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Sephiroth ([personal profile] sefirot) wrote2020-04-24 05:44 am
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Only death awaits you all. But do not fear. For it is through death that a new spirit energy is born. Soon, you will live again as a part of me.
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coraza: →peaked ❬ ᴅɴᴛ ❭ (067)

[personal profile] coraza 2020-05-18 01:16 am (UTC)(link)
[filling his head with garbage, what a nice way to spend his time.]

[cloud can only snort and shake his head at the mini-lecture he gets for his efforts. a different cloud might have argued this point or even done more against the status quo, but that was a different life. nowadays, cloud is a security guard with pretty terrible pay and barely managing to make ends meet.]

[he continues as he was, brushing sephiroth's hair and moving on to braiding it into a loose braid.]


And you got powers beyond those I can imagine, so why don't you do something about it?

[grappling with strands of hair, he moves his fingers deftly through. he sets it over the other's shoulder once he's done, grinning and leaning down to see if he can witness a shift in sephiroth's expression.]

What's the verdict? Getting better at it, huh.
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[personal profile] coraza 2020-05-18 02:36 pm (UTC)(link)
[as most chatter that sephiroth upholds about his ability to bring the world to its knees, cloud ignores it with a rather indifferent sense. he has no reason to believe sephiroth is actually dangerous, because it's been a few years now and he's not kept any of those promises about destroying the world. the most he does is terrorize children nowadays, and even then, cloud thinks he's getting some kind enjoyment out of their attention.]

Hey, dream big.

[he'll take the words with a grain of salt, more satisfied with how pleased sephiroth looks otherwise.]

[cloud goes around and sits himself down against the arm of the couch, his feet annoyingly pressing against sephiroth's thigh. suppose they'll be watching the news. he puts cheek to the palm of his hand.]


[after a moment:] —you've been in Gaia before, right? What's your favorite place in it? [his eyes on the screen] Can't imagine you ever only stayed in Midgar exclusively.
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[personal profile] coraza 2020-05-19 01:22 pm (UTC)(link)
[that's enough to get cloud to sit up and look over at sephiroth, squinting in suspicion.]

Seriously? My family's from there.

[there's some... uncertainty in his statement, like it doesn't sit right with him. but it's not enough for cloud to want to traverse into what it all means. not at this point anyway. he's more interested in what sephiroth is saying.]

Is there where you became... an angel, or whatever?

[now that they're onto this topic, and sephiroth feels open to talk about himself, cloud thinks he wants to take his chances and see how much he can get out of it.]
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[personal profile] coraza 2020-05-21 02:52 am (UTC)(link)
You're asking me that like it's supposed to mean something. Again.

[cloud adds as much with restrained exasperation in his voice.]

[he is used to sephiroth being cryptic when he speaks—and he's definitely done plenty of that. cloud drags his hand over the length of his own arm as he sits up a little better, frowning as he tries to really make some sense of what sephiroth is saying.]


...

One time I dreamed I was a lizard. [emphatically] Green and climbing walls and all that.

[this is not what sephiroth is asking for]
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[personal profile] coraza 2020-05-21 03:45 am (UTC)(link)
[sephiroth is very strong and intimidating, and although cloud sometimes forgets this reality, it's times like this that he is so pointedly reminded of it.]

[he falls onto the floor with an almost hilarious, choked out aughhgh sort of sound.]

[and then there's silence.]

[cloud picks himself up after a few seconds and leans into the couch, by sephiroth, and wraps his arms around the man's collar. he's a little annoyed by that, sure, but it keeps their faux relationship spicy, maybe.]


Hey, seriously? It was a joke!

[not a great one, it seems. cloud's more serious answer would have been about the fact that there are certain things that he tries not to remember, dreams he hovers between skepticism and a genuine sense of wonder when he remembers them. they're like flashes, recurring at times, and it's all too convoluted for him to remember them.]

I was gonna give you an answer proper, but I guess not anymore!
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[personal profile] coraza 2020-05-21 12:35 pm (UTC)(link)
[and cloud throws sephiroth an odd look in return. he isn't quite as helpful or as gentle about the things that he says, except when it comes to "wanting to help cloud understand." it was strange at first, when sephiroth would hover over him, wing spread, asking him all sorts of existential questions. now? it's still strange, but there's an edge of resignation, almost like he's got to build up the patience and wait for the answer he desires.]

[cloud pulls himself away from the couch, and sephiroth, and straightens his back, going around it and over to the tv—where he switches it off with the button at the top edge of the screen. his hand lingers there, as does his gaze, before he drags it over to the wall in front of him—where bookshelves are stacked, books he hasn't really bothered to read but seemed a wise purchase at the time, years ago.]


I do have a recurring dream.

It's... [explaining dreams is so stupid. he hates when other people do it. and yet here he is, doing the same.] It's really saturated. Very green? [he turns to look at sephiroth] The color is like that of your eyes. [that eerie aquamarine glow] It's like liquid, but not? I just float in it.

[he frowns]

Do you mean those kinds of dreams?

[it's as stupid as the one about the lizard, far as he's concerned.]
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[personal profile] coraza 2020-05-22 10:36 am (UTC)(link)
[cloud gives him a weird look.]

That's not what people call it anymore.

['lifestream' is such an archaic term, but he supposed that if someone is allowed to be archaic—it would be sephiroth. the man claims to have existed for a long time, and knows things from the past in a way cloud doesn't want to think too much about.]

[but he shrugs, and turns to face sephiroth, arms crossed.]

But, alright. Let's say that is the lifestream and not me getting lost in your eyes, or something. [how nice. he's immediately aware that was a terrible joke, so just shrugs as if to say 'just ignore it.'] What would that mean? That I'm remembering a past life? Yeah right.
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[personal profile] coraza 2020-05-23 02:54 pm (UTC)(link)
[cloud's shoulders straighten as sephiroth approaches, but his arms are still crossed, looking up at the man.]

A difference? I dunno. It'd make for a crazy coincidence.

[he does have a point, though. reincarnation is as possible as cloud casually uttering some incantation and summoning an angel from the abyss of who-knows-where. magic is prevalent in this world, even if it's in many ways mechanical—magitek—or otherwise attempted to be created through science than to really have it bloom for a natural resource.]

[but it does bring forth the question...]

You're saying we knew each other before?
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[personal profile] coraza 2020-05-24 04:49 pm (UTC)(link)
[he frowns. it worries him, when sephiroth gets serious like that and alludes to the possibility of him not liking what he would come to know if he remembered his "past life" or whatever the other wants to call it. the hand on his shoulder doesn't really ground him much at all, and it just... scares him a little.]

Why can't I just not know about it?

[cloud puts a hand to sephiroth's chest, and lets his fingers curl against the fabric of his shirt, stepping forward to close the distance between them a little more.]

I like this. Weird as it is. You're talking like everything would change if I do remember.
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[personal profile] coraza 2020-05-25 04:22 pm (UTC)(link)
[cloud refuses to take a seat, even if sephiroth is basically guiding him to sit down on the couch. he lets go of the other's shirt but remains otherwise firm on standing, his thoughts racing. because it would—change, that is. and sephiroth has been avoiding that truth all this while? at the possibilities that there's something off about who they are, together? it's not an ideal 'faux' relationship, and it was the easiest way to fix a bigger problem that he couldn't quite understand, for sephiroth didn't seem capable of leaving this plane of existence. or whatever.]

[his expression is stern, eyes clouded with emotion. he feels his heart in his throat. he unclasps his arm from the other and looks at him.]


How would it change, Sephiroth?
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[personal profile] coraza 2020-05-26 12:54 pm (UTC)(link)
...

[cloud tilts his head, his hard expression easing up a little.]

We hated each other? Yeah, I can sort of see that. You're kind of an entitled bitch.

[but that's just their usual humor seeping through, and while he speaks casually his actions take on a more guarded approach; his arms crossed, shoulders hunched over a little. if it's true that they hated each other... what does that say, about them, right now?]

[thus the quieter more sensible response to what sephiroth said:]

...do you hate me, then?
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[personal profile] coraza 2020-05-28 11:57 am (UTC)(link)
[not anymore.]

[huh. if only he could keep himself from looking so relieved, having believed for a moment there that sephiroth hated his entire existence. the tension in cloud's shoulders ease, and he finally allows himself to sit down on the couch.]


I did summon you to try and cheat my university exam.

[funny how it had been just a goof, something that was very obviously a joke, and yet—there was sephiroth, scaring the living daylights out of him, a few years ago. pressing knuckles to his temple and leaning into the couch, cloud keeps a careful look on the other man.]

So you only not-hate me because otherwise you wouldn't exist. Is that it? I hope it's more than that. I'm going to feel like a real tool considering all we've done together.
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[personal profile] coraza 2020-05-29 09:47 am (UTC)(link)
[cloud cocks an eyebrow in response. him, killing sephiroth? it sounds like a tall tale. while sephiroth has taken on a more... human-like form and all that, cloud can tell there is a force to him, a strength, that pushes past just someone who 'is buff' or 'lifts everyday.' he would know. he does do those things almost on the daily, and he still can't beat sephiroth in arm wrestling.]

[but it's hard to consider everything that was and is, when sephiroth speaks so strongly about hate, how that is what pushed him forward and made him gravitate towards cloud like it was the only thing keeping him anchored.]

[it's not something he can understand right now, it feels like. i hated the world so much. i wanted to destroy everything. words that speak volumes to cloud, who moves along with however the man wishes him to move, drawn closer. i am glad— and then an almost defeated i will accept that fate.]

[cloud sits up straighter and raises a hand to press his palm against sephiroth's cheek—soft and gentle, keeping the man's gaze with his own. it takes him no effort at all to lean forward, close his eyes, and press a kiss to the other's lips. when cloud does pull back, he looks resolute.]


If I remember everything and choose to hate you, [he thumbs easily over sephiroth's jawline] we'll deal with it when that happens.

[people can change. people can get better. divine, monsters, or otherwise.]

Alright?

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