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Summary - After his defeat in the Northern Cave, Sephiroth establishes himself in the Lifestream. Searching for memories to base his avatars on, he comes across the perfect candidates.
Overview
I conceived this story when I watched Advent Children a while back, and I got thinking about the physical templates Sephiroth used for the remnants, and where they originated from. The most likely assumption to me was that they were templates of real people which he had plundered from the Lifestream. Which raised an obvious question.
Then I read On The Way To A Smile, and was a little surprised that it agreed with me. Kadaj is created from a memory in the Lifestream, and though it’s not specified, presumably Yazoo and Loz are as well. So that was interesting. So I got thinking about who these people were when they were alive, before Sephiroth tomb-robbed the memories of them in the afterlife of the Lifestream. I applied a little bit of Sephiroth thinking, a little bit of Jenova logic, and – oh.
Oh. Oh.
It's not an explicit fic, but it has very dark themes, and rather bad things happen. See the Archive for the full tags.
Characters
Yazoo, Kadaj, Loz, Sephiroth, OFC, Jenova, Cloud, Aeris