Sephiroth Arrives - Backdated to August 29th

[3wingedangel]

Open/locked?: Open!
Who: Sephiroth and everyone
What: Arrival
Warnings: Don’t anticipate any



Arrival

There is a flash of light and a man with three blue wings suddenly appears on the campus lawn. Normally he prepares his arrivals to be rather flashy and dramatic, but he ... really hadn’t planned on this arrival at all. He had been minding his own business at the Dark Depths when all of a sudden he was here. And where was here, exactly?

He starts walking, looking for someone to help him understand what on earth just happened.

Main Lobby

Looking over the welcome pamphlet leaves him very confused. Those seen as villains go to something called the Isle of the Lost and those seen as heroes are sent here?

“You there.” Yes, he means you. Whoever you are. “Is this magic that sends people to these places always accurate on where it places them?”

How could it possibly have sent him here? He’s not a hero. Not anymore.

Dorm

He eyes the room warily. The blue he’s fine with. The plaid ... not so much. But of course he can’t be picky, and he won’t be.

He goes in with a sigh, examines the room, and lays down on one of the beds, all three wings hanging off of the mattresses’ edges. That will certainly be an unusual sight for anyone passing by the open doorway.

Will he have the room to himself, he wonders, or does someone else have the other bed in the room?

Comments

[3wingedangel]

Sephiroth frowned more at that. "Some people put an almost obsessive interest into prophecies. That must have been a burden for you all through your life."

[phoenixwiz]

“Yes, obsessive interest would put it very much on point. Some people can get really fixated on stuff that wouldn’t normally bother most. I wish that I was just making this part of my life up, but it isn’t. It was indeed a big burden for my entire life.”

[3wingedangel]

Sephiroth nodded in understanding. "Then maybe coming here was actually a relief for you, to be free of that for a while?"

[phoenixwiz]

“That is entirely true. I had enough trouble thrown at me that I could use the time to stay away from my world for a good while. In fact, this reminds me of my previous adventure in another world prior to this one.”

[3wingedangel]

"I see. What was that world like?" Sephiroth curiously asks.

[phoenixwiz]

“This might really odd, but trust me, it is a real world from what I have experienced in there. It was called the Isle of Avalon, a modernised version of the Arthurian Myths and Legends. As in King Arthur, Merlin, and the Knights of the Round Table. Apparently magic, the Fae, and technology are able to blend and co- exist effortlessly together in one place.”

[3wingedangel]

"Hmm. Interesting. My homeworld blends the same. I also know a Merlin, but whether he's the same one or not, I can't say."

[phoenixwiz]

“Wow, so there is a Merlin in your world too? That sounds fascinating: it seems like our worlds have their own versions of the same person. I think that I have also seen the Merlin of this world once before, though I’m pretty certain that he is a lot different from the Merlin I have known in Avalon.”

[3wingedangel]

"It seems so."

And he regards Harry curiously. "Where do you think you could have seen this world's Merlin before?"

[phoenixwiz]

“I think that I once visited him inside a dream of his during a time people can unknowingly slip into another person’s dreams,” Harry explains to him, “It might sound strange, but trust me, it was a real thing that actually happened.”

[3wingedangel]

"Hm. It doesn't sound that strange," Sephiroth mused. "I can believe it. It sounds like something that could happen in my world as well."

[phoenixwiz]

“Your world also have folks walking into other people’s dreams as well?” Harry asks Sephiroth out of curiosity, “I do wonder how that works in there.”

Rose squeaks in an inquisitive tone while Hedwig sighs over her fellow animal being too curious for her own good.

[3wingedangel]

"It doesn't sound out of the realm of possibility, at least," Sephiroth says. "My world has quite a few strange things. But I haven't experienced it and I have no idea how it works. Merlin probably does."

[phoenixwiz]

“I thought so as well. He is after all a very powerful and wise wizard, so he might have known everything about dream walking,” Harry chimes in, “I don’t normally do this myself at home but I did at one point had terrifying visions of that cloaked man haunting me I had mentioned a while ago. How I got that ability was a very awkward tale to tell and I don’t feel like mentioning about it in depth at this time.”

[3wingedangel]

Sephiroth nods in agreement to the comment on Merlin and then frowns at this information. "That would be terrifying," he agrees. "But that has stopped now?"

[phoenixwiz]

“Thankfully it has after he was gone. And I don’t have to worry about him haunting me in my dreams ever again,” he lets out a sigh of relief.

[3wingedangel]

Sephiroth is a cynical sort and wonders about that, but he won't say so. "Good," he replies.

He glances down at the welcome pamphlet, then back to Harry. "Is there anything else you can think of that I should know that isn't covered in here?"

[phoenixwiz]

“Good question. I do think that the pamphlet has most of the answers everyone not from this world needs to know. So I don’t know of that many questions that have yet to be added in there right now.”

It then dawns on him that he hasn’t properly introduced himself to Sephiroth even though they have been talking to each other for a while by now. So much so that Hedwig has to hoot at him about it.

“Oh dear, I do apolgise that I haven’t given you my name or those of my animal friends here sooner. My name is Harry Potter, but just Harry will be fine by me. Originally from a place known as the United Kingdom, specifically from the county of Surrey in a country in there called England. The white owl is Hedwig, one of my oldest and closest friend, and the little fluffy pink creature is Rose, she’s my familiar in the Isle of Avalon.”

[3wingedangel]

"It's encouraging to hear it's so efficient," Sephiroth says.

He nods in acknowledgment of the introductions. "I've heard of England," he says. There are worlds in his universe that include England. "My name is Sephiroth. I am from Hollow Bastion. Its true name is Radiant Garden, but many have known it as Hollow Bastion for years. It's only recently reclaimed its original name."

[phoenixwiz]

“Well, it is a honour to make your acquaintance, Sephiroth. Even if the circumstances we’re in aren’t the most cheerful or optimistic at the moment,” Harry speaks up, “Hm I see. Hollow Bastion did went back to its original name after being called that for so long. So what was it like living in there if it is alright to ask you that?”

[3wingedangel]

Sephiroth nods in acknowledgement of the greeting.

He pauses, gazing off into the distance as he ponders the answer to that question. "It was ... upsetting, seeing it like that. Maleficent overran the world with creatures called Heartless. They corrupt and devour people's hearts, turning them into Heartless as well."

[phoenixwiz]

“Oh dear. I’m very sorry to hear that. It must be very terrible having to deal with her and the Heartless giving people so much grief and trouble that often.”

And there he was, thinking that having to deal with Voldemort’s brief iron grip over Wizarding Britain and being on the run for nearly a year is not a pleasant experience. He doesn’t want to ask about how she was able to get her hands over Hollow Bastion in the first place just as much as he doesn’t want to get too deep into Voldemort’s plans to take over the wizarding world and be immortal right now.

He doesn’t want Sephiroth to become another person that the infamous Dark Lord would go to after right now.

[3wingedangel]

He nods. "Our world was under siege for ten years. It only barely got free of them."

And so much had happened during those years, some of which can never be taken back.

He certainly hopes some Dark Lord won't be next. Maleficent was bad enough.

[phoenixwiz]

“That is very similar to what happened back in my home world. It only barely survived a major war that happened in my school and there is plenty of damages and losses everywhere. It is probably safe to say that my world had seen a lot of ugly stuff for some time before I went to Avalon and Auradon.”

[3wingedangel]

That sounds absolutely disastrous. He wonders why a Dark Lord would target a school and assumes it must be a school for learning powerful abilities and magic.

“Yes, it certainly sounds as though it has,” he says. “The people of my world could likely commiserate a great deal with you and the others from your school. A Restoration Committee has been working hard to save my world and bring it back to its former glory.”