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Despite the FF-Wikia's very lengthy FFVII Compilation Timeline, they don't seem to list any specific dates for any happenings in the actual game aside from:
Another oddity, is that the entire contents of the game prior to this begin (apparently) on December 8, leaving the first two discs happening in just five weeks (four if we must include Tifa's coma)
Is this something we agree on? Is this canon? So many events happen, world shattering events. I always thought the game's events took place over a matter of months. Even if we're going by the “FF7's world is the size of Texas” theory, it still confuses me. I can try to draft up a timeline:
but it seems untenable. And in order for it to work, events have to happen at weird times, and no one gets any sleep. I have a hard time believing that this is the timeline we agree on. According to this, Cloud knew Aeris for just over two weeks, why would he be boo-hooing about it two years later?
I know I'm not always a canon-friendly fan, but abiding by an official timeline instead of my own fan-created one isn't that big of a concession... as long as the official one isn't stupid.
Another oddity, is that the entire contents of the game prior to this begin (apparently) on December 8, leaving the first two discs happening in just five weeks (four if we must include Tifa's coma)
Is this something we agree on? Is this canon? So many events happen, world shattering events. I always thought the game's events took place over a matter of months. Even if we're going by the “FF7's world is the size of Texas” theory, it still confuses me. I can try to draft up a timeline:
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December 8 – Reactor 1 explodes shortly after noon. The events of Seventh Heaven occur that evening
December 9 – Reactor 5 explodes in the morning. Cloud falls into Aeris' church and escapes with her from the Turks, spending the night at her house.
December 10 – In the morning, Cloud and Aeris meet with Tifa at Don Corneo's, before Wall Market officially opens, so lets say before 8am, where they are subjected to Corneo's wife-choosing ritual (first thing in the morning?) and then they interrogate him and learn of Shinra's plan to bomb the pillar. They race to get there around Noon, but fail to stop the bombing. Cloud, Tifa and Barret arrive at Elmyra's where they listen to her sob story and leave immediately, finding the golden shiny wire of hope immediately, beginning the fifty metre climb (rock-climbing websites assure me this would take eight hours, more considering one of them is missing an arm) this would land them at Shinra Headquarters around midnight.
December 11 – Miraculously, everyone at Shinra HQ is still at work. Assuming the Shinra HQ events happen in real-time and not game-metaphor-time, they meet Nanaki at around 4am. They are imprisoned and go to sleep... for two hours, in which time Sephiroth ransacks the building. At 6am, Rufus delivers his inauguration speech to the party and the motorcycle chase begins. The party travels to Kalm where Cloud tells his story and they go to sleep.
December 12 – Realistically, the party wouldn't make it to the Chocobo Farm before nightfall.
December 13 – Arriving at the Chocobo Farm first thing in the morning, the party gets some chocobos and crosses the marsh, going through the Midgar marshes at midday and sleeping at Fort Condor that evening.
December 14 – The party begins this busy day by fighting a battle at Fort Condor. Around midday, they encounter Yuffie in the woods where they join her party. In the afternoon, they arrive in Lower Junon, where Cloud saves Priscilla from drowning and they fight Bottomswell. As a reward, they are given a place to sleep with Priscilla's family.
December 15 – Shinra launches two attacks on Fort Condor today. It is also Rufus Shinra's Junon parade. The party boards a cargo vessel that takes them across the ocean in a matter of hours, in which most of the crew is killed. Spending a busy half hour in Costa del Sol, the party leaves. Realistically they couldn't make it to Corel on foot, so they camp on the road.
December 16 – The party scales Mount Corel, an event that would take up to sixteen hours. They arrive in Corel early evening, and ascend to the Gold saucer as night falls. Again, assuming the events happen in real time, Cloud is arrested that evening and taken down to Corel Prison.
December 17 – The events of Corel Prison occur, culminating in Cloud's chocobo race around noon. The party drives away, and since they are now in a car, they can safely get to Gongaga before nightfall. Shinra launches their fourth attack on Fort Condor.
December 18 – The party travels to Cosmo Canyon and a fantastic repairman fixes their buggy overnight. Shinra launches their fifth and sixth attacks on Fort Condor.
December 19 – The party travels to Nibelheim, where they encounter Sephiroth, Vincent, and the black cloaked men. They probably leave right away, but the Nibel Mountains are winding and treacherous, so they have to camp there. Shinra launches their seventh attack on Fort Condor.
December 20 – Somehow, miraculously, the party arrives in Rocket, meets Cid, and crashes with the Tiny Bronco. It takes the rest of the day for it to begin moving again. Shinra launches their eighth attack on Fort Condor.
December 21 – The Yuffie materia debacle happens first thing in the morning, but the party is on foot again, so they could not realistically make it to Wutai before having to camp.
December 22 – The party gets to Wutai, gets their materia back, and can make it half-way back to the Bronco.
December 23 – The party can make it back to the Tiny Bronco today.
December 24 – Through some divine inspiration, the party knows exactly where to go to find the Keystone, and after the plane gets them to the Weaponsmith's for noon (again: miraculously) they arrive at the Gold Saucer by late afternoon, where Cloud competes for the Keystone and they are forced to spend the evening at the Ghost Hotel (if they celebrated Christmas, this would be nice and apt). Cloud goes on his date with ??? and Cait Sith betrays the party. Shinra launches it's ninth attack on Fort Condor.
December 25 – The party heads to the Temple of the Ancients, and Cloud gives Sephiroth the black materia. What an eventful Christmas!
December 26 – Cloud contemplates Boxing Day by regretting boxing his girlfriend almost to death. But the party cheers him up and together they go on the hunt for Aeris. Imagining that they only needed to bomb once to find the Earth Harp...
December 27 – The party enjoys the forgotten city but cannot find Aeris. Cloud goes to sleep, but wakes up and Disc 1 ends.
December 28 – Disc 2 begins, and the party makes it all the way to Icicle Inn before Cloud is punched out by Elena or they stay at the Inn.
December 29 – After an early morning snowboard, the party spends half the day wandering around a glacier until they pass out.
December 30 – The party scales Gaia's cliff, and mountaineering websites assure me this takes until at least tomorrow.
December 31 – The party enters the crater and shit goes down. Tifa celebrates the new year in a coma.
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January 7 – Tifa wakes up. Sapphire Weapon raids Junon and the Highwind crew mutinies.
January 8 – The Highwind crew finds Cloud (rather easily) and Tifa leaves the party.
January 9 – The first huge materia mission happens in the morning, the next happens that afternoon.
January 10 – The party visits Tifa and wheelchair!Cloud and Weapon attacks. Tifa and Cloud take a short but profoudly intimate dip in the Lifestream and emerge for a welcome back speech before dinner.
January 11 – Cloud takes his new airship to Junon, where he hijacks a submarine. Later that day, he goes to space.
January 12 – Cloud returns from space.
January 13 – The party visits Bugenhagen that morning, and he gives them an idea that sends them to the Ancient City, where they are told to get back in their submarine and find the Key of the Ancients. Along the way, Vincent meets Lucrecia and the party explores the sunken Gelnika.
January 14 – The party brings the Key to Bugenhagen first thing in the morning, where they learn about Holy. The Diamond Weapon attacks Midgar and the day ends with a parachute ride and the death of pretty much everyone in Shinra.
January 15 – Cloud sends everyone away until January 20
January 19 – Cloud and Tifa have sex! Canonically.
January 20 – They descend into the Crater. Spelunking website assure me that to spelunk the 220km radius of a Texas-sized Planet would take more than a day, but lets say they don't have to go very deep to get to the Planet's juicy core.
January 21 – Meteor destroys Midgar
December 8 – Reactor 1 explodes shortly after noon. The events of Seventh Heaven occur that evening
December 9 – Reactor 5 explodes in the morning. Cloud falls into Aeris' church and escapes with her from the Turks, spending the night at her house.
December 10 – In the morning, Cloud and Aeris meet with Tifa at Don Corneo's, before Wall Market officially opens, so lets say before 8am, where they are subjected to Corneo's wife-choosing ritual (first thing in the morning?) and then they interrogate him and learn of Shinra's plan to bomb the pillar. They race to get there around Noon, but fail to stop the bombing. Cloud, Tifa and Barret arrive at Elmyra's where they listen to her sob story and leave immediately, finding the golden shiny wire of hope immediately, beginning the fifty metre climb (rock-climbing websites assure me this would take eight hours, more considering one of them is missing an arm) this would land them at Shinra Headquarters around midnight.
December 11 – Miraculously, everyone at Shinra HQ is still at work. Assuming the Shinra HQ events happen in real-time and not game-metaphor-time, they meet Nanaki at around 4am. They are imprisoned and go to sleep... for two hours, in which time Sephiroth ransacks the building. At 6am, Rufus delivers his inauguration speech to the party and the motorcycle chase begins. The party travels to Kalm where Cloud tells his story and they go to sleep.
December 12 – Realistically, the party wouldn't make it to the Chocobo Farm before nightfall.
December 13 – Arriving at the Chocobo Farm first thing in the morning, the party gets some chocobos and crosses the marsh, going through the Midgar marshes at midday and sleeping at Fort Condor that evening.
December 14 – The party begins this busy day by fighting a battle at Fort Condor. Around midday, they encounter Yuffie in the woods where they join her party. In the afternoon, they arrive in Lower Junon, where Cloud saves Priscilla from drowning and they fight Bottomswell. As a reward, they are given a place to sleep with Priscilla's family.
December 15 – Shinra launches two attacks on Fort Condor today. It is also Rufus Shinra's Junon parade. The party boards a cargo vessel that takes them across the ocean in a matter of hours, in which most of the crew is killed. Spending a busy half hour in Costa del Sol, the party leaves. Realistically they couldn't make it to Corel on foot, so they camp on the road.
December 16 – The party scales Mount Corel, an event that would take up to sixteen hours. They arrive in Corel early evening, and ascend to the Gold saucer as night falls. Again, assuming the events happen in real time, Cloud is arrested that evening and taken down to Corel Prison.
December 17 – The events of Corel Prison occur, culminating in Cloud's chocobo race around noon. The party drives away, and since they are now in a car, they can safely get to Gongaga before nightfall. Shinra launches their fourth attack on Fort Condor.
December 18 – The party travels to Cosmo Canyon and a fantastic repairman fixes their buggy overnight. Shinra launches their fifth and sixth attacks on Fort Condor.
December 19 – The party travels to Nibelheim, where they encounter Sephiroth, Vincent, and the black cloaked men. They probably leave right away, but the Nibel Mountains are winding and treacherous, so they have to camp there. Shinra launches their seventh attack on Fort Condor.
December 20 – Somehow, miraculously, the party arrives in Rocket, meets Cid, and crashes with the Tiny Bronco. It takes the rest of the day for it to begin moving again. Shinra launches their eighth attack on Fort Condor.
December 21 – The Yuffie materia debacle happens first thing in the morning, but the party is on foot again, so they could not realistically make it to Wutai before having to camp.
December 22 – The party gets to Wutai, gets their materia back, and can make it half-way back to the Bronco.
December 23 – The party can make it back to the Tiny Bronco today.
December 24 – Through some divine inspiration, the party knows exactly where to go to find the Keystone, and after the plane gets them to the Weaponsmith's for noon (again: miraculously) they arrive at the Gold Saucer by late afternoon, where Cloud competes for the Keystone and they are forced to spend the evening at the Ghost Hotel (if they celebrated Christmas, this would be nice and apt). Cloud goes on his date with ??? and Cait Sith betrays the party. Shinra launches it's ninth attack on Fort Condor.
December 25 – The party heads to the Temple of the Ancients, and Cloud gives Sephiroth the black materia. What an eventful Christmas!
December 26 – Cloud contemplates Boxing Day by regretting boxing his girlfriend almost to death. But the party cheers him up and together they go on the hunt for Aeris. Imagining that they only needed to bomb once to find the Earth Harp...
December 27 – The party enjoys the forgotten city but cannot find Aeris. Cloud goes to sleep, but wakes up and Disc 1 ends.
December 28 – Disc 2 begins, and the party makes it all the way to Icicle Inn before Cloud is punched out by Elena or they stay at the Inn.
December 29 – After an early morning snowboard, the party spends half the day wandering around a glacier until they pass out.
December 30 – The party scales Gaia's cliff, and mountaineering websites assure me this takes until at least tomorrow.
December 31 – The party enters the crater and shit goes down. Tifa celebrates the new year in a coma.
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January 7 – Tifa wakes up. Sapphire Weapon raids Junon and the Highwind crew mutinies.
January 8 – The Highwind crew finds Cloud (rather easily) and Tifa leaves the party.
January 9 – The first huge materia mission happens in the morning, the next happens that afternoon.
January 10 – The party visits Tifa and wheelchair!Cloud and Weapon attacks. Tifa and Cloud take a short but profoudly intimate dip in the Lifestream and emerge for a welcome back speech before dinner.
January 11 – Cloud takes his new airship to Junon, where he hijacks a submarine. Later that day, he goes to space.
January 12 – Cloud returns from space.
January 13 – The party visits Bugenhagen that morning, and he gives them an idea that sends them to the Ancient City, where they are told to get back in their submarine and find the Key of the Ancients. Along the way, Vincent meets Lucrecia and the party explores the sunken Gelnika.
January 14 – The party brings the Key to Bugenhagen first thing in the morning, where they learn about Holy. The Diamond Weapon attacks Midgar and the day ends with a parachute ride and the death of pretty much everyone in Shinra.
January 15 – Cloud sends everyone away until January 20
January 19 – Cloud and Tifa have sex! Canonically.
January 20 – They descend into the Crater. Spelunking website assure me that to spelunk the 220km radius of a Texas-sized Planet would take more than a day, but lets say they don't have to go very deep to get to the Planet's juicy core.
January 21 – Meteor destroys Midgar
but it seems untenable. And in order for it to work, events have to happen at weird times, and no one gets any sleep. I have a hard time believing that this is the timeline we agree on. According to this, Cloud knew Aeris for just over two weeks, why would he be boo-hooing about it two years later?
I know I'm not always a canon-friendly fan, but abiding by an official timeline instead of my own fan-created one isn't that big of a concession... as long as the official one isn't stupid.
