Mission 16: [Accidental Video]
Oct. 29th, 2011 01:46 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
argentimperator[The feed blinks on as the PCD drops out of Sephiroth's coat pocket. The coat that Sephiroth is no longer wearing; the video catches him throwing it over a gravestone, hiding it from sight. The stone, of course, is only one out of a number he almost finds surprising. The names on them, however, are not surprising at all.
Angeal Hewley. Genesis Rhapsodos. Zack Fair. Faramis Gast. Lucrecia Crescent. Vincent Valentine.
All from his own world, with dates in Gaia's calendar. All people who have been important in his old life, even if he only found out about Vincent and Lucrecia here. But there are more stones, with more names that have nothing to do with his world.
Unohana Retsu. Gaignun Kukai Jr. Albedo Piazzola. Ulquiorra Cifer. Tsukino Usagi.
You get no prize for guessing what name is on the stone Sephiroth covered up.
His own grave is there, too, a monument topped with a guardian angel statue. Perhaps unsurprisingly, the statue seems to be missing a wing. There are three sets of dates inscribed on it, though on the third set, both dates are the same. He's already watched himself die at Cloud Strife's hands far more than could possibly be healthy for anyone, though not looking at the dates isn't any better thanks to the damn hallucinations. Listening to the bullshit spouted by his insane self is slightly less than entertaining.]
You betrayed Mother. [More voices speaking to him that no one else could hear.]
Jenova is not my mother and you are an abomination. I would almost consider these mercy killings if Strife were not such an ass.
[Despite the defiant words, Sephiroth looks more tired and depressed than anything, and the feed blinks out as he sits down by the covered grave.]
Angeal Hewley. Genesis Rhapsodos. Zack Fair. Faramis Gast. Lucrecia Crescent. Vincent Valentine.
All from his own world, with dates in Gaia's calendar. All people who have been important in his old life, even if he only found out about Vincent and Lucrecia here. But there are more stones, with more names that have nothing to do with his world.
Unohana Retsu. Gaignun Kukai Jr. Albedo Piazzola. Ulquiorra Cifer. Tsukino Usagi.
His own grave is there, too, a monument topped with a guardian angel statue. Perhaps unsurprisingly, the statue seems to be missing a wing. There are three sets of dates inscribed on it, though on the third set, both dates are the same. He's already watched himself die at Cloud Strife's hands far more than could possibly be healthy for anyone, though not looking at the dates isn't any better thanks to the damn hallucinations. Listening to the bullshit spouted by his insane self is slightly less than entertaining.]
You betrayed Mother. [More voices speaking to him that no one else could hear.]
Jenova is not my mother and you are an abomination. I would almost consider these mercy killings if Strife were not such an ass.
[Despite the defiant words, Sephiroth looks more tired and depressed than anything, and the feed blinks out as he sits down by the covered grave.]
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[Video]
Date: 2011-10-29 10:40 pm (UTC)I was supposed to be stronger than anyone, but I'm not strong enough to watch that moment again and again. [But then, he's always been more emotionally fragile than most people realized, hasn't he?]
[Video]
Date: 2011-10-29 10:43 pm (UTC)Is that how you would have thought of me if I had succeeded?
[Aka tread very, very carefully, Sephiroth.]
[Video] I think this is the most he's said in one shot ever.
Date: 2011-10-30 04:59 am (UTC)That has nothing to do with it. Knowing what I know now, and having seen my deaths... all three of them... I have no issue with accepting that he did what needed to be done.
In that time, in that place, under those circumstances.
My issues with Cloud Strife stem entirely from his behavior while he was here. I imagine he believed he was justified. Perhaps Zack believed the same. Perhaps they are even right. For all I have learned, I do not truly know what they suffered because of my madness. However, the fact remains that I am not yet that man and I have not committed those crimes. Do I have no right to resent being held responsible for events I have not yet lived through? In our interactions, the man came across as overbearing, belligerent, and self-righteous. I would like to think I am as entitled to my dislikes, rational or otherwise, as anyone.
.....I would have preferred it if you had succeeded. If you had ended it, and me, without such cost to yourself.
[Video] Sephiroth you are.... the worst at making him feel better. :|
Date: 2011-11-04 08:15 am (UTC)I did the same thing he did. Only he was stronger and succeeded. My point is: If I had succeeded, how can I know for sure you wouldn't think that of me?
[See his point, Sephiroth? He sees yours, even if he thinks it's irrational.]
This isn't how you get someone's forgiveness, just so you're aware.
[And yeah, that last part sounds just a little bit angry.]
Oh and do me a favor? Stay away from Sora. I don't want him to be the victim the next time this happens.