7 7s of 7 years and 7 days in FFVII a.k.a.: FF7, or the 7 obsessions

[Unus Volatilis Angelus]

What is the deal with all the Sevens in Final Fantasy 7/VII? It happens to be the 7th of the series, Tifa's bar is the 'Seventh Heaven', You have great powers if you have 7777 Hp, Invincible with 777 digits in the DMW in Crisis Core, the true story begins seven years ago at Nimbleheim, and after everything occurs in on disc 2 in Midgar, the party waits seven days to wait to go defeat Sephiroth. Any other 7s that I missed? And what is with this obsession with sevens? Is it mere coincidence or did the makers have a Seven Seven Seven Seven Seven Seven Seven break down? And don't tell me you have Seven party members... I am not sure if you do, but this would add more to the 7s.

Oh, I just remembered... Sephiroth I think had a total of seven wings in his "One Winged Angel" form. Six for his lower torso and one for his hand.

Another one I forgot... Sephiroth I think is down in the old Shin-ra Mansion for seven days too.

7,777,777 HP wouldn't be too much to ask for!

[Momiji]

7's considered to be a lucky number.

[Unus Volatilis Angelus]

7's considered to be a lucky number.

true, but that should have nothing to do with FFVII... luck is just....

[Serapy]

There are more in this thread.

One more thing I might add; 7th wonders in CC.

Can`t be coincidences. I think that the whole 7 thing is a symbolism of some sort, such as maybe the whole FF7 itself.

[Unus Volatilis Angelus]

There are more in this thread.

One more thing I might add; 7th wonders in CC.

Can`t be coincidences. I think that the whole 7 thing is a symbolism of some sort, such as maybe the whole FF7 itself.

I wonder what it clould be though... thanks for bringins that one up.. completely forgot about it even though I just completed Nimbelheim...

[Dr. Acula]

Tifa was in a coma for seven days, I think.

[Unus Volatilis Angelus]

Tifa was in a coma for seven days, I think.

Or at least asleep... but yes it was again, seven days. We need answers to this mystery of sevens

[Ouch!]

My money is on the writers just using seven a lot because it's the seventh game in the series and they just decided to run with it. Perhaps it was also a subconscious decision. When you look at a lot of descriptions written by the same writer in fiction, the writer tends to use the same number(s) repeatedly for varying descriptions (such as J. K. Rowling's obsession with the number twelve).

[Unus Volatilis Angelus]

My money is on the writers just using seven a lot because it's the seventh game in the series and they just decided to run with it. Perhaps it was also a subconscious decision. When you look at a lot of descriptions written by the same writer in fiction, the writer tends to use the same number(s) repeatedly for varying descriptions (such as J. K. Rowling's obsession with the number twelve).

I do not think some, or most, of this was mere subconscious thinking...

Oh... I just remembered... Sector '7' falls in Midgar... yet another Seven conspiracy

[Dr. Acula]

I think they just liked the number 7.

[Jiro]

Oh... I just remembered... Sector '7' falls in Midgar... yet another Seven conspiracy

The Seventh Heaven Bar would most likely be named that because it is a safe place to unwind, in Sector Seven. Coincidence imo.

[Serapy]

On seven`s related cases, you become quite confident that everything will be fine. You see, people in FF7 rely on the number seven hoping to get good luck. The number seven is not a superpower after all, but people just like to believe in it to feel safer and confident.
They were not 100% guaranteed to get good luck.

I`ll give you one answer. Shera marked the tank number 7, but it ended up making the whole rocket worse. Why? Because Shera expected and thought that the certain tank will end up working just fine due to the fact it had the label 7 on it. If it was another number instead of 7, she would have checked the tank properly. Basically, she believed too much in the number seven.

Also, I think that Aeris`s death may be linked with the fact that the lucky seven being not 100% guaranteed.

The same writers who wrote FF7 also wrote FF8, so why didn`t they put 8s into FF8? Therefore, the 7s have to be linked with the story, not the writers themselves.

[Darkswordofchaos]

Its cause 1+5+6+7-5+3/4-1*9+1.25=7 duhh

[Unus Volatilis Angelus]

Its cause 1+5+6+7-5+3/4-1*9+1.25=7 duhh

What does that have to do with anything

[FFIX Choco Boy]

It's true, that's what.