Kilmister, a scientist studying Geostigma with human guinea pigs. Now-former President Rufus falls victim to Dr. Case of Yuffie, On the Way to a Smileīut it is Rufus’s story (Case of Shinra) that makes the final conclusion. Theillness entered people’s bodies when they had given up, when their will to live had failed them. Do not think about how you are going to die. Try boiling all water before drinking and washing.Ģ. She is able to ascertain that Geostigma can spread through contact with tainted water – but only when the victim was overtaken by the fear of dying.ġ. Yuffie Kisaragi is the next protagonist to explore Geostigma in her chapter, and she investigates it with surprising sophistication. He acquires it when he falls into despair and thinks “ I really don’t want to die!” He doesn’t catch it after coming into contact with several individuals who are stigma-positive. Reeve, Episode Denzelĭenzel, however, is our first proof that the disease doesn’t spread from skin-to-skin contact. Not that is would have made a difference, knowing. No one had figured that it was actually the remnants of Jenova corrupting the Lifestream. People said you could get infected by touching it. Everyone the Lifestream touched started oozing that dark slime, and then died. In Case of Denzel, Denzel reports to Reeve his earliest encounters with those afflicted with Geostigma, and Reeve muses on rumors at the time of what exactly the disease was.īack then, no one knew anything about the stigma. We don’t find out more about the specifics of Geostigma until On the Way to a Smile – Nojima’s novel that serves as an official prequel to the movie. Kadaj calls it the “memetic legacy” of Jenova, but argues that the pain from the disease is due to the Planet, or natural Lifestream, resisting the tainted Lifestream. That’s why it’s racking our bodies with pain and filling out hearts with doubt. It’s doing everything it can to hold us back. But… the planet doesn’t approve of that at all. You and I are brethren: brothers and sisters chosen when we inherited Mother’s memetic legacy through the Lifestream. Mother has given me a very special gift: the power to fight, against a planet that torments humanity! She gave this gift to all her children. Mother’s memetic legacy lives on in the Lifestream and makes it happen. While speaking with Rufus, Kadaj explains it like this: Advent Children Official Script In the Advent Children movie itself, it’s unclear who catches Geostigma or why, though many seem to believe it is contagious (and thus are children with “the stigma” stigmatized and avoided). The truth is, Geostigma is a symbol for mental health, and Cloud’s illness runs deeper than Geostigma itself. The answer upends the claim that Cloud was happy and content to live a “normal life” with Tifa and his family of friends, and that Cloud is only depressed and leaves Seventh Heaven to live in Aeris’s church because he is afraid of spreading the potentially-contagious disease to his found-family. Of the main party, only Cloud Strife becomes infected with Geostigma.
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