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When the war of the beasts brings about the world's end... Dreams of the morrow hath the shattered soul Pride is lost Wings stripped away, the end is nigh tag: warofthebeasts FF7 Sephiroth Written by Kevin

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Notes about Kevin: - Slow replies - They/Them but any pronouns are fine. - Forever tired. - I reply to stuff sporadically and in no real order most of the time. - Very flexible and chill as a roleplayer. If you're not sure where to take a thread or plot or whatever, feel free to poke me about it or just drop it or shelve it for later. We can always come back to it or start something new. - Sometimes, as threads call for them, Zack will make appearances. - Sideblogs: - Zack Fair, FF7 (WIP)

Notes About Sephiroth: - His main verse is an AU in which it was not the real Sephiroth that menaced the planet and summoned Meteor; it was JENOVA that had been awakened by his proximity to it at Nibelheim. - He usually has his hair braided or in a ponytail. - Following the events of the game, the Masamune was left in the Midgar Zolom; he now wields a broadsword carried across his back. - The Masamune was also carried across his back during his days with SOLDIER. - He does have what would be considered 'siblings', however, he doesn't recognize them as such. He feels no familial ties to anyone who shares any genetics with him.

[fatumimpera]

Nyx sighed. "If you're going to lie, at least put try to be convincing next time, yeah?" He mumbled, moving forward to see the other's injuries. The brand made him frown, but he felt like he shouldn't mention it. "C'mon then, to the healer we go, I need to patch this up for you."

[warofthebeasts]

"How is it a lie? I'm walking, I'm alive." He was sulky, of course, ever the child forced to be a weapon who didn't like making a show of his injuries, but they hurt and he was tired because he was always tired after Vegnagun came out.

[forgedofoaths]

We build our own prisons. Bars forged of oaths, codes, commitments. Walls of self-doubt and accepted limitation. We inhabit these cells, these identities, and call them “us.”

Independent Arcane Silco roleplay blog, written by Kevin. Crossover friendly, mutuals only, sometimes spotty activity because life just be that way.

Partner in crime to @noescapingthepast, lover of dark jokes, all around menace to society and horrendous father whose day job is a robber baron who has deluded himself into thinking he's doing the right thing for Zaun.

Laws || The Drowned Man || AUs

[fatumimpera]

"Uh huh – sure you are. Means you won't mind if I have a little look at what you're hiding under your shirt, right?" He questioned, tone unconvinced.

[warofthebeasts]

Sephiroth gave him a glare, yet he did not hesitate to slip out of his shirt, revealing bruises and scars as well as the brand between his shoulder blades.

[engineering-robotics]

"So you admit you have a little bit of a problem?" Reeve should've been a lot more nervous than he was. With Sephiroth's crap over the past several years though he's just been annoyed. Mostly aggravated.

[warofthebeasts]

"A 'little bit' is a massive, massive understatement, Director." Could Sephiroth blame anyone for being annoyed or aggravated or even nervous? He wouldn't, though he gave the older man something of a smile.

[fatumimpera]

"Well, you look rough. Mission turn bad?" Nyx questioned, eyeing the other up and down, faint concern in his eyes, though his posture was relaxed.

[warofthebeasts]

"I am fine," Sephiroth brushed off, hands pressed against his right side where bruises no doubt bloomed beneath his shirt.

[warofthebeasts]

[aurorarpresources]

reblog this if you're fine with your mutuals sending you asks unprompted

[warofthebeasts]

Eikonoclastic Defense System Vegnagun is awake.

[fatumimpera]

Fellow First Class SOLDIERS? Ah, that was... that meant that these people were likely Sephiroth's friends, didn't it? It was odd to consider such a thing, but the General was clearly concerned about them, so it only made sense. If he had lost both of them to degradation all of a sudden – that kind of loss would be really hard on anyone. Especially to someone like Sephiroth, who was placed upon a pedestal by ShinRa and likely had few friends. Who knew how it had affected his mental state?

Damn. Cloud was more determined now than ever. He had to fix this, one way or another.

"Well, unless you think Hojo has the genetic material of your friends lying around, then we really need to get to Hollander's lab. You're Sephiroth, it's not like anyone could actually stop you." He felt the need to point that out, though he also understood that Sephiroth was still loyal to ShinRa at this point in time, which meant he was less likely to break the rules.

Cloud was kind of hoping that Sephiroth was more loyal to his friends than ShinRa, though, as he was about to take a risk.

"That friend I told you about before, who had suffered from something similar to degradation? Yeah, that friend was me," he admitted, shrugging out of the material that covered his arm, to show off the lingering scars he had from the Geostigma. Even so, it was clear that the he had healed and was no longer suffering.

"I've lost a lot of people I cared about to ShinRa," even if it hadn't happened yet, it didn't make it less true. "I won't let that happen to anyone else. If I can get into that lab, I might be able to help these SOLDIERs. No one deserves that kind of pain."

He hesitated slightly, covering him arm once more. "I know I'm asking a lot here, but you've already trusted me once. Have I given you any reason to doubt me?"

[warofthebeasts]

It was little exaggeration to say that Genesis and Angeal were Sephiroth's only friends. They were the only ones who had ever managed to get close enough, who had never just taken Sephiroth's silence and standoffishness. Angeal had even known Sephiroth when they were younger. His two fellow firsts meant everything to him.

To lose them? He didn't want to consider it.

It was Sephiroth's silence and the way he suddenly avoided Cloud's gaze that said enough: no, Hojo does not have their genetic material. Nor did he have any real idea how to respond to being called out so blatantly in a way no one else ever had, though he was sure many had thought it.

And it was true. He was Sephiroth. There was nothing that ShinRa had that could take him down. Yet. They were working on it, they were always working on it, but so far...

So what stopped him from doing as he pleased? He didn't know. Something always held him back, and it wasn't loyalty.

His eyes lifted, not to Fenrir's face but to his arm when it was revealed, and he didn't need to be a genius supersoldier (he wasn't) to understand what those scars meant. They were healed because that was what scars were, and that meant that it was survivable. Sephiroth let out a long breath, part sigh, part gesture of resignation, and looked up at Cloud's face this time.

"I'll do it," he agreed quietly, voice hardly even a whisper. "For Angeal and Genesis, and for the rest of them."

[warofthebeasts]

one time many years ago i turned seph's hair brown and his eyes blue

[warofthebeasts]

@engineering-robotics

"If I was listening to the voice in my head, there would be more fire."

[warofthebeasts]

“Do it. You won’t.”

It sounds threatening to an outside source.

In reality though...

Zack tosses down his wooden sword, huffing.

"C'moooon! Why aren't you fighting me for real? I'm capable!"

A brow raises; Zack is lucky Sephiroth's taken a liking to him. As it is, he knows he should be annoyed.

But he isn't. Instead...

"Very well, then. Get a real sword. We'll fight."

And perhaps Zack will learn a very important lesson: Sephiroth doesn't play.

@ofhope

[fatumimpera]

Right, he had never told Sephiroth his name, had he? He should probably change that – the other deserved at least that much with the trust he had decided to put in him.

"Right. You can call me Cloud, but if anybody else asks then its Fenrir." He hoped Sephiroth would follow that request, even if he knew that it was a lot to ask for. It wasn't the biggest risk, giving the General his name, but even so it still felt odd. Sephiroth was the first he had told since he had come back in time.

Glad that he didn't have to worry about the Turks, as they could be seriously annoying to deal with, he nodded his head and moved forward to start his search.

"Hollander? Thought only Hojo had something to do with SOLDIER," he probably wasn't supposed to know that much, but oh well. He had already come this far. It just showed how much information he didn't have. He felt like he was going in blind.

Rummaging around, he found some files in the Presidents desk drawer, which indicated that he had looked at them recently. The name Hollander stood out when he opened the file, so it might be something of value. The name Project G stood out to him, though it also confused him. He knew of Project S thanks to Hojo's mad ramblings, but this was unknown territory.

Continuing to read, he opened up the progress report of one 'Genesis Rhapsodos'. Hollander had noted down Genesis' symptoms and his failed attempts at curing him. Hollander also contemplated that the degradation might be an unforeseen side-effect appearing in subjects who had been injected with J-cells, specifically those under Project G.

Brows furrowing, he noted another name, Angeal Hewley, as also being listed under Project G. Apparently Genesis and Angeal were the first SOLDIER subjects under the project. If that was the case, then this Angeal would likely end up affected by degradation as well. It wasn't Geostigma, but Cloud knew how J-cells worked by now. They corrupted everything, eventually. Sephiroth might not have physically degraded, but his mind had been lost to madness instead. Even so, the similarities hopefully meant that Cloud could cure it.

"Do the names Genesis Rhapsodos and Angeal Hewley mean anything to you?" He questioned, remembering that Sephiroth had mentioned one of his friends had become sick. It didn't feel right to keep his discoveries from the General if that was the case.

"You might want to see this. If it's true... then I need to move faster than I thought. Do you think you could get me into the labs? I need to test something."

[warofthebeasts]

"Fenrir," the SOLDIER agreed without question; he had always been that sort of man. Agreeable, accepting as long as no harm was caused or threat was issued, and what was it to him if Cloud wanted to be known as Fenrir? It was likely a cover name. "It's nice to meet you. I'm Sephiroth, but you...were already aware of that, I assume." Because everyone always was. There was no anonymity when his face and name were plastered on posters all across the world over.

He didn't like it, but it was what it was.

"Unfortunately not, though it's primarily Professor Hojo's work that goes into SOLDIER. I couldn't tell you the details, just that they both worked on their own projects that were different approaches to the same goal, or something similar, and that Professor Hojo's project's result is considered the superior one." That was to say, he was considered the superior result, whatever that actually meant.

Apparently, being the 'superior result' meant he was to outlast everyone else he cared about, if the things he was learning now meant anything.

That Fenrir asked about Genesis and Angeal unprompted caught Sephiroth's attention, and without needing to be told, he was instantly at the blonde's side.

"Yes. They are my fellow First Class SOLDIERs. It is Genesis that's been showing signs... Does this mean Angeal, as well?" he asked, attempting to keep any alarm or dismay from displaying itself, though there was a very clear--but subtle--tremble to his fingers as he took the files to read them over. His brows furrowed, lips forming a frown.

"Of course it means Angeal as well." And, potentially, himself, though he cared less for that than he cared for his friends. And what would that mean for the rest of SOLDIER? Did it mean anything? Were they all going to degrade? Did Professor Hojo know anything about it? And why was it being kept such a tight secret?

Sephiroth handed the files back to Cloud.

"I...could try to...? But it would have to be Professor Hojo's. I'm not permitted to enter any other laboratory." What a shame it was that it never crossed Sephiroth's mind to disobey orders from men who could hardly hold a candle to his might. He'd been trained well.

[warofthebeasts]

“I think you’re just scared to find out what this really means.” [from Cloud~]

For a while, Sephiroth was quiet, considering the statement, and something in it stung for reasons he could not articulate.

Perhaps he didn't enjoy being told he was 'scared'. He was never supposed to be 'scared'. But he was never supposed to be anything, was he? Scared, happy, sad, he was only ever supposed to be a perfect weapon after having been deemed a failure as a Cetra.

Finally, he sighed, shoulder lifting in something of a shrug.

"And if I am?" he asked. "I think anyone in my position would be afraid. But...I'm not afraid for myself. I'm afraid for everyone else. I couldn't care less what happens to me. But those around me never asked for this, were never informed of what will happen to them. It's beyond the fine print that no one reads."

@fatumimpera

[rpmemes-galore]

confrontational & disappointed … sentence starters

“Do it. You won’t.”

“Why did you do this? Why?”

“Get back in here. Face this.”

“Get back here, I’m not done, yet!”

“You did this. Not me. You did this…”

“You’re a coward. Always have been.” 

“You can’t keep making me the bad guy.”

“Well, do it, then. Prove you’re no coward.”

“And here I thought I could finally trust you.”

“No, you did this. And you need to pay for it.”

“You won’t hurt me. You’re not capable of that.”

“I don’t know why I expected any better from you.”

“You really have the nerve to be offended by this?”

“You’re just gonna walk away, huh? Just like that?”

“You keep threatening to leave, but you’re still here.”

“Just take this and go. I’m done. I’m done with all of it.”

“Don’t pretend to be a saint. We both know you’re not.”

“I don’t want to fight. But, I can’t put up with this anymore.”

“I think you’re just scared to find out what this really means.”

“This isn’t going to just blow over. We need to talk about this.”

“We could have had something special, but, no… you ruined it.”

“You’re not a hero. I don’t know why I ever expected you to be.”

“Don’t act surprised. You knew this had to come sooner or later.”

“What, did you think there weren’t gonna be any consequences?”

“And how am I supposed to believe a single word you say, anymore?”

“You still act like such a hopeful child. Try again when you’ve finally grown up.”

“Eventually, this is going to catch up with you. I hope I’m there to laugh and point when it does.”

“You always act like you’re better than me. But, look at this. This proves you’re no different.”

“You can turn your back on this if you want. Just don’t expect me to still be here when you finally come around, again.”

[warofthebeasts]

He'd been holding a potted plant because someone said 'hold this' and handed it to him before leaving.

"...I think I've been pranked."