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lottato_prima ([personal profile] lottato_prima) wrote in [community profile] onepassingnight2012-03-19 10:04 pm

008 || tea for two?

Zack's strength of mind hasn't been at its peak lately, which may explain his absence from the consciousness of others.

As it was, the former SOLDIER was secluded in a web of emerald wisps and crystals, cocooned in the center by an even thicker web and two white wings surrounding his form. His eyes were closed, head bowed, the rest of his body also concealed by the maze of webs. So he... hasn't been able to meld himself entirely cohesive yet, but he's getting there. There's no telling what the rest of his body looks like, trapped in that mess.

If you dare to approach, he'll glance up briefly, quietly. He's studying you, wanting to know the reasons why you would come deep into the Lifestream like this, to talk to a forgotten, deceased SOLDIER.

And he'll welcome the company.
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[personal profile] findmyownreason 2012-03-20 04:31 am (UTC)(link)
Maybe because he's not forgotten. Because as long as Cloud lives, and as long as the children he's raising live, someone's going to remember.

Because heroes need to be remembered.

But so do friends. Especially friends.

Cloud might be a little twitchy about the Lifestream and mako green these days but it doesn't stop his somehow solid footsteps or cause them to hesitate. He'd search right to the center of the Planet to find Zack if that was what was needed. And his one word greeting holds all of it as he works his way carefully past the green, eyes never leaving his friend.

"Zack?"
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[personal profile] findmyownreason 2012-03-20 12:32 pm (UTC)(link)
The wings make his own shoulder blades twitch uncomfortably but he doesn't shy away from them when they shift. This is Zack. Or... what's left of him. And it twists in his gut and a part of him wishes he'd never bothered save the damn Planet in the first place because this was what it did to them all, in the end. Zack deserves better than that. Better than this.

His grip is firm when he raises his own arm, hand catching his friend's forearm and holding on tight. Maybe just a little too tight but he tries to keep his grip controlled. Tries not to damage what's already been damaged.

"Yeah. It's me, Zack." The words come out a little rough at their edges, result of his suddenly tight throat and the sting in his eyes but he's not going to give up or let go this time. This time he's going to be strong enough. "I'm here to get you whole again."
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[personal profile] findmyownreason 2012-03-21 04:25 pm (UTC)(link)
"Fuck the Planet."

The growl is out before he's really thinking of what he's staying but he doesn't regret it when it does come out. He's risked it all for this Planet. His friends have died for it. And what does it care? It doesn't. They're just stubborn batteries to it, something to be stripped down and reused. There's no gratitude for what they might have done for it, no care that a small band of them are the reason it's even still breathing. It's just a mindless entity that's already taken one of his closest friends. He's not going to lose Zack just because some over-sized symbiont says so. It doesn't get to have it's own way anymore than he let Sephiroth. His fingers tighten down firm around Zack's arms and he steps in closer, eyebrows down as he starts looking for ways to pick apart that damnable green.

"No. If the Planet can let Sephiroth run rampant and have his way, than you damn well can too. He proved it doesn't always get its way and I'm not letting it have you."
Edited 2012-03-21 16:26 (UTC)
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[personal profile] findmyownreason 2012-03-22 10:55 pm (UTC)(link)
"No, you're not." If Cloud is anything, it's stubborn. He was stubborn about dying himself not that long ago, almost to the point of losing everything. Now he's stubborn about this. It's Zack. The world still needs Zack and not in the form of random floating bits of energy. Maybe it's selfish but damn it - isn't he allowed by this point to be selfish?

"You're still here. You can still fight. We can still fight this. I can have a future and still have you too. It's not an either-or this time."

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[personal profile] nohometown 2012-03-20 08:18 am (UTC)(link)
In Sephiroth's time, Zack isn't dead. He became the heart of SOLDIER, after Angeal...

After Angeal.

Zack doesn't smile as much or as openly as he used to, but he still smiles. He makes others smile. SOLDIER's heart: Sephiroth supposes he is only SOLDIER's head, then, a mind without a heart. He walks through the light of the Lifestream, the color of Mako, the color of his eyes. He reaches up a hand to touch its glow with his leather glove, but it leaves no mark. It lets him pass.

He pauses at the sight of Zack. He doesn't like the sight of those wings. He doesn't think he'll ever again see a person with wings, in life or art, without feeling slightly cold. "Zack," he says, turning his head slightly to one side, in his way of asking for an explanation without actually asking.
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[personal profile] nohometown 2012-03-21 12:21 am (UTC)(link)
"Of course. I saw you not long ago." He knows many of the SOLDIERs in his command, and the Firsts best, especially reduced as they are in the time of the Genesis War. He knows Zack better than any others, now.

He studies their surroundings soberly as he continues his approach. It's an odd, shifting place. Yet oddly, it doesn't feel strange, no matter how unfamiliar it is. He adds, in case of some confusion, "Following the incidents at Modeoheim."

And his mind returns, as it always does (always will?) to the betrayals and deaths of his friends, that low heat of anger slowly beginning to rise, only to be pushed away again, pushed down under further pressure.
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[personal profile] nohometown 2012-03-21 01:49 am (UTC)(link)
"Then you're also from a possible future." He considered no future set before its time. That defied all reason, as far as he was concerned.

He did not believe in fate, like Genesis. What had happened to them was the result of the chance actions of individuals, not the subject of some prophecy written out in poetry. If you sought similarities between vague verses and reality, of course you would find them. That did not mean it was anything more than coincidence.

The mind saw what the heart showed it. What he wanted was to see the truth. "And what is it that is happening?"

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[personal profile] drinkandforget 2012-03-20 11:21 am (UTC)(link)
She approaches without fear, because this is where she belongs: the end of everything, the place everything melts back into nothing.

No; this is even beyond her river. This is more like the galaxy cauldron, which Galaxia hopes to control. She notes it, but without fear. And she notes the man who seems to be immersed in it.

Even she, a senshi, feels a strange sense of awe, here.

"You've come to the end of your struggles," she tells the man caught in the web. "Why do you still thrash about?"
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[personal profile] drinkandforget 2012-03-21 12:08 am (UTC)(link)
In her world, the person already at this place would have nothing left. They would be empty of memories, purpose, friendships, goals, everything but their power - if they have it.

Perhaps this man in front of her is simply a manifestation of whatever remains of 'Zack Fair'.

"You're bound tightly," she observes. "What will you do next?"
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[personal profile] drinkandforget 2012-03-21 01:57 am (UTC)(link)
[He says it like a name.] Meteor?

[Lethe has never heard of any senshi by that name - her first thought, as senshi are always named for the celestial objects they were born under.]

Who is it?

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[personal profile] isomorphology 2012-03-21 08:59 am (UTC)(link)
Quorra stops short when she sees him studying her. She still hasn't gotten a true understanding of how dreaming works. She glances around, looking at the emerald streams and glows, keeping her hands close as she won't touch them. Even if she's curious beyond measure and it's written on her face.
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[personal profile] isomorphology 2012-03-22 05:11 am (UTC)(link)
She's taken by surprise, but at the same time she's curious. And excited. She's never heard--felt--anything like it before. A smile forms on her face with a small laugh.

"Why not?"
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[personal profile] isomorphology 2012-03-22 10:14 pm (UTC)(link)
"There's de-resolution." She says. Reintegration in Flynn's case. "You're deleted. There's no way to restore a Basic or an ISO from that."

Of course, she doesn't realize that he may not understand those terms.

"...are you...?"

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