A post about all the FFVII-related stuff I've been pickling my brain in for the past several months. There will be spoilers for Rebirth as a game, but not in terms of story. The Dress Up Game that is Ever Crisis We're a few months past the 1-year anniversary of Ever Crisis and it's been …
Category: Life Stuff
exist†trace — Unforgive You
Thanksgiving heralds the (un?) official start of the Christmas season. It's a bright time that can also be depressing depending on what's going on in your life. So, I thought it fitting to reblog this song. Maybe I'm also thinking of Jason David Frank, AKA Tommy from Power Rangers. He was my first childhood TV …
FFVII Cosplays Sailor Moon
Way back in June of last year I was having a conversation with some friends online about what characters from Sailor Moon the cast of Final Fantasy VII would cosplay. Eventually I got around to drawing some of those ideas. Some of these are really rough because not gonna lie, I didn't want to spend …
Whatever It Takes
July 5th through 12th was AeriSeph Week. I had an idea for a 4-panel comic but between working on a different piece and dealing with repeated basement flooding—essentially we've lost a whole floor of utility & storage space, and are going without a water heater until the foundation can be inspected & repaired—I couldn't participate …
Happy Halloween 2020
I've been using Photoshop in some form, mostly Elements, for about 15 years now. The majority of that has not been for actual photo editing. Still, I feel dumb for just now learning about dodging and burning. All this time, I've been thinking, "I wish there were a way to lighten just one specific part …
exist†trace – DECIDE
Long introduction. Jump to lyrics here. I've really been enjoying The Only Garden and was thinking of jumping to a few tracks from there, but it seems lyrics have not been officially released to online sites, and since I bought the EP from iTunes I don't have the liner notes. Assuming the physical copy came …
Same Character
Or, How It Started How It's Going, 24 Years of Drawing Sephiroth And I guess I'm counting 2020 as being over given my math up there. ^o^; I'd change it here too if I could edit my tweet about it. Things I realized putting this collage together: I apparently became a Sephiroth fan before playing …
exist†trace – I feel you
Edit, July 20, 2021: I've written an updated version of this post, which includes a translation of a miko blog I hadn't read when I initially posted this translation. The translation itself is almost entirely the same; the change I did make I had already written as a possible interpretation in the footnotes here. I'm …
Sephiroth Candidate Dresses 3/3
¡Spoiler Warning for the original Final Fantasy VII and Remake! To avoid writing spoilerific things right at the top, let me start with a slight tangent. When I was in elementary school, I asked my mother to buy me a three-book set of How to Draw books from the Scholastic catalog. While I don't remember …
Sephiroth’s Journey Through Fukuoka
One time for my 30th birthday my friends and I stepped out from dinner at the Fukuoka Hard Rock Café, which back then was across from Yahoo! Dome and next to Zepp Fukuoka and Hawks Town Mall, and saw a balloon artist with a sign that said he could make anything. A friend suggested I …
Warped Frost 