Such Beautiful Art!!

Sephiroth and cadet cloud spend the day together!

Sephiroth is out on a solo mission and brought Cloud along to teach him the ropes. After a long day of work, they settle down at their campsite.

The glowing fire heats their faces, the cup in Cloud's hand is warm enough to lull him into a sense of safety, and he just can't get a thought out of his head.

"Sephiroth?" Cloud asks after a period of mutual silence.

Sephiroth looks up from his own tea. "Yes?"

Cloud looks back down at his tea. "Do you think we're friends in every universe."

Sephiroth considers.

"I don't know," he replies. "Are there others besides this one?"

Cloud begins to swirl the liquid in its cup. Anxiety has sunk it's teeth three inches deep into his shoulder blades.

"Maybe there are. Maybe there's one out there where we're enemies, you and I."

Sephiroth's eyebrows flash. He makes a quiet noise of amusement before setting his own cup on the ground in front of him.

"Well, if such a life even exists..."

Cloud feels Sephiroth's gloved hand weigh on his shoulder. He looks up, surprised to see the older man smiling at him.

"I'm glad we're not a part of it."

I... I just need to reblog this. This was a turn I did not expect

Barbatos’ Confession (Barbatos x GN! Reader)

Notes: requests are open! other part;

this for the “other story”

Today was one of those days where you can hang out with the ever-so-busy butler. Well, they were suddenly so frequent, not that you cared, you liked his company. He invites you to tend the garden with him, and of course, you agreed to. You pack your gardening clothes, as well as a few snacks and necessities; and you’re ready to go! After you tell the brothers, you mean. They’ve been acting strange and somewhat two dimensional the past days, around when Barbatos started to hang-out with you, if your memory serves you correct. Maybe, tell him about it?

You arrive at the royal palace, as the other maids and butlers politely welcome you as they call on Barbatos, since you are now a regular inside Diavolo’s palace. “Hey Barb!” you happily greet him, while he bows and replies with, “Welcome to the palace again, MC. I hope I wasn’t bothering you.” 

He guides you to the gardens, where all beautiful flowers reside— more beautiful than the ones in House of Lamentation. Multiple devildom-native flowers can be seen inside; one of them being the infamous Mirage Flower that Diavolo himself stole. “Oh, I remember those!” you point at the rainbow petaled flowers. “They’ve repopulated now, didn’t they? I’m so glad!” you continued as you stare at them full of awe. He chuckles a bit, “I’m still sorry for letting Lord Diavolo steal them, though. I was so busy, I never noticed.” 

You shook your head no, “well, don’t worry about it! I got to hang out with the brothers, after all, so it got really fun.” Barbatos smiles, “Well, MC, what about me? Do you like hanging out with me?”

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#no one can resist the puppy

AFTER A LOT OF GRINDING AND A LOT OF LOSING

I FINALLY HAVE BARBATOS' ANIMAL OUTFIT

SOLOMON, I'M COMING FOR YOUR CARD NEXT

his honor, his dreams, they’re yours now. // insp.

(previous photosets: six feet underground | lovers by love | how to be a monster | not a weakness | light, hope, sun, stars | your demons were wildfires | heroes of our time | it’s all you know | this skin is tainted | the times he’s smiled | impossible | watch me rise | i wanted to tell you)

Malik's death in Revelations was tragic and violent enough as it is, but if you take into account how Altaïr's relationship with Malik began, it feels very targeted on Abbas's end.

Think of how it began with Altaïr's worst mistakes, getting his younger brother killed and Malik's arm ripped off. I'm sure Abbas was there to see him nearly expelled from the brotherhood, I'm sure he heard the fate of the Al Sayf brothers. Only for Altaïr to take that horrible mistake and its consequences and become the best possible version of himself, from unable to handle any responsibility to becoming the youngest mentor the brotherhood ever had. Even his relationship with Malik would go from animosity to close and trusted friend. You could argue that Malik was his GREATEST friend, other than Maria and his own children. The kind of growth and maturity it would take from both of them to get to that point is frankly astounding and for all Ubisoft's faults I think AC1 and Revelations did their due diligence with that

And then Abbas took that all away from him and never let Altaïr move past those mistakes he worked so hard to correct. How do you think he felt, being sent the severed head of the man started his journey with by severing one of his limbs? The mistakes of his youth cost Malik his arm, and now they've cost him his life in such a way that defiled and violated his body even more horrifically, after Malik trusted and loved him like a brother.

I like to think that Malik died protecting Sef from wrongful execution and defending Altaïr's honour. That the man who faced some of the bloodiest consequences of his past mistakes kept his youngest son safe and his reputation intact at the end, even at the threat of death for himself.

Hell, I imagine Malik was a bit of an uncle figure for Darim and Sef growing up. Perhaps the very thing that got him executed in the end was trying to keep Abbas's blades away from Sef.

Finally... FINALLY

His card... IS FINALLY MINE

the line that hooked me in, I knew I was gonna be fan after this LOL he's so cute 🐶💙

SPOILERS UNDERNEATH FOR OBEY ME! TEXTS AND HARD LESSONS (18-15 & 18-17)

Small rant(?) kinda. Okay so in Obey Me! there's this text with Lucifer talking about a quiz

So okay. Basically everyone did okay (save for Mammon as he barely passed) and I wasn't surprised that Satan got 98% cuz ofc. He smart af (I couldn't crop it any more sorry)

And I know that Belphie is smarter than people give him credit for because it has been claimed by him that tests are so easy to him that he falls asleep. But I didnt expect THIS

100% FUCKING PERCENT? EVEN SURPASSING SATAN? Fucking WOW. I've always thought that either Lucifer or Satan is the smartest but damn. Nevermind.

Then again, maybe this subject is particularly easy for him compared to other subjects but if you played the hard lessons (18-15 & 18-17), even though Belphie doesn't want to do stacks of homework and assignments given by Lucifer shortly after getting out of the attic, he is actually commited to doing it despite his sin.

He could've slept, could've burnt it and give some shit excuse, could've bribed someone else to do it, anything, yet he still does it, with MC's help cuz doing months of assignments while learning on the way through in such a short amount of time is just crazy. He's been locked up for MONTHS and Lucifer never gave him any kind of education from RAD (he should've tho. Least he could do so that Belphie can waste time) and yet he scored the highest among his brothers.

Sure, you can back it up with him being a demon with centuries of experience but this is an exchange program which most likely means that Diavolo changed the syllabus so that humans and angels can pass alongside demons.

He may be my least favourite brother (I actually pretty much dislike him) but I really admire these positive qualities about him cuz I know if I were him, I'd go insane and cry.

This actually turned out longer than I thought