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4 years ago

Of Zack Fair, Genesis Rhapsodos and the strange narrative POV of FFVII-Crisis Core (Part IVa)

Part I: https://buffaloborgine.tumblr.com/post/650462647672766464/of-zack-fair-genesis-rhapsodos-and-the-strangeĀ 

Part IV preface:Ā https://buffaloborgine.tumblr.com/post/656609254197936128/of-zack-fair-genesis-rhapsodos-and-the-strangeĀ  ___________________________________Ā 

Warning: As always, I copy paste this warning over and over just in case you ignore it and keep reading down.Ā  ā€œThis series is very controversial, it may not fit with what you know or remember about Crisis Core. So please, read the former parts (I did put the link to Part I in case you are new reader) before putting your foot further down below.ā€ P/s: I welcome all kind of discussion. I love discussion. But this subject is an OBJECTIVE subject, please make sure to keep your bias and prejudice out of discussion. Thank you.Ā  ___________________________________

Of Zack Fair, Genesis Rhapsodos And The Strange Narrative POV Of FFVII-Crisis Core (Part IVa)

A 1st class SOLDIER deserted, taking a handful of 2nd and 3rd class SOLDIERs with him, the mass desertion was so devastating that it crippled the SOLDIER department. But… 

Of Zack Fair, Genesis Rhapsodos And The Strange Narrative POV Of FFVII-Crisis Core (Part IVa)

A young man strives forwards with all he can, hoping one day he would be recognized as theĀ ā€œHeroā€ only to realize that… 

Of Zack Fair, Genesis Rhapsodos And The Strange Narrative POV Of FFVII-Crisis Core (Part IVa)

An ambiguous email from the leader of the department, talking with encrypted words… 

Of Zack Fair, Genesis Rhapsodos And The Strange Narrative POV Of FFVII-Crisis Core (Part IVa)

TheĀ ā€œHeroā€ who has the privilege to veto orders… 

Of Zack Fair, Genesis Rhapsodos And The Strange Narrative POV Of FFVII-Crisis Core (Part IVa)

When everything falls apart, just comfortably throws the blame on someone you has prejudices about, no matter if that is right or wrong.Ā 

Of Zack Fair, Genesis Rhapsodos And The Strange Narrative POV Of FFVII-Crisis Core (Part IVa)
Of Zack Fair, Genesis Rhapsodos And The Strange Narrative POV Of FFVII-Crisis Core (Part IVa)

What you see may just be the tip of the iceberg.Ā  The question is…  Who is the one that should take the blame?Ā 

1. Zack sees life through rose colored glassesĀ 

Zack’s POV in the beginning of the game gives you an important perspective to examine. It’s his naivete.Ā  Shinra is good.Ā  Sephiroth is his hero.Ā  Angeal is his honorable mentor, who can do no wrong.Ā  Genesis is… an asshole deserter who took a bunch of 2nds and 3rds with him, crippling the department, in other word, Genesis is a traitor in Zack’s eyes.Ā  At the start, to Zack, the world is just white and black, the good and the bad. He has no concept of the in between, the grey zone.Ā 

When Zack first started to join SOLDIER, his goal is to become the ā€œHeroā€ as he was inspired by the heroic figure, Sephiroth. At the end of Crisis Core, before you fought Genesis in Banora Underground, you also realized that Genesis used to be like Zack, inspired by the ā€œheroic Sephirothā€.

Of Zack Fair, Genesis Rhapsodos And The Strange Narrative POV Of FFVII-Crisis Core (Part IVa)

Then what about the other SOLDIERs in the department? How many of them are like that? Inspired by this one ā€œheroicā€ Sephiroth to join in SOLDIER?

Do you start to feel like this is is similar to fishing with a bait?Ā 

And I know you guys reading up to this point may think thatĀ ā€œYeah, we all know Shinra is evil, what’s the problem with them using Sephiroth as a bait to lure in young men to join SOLDIER?ā€Ā  Well, congratulation, you hit the right spot. That’s exactly what I want to speak about.Ā  Why do you feel comfortable with that information?Ā 

While you think you are not under the effect of Zack’s POV, the sad news is, you are. Because, you didn’t realize that you too, are being comfortable with just knowing about it but doing nothing.Ā  You see Zack at the protagonist of the story, he is on the right side, which in this case, is on Shinra’s side. So then anything that opposes Zack, or opposes Shinra, must be wrong, no?Ā  No matter how you deny it, saying that you know Shinra is evil, when you start playing Crisis Core, you subconsciously adapt to Zack’s POV, thus, you start brushing off minor, complex and ambiguous details that could rival your belief.

This leads to the next problem that we have to discuss.Ā 

2. Unfairness and Inequality in SOLDIER

So according to Genesis’s diary in Crisis Core and Tifa’s memory in Trace of Two Past, we get the information about Sephiroth has been famous as theĀ ā€œHeroā€ since he was very young.Ā 

We don’t know the exact date in the diary that Genesis wrote that lineĀ ā€œthe hero Sephirothā€ but we know for sure that he and Angeal joined SOLDIER from when they are still in their teenage years, because Crisis Core began inĀ [ μ ] - εγλ 0000, at that point, Genesis, Angeal and Sephiroth are just 20 years old. So they have to be working in SOLDIER for years before that, for Angeal and Genesis to reach 1st class rank. Therefore we can assume that Genesis and Angeal must have joined SOLDIER in their teenage years.Ā Ā 

The Trace of Two Pasts novel gives us the info that when Tifa was 6 or 7 years old, her mother compared Cloud to Sephiroth, saying that Cloud could be even more beautiful than Sephiroth. Tifa is born inĀ  [ μ ] - εγλ 1987 and Sephiroth is born inĀ  [ μ ] - εγλ 1980, according to the FFVII Timeline on the wikia (if you found any source stating differently from this, please let me know), so we can tell that Sephiroth was just 13-14 years old when he was already hailed as theĀ ā€œheroā€, for he was well-known amongst people not in Midgar.Ā 

Even if Sephiroth is truly strong that he can solo defeat many Wutai soldiers at once, but since war is never a solo effort, if Sephiroth fought in one battlefield, there has to be other SOLDIER group fighting on different battlefields during Wutai War, right?Ā 

Then, where are they?Ā  You can say that Sephiroth is aĀ ā€œheroā€ of one battlefield, but you can’t say that he is theĀ ā€œheroā€ of a whole war. Even in a possibly mythical war like the Trojan war, there can’t just be one hero.Ā 

We know for sure that it’s notĀ ā€œSephiroth soloing the whole Wutaian armyā€ because in Dirge of Cerberus online section, we know that Shinra has like 13 SOLDIER Units working during the Wutai war, with the exception of 14th SOLDIER Unit, the Lost Force.Ā Ā  So… if Sephiroth can really solo the whole battle out on his own, according to Shinra hailing him as he onlyĀ ā€œHeroā€, then why do Shinra have to enlist more SOLDIER participants, 13 Units is not a small number of people.Ā  And if they all work together in Wutai War, where are they? Why don’t they get recoginition for their work?Ā 

And then we witness ourselves that Zack works on his own, with Angeal’s guidance, to subdue Fort Tamblin, Sephiroth did nothing there. Still, Sephiroth got the glory of winning Fort Tamblin, Zack’s name was never once mentioned.Ā 

Of Zack Fair, Genesis Rhapsodos And The Strange Narrative POV Of FFVII-Crisis Core (Part IVa)
Of Zack Fair, Genesis Rhapsodos And The Strange Narrative POV Of FFVII-Crisis Core (Part IVa)

And when Zack got frustrated…

Of Zack Fair, Genesis Rhapsodos And The Strange Narrative POV Of FFVII-Crisis Core (Part IVa)

… all Kunsel told him isĀ 

Of Zack Fair, Genesis Rhapsodos And The Strange Narrative POV Of FFVII-Crisis Core (Part IVa)

The way Kunsel speaks this sentence shows that this situation has been repeated over and over, it has become a normal custom.Ā  The company’s media decide who will beĀ ā€œheroā€, that’s just how it is.Ā 

If we can see this with our own eyes, then what else flowing below the surface can’t we see?Ā  If just like we see Zack being lured in joining SOLDIER by theĀ ā€œheroic figureā€ of Sephiroth and then Zack himself realizing that he would never become theĀ ā€œheroā€ because the companyĀ ā€œchoosesā€ heroes, then, isn’t it the same case for all the other SOLDIERs in the department, those that stayed/accepted (like Angeal) and those that deserted/refused (like Genesis) alike, and the only exception is Sephiroth, because he is the chosenĀ ā€œheroā€?

Isn’tĀ ā€œHeroic figure Sephirothā€ just a imaginary title crafted by the propaganda of an evil company?Ā  _________________________________Ā 

That’s the end for part IVa, thanks for coming to my Ted-Talk.Ā  We will continue this problem in the next part.Ā 

Part IVb:Ā 

4 years ago

Of Zack Fair, Genesis Rhapsodos and the strange narrative POV of FFVII-Crisis Core (Part Va)

Part I: https://buffaloborgine.tumblr.com/post/650462647672766464/of-zack-fair-genesis-rhapsodos-and-the-strangeĀ 

Part IV conclusion:Ā https://buffaloborgine.tumblr.com/post/658109128619802624/of-zack-fair-genesis-rhapsodos-and-the-strangeĀ 

______________________________________

Warning: As always, I copy paste this warning over and over just in case you ignore it and keep reading down. ā€œThis series is very controversial, it may not fit with what you know or remember about Crisis Core. So please, read the former parts (I did put the link to Part I in case you are new reader) before putting your foot further down below.ā€Ā  P/s: I welcome all kind of discussion. I love discussion. But this subject is an OBJECTIVE subject, please make sure to keep your bias and prejudice out of discussion, also, I don’t welcome character dissing or using fallacies in arguments, thank you.Ā  ______________________________________

Do you sometimes find that when you are focusing on a scene in a movie, suddenly the screen goes black, and then you couldn’t remember all the details that appear on the screen just several seconds before it?Ā 

Or when you focus your sight too much on an object in front of you, you cannot see clearly what is going around the two sides of your face? Or when you focus too much on an event happening, you lose your attention on the other events happening in the background?

These are normal phenomena happen with your brain when you force it to focus on something, either it’s your temporal memory or your peripheral senses, they all cause you to lose grasp on the events or details happening in the background of a scenario.Ā 

And believe it or not, the writers/directors of FFVII, especially Crisis Core, know that you love Zack so much, that you will simply focus on him, without paying attention to what’s going on in the background. I did say this in the other parts, but I have to repeat it here, in case you forget about it.

So, in this part, we will talk about another problem in the narrative of Crisis Core. Since I don’t have a proper definition for it, I will simply call it… 

Desyncing Information.Ā 

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Do you feel like there are some certain information that you should have seen/read at a certain scene in the game, but instead, you get it a lot sooner, or a lot later than it should be given to you?Ā  Well, that’s exactly the problem here.Ā 

The first detail I want to point out is theĀ ā€œfour yearsā€ information that was given to you through Aerith’s letter at the end of Crisis Core. It gave you the knowledge that Zack and Cloud has been stuck in the underground laboratory for approximately four years since the event of Nibelheim.Ā 

So, what’s the matter to it?Ā 

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While focusing on Zack, you didn’t realize that Genesis’ degradation didn’t even change at all through out all four years, you can see clearly that in Nibelheim, Genesis was greyed from his head to his chest, and during the scene on the bridge, it stayed the same.Ā  According to the 10th Anniversary Ultimania, the time that the incident in the training room was midsummer [ μ ] - εγλ 0000. We see Genesis started to get greyed by the degradation was on April 2nd, [ ν ] - εγλ 0001, during the event of Modeioheim, less than one year since he got the injury.Ā 

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And after that, we see him changed from half greyed to fully greyed, if we count from the time Zack met him after breaking out of the laboratory, December 19th  [ ν ] - εγλ 0006, then the time we see him fully greyed, is on September  [ ν ] - εγλ 0007, in Banora Underground.  

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Without theĀ ā€œfour yearsā€ information, you would normally think that his degradation is not weird, because you assume that it only took Zack less than one year to break out of the laboratory. But now you realize that huge time gap of 4 years, and Genesis just stayed the same.Ā  Don’t you find it weird that those four years that Genesis’s degradation stayed the same is also the four years that Zack is stuck in the laboratory?Ā  Could there be any relation between Zack and Genesis’ degradation?Ā  Welp, at first, we literally see nothing relating between them, but if you consider one factor, that Zack is the only one chasing and killing Genesis’ copies, then there may be something.Ā  Remember that to create those copies, Genesis literally cuts off his cells and give them to his followers. My theory is that, if the connection between Genesis and his copies are kind of similar to the connection between Angeal and the A-copies, then Genesis would have a part of him inside each of the G-copies. Therefore, it works like the hocruxes in Harry Potter, each copy carries one part of Genesis, so when they die, Genesis get weakened. And without anyone going around killing the copies during those 4 years, Genesis doesn’t degrade more.Ā 

So… that’s it, for the first section of part V.Ā  I will see you in the next section.Ā 

(do you remember what Genesis was holding in his hand during the first time Zack encountered him in Banora?)Ā  _____________________________________ Part Vb:Ā 

4 years ago
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