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tifa lockhart, cloud strife, aerith gainsborough, yoko littner, nia teppelin, and 10 more (final fantasy and 3 more) drawn by liikuma

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    :TTGL: FF7 Crossover

    Its finally done and the result was worth the wait… for the most part.

    This picture has been the bane of my existence for the past 3 some odd weeks and has taken me about 40+ working hours to finish (about half of which were just spent tweaking details). It also took me such a long time because my hand/wrist problems have been acting up worse than usual lately which definitely affects my progress. Sorry you guys.

    Okay enough of my ranting and on to the picture.

    ROW ROW FIGHT DA POWA!!! Gawd, such an awesome series and I recommend it to anyone and everyone. It has a little bit of everything and the characters are wonderful.

    At some point during the series I was struck with how similar Viral was to Vincent from FF7 and everything snowballed from there. I started finding all of the similarities possible between each of the corresponding characters and came up with a much longer list than I originally expected, meaning that I HAD to draw something for it just like I did with the Naruto/KH crossover (I see a common theme, do you?).

    Viral/Vincent: immortal, experiment, ragged unkempt hair, ostracized sometimes, neutral, deformed claw-like hand, part monster/animal, both names start with V?
    Simon/AC!Cloud: unlikely hero, emo moments, red band on forearm as a reminder, supernatural power and energy source (Spiral vs Mako), black leather outfit and cool goggles
    Kamina/Zack: dead best friend of the main character, brother figure, role model, enthusiastic, encouraging, strong, heroic
    Nia/Aerith: hero romantic interest, cute, girly, idealistic, sacrifices herself for the defeat of the enemy, strong "damsel in distress" type character
    Yoko/Tifa: skilled fighter, bright, rebel, realistic, tough girl
    Kittan/Cid: gruff/uncouth, temporarily leader, good pilot
    Rossiu/Tseng: stern, formal, calm, leader figure (I know he doesn't fit because he isn't part of AVALANCHE but the character fits him perfectly)
    Boota/Cait Sith: talking animal, side kick that ends up becoming important later, comic relief?

    If you see anything else I missed or I misstated something please tell me immediately so I can fix it. And yes, I mixed the original game and Advent Children together, but that was the best way for me (and I like Clouds AC outfit better anyway). It saddens me that you cant see all of the detail I put into this since it took me so long. I blended a purplish shade into all of the colors... by hand. It's a really good subtle technique but unfortunately unless you are looking for it you cant even tell. TT_TT

    On to the questioning: Do you think the colors are too bright or distracting? Do the proportions look okay? (Rossiu and Yoko gave me absolute hell with their posses) Is the background distracting? Here is a version with a plain white background: [link] which do you perfer?

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    redcrowe9
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    Jmoney said:
    also tifa loving cloud/cloud loving aerith makes it fit aswell

    no it doesn't
    cloud never really loved aries.
    If you actulally played the game you'd know that the life he was living after he killed sepiroth was a mix between Zacks pesonality and Tifas memoreys of Cloud when they were young. so the reason Aerith liked Cloud so much was because he acted like Zack (which she even points out, when shes says earlyer in the game "you remind me of someone....")
    other then that the charcters choices do make sense if your talking porportionaly, (but Tifas massive breasts were actulaly a programing error, she was ment to be smaller the just never fixed it.)

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    sgcdonmai
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    redcrowe9 said:
    (but Tifas massive breasts were actulaly a programing error, she was ment to be smaller the just never fixed it.)

    I don't buy that, given that in Cloud's flashback way back in the first disc, he talked about finding a stretched-out bra in Tifa's dresser.
    Bloomed early and grew to last, Miss Lockhart did.

    The rest of your post I agree with.

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    Almy
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    redcrowe9 said:
    no it doesn't
    cloud never really loved aries.
    If you actulally played the game you'd know that the life he was living after he killed sepiroth was a mix between Zacks pesonality and Tifas memoreys of Cloud when they were young. so the reason Aerith liked Cloud so much was because he acted like Zack (which she even points out, when shes says earlyer in the game "you remind me of someone....")
    other then that the charcters choices do make sense if your talking porportionaly, (but Tifas massive breasts were actulaly a programing error, she was ment to be smaller the just never fixed it.)

    Except... they still fell in love, even with their effed up personalities? Love is not limited to circumstance. At any rate, you guys fighting over the Nia / Yoko thing forget that their personalities match the characters they're playing as >.> "Sweet, gentle girl", "Sexy tomboy"

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