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Aeris/Aerith vs Sephiroth from Final Fantasy VII.

Looking back, I did an unusual amount of Final Fantasy VII pictures this year. There was Barret, then Seto, then (if you count it) Creepy Woody/Don Corneo, and now this. I also had ideas for one with Vincent and one with Cloud, but I didn't get to them. There was no special reason for all of these; I just happened to have the ideas this year. It's kinda neat that it happened to coincide with the 20th anniversary of the game though.

This seems to be another in my unintended series of females fighting main/big villains.
Others were Chi-Chi vs Vegeta, Chi-Chi vs Mecha Freeza, Bulma vs Freeza, Amy vs Metal Sonic, Peach vs Bowser, and Jill vs Tyrant. The last one is actually canon though, so it's not really the same.

I had these pose ideas for months before actually drawing this. It came out while I was trying to do a completely different picture, with the only connection being one character had a staff. I ended up using different poses for that picture and having these poses here lying around unused. I never intended to draw Aeris or Sephiroth, but I liked the poses to want to use them and I needed someone with a staff (though I guess I could've used any sort of vertical weapon or even a bare fist). So here we go.

Sephiroth's pose didn't turn out as well as the initial rough idea though. It looked more dynamic before, and some of it got lost when I was drawing it as a proper body. I also changed it a bit because the original, while it looked cool, didn't make as much sense as an attacking pose as I wanted it to. I try to make my poses make sense and have actual logic, rather than just looking cool. The perspective also messed me up.

Aeris' pose caused some trouble too. I was bent on making it dynamic and I was satisfied with it. But in focusing on making it dynamic, I overlooked that the posing of her legs may not even make sense. Like the amount of foreshortening suggested a distance between them that wouldn't be possible with the posing of them. Of course, I didn't notice this until after I scanned the lines, and I had to try and fix it on the computer. I could only do so much by that point though, so it still may be stretching it a bit much.

I usually have no special meaning behind battle damage "design", but there's an exception with Sephiroth here. I don't remember what got me thinking this, but I'm under the impression that people consider Sephiroth like a samurai or that he was designed to be like one. Apparently he was inspired by a samurai..?

I notice that some fictional samurai are shown with only one sleeve. I tried to look it up to see if there's a meaning behind it or if it's just a design choice. It was really hard to look it up though since most of the results I got were tattoos (samurai one sleeve).

Even if I did find something, there's so much bad information online that it's hard to know for sure. Some say it's a ronin thing of a samurai losing his master or his master's favour. Some say it's only a fictional design thing to make a character clearly identifiable as a samurai. Some say it's to allow more free movement with the sword arm (I can attest to this the most because I always roll up my dress shirt sleeves in case I have to punch someone and don't want the sleeve to hold me back ).

If it's a ronin thing or a movement thing, great that I got to suggest more samurai visual elements. If it's a fictional thing, I had to give him battle damage anyway, so it at least doesn't make the look pointless.

With the rest of the shredded cloth on him, it's supposed to suggest those wings on the lower body of Safer Sephiroth (which I thought was an odd name and only now wonder if it's another bad translation).

I'm really not sure if I'm satisfied with this or not. The characters were drawn on two separate pages and pieced together. I couldn't see until then just how problematic the layout would be. It left a lot of empty space and I'm bad with filling in empty space because I don't know how to do backgrounds.

This was supposed to take place in the location at the end of disc one (I'm being vague in case anyone here hasn't played it). I couldn't do the setting though, so there was a bunch of nothing around the characters. I tried to fill it with colours and stuff, desperately trying to make it a little more interesting to look at. At some points, it was starting to look like they were underwater, which was...uh...kinda...dark.

They aren't supposed to be underwater though, or at least not in the water like touching it. The light is supposed to be like the beaming light things in the part at the end of disc one. I don't even know how to do that though, so it doesn't resemble it that much.

Special thanks to for mentioning floriography to me. I like to try giving my titles significance. I try to have things like hidden meanings, wordplay, etc. With Aeris being the flower girl, using floriography is perfect.

An alternate title was "This Guy are Dead".

Description
Aeris/Aerith vs Sephiroth from Final Fantasy VII.

Looking back, I did an unusual amount of Final Fantasy VII pictures this year. There was Barret, then Seto, then (if you count it) Creepy Woody/Don Corneo, and now this. I also had ideas for one with Vincent and one with Cloud, but I didn't get to them. There was no special reason for all of these; I just happened to have the ideas this year. It's kinda neat that it happened to coincide with the 20th anniversary of the game though.

This seems to be another in my unintended series of females fighting main/big villains.
Others were Chi-Chi vs Vegeta, Chi-Chi vs Mecha Freeza, Bulma vs Freeza, Amy vs Metal Sonic, Peach vs Bowser, and Jill vs Tyrant. The last one is actually canon though, so it's not really the same.

I had these pose ideas for months before actually drawing this. It came out while I was trying to do a completely different picture, with the only connection being one character had a staff. I ended up using different poses for that picture and having these poses here lying around unused. I never intended to draw Aeris or Sephiroth, but I liked the poses to want to use them and I needed someone with a staff (though I guess I could've used any sort of vertical weapon or even a bare fist). So here we go.

Sephiroth's pose didn't turn out as well as the initial rough idea though. It looked more dynamic before, and some of it got lost when I was drawing it as a proper body. I also changed it a bit because the original, while it looked cool, didn't make as much sense as an attacking pose as I wanted it to. I try to make my poses make sense and have actual logic, rather than just looking cool. The perspective also messed me up.

Aeris' pose caused some trouble too. I was bent on making it dynamic and I was satisfied with it. But in focusing on making it dynamic, I overlooked that the posing of her legs may not even make sense. Like the amount of foreshortening suggested a distance between them that wouldn't be possible with the posing of them. Of course, I didn't notice this until after I scanned the lines, and I had to try and fix it on the computer. I could only do so much by that point though, so it still may be stretching it a bit much.

I usually have no special meaning behind battle damage "design", but there's an exception with Sephiroth here. I don't remember what got me thinking this, but I'm under the impression that people consider Sephiroth like a samurai or that he was designed to be like one. Apparently he was inspired by a samurai..?

I notice that some fictional samurai are shown with only one sleeve. I tried to look it up to see if there's a meaning behind it or if it's just a design choice. It was really hard to look it up though since most of the results I got were tattoos (samurai one sleeve).

Even if I did find something, there's so much bad information online that it's hard to know for sure. Some say it's a ronin thing of a samurai losing his master or his master's favour. Some say it's only a fictional design thing to make a character clearly identifiable as a samurai. Some say it's to allow more free movement with the sword arm (I can attest to this the most because I always roll up my dress shirt sleeves in case I have to punch someone and don't want the sleeve to hold me back ).

If it's a ronin thing or a movement thing, great that I got to suggest more samurai visual elements. If it's a fictional thing, I had to give him battle damage anyway, so it at least doesn't make the look pointless.

With the rest of the shredded cloth on him, it's supposed to suggest those wings on the lower body of Safer Sephiroth (which I thought was an odd name and only now wonder if it's another bad translation).

I'm really not sure if I'm satisfied with this or not. The characters were drawn on two separate pages and pieced together. I couldn't see until then just how problematic the layout would be. It left a lot of empty space and I'm bad with filling in empty space because I don't know how to do backgrounds.

This was supposed to take place in the location at the end of disc one (I'm being vague in case anyone here hasn't played it). I couldn't do the setting though, so there was a bunch of nothing around the characters. I tried to fill it with colours and stuff, desperately trying to make it a little more interesting to look at. At some points, it was starting to look like they were underwater, which was...uh...kinda...dark.

They aren't supposed to be underwater though, or at least not in the water like touching it. The light is supposed to be like the beaming light things in the part at the end of disc one. I don't even know how to do that though, so it doesn't resemble it that much.

Special thanks to for mentioning floriography to me. I like to try giving my titles significance. I try to have things like hidden meanings, wordplay, etc. With Aeris being the flower girl, using floriography is perfect.

An alternate title was "This Guy are Dead".