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1. We Begin Again by AdministrativeCatBoy

   Fandoms: Compilation of Final Fantasy VII, Final Fantasy VII Remake and Rebirth (Video Games 2020-2024), Final Fantasy VII Ever Crisis (Video Game 2023), Final Fantasy VII (Video Game 1997), Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children  

   • Mature
   • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
   • M/M
   • Complete Work

   22 Apr 2025

   Tags

   • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
   • Sephiroth/Cloud Strife
   • Minor or Background Relationship(s)
   • Cloud Strife
   • Sephiroth (Compilation of FFVII)
   • Tifa Lockhart
   • Genesis Rhapsodos
   • Zack Fair
   • Aerith Gainsborough
   • Vincent Valentine
   • Claudia Strife
   • Time Travel Fix-It
   • Slow Burn
   • Hurt/Comfort
   • Minor Genesis Rhapsodos/Sephiroth
   • Other Additional Tags to Be Added
   • Scrappy-Country-Boy!Cloud Strife
   • Human Experimentation
   • Warning: Hojo (Compilation of FFVII)
   • the horrors of war
   • But also blanket forts?
   • Young Sephiroth (A La Ever Crisis)
   • Insane Sephiroth (A La Advent Children)
   • AC Cloud
   • Multiple Clouds and Sephiroths

   Summary

   Cloud's ma was wrong. He wasn't obsessed with Sephiroth. He didn't have a crush (ew). Sephiroth was just objectively the coolest kid in town - and yeah, he never left that weird old manor, and his dad was a greasy rat, and he had a propensity for staring at Cloud like he could make lasers come out of his eyes. But that was all part of the Sephiroth experience! It was fine! Cloud would be fine.

   Thanks to a wish granted by the lifestream, Cloud is born in 1984, two years earlier than he should be. Sephiroth is being raised in secret within the walls of Shinra Manor by Hojo and a handful of Shrina employees, and Cloud (age eleven) is a willful magnet for trouble.

   Series

   • Part 1 of Rotation of The Lost and Found

   Language:

   English

   Words:

   139,101

   Chapters:

   20/20

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