Opening Doors {Winter Melodies Round III Trailer}

Song: Fight for Glory
Artist: X-Ray Dog
Album: None
Footage: Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children Complete, Final Fantasy XIII, Final Fantasy Versus XIII (trailers), one shot from Final Fantasy VIII
Footage Source: Torrent (purchased first), uniquescenes.un.funpic.de; gametrailers.com, bluelaguna.net
Theme: Noctis x Cloud, Tifa x Lightning, secrets
Program: the masking-less Sony Vegas Movie Studio

Key Notes to Understand: At 1:14, it's just a handshake to signal a bargain.
The stone angel is the unofficial sign for the Seventh Heaven bar, and it's far more recognized than the actual sign.
The "none of them are normal" thing is NOT a reference to the fact that none are straight.

Things You're Supposed to Get from the Trailer:
- Noctis is a warrior prince. (Duh.)
- Cloud is a high-ranking member of the court, and known for being a daredevil. (Duh.)
- Noctis and Cloud are longstanding lovers so deep in the closet they couldn't poke the door with Masamune. To mix and mangle metaphors.
- Tifa runs a bar in the city.
- Lightning's a famous soldier who's in the news a lot.
- Lightning stops by Tifa's bar to drown her sorrows; Tifa tries (successfully) to cheer her up. In the process, Tifa gets Lighting's number.
- Tifa and Lightning go on a date to watch some fireworks and generally start a relationship.
- None of the above are ordinary people. (This is NOT a reference to the fact that all of them are gay.)
- Drama's gonna happen.
- Tifa and Noctis run into each other. Noctis reacts with hostility and Tifa panics and runs for dear life. Noctis calls Cloud and sends him to head her off. Lightning finds her later passed out. She's upset that Tifa didn't tell her about the reasons behind this, and is furious that this happened.
- Noctis and Cloud are dramatically outed.
- Cloud gets attacked by a homophobic mob.
- Noctis and his friends drive to Tifa's bar, where Tifa and Noctis strike a deal.
- Tifa, Lightning, Cloud, and Noctis all end up on the same side.
- Lightning confesses to something that has the rest of them horrified.
- The fake movie is called Opening Doors.
- I decided to quote the last stanza of Matthew Arnold's "Dover Beach" at the end. (The quote is not exact. Properly it ought to be:
Ah, love, let us be true
To one another! For the world, which seems
To lie before us like a land of drams
So various, so beautiful, so new
Hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light
Nor certitude, nor peace, nor help for pain;
And we are here as on a darkling plain
Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight
Where ignorant armies clash by night."
I think you can see why I didn't put all that in there.

For more information including the full plot of the imaginary movie, see here:
http://sour-idealist.livejournal.com/915.html

Disclaimer (which is actually relevant, sorta) now:
This is a purely fan-made trailer, for a nonexistant movie. No money is being made off of it, it has no connections to any of the companies (i.e. Square Enix and X-Ray Dog), none of that. Quote is by Matthew Arnold, but as it was written in 1867 I believe I am well within my legal rights to use it. And no, it hasn't actually been approved by the MPAA, either.

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[Sylvia25100]

how beautiful!!!!! how AWESOME!!! kyaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!

[QueenOfDreaming]

@Sylvia25100 Thank you!

[YakuKikyo]

Interesting trailer.^^

[QueenOfDreaming]

@GuardianFarron Hmm. I definitely get the appeal of mind-game-based pairings, but at the same time, my ships for Lightning tend to be based on who I think would make her happy. So I'm not sure how into that I'd be. It's definitely a cool idea, though!

[GuardianFarron]

@QueenOfDreaming I don't know yet, it comes out for me on Friday haha :P But I think they have from what I've seen on youtube. Possibly anyways, I just like the idea that Ultimecia would try to toy with Lightning's mind and make her question why she's on Cosmos' Side and stuff

[QueenOfDreaming]

@GuardianFarron Lightning/Ultimicia? I'm not particularly familiar with the latter, but from what I've heard, it could be interesting. Do they have scenes together in Duodecim?

[GuardianFarron]

@QueenOfDreaming (hehe well I call them Lifa cuz it's quicker to type!) You're very welcome! Also, I'm trying to get more people interested in LightningxUltimecia..it's hard finding fans of them as a Yuri couple until Duodecim is released internationally...

[QueenOfDreaming]

@GuardianFarron Wow, thank you so much! :D (And Lightning/Tifa has a name no w? Yes!)

[GuardianFarron]

OMG I LOVE THIS!!! Amazing Lifa edting <3 I really really love it

[QueenOfDreaming]

@xxDenisLightninCCxx Yay!