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: 2011-10-30 05:46 am (UTC)It takes him a moment to pin down the distant sense of familiarity.]
You are the girl the Turks have been watching.
[Yeah, that's all she gets. Sephiroth doesn't really feel the need to justify himself to her.]
[video]
Date: 2011-10-30 08:33 am (UTC)[Oh but she's not letting him forget, even after everything she's not afraid right now.]
And don't think I'm going to let you off that easy though.
[video]
Date: 2011-10-30 06:58 pm (UTC)[She doesn't have anything to be afraid of, whether she realizes it or not. Fed up as he is with catching flack for his future, Sephiroth still wouldn't go beyond sharp words, especially with someone he doesn't even know can fight.]
I do not care. Perhaps Strife is the warmest, most caring man in the world to those he calls friend. However, my interactions with the man while he was here were highly unpleasant and I am entitled to my own opinion.
[video]
Date: 2011-10-30 08:03 pm (UTC)[A pause as she decides to switch topics and then...]
What happened between you and Cloud? Here I mean....
[video]
Date: 2011-10-31 06:24 pm (UTC)I would imagine any sane and essentially blameless man would take poorly to being treated as a monstrous, genocidal madman. I suppose not killing me on sight was his idea of a concession to the fact that I had done nothing in the time I came from.
[video]
Date: 2011-10-31 08:30 pm (UTC)I am sure it was hard for Cloud.
But if it means anything, I won't blame you for things you haven't done.
[She'll try at least.]
[video]
Date: 2011-11-01 11:27 pm (UTC)....He doesn't know he's going to kill her, but it wouldn't exactly surprise him to hear.]
It would be greatly appreciated. There are some here who have remained for years. I would be content to be one of them. [That is to say, he doesn't have much interest in going home and losing his mind and doing all that stuff.]