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Part 1 of Varieties of Time
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2024-06-18
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Varieties of Time

Summary:

This is a collection of Final Fantasy VII One-Shots I'm writing in my free time. They're all based on prompts and are usually violent or contain some amount of horror aspects, so if that isn't your cup of tea, don't read this.

That being said, if you have a prompt/character that you would like me to write, just leave me a comment with the specifics and I'll do my best!

I'm not sure when this is going to be updated or how often, but it should be fairly frequent. I have an absurd amount of free time for being a college student.

Notes:

(See the end of the work for other works inspired by this one.)

Chapter 1: Table of Contents

Summary:

This chapter is a table of contents that will be updated with each new chapter I post. It will include a title (which will probably suck don't @ me), the main character(s), and any trigger warnings I think apply. That being said, if I don't post a warning that you think is necessary, don't hesitate to let me know in the comments! I'm not the best with these, so I like to be told when I'm missing something.

With that all out of the way, I hope you enjoy my little short things!

Chapter Text

Chapter 1: Table of Contents.

Chapter 2: Clone. Focuses on Cloud. TW - Cloud having a fit, a small amount of blood.

Chapter 3: Inhumanity. Focuses on Sephiroth. TW - body horror, pseudo-cannibalism, non-sexy tentacles.

Chapter 4: Eyes. Focuses on Vincent and Chaos. TW - multiple eyes, mentions of Vincent's past trauma.

Chapter 5: Trauma. Focuses on Yuffie. TW - amputation, mind control/manipulation, Hojo.

Chapter 6: Flames. Focuses on Cloud. TW - nightmares, burning alive.

Chapter 7: Contorting. Focuses on Cloud and Sephiroth. TW - child death, disturbing imagery.

Chapter 8: Metal. Focuses on Tifa. TW - referenced main character death, lots of blood.

Chapter 9: Pins and Needles. Focuses on Cloud, Tifa, and Sephiroth. TW - pins, blood, mind control.

Chapter 10: Bandages. Focuses on Zack and Cloud. TW - skinning, some blood, open wounds.

Chapter 11: Bittersweet. Focuses on Cloud, Vincent, and Sephiroth. TW - human sacrifice, suicide, major character death.

Chapter 12: The End. Focuses on Cloud and AVALANCHE. TW - major character death, freezing to death.

Chapter 13: Plushy. Focuses on Reeve and Cait Sith. TW - none.

Chapter 14: Starving. Focuses on Cloud and Nanaki. TW - eaten alive, blood, disassociation, mentions of Cloud's past trauma, starvation.

Chapter 15: Incomprehensible. Focuses on Vincent and Chaos. TW - none.

Chapter 16: Faceless. Focuses on Cloud. TW - mild body horror, crack treated seriously.

Chapter 17: Beef. Focuses on Cloud. TW - mind manipulation, paranoia, implied cannibalism.

Chapter 18: Bites. Focuses on Cloud. TW - referenced rape, non-consensual somnophilia, implied drugging.

Chapter 19: Feral. Focuses on Nanaki. TW - rabies, implied character death.

Chapter 20: Omens. Focuses on Aerith. TW - referenced character death.

Chapter 21: Betrayal. Focuses on Cloud and Tifa. TW - slightly graphic violence, mind manipulation.

Chapter 22: Bonded. Focuses on Vincent. TW - referenced character death, referenced torture, torture, soul bond, Hojo.

Chapter 23: Fly Away. Focuses on Sephiroth. TW - emotional/mind manipulation, mild body horror.

Chapter 24: Mirror Image. Focuses on Cloud. TW - hallucinations, character study.

Chapter 25: Certain Death. Focuses on Cloud and Vincent. TW - major character deaths, unhealthy relationship, unhealthy mourning, suicidal ideation, referenced torture, chronic illness(?).

Chapter 26: Festering. Focuses on Genesis. TW - descriptions of injuries, mind control, chronic illness(?).

Chapter 27: Sugary Sweet. Focuses on Zack. TW - Alternate Universe, referenced torture, cannibalism, mind manipulation, self-hatred.

Chapter 28: Quilts. Focuses on Cloud. TW - crack treated seriously, referenced animal/monster death, made-up religion/culture.

Chapter 29: Beauty. Focuses on Sephiroth and Jenova. TW - mind manipulation, referenced violence.

Chapter 30: Date Night. Focuses on Aerith and Cloud. TW - referenced character death.

Chapter 31: Sauna. Focuses on Zack. TW - torture.

Chapter 32: Faith. Focuses on Genesis. TW - description of war crimes, referenced child neglect.

Chapter 33: Good Bye. Focuses on Aerith. TW - character death, referenced character death, referenced suicide attempts, self-hatred.

Chapter 34: Hands. Focuses on Cloud. TW - mind manipulation.

Chapter 35: Play Pretend. Focuses on Cloud. TW - major character death, mind control/manipulation.

Chapter 36: Emptiness. Focuses on Sephiroth. TW - end of the world.

Chapter 37: Full Lungs. Focuses on Aerith. TW - plant and animal weirdness, asphyxiation.

Chapter 38: Out of Love. Focuses on Tifa and Cloud. TW - possession, mind manipulation, referenced injury, suicide baiting.

Chapter 39: Fading. Focuses on Zack. TW - major character death, descriptions of dying.

Chapter 40: Loveless. Focuses on Barret and Genesis. TW - character death, mind manipulation, description of illness, chronic illness.

Chapter 41: Blame. Focuses on Sephiroth. TW - Hojo, manipulation, gaslighting, graphic description of injury, victim blaming, unhealthy reasoning.

Chapter 42: Mother Knows Best. Focuses on Cloud and Jenova. TW - mind manipulation/control, referenced experiments.

Chapter 43: Meat. Focuses on Cloud and Vincent. Continuation from Chapter 27. TW - kinda crack, unwilling/willing cannibalism, made-up religion/culture, sewing using human skin.

Chapter 44: Transformation. Focuses on Vincent. TW - Hojo, description of injury.

Chapter 45: Animatronic. Focuses on Reeve. TW - dehumanization.

Chapter 46: Hollow Heart. Focuses on Vincent. TW - human experimentation, imagined asphyxiation, character undeath, panic attack.

Chapter 47: Brain Games. Focuses on Cloud. TW - mind manipulation.

Chapter 48: Hospital Scene. Focuses on Sephiroth. TW - vivid description of injury, disassociation, suicidal ideation.

Chapter 49: Mutant. Focuses on Zack. TW - body horror, transformation.

Chapter 50: Beneath the Skin. Focuses on Cloud. TW - hallucinations, delusions, self-harm, graphic description of injury, insects.

Chapter 51: From Within. Focuses on Cloud. TW - hallucinations, delusions, claustrophobia, insects, mentions of Hojo, non-consensual drugging, self-harm, graphic description of injury.

Chapter 52: Holy Trinity. Focuses on Sephiroth. TW - mind manipulation.

Chapter 53: Gripping. Focuses on Cloud. TW - migraine, implied mind manipulation, description of injury.

Chapter 54: Spines. Focuses on Cloud. TW - head wound, removing foreign objects from a body, description of injury.

Chapter 55: Pariah. Focuses on Cloud. TW - bullying, child abuse.

Chapter 56: Gut Spill. Focuses on Tseng. TW - depression, rationalization of suicide, suicide, gut spill, description of injury.

Chapter 57: Vengeance Served. Focuses on Vincent, Rufus, and Sephiroth. TW - execution, description of injury, description of psychological manipulation, mentions of torture, Hojo.

Chapter 58: Long Dreams. Focuses on Sephiroth. TW - technically cannibalism, mind manipulation, Remake/Rebirth timeline adjacent.

Chapter 59: Changeling. Focuses on Sephiroth. TW - character death, possession, minor cannibalism, description of violence, Remake/Rebirth timeline adjacent.

Chapter 60: Vengeful Spirit. Focuses on Sephiroth. TW - murder, suicide, descriptions of death, hallucinations, delusions, suicide-baiting, self-hatred.

Chapter 61: Barbed Wire. Focuses on Yuffie. TW - war, description of death, character death, near-death experience.

Chapter 62: Footage. Focuses on Tseng and Cloud. TW - mind manipulation/control, Rebirth timeline.

Chapter 63: Burnt Canvas. Focuses on Cloud. TW - fire, character death, vivid description of a corpse, description of burns.

Chapter 64: Brain Fog. Focuses on Cloud. TW - implied schizophrenia, mental illness, identity issues.

Chapter 65: The Call. Focuses on Cloud. TW - mind manipulation/control.

Chapter 66: Sewer Rat. Focuses on Sephiroth. TW - medical torture, character death, murder, graphic description of injury, manipulation, Hojo.

Chapter 67: Memory Loss. Focuses on Vincent. TW - referenced suicide, character death, immortality, memory loss.

Chapter 68: Mirror's Edge. Focuses on Cloud. TW - memory/identity issues, character death.

Chapter 69: Cuts and Burns. Focuses on Cloud. TW - self-harm, burning, cutting, referenced character death.

Chapter 70: Falling behind. Focuses on Tifa. TW - self-harm.

Chapter 71: Skinned. Focuses on Vincent. TW - skinning, Hojo.

Chapter 72: Man or Monster? Focuses on Cloud. TW - transformation, identity issues.

Chapter 73: Orchestra of Agony. Focuses on Cloud. TW - time travel, end of the world.

Chapter 74: Tainted Memories. Focuses on Vincent. TW - referenced torture, memory loss.

Chapter 75: Bloody Wings. Focuses on Cloud. TW - minor body horror.

Chapter 76: You Knew? Focuses on Cloud. TW - memory loss, unreliable narrator.

Chapter 77: You. Focuses on Zack. TW - referenced torture.

Chapter 78: Phantom Weight. Focuses on Cloud. TW - mind-meld, referenced torture.

Chapter 79: Rose Garden. Focuses on Cloud. TW - hanahaki, unrequited love, major character death, plant gore.