Strifesodos, “The rose-petals are a little… much, don’t you think?” Because either Genesis being Extra(tm) or Cloud trying too hard to be Extra(tm) for him are both hilarious options.
IT WAS GONNA BE A THING BUT THEN CLOUD GOT ALL ANGSTY ON ME LIKE HE DOES >:(
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“Rose petals?” Genesis asked, looking over the bedroomset up Cloud had put together while he’d been out. “Don’t you think that’s alittle… much? For you at least?”
That… wasn’t the right thing to say.
That wasn’t the right thing to say at all, now Cloud was gettinganxious, looking at the wall and fidgeting with his hands. That wasn’t whatGenesis wanted at all.
“Hey now,” he started, pitching his voice quiet andgentle as he reached out to try and catch one of Cloud’s hands. “I didn’t meananything – “
“No you’re right,” Cloud was closing himself off quickly,retreating back into himself and curling deeper into his shell. “It was, was astupid idea. I’ll clean it up, don’t worry about it.”
“Now, Cloud. It’s ok, let’s continue our even– “
“No I’ll clean it up. It’s fine.”
Genesis looked at Cloud a minute more before sighing,defeated. He’d fucked things up for the night, nothing more to do than giveCloud the space he was requesting and try to talk to him once morning came.
I gotta say. This year’s Strifesodos Week has made such a big improvement than last year’s, and it’s all thanks to you wonderful people out there for your participation.
That’s why I want all of us to give our thanks to the hard-working participants of this event:
chaoscheebs replied to your post “Since you like Overwatch and Pokemon right now, do you mind if I ask...”
YAY ANOTHER PERSON WHO THINKS CLOUD WOULD MAIN MERCY
BECAUSE HE TOTALLY WOULD! He’d run around the point healing everyone boosting them when they moved up. He’d fly away from teammates who stopped protecting him to go be heroes to fall back to people who really knew how to win. And he can’t stop the smile when he hears her say “Heroes, never die.”
Hello an immediate cute idea that I’m running with
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Cloud flinched away from the rough touch against the spilt skin of his side, turning his face towards the one “tending” to him with a snarling grimace. “Watch it.”
“I am “watching it”,” Rosso said, voice bland and eyebrow raised in an unimpressed line in response to his grimace. “It is not my fault that you are shrinking like a fragile flower instead of a warrior.”
“Well it’s not my fault it feels like your only trying to rip it open more,” Cloud shot back at her, low and surly and completely ineffective in the face of her blank incomprehension of what he’s saying or how to apply gentleness to others instead of just recieving it.
“You are being foolish,” a roll of her eyes as she shifts closer to get back at the wound. “I made the wound as I made it, I will not do anything to make it worse, that would defeat the purpose of the fight.”
Cloud huffed a breath, she really just wasn’t geting it. Fine, better to just grit his teeth and bare it until it’s over with -
“… You can show me what you mean when you tend to my own injuries, no? Would that be a satisfactory compromise?”
What?
He blinked at her but Rosso was uncharacteristicly avoiding looking at him, focusing on the wound she’d given him instead.
“Yeah,” he said, blinking at her long and slow. “Yeah that sounds alright.’
@chaoscheebs gave me “I really like a man who’s good with his hands,” for Strifesodos and I immediately went to Streamer Friends Dynamics and it’s not NSFW in the slightest. Just fun cracky nonsense in this one! To help balance out the last one.
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“Chetchi says you’re terrible.”
“Chetchi doesn’t know what he’s talking about.”
“Malborowaifu doesn’t think you’ll do it either.”
“Why don’t you ever read out the nice comments,” Cloud complained, gaze focused on the screen in front of him. He flicked his gaze to Genesis’ form, registering the other man’s teasing smile before returning his attention to the game.”Boost my confidence, or something like that.”
“They’re so hard to find though,” Genesis whined, burrowing further into his warm jacket and focusing on the chat he had opened in front of him. “Everyone’s complaining that you’re butchering their favourite songs.”
“I’m not butchering them!” Cloud said, amusement colouring his tone as he selected the next piece of music for the night. “I’m barely missing the notes!”
“Whatever helps you get through the day,” Genesis responded, leaning back against the couch. He brought up the poll for the next song selection and groaned when he saw what the next few songs would be. “They’re going through my music library again,” he whined, gazing at the titles of four songs by one of his favourite bands.
“I’ll make sure to butcher those,” Cloud promised, flexing his hand around his controller as he started the song. “Find something nice to say while I do this.”
“Alright,” Genesis said, switching back to the chat and reading what the comments that crawled across his screen. It was just a small stream tonight, late and easy-going for the subscribers, usually the second Friday night of the month was reserved for the four of them a fighting game of some kind but both Aerith and Sephiroth were own of town and they’d decided to just relax with a rhythm game.
They’d started with a few songs that Cloud liked before opening up to viewer requests, when things got fun. They’d sent in the most amusing requests; troll songs, opening themes, actual requests and he even thought he’d recognized the Chocobo Warriors theme song amongst the pieces Cloud had already played through, then they’d starting sending in some of his and Cloud’s favourite artists. Watching Cloud become frustrated over his inability to play his favourite pieces of music was amusing to say the least.
With Cloud’s request for him to find something nice to say to him, the chat was flooded with questions, queries and encouragement. He snorted at a few of the more amusing messages from Cloud’s more amusing subscribers, shifting to a comfortable position as he responded to the ones that had caught his eyes.
“Aerith and Seph are away, Drago,” Genesis answered one of the questions in the chat, skimming the crawling words for compliments to give Cloud once he was done with his current track. “They’re searching for replacements.”
“They won’t have to work hard for that,” Cloud muttered, pulling a laugh from Genesis’ throat. The chat erupted with amused responses to the man’s words and a few people that didn’t quite grasp their particular brand of humour needing to have the joke explained to them.
The track finished in the next minute, showing off Cloud’s score and his overall ranking. It was a decent score, much better than the scores he had gotten little more than an hour before, Cloud was definitely getting better as he went. The chat had noticed as well, if the flood of congratulatory messages was any indication.
Cloud set down his controller on the table in front of him, reaching out towards where Genesis was sitting. “Come here,” Cloud urged, patting the space next to him before holding his hand to him again. “I wanna see the trash they’re saying about me.”
Genesis snorted but grasped Cloud’s hand and allowed him to tug him from his comfy seat and next to him, burrowing into his side to soak up as much of the other’s warmth as he could. He handed the man the device he had been reading the chat on, leaving him to interact with the viewers as he got himself comfortable again.
“Shut up guys,” Cloud grumbled, rolling his eyes at the camera for the audience. “We’re not being ‘sweetly domestic’, Gen’s just being a heat sponge again.”
“I’m stealing that term for later,” he informed the other man, stretching his legs out along the couch until he was tucked against Cloud’s side. “It’s perfect for us.”
“Don’t encourage them,” Cloud said, words coloured with an exaggerated sigh. His hand lifted from where it had been resting and started to run through his hair with absent-minded movements, pulling a pleased noise from Genesis’ noise as he relaxed against him completely. “Chetchi’s threatening us with fanart, again.”
“I love Chetchi’s art,” Genesis said, teasing smile in place as he looked up at Cloud. “The one they did of you and Seph as Air Pirates is the most adorable thing ever.”
Cloud flushed slightly but ignored him, focusing on interacting with the chat for a bit. “Thank you for the compliments Gravedigger,” he said, eyes moving over the chat quickly. “And thank you, Breezy, for the grievous insult to my skills.”
Genesis smiled, content to listen to Cloud talk to the chat as he remained pressed to his side and enjoyed his warmth and the relaxed feeling of the stream. It wasn’t that uncommon for them to end up curled up together during the streams, despite how flustered Cloud always got, and the viewers were well aware of that fact; Chetchi’s wouldn’t be the first piece of them curled up together, nor did he think it would be the last. A lot of them were incredibly cute and he loved embarrassing Cloud with them.
He focused back on Cloud when a particular comment caught his attention, turning towards him and speaking without a second thought.
“- not just dating me for my looks, Ravencloak! There’s other reasons!
“I really like a man who’s good with his hands.”
Cloud paused, looking down at him with flushed cheeks and an expression that told him how foolish he was being. He blinked after a few moments, turning away from him as he responded. “I’m glad you said ‘man’ instead of ‘person’ there.”
“Oh?”
“Yup,” Cloud answered, gaze purposely trained on the chat. “If you had said ‘person’ then you’d probably dump me for Aerith at least once every month.”
Genesis opened his mouth to say something in response but froze, considering what Cloud had said. “Point,” he said, reaching out and taking his device back from Cloud. “The things that woman can do with her hands are positively sinful.”
He felt no qualms in labelling Aerith that way; she was a champion at fighters and ensured that they remembered it. During one of their previous streams together he’d turned the video onto her hands so the viewers could see the exact precision and speed of her hands during the matches; to say it was impressive was putting it lightly. It was one of their highest viewed clips, aside from the one where Seph and Cloud got jumpscared by a RPG-maker game.
“Yup,” Cloud agreed with a soft laugh, reaching out and picking his controller up again. “Now, which of your favourite songs am I destroying first?”
chaoscheebs replied to your post: Genesis ~ And I don't know if I actually said it...
I could see him being into classical, but I also see him having a secret soft spot for punk, because he appreciates the “fuck the establishment I do what I want” sentiment of it. No one must know, because he has a reputation to uphold.
I can definitely see him doing that; he has several CDs hidden in his shelf of the stuff, though they’re disguised as other things. He’s swapped some of his favourite punk albums with classical albums he hates. Nobody knows because everyone knows better than to touch any of his things, he has thrown fireballs at people who got to close to his CD player before.
OH MY GOD YES THANK YOU FOR ALSO LIKING THE IDEA OF CLOUD HAVING FRIENDS IN THE INFANTRY. Just imagine some of them finding him again after everything and going “holy shit we thought you were dead but you’re not, yay!”
YES! I refuse to believe that Cloud didn’t have some kind of friend while he was in Shinra besides Zack. Just no, he deserves more than that and he’s so sweet in Crisis Core, he definitely has people that worried about him after he went missing. He definitely has friends that tried for months to figure out what happened to him before they had to stop for fear of being disappeared.
And then they just find him while out getting groceries and they refuse to let him out of their sight until he tells them what happened and they know he’s doing ok and they have a way to contact him in order to meet up again so they can tell everyone that made it through everything that he’s alive.
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Genesis Rhapsodos – I’mgonna rant about Genesis now.
First things first; I adore his colour palette, variousshades of red is one of my favourite colour schemes for a character. That andoff-white with anything. I saw his design long before I even knew where he wasfrom and immediately scouring the internet to find out who he was.
Secondly, his personality is really appealing to me. Ireally like characters that are passionate about their thing and will literallyfight someone over it. I also really enjoy how he contrasts with the othercharacters in Crisis Core, I think he worked really well with everyone else andI enjoy that immensely about Crisis Core and really FFVII in general.
Then the fact that he’s a red mage in a program fillof people where the standard issue weapon is a broadsword. I really like thatabout his character, especially when I think about how difficult it must havebeen for him to get to SOLDIER First in that environment and how much effort hewould have had to put in to get respect for the other SOLDIERs.
Finally, I love how his character arc progresses; thedescent into madness and deplorable actions followed but remorse and the needto achieve penance (even if there’s no pay-off for him which annoys me but I’drather no pay-off than a failure of a pay-off). I also really enjoy charactersthat have a descent into madness, I think it’s one of my favourite charactertropes beside ‘I can’t do anything about what’s going to happen, fuck.’
All in all I really like Genesis, he’s a goodcharacter that hasn’t been utilized well enough but still pretty good and I preferthat than a good character that was handled in an outright insulting way.
