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Status: Accepting
//Genesis keeps a scrapbook.
It starts off when he was really young, filled with mostly monologues, pressed flowers, and torn out pages from books he really liked at the time. But eventually you start to see the intrusion of a few pictures of himself and a boy his age, looking as stiff and unsure of each other as can be in the Rhapsodos family orchard. But some pictures in, you have them knee-deep in a creak, eyes as wide as can be over a fish Angeal has caught.
The theme of the scrapbook starts to shift away from peopleless topics to being completely people-centered. You see little journal excerpts by a movie ticket, or some story next to a seemingly mundane tissue paper.
Then, there is a single pace with just a SOLDIER acceptance letter. The monologues return. And while there are still pictures, it is of places, geography, perhaps a weapon or materia he received as a bonus.
Angeal appears again, and while Genesis is smiling in the picture, it looks strained. There is a newcomer in this one. The pressed flowers return in earnest, almost dominating every page for a while, framing different pictures-- always of those three. Genesis is laughing in one, flipping the camera off in another. There is one where Sephiroth has him thrown over a shoulder as he struggles to break free. They are both smiling, albeit suppressed.
The final entry is a flower pressed page around a single image--. The trio are on a train, perhaps on the way or coming back from a mission. Genesis is in the middle, head against Angeal’s shoulder. Angeal has his arms crossed, resting for the long journey ahead. Sephiroth is lightly brushing something out of Genesis’ face.
And they are all smiling.
... Now, this is the final entry. But if one were to retrieve this relic, they would find that there have been things removed from the end. Little bits of the plastic dividers have been left in the spine.
What was there was always removed. Because it never felt like himself.
