It’s a familiar voice, at least to Sephiroth, but anyone else witnessing this memory may or may not know it. It’s a shadowy scene and impossible to tell what has happened to prompt this, but Cloud Strife is standing there, mostly silhouetted but with his bat wing very visible and drooping. He’s looking off at something not visible, or someone, more precisely.
“Sephiroth, please . . . come back. You have to come back. I . . . I don’t hate you anymore. I understand now. I love you!”
Sephiroth is sitting in a chair while this scene plays, and at this he just lurches forward in utter, complete shock. “What is this?!”
Some sort of bizarre enchantment? Someone’s idea of a cruel joke? Cloud will never feel that way about him, Sephiroth is very sure. But ... he wishes it were so.
Zack2
“Seph! Oh man, Seph! It’s so great to see you again!”
Sephiroth is standing there in shock as he’s suddenly glomped by a human tornado with wild black hair.
“Zack?! You’re alive?!”
“Sure am! And everything’s gonna be okay now that I’m back with you!”
Sephiroth hugs him close with both arms and all wings, stunned, still barely able to believe this is real.
Sephiroth watches this, the color draining from his face. Can he really believe such a scene is possible? He has never given up trying to find Zack, but this ... to see all his hopes and dreams fully realized ... it seems too incredible, too impossible. Would he really be given such a blessing? And what about the scene with Cloud? Something else he has secretly wanted but believed could never be....
“What is going on here?” he finally rasps. “I don’t understand. Who is doing this?!”
Pictures3
Sephiroth is in the living room of his house, Cloud and Zack with him as they're looking at the pictures on the wall courtesy of Sephiroth's adopted parents. Sephiroth seems to be explaining one of the pictures. Cloud looks interested and surprised while Zack is nodding happily. They all seem to be happy being together.
Sephiroth is reaching out to the scene, confused and bewildered and wanting with all his heart to believe this will someday come true. His happily ever after, which he believes he doesn’t deserve yet can’t help longing for. For Zack to be alive would be more than enough on its own, but for Cloud to care about him and all of them to be happy together ... it all seems a precious dream of beautiful impossibility.
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Sephiroth | Kingdom Hearts | OTA
Date: 2024-11-24 11:19 pm (UTC)Cloud
1“Sephiroth?!”
It’s a familiar voice, at least to Sephiroth, but anyone else witnessing this memory may or may not know it. It’s a shadowy scene and impossible to tell what has happened to prompt this, but Cloud Strife is standing there, mostly silhouetted but with his bat wing very visible and drooping. He’s looking off at something not visible, or someone, more precisely.
“Sephiroth, please . . . come back. You have to come back. I . . . I don’t hate you anymore. I understand now. I love you!”
Sephiroth is sitting in a chair while this scene plays, and at this he just lurches forward in utter, complete shock. “What is this?!”
Some sort of bizarre enchantment? Someone’s idea of a cruel joke? Cloud will never feel that way about him, Sephiroth is very sure. But ... he wishes it were so.
Zack
2“Seph! Oh man, Seph! It’s so great to see you again!”
Sephiroth is standing there in shock as he’s suddenly glomped by a human tornado with wild black hair.
“Zack?! You’re alive?!”
“Sure am! And everything’s gonna be okay now that I’m back with you!”
Sephiroth hugs him close with both arms and all wings, stunned, still barely able to believe this is real.
Sephiroth watches this, the color draining from his face. Can he really believe such a scene is possible? He has never given up trying to find Zack, but this ... to see all his hopes and dreams fully realized ... it seems too incredible, too impossible. Would he really be given such a blessing? And what about the scene with Cloud? Something else he has secretly wanted but believed could never be....
“What is going on here?” he finally rasps. “I don’t understand. Who is doing this?!”
Pictures
3Sephiroth is in the living room of his house, Cloud and Zack with him as they're looking at the pictures on the wall courtesy of Sephiroth's adopted parents. Sephiroth seems to be explaining one of the pictures. Cloud looks interested and surprised while Zack is nodding happily. They all seem to be happy being together.
Sephiroth is reaching out to the scene, confused and bewildered and wanting with all his heart to believe this will someday come true. His happily ever after, which he believes he doesn’t deserve yet can’t help longing for. For Zack to be alive would be more than enough on its own, but for Cloud to care about him and all of them to be happy together ... it all seems a precious dream of beautiful impossibility.