Day 6: the strength of hearts conjoined 🍎♡🐍 @sephesisweek 2026

This one is based on an AU RP in which Sephiroth is a decorated military commander who has been forced into the unfamiliar position of diplomatic and sent to Banora to negotiate a trade deal for Midgar—where he and the heir to Banora's first house fall head over heels for one another almost instantly, politics be damned.

Day 5: turnabout / peripeteia 🍎♡🐍 @sephesisweek 2026

It's about time I get to draw my boys being a threat to time and space. Role reversal, Safer·Genesis and Weapon Sephiroth, united in their drive to wipe humanity off the face of Gaia. How did this happen? Irrelevant! Enjoy the absolutely unnecessary surplus supply of appendages.

Day 4: crossroad / the product of choices past 🍎♡🐍 @sephesisweek 2026

Thought about those old folk tales where travelers would meet the devil at crossroads, which led to the idea of Genesis trying out a demon-summoning ritual he found in an old book because he's a huge nerd so he would totally do that, and now we're here. Have fun, Seph! He's all yours! ♥

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Project G came first, failed, and Gast moved on to Project S—Genesis is older than Seph by at least a year. EC has stated that Angeal is also older than Seph, which is a retcon from the timeline established in CC, but gives us a timeframe nonetheless. Gast probably did some traveling back and forth between the two locations during the overlapping end of G and beginning of S, leaving the majority of breakdown and setup (respectively) to his research assistants on the two projects. This is what research assistants are for, to be fair, and the differing methods between the two wings of the project were conceptualized by those same assistants—Project G was Gillian's brainchild and Project S was Hojo's, with Hollander and Lucrecia serving as secondaries.

My theory on Genesis' parentage is that he was the result of more careful breeding than the other two, which was seen as maybe being part of the issue. We know he got genes from Gillian (not cells, the word used is analogous with "genes" even in Japanese), but she's not technically his mother; Hollander indicates that this extra degree of separation was assumed to be why he was born "normal" and thus dubbed a failure, while Angeal is Gillian's biological son and is the closest thing to a true duplicate of Jenova itself that anyone has ever seen.

Based on real-world scientific methods, Genesis was probably originally produced in a test tube and then transplanted into a host mother to gestate; my headcanon has always been that said host mother was the same person who gave birth to Weiss and Nero, given that Usher refers to her in Dirge PlayOnline as having been "a fantastic producer," which I don't think would really be appropriate to say of someone who successfully had a total of two science project babies. My Genesis' biological father is Veld of the Turks, although he never finds out and wasn't actually personally involved—samples were taken during a "routine physical examination" so Gast that could use him as breeding stock. (My headcanon also says this was the same thing he intended to do with Vincent, but things didn't end up going that way because What The Fuck Lucrecia.)

As for Project S, we don't actually know what the S stands for! However, going by the previous Jenova Project being Project Gillian, with Gillian serving as the lead assistant, we can assume this is the first initial of Hojo's given name.

Day 3: dance 'til your frayed strings break 🍎♡🐍 @sephesisweek 2026

This image was very clear in my head after I finalized prompts, and I'm thrilled to have it out there at last. This is slightly simpler than the original concept—no, I'm not kidding, this is the simplified version—but I'm super happy with it either way. Genesis as an android exotic dancer and Sephiroth as a club patron who is currently more turned on than he's been in his entire life.

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Day 2: a chance encounter 🍎♡🐍 @sephesisweek 2026

A callback to @takenbynumbers' fic from last year, silence beneath the deep sea. Seph and Gen's meet-cute!

Day 1: Hook 🍎♡🐍 @sephesisweek 2026

Happy new year, everyone! This time around I'm going full AU for the whole week—get ready for some really specific and needlessly complex settings!

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Friendly reminder that The Sephesis Coalition has open membership! It's very quiet, but this is a bit of a rarepair—at least in a monogamous context, AGS is much more popular but this is not an AGS community—so that's okay. It's a nicely-curated source of fic and fanart from around the tumbls and beyond.

throwback to that time I made a booba mousepad featuring Genesis that featured no booba at all because I thought it was funny

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Had a fun time with this; I wanted it to look like one of those big cardboard displays you'd see at a theater or some kind of popular media event, titles and credits and all. The fic (written by @takenbynumbers!) is heavy on K-drama vibes, which gave me a pretty clear mental image. (Most important to this image is Sephiroth's shirt fighting for its fucking life.)

WIP snip! Postcanon Genesis not putting up with someone's bullshit. He wasn't originally going to have the phone, but I doodled it in out of curiosity and it gave such a delicious level of catty bitch energy that I had to keep it.

Thinking about First SOLDIER and Crisis Core, specifically the similarities between Rosen and Genesis, and their connections to and impact on Sephiroth.

Rosen was the last Rhadoran, Genesis was the last Banoran; both of them lost their homelands to Shinra in missions Sephiroth intentionally botched.

Rosen made a request of Sephiroth, and died when he granted it; Genesis made a request of Sephiroth, and was ostensibly doomed to die by his refusal.

They both delivered a harsh truth in a brutally honest and cutting way; Sephiroth accepted Rosen's and rejected Genesis'.

Accepting Rosen's truth led Sephiroth to losing the only connection to his mother that he'd ever had, the locket; rejecting Genesis' led Sephiroth to the discovery of the "mother" he never actually had, Jenova.

Both of them had an orchard Sephiroth never got to see.

Sephiroth met Rosen on his first mission, and lost Genesis on his last.

Both of them looked at him and told him that he had to decide who got to live or die—and as far as Sephiroth ever knew, his actions in response killed them both.

Okay. So. This literally means that Project G took place in 1976. Which means that the Ultimanias are actually even more wrong than I thought? If we assume that the series itself is always the better source (which we should), this means that the claim of all three Jenova babies being born in 1980 is completely 100% refuted by canon, directly and undeniably.

This takes place in 1992. Angeal is sixteen. That means he was born in 1976, not 1980 or 1977. Which means that CC and Rebirth's retcons stating that the Jenova Project didn't even start until July of 1977, when Jenova was allegedly "confirmed to be a Cetra" are entirely incorrect.

I mean, we already knew that was incorrect, given the timelines established by the majority of the series, not to mention the fact that Jenova's headplate in AC literally says outright that she was discovered in 1959 and was interred in the Nibel Reactor in 1967. But if this is accurate, and Angeal is sixteen in 1992, that means Gast was literally lying intentionally in his notes in Nibelheim, which has been my headcanon since the CC date retcon. I kind of assumed the dates in the Shinra Manor library were his attempt to cover up the existence of the failure that was Project G—and this timeline could easily support that.

Also, again, this means the Jenova Project specimens were not born in 1980. None of them were. A four year difference when the elder person is sixteen years old is not "just a little older than you," it's a more than a quarter of both character's entire lives.

Shocked that I never realized this before, but did anyone else catch that Gillian named Angeal after herself? It's much more obvious with Japanese pronunciation.

Gillian → gilli-an → an-gilli → an-gil → Angeal

ジリアン → アンジリ → アンジーリ → アンジール

She named the project after herself, named Genesis after the project and therefore indirectly after herself, and then also named Angeal after herself.

I see now what Hollander meant, in the original Japanese, when he corrected Angeal in Modeoheim. Gillian acted out of pride every step of the way, didn't she?

Really lends credence to my "Gillian never actually left Project G" theory.