[sticky entry] Sticky: Mission Statement

Dec. 6th, 2018 12:30 am
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FF7Central was originally hosted on Tumblr at [tumblr.com profile] ff7central , as a way to promote fandom content for the FF7 Compilation, including fanart, fanfic, meta, creator promotions and events. As Tumblr begins to threaten content purges, it is uncertain where the bulk of fandom will move to next but I feel it would be wise to have a presence here on a designated fandom-friendly space. There is also a small community based on Pillowfort where we can be found (here), though it too is understandably in its early stages.

I am your mod, [personal profile] ladykf , one of the original mods of the Tumblr and Pillowfort communities, though I may eventually be joined by others to help with management. Obviously, by nature of Dreamwidth allowing members to post, this has the potential to be an even more active community than Tumblr's was, assuming we get users here.

What would be good content? Fanart may be difficult, with current image hosting caps at the moment, but this would be an excellent place to signal boost your blogs for visibility, share or link to fanfiction, share meta and headcanons, promote yourself as a roleplayer, and promote community events.

If you have more suggestions, of course, feel free to speak up! There's no telling how we may grow, on this new platform, but the only way to go is forward.

Looking forward to having you, fandom.

[sticky entry] Sticky: Content guidelines

Dec. 6th, 2018 10:27 am
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Some tentative guidelines going up for posting here. Let's keep it short and sweet.

What is allowed:
  • links back to content on your own blog
  • links to other related communities
  • promotions of fandom content
  • promotions of blogs (ex: fanfic writers, fanartists, roleplayers)
  • discussions and meta
  • community events
  • general fandom positivity (ex: shoutouts)
  • NSFW content - UNDER A CUT ONLY
What is not allowed:
  • any sort of bashing
  • any sort of hate
  • general fandom wank
  • stolen work of any kind
If there's something not listed, and you're not sure, feel free to approach a moderator (currently [personal profile] ladykf )
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Aerith Gainsborough (also known as “Aeris” Gainsborough due to a translation error in the original FFVII) was born on February 7th, 1985 in Icicle Inn of the Northern Continent to Professor Gast Faremis and Ifalna, last of the Cetra race. Upon her mother’s death, Aerith was considered the last known Cetra. 

Listed as 5′3 with blood type O, she is the following ages during the Compliation:

  • 15-22 in Crisis Core
  • 17 in Before Crisis
  • 22 in the original FFVII

Less than a month after her birth, Aerith was captured along with her mother by Professor Hojo and taken back to ShinRa where she would spend the first seven years of her life. In 1992 she fled with her mother under the plate but was orphaned when Ifalna died at the train station from wounds inflicted by ShinRa’s security during their escape.

Elymra Gainsborough, having been waiting at the station for her husband in hopes of his return from the Wutai war, took in the seven year old and raised her as her own daughter. While the Turks would eventually find her again and maintained surveillance during her entire life in Midgar, they did not force her to return to the company until 0007 during the original game canon.

Aerith is first met chronologically during Chapter 11 of Before Crisis, a full five years before her original appearance in the OG. She plays a significant part in Crisis Core, where her relationship originally alluded to with Zack is further fleshed out. During that time, Aerith receives her signature ribbon from Zack and together they set out to help her sell flowers as she is first seen in the OG. There is also a comment from Zack that she should wear pink the next time they meet, and when she is last seen in Crisis Core she is wearing what becomes her signature outfit.

During the OG, Aerith approaches life with enthusiasm and curiosity. President Shinra believed her able to lead the company to ‘the Promised Land’ but she is largely uneducated in her Cetra heritage. Nevertheless, history comes full circle and she ends up giving her life in an attempt to stop the Calamity of the Skies, Jenova, who had nearly wiped out the Cetra people over two thousand years before.

There have been questions from fandom of how necessary that may have been, as there was no indication in Aerith’s behavior that she believed it was necessary that she sacrifice herself to summon Holy and there would have been no reason for Sephiroth to kill her unless that would hinder her efforts.

In Advent Children Complete, Aerith is seen years after her death in visions by Cloud Strife, and creates the holy rain (presumed to be her Great Gospel limit break) that cures Geostigma and removes the last traces of Jenova’s presence. All members of AVALANCHE can be seen wearing a ribbon in her honor, and Marlene has a similar pink ribbon in her hair.

In the typical style of white mages, Aerith uses staves and rods as her weapons, and her limit breaks are centered on healing and buffing the party.

  • Level 1 defaults with Healing Wind and unlocks Seal Evil with 8 uses
  • Level 2 unlocks after killing 80 enemies with Breath of the Earth and unlocks Fury Brand after 6 uses
  • Level 3 unlocks after killing 80 enemies after L2 with Planet Protector and Pulse of Life after 5 uses
  • Level 4 is Great Gospel, suspected to be the source of the healing rain in ACC. The manual can be received as soon as you unlock the Tiny Bronco, but steps can be taken to get it as you get the buggy.

In addition to her appearances in FFVII Compilation games and the On the Way to a Smile novellas, Aerith appears in the following Final Fantasy games:

  • Final Fantasy Airborne Brigade
  • Final Fantasy All the Bravest
  • Final Fantasy Explorers
  • Final Fantasy Record Keeper
  • Final Fantasy Trading Card Game
  • Final Fantasy World Wide Words
  • Dissidia 012 Final Fantasy
  • Theatrhythm Final Fantasy
  • Triple Triad (Final Fantasy Portal App version only)
There have been references to Aerith in other games such as World of Warcraft and she also appears in the Kingdom Hearts series.
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Hey guys! As Tumblr starts to self destruct, everyone is scrambling around to find a good place to go. Some of us are settling here. Some of us are going to Pillowfort. Some of us are sitting on the sinking ship that is Tumblr, defiant to the end. It's going to take time for the next "fandom space" to be defined, but in the mean time I would like to offer up one more option.

A FF7Central forum has been established over on Proboards. It does not, unfortunately, allow for NSFW, that's still a problem. But in the meantime, it may be a nice stepping stone for fandom discussion, sharing works and roleplay.

If nothing else, it merits checking out. See what you think here.

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Barret Wallace was born December 15th, 1972, in the mining town of Corel. He is most well known as the leader of the second incarnation of the ecoterrorist group AVALANCHE. His canonical height has been listed as 6′4 and 6′5, with blood type O.

Born and raised in Corel, Barret was married to a woman named Myrna who was suffering from an unspecified illness. When ShinRa offered to put a Mako Reactor in Corel, Barret was one of the people who pushed for the community to agree against the wishes of his close friend Dyne.

In 2003 during the events of Before Crisis, the original AVALANCHE occupies the reactor and Barret helps the Turks take it back. Unfortunately, it is still destroyed, and ShinRa blames the people of Corel with the false accusation of them having aided AVALANCHE. Corel is destroyed on the President’s order, and the executive director of the Weapons Development Department (Scarlet) has troopers open fire on Barret and Dyne. Dyne, having fallen off the path, was only hanging on by his grip on Barret’s hand. When the troopers fired, they destroyed the two clasped hands, and Dyne fell presumably to his death.

In the aftermath, Barret returns and finds Dyne’s daughter, Marlene, and adopts her as his own. He eventually receives a prosthetic gun arm via Shalua Rui and goes to Cosmo Canyon where he learns about AVALANCHE. Not knowning the name of the terrorists who had led to the destruction of his home, Barret ironically takes their name when he later founds an anti-ShinRa group in Midgar.

When AVALANCHE later reaches the western continent, they cross into North Corel where the survivors of the disaster have settled, most of which are openly hostile to Barret and blame him for the destruction of their original town. By this point, the Gold Saucer has been built directly over the ruins.

Despite his rough speech and quick temper, Barret is shown as an intelligent man who is passionate about his beliefs and conflicted between his need to be with his adopted daughter and to save the future of the Planet she’s growing up in. While he sees it as his responsibility to fight for the Planet, Barret also grieves for the lives lost along the way and is aware there is also innocent blood on his hands.

After the original game, Barret appears in the novella On the Way to a Smile: Case of Tifa where he reunites with Marlene and helps establish Edge. He is the focus in Case of Barret, where he spends time searching for alternative fuel sources, trying to atone for his past, and requisitions a new attachment to his gun arm that can provide him with a mechanical hand and a more normal life. Staying in touch with the others, he is quick to return to Edge in Advent Children to help fight Bahamut SIN, and later leads the ground assault on Midgar during the final battle against Deepground in Dirge of Cerberus.

Chronologically, Barret is first met in Before Crisis at the age of 31. He is the fourth oldest member of the second AVALANCHE at 35 during the original game, 37 in Advent Children, and 38 in Dirge of Cerberus. While he isn’t seen in Crisis Core, he would have been 28 during the opening.

Barret’s limit breaks focus on use of his gun arm in ranged attacks with the single exception of Level 2: Hammer Blow, which involves him running up for a close combat strike causing instant death unless an enemy is immune.

  • Level 1 begins with Big Shot and unlocks Mindblow after using it 9 times
  • Level 2 begins with Grenade Bomb, unlocked after killing 80 enemies, and Hammer Blow after using Grenade Bomb 8 times
  • Level 3 begins with Satellite Beam, unlocked after the next 80 enemies killed since unlocking Level 2, and Angermax after using Satellite Beam 6 times
  • Level 4 is his ultimate limit, Catastrophe, obtainable after the completion of the Huge Materia sidequest’s portion on Mount Corel and useable once he has unlocked all other Limit Breaks

In addition to his Compilation appearances, Barret also appears in:

  • Final Fantasy Airborne Brigade
  • Final Fantasy Artniks
  • Final Fantasy VII G-Bike
  • Final Fantasy Record Keeper
  • Final Fantasy Trading Card Game
  • Mobius Final Fantasy
  • Pictlogica Final Fantasy
  • Theatrhythm Final Fantasy Curtain Call
  • Triple Triad (version available via the Final Fantasy Portal App)

He is also made reference to in the Kingdom Hearts series.

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Hey guys, just wanted to drop you a note, there's now a Discord for the FF7 Community.

Our goal is to have one more place where people can hook up with fellow fans. To discuss the fandom we all love, to workshop our WIPs, to promote works and events, to find fellow roleplayers - we’ve got something for everyone. So come on over!

The server is open to all, at the following invite (HERE). Please be mindful of the rules and keep your chat to appropriate channels.

We’ll see you there.

-Mod KF

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