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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 āThis 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 ___________________________________

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. Butā¦Ā

A young man strives forwards with all he can, hoping one day he would be recognized as theĀ āHeroā only to realize thatā¦Ā

An ambiguous email from the leader of the department, talking with encrypted wordsā¦Ā

TheĀ āHeroā who has the privilege to veto ordersā¦Ā

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


What you see may just be the tip of the iceberg.Ā The question isā¦Ā Who is the one that should take the blame?Ā
1. Zack sees life through rose colored glassesĀ
Zackās POV in the beginning of the game gives you an important perspective to examine. Itās 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 Zackās 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 āHeroā 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 āheroic Sephirothā.

Then what about the other SOLDIERs in the department? How many of them are like that? Inspired by this one āheroicā 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 āYeah, we all know Shinra is evil, whatās the problem with them using Sephiroth as a bait to lure in young men to join SOLDIER?āĀ Well, congratulation, you hit the right spot. Thatās 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 Zackās POV, the sad news is, you are. Because, you didnāt 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 Shinraās 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 Zackās 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 Genesisās diary in Crisis Core and Tifaās memory in Trace of Two Past, we get the information about Sephiroth has been famous as theĀ āHeroā since he was very young.Ā
We donāt know the exact date in the diary that Genesis wrote that lineĀ āthe 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 āheroā, 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 āheroā of one battlefield, but you canāt say that he is theĀ āheroā of a whole war. Even in a possibly mythical war like the Trojan war, there canāt just be one hero.Ā
We know for sure that itās notĀ āSephiroth 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 āHeroā, 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 donāt they get recoginition for their work?Ā
And then we witness ourselves that Zack works on his own, with Angealās guidance, to subdue Fort Tamblin, Sephiroth did nothing there. Still, Sephiroth got the glory of winning Fort Tamblin, Zackās name was never once mentioned.Ā


And when Zack got frustratedā¦

⦠all Kunsel told him isĀ

The way Kunsel speaks this sentence shows that this situation has been repeated over and over, it has become a normal custom.Ā The companyās media decide who will beĀ āheroā, thatās just how it is.Ā
If we can see this with our own eyes, then what else flowing below the surface canāt we see?Ā If just like we see Zack being lured in joining SOLDIER by theĀ āheroic figureā of Sephiroth and then Zack himself realizing that he would never become theĀ āheroā because the companyĀ āchoosesā heroes, then, isnāt 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 āheroā?
IsnātĀ āHeroic figure Sephirothā just a imaginary title crafted by the propaganda of an evil company?Ā _________________________________Ā
Thatās 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
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. āThis 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.āĀ 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 donāt 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 couldnāt 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 itās 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 whatās 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 donāt have a proper definition for it, I will simply call itā¦Ā
Desyncing Information.Ā

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, thatās exactly the problem here.Ā
The first detail I want to point out is theĀ āfour yearsā information that was given to you through Aerithās 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, whatās the matter to it?Ā


While focusing on Zack, you didnāt realize that Genesisā degradation didnāt 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


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 19thĀ [ ν ] - εγλ 0006, then the time we see him fully greyed, is on SeptemberĀ [ ν ] - εγλ 0007, in Banora Underground.Ā Ā

Without theĀ āfour 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 Donāt you find it weird that those four years that Genesisās 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 Genesisā 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 Genesisā 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 doesnāt degrade more.Ā
So⦠thatās 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

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