Moogle Fluff!: Pale Horses (FFVII:OGC, PG-13) for Moogle 10

[venefica_aura]

Title: Pale Horses
For: Moogle 10
Medium: Fic
Request(s): FF7, original game or Advent Children only since I'm unfamiliar with the other incarnations. Focus on Tifa in the days between Nibelheim/her father's death and joining AVALANCHE. What I'd love to see is her earliest times in Midgar, the challenges she might have faced alone. I'd like to see

Comments

[astrangerenters]

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Moogle here!! Thank you SO MUCH for filling this! This is exactly the type of thing I wanted. I've always wanted this kind of story too, which is why I made it a prompt :)

I really don't know how Tifa could still be so sweet and kind despite living in Midgar (Aeris too, for that matter). Her loneliness and desperation is so obvious here, and Midgar is just as nasty as I prompted for. Thank you so much for filling this.

[venefica_aura]

Well, I figured she got nicer because of her AVALANCHE buddies were probably sweet to her (I mean, Barret may have yelled a lot at Cloud, but he was probably real nice to Tifa). And she seems like the type that's a little used to loneliness (popularity in her hometown didn't mean that she WANTED it, and considering the effect that the resident outcast had on her by just pulling her aside one night to talk to her, I figure she was lonely in a different way). Just Midgar made her level in badass and be able to justify bombing shit. Aeris also struck me as someone that was used to loneliness, but just played it off differently

[lassarina]

I really like the way that Tifa's ingrained habits break down, the "good girl" that she was (and still is, by the time the game comes back around) falling apart under the pressure of the horrors in Midgar. Thumbs up, Cendri. :D

[venefica_aura]

FFVII IS FULL OF TRAUMA. XD

I think half the reason I still love this silly game is no one except like, Marlene, are completely innocent.

[astralavator]

This so so good! I like how you haven't lost your Tifa even if you don't write her as frequently as you used to.

I think I loved all of this from the song qoute to the ending. How you tied in the 'ingame' lies was a nice touch.

[venefica_aura]

You never quite lose the voices of your favorites. Plus this story has been in the back of my head like forever.

[tijuana_pirate]

I love you! I actually considered stealing this prompt because it's so awesome. Still, if I'd want anyone to write this story, it'd be you!

I love how you absolute got the grittiness of Midgar without being silly and over-the-top. You described the people really beautifully in this. In fact, I liked how little description of the physical locality there was but how you got the proper -feeling- of Midgar with your descriptions of the people.

I adore that you ended on Jessie - really really. I sort of want to write some Jessie/Tifa femme-slash now but that's just me. She was just so perfect. Tifa losing a bit of herself and then finding it again makes more sense to me than anything else. We tend to forget that AVALANCHE blew up buildings at the beginning of FFVII. Can you ask for a more morally ambiguous introduction to a group of so-called heroes

[venefica_aura]

Yes, you write that femmeslash. Please.

In some ways, I've been in Midgar a long time. XD

[mercuriosity]

Oh man, this is grimy, and I feel bad for Tifa, but I LOVE IT. I'd never really considered the implications of Tifa going through all that trauma in Niebelheim and then waking up, injured and alone, in a place like Midgar, but I am totally believing this version.