Final Fantasy VII Rebirth: Remembering Love and Horror, A Midsummer's Night Dream

What would it mean if a hero could remember what it did in another world? The hero could learn from experiences in another possibility, and make good on what little time is available before even the most brutal of tragic fates? Lovers who have but one night or even one moment, with the knowledge of their impending terminal parting; could embrace the breaths available to them, heartbeats twining amidst eternity. Much as Tidas and Yuna did, bearing within them the knowingness that their time together was doomed.
Yet, Jenova is on all of these memories, dreams, worlds too. And between them. Ever Crisis is revealing horror on a cosmic level hitherto unseen; when the memories of pre-Nibelheim Sephiroth, which are whole worlds with a living, breathing First Soldier, are being targeted in the post-Reunion universe.

Is it all one? Ever Crisis, Remake and Rebirth and Reunion, the original FFVII continuity. Do these worlds, memories, possibilities, exist simultaneously or in some manner of linear order? Or is it possible, that both are true? Quantum weirdness where the conscious observer is inseparable from the observed, “Spooky action at a distance”, the Buddhist Yogachara and Jung’s collected unconscious, all leap to the fore.

This is the first year anniversary celebration video. In it we see the two gods, Sephiroth and Cloud, in ways that have never, ever been seen.

There is an immaculately heart melting reason this event capped the first year.
Love changes everything.

Enjoy!


Relative Timeline of Events:

0:00 Ever Crisis, the Journey of Stories
0:53 It's as if Ever Crisis is aware of Remake
2:37 One Stamp, linking everything together. Everything.
3:45 Why does all of Ever Crisis begin in Nibelheim?
5:08 Static and what Zack surviving means
6:32 The First Soldier's prophetic end
7:31 When the terror begins
8:12 Lifestream black, and the fate of Ore Sephiroth
10:23 Linear and Non-Linear time converging
11:43 Lovecraftian horror, and Cosmic hope
14:06 Cloud goes on all the Skywheel Dates
15:07 Superposition and learning from other worlds
16:23 The Raw Untamed Beauty of merging timelines
17:27 A Midsummer's Night Dream, the Finale of the first year


Music in order of appearance:

FFVII Opening Theme, Nobuo Uematsu (1)
You Can Hear the Cry of the Planet, Nobuo Uematsu (1)
Temple of the Ancients Theme, Nobuo Uematsu (1)
(Rebirth Version) Masashi Hamauzu, Mitsuto Suzuki
Jenova Theme, Nobuo Uematsu (1)
(Remake Version) Masashi Hamauzu, Mitsuto Suzuki
One Winged Angel, Nobuo Uematsu (1)
You Can hear the Cry of the Planet, Nobuo Uematsu (1)
(Orchestral Version) Osirois Music (2)
Under the Apple Tree, Takeharu Ishimoto(1)
(Rebirth Version) Masashi Hamauzu, Mitsuto Suzuki
Night in the Undercity, Nobuo Uematsu (1)
(Remake Version) Masashi Hamauzu, Mitsuto Suzuki
Midnight Rendezvous, Nobuo Uematsu (1)
(Remake Version) Masashi Hamauzu, Mitsuto Suzuki
Midnight Rendezvous, Nobuo Uematsu (1)
(80's Version) Enrico Pastore (3)


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3.    • Ｆｉｎａｌ　Ｆａｎｔａｓｙ　ＶＩＩ　Ｒｅｍａｋｅ　－　Ｍｉｄｎｉｇｈｔ　Ｒ...  
(Enrico Pastore Channel)    / @wakeinjunenrico  


Youtube footage:

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Buffmaister,    / @buffmaister  
GamersPrey,    / @gamersprey  
Dream Phoenix,    / @dreamphoenix  
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ChrisMike Gamer,    / @chrismikegamer   (Japanese footage)
Unbroken Odds,    / @unbrokenodds  



"Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind,
And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind."
(A Midsummer's Night Dream, Act 1 Scene 1)

- William Shakespeare