the overthinker vs rose tinted glasses
Gengeal Week day 1: Harvest Season ☀️🌴
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Anonymous asked:
Hi! Very sorry to interrupt in the ask, but I want to express huge appreciation to you for writing and sharing your throughts about Angeal and Genesis and Gengeal😭 Your thoughts are very very inspiring and previous, and drove me to start writing things for them, so, a huge thank you!!
I think I know who sent this to me, your art is very cute and I would love to see more, please keep it up! Tumblr tends to shadow ban new accounts, so it might take a bit to get traction don’t let that discourage you.
I often find a lack of motivation to post or finish my work since I feel very isolated with how I interpret Genesis and Angeal, so it is nice to be reminded I have an impact. I also worry that my analyses sometimes miss the mark, considering how some people have treated me over something as silly as offering a different interpretation. Even if just a few people enjoy them, it makes my day a lot better. I hope you’re having a wonderful day and thank you!!
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Zack's ADHD
Zack fair has ADHD. That's something I see tons of people acknowledge that I myself agree with, but a lot of it feels very shallow/surface level? I mostly see people talk about his diffculty paying attention, but never really explore a lot of the other symptoms of ADHD that he very clearly has.
I was reminded of this essay, I had a hand in writing this and I'm still very happy with it. I think it would be fun to add a few extra things we talked about from forever ago.
With FS 2 finally out I wanted to share some of my thoughts, I think it would be fun to talk about the possible mental state Angeal is in around this time in his life and subsequently how it reflects Sephiroth, as well as the meaning behind Angeal's dream sequence.
Since a lot of the details of Angeal’s backstory are hidden in external material, I’m going to use it as a point of reference. Crisis Core has a lot of content they were not able to include at the time of it’s release, so it will be fun to see if they follow up on these things they wrote about but couldn’t include in game.
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Genesis's childhood award, the basis of pasteurization, and the supposed fragility of Banora Whites.
A take on it from a farm kid that actually specializes in growing apples.
Was talking with a good friend of mine last night about various takes in the fandom last night and was reminded of one I had seen semi-recently about Genesis's childhood genius in supposedly inventing pasteurization.
I want to believe this is a take that comes from being uninformed as to what pasteurization actually is, considering him being the first to invent it around the time of 1990 would show a stunning lack of technological advancements in the world of FF7. Let me explain.
Where are people getting the idea Angeal wants to mercy kill his friends? The guy who proclaims he wants to save Genesis, the guy who also defends Hollander from Zack for Genesis? That dffoo mistranslation about Sephiroth hurts me. The line in Japanese is about wanting to take care of the situation himself, not kill Sephiroth himself.
「だからこそ俺が始末をつけるべきなんだ …… もうひとりの友にできなかった分まで」
始末 is cleaning up, getting rid of, or dealing with in a negative context. It could be comparable to "it is my job to finish" It is not specifically about killing, so I don’t know why the dffoo translators decided on that. I perceived Angeal’s words were more about if the situation came to that, rather than being about an act of mercy. He is going to be the one to deal with it because he thinks he has the best chance, it’s why immediately after Angeal continues his plan to try to get the “real” Sephiroth. As far as cc goes, after Zack fights Genesis, Angeal says "it should have been me, I should have dealt with Genesis" and more specifically in Japanese he says
「ジェネシスとは本当なら俺が戦うべきだった」 "If [what happened] with Genesis is true, I should have fought him" OR "if this is the reality, I should have fought Genesis"
Angeal is expressing remorse over the way the fight ended, he wants to believe he had a better chance at dealing with it. Fights don't necessarily end with death, we have seen them fight in the past without it ending in tragedy.
It is plainly stated one of Angeal’s greatest wishes was to save Genesis, a want so powerful it overrode Lazard’s will and persisted after his death. I guess this bothers me because a core part of Angeal’s character is he becomes complicit when it comes to the people he cares about, he wants his cake and to eat it too. He does not want or like death, that is why he remains neutral in crisis core.
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Anonymous asked:
If you don't mind me asking, what makes you interpret Angeal as anything other than a straight man? He's the least gay character I've ever seen and he doesn't act gay either.
I'm going to assume this isn't sent in bad faith but this is pretty on point with the definition of stereotyping. I mean if you’re defining being gay by how someone looks or acts that is your first problem. Angeal has very outwardly masculine actions and appearance, I’m not really a fan of the insinuation that masculine men don’t “look” gay enough. Angeal isn’t even a hyper masculine or toxic masculine character, he is almost always described in a way that is seen as nurturing or caring. His own fan club compared his hobby of cooking to that of a wife. Things like gardening are often seen as more a “feminine hobby.” This isn’t to say Angeal breaks insane boundaries but Angeal isn’t this rigid masculine character in the first place. Besides my personal headcanons, Angeal and Genesis' stories take quite a bit from The Fall of Mankind (and religious and mythological symbolism in general but I'm going to try to stay on track). They purposely made two male characters represent Adam and Eve, and this isn't the first time they have done something like this in a final fantasy game. For example: while they are more developed than Genesis and Angeal, characters like Fang and Vanille are based on the Nordic myth of Ragnarok. There is a lot of information that couldn't be included in the final game of Crisis Core but is still intended canon, I'm going to be using a lot of that as a reference point. The full explanation is pretty extensive and I'm also not an expert on The Book of Genesis. I tried my best to do research for this, but it is possible I am still missing things and that this can still be expanded upon.
Anonymous asked:
If you don't mind me asking, what makes you interpret Angeal as anything other than a straight man? He's the least gay character I've ever seen and he doesn't act gay either.
I'm going to assume this isn't sent in bad faith but this is pretty on point with the definition of stereotyping. I mean if you’re defining being gay by how someone looks or acts that is your first problem. Angeal has very outwardly masculine actions and appearance, I’m not really a fan of the insinuation that masculine men don’t “look” gay enough. Angeal isn’t even a hyper masculine or toxic masculine character, he is almost always described in a way that is seen as nurturing or caring. His own fan club compared his hobby of cooking to that of a wife. Things like gardening are often seen as more a “feminine hobby.” This isn’t to say Angeal breaks insane boundaries but Angeal isn’t this rigid masculine character in the first place. Besides my personal headcanons, Angeal and Genesis' stories take quite a bit from The Fall of Mankind (and religious and mythological symbolism in general but I'm going to try to stay on track). They purposely made two male characters represent Adam and Eve, and this isn't the first time they have done something like this in a final fantasy game. For example: while they are more developed than Genesis and Angeal, characters like Fang and Vanille are based on the Nordic myth of Ragnarok. There is a lot of information that couldn't be included in the final game of Crisis Core but is still intended canon, I'm going to be using a lot of that as a reference point. The full explanation is pretty extensive and I'm also not an expert on The Book of Genesis. I tried my best to do research for this, but it is possible I am still missing things and that this can still be expanded upon.
Anonymous asked:
I would die happy to read that Angeal meta: I understand if you don't want to post it but know at least one person is interested!
Thank you so much and thank you to everyone who replied to the post. The analysis keeps getting longer, It started off by being a short summary but I wanted people who don't know anything about the book of genesis to be able to follow my logic. I am currently finishing it up and trying to add references and sources to help make it a bit more understandable. I also want this to be pretty clear that this is an analysis and not just... a headcanon. Regardless of what other people headcanon or ship for angeal I hope they can at least find this somewhat interesting. I am not really fast at writing formal analytic stuff but hopefully I can get this done soon, I want to thank everyone again for their interest because it really did help motivate me.