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Ok but that leads to another question why does tsukasa want to die or to go far of wanting amane to kill him?
In Chapter 101, Amane looks very sad, but there are no bruises, which means the beating must have been shortly before Tsukasa's murder, so it didn't take years, but a few months, maybe? How much exactly is hard to say.
It's not everything. This chapter brought back my old thoughts as if giving Tsuchigomori as if he knew he would stay in this school and stay here forever, along with Tsukasa when he decided to kill him.
Literally for over 3 years I had the impression that he was saying to Tsuchigomori "I'm going to stay here when I kill Tsukasa"
I let those thoughts go because they didn't make sense to me at the time, but now they come back to me and make sense
Just Amane "why" Amane used to fix the clock belonging to no.1 in the past so he was aware of supernatural beings in school. Was he a "normal" student. Would a normal no.1 student be allowed to do anything by the clock? Maybe Amane was like Akane in the past? It's really weird or was normal student who found out and tried to fix that clock for a very good reason.
I have a feeling that Amane trying to fix the clock wanted to stop something bad, maybe save Tsukasa? He could help him fix the clock in some way
Amane had already talked about stopping time once, when he wanted time to stop so that Nene wouldn't die.
Amane remembered that he was repairing this clock for the festival, then he stopped and didn't remember why he had to do it, Tsukasa was with him at the time.
Tsukasa's words are strange to me, and so is his pose. I have the impression that Tsukasa influenced what happened. It seems to me that Tsukasa is behind Amane's erasure of that memory, and more importantly, why he was doing it. I have a feeling that Tsukasa may have helped Amane push him to his decision to kill.
It's very interesting.
Based off of one of the endings , I don't think vanny and Vanessa are the same person. Tbh I believe that Vanny dresses up as vannessa in order to get around the pizza Plex easier.
Though that leaves me to question the VHS tapes of vannessa and or vanny.
Like what if one moment the the therapist grabbed vannessa instead of vanny and that's how the tapes came to be.
I believe half the tapes are vanny and the other half is vannessa (maybe the numbering of the tapes or something).
(in my opinion they're either two different people with no family connection , clones, or twins)
shin godzilla, as well as being an allegory for the 2011 Japanese earthquake and subsequent nuclear reactor spill, is an allegory for nuclear survivors
we can see that clearly with this image.
you know what this looks exactly like?
I would use a better image, but I'd rather not have this post deleted for content or something. js search up flash burns urself if u want more
flash burns.
shins entire body looks to be covered from head-to-toe in flash burns.
shins numerous forms are representations of radiation poisoning's worsening effects over time. she grows from a small, killable tadpod in the sea to 'god incarnate'.
form 1: tadpod form, first signs of radiation poisoning. the aftershock
form 2: on land. large and tramples, horrifying yet incomplete. people are unaware yet know it's dangerous. no real response
form 3: standing. a bloody transformation, with hot red muscle prodding out and overheating quickly. a response, yet it's shut down
form 4: the end. evolved, larger than ever with sickly black, rocky skin that reminisces the first few forms with cracked skin showing sickly red innards. unstoppable at this point.
the further danger shins reaches, the further radiation takes ahold
hibakusha (survivors of the hiroshima and nagasaki nuclear bombings) were highly discriminated against, with the Japanese populous not taking action for them, and even believing their radiation poisoning was hereditary or contagious.
this reflects on shin, being feared and shunned as a creature of death and destruction by all. global governments even wanting to join in the destruction of shin.
shin, in her death, was frozen by blood coagulant. left as a statue in Tokyo, unmoving, until its disintegration.
nuclear bombs can create aftershadows, the intense light and energy of the bomb is absorbed into objects and organisms, yet the shaded part where a person is, is shielded by them. creating the effect of a shadow, a reminder of before the bombing occurred.
shin is frozen, bombing victims are preserved. both are weathered over time.
that will be all.
I can't help but go HMMMM when it comes to Sephiroth and his goal of merging worlds. It reminds me of Jewish mysticism.
"The tree of life is a map that shows how creativity flows into manifestation, and how infinite possibilities manifest in reality."
GEE I WONDER WHAT THAT MEANS. IT'S NOT LIKE THERE'S MULTIPLE WORLDS HIDDEN INSIDE THE LIFESTREAM.
Wait then that means that Jenova is also in these many worlds and Sephiroth wants to reunite the worlds to make everything whole again.
If you defeat Jenova in one world, your not permanently getting rid of her cause her essence is scattered in the many worlds of the lifestream
Jenova is the corruption, but wait, if Sephiroth reunites all the world's, then that means that Jenova would be fully whole, and we get the chance to stop her once and for all.
But this obviously has to require some sort of huge sacrifice to do so.
Gee I wonder who is strong enough to take on a fully whole Jenova (if he gets a redemption of some sort)...
Hmmmm....
Interesting π
Here are some of my theories of what I think is going on in this game and what it means for the FF7 franchise moving forwards.
-The Lifestream is a river of souls, emotions and memories, yet sometimes these threads branch off and create new alternative universes/timelines, like light shining through a prism. Think of the lifestream and its different worlds as the roots of a tree.
-Like how the lifestream connects all lives and how it represents the cycle of life and death, so does the tree of life in various mythologies.
-Now that I look closely at Rebirth's ending I think Aerith is both alive and dead. She's entangled with the physical world and the spiritual world (Lifestream) and can hop between them at will.
-Which is why Cloud and Sephiroth see her as alive, but to the rest of the party, she's dead. She's in a fluctuation of states due to her ancient abilities and uses this to her advantage. (Schrodinger's Aerith lmfao)
-I dunno but I still think there's two Sephiroth's. The evil one who wants to merge all the worlds, become a god, and rule the planet alongside Jenova, and the one from the original OG timeline who's trying to stop this from happening and the one who shows Cloud the multiverses in the first place
-Cloud is slightly aware of what is going on regarding the different worlds/timelines, but the dude has to regain his true self first
I recently noticed that Sephiroth's personality in the OG is extremely self-centered and that Aerith says that Sephiroth only cares about the planet and himself during her monolog in Chapter 18 of the Remake.
Sephiroth's goal in the OG FF7 was to absorb all the lifestream in order to become a god. He sees himself on a higher level than the rest of humanity. So the dude has a bit of a god complex.
I've also noticed that Sephiroth is technically like a reverse version of Jesus, and this only fuels his god complex even more. Many of Sephiroth's story beats mirror that of Jesus and his supposed miracles as told in the Bible.
Not to mention that in Advent Children,Sephiroth coming back for a second time mirrors that of the second coming of christ.
Jesus sacrificed his life so that all of humanity gets to go to heaven
Sephiroth sacrifices all of humanity so that he can ascend to heaven.
Religious parallels aside, I think it's pretty interesting that Sephiroth acts as some twisted kind of savior in the FF7 universe. But there's one question that's been lingering on my mind that I hope Rebirth can answer. Like how Jesus sacrificed his life, how would Sephiroth sacrifice his
So I've been noticing something regarding Hollow and the Kabbalah (it's way too complicated to explain here, but it's basically just Jewish mystism). Anyways, in the Kabbalah, there are these divine attributes called the sefirot from which God would reveal himself. It's also very important because this is where Sephiroth got his name from.
There's also the polar opposite of the sefirot, the qliphoth. The qlipoth that protects the sefirot much like how a peel protects a fruit. The qlipoth are also known to be called "empty shells/husks"
It's like there... hollow inside. Just like Cloud Strife himself
So without these sefirot (divine attributes) that manifest in the physical and spiritual realms, the universe will basically descend into chaos, which is the last thing we want. Cloud and Sephiroth during the edge of creation scene represent the universes of creation (Cloud) and death (Sephiroth), yin and yang,
The Qliphoth and the holy Sefirot
Well...without the sefirot, what will the qlipoth's purpose be? They are now empty, hollow shells, kinda like how Cloud's mind is shattered and how he wants to be whole again, yet he needs to regain his true self in order to do so. The sefirot makes the qlipoth complete, just like how Cloud becomes complete with Sephiroth.
Sephiroth never even revealed Jenova like this in the OG as a part of his plan, so why is he doing this? Isn't revealing her nature the last thing Sephiroth wanted to do?
Here's what I think is happening, Sephiroth is being forced to work against Cloud. He traveled back in time, still tethered to Jenova, hoping to stop her and save the planet from whatever destiny it's tethered to (yet it also has consequences as we see in the alternative timeline)
Yet he's still shackled to Jenova, so he needs Cloud's help in order to break free from her, but Jenova is taking advantage of Cloud's shattered mental state and false persona, so it's like a godly game of tug a war.
I think the Sephiroth who's manipulating Cloud and trying to convince him that Tifa isn't real is the past version of him from the OG, while the real Sephiroth, the one who we've been following all along, is trying to break free from destiny's grasp, stop Jenova and save the planet.
I could be wrong, and this is just a retelling of the OG, but I don't buy that one bit, especially when both the developers and part of the story say otherwise. Anyways, that's what I grabbed from this scene.
I cannot stop thinking about Cloud and Sephiroth jian bird symbolism.
A Jian bird is a mythical bird that possesses only one eye and one wing. We already see this in both Cloud and Sephiroth's Kingdom Hearts designs.
Another thing about Jian birds are that they are two halves of a whole, dark and light, yin and yang.
"These creatures are born imperfect, and they need to lean against each other and act as one in order to be able to fly. Their mutual dependence is eternal, lasting through death and rebirth."
This symbolism just SCREAMS Sefikura to me, like imagine the possibilities this has in store for the FF7R Trilogy.
And you know what they say, without their other half, someone is left feeling empty or should I say...hollow π
Now Cloud at the beginning of FF7R doesn't care about the planet, remember he is hiding behind his 'too cool' persona.
Here is what I realized.
I noticed how Sephiroth says some very cryptic things towards Cloud, so it got me thinking.
What is Sephiroth doing? He is TRYING to make him π€π’π³π¦.
He says things in Cloud's hallucinations like "our beloved planet is dying." and "The bonds that connect us will be no more, and I loathe to live in such a world"
Heck even during the Edge Of Creation scene, he SHOWS Cloud the result of what WOULD happen if the planet did die saying "our world will become a part of it, someday"
He then asks Cloud to help him defy destiny, not only to defy his fate but the fate of the planet as well. SOMETHING is causing the planet to die, and it isn't Shinra cause Aerith said so in one of her speeches.
It's destiny itself that is making the planet die, cause in the OG it WAS Sephiroth and the PATH HE CHOOSE that causes him to try and kill off the planet in the OG. But here's the thing. Sephiroth in the FF7 universe has free will, yet he needs HELP. He wants to break free from destiny's grasp like he's trying to do in the FF7R trilogy.
And so he turns to the one person he knows that can help him, the ONE PERSON who knows him better than anyone else. The ONE PERSON who can help save the world by his side.
That person is Cloud Strife
Sephiroth is trying not only to stop his cruel fate but he's trying to stop himself as well.