning their favourite characters into cats and having a great time I have followed in their footsteps. And WOW it is so fun actually!!

(I do think there is some comedy in "Zack the puppy" being very much feline. and with what they say about black cats and luck, it feels fitting with the DMW ^^)

Related: cat Aerith

If you, like me, were surprised by FFVII Rebirth changing the name of that one frog enemy from Touch Me to Amphidex, I present my headcanon on the matter

I want little Seph (EC) to be friends with little Zack (CC)

(ZS Week day 1 prompt "Childhood")

ZS Week Day 2: Broken/Healing

I've had this fic idea in my head for a long time where, after Sephiroth sheds the last of his humanity and old memories to do Geostigma (then gets beat up by Cloud again), Zack decides the best course of action is to try find, purify and piece back together the Sephiroth that used to be. This is far easier said than done, and you could argue the old Sephiroth can never exist again but you can't tell me Zack wouldn't want to try it anyway. "The Sephiroth I used to know" and that

(How successful Zack was did tend to vary depending on how angsty I was feeling hahah)

Thinking this through was actually a big part of what got me tumbling into Zack+Seph in the first place. Because Zack had *known* Sephiroth it got me thinking about their relationship to each other and something clicked that hadn't before. "Oh, actually, I really like this, actually," I thought. Had no idea back then how much really like I did lmao

smile for the fans!

ZS Week day 3: Weapon Swap. A lil one for today ^^

Today's creative experiment: GBA Fire Emblem portrait. And you know from me it's gotta be Sephiroth ^^ It's more than likely been done before but what can I say, I love translating my favourite folks into different styles

This tutorial was very useful for figuring out specifics and limitations of the style if you want to try it! I colourpicked a lot from Idunn's portrait lol

SUCCESS

Folks - I now have the 3d knowhow and the method to rip the 3d models from CCFF7, and that includes the bones! I also figured out the fix for other misc issues I were having such as with transparency

Check it out :O (hurls Amatsu MonHun through the hole in Aerith's roof)

I've also gone through every model in the game and made a list of what's what. So, theoretically, there are no limitations! And you know what that means: @moisttwaterr we finally have the technology.... the quest to make ZS hold hands has finally completed!!!

(If there's anything people'd be interested in seeing send in an ask ^^ also if you were in the same place as me, where you wanted to do this but can't get the bones/textures/anything to work, maybe I can help)

I'm so happy to have finally got this working :D These model rips and my lowpoly Nyanko were the two things I was ultimately aiming to figure out when I started figuring out 3D models months ago. Now I need to figure out a next step lol. Definitely want to try animating

Final Fantasy VII has completely taken over my brain for the last month pls send help /j