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sephiroth, “tol alien boy”, SOLDIER first class. ([personal profile] supersoldier) wrote2020-12-09 12:40 pm

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“Leave your message here.”

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coraza: →famira (370)

[personal profile] coraza 2021-02-07 07:56 pm (UTC)(link)
we agreed on something.

[before you punched him on the nose, but—]

where?
coraza: →famira (355)

[personal profile] coraza 2021-02-07 08:09 pm (UTC)(link)
it was your idea. we have a common goal even with our differences.

["differences" is an understatement, but he's brushing past it.]

have you worked out synchronizing?

[don't die before i kill you]
coraza: →peaked ❬ ᴅɴᴛ ❭ (284)

[personal profile] coraza 2021-02-07 08:21 pm (UTC)(link)
healed.

[will cloud ever have the wherewithal to admit to having gotten overwhelmed with his own frustration, with his own weaknesses pooling around him? no. not ever; especially not to sephiroth.]

[time for the good old reflecting.]

you make it difficult too.
i can find you, you know.
coraza: →famira (360)

[personal profile] coraza 2021-02-07 08:36 pm (UTC)(link)
[he's trying.]

i'm heading over.
coraza: →famira (339)

[personal profile] coraza 2021-02-07 08:43 pm (UTC)(link)
to check in on you.

[in case you're hiding the crazy duh]
coraza: →famira (214)

[personal profile] coraza 2021-02-07 09:06 pm (UTC)(link)
it's not distrust.

[not entirely]

i just want to make sure.
coraza: →famira (383)

[personal profile] coraza 2021-02-07 09:16 pm (UTC)(link)
[as if cloud was not already on his way despite sephiroth telling him it wouldn't be necessary. he'll be there shortly.]

[in the meantime.]

who else lives with you?
coraza: →peaked ❬ ᴅɴᴛ ❭ (305)

[personal profile] coraza 2021-02-07 09:21 pm (UTC)(link)
good. that'll make this easier.

[?????]

[no further text messages, for he's rounding around the corner and coming around the back—where he expects to see sephiroth the moment he pushes the gate open.]


[there's only the briefest of hesitation when cloud raises his eyes to see the man in the flesh. it shouldn't be such a jarring experience (anymore), but there's an underlying swell of fear that always washes over him regardless, soon removed altogether by a combination of anger and hatred.]

[cloud closes the gate behind him, not once removing his eyes from the taller man.]


Sephiroth.
coraza: →famira (272)

[personal profile] coraza 2021-02-07 09:59 pm (UTC)(link)
[cloud's taken back, momentarily, to a memory that seems so far-off; himself a child, looking at the screen with nothing but wide eyes and an enthusiasm that was uncommon to his usually taciturn demeanor. the war hero sephiroth, shown for all to see, standing with no inch of error for the cameras. a man cloud had look up to with such fervor that it moved him, so badly, to the point that he wanted to go to midgar, to be just like him—a hero in his own right.]

[he reels back whatever enthused fondness he may have felt, of childlike admiration, and commits to it by curling his hands into fists and leaving them at his sides, weighed down by will alone.]


No.

[past all that, he watches curiously, as if unable to contest away entirely the feeling. there is also that annoying pulse of recognition, of a connection barely there, that while unknown to him brings a sense of ease onto him.]

I want to say something to you.

[and that's when he steps forward, though not enough as to disturb sephiroth's space.]

Much as it pains me to say it— [a pause, conflicted, before he tries again.] You'd be right to want to abandon our truce.
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[personal profile] coraza 2021-02-07 10:41 pm (UTC)(link)
[they're cut from a similar source in that regard; pride bolsters them to their convictions, and while it may be truth for sephiroth and a facsimile for cloud of someone else, it's the very same thing that keeps them both stunted to reproach and incapable of abandoning their efforts so easily, too.]

[it does not make cloud feel any better to have sephiroth's entire attention, or to have his words acquiesce to the sentiment he's been trying to coalesce from abstraction into some kind of form.]

[the last thing cloud wants is to leave sephiroth to his own devices; that much is a truth that he doesn't have to voice out. sephiroth should know it.]

... [but try as he might, cloud cannot bring himself to say the words. i apologize, much less i'm sorry. it makes him sick, because of who sephiroth is to become. cloud is not quite there yet—to apologize to the man who murdered his mother and burnt down his home. instead, he tries a roundabout route.] I was out of line.
coraza: →famira (270)

[personal profile] coraza 2021-02-07 11:20 pm (UTC)(link)
I don't need a rehash of what happened.

[it's enough that cloud came here to apologize in his own roundabout way. to have to receive some kind of lecture over it? he's not exactly down for that. now, instead, he focuses his gaze on sephiroth—looks him over curiously—and it is sasuke's words that ricochet in his head.]

[the idea of death in this world is very real, especially if they fail to synchronize as they've been told to do.]

[sephiroth lives alone, and there's knowledge lingering in his thoughts that the man was never one to keep company, even when they worked together. friends or colleagues as they may have been, cloud doesn't remember sharing time together outside of missions—this mistaken truth pushed to the recesses of his mind before he can think too hard about it.]


You will die if you don't complete synching. [matter of factly,] You know how it works, but have you done it?
coraza: →famira (249)

[personal profile] coraza 2021-02-08 12:05 am (UTC)(link)
[said so clinically, so coldly; like sephiroth's still analyzing how to go about it. and yet it feels like an instruction read off a manual, rather than actual information having been internalized and actions set into place for it.]

[cloud frowns and crosses his arms, defiant despite his height.]


And what will you do then? When circumstances are dire.
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