#lifedxbt

[azure-steel]

@lifedxbt​ liked for a lil starter

Man, this guy was beginning to grate on his nerves something chronic. Of course, Cloud was not privy to whatever factors garnered Aerith so precious to the ShinRa cause, but he’d already agreed to take care of the girl to the best of his ability even if it was more for her sake more so than that of some suit. 

Wasn’t it high time they just let him get on with it?

“You know...” he starts, his voice little more than an irritated grumble. “... I’m trying to remember a time I opened a door and you weren’t there.” 

[unattainabledreams]

For @lifedxbt​

It was finally over, but even in the months after he'd regained himself the weight of what had happened and what he'd been forced to do still haunted him day and night. Zack was meant to be relaying some updates and requests from Commissioner Tuesti to be passed on to Rufus, but for their former (as Zack would consider it) friendship along with the wounds dealt to the man, he felt he owed the Turk some explanation.

"Hey..." He began somberly. It was an unusual reunion. Did Tseng know? Probably not- not what really happened at least. No one knew. He hadn't told- confessed -to anyone but Reeve just where he'd been until now, or what he’d done. He hadn't even approached Cloud yet...

"So uh..." An awkward head scratch. He hesitated, going over in his head just how to explain all this. "I'm sorry-" For what? For so much, every failure and short falling that lead to disaster after disaster and only served to put those he cared about in difficult positions. More often than not, left bleeding out. "About the Temple..." And oh Gaia so much more..

[kingofthecats]

Reeve starter for @lifedxbt​

This was not the first time Reeve had assisted the Turks in their plans, having discreetly provided them with his support all those years ago when they briefly separated from Shinra, going as far as to lend them Cait Sith to aid them in their goals of finding support materia. It had been that very mission that led to the young Vice President commenting on how they could use the said drone for reconnaissance purposes.

“The upgrades are nearly done, Cait Sith should it be fully operational within the next hour. I just need a convenient place to leave him for Avalanche to find,” he informed Tseng, not looking up from his workbench where he was currently fiddling with the wires in the cat doll's stomach.

Reeve felt cold towards Tseng and his men for their role in dropping the Sector 7 plate, but mostly he was angry at himself for not trying harder to talk the late President Shinra out of his plans, and not being quick enough to send Cait Sith down to the pillar to thwart the Turks. 

“Had the late President been...removed from his position earlier...do you think Rufus would have gone with the original plan to drop the plate?" he asked, despite knowing what he was asking was basically treason, and that the answer wouldn't change what happened.

[giftofthegodess]

@lifedxbt​ replied:  Bite me

“Is that a request, Tseng?”

[cultivatxr]

@lifedxbt​ ❤’d for a starter.

She’s unusually quiet for once, while she engages in his company. A familiar and decidedly new winter jacket adorning her shoulders as she wandered, wordlessly at his side through the dust peppered streets of her homestead. There’s a comfort in the silence that she can’t explain, a kind of muted understanding that makes her feel better, even if only to be near to someone that she thinks, deep down, might actually genuinely care. There’s something Aerith wants to ask him, a request really that harkens back to an offer of escape he’d given her in the months that had proceeded this moment, but she doesn’t want to ruin it just yet. Doesn’t want to be parted from all that she knows and loves, when she can make little interludes of normality just like this, last for a few moments more. 

“You know how to skate right?” It’s a far less serious question that leaves her as she nods to the pop-up ice rink, the fake snowy paradise the closest she’s ever come to the arctic wilds of her birth. She can still remember every year coming down here to watch the other children indulge in their familial frivolity at the very end of the festive season; swears blind she can still hear the laughter sometimes as it carries on the wind long into Summer. Is it childish to ask this of him, with her hand outstretched and a smile that could rival the sun? Bright eyes half pleading, even if only for the luxury of being able to hold his hand and make a memory to cherish amidst a sea of otherwise unpalatable goodbyes. “…because I don’t.” 

[fairweatherpuppeh]

@lifedxbt​

     “Tseng.” gone was the hyperactive friend the director had known once, a true SOLDIER stood in his place as he opened his hand. “You have them don’t you...? her letters. Why did you keep them from me....?”

[rufusofshinra]

Kingdoms of Gaia Part II

@lifedxbt | @rufusofshinra

@gyahahahaha | @architectofhope

@chasiingrain | @seraphicwiing

[reno2ndgun]

Resignation

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Reno had the same tired feeling in his bones.  Years of looking over their shoulders to see if ShinRa senior  would decide one day to do away with them and they’d have to spirit away in the night in a helicopter or some other means. “I dunno.....Maybe it’s better to let’m stay free. I just miss them. I think about Ruluf all the time. I think about Rod, and Shotgun and Katana. ....Nah...it’s better this way. I miss ‘em. But it’s the best we could do for ‘em yo. You made the right call I think.