@jk what the hell i have never seen fanart of Nanaki in the shinra military uniform before and I LOVE it

@Nine @jk hi when i saw this toot the other day i had a particular piece of fanart i wanted to post but couldnt find it

anyway i saw it again today so here it is

(source: sneaky-taffer.tumblr.com/post/)

@roadrunner @jk oh god that reminds me.
That bit in FF7 you see this shinra soldier walking back and forth facing towards the screen constantly, all weird and flaily like he's constantly off balance so you go talk to him and then "It's me. Red XIII." and you get this whole conversation about how it's hard to walk on two legs, but he thinks he's blended in really well...

and then he's scripted to turn around and walk back across the deck that same way, but his model adds the swaying tail then!

@roadrunner @jk it's so good, it's such a great little visual gag and it cracks me up every single time, it's so well done.

@Nine @jk its so good! the entire sailing adventure followed by costa del sol is one of my favourite parts of the game there are so many cute little gags?? red saying "lets not stay here too long, my nose is getting dry" and yuffie going "mine too!!!"

@Nine @jk heidegger punching everyone in town into the ocean

@roadrunner @jk Barret's goddamn costume too. and then you can catch him in the bathroom of the house admiring himself XDDD

@Nine @jk cloud: ah... you look like a bear wearing a marshmallow

@roadrunner @jk I always read that line as him genuinely trying to think of a complement to not anger or upset barret and just... not being able to see anything else and just he's like "Ah it's.. v-very... snrk... i... I'm SORRY MAN YOU LOOK LIKE A GODDAMN BEAR WEARING A MARSHMALLOW HAHAHAHA" and just nearly dying laughing despite himself. ^^;

@Nine @jk this is different to my own ereading but i love it

my take is cloud is genuinely awful at trying to come up with witty/cool things to say and just frequenlty makes awkward out of place remakrs

@roadrunner @jk this is also super acceptable and pretty much VERY supported by canon. certainly way more than my reading. Cloud always was awkward and shy and nervous, the whole persona he puts on throughout the game is actually an imitation of his best friend Zack that's partly him trying to cope with the huge trauma of everything that happened to him, Tifa and Zack, and partly Jenova and Sephiroth messing with his head. Poor kid.

@Nine @jk yeah thats my thinking!! there are so many moments where cloud makes rly off-beat remakrs or says "cool lines" but with awkward follow up? "lets mosey" etc

@Nine @jk especially if you go for the attempts at flirting they come out so awkward, u just get the vibe hes thinkin "what would zack say" but executing it very poorly

@roadrunner @jk so much same. I loved FF7 for this sort of thing but it was such a shame that because of the translation job and the way it was written a lot of this had to be read between the lines or inferred rather than just written well into the game??

@Nine @jk tru!! honestly i didn't have that much trouble with the translation and quite enjoyed reading between the lines but i dunno if it would hav been as good an experience if i was playin it alone and fdidn't have @jk to bounce thoughts off

@roadrunner @jk can say from experience I had nobody to bounce thoughts off when I was playing it originally. ^^; sooo yeah, it's way more enjoyable when you get to talk about it and bounce thoughts off about it. ^^

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