Apologies for the paywall. I'm hoping that the NYTimes bot will post a 'free link'.
If you already live in Roanoke, you probably know where shootings happen without looking at a map. As someone who is learning about Roanoke from afar, and who likes to explore cities on foot, this interactive map opened my eyes to how urban gun violence is concentrated in small areas of a few neighborhoods. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/05/14/us/gun-homicides-map.html
This geographic concentration of murder also happens in the small city where I presently live in Massachusetts, though per capita murder rates are very different. A few spots in Roanoke have a lot of shootings.
So why are murders so concentrated in Roanoke? Are these turf wars? Is this part of drug dealing culture like in Baltimore, depicted in 'The Wire'?

Creation of the Realms
In the beginning there where two beings one of Light and one of Dark Aether one represented Creation and the other Destruction, both of these entities created the Realms of Draakana and Avalar which would become the homes of various species but especially Dragons which where created by the beings to bring forth magic into the realms. However they also created one specific Dragon a purple one that would be able to control all elements including Aether itself, this purple Dragon and all the ones that would follow would protect the Realms and bring an era of change either whether good or bad was up for the Dragon themselves to decide.
The Banishment of the Dragons
Formerly the Dragons lived in what is now known as the Forgotten Realms it was here where their species truly flourished, they build much of realms infrastructure and brought an era of peace across all species in these lands. It was during these times when the connection with Avalar was first founded and both realms entered an age of progress, however eventually a certain Sorceress grew to resent the Dragons believing them to hoard all the magic for themselves and banished them to the other side of the world, and with this the magic across the Forgotten Realms would slowly fade away over time with the portal that led to Avalar being the first to close.
The Founding of the Dragon Realms
When the Dragons awoke in the land they found themselves in they slowly but surely recreated their new home on the Island which would eventually become Dreamweavers. However this Island would eventually become to small for their civilization, and one brave Sea Dragon would set out to find a new home for her and her children. And after a long and exhausting swim she found land but after dragging herself to shore she collapsed and passed away her children would become the first inhabitans of what is now known as Dragon Shores, with the other Dragons following soon after.
The events of the OG trilogy happen
A thousand years after the Dragons have made their home in the new Realms a new purple Dragon was born who became known as Spyro, and whilst Spyro was mostly a thrill seeking young Dragon who didn't care about things such as destiny he would through his adventures bring the Realms into a new age of peace and prosperity. His story began when a creature known as Gnasty Gnorc who after causing much mischief across the Realms because he felt that he didn't fit in with the other creatures, with him having a particular interest in learing magic this caused the Dragons to eventually banish him to the Junkyard which Gnasty build his own kingdom in with him creating othe Gnorcs out of the stolen treasures of the Dragons.
Now Gnasty Always had plans to one day return to the Dragon Realms and take it for himself but after being insulted on live television he decided to put that plan into action now, and with one devasting hit of magic all the Dragons where turned into statues except for Spyro who didn't know it at the time but his ties to Aether had protected him from Gnasty's magic. After this Spyro would go about his first adventure freeing all the Dragons and collecting their stolen gems and eggs all ending with him torching Gnasty, of course Spyro didn't cause any permanent harm to him just enough to hopefully teach him a lesson
Sortly after Spyro's first adventure he found himself into a new mess, having brought to the Realms of Avalar which has been taking over by a small creature called Ripto nobody fully knows where Ripto has come from, perhaps a realm far away from both Draakana and Avalar but seeing how he has a hatred for Dragons it shows that he lives in a place near them. It is during this adventure that Spyro starts to take his role as a purple Dragon more serious whether unintional or not, with him bringing the various warring races of Avalar together and bringing peace across the lands and eventually leading to both Avalar and Draakana re-establishing contact. This adventure eventually ending in him defeating Ripto (or so it seems) and getting the vacation he wanted in the first place.
And now Spyro's last adventure of the og trilogy atleast, after a Thousand years of the magic slowly disapearing in the Forgotten Realms the Sorceress also notices that the magic she uses to keep herself alive is fading as well, with the signs of aging apearing across her body. Not just this but the portals across the Realms are shutting off one by one which would cause trouble for her dominion over the lands, she eventually caught wind of a young dragons adventures and learns where the Dragons have choosen to live after she banished them, and send her apprentice Bianca to steal their eggs, with Bianca believing that she wanted to bring the Dragons back to the Forgotten Realms to bring the magic back. Of course it was Spyro's job to get the Eggs back together with Hunter who choose to travel with Spyro to the Dragon Realms after his adventure in Avalar, and much like before Spyro would help the inhabitans of the Forgotten Realms and thanks to his Aether magic the longer he stays in the Realms the more the magic came back.
A short while into their adventure Hunter and Bianca would start to interact and would begin to catch feelings for eachother, much to the chagrin of Spyro which to be fair if your best friend felt in love with somebody who kidnapped the babies of your species you would not be happy either. But luckily for Spyro after Bianca learned that what the Sorceress plan is for the baby Dragons she would start to help Spyro and Hunter, and eventually Spyro would defeat the Sorceress once in her castle and later for good in the super bonus round.
After this the Forgotten Realms restablished contact with the Dragon Realms and became known as the United Realms under Bianca's leadership, it was also after this that the portal to Avalar was permantly openend only in the United Realms instead of the Dragon Realms thanks to the Professor having to go of old tomes, of course this was easily remedied when the Dragons gave the proper coordinates. This resulted in the cultural exchange between all Realms and a large group of Avalarians to move to Draakana, who created the Valley of New Avalar or just the Valley of Avalar as most called it.
What came after
Most of the events that happenend after the Forgotten Realms are of minor note, such as Spyro freeing the Fairylands from Grendor and saving the Dragonflies twice with the second time being caused by Ripto. The one thing of note with this even is that Spyro started to experiment with a different element mainly bubble breath, which he got access to thanks to Bianca who uncovered runes from the old dragon civilization it is even believed that these runes where created by the first Purple Dragon.
And now we get to the interesting bits, an elder by the name of Red got corrupted by the Sorcerer to plant Dark Gems (which another Dark Master would use later), in order to drain the land of Magic. And whilst Spyro would of course defeat Red the Sorcerer was in the meantime looking into the origins of Aether and the Purple Dragon, this let him to the Shadow Realm a place beyond creation. And after the defeat of Red he set his plan into motion to tap into these Shadow Realms by releasing the Calamity, which trapped everyone from Draakana and Avalar in the Shadow Realm whilst also draining them of their magic, it is also thanks to his meddling with Dark Aether that resulted in his Purple scales. And whilst Spyro would defeat him just like any other villain before hand the Calamity would have had irreparable damage to the world such as the formation of the Ancient Grove a poisonous forest that corrupts all that enter it. And it even changed the nature of the Purple Dragon.
The Age of Malefor
After an unknown amount of time Spyro would grow older and more powerfull having returned to his home of Artisans but some noticed that he would start to behave oddly, he would start to become more and more obsessed with Aether and other elements and eventually fell to the temptations of Dark Aether. This let him to be exiled and he eventually found himself in a place where Dark Aether was most abundant a place that would eventually become the well of souls. If only the Elders had paid attention to Spyro they would have noticed the weird glow in his eyes, and the fact that it looked as if there was something missing. This now soulless husk that was once the Hero of the Realms completely taken over by Dark Aether now dubbed himself Malefor the Dark Master, and he let a campaign of terror against his own kind, destroying the Artisans homeworld leaving it as a useless ruins that got covered up by the ground only to be rediscovered in the future and be renamed as the Ruins of Warfang. The same happenend to the Dream Weavers which Malefor let fall to the ground destroying the landscape and distorting it with runaway magic. Together with his Ape army he waged war agains all other Realms, using the improved Dark Gems now known as Dark Crystals to drain magic of both Dragons and other creatures to fuel his army and ambitions. Luckily for the rest of the world the Dragon Elders and Spyro's old friends managed to corner Malefor and trap him in the Shadow Realms or atleast his Essence, whilst the evil force that has taken his souls place was trapped in the well of Souls.
The Legend begins
Despite Malefor being trapped the damage was still done, much of the world was without magic and the portals became useless, not just that but many started to mistrust Dragons thanks to the ongoing war and many dragons have been killed during the war. But all would change when a new Purple Dragon would be born, who would for some reason insist on being called Spyro not even he knows why. After an attack from the apes on his home with the Dragonflies Spyro learns he isn't one of them and sets out to find where he belongs. It was at this moment that the found Ignitus the Dragon that was task with gaurding the eggs all those years ago, and after learning his name he was of course suprised but the decided to keep it to himself. After their meeting Spyro and Ignitus would retake the Temple and set out to save the othe Gaurdians from Cynder, with him traveling to the Elemental islands which cumulated in him ending up saving Ignitus in the ruins of Dreamweavers now known as the Concurrent Skies, it was here where Spyro learned about Cynders past and followed her to Convexity the place where the Dragon Realms and the Shadow Realms meet. And where Spyro and Cynder fought and whilst Spyro did defeat and save Cynder from her corruption but Malefor's essence is freed from the Shadow Realm, since then Cynder lived with Spyro and the Gaurdians at the Temple but what she has done under Malefors control still haunts her.
A couple of weeks later the Eternal Night approaches an event where the two celestial moons would eclipse and allow spirits to wander the Well of Souls, Spyro would be sent out to stop the Ape king Gaul and to find Cynder who fled the Dragon Temple thanks to her guilt, with spyro also having been tasked with finding the chronicler who has been contacting Spyro in his dreams. Spyros first stop would be the Ancient Grove a large forest that was corrupted by Dark Aether during the Calamity that at this point happenend centuries ago, and is gaurded by Arborik a large tree golem that was created by Malefor as an artificial soldier. But after Spyro defeated him he was kidnapped by a group of pirates and forced into an arena, it was during this time he got a letter addressed by Hunter of Avalar and had a short reunion with Cynder before Gauls forces attacked the pirates and kidnapped her, Spyro used the distraction to escape the pirates but during is flight away from the ship he fell unconscious thanks to the Chronicler, only to be saved by a leviathan who brought him to the shores of the White Isle.
The White Isle is an ancient Island that houses all of Dragon knowledge and is believed to have been created since the beginning of time, with the first Chronicler being also the first Purple Dragon. After Spyro met the Chronicler he told him that he led Spyro here to wait out Malefors return, but after Spyro learned that this would cause Cynder to return to Malefors control he choose to go to the Well of Souls to stop him there and then. And after a long battle on his way to the top and a fight against Gaul who incapacitated Cynder Spyro would fall in the energy beam that sat at the center of the arena, which caused Dark Aether to start corrupting the young Dragon much like it had done before with his previous life. And after this newly formed "Dark Spyro" gave Gaul the finishing blow he flew up to Cynder and Sparx who where horrified to see what had become of Spyro, with Cynder tackling Spyro out of the Energy beam which luckily turned him back to normal. But the Well of Souls started to collapse around them thanks to Malefors return, so Spyro would use his Dragon time ability to freeze them into a large crystal and protect them from the collapsing mountain.
During this three years would pass and during those years Malefor would cause even more damage to the world, first he corrupted the apes into shadowy monsters because he felt that they only followed him for power instead of loyalty, and then he destroyed the magic Crafters homeworld turning it into the Burned Lands whilst raising the ancient temples high up into the skies. After this he sent out his new artificial soldiers out to attack the Realms and used Dark Crystals to once again drain the lands of magic. At the end of those three years Hunter would finally find Spyro and Cynder only to be beaten by Malefors forces who took them to the catacombs which at some point where known as the Celestial Plains, both Spyro and Cynder would wake up at this place and fight their way out of it and finally meet up with Hunter who explained that he was sent out by Ignitus after Spyro didn't return to the temple, as well as the three years that they where absent.
After this they join him and travel to Warfang after a quick disagreement in the Valley of Avalar, a name that for some reason sound familiar to Spyro they found themselves in Warfang, right in the middle of a seige by Malefors army. And after Spyro and Cynder fight themselves through he city and defeat the giant lava golem they reunite with Ignitus, with Cynder asking if they could do something about the magic chains that keep Spyro and Cynder trapped together only to learn much to her annoyance that there is nothing they could do about it. After a short celebration of their victory malefor would announce the return of the Destroyer who would created the belt of fire that will destroy all life on the planet, so Spyro and Cynder would go through the Ruins of Warfang which housed the leftovers of Artisans and open the gate for the Gaurdians and other Dragons to ambush the destroyer in the valley.
After making their way to the valley they noticed that the Destroyer moved to quickly to catch up to them, only for Cynder to suggest to blow the Dam so that the water would slow it down. And so they did after which they destroyed the Dark Crystals that controlled the beast including the ones on the inside, but before they could celebrate Malefor reanimated it with his dark powers this let Ignitus with no choice but to take Spyro and Cynder through the now weaker belt of fire to confront Malefor head on, whilst sending the other Gaurdians to help the other inhabitants to hide underground far away from the surface. However even with Ignitus being an fire Gaurdian the flames eventually overtake him and with his last powers sents Spyro and Cynder through the belt killing him in the progress, this leaves Spyro distraught and he lets the darkness overtake him luckily for him Cynder is there to remind him that he's not alone. And both race through the Burned Lands and the Floating Isle's to confront Malefor before it is to late.
After finally making their way to Malefor the two Purple Dragons finally meet, with Malefor starting to create doubts in both Spyro and Cynder which allows him to sortly retake control of Cynder. During this Malefor would start to taunt Spyro leaving some hints about how they're the same, something Spyro would mistake as meaning something else and he almost gave up completely believing he had failed to protect Cynder, Ignitus and the others. This allowed Cynder to break free, and Malefor to fly in a fit of rage with the battle for the fate of the world finally beginning.
At first they battled high above the volcano but after the Destroyer finally entered it the planet started to break apart, and the fight went on in the same Volcano and the falling Temple that Malefor called home. With them eventually making their way to the core of the Planet, which was made from solid Aether, and with both sides giving one last Aether attack with Spyro and Cynder finally overtaking Malefor he falls on the Crystal and the Light Aether spirits take Malefor away, and hopefully destroying the Dark Spirit that had taken over the old Spyro's body all those centuries ago. But this wasn't the end yet because even with Malefor gone the world was still falling apart, and Spyro saw one last option telling Cynder to leave to life another day for he might not make it out this time, but Cynder choose to stay by Spyro's side and with one last use of Dragon time now amplified by Light Aether, and Cynders declaration of love Spyro stopped the world from falling apart creating a new era for the survivors.
And that's where our story ends the world now exists as a group of floating islands hold together by magic which finally started to really return, and Ignitus became the new Chronicler who started to look where Spyro and Cynder ended up, seeing how they're not in the book of dead dragons. What happens after this is anyones guess, maybe a new Purple Dragon would be born who would protect these newly formed Skylands.

(continuation of part 3)
Since Fatal Calling is all about Cloud facing his past and his origins, Tifa’s musical theme is most appropriate for the ending cutscene. For all of these reasons, Tifa’s theme is absolutely appropriate for the conclusion of Fatal Calling. It makes a lot of sense then that once Cloud has finished revisiting the past and vanishes with the crystal to find his Promised Land, Tifa’s theme stops and Aerith’s theme begins.
There’s a lot to be said about Sephiroth in Fatal Calling. Sephiroth feeds off of despair, and deems Palamecia’s suffering inadequate: he seeks a much greater source of power than this realm. He states that Palamecia isn’t “the world that was promised to [him]”, referencing his desire to become the god of his core world of FFVII:

“Sephiroth: Melding with the planet, I will cease to exist as I am now only to be reborn as a ‘god’ to rule over every soul” (FFVII OG, disk 1, chapter 25).

Sephiroth’s line “Now, let us return [Cloud]. Back to the Promised Land” reveals he wants to return to their shared core world of FFVII, like we established in our review of the Remake timelines theory (see section “I. a) vii.”). Sephiroth wants to go back to FFVII and modify the OG timeline to achieve his evil goals. This is his ideal scenario, his place of complete happiness: his desired Promised Land. Fatal Calling is setting up Sephiroth’s plans for Remake. In fact, the after-credits scene wherein Sephiroth stands in Nibelheim as it burns confirms his return to the FFVII OG timeline.
However, he isn’t the only one returning. Now that Cloud has revisited his past in Fatal Calling, he’s ready to reach his Promised Land. After Sephiroth’s after-credits scene, the OG FFVII title and logo turn into the FFVII Remake title and logo, indicating a shift: we are now officially in the Remakeera or world. Cloud and Sephiroth disappeared at the end of Fatal Calling, and now the game is telling us where they’ve gone. Combined with Hamaguchi’s recommendation that players complete the collaboration event before playing Remake, I think this is a solid indication that the Cloud and Sephiroth we see in this collaboration event are those we encounter in the Remake world. Once the switch to Remake occurs, Aerith’s theme returns. This communicates that she is indeed —as we’ve proven countless times already— Cloud’s Promised Land. But it also conveys her importance to the story of Remake. Scenario writer Nojima confirmed this:

“Aerith's the most important character in the remake so we paid special attention to her lines” (FFVII Remake Ultimania, section 08 “Secrets”, “Development Staff Interviews, Part 2: Tetsuya Nomura, Yoshinori Kitase, Kazushige Nojima”, page 744).

Aerith was already important to OG, so what could’ve motivated Nojima to state her importance to Remake? Could it be that she’s even more important in the latter than she was in the former? In what way?
That was the collaboration! Before we move on from MFF x FFVII Remake entirely though, let’s glean some more relevant information from some of the collaboration’s promotional material and special features.
~III. e) iii. Promotional Material and Special Features~
Two particular pieces of promotional material for this collaboration stick out to me as extremely relevant. The first is a promotion for a new summons batch in the Mobius FF game, created in honor of the collaboration.
MFF x FFVII Remake Summons Batch Cloud Promo
The summons batch contains three FFVII Remake-themed cards, including a Cloud card. As you can see, this promo reads “Who awaits in the Promised Land?” under Cloud’s picture.
The second is a promotion of an Aerith and summons and an Aerith Job Card (in MFF, Job Cards allow a character to embody an archetype or another character, giving them certain physical traits, clothing, weapons and abilities):
MFF x FFVII Remake Aerith Summons and Job Card Promo
I couldn’t find this picture in English, but the text relevant to us translates to:

“Midgar's Flower Vendor Summons
‘I'm searching for you. I want to meet… you.’
The witch protects the planet, imbues it with power, and leads to the Promised Land.”

A few things here. First, Aerith is referenced by name, and we see a picture of her in her famous praying pose. Secondly, both Cloud and Aerith’s images are attached to the notion of the Promised Land. Cloud’s card asks who awaits there, and Aerith’s evokes a guiding role, as though in response. Thirdly, both Cloud and Aerith are attached to the notion of searching: Cloud searches for the Promised Land and whomever awaits there, and Aerith searches for Cloud’s true self. Speaking of which, the promo also includes parts of Aerith’s famous gondola date quote from OG:

“Aeris: I'm searching for you.
Cloud: …?
Aeris: I want to meet you.
Cloud: But I'm right here.
Aeris: I know, I know... what I mean is... I want to meet... you” (disk 1 chapter 24).

In case you’re wondering about the lady in Aerith’s clothes on the left-hand side, that’s Meia, a character in MFF. She is the “witch” being referred to in the promotional material. She’s often called the Azure Witch. Meia is wearing Aerith’s clothes because a Meia-type Job Card called “Flower Girl of Midgar” was created in honor of the MFF x FFVII Remake collaboration:
MFF x FFVII Remake \"Flower Girl of Midgar\" Job Card
There’s even an Aerith outfit you can have Echo wear, and it appears with Wol’s Cloud outfit in the promotional picture:
MFF x FFVII Remake Echo's Aerith Outfit and Wol's Cloud Outfit
To be fair, Tifa also appears in one of these summons promos. However, unlike Aerith’s, her appearance doesn’t reference the Promised Land or her version of the gondola date. She is not presented in connection to Cloud at all. On top of that, while the Aerith and Cloud outfits are promoted together, Tifa is paired with Vincent in the promotional image:
MFF x FFVII Remake Summons Promo Tifa and Vincent
This is hardly indicative of Cloti content in the event collaboration or in Remake.
~III. e) iv. Cloud’s Promised Land~
All in all, the collaboration tells the story of Cloud searching for his Promised Land, just as post-OG Cloud has been shown doing for years and years of canon SE content. Cloud is searching for Aerith in the MFF x FFVII Remake collaboration, just like he was in FFT and DFF, and just like he was shown doing in the 30th FF Anniversary Exposition. This is nothing new. However, the collaboration informs us that this mission to be reunited with Aerith is what leads Cloud to enter the world of Remake.
Echo noted that people obtain the Promised Land they deserve rather than the one they want. What does Cloud deserve? I believe the answer is: another chance at saving Aerith.
Cloud needs to start over, from the top. He needs to go back to the very moment he and Avalanche arrived at mako reactor 1 to bomb it. He needs to return to the beginning of the OG game. He needs a redo, a fix-it, another shot at happiness; a remake.

IV. The Hidden Plot Point: Mission Theory

~a) Thesis~
Here lies the heart of my theory. My dear Cleriths, Sephiroth isn’t the only one who travelled back in time to undo destiny and create a reality where things go his way: Remake is also —I would even say primarily— Cloud’s chance to free Aerith from her fate, save her life and secure his shot at happiness with her. That’s why he experiences MOTFs in Remake: he’s done FFVII before and now he’s back, although with only fragments of his memories from OG, to save Aerith. That’s why his triggers all involve Aerith: he doesn’t consciously remember anything from OG, but his grief over Aerith is so strong that it rises from his subconsciousness at the slightest trigger.
In Remake, Cloud remembers some but not all elements of the OG timeline (MOTFs), and it appears he only remembers the most important things: all his MOTFs revolve around Aerith and her fate. Our theory explains why Aerith triggers Cloud’s MOTFs in Remake quite perfectly: he traveled back in time to prevent Aerith’s death from happening. Remake Cloud remembers Aerith because, well, he knows her from OG. Post-OG Cloud has returned to the past to save Aerith, resulting in Remake. This is why seeing her in Remake triggers visions and memories of things that haven’t happened yet in Remake, but have already happened to post-OG Cloud. He recognizes her face on Loveless in Remake because seeing her face again is the whole reason he entered Remake in the first place. His visions of her death when they meet once more at the church, the spike of anxiety and grief as he watches her walk away from him, the constriction in his chest when she talks about doing everything in her power to help the planet… all of it, it’s all his memories of OG being jogged by things related to her death. What he’s forgotten from the OG timeline emerges in flashes of pain, images, memory and emotion. Remember that the language the devs used to describe these instances where Cloud reacts to Aerith in this way is always about “remembering” or “recognizing”; Cloud has to have seen Aerith, known Aerith, loved Aerith, lost Aerith and felt the pain of living without Aerith before in order to recognize and remember these feelings. Think about it: this is the only thing that can explain Cloud’s extremely selective MOTFs and the fact that he has MOTFs at all.
The Remake trilogy is all about Cloud and Sephiroth stepping into the ring one more time, both ready to risk it all to get what they lost in the OG timeline. Sephiroth is hungry for destruction and godhood, while Cloud stands determined to save the love of his life. Fighting for their respective goals, the fated enemies enter a new battle in Remake, one to end the war, both needing to win this time after losing so horribly in OG. Now, it’s all or nothing. Sephiroth vying for the planet, and Cloud reaching out for Aerith.
Cloud’s back with a quest, one he can’t fail— it’s the most secret and important plot point of all. I call this the “Mission Theory”.
~IV. b) Mission Theory Logistics~
There are a few things that remain vague, so I’m going to use this section of the analysis to speculate on the logistics of my theory. We know very little about the hows of the timeline and multiverse shenanigans, so I’m going to hypothesize. However, this analysis is about the whys: so if you’re not interested in mechanical speculation on the logistics of time travel and multiverses, you can totally disregard this section and skip to section “V.”.
~IV. b) i. Cloud the Time-Traveler?~
It’s unclear whether Remake is the result of post-OG Cloud going back in time to try his hand at the OG timeline again, or the result of post-OG Cloud somehow informing OG Cloud that he must save Aerith this time around. It’s vague in the same way that we aren’t sure if Remake Aerith is post-OG Aerith or if she’s been informed by post-OG Aerith via her connection to the Lifestream as a Cetra. Though it doesn’t much matter how Cloud has memories of Aerith’s death in Remake, I personally think that Remake Cloud is a time-traveling post-OG Cloud. My explanation as to why might be a little confusing, so again, feel free to skip to section “V.”.
One must be able to communicate with the Lifestream in order to obtain knowledge of the future. This access can only be granted to the Cetra or to the souls of the deceased that compose the Lifestream itself. Since Cloud is not a Cetra, he cannot commune with the Lifestream while he is alive, meaning a deceased post-OG Cloud would not have been able to communicate his memories of the OG plot-line with a living OG Cloud. Therefore, the only way Remake Cloud could have knowledge of the future (manifested as MOTFs) would be that Remake Cloud is inhabited by his post-OG consciousness. Effectively, this is time-traveling.
Then comes the question of how Cloud was able to time-travel at all. I have what I consider a pretty solid hypothesis. The most interesting thing about the realm of Palamecia is that every FF character that’s ever appeared in the realm for a cameo died in their core world beforehand (spoilers for FFI, FFV, FFVI, FFX, FFXII, FFXIII, FFXV incoming). These characters include Tidus (FFX), Lightning (FFXIII), Garland (FFI), Sephiroth (FFVII), Gilgamesh (FFV), Vargas (FFVI), Gabranth (FFXII) and Ultros (FFXV). My interpretation of Palamecia serves at least partly as a directory for deceased souls that can’t simply fade. For instance, FFX’s Tidus actually came back to life to be with his love>! Yuna !! FFX!<. Of course, MFF x>! FFX !!FFX!< and FFX-2, just like MFF x FFVII Remake came out between FFVII OG and FFVII. And similarly to Fatal Calling, the ending cutscene of MFF x>! FFX !!Next thing you know, FFX-2 comes out and shows Tidus returning to Yuna and their core world in an optional cutscene.!< The MFF x>! FFX !! Tidus !Remake.
~IV. b) ii. Post-OG Cloud’s Amnesia~
If we consider that Remake Cloud is a time-travelling post-OG Cloud who’s returned to the start of the OG timeline, we encounter another logistical problem: why doesn’t Cloud remember everything or most things from the OG plot-line in Remake, like Sephiroth and Remake Aerith do? After all, aren’t the three of them in the same time-travelling boat? Why isn’t Cloud as lucid on the matter as the two others? Didn’t the post-OG Cloud in Fatal Calling face his past and origins? Shouldn’t that mean Cloud would remember all that stuff in Remake from the start?
In OG, the true Cloud’s memories are repressed by both his false persona and Jenova. The latter’s memetic abilities are able to block Cloud’s memories of the past from emerging and conflicting with his SOLDIER persona. For instance, in both OG and Remake, Cloud is unable to hear Aerith tell him Zack’s name in Evergreen Park: Jenova blocks it out. I think this is a similar situation: post-OG Cloud’s consciousness carries memories things that Jenova doesn’t want Cloud to know, so she pushes down on them. On top of that, after travelling through different worlds and back through the Lifestream for who knows how long, post-OG Cloud’s consciousness must be quite weak. We know how good Cloud is at repressing, so it makes total sense to me that post-OG Cloud’s consciousness would be trapped or suppressed somewhere deep in Remake Cloud’s subconsciousness. After all, it’s not like this whole time-travelling-consciousness thing is normal for a mind to experience. It’s no wonder Remake Cloud doesn’t consciously remember how things go in OG. However, post-OG Cloud’s love and grief for Aerith are so strong that memories related to her can occasionally pierce through to his Remake consciousness and Jenova’s barriers, resulting in his MOTFs. His pain and love for her are definitely permanent and strong enough:

“A young woman descended from the Ancients who will forever be engraved in [Cloud’s] heart” (Dirge of Cerberus, Japanese manual, Aerith’s character description).
“I believe for those who formerly traveled with her as comrades and for the viewers, each carries their own feelings and love for Aerith. In this story, Cloud also carries his own undying feelings for Aerith, even to this very day… Its relation with the church scene is… Yup. I’ll leave this part to your imagination. (laughs)” (Nomura interview on Advent Children “Designer’s Note” in Famitsu PS2!magazine, October 24th issue).

So you see, Remake Cloud’s mind is a little more complicated than OG Cloud’s mind. Everything is still the same in Remake as in OG, but with the added complication that his future self is hidden in his subconscious mind, probably trying to get out.
There is actually pretty good evidence of this. I’m sure you’re aware that whenever Jenova is trying to hide something from Cloud or altering his memory and/or perception, the screen glitches green with an audio cue (34:15-34:29, 1:15:30-1:15:41 and 1:17:14-1:17:29). Guess what? These Jenova audiovisual cues also occur during the MOTFs (ie: MOTF 3 2:58-3:07 and MOTF 4 0:29-0:42). Whenever post-OG Cloud’s consciousness encounters anything that reminds it of losing Aerith, the strength of its pain helps it push memories of Aerith to the surface so that RemakeCloud can consciously see them. Remake Cloud then experiences sensations and/or visions, all from his future self’s memories as they rise to the surface, propelled by grief. Jenova can’t allow Remake Cloud to fully recover his post-OG memory, so in order to shut down the process, its cells jump in to repress the MOTFs: this results in the classic Jenova audiovisual cues. The only time Jenova doesn’t bother to fight against a MOTF is the sixth, as it is quite weak: no visions occur, only a tight sensation in his chest.
~IV. b) iii.~ ~Eclipse Contact~ ~and Cloud’s Memories of Reactor 1~
There is one problem I have trouble decoding. In Eclipse Contact, Cloud tells Wol and Echo that the last thing he remembers is the run-up to his arrival at mako reactor 1 (FFVII OG, disk 1, chapter 1). Recall that usually, people summoned to Palamecia have no memories of their world of origin and lives before that point at all. So then why is it that upon being summoned to Palamecia, Cloud recalls the events that took place right before the start of the OG game? This strikes me as highly relevant since this is the exact point in time where post-OG Cloud’s consciousness needs to be transported to in order for Remake to begin, but I haven’t been able to figure out a solid hypothesis on what it could mean. My best guess is that this is the devs’ way of signalling to us that the events of the MFF x FFVII Remake collaboration occur before the very beginning of post-OG Cloud’s second try at the OG timeline (Remake).
Now that I’ve shown you how I’ve come to form my Mission Theory and we’ve done some pesky housekeeping, let’s connect some dots, shall we? It’s time to really get into it and see if any of my wild speculation tracks with content from the Remake trilogy so far.
~V. Musical Evidence~
What about the music of the game? Any hints there? Let’s try to see if we can find support for the Mission Theory in the music made for the Remake trilogy thus far!
As a preface to my musical evidence analysis, I want to insist on something: the story guys tell the soundtrack guys everything. In a high-quality production such as Remake, people who make music for audiovisual media are told everything in advance. They need to know the secrets of every little scene, because their job is to depict whatever is happening through music.
Therefore, if the Mission Theory is true, then there has to be musical evidence for it.
~V. a) Preface: The Basics of the~ ~FFVII~ ~OST~
There’s a lot of evidence in the music of the Remake trilogy that we have to address, but before we get into it, I do have to give you the basics of the FFVII soundscape! For the easiest experience, I suggest you keep a tab open for every link I provide for you until the music analysis is over, because we will be hopping from one musical theme to another and then back again.
~V. a) i. The World Theme: Cloud’s Troubled Identity~
The world theme of FFVII is a perfect example of how musicians working on an OST have to know the secrets of a story as they compose for it. On top of representing the FFVII world as a whole, it doubles as Cloud’s character theme… except that isn’t exactly right. You see, this piece does indeed contain Cloud’s true theme, but Sephiroth and Jenova’s musical motifs also contaminate it. This, of course, symbolizes how Cloud experiences identity sabotage because of these two antagonists. The result is that globally, the world theme does indeed represent Cloud’s character, but it isn’t exclusively Cloud’s in the same way that Cloud’s mind isn’t exclusively his. It’s brilliant storytelling through musical motifs, and evidently requires Uematsu to know in advance that Sephiroth manipulates Cloud’s identity in the story.
For future reference, let’s isolate Cloud’s true theme from Jenova and Sephiroth’s influence.
~V. a) i. 1) Sephiroth: Dissonance and Semi-Tone Motif~
I’m sure you know Sephiroth’s infamous theme: “One-Winged Angel”. The first motif we need to know is Sephiroth’s threatening, repetitive dissonance motif, which plays all throughout the piece (plays solo at 0:00 to 0:04). The second motif is what I call the semi-tone motif. “One-Winged Angel” has a ton of minor 2nd intervals, which is what we call the relationship between two notes that are only a semi-tone apart. You might recognize the minor 2nd interval in the foreboding Jaws theme. Just like in Jaws, the minor 2nd interval or semi-tone is commonly used to indicate an impending, life-threatening danger, a monster, predator, evil, or insanity; suits Sephiroth quite nicely!
~V. a) i. 2) Jenova: Parasite Motif~
The track “J-E-N-O-V-A” contains many competing melodies and has generated many variations of those melodies —almost like clones— that all represent aspects of the alien’s character. The main Jenova motif is simply a descending, two-octaves-long, arpeggiated mb6 chord (eight notes total). I’ve played it for you here. Sometimes, this motif is altered to form variations. For instance, in “Listen to the Cries of the Planet”, a variation of Jenova’s main motif is created by changing the order of the notes and reducing the number of notes to only six (0:00-0:03), however, it remains an arpeggiated mb6 chord. Regardless of the alteration, if you hear an arpeggiated mb6 chord, it means Jenova is creeping close by or that its influence is at work.
The variation of the mb6 arpeggiated chord that concerns us alters Jenova’s main theme so it ascends from the tonic to the b6 note and descends back to the tonic, then ending on the lower dominant for a total of eight notes. I’ve played it for you here. I call this variation the “parasite motif”, because it is often heard when Cloud is being controlled by Jenova. For instance, it plays when Cloud loses himself and becomes unusually violent in Rebirth’s chapter 13 (17:25-18:34), signalling to us that Jenova is in control. It is also the main motif of the track “Who… Am I?”, which evidently symbolizes Jenova’s fuelling of Cloud’s identity crisis— though here, the parasite motif is shortened to its six first notes.
~V. a) i. 3) Cloud’s True Self~
Now that we can recognize Sephiroth and Jenova’s motifs, let’s return to the world theme to isolate Cloud’s true self. Cloud’s true theme can be heard from 0:51 to 3:48. It consists of a section A (0:51-1:54), followed by a section B (1:54-2:41), and then returns to section A (2:41-3:48).
After Cloud’s true theme concludes however, it seems he experiences a psychic interference: doubt and confusion weave through the world theme (3:48-4:09), representing an instability in his identity. I call this interruption of Cloud’s true theme the “interference section”. It symbolizes a moment of psychic interference or weakness within Cloud that Sephiroth and Jenova take advantage of to take control of Cloud.
The end of the interference section introduces Jenova’s parasite motif. It slithers in (4:09), later joined by Sephiroth’s dissonance motif (4:16): Cloud’s mind and identity are being hijacked by the two antagonists in service of their evil plans.
They torment Cloud, dominating his mind until he manages to free himself: section A of Cloud’s true theme begins playing again (6:06), closing the loop of the theme.
Based on this musical storytelling, if you already knew the character motifs going into OG, you might’ve suspected something odd was going on with Cloud’s identity, and that Jenova and Sephiroth were involved. All this to say that whatever music is playing at any given time can give us hints as to what is going on. That’s the power and significance of a good soundtrack. Trust me when I say that with Uematsu and his team, we’re in excellent hands. And remember: the story guys tell the soundtrack guys everything.
~V. a) ii. Aerith’s Theme~
Another base we have to cover before checking out the Remake soundtrack is Aerith’s theme. I’m sure everyone here is familiar with it, but I insist that you refresh your memory. It consists of a section A (0:00-0:34), a section B (0:34-1:13) and a section C (1:13-2:00), concluding with a repeat of section A.
~V. a) iii. Motifs and Timing in~ ~FFVII~ ~OSTs~
I’m going to analyze pieces in great detail, which people who haven’t studied or paid attention to soundtracks may find strange. To prevent anyone from making the mistake of thinking that I’m reading too much into things, I want to emphasize that the music that plays during the Remaketrilogy’s cutscenes is carefully timed, composed and arranged to match the events in the cutscenes, as they are provided in advance to the musicians. Composers pay lots of attention to whatever is going on onscreen so they can include the corresponding musical motifs as accompaniment at the exact right moments, always striving to get the timing perfect. I’m not exaggerating the effort and minutia involved in soundtrack composition and arrangement. Here are just a few sound staff comments from the “Material 4: Soundtrack” section of the FFVII Remake Material Ultimania to prove it:

“[To] make sure players really feel the weight of the moment, we worked hard on getting the tempo and the entry timing of each instrument exactly right. In particular, that big ‘boom’ that sounds almost like a meteor crashing down was fine-tuned to match the timing of the logo's appearance. I remember this was a real sticking point for us, because if the boom's timing was even slightly off, the effect would be completely different. We […] had to sequence [each and every sound] to play at exactly the right moment” (Shotaro Shima on track “Midgar, City of Mako”, page 229).

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“I was originally told to keep this piece to under two minutes, but it ended up being over six minutes long, in order to match the flow of the cutscene. I arranged the track while watching the latest CG visuals that had been rendered for the scene” (Naoyuki Honzawa on track “Smash ‘Em, Rip ‘Em”, page 309).

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“This is the track that plays during the tour of Shinra’s different divisions. The movie shown in the Visual Entertainment Hall describes the history of the Ancients (0:25 onward in the soundtrack version), and I wanted to create a musical link to them as well, so I made use of the chord progression from ‘Aerith’s Theme’ [D(I)-Am(Vm)-D(I).] [This simple sequence of moving from major to minor and back again creates a really mysterious air. Then, during the section where the movie recounts the history of the construction of the Shinra Building (1:47 onward in the soundtrack version), I quoted a section of the Shinra theme” (Yasunori Nishiki on track “Stewards of the Planet”, page 313).

~V. b) The~ ~Remake~ ~OST~
Now that you’re ready, it’s time to verify the Mission Theory’s validity with Remake’s music.
~V. b) i. MOTF 6 Music~
We were able to explain Remake Cloud’s MOTFs with the Mission Theory, and it just so happens that the music that plays during the scene of MOTF 6 is unique to Remake. This gives us the perfect opportunity: we should analyze the piece that plays as it occurs to evaluate the legitimacy of our theory on the Remake trilogy, using all the motifs we uncovered in section “V. a)”.
First, a refresher on the scene and on our theory’s interpretation of it. The party is gathered in Aerith and Ifalna’s old room at Shinra HQ. Here is how the scene is described by the VA script notes:

“The Whispers once again close in [on Aerith], but Aerith refuses to stop speaking this time.
Aerith: Listen to me. […] Shinra isn’t the enemy. They were the ones who set things in motion, but our true foe is someone else.
At that moment, the spectacle of Meteor they saw in the Visual Entertainment Hall comes into Cloud and the others’ heads.
Aerith: Somehow, some way, I want to help— all of you… the planet…
For some reason, Cloud feels his chest constrict tightly” (FFVII Remake Material Ultimania Plus, VA script notes, “Aerith Speaks”).

Indeed, right after Aerith says she wants to help the planet any way she can, Cloud looks down at his chest with a frown and a quiet grunt (7:46-7:54). According to the Mission Theory, this tightness in Cloud’s chest can be explained as an emergence of post-OG Cloud’s grief, triggered by the slightest allusion to Aerith’s sacrifice.
The piece that plays during this scene is called “Aerith’s Theme - The Cetra”. It is one of many variations of Aerith’s iconic theme arranged for Remake. However, Cloud’s theme is just as prominent in the piece— if not, more.
~V. b) i. 1) The Fate Motif~
Before we interpret “Aerith’s Theme - The Cetra”, I need to introduce you to one more motif that crops up in the piece. There is a windy motif that appears (from 1:45 onwards) and it is unaccounted for, despite how it’s clearly meant to represent something. I’ve become certain that this wind noise symbolizes fate, and I’ll tell you why.
In the MOTF 6 scene, just after Nanaki explains how he gained knowledge of the Whispers via contact with Aerith (7:23), they emerge and begin swirling aggressively around Aerith (7:26). Her hair and dress blow and ripple in the resulting wind. From this very moment onward “Aerith’s Theme - The Cetra” (3:00), a string section (bowed instruments in the violin family) that deliberately emphasizes the airy sound of the bow crossing the strings enters, creating a windy effect that adds to the already present wind noise (that started at 1:45). As the Whispers progressively become even more aggressive onscreen, both the wind SFX of the cutscene and the wind noise in the piece get louder and louder. Because of the timing of its appearance and crescendo in the cutscene, I’m certain the wind noise is meant to represent the restrictive flow of fate; it only makes sense, given that destiny is a current —or a wind— that cannot be broken, and Aerith is like a helpless petal in fate’s carefully planned storm. Of course, it’s also quite significant that the Whispers make a windy noise as they fly. You can hear it every time they’re onscreen, like when they first appear to Cloud in chapter 2 of Remake (17:45-18:20), or when the White Whispers hold Cloud back from chasing after Aerith during Rebirth’s Sleeping Forest scene in chapter 14 (28:43-29:45). You can also hear the wind sounds in other Whisper-related tracks, such as “Whorl of Whispers” (clearly audible at 2:50-3:05), as well as “A Death Not Ordained by Fate” (clearly audible at 2:56-3:18). Therefore, I’ll call these wind noises the “fate motif”.
~V. b) ii. 2) Interpreting “Aerith’s Theme - The Cetra”~
In part 1 of “Aerith’s Theme - The Cetra” (0:00-1:45), Aerith’s theme and Cloud’s true theme play simultaneously, their respective phrases fitting perfectly together, interweaving peacefully and softly. It sounds like the two of them are chatting, dancing bashfully yet contently and in perfect sync, glad to be exactly where they’re meant to be as their themes sing together in harmony (soft piano). Part 1 of this piece is about Cloud and Aerith becoming important to one another as they discover their soulmate bond.
Unfortunately that contentment doesn’t last. In part 2 (1:45-3:00), Cloud experiences a moment of psychic vulnerability (world theme’s interference section). Fate lurks (fate motif enters quietly). His instability forces our couple’s sweet dance to a halt, and Aerith’s theme must retreat as Cloud’s confusion takes center stage. Sephiroth torments and taunts him (semi-tone played by strings, 2:03-2:10), taking advantage of Cloud’s psychic interference to plunge him into darkness (world theme’s interference section ends, low cello enters, 2:18): Cloud temporarily becomes a darker version of himself as evil corrupts him (piano plays section A phrases 1 and 2 of Cloud’s true theme in minor, 2:18-2:53). Jenova finally reveals itself and promptly exits, releasing Cloud’s mind from its grasp (seven first notes of parasite motif played twice on piano 2:53-3:00). Cloud is free, but the damage has been done: his dance with Aerith has long been interrupted, and she is gone. Part 2 of “Aerith’s Theme - The Cetra” is about Cloud being manipulated in service of Sephiroth and Jenova’s evil plan, interrupting his interaction with Aerith.
Part 3 (3:00-3:33) kicks off the mechanisms of a tragic fate (strings section joins fate motif, 3:00). Both anxious that she’s disappeared from his side and terrified of the darkness he just discovered inside him (in part 2), Cloud fearfully calls out for Aerith (phrase 1 of Cloud’s true theme’s section A, timid and hesitant piano, 3:04-3:15). Before his psychic interference began (start of part 2), Cloud’s voice was accompanied by Aerith’s as they grew closer and closer (their character themes mingling in part 1)… but now, Aerith isn’t answering his call, and he cannot find her (Aerith’s theme doesn’t to join Cloud’s anymore).
Anxious, Cloud tries calling out for Aerith a second time (section A phrase 2 of Cloud’s true theme’s, 3:19-3:31), searching for her in the hopes that they can continue their dance, but even now, Aerith does not respond. She’s gone (Aerith’s theme remains absent). Destiny keeps Aerith away from Cloud (fate motif gently crescendos). Part 3 of “Aerith’s Theme - The Cetra” is about Cloud’s separation from Aerith, his search for her, and the fear and anxiousness he feels when he realizes he cannot find her.
And then, part 4 begins with a sweet, gentle voice, calling out from the blackened horizon: it’s Aerith (section B phrase 1 of Aerith’s theme, soft piano, 3:33-3:45). Cloud finally hears her respond to his pleas: he’s found her. Fate begins howling in protest, doubling its efforts to keep Cloud and Aerith apart (fate motif crescendos noticeably in reaction to Aerith’s theme, 3:45). You can just picture Cloud running toward Aerith, struggling against the current of destiny to try and close the distance between them. Aerith tries calling out for Cloud a second time, (section B phrase 2 of Aerith’s theme, 3:40-3:43), but the Whispers only swirl around her more ferociously, taking her away in the uncompromising current of fate (fate motif continues to crescendo). Aerith tries again (section B phrase 1 of Aerith’s theme, 3:47-3:49). It sounds like she’s saying “Cloud, I’m over here, come find me!”
Fate doesn’t take too kindly to her defying it. Cloud and Aerith are not supposed to be together; it can’t be, it won’t. She’s destined to die to save the planet, and he’s destined to remain hollow forevermore. I can picture Cloud breaking into a sprint at the sound of her voice, running countercurrent to the flow of destiny— but the winds are so loud, fate’s demands are so strong, and the Whispers are shrieking in defense of destiny now. Aerith’s voice emerges for the fourth time (first three notes of section B phrase 3 of Aerith’s theme, 3:54 to 3:56). Fate screams louder, louder (steep crescendo of fate motif, 3:59-4:02). In a desperate hail Mary, Aerith shouts out one more time, as though throwing her hand out toward Cloud’s extended fingers (section C phrase 1 of Aerith’s theme, louder and more insistent, cutting through the fate motif as it crescendos sharply, 4:00-4:06). Part 4 of “Aerith’s Theme - The Cetra” is about Cloud and Aerith desperately trying to defy fate in order to be together. And then, it all stops: fate has seemingly quieted Aerith (4:04-4:08)…
Part 5 (4:08-4:27) begins with Cloud jumping, launching himself off the ground with all his strength (Cloud’s true theme section A phrase 2, first 5 notes, melody starting on the note E5 and ascending) as Aerith plummets toward the ground in a fatal fall (Aerith’s theme section C phrase 1, melody starting on the note E6 and descending, the last note altered)— he successfully catches her in mid-air (both Cloud’s ascending melody and Aerith’s descending melody meet in the middle of the octave, first uniting on B5, and then ending on A5). I’ve recreated the melodies for you here so you can hear this reunion more clearly. If you consider that the airy strings in this piece represent fate, which I do, the fact that they follow Cloud and Aerith’s themes in part 5 signifies that they are now in control of their own destinies, and successfully making it their fate to reunite.
To be completely frank, I did not realize until right now writing this that Cloud unites with Aerith in part 5, even though his theme is right there. I’m so excited to share this part with you.
We hear Aerith once more, her voice quietly trailing off into the silence (phrase 4 of section C of Aerith’s theme) with no conclusion (phrase 5 normally follows phrase 4 to conclude Aerith’s theme, but is absent here). Part 5 of “Aerith’s Theme - The Cetra” suggests that Cloud will save Aerith and that the couple will change their fate, but also conveys an uncertain and open-ended quality.

Nostalgie wird ein immer häufigeres Gefühl bei den guten Ostdeutschen. Vor allem junge Menschen blicken mit Trauer und Verlust auf die Vergangenheit zurück. Aber warum? War die DDR nicht eine Diktatur?
Äh, doch, schon, war sie, wieso fragst du?
Die Sache ist die, dass die Ostdeutschen argumentieren, dass ja nicht alles schlecht war - und das war es ja auch nicht. Die Ostdeutschen waren zum Beispiel sehr solidarisch... okay, nein, waren sie nicht, auch, wenn ChatGPT uns das weiß machen will. Die haben sich wegen der Stasi immer selbst verraten.
ABER soziale Gerechtigkeit war sehr wichtig. Die DDR war in vielerlei Hinsicht liberaler in Bezug auf die Akzeptanz von Homosexualität. Bereits 1957 hob die DDR den § 175 des Strafgesetzbuches, der homosexuelle Handlungen unter Männern unter Strafe stellte, weitgehend auf. 1968 wurde der § 151 eingeführt, der lediglich homosexuelle Handlungen mit Jugendlichen unter 18 Jahren unter Strafe stellte. Dies war ein bedeutender Schritt in Richtung Akzeptanz und Entkriminalisierung homosexueller Beziehungen.
In der BRD hingegen blieb der § 175, der homosexuelle Handlungen unter Männern kriminalisierte, bis 1969 weitgehend unverändert. Erst in den 1970er Jahren kam es zu weiteren Reformen und der endgültigen Abschaffung dieses Paragrafen 1994 nach der Wiedervereinigung.
Es geht noch weiter. Die DDR war sehr weit voraus, was die Frauenrechte angeht. Frauen wurden stark ermutigt, berufstätig zu sein. Es gab umfassende Kinderbetreuungsangebote, die es Frauen ermöglichten, Beruf und Familie besser zu vereinbaren. Frauen und Männer hatten offiziell die gleichen Rechte und Pflichten. Die DDR bemühte sich um die Gleichstellung der Geschlechter.
Es gab insgesamt ein gut ausgebautes System der sozialen Sicherheit, einschließlich kostenloser Bildung, preisgünstiger Wohnungen und subventionierter Grundnahrungsmittel. Die DDR legte großen Wert auf eine umfassende und einheitliche Bildung für alle. Es gab ein gut strukturiertes Schulsystem, das von der Grundschule bis zur Universität kostenfrei war. Ja, richtig gehört, keine Studiengebühren oder Semesterbeiträge. Der Lehrplan beinhaltete dabei praktische und technische Ausbildung, die auf die Bedürfnisse der sozialistischen Wirtschaft ausgerichtet war.
Darüber hinaus war natürlich auch die Arbeitswelt gerecht. Die DDR garantierte das Recht auf Arbeit und hatte nahezu Vollbeschäftigung. Die Arbeitszeit war geregelt und relativ kurz, und die Arbeitnehmer hatten Anspruch auf längere bezahlte Urlaubszeiten als in vielen westlichen Ländern, einschließlich der BRD. Und obwohl die DDR eine starke Industrialisierung anstrebte, gab es auch frühe Ansätze eines Umweltbewusstseins. In den 1980er Jahren gab es eine wachsende Umweltbewegung, die Umweltschutzmaßnahmen forderte.
Die DDR bot zahlreiche Freizeitmöglichkeiten und organisierte Aktivitäten für die Jugend, wie die „Freie Deutsche Jugend“ (FDJ), die sportliche, kulturelle und soziale Aktivitäten förderte. Für die Jugend war also gesorgt, und auch danach brach kein Stress aus, denn Wohnraum war stark subventioniert, und Mieten waren sehr niedrig. Es gab umfangreiche Wohnungsbauprogramme, um den Bedarf an bezahlbarem Wohnraum zu decken.
Persönliche Meinung: Also ich persönlich finde ja außerordentlich erstaunlich, dass Bildung komplett kostenlos war. Obwohl das banal klingt ist das etwas, von dem wir nur träumen können. Wisst ihr was: obwohl ich westdeutsch bin, kann ich die Nostalgie verstehen. Klar, es gab Missstände, darunter die undemokratischen Wahlen und die eben genannte Staatssicherheit (Stasi), doch ich glaube, dass die DDR sich bessern hätte können, wenn sie die Zeit dazu gehabt hätte. Vergesst nicht, dass zu dem Zeitpunkt der Kalte Krieg herrschte, die DDR sehr isoliert und arm war, die Regierung unter Zeit- und Handlungsdruck stand und dann auch noch zahlreiche Menschen in die BRD flohen, wodurch die DDR ausblutete.
Und letzten Endes wurde die DDR dann von der BRD annektiert, wobei die DDR-Bürger automatisch eine BRD-Staatszugehörigkeit bekamen, was völkerrechtlich fragwürdig ist, denn einem Menschen darf seine Staatszugehörigkeit nicht geraubt werden. Insofern ist die Nostalgie sogar noch verständlicher. Immer mehr Ostdeutsche realisierten erst, was sie hatten, als sie es verloren, und es ist verständlich, dass sie es wieder wollen.

I posted the first verse a few months ago. Got some good feedback. Reworked it and added more.
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I really like to write but I've never recorded before
I'm sort of at war with myself I need to sort out the score
Pull the corporate cord and restore my core to before
I gave up on my dreams. I'm still asleep but I'm snoring and bored
My mind is stored in the floor
I used to be high but no more
Man how I long to be like the strong I adore
Those who followed their dreams. Even being too poor to afford
The things that it seems are out lords at the store
It's my soul that I tore. And I implore myself to make a change
In this day and age it seems insane we have to play this game
Just to punch our ticket for a seat on this gravy train.
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The weight of the world is heavy. My feet feel stuck
I have to heal my heart and soul and with a little bit of luck
I'll be running down my dreams instead of just chasing a buck
My mask is off now and what I'm facing is tough
They got off to an early lead but now I'm lacing 'em up
I have to ask myself am I crazy or what
To be here, standing at the starting line
My heart is fine, deep down I know that this next part is mine
I'm sorry I waited I'm late and past my departing time
Now or never, get it going, I can't fall too far behind
I realize that until now I have hardly tried
Soon when you look at me you'll be starry eyed

Jantama Kan!!, episode 4
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To find connections, with that electricity. One a bit clingy always chomping at the bot to hear from one another. More then a day. Seeking longerterm friends for daily convo and selfie wars to show our moods. a connection would boost my mood. To get that butterflies in stomach feeling from notifications. Like coffee football star wars and reading among other interests. Complicated status so maybe one in same boat. Just someone to make me smile would be nice.

Old peasant legends tell of a magnificent treasure at the peak of Firetop Mountain in the realm of Titan. This treasure is sought out by many adventurers, although few make it back out of the mountains in one piece, and none are able to find the two-locked chest containing the prize. The treasure is guarded by an enigmatic warlock who commands terrible beasts to guard the chest’s keys. Some say he's old, some say he's young, some say his cards are his source of power, others say it’s his black gloves. The only thing that the peasants can agree on was his name; Zagor.
The terrible warlock would fight three different adventurers on their quests to claim his treasure. Each time, if the reader makes the right choices and defeats Zagor in combat, he manages to crawl back from the blackness of death using another morbid spell. Upon his third incarnation, he even made the jump from the realm of Titan to a new world called Amarillia. It's here that the sorcerer would finally meet his end, burned to ashes in the mystical Heartfires.
Feats come from three books, The Warlock of Firetop Mountain, Return to Firetop Mountain and Legend of Zagor. Hover over a feat to see what book it’s from. Since they’re Choose Your Own Adventure books, they aren’t distinguished by chapters but rather by paragraph numbers, which are included in the images themselves.

General

Human Form

• He has a Skill stat of 11 and a Stamina stat of 18. This makes Zagor more skilled than a Vampire, who can catch the player’s sword, and tougher than a Giant.
  • If the player burns his magic cards, Zagor physically shrinks, his Skill stat goes down to 7 and his Stamina stat goes down to 11.

Resurrected Form

• After resurrecting into a patchwork body, he maintains his stats of 11 in Skill and 18 in Stamina
• If the second adventurer kills him a second time, they return to identify the corpse a few days later. Zagor’s body is completely dead, but he’s grinning and his skeletal left hand is missing, something the adventurer worries will lead to a third encounter down the line.

Demon Form

• In another realm called Amarillia, a war with a Bone Demon ended when the Casket of Souls was created, which allowed the humans to banish the demon to another plane. However, Zagor’s pernicious spirit felt this event in the realm of Titan and used the Casket to manifest himself in Amarillia. By crossing into the parallel world, he bonded with the trapped Bone Demon, and Zagor’s third physical form is a demonic/human hybrid. This incarnation grows stronger as Zagor spends time in the demon’s lair, Castle Argent, and can only be killed for good by the Heartfires below the castle.
• Zagor’s Demon form is four meters tall and visibly strong. He fights using a rune-covered staff.
• As his Demon-Thing form, his stats go up to 16 in Skill and 20 in Stamina. He uses a variety of attacks in combat, like a Thunderbolt spell, a Fireball spell, a Life Drain spell that lowers an adventurer’s Skill and Stamina stat, a Poisoned Dagger, and melee attacks with his Taloned Fists. If the Zagor Demon reaches critical health without dying, it will become Frenzied and thrash around violently.
• After beating the Zagor Demon, the adventurer must throw his body into the magic Heartfires to completely destroy him. If he’s not thrown into these flames, he will revive himself and slay the adventurer with his claws.

Magic Abilities

Immunities

• He cannot be harmed by non-magical means. Attacks like arrows do no damage to Zagor.
• Zagor is immune to the magic paralysis spell used by a genie
• He can see through the effects of invisibility-granting garments
• If an adventurer attempts to use offensive magic against the Zagor Demon, his reaction depends on if he has a higher Attack Strength than the opponent. If his stat is higher, his Magic Screen spell cancels the offensive spell and damages the adventurer.
• He’s immune to instant Death Spells
• A master thief’s flowing cloak allows the wearer to confuse enemies, lowering the hit rate of their attacks. However, Zagor sees through this technique and is unaffected by the distracting garment.
• If an adventurer uses a handheld catapult on Zagor, and Zagor has a higher Attack Strength stat, the projectile misses and the adventurer is injured

Combat-Related

• He’s capable of teleporting around the room as well as levitating
• If the player shoots an arrow at Zagor, he lifts a hand and halts in mid-flight, centimeters away from his chest
• Shoots a plume of blue flames from his hand
• Magically slows the adventurer as they climb up some stairs. As this happens, Zagor magically summons a mid-level, poisonous monster to duel the adventurer. Damage done by this creature is transferred to Zagor himself. This spell can be neutralized by an adventurer’s protective spell.
• He can form invisible barriers, useful for creating obstacles to knock flying adventurers from the air

Control Over Life

• While he initially appears as a withered, ancient man, he quickly assumes a younger form in opulent clothing when preparing to fight the player
• Right before his defeat in the fist book, Zagor cast a dark spell on himself called Raise Dead, preventing his spirit from fully dying
• Coming back from the dead was not a perfect process, and most of Zagor’s body is decomposing. He must have his minions claim body parts from living victims in order to replace his failing body, piece by piece.

Curses

• He uses a curse to raise deceased residents of Firetop Mountain as his Undead servants
• He’s cursed the land around Firetop Mountain. The once red rocks have turned black, and livestock who graze around the mountain die sickening deaths shortly afterwards.

Other Abilities

• He has a hypnotic gaze and his voice seems to come from the walls of the cave rather than his mouth
• If the player finds and uses an Invisibility Potion, Zagor can still sense their presence and track them through scent
• Zagor personally rigs a trap with a spell called Demon’s Breath. If the adventurer stands too close to a wall, a puff of gas is released that continually poisons them until they eat orc fleas.
• Zagor can draw his monsters from other planes of existence. This is how, upon his jump from Titan to Amarillia, Castle Argent is already full of his minions.
• When an adventurer opens a casket, Zagor casts a spell that further decomposes and animates the corpse within to attack the adventurer. This spell is performed over a great distance.
• He can sense when his name is uttered in Castle Argent and dispatch monsters to that location

Magic Artifacts

Zagor's Portrait

• The adventurer can come across Zagor’s painting in Firetop Mountain, a frightening portrait that lowers their Skill stat through intimidation
  • If the adventurer draws their sword against the artwork, the blade is telekinetically grabbed and dropped on them, wounding their face
  • If the adventurer draws a wooden stake against the artwork, their wrist is suddenly wracked with pain and they drop the weapon. They also lose one more Skill point before fleeing.
  • If the adventurer throws cheese at the painting, Zagor laughs at them
  • If the adventurer produces the jewel found in the Iron Cyclops, the painting is defeated and the adventurer receives two Skill points
• A different painting found in Castle Argent uses a telepathic attack to frighten an adventurer and lower their Luck stat

Elementals

• As a tradeoff of using the Raise Dead spell on himself, the powers that be placed brought Elementals to his lair in Firetop Mountain. These supernatural beings are the only thing that can truly harm Zagor and must be summoned by using a dragon’s tooth along with an awakening word. However, Zagor can also subjugate these forces under his rule after he gathers his own summoning artifacts.
• If at any point, the adventurer fails to produce the right dragon tooth during the duel with Zagor, then Zagor’s Elemental will pick them up and throw them at a wall, rendering them unconscious. If they fail to say the right magic word, they also be magically rendered unconscious by a telekinetic backlash.
• Upon encountering the adventurer, he first summons his Demonic Air Elemental with a yellow crystal and magic chants
• If his Air Elemental is defeated by the adventurer’s Earth Elemental, Zagor summons a Water Elemental
• If the Water Elemental is defeated by the adventurer’s Air Elemental, Zagor summons an Earth Elemental
• If the Earth Elemental is defeated by the adventurer’s Fire Elemental, Zagor will summon an identical Fire Elemental
• If the Fire Elemental is defeated by the adventurer’s Water Elemental, Zagor will finally get out of his throne and fight personally

Other Items

• Zagor has complete knowledge of the secrets of Firetop Mountain and controls all of the beasts within. This information has been collected in his spellbook.
• A silver earring is found on a Cave Troll. If the adventurer puts it on, it turns into a living earwig that attempts to enter the person’s ear and attack their brain. This Brainbiter is described as one of Zagor’s enchanted assassins.
• A silver necklace is found on a Goblin. Upon contact with human skin, it turns into a feral rat with poisonous bites. The charm is said to have been created by Zagor.
• Magic cards from his magic set offer a variety of positive and negative effects for those who manage to collect, on, including: one that turns into a magically terrifying face, one that lowers the holder’s Skill and Luck stats, a blank card, one that confers Stamina and Luck into the holder and one that can turn into a silver dagger that can weaken Zagor himself

Weaknesses

• A jewel found in an Iron Cyclops can easily kill Zagor. If the player can find and produce this item during the last battle, the Warlock is aged into dust.
• The adventurer can collect Golden Talismans in Castle Argent, which can reduce Zagor’s Skill stat

Hi,
I wrote this yesterday, and initially didn't want to post, but so many are in trouble, that I figured it might help some.
I've had another demonic dream, that get me an idea of what's going on behind the scenery. Normally I remember the details of dreams well, but these, are kind-of through a veil, and I just remember the 'feel' of them. Several days prior and after I didn't not have any meaningful dreams, just chaotic flashbacks. Some year ago, before Sweden joined NATO, I'd have dream of Goat, the one from the satanic pentagram, rallying sleepy norse people to war.
Around yesterday's dream, the sleep was not restful - I'm tired, and I've got a ton of shit going on, but I am doing what I can do - keep developing the cone of probable futures.
Anyway, in the dream, I found myself driving at night, and in the next scene, I was entering, undercover, into some large, highrise office building... walking past many office-ridden souls, events, and other distractions, and found myself somehow in a middle of some large demonic ritual, with the same 'feel' to it, as the previous one. The thing is, that a lot of famous people were in it. You know, the faces you've seen on TV. They didn't even know where they are... and what are they taking part in.
I don't rember what I did, but my mind was focused on disrupt the ritual. Something went wrong, and there was some upheaval, and everyone, including myself, left.. But wow, I was tired as heck when I woke up.

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Legion of the Eternal Empire (LEE) - 510M+ GP - 18:30 PST / 21:30 EST / 02:30 GMT Guild Reset - We Use HotUtils/HotBot for tracking tickets, guild event participation, and reminders. - We have dedicated Discord channels for TB, TW, SBR, and Bots for members to use.
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Hello, I recently re-installed SoulWorker a week ago and have found that my old main chara Lily was gone and has its inventory merged with my Ephnel that I made a few years back before I stopped playing. I was disheartened to know that so I made a new character which is Dhana.
I just finished the whole Grace City West War arc and just gotten to Arcadia Realm. Obviously, my Dhana is now at lvl 76, but I'm still using the lvl 68 gear set from the weapon PKG thingy. Do I farm whatever is needed to craft Pale Ashes set or just keep on progressing through the main story? Also what and where I can farm the materials for Pale Ashes set

TL; DR: Do people really follow religion because they ACTUALLY believe that its the word from the ULTIMATE ALL POWERFULL BEING, or do they pretend to follow it because they agree that everyone should follow these rules and it gives them piece of mind because otherwise who would punish the rich and powerful criminals and it gives them meaning and theres no alternative system that teaches fundamental morale and controls people action when the Law cannot and unites everyone under one umbrella?
I am not a religious person. I am not an atheist either. I think religion is important and it has its roles and place in a society, I think it has a LOT OF bad things but at the same time I also think overall it also drives people to be better, to do good and unite them, so a force for good. so now, my perspective on Islam is this, A man named Mohammed saw unjust, hideous crimes happening all over his homeland and really hated it. so, he wanted to change the society, so he went in a cave, did really intensive research, thought a lot and came up with the most elaborate detailed plan, a set of rules that he thought would last for the rest of the time this world exists. yes, I'm saying that Islam could be his made up, and i think all religion is made up by people. we can talk more about this in comments and i haven't even got to my question yet.
so my question is, do people actually absolutely believe that the Qur'an is the word of the ultimate poweAllah? like to the core? I think nobody really believes in any religion absolutely 100% and are just afraid to admit it and so everybody pretends to be hardcore religious. if they do, then how are they not terrified? how can they just follow some and ignore the other rules? I think they just go with it because they innately or intuitively think that yeah, these rules are good and we all should follow it, so they just follow the rules for themselves to feel better and to judge other people, but they don't ACTUALLY believe that these words are ACTUALLY from a SUPER ALMIGHTY BEING that literally CREATED all of the universe and created all life? like, the universe is so HUGE and we are just tiny tiny tiny pieces of nothing but like a bacteria in this world. why would this ultra powerful almighty being care about us puny little bacteria? and if he really does care then why isn't he more involved? there's so many bad stuff happening all over the world, cancer, aids, people murdering people for wealth, wars, kids dying, people born without legs, or eyes or hands. like i could go on and on.
please be as honest as you can be. i am born in a muslim family. the fact that i even asked this question proves that I don't even have my Iman. but i still pray my salah time to time just to make my mother happy. and I genuinely hate like 90% of the Muslim "huzur"s or people who preach islam. they are so ugly and say such bad things, I know that they are not the best example of a true educated person in islam but still this is what religion sets up people to be, not think about life critically, scientifically just submit your soul to an invisible being and just blindly follow whatever he says, just because he says so.

Vor 9 Tagen hat sich meine (Ex-)Freundin W19 von mir M20 getrennt. Wir waren zu dem Zeitpunkt knapp 3 Jahre zusammen und sind im November letzten Jahres in unsere erste gemeinsame Wohnung gezogen.
Die Zeit des Umzugs war stressig, da ich studiere und sie sich in einer schulischen Ausbildung befindet. Entsprechend war gerade das Umstellen des Alltags, zusammen in einer neuen Stadt, eine große Herausforderung und hat selbstverständlich zwischendurch zu Streitereien geführt.
Dass meine Ex nicht unbedingt emotional stabil ist, war mir auch vor dem Zusammenziehen bereits bewusst. Zu Beginn unserer gemeinsamen Geschichte durchlebten wir eine sehr schöne Phase der frischen Verliebtheit und wurden bereits nach einem Monat ein Paar. Sie gab mir das Gefühl, der schönste, klügste und lustigste Junge überhaupt zu sein. Ich fühlte mich teilweise wie in Trance, wenn ich mit ihr zusammen war.
Ab dem Beginn unserer Beziehung, legte sie sehr viel Wert auf gemeinsame Zeit. Sie war beinahe besessen von mir und verbrachte jeden Tag Zeit mit mir. Dies war mir zu Beginn oft zu viel, ich kommunizierte dies jedoch nicht, aus Angst heraus sie zu verletzen. Mit der Zeit wurde der andauernde Kontakt für mich normal und es kam zu einem Punkt, in welchem sie quasi mit mir im Kinderzimmer meines Elternhauses lebte. Hier waren wir vielleicht 6-9 Monate zusammen und ich war weiterhin voll und ganz in sie verliebt.
Langsam offenbarten sich jedoch auch Wunden aus ihrer Vergangenheit. Sie war oft umgezogen, kam in jungen Jahren aus einem anderen Land nach Deutschland und wurde in der Schule gemobbt. Einen Vater gab es in ihrem Leben nicht und neue Partner der Mutter waren teils übergriffig. All dies hinterließ Spuren. Sie war oft antriebslos und ohne offensichtlichen Grund traurig, oft weinte sie wegen Kleinigkeiten und war Eifersüchtig auf meine beste Freundin seit Kindheitstagen. In Situationen mit anderen Menschen versuchte sie der Mittelpunkt zu sein und redete meist ohne Ende. Wenn ich sie oder ihre Familie kritisierte, kam es oft zum Eklat und sie suchte die Distanz. Dabei musste die Kritik nicht groß sein und war in den meisten Fällen auch angebracht. Meist suchte sie dann die Distanz und floh zu ihrer Mutter, um weiterem Konflikt aus dem Weg zu gehen. Zu einer Klärung kam es dann meist nur durch ein Einwirken und eine Entschuldigung meinerseits.
Nach etwa 1.5 Jahren Beziehung zog sie in ein Haus, welches quasi einer Baustelle glich. Dies schlug sich stark auf ihre psychische Gesundheit nieder und nach einem abendlichen Spaziergang mit vielen Tränen ihrerseits, bot ich ihr an, dass wir zusammenziehen. Monate vorher hatte ich ihr Erbitten diesbezüglich immer wieder abgelehnt und ihr gesagt, dass ich mich in meinem Elternhaus noch sehr wohl fühle. Sie so am Boden zu sehen, stimmte mich jedoch um und ich stellte meine Bedürfnisse hinten an.
Schnell fanden wir eine Wohnung und zogen dann im November zusammen. Von hier an stritten wir öfters. Sie litt eindeutig an einer Kaufsucht und stellte nach und nach unsere kleine Wohnung zu. Der große Kleiderschrank war zu 75% von ihr in Beschlag genommen, die Garderobe im Flur ebenso. Im Wohnzimmer stand eine Garderobe, bis oben hin gefüllt mit ihren Dingen. Dass sie ein Problem hatte, war mir da eindeutig bewusst. Kraft ihr zu helfen, hatte ich nur bedingt. Ich bat sie oft, sich einen Psychologen zu suchen, doch sie wollte dies nie.
Neben der Uni bin ich seit nunmehr einem Jahr selbstständig mit einem Online-Shop und habe zeitgleich auch noch viele organisatorische Dinge übernommen. Um den Kontakt zu den Vermietern, Strom, Internet, Router, Ordnung und Essen kümmerte ich mich. Parallel dazu erledigte ich auch immer wieder Dinge für meine Exfreundin, druckte Paketlabels, korrigierte Schulaufgaben/Präsentationen und bestellte Dinge für ihre Familie. Das alles wuchs mir langsam über den Kopf, dadurch war ich oft gereizt und hatte kein Verständnis dafür, dass sie oft nicht zur Schule ging, ihren Führerschein nach drei Jahren nicht beendet hatte und ihr Geld weiterhin für Unmengen an Kleidung ausgab. Sprach ich dies jedoch an, kam es sofort zum Streit, sie wurde laut, knallte Türen und wollte nicht mit mir in einem Bett schlafen. Immer entschuldigte ich mich und sprach besagte Probleme nicht mehr an. Meine eigenen Probleme stressten mich so sehr, dass ich im Februar zusammenklappte. Einen Monat lag ich praktisch nur im Bett. Erbrechen, Durchfall, Schwindel, Kopfschmerz und eine unglaubliche Schwäche. In dieser Zeit kümmerte sie sich um mich und umsorgte mich. Als ich wieder auf den Beinen war, ging es jedoch weiter wie zuvor.
Dann fing es an, dass sie Nach Hause kam und von irgendwelchen Schulkameraden erzählte, die sie auf der Straße gesehen hatte. Sie schwärmte, dass diese "ein mieses Glow-Up" gehabt hätten und sie nun mit ihnen snappen würde. In den Club gehen wollte sie mit ihnen auch. Mir gefiel das ganz und gar nicht und das sagte ich ihr auch. Sie snappte jedoch fleißig weiter. Vermutlich hätte mich das kalt gelassen, wenn bei uns alles gut gelaufen wäre. Jedoch bestand unser Sexleben aus ~1 mal Sex im Monat, welcher von mir initiiert wurde. Ich strotzte also nicht gerade von Selbstvertrauen und ihr Interesse an anderen Jungs tat weh. Ich versuchte sie zu binden und glücklich zu machen, indem ich ihr teure Geschenke machte. Ein gemeinsamer Urlaub für über 3000€, Schmuck, technische Gadgets und vieles mehr. Doch sie addete fleißig weiter Jungs von Partys. Als sie dann mit einer alten Freundin wieder Kontakt hatte und mit in ihre Clique aufgenommen wurde, hatte sie auch hier wieder schnell von allen Jungs das Snapchat und schrieb mit diesen. Wir kamen hier einfach nicht auf einen Nenner. Für sie waren das alles Freunde, wenige Tage nachdem sie diese kennengelernt hatte. Um den 1. Mai herum hatten wir beide eine Woche quasi frei. Ich wollte hier endlich mal wieder Zeit mit ihr verbringen und Schwung in die Beziehung bringen. Der Alltag hatte uns erwischt und die letzte romantische Geste von mir waren zwei Blumensträuße eine Woche zuvor gewesen. Doch die gesamte Woche um den 1. Mai herum war sie unterwegs, kam nur zwei Nächte Nachhause. Ich war enttäuscht und sauer. Mit ihr feiern gehen, wollte ich nicht. Ich bin introvert und hatte mich auf Zweisamkeit mit ihr gefreut. Als sie dann von Dienstag bis Samstag quasi durchgehend unterwegs war, wurde ich am Freitag langsam wütend und enttäuscht. Ich ignorierte irgendwann ihre WhatsApp-Nachrichten und änderte in einem Anfall von Hilflosigkeit mein WhatsApp Profil Bild von einem Bild mit uns beiden zu einem von mir allein. Dies war wohl die schlechteste und unreifeste Reaktion meinerseits. Sie rief mich weinend an und ich versuchte halbherzig zu beschwichtigen, sagte dass alles gut sei und sie bitte einfach mal heim kommen soll. Sie schrieb dann später, dass die Sonntag nach dem Aufstehen käme.
Am Sonntag hieß es dann, dass sie später käme. Sie würde noch mit ihren Eltern reden und ob wir was unternehmen wollten? Letztlich war sie dann gegen 18:00 Uhr in der Wohnung und meine Planungen waren sowieso zunichte. Sie war kalt und fragte über was ich reden wolle. Ich schilderte ihr, dass mir unwohl dabei sei, wenn sie mit diesen Typen Kontakt habe und auch, dass ich merke, wie sie die Aufmerksamkeit genießt. Dann bat ich sie um einen Kompromiss in dem Belang, da es für mich kein Trennungsgrund sei. Sie erwiderte, dass sie sich unsicher sei und nachdenken müsse. Sie ging dann spazieren und kam 1.5h später wieder in die Wohnung. Zu diesem Zeitpunkt war ich emotional am Ende. Zum ersten Mal in unserer Beziehung weinte ich und bekam einen regelrechten Heulkrampf. Sie nahm mich in den Arm, sagte: "Wir schaffen das" und ließ mich dann weinend zurück, sie flüchtete zu ihrer Mutter. Nach einer Nacht mit 2h Schlaf machte ich mich, mit zwei Blumensträußen und Schokolade bewaffnet, auf den Weg zu ihr. Nach einem kurzen Gespräch, war sie sich unsicherer als gestern bereits und sagte mir, dass sie sich mit anderen Typen wohler fühle. Dass sie sich bei mir nicht mehr wohl fühle und sich nicht mehr darauf freue Nachhause zu kommen. Sie brauche Abstand und wolle schauen, wie es ohne mich ist.
Diesen Abstand und die Unsicherheit hielt ich einen Tag durch. Am Dienstag fuhr ich zu ihr, bewaffnet mit einer Liste an Vorschlägen und einem Liebesbekenntnis, fuhr ich zu ihr. Doch unter vielen Tränen beendete sie unsere Beziehung. Sie schien voll von ihren Emotionen getrieben, unsicher und irgendwie verletzt. Sie beteuerte mir immer wieder ihre Liebe und dann, dass es einfach nicht klappt... Nun, eine Woche später, liebe ich sie immer noch wie am ersten Tag... Ich vermisse sie und die gemeinsame Zeit. Die ganze Arbeit, der Stress, all das habe ich mir nur angetan, um uns eine schöne Zukunft zu ermöglichen. Sie war mein Lebensmittelpunkt, ich bin emotional abhängig von ihr. Ich träume nur von ihr und Weine viel. Einen Arzt habe ich bereits aufgesucht und suche gerade schon nach einem Platz für eine Psychotherapie.
Habt ihr irgendwelche Tipps, um mit der Trennung umzugehen? Ich bin ihr schon überall entfolgt, um sie nicht zu sehen. Leider haben wir ja die gemeinsame Wohnung, aus welcher ich noch ausziehen muss. Gerade schlafe ich bei meinen Eltern auf der Couch.

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Tanguy Nianzou Biografie
Tanguy Nianzou ist ein aufstrebender Fußballstar, der in der Bundesliga für den FC Bayern München spielt. Geboren am 7. Juni 2002 in Douala, Kamerun, begann Nianzou seine Fußballkarriere in jungen Jahren und zeigte schon früh sein Talent und seine Leidenschaft für das Spiel.
Sein Durchbruch erfolgte, als er sich dem FC Bayern München anschloss. Im Jahr 2020 unterzeichnete er einen Vertrag mit dem deutschen Giganten und wurde schnell zu einem vielversprechenden Spieler in der Verteidigungslinie des Teams.
Nianzou ist für seine Vielseitigkeit und seine Fähigkeit bekannt, verschiedene Positionen in der Verteidigung zu spielen. Er ist ein talentierter Verteidiger, der sowohl körperlich robust als auch taktisch klug ist. Seine Fähigkeit, den Ball abzufangen, und seine Präsenz in der Luft machen ihn zu einem wichtigen Bestandteil der Mannschaft.
Obwohl er noch jung ist, hat Nianzou bereits sein Potenzial auf internationaler Ebene gezeigt. Er hat für die französische U21-Nationalmannschaft gespielt und wird von vielen als zukünftiger Star des französischen Fußballs angesehen.
Neben seinem Talent auf dem Platz ist Nianzou auch für seine Bescheidenheit und Professionalität bekannt. Er ist ein ehrgeiziger Spieler, der hart arbeitet, um sein Spiel zu verbessern und seine Ziele zu erreichen.
Mit seinem Talent, seiner Entschlossenheit und seinem Engagement hat Tanguy Nianzou das Potenzial, einer der herausragenden Verteidiger seiner Generation zu werden und eine erfolgreiche Karriere auf höchstem Niveau zu genießen.
Tanguy Nianzou Fußballkarriere
Tanguy Nianzou ist ein aufstrebendes Talent im Weltfußball. Geboren am 7. Juni 2002 in Paris, Frankreich, begann er seine Fußballkarriere in der Jugendakademie des Paris Saint-Germain Football Club. Seine beeindruckenden Fähigkeiten auf dem Platz fielen schnell auf, und er stieg schnell in den Reihen des Vereins auf. Mit seiner beeindruckenden Kombination aus Geschwindigkeit, technischem Können und taktischem Verständnis machte er sich einen Namen als vielversprechendes Talent.
Im Jahr 2020 wechselte Nianzou zum FC Bayern München, einem der renommiertesten Fußballvereine der Welt. Sein Transfer zu Bayern markierte einen wichtigen Meilenstein in seiner Karriere und unterstreicht das Vertrauen, das die Top-Clubs in sein Potenzial setzen. Obwohl er in der Anfangsphase seiner Zeit bei Bayern mit Verletzungen zu kämpfen hatte, zeigte er, wenn er spielte, sein enormes Talent und seine Fähigkeit, auf höchstem Niveau zu bestehen.
Nianzou ist bekannt für seine Vielseitigkeit auf dem Platz. Er kann in verschiedenen Defensivpositionen spielen und ist gleichermaßen stark in der Luft und am Boden. Sein Spielstil wird oft mit dem von Raphael Varane verglichen, einem der besten Verteidiger seiner Generation.
Trotz seines jungen Alters hat Nianzou bereits internationale Anerkennung für seine Leistungen erhalten. Er wurde in die französische U21-Nationalmannschaft berufen und gilt als potenzieller Kandidat für zukünftige Auftritte in der französischen A-Nationalmannschaft.
Insgesamt hat Tanguy Nianzou eine vielversprechende Fußballkarriere vor sich. Mit seinem Talent, seiner Entschlossenheit und seinem Engagement für das Spiel hat er das Potenzial, zu einem der besten Verteidiger seiner Generation zu werden. Die Fußballwelt wird gespannt sein, seine Entwicklung in den kommenden Jahren zu verfolgen.
Tanguy Nianzou Transfergeschichte
Tanguy Nianzou ist ein aufstrebendes Talent im Weltfußball und seine Transfergeschichte ist bereits bemerkenswert. Geboren am 7. Juni 2002 in Yaoundé, Kamerun, begann Nianzou seine Fußballkarriere in der Jugendakademie des FC Paris Saint-Germain. Sein außergewöhnliches Talent und seine beeindruckende Leistung machten ihn schnell zu einem vielversprechenden Spieler.
Im Jahr 2020 entschied sich Nianzou für einen Wechsel zu einem anderen Top-Club, dem FC Bayern München. Der deutsche Gigant erkannte sein Potenzial und bot ihm die Möglichkeit, sich unter der Anleitung erfahrener Trainer und neben erstklassigen Spielern weiterzuentwickeln. Sein Transfer zu Bayern München markierte einen wichtigen Meilenstein in seiner Karriere und unterstrich sein Potential, auf höchstem Niveau zu spielen.
Nianzous Zeit beim FC Bayern München war geprägt von beeindruckenden Leistungen, obwohl er aufgrund von Verletzungen manchmal ausfiel. Sein Spielstil, geprägt von Kraft, Schnelligkeit und taktischem Geschick, machte ihn zu einem wichtigen Bestandteil der Mannschaft, sowohl in der Verteidigung als auch im Mittelfeld.
Trotz seines jungen Alters hat Nianzou bereits internationale Aufmerksamkeit erregt und gilt als eines der vielversprechendsten Talente im Weltfußball. Seine Transfergeschichte spiegelt wider, wie ein talentierter Spieler durch harte Arbeit, Entschlossenheit und die richtigen Entscheidungen seinen Weg zu den Spitzenclubs des Fußballs finden kann. Mit seiner Zukunft voller Potenzial und Möglichkeiten bleibt Tanguy Nianzou zweifellos ein Spieler, den es zu beobachten gilt.
Tanguy Nianzou Spielstatistiken
Tanguy Nianzou, der talentierte französische Verteidiger, hat sich schnell einen Namen in der Fußballwelt gemacht. Geboren am 7. Juni 2002 in Paris, Frankreich, begann Nianzou seine Karriere in der Jugendakademie des Paris Saint-Germain Football Club. Seine beeindruckenden Fähigkeiten und sein Potenzial wurden schnell erkannt, und er wurde zu einem vielversprechenden Spieler in der Jugendmannschaft.
Im Jahr 2020 wechselte Nianzou zum FC Bayern München, einem der renommiertesten Fußballvereine der Welt. Obwohl er zu diesem Zeitpunkt noch jung war, konnte er sich schnell in die erste Mannschaft integrieren und sein Talent unter Beweis stellen. Mit seiner beeindruckenden Physis, seinem taktischen Verständnis und seiner Fähigkeit, sowohl in der Verteidigung als auch im Mittelfeld zu spielen, hat Nianzou das Vertrauen seiner Trainer und Mitspieler gewonnen.
Seine Spielstatistiken zeigen seine fortschreitende Entwicklung und seine Fähigkeit, auf höchstem Niveau zu spielen. Obwohl er in seiner ersten Saison beim FC Bayern mit Verletzungen zu kämpfen hatte, hat er dennoch beeindruckende Leistungen gezeigt, wenn er auf dem Platz stand. Seine Präsenz in der Verteidigung hat dazu beigetragen, die Defensive des Teams zu stärken, während seine Fähigkeit, das Spiel von hinten heraus aufzubauen, auch im Angriff wichtige Impulse gesetzt hat.
Nianzou wird als einer der vielversprechendsten jungen Spieler im europäischen Fußball angesehen, und seine Spielstatistiken sind ein Beweis für sein Potenzial. Mit seiner Entschlossenheit, seinem Talent und seinem Ehrgeiz wird er zweifellos eine herausragende Karriere haben und weiterhin die Fußballwelt beeindrucken.
Tanguy Nianzou Persönliches
Tanguy Nianzou ist ein aufstrebendes Talent im Bereich des Fußballs. Geboren am 7. Juni 2002 in Paris, Frankreich, begann er seine Fußballkarriere in jungen Jahren. Sein außergewöhnliches Talent wurde schnell erkannt, und er wurde Teil des Jugendakademie des französischen Fußballvereins Paris Saint-Germain (PSG). Dort durchlief er verschiedene Altersgruppen und zeigte stets sein großes Potenzial.
Im Jahr 2020 wechselte Nianzou zum deutschen Rekordmeister FC Bayern München. Sein Debüt in der Bundesliga gab er am 18. Oktober 2020 gegen Eintracht Frankfurt. Seitdem hat er sich als fester Bestandteil der Mannschaft etabliert und hat bereits sein Können auf internationaler Ebene unter Beweis gestellt.
Nianzou ist bekannt für seine Vielseitigkeit auf dem Spielfeld. Er kann sowohl in der Innenverteidigung als auch im defensiven Mittelfeld spielen. Seine Stärken liegen in seiner Schnelligkeit, seinem starken Zweikampfverhalten und seiner Fähigkeit, das Spiel zu lesen. Trotz seines jungen Alters zeigt er eine bemerkenswerte Reife und ist ein wichtiger Bestandteil des Teams.
Abseits des Platzes ist Tanguy Nianzou für seine Bescheidenheit und seinen Ehrgeiz bekannt. Er ist bestrebt, sich stetig weiterzuentwickeln und sein Spiel zu verbessern. Sein persönliches Ziel ist es, einer der besten Fußballspieler der Welt zu werden.
Mit seinem Talent, seiner Hingabe und seinem Fleiß hat Tanguy Nianzou das Potenzial, eine beeindruckende Karriere im Fußball zu erreichen. Fußballfans auf der ganzen Welt werden gespannt sein, seine Entwicklung in den kommenden Jahren zu verfolgen.

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I'd like to preface this by stating that the way I behave on YouTube is the most G-Rated way I conduct myself both on and off the internet. I've kept up to date with YouTube's war on no-no words, dogwater automated moderation, and near decade-long censorship campaign following the adpocalypse & COPPA dilemma and have remained mindful of what I say on the platform for a very long time. I'm proactive about not using bad words, tastefully navigating sensitive subject matters, and preemptively censoring words I think might be flagged by T H E S Y S T E M. I rarely engage in heated discussions on YouTube, as I feel like a lot of commenters are probably kids. I pretty much never use cuss words, my display name isn't inappropriate, and I have zero history of abusive/offensive/inflammatory behavior on the platform. It's also probably worth stating that I do not harbor extreme views on most issues. I do not express any form(s) of homophobia, transphobia, xenophobia, racism, etc. on YouTube.
However, over the past few months, all of my comments have been disappearing - and I mean almost ALL of them. I've seen posts about this issue all over the internet and decided to do some digging to find out what's happening.

YouTube on 'removed/disappearing comments'

The YouTube Help Community/Support forums have a bunch of posts about this that not only don't receive answers, but are locked and marked as redundant duplicates of this "Solved" post - a post that doesn't even address comments disappearing, but simply troubleshoots mobile app cache glitches where your comments won't display.
Delving into the actual documentation of automated comment removal on the site points to supposed "inappropriate comment" notification website features that I've never encountered or even knew existed:

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Comment timeouts
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Before you post a comment, you may get a reminder that’s intended to encourage respectful interactions on YouTube. This reminder shows when our system finds that your comment could be considered offensive to others. Reflect on your comment, or review our Community Guidelines before you post it.
Note: This reminder is only available for English and Spanish comments right now.

I have never once received a comment removal warning notification. I have never received any notifications about my account/comments violating the Community Guidelines. I have never received a notification about my commenting privileges being paused/revoked due to Community Guideline violations. I have also scoured all my emails with YouTube to see if there was ever any notice of actions taken against my account and there's nothing.
I looked into people having issues who have received these notifications and was not surprised with what I found: If you receive Community Guideline violation notifications, YouTube doesn't tell you which comment was flagged and almost never accurately interprets your comment's subject matter. The system is plagued with false positives for inappropriate or abusive material. If you unintentionally or unwittingly posted something inappropriate, there is absolutely no way for you to know what you said that was wrong and take corrective action.
What does this all mean? Well, If you're familiar with YouTube, you'll know that whenever a "feature" or policy is poorly explained, hard to get clarification on, or otherwise opaque, it often means there is a hidden mechanism or internal position at play that they don't want to be widely known.

Experiment

Over the past few months, every time I leave a comment, I close out and come back later to see if it was removed, then try to determine if certain words I used were being flagged by YouTube as inappropriate slang or dog whistle terms. However, I couldn't identify anything specific in my comments that was problematic, nor could I find any correlation between their subject matter and YouTube's apparent dislike for them.
So then I just started commenting other comments verbatim to see what would happen. The single sentence drive-by-gag bot-like Top Comments that are just garbage recycled one liners that add zero value to the platform. Direct quotes from the video, "HE WAS READY FOR ALL THE SMOKE😂", "Nah bruh didn't have to do him like that ☠️", etc.
Those stay up.
Then I would occasionally post a comment I would normally post. A longform response to the subject matter of the video, thoughtful attempts at starting discussions, or actual comprehensive explanations of something. Some examples would be an interpretation of a movie/show scene, my opinion on a music album, or just literally the "thoughts" the video's creator told me to post below lmfao.
Gone.
Don't even show up in my activity history.

Conclusion

The only reasonable conclusion I have for why this is happening is that YouTube's automated content monitoring systems are inundated with parsing tremendous amounts of data and can't reasonably contend with users who regularly post long comments. On top of this, the somewhat unsupervised nature of their algorithms has led to their bots conflating longer form comments with abusive/inappropriate material for two reasons:

• Abusive/inappropriate comments are typically associated with arguments, which play out in longer form, or necessitate long responses.
  
• The most popular and well-received comments are short.
  

As a result, users who regularly post longer comments will inadvertently be flagged. Their activity will take longer to become public, they will receive Community Guideline violations for no reason, and their comments will begin to regularly disappear entirely. For the most part, only their simple, single-sentence comments will remain visible.
There's your YouTube conspiracy tea for the week. Let me know your thoughts.