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Those sound like reasonable answers to me. And based on what we know of how the Lifstream works, it makes sense that future Sephiroth's will would overlap with Northern Crater Sephiroth's will. And yet I still get the feeling the latter isn't yet aware of the former. It's just a hunch I have...

But then the question still stands: why do Aerith and Red feel more threatened by this version of Sephiroth if the other versions they've encountered have now been retroactively supplied the same knowledge and motivations?

I think what Roundhouse is getting at is, even if it were a future Sephiroth (which I think it is), if future Sephiroth's consciousness and will is no different from the others', why does the Ultimania draw a distinction in how the characters react to him? It could just as well be future...

Wait! As much as I like it when people agree with me this is the opposite of what I said :P

My humble going theory is that the Sephiroth in Cloud's mind (Chapter 2 follow sequence, Chapter 8 unconscious sequence, Chapter 13 "loss makes you stronger," etc.) are projections of the same Sephiroth we see in Chapter 18, while the clones are still just what they were in the OG. I don't think...

Great, detailed write up! One of the earliest theories about the presence of purple was proposed by Sleepez a few weeks after release, and I always found it pretty compelling. It's essentially what you just argued against--that the purple signifies Sephiroth and the tainted Lifestream (the...

It does irk me how Aerith suddenly reverts to lines like "how long is a day's walk?" and "my tummy hurts" when a few hours ago she was doing hardcore oracle shit. So there is reason to suspect her foresight has been stripped or at least drastically diminished, and I like your way of explaining...

Here comes the grumpy prescriptivist! Let the English-speaking community have its own piece of lore!

I guess I've been going on the assumption that meteor isn't (future) Sephiroth's end game anymore. If all he were concerned about were ensuring it worked this time around, he could have just merked Aerith and/or Cloud as soon as the harbinger was defeated. No need to lead Cloud on some...

To me the only piece of totally new info is that line about how Sephiroth seeks to preserve/prolong the world by sacrificing some or all people on it. Is that just what Aerith is assuming? If not, it's a pretty big drop. Fits with some of the Omega Weapon theories.

Whaaat. How have I never heard of this? Is it worth looking into? Any scans or summaries anywhere if so?

I think it's magical to the same extent that other elements of the story, like the Lifestream, materia, Jenova, etc. are. But I think there are some fundamental rules that we can apply to how the singularity works based on how the concept is used and explained in other works of fantasy science...

Not to derail the topic but that Midgar timeline is really interesting. It confirms that Zack died in the Remake timeline we play through (so, no, we aren't in some kind of loop as some people speculated); and it also mentions Genesis, which I haven't seen before in other Remake material, unless...

Do you have the first Material Ultimania, and if so, do you feel like it's still worth getting? I missed my chance and now the price is super inflated online. I've already seen most of the content from this 4k flipthrough, but the most interesting pages, which have to do with Midgar, it's...

Well stated. I think the "Singularity of Destiny" we see in Remake is sort of a fusion of the classical gravitational singularity and FFVII's unique concept of the Lifestream. It's a realm where all the potentialities of fate have collapsed into one another, such that any decision or action that...

@LicoriceAllsorts I think part of the logic of the singularity (based on how singularities are commonly used in science fiction and fantasy works) is that anything inside of its event horizon can't be affected by changes that occur outside of it. Because the singularity is a discrete point that...

I have a lot of issues with the "Zack is in the Lifestream" theory, most of which have probably been brought up already. Above all I feel like it blasts a disrespectful hole in the ending of Crisis Core, which portrays Zack as very accepting of death. He unburdens his "dreams and pride" onto...

Was really happy to see someone else make this connection. I had to check when I made a similar Reddit post and you beat me to it by 3 days! Honestly the second I saw Nero pulling Sonon into the darkness and Sonon having the Melfi flashback I was like, "Yep, they're gonna convince him Melfi was...

Oh, I don't think there is either. I think Audrey's translation is fine in that it has about the same amount of ambiguity as Toriyama's reply. If you took out the second "in" from her translation, I think it would be exactly there.

Okay, thanks koda. My take is that.... the ambiguity is real lmao. Toriyama really could be saying either "If there is a future where all of these characters survive, that future might be a different world" or "If there were a future where all of these characters survived, the world would end up...