Final Fantasy VII Rebirth: Swimming in Mako is Safe, for who?

For however many hours, Tifa was submerged in mako, yet she never exhibits the same breadth of poisoning symptoms seen throughout the beloved journeys on Gaia. This question to be explored in depth, from the dangers of familiarity, exposure risk levels, to the precedent set in FFVII.

Work continues on the next ending deep dive! The name of which is revealed in this QnA session.

Enjoy!


Relative Relative Timeline of Events:

0:00 The Last Walk of Twenty Seven years
0:20 The Question to be Answered
1:18 Play Begins, Defining What We’re Looking At
2:58 Familiarity, Mako and Water
5:02 The Differing Risk of Exposure Levels
6:57 What About Cloud’s Four Years in Mako?
9:24 How does One Merge with the Lifestream?


Music in order of appearance:

Flowers Blooming in Church, Nobuo Uematsu (1)
(Remake Version) Masashi Hamauzu, Mitsuto Suzuki
Under the Rotting Pizza, Nobuo Uematsu (1)
(Remake Version) Masashi Hamauzu, Mitsuto Suzuki
Shinra’s Theme, Nobuo Uematsu (1)
(Remake Version) Masashi Hamauzu, Mitsuto Suzuki
Red XIII Theme, Nobuo Uematsu (1)
Jenova Theme, Nobuo Uematsu (1)
(Remake Version) Masashi Hamauzu, Mitsuto Suzuki
Black Water (Kadaj’s Theme), Nobuo Uematsu (1)


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Youtube footage:

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GamersPrey,    / @gamersprey  
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ChrisMike Gamer,    / @chrismikegamer   (Japanese footage)

“Poets say science takes away from the beauty of the stars - mere globs of gas atoms. I too can see the stars on a desert night, and feel them. But do I see less or more? The vastness of the heavens stretches my imagination - stuck on this carousel my little eye can catch one - million - year - old light. A vast pattern - of which I am a part... What is the pattern, or the meaning, or the why? It does not do harm to the mystery to know a little about it.”

- Richard Feynman