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Heroes by mrmoonpants
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bofoddity, and I'll be your anime/manga driver this month for Final Fantasy VII. Being the kind of fan for whom characters make the fandom, my tastes are very gen-heavy and that's something you can expect from my recs as well. My favorite character is Cloud Strife, but I also love the more unpopular characters like Tifa, Barret and Reeve.
Fandom: FINAL FANTASY VII
Pairing: Gen (Cloud-centric)
Length: About 6000 words
Author on LJ:geekerypokery
Author Website: Moon Pants
Why this must be read:
Cloud-centric character pieces that don't involve any romance (or hints of romance) are rare, introspective character pieces from his childhood and youth even rarer. This story is about Cloud's childhood at Nibelheim, his dysfunctional relationship with his mother and his reverence of Sephiroth and Tifa, and what makes a hero in his eyes. Cloud in this story is angrier, more bitter than what's usually seen in fandom, and absolutely unique.
At first, he had idolized Sephiroth just because he was so strong; if you were Sephiroth you didn't have to deal with kids picking on you on your way home from school, his nine-year-old self had been quite confident. And then, gradually, the shape of the hero-worship had changed, because the more Cloud had gotten older and thought about it in a more sophisticated way, the more it had seemed that that must have been exactly what Sephiroth had had to deal with. After all, he was different, and he had kind of funny-colored hair and eyes, didn't he? (Not that Cloud knew this through any kind of firsthand experience; the newspaper photos were so bad you could really only tell that his hair and eyebrows were pale, and maybe that there was something weird about his eyes if you squinted through the black and white dots.) Maybe when Sephiroth had been a kid he'd been freak instead of fag, and maybe an extra helping of girl because his hair was always so long in the pictures, but it pretty much all came out to the same. And he'd sure shown them, hadn't he? Won the war in Wutai all but single-handedly, beaten that big water-monster that had been their guardian spirit for ages, come back not just a hero but the biggest, most famous hero of his time. Who was the freak or the girl or the fag now? Anyone who'd made fun of Sephiroth when he was a kid must feel like an idiot these days!
Heroes
bofoddity, and I'll be your anime/manga driver this month for Final Fantasy VII. Being the kind of fan for whom characters make the fandom, my tastes are very gen-heavy and that's something you can expect from my recs as well. My favorite character is Cloud Strife, but I also love the more unpopular characters like Tifa, Barret and Reeve.Fandom: FINAL FANTASY VII
Pairing: Gen (Cloud-centric)
Length: About 6000 words
Author on LJ:
geekerypokeryAuthor Website: Moon Pants
Why this must be read:
Cloud-centric character pieces that don't involve any romance (or hints of romance) are rare, introspective character pieces from his childhood and youth even rarer. This story is about Cloud's childhood at Nibelheim, his dysfunctional relationship with his mother and his reverence of Sephiroth and Tifa, and what makes a hero in his eyes. Cloud in this story is angrier, more bitter than what's usually seen in fandom, and absolutely unique.
At first, he had idolized Sephiroth just because he was so strong; if you were Sephiroth you didn't have to deal with kids picking on you on your way home from school, his nine-year-old self had been quite confident. And then, gradually, the shape of the hero-worship had changed, because the more Cloud had gotten older and thought about it in a more sophisticated way, the more it had seemed that that must have been exactly what Sephiroth had had to deal with. After all, he was different, and he had kind of funny-colored hair and eyes, didn't he? (Not that Cloud knew this through any kind of firsthand experience; the newspaper photos were so bad you could really only tell that his hair and eyebrows were pale, and maybe that there was something weird about his eyes if you squinted through the black and white dots.) Maybe when Sephiroth had been a kid he'd been freak instead of fag, and maybe an extra helping of girl because his hair was always so long in the pictures, but it pretty much all came out to the same. And he'd sure shown them, hadn't he? Won the war in Wutai all but single-handedly, beaten that big water-monster that had been their guardian spirit for ages, come back not just a hero but the biggest, most famous hero of his time. Who was the freak or the girl or the fag now? Anyone who'd made fun of Sephiroth when he was a kid must feel like an idiot these days!
Heroes