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This shot is just so cute ✨

Sorry for the poor quality of the initial screen but as the French streaming quality is... ✨wonderful✨I only have this shot on hand 😶

Character who will be featured in some stories and artworks. She is heroic and passionate adventurer. Her appearance and personality quite inspired by Cynder in Spyro. And no, she is not Avalanche seen in the books and they're not related in any way, only belonging to one tribe and living in one time.

Quick sketch I did of Original Jessie, Cloud, and Barret because my sister's been playing FF7. :)

Talk about a coincidence!

A debated canonicity

(Previous post here)

Mad1en who Trave1s the P1anet (adding typos to prevent unpleasant comments) is one of the most controversial entries of FFVII lore.

It was included in FFVII Ultimania Omega, published in 2005. Fans have debated ever since if this short story is part of the canon entries of the compilation, as it was written by an external writer that never took part to the realisation of the game.

Part of the fandom thinks it's canon because Square Enix never said it isn't, another part thinks it's not canon because Square Enix never mentioned it again ever since it was published (neither ever provided an official translation nor decided to sell it outside Japan. Quite self-explanatory, considering that "Picturing the Past" has been immediately translated and it's sold everywhere in the world).

The particularity of this novel is that here Aerith states she loves Cloud more than Zack. Not a word is spent to describe how she feels when she understands that Zack didn't cheat on her but endured experimetations for years and died to save Cloud, and that Cloud had created an alter ego based on Zack's traits. These lines started to divide the fans after the release of Crisis Core, that describes a tender and sincere romantic relationship between Zack and Aerith.

Yes, SE never officially said if this novel is canon or not, but I'd like to point out a fact:

The Remake includes tons of references to all the entries of the compilation.

Some examples?

The Avalanche members that show up in Chapter 4 wear the original uniforms of Before Crisis:

Crisis Core references can be found everywhere in the game, for one thing, Zack's last stand:

Dirge of Cerberus was already hinted in the game when Cloud, Tifa and Barret fell in the misterious lab beneath Sector 7 and is going to be heavily referred in the Intergrade. From the trailer we can see Weiss:

There are many references to Advent Children too. For example, Sephiroth has the black wing that he only showed in the movie:

Last order is quite difficult to refrence, as it doesn't add anything new to the story but it's rather a reinterpretation of Nibelheim incident. Anyway, it is mentioned in FFVII Remake World Preview (Square Enix book that includes "Picturing the Past"):

And now talk about the novels:

New characters, like Kyrie, come from The Kids are alright, a Turks side Story:

And here's an example from On the Way to a Smile too: from a dialogue with Jessie it's revealed that Cloud doesn't know the names of vegetables:

...turned out he [Cloud] didn't know a carrot from a gysal green. At first, Tifa was amused that mighty Cloud's new life started with learning vegetables names... (Case of Tifa)

So:

Before Crisis

Crisis Core

Advent Children

Dirge of Cerberus

Last Order

The Kids are alright

On the way to a Smile...

Picturing the Past was written alongise the Remake to clarify the origins of the mural painting in Aerith's room...

They are all abundantly referenced multiple times during the game. Find a more exhaustive list here.

And now it's the turn of Ma1den who trave1s the P1anet.

The author of this novel based himself on the original dialogues and story of the OG and reinterpreted them adding some new elements to create a coherent narration (full of discrepancies that, ehm, have already been disproved years ago, like Aerith's age when she met Zack, Hojo being not really dead, Zack's personality being totally different from Crisis Core, Aerith already knowing about Zack's death, normal souls that should merge immediately in the Lifestream, Omnislash being not Zack's ability...not that this ever convinced anyone).

Correct me if I'm wrong, but...

There are no references at all in the whole game. Not a single word that inequivocally refers to this novel.

Not a word to hint the fact that bad people's souls will rot in the Lifestream and won't be part of it because their spirits are beyond redemption (like what happened in the novel to President Shinra and Hojo).

In the novel Biggs, Wedge and Jessie are tormented by the deaths caused by the explosion of Mako reactor n.1. Jessie feels guilty both in the OG and in the Remake but Biggs and Wedge don't show much regret and the Remake shows that Shinra caused the massive explosion of the reactor, not Jessie. But wasn't the Lifestream supposed to be the place where all knowledges are merged together? I may be wrong but this would suggest that Jessie would have known it after her death.

There are hints that suggest the Aerith of the resolution scene is the one who already died in the OG: she talks to Cloud as if they had passed a long time together, she talks about death and finally disappears in a sparkling greenish light.

It would have been a great scene to put any reference to Ma1den but...it didn't happen.

Well...wierd the devs forgot to mention just this entry...

What a coincidence.

Graphics enhancement, 23 years later!

Listen I don’t usually post stuff like this, and I probably won’t ever again. But I feel so bad for Tyson Barrie. Like he was in Colorado for so long, and it seemed like everything was going great, and then he got traded. And I’m not even saying he’s the best player, but I feel like people should be more supportive. I know Toronto is all for hockey, but sometimes you have to think about other people as well. And this isn’t just for hockey, this is for everything. People don’t like to post things on Instagram because people are just so damn judgmental. And going back to Tyson Barrie, I feel like what the coaches are doing, are just making everything worse. In his headshot for Colorado he looks happy, but in his Toronto one he just looks so upset. Cutting down his ice time to just 10 minutes is so horrible. And one thing that he said that made me so sad, “There’s times you feel invincible and everything is going the right way [and then] I’ve had the complete opposite where it feels kind pf hopeless. Definitely feel like I’m in abut of [that] now.” Like to me, that’s so fucking heartbreaking. I want everyone to be happy, and to feel like they belong in the psychopathic world. And how could you do that to someone? How can anyone do that to anyone? What’s good that will come out of making someone feel like their hopeless? Why do you have to make them feel like they can’t do anything?

     Instead of making them feel bad why don’t you help them? Tyson is amazing at power play goals. So why not put him out when there’s a power play? Show him that he can do it. Cutting down his ice time, and not putting him in where he does best isn’t helping anyone. Trade him back to Colorado, or put him in the spots he’s best at. If you can’t do it for me, do it for him. If you can’t do it for him, do it for your team, for the fans. Please.

We love you Tyson, your worth more than they’re trying to make you think.