I’ve found myself reading agszc fics lately, even though they hadn’t been something I’d initially sought out (I tend to go for more individual permutations of the five of them), but all that has given me some thoughts on how I might do agszc if I were to write something.
the main idea I have is this:
post canon, strifesodos is an established thing. genesis and cloud have somehow managed to work things out, and they’re quite happy together, genesis alternately helping out strife delivery service and finding other things to do around edge. ags and zakkura never quite happened before everything went to shit, but the two of them are both aware of the other’s feelings in that regard.
then, all these feelings and many more are brought up again by a very much not dead sephiroth, angeal, and zack appearing in the ruins of midgar. sephiroth and angeal don’t appear to remember anything after the point where genesis started to degrade, and zack only remembers up to before nibelheim.
no one is really sure what to do with the three of them, especially sephiroth, but genesis and cloud get put in charge, by virtue of probably being able to kill him if things go wrong again.
cloud can barely stand to be in the same room as sephiroth, genesis alternates between desperately avoiding and staring longingly after angeal, and the three newly alive soldiers are Very Confused about everything they are clearly not being told.
including, notably, the fact that cloud and genesis are clearly together. (zack wails about genesis stealing the innocence of his cloud, until cloud gets embarrassed and smacks him on the head)
no one is jealous of the two of them no not at all.
there’s drama and emotions and somehow it all works out in the end, but I hadn’t really given it much more thought than that so far!
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