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]

"I would like to ask quite a few things about why they think the way the Isle is being handled is a good idea," Sephiroth remarked. "But I'm sure it would all come down to believing everyone there deserves it."

And he pondered this information. "So, you haven't always been unquestionably good either and you were still sent here? How interesting. Were your actions taken because you at least believed they were the best way to achieve a noble result?" Perhaps that was the criteria the magic looked at.

[phoenixwiz]

“At the time, I did thought that they were the only possible options I could’ve taken for some of the situations I was facing. Yes they did seem to be very questionable for others, maybe even to my friends, but they did at least gave me the results I was looking for,” Harry sheepishly admits to him.

[3wingedangel]

"Then you had greater success than I did," Sephiroth said. "My actions led to what I initially wanted ... but then something else happened, something terrible and tragic. And that can never be taken back."

[phoenixwiz]

“Oh dear, that must have been very tough to deal with the aftermath that came from those actions,” Harry looks really sad to hear that Sepiroth had worse luck in getting good results from taking similar actions to his.

Rose squeaks in sadness, her eyes starting to well up with tears and she looks like she is about to cry at any moment.

[3wingedangel]

"It has been," Sephiroth replies. He still hasn't gotten over it. He doubts he ever will, really. The only thing that could make any of it better would be if Zack is still alive out there, somewhere.

He looks to Rose with some surprise. "Your animal companion is sad for me?"

[phoenixwiz]

“Why yes, yes I do think so. Rose is feeling sad that you had to go through a lot in your world today. She is pretty sensitive to the feelings of the people around her.”

[3wingedangel]

Sephiroth looked thoughtful and touched by that, but said, "If Rose sorrows for anyone, it should be the innocent who suffered because of my foolish actions."

[phoenixwiz]

“Ah, I see. That is fairly understandable,” Harry tries to be as understanding as he could, “I have seen how much suffering anyone could go through, many of which any normal teenager isn’t supposed to be introduced very early in life.”

As one is about to learn, Harry did not have a normal life growing up, even by wizarding world standards. Having been through rough situations for most of his life and a prophecy looming over his head long before he was born, he has definitely seen so many ugly things in various forms.

[3wingedangel]

"Yes." The one Sephiroth is thinking of hadn't been much older than a teenager.

And he frowns a bit, looking at Harry more attentively. "You have had a sorrowful time as well, then."

[phoenixwiz]

“Oh yes indeed, Sir. I sure did lived a very sorrowful one,” he wasn’t joking one bit as he said it, “If he were to show up, you might want to ask a bitter black robes wearing man who tried to get rid of me all over a prophecy that came about before I was born.”

[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?"