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I also got the impression that Zack and Cloud are not particularly close. I'm not convinced they worked together any more than what you get in canon actually (Modeoheim, Junon, and Nibelheim), and it doesn't sound like they're buddies. I wouldn't be surprised if Zack was Cloud's bff though, even...

There's a tendency in fanfic to fixate upon one aspect of a character and to blow it out of proportion. It doesn't make the story bad -- it often adds to the enjoyment factor, and it allows people to explore facets of the character that aren't well-explored in canon -- and I wouldn't call it...

Ah, Thorns, my old enemy. :P I've tried to read that story a few times before, because it's recommended everywhere, but my interest always peters out in the first scene. If/when I give it another go, I'll keep in mind that the OCs are basically SG-1, though. In general though, people need to...

The "problem" with OCs is that they too often take center-stage in fanfics, and most people don't read fanfics to read about OCs. They read fanfics to get more of their favorite characters, above all else -- even above exploring the world, I'd hazard -- and an OC often gets in the way of that...

There's already a bit too much snideness in this thread for me, so just things I like: Aerith/Zack, because diabetes and tragedy. Angeal/Genesis, because hilarity and tragedy. Bonus points if it actually makes sense in the context of CC. Super-bonus points if it is totally unrequited and...

@ Clement: It would be odd if Angeal had less control over the monsters than Genesis had over his copies (who probably had a stronger sense of self to begin with, having been SOLDIERs). I'd always assumed Angeal was having the copies attack Zack to provoke Zack into killing them, because...

That almost makes sense, which is better than not making sense at all, I suppose. He's not truly creating more monsters, though. His cells are getting grafted onto existing monsters. If anything, that's actually better than just leaving monsters hanging around to do monstery stuff; sure, his...

@ Minato: Thanks for gathering all those quotes! I agree that they're probably not in Wutai for something unrelated to the military operations. What I am skeptical about is whether or not Genesis was actually running the campaign and "in command" of all the SOLDIERs in an official capacity...

Isn't it actually possible that Lazard had a hand in instigating the mass desertion as well? He was already working with Hollander and Genesis by the time CC started. The CC Ultimania Scenario Q&A says that Hollander approached Lazard immediately after discovering the copy phenomenon from...

I'm probably nitpicking at this point or asking unanswerable questions, but was Genesis actually in command of hundreds of SOLDIERs in Wutai? All we're told is that he was "on a mission" when he went AWOL, which could mean anything from "he was on a solo mission to assassinate Godo" to "he was...

Angeal impresses me just by his ability to deal with Genesis for years on end. XP Another question re. Lazard: I always got the impression he was newly appointed at the beginning of CC, just based on the content of his texts to the SOLDIERs and the fact that he didn't meet Zack until he was...

Yes. I haven't seen much canon evidence supporting the idea that he -- or any other SOLDIERs -- commanded great legions of troops. What we get of field operations comes mostly from that one Wutai mission, where we see Angeal and Zack attached to a unit. (Sephiroth is presumably attached to...

Is Sephiroth actually a general? This has been bugging me for a while, and I went back through to check the Compilation just to make sure, but I can't find any instance in which Sephiroth is called General Sephiroth. He's either called Sephiroth, Mr. Sephiroth (by Luxiere), and/or SOLDIER First...

This has been bothering me for a while, but when Sephiroth discovers the monsters in the Nibelheim reactor, he says, "I knew, ever since I was a child... I was not like the others. I knew mine was a special existence. But this...This was not what I meant. Am I...a human being?" That begs...

Every what-if story is going to involve "and X also happened" to make the plot fall together, though. It's just a question of how plausible that X is given the previous what-if event. And I think there are more than one plausible X's that can drag Cloud into the story, e.g. the Turks stumble...

I actually think one can still write Cloud into the story. You'd just have to do a lot of work with his character, and keeping him from critical meltdown after Sephiroth gets his hands on him ... well, that'd require even more work and a very fundamental tweak in his character, but it's...

Everyone else seems to have said what I was thinking (i.e. Sephiroth becomes the prime mover of the plot around the time he breaks Jenova out of ShinRa HQ). Taking Sephiroth out ... the story would pretty much just lose the flair that made FF7, well, FF7. A what-if scenario with a bit more...