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• house of self-undoing by bachmanroad

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

  • Teen And Up Audiences
  • No Archive Warnings Apply
  • F/M
  • Work in Progress

  02 Jun 2026

  Tags

  • No Archive Warnings Apply
  • Lucrecia Crescent/Vincent Valentine
  • Lucrecia Crescent/Hojo
  • Lucrecia Crescent & Vincent Valentine
  • Hojo & Vincent Valentine
  • Vincent Valentine
  • Lucrecia Crescent
  • Gast Faremis
  • Hojo (Compilation of FFVII)
  • Jenova (Compilation of FFVII)
  • Galian Beast (Compilation of FFVII)
  • Chaos (Compilation of FFVII)
  • Drabble Collection
  • Medical Experimentation
  • Unethical Experimentation
  • Complicated Relationships
  • Turk Vincent Valentine
  • Pre-Canon
  • Shinra Mansion | Shinra Manor (Compilation of FFVII)
  • There's Something Wrong With That House
  • Misogyny

  Summary

  A loosely connected drabble series surrounding the Jenova Project and beyond. Pre-canon.

  1 - The members of the Jenova Project are introduced to the last Ancient.

  2 - "Her fingers danced along book spines, but it was him she was really trying to read."

  Dr Lucrecia Crescent finds Agent Valentine in the manor library.

  Language:

  English

  Words:

  2,571

  Chapters:

  2/?

  Comments:

  10

  Kudos:

  10

  Bookmarks:

  1

  Hits:

  104

• something hungry by bachmanroad

  Fandoms: Compilation of Final Fantasy VII, Dirge of Cerberus: Final Fantasy VII, Final Fantasy VII (Video Game 1997)  

  • Explicit
  • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
  • F/M
  • Complete Work

  03 Mar 2026

  Tags

  • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
  • Lucrecia Crescent/Vincent Valentine
  • Vincent Valentine
  • Lucrecia Crescent
  • One-Sided Relationship
  • Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence
  • Lucrecia Leaves Her Cave And Joins The Real World
  • Cannibalism
  • Guro
  • One Night Stands
  • No Sex
  • A Different Kind of Eating Out
  • Vincent Valentine is a hopeless romantic (this is not a good thing)
  • Jenova Cell Side Effects (Compilation of FFVII)

  Summary

  When is a monster not a monster? Oh, when you are the reason it has become so mangled.

  Language:

  English

  Words:

  3,052

  Chapters:

  1/1

  Comments:

  2

  Kudos:

  7

  Bookmarks:

  1

  Hits:

  89

• ladder to the sun by bachmanroad

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

  • Mature
  • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
  • Gen
  • Complete Work

  09 Feb 2026

  Tags

  • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
  • Aerith Gainsborough & Cloud Strife
  • Tifa Lockhart & Cloud Strife
  • Cloud Strife & Barret Wallace
  • Zack Fair & Cloud Strife
  • Sephiroth & Cloud Strife
  • AVALANCHE & Cloud Strife
  • Cloud Strife
  • Aerith Gainsborough
  • Tifa Lockhart
  • Zack Fair
  • Sephiroth (Compilation of FFVII)
  • Barret Wallace
  • Vincent Valentine
  • Psychological Trauma
  • Medical Experimentation
  • Unethical Experimentation
  • Puppet Cloud Strife
  • Dissociation
  • The Lifestream (Compilation of FFVII)
  • Non-Chronological
  • Whump
  • Mental Instability
  • Cloud Strife Has Mental Health Issues
  • Cloud Strife Has Memory Issues
  • Psychosis
  • Jenova Cell Side Effects (Compilation of FFVII)
  • Mako Poisoning (Compilation of FFVII)
  • Alternate Timelines
  • Blood and Gore
  • Time Loop
  • Hopeful Ending

  Summary

  The Lifestream is a confusing place.

  Language:

  English

  Words:

  15,888

  Chapters:

  4/4

  Comments:

  9

  Kudos:

  35

  Bookmarks:

  11

  Hits:

  576

• INERTIA CREEPS (redo) by bachmanroad

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

  • Mature
  • No Archive Warnings Apply
  • M/M
  • Work in Progress

  01 Nov 2025

  Tags

  • No Archive Warnings Apply
  • Cloud Strife/Vincent Valentine
  • Cloud Strife
  • Vincent Valentine
  • Tifa Lockhart
  • Barret Wallace
  • Yuffie Kisaragi
  • Marlene Wallace
  • Alternate Universe - Modern Setting
  • No Mako AU
  • Scare Actor Vincent Valentine
  • Haunted Houses
  • meet spook
  • Mental Health Issues
  • Recovery
  • Narcolepsy
  • Slow Burn
  • The Mortifying Ordeal of Being Known
  • (If you recognise this fic it's because i'm reposting it after foolishly orphaning it)

  Summary

  When a chance encounter at the Gold Saucer sees Cloud attracting the attention of one of the haunted house’s scariest monsters, he just can’t seem to get the mysterious masked figure out of his head.

  Forget meet cute, this is a meet spook.

  Language:

  English

  Words:

  22,560

  Chapters:

  3/?

  Kudos:

  1

  Hits:

  9

• DRAWN OUT LIKE AN ACHE by bachmanroad

  Fandoms: Final Fantasy VII (Video Game 1997), Compilation of Final Fantasy VII  

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

  19 Oct 2025

  Tags

  • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
  • Cloud Strife/Vincent Valentine
  • Vincent Valentine
  • Cloud Strife
  • AVALANCHE (Compilation of FFVII)
  • Veld (Compilation of FFVII)
  • Lucrecia Crescent
  • Hojo (Compilation of FFVII)
  • Vincent Valentine Week 2025
  • There Was Only One Bed
  • Secret Crush
  • Vincent Valentine is a hopeless romantic (this is not a good thing)
  • Nightmares
  • Surreal
  • Medical Trauma
  • Unethical Experimentation
  • Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder - PTSD
  • Past Torture
  • Past Lucrecia Crescent/Vincent Valentine
  • Past Veld/Vincent Valentine
  • Dental Trauma
  • Autopsies
  • Broken Bones
  • Self-Esteem Issues
  • Self-Hatred

  Summary

  Vincent never learned how to keep his hopeful heart from wanting what it couldn’t have.

  Language:

  English

  Words:

  3,897

  Chapters:

  1/1

  Comments:

  18

  Kudos:

  92

  Bookmarks:

  9

  Hits:

  610