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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Date: 2011-10-29 10:46 pm (UTC)He got this broody streak from you, you realize.]
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Date: 2011-10-29 10:53 pm (UTC)Vincent doesn't stop next to Sephiroth. Instead, he walks to the headstone that bears his own name, and crouches in front of it. His right hand softly traces the dates etched into the stones.]
They even got the dates right. I guess I shouldn't be surprised.
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Date: 2011-10-30 06:23 pm (UTC)[He's not particularly surprised to see Vincent. In some matters, the older man is fairly predictable. Sephiroth leans back slightly to watch him examine the stone.]
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Date: 2011-10-30 06:40 pm (UTC)He turns around to look at the big one, and his eyes turn golden as he does, the pupils slowly elongating into slits as Chaos comes closer to the surface, almost as a reaction to the presence he can feel.]
You never learn, do you?
[The words are clearly not addressed to Sephiroth, as Chaos is watching the statue.]
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Date: 2011-11-01 11:59 pm (UTC)I will certainly learn nothing from you, dog of the Planet.
[Sephiroth pinches the bridge of his nose briefly between two gloved fingers. He could almost feel the headache coming on.]
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Date: 2011-11-02 08:51 am (UTC)And that's why you will fail every time, scourge. I may be a dog of the Planet, but I am a part of it. You're not.