eeep! I wasn't figuring 'squee' would be on the reaction list, given Sephiroth's whole hi I'm a sociopath on a very very thin leash that just went snap thing, but, er, glad you liked it anyway!
Oh, I shouldn't have read this at work. I started crying, and had to blame my allergies, and my GOD this hurt, and Zack shouldn't be angry or helpless, or anything other than a force of nature equal to the sun.
Dammit, I'm still crying.
Thank you for this wonderful treat. Thank you for sharing it with us. *sniffles*
meeeeeeep. ;__; I'm sorry? (huggles poor Maile & poor sad plushie!) I should really learn to put not-worksafe warnings on more than just the usual, shouldn't I? Sorry about that...
Holy crap that was a kick to the gut and I'm glad that my housemates aren't here else I'd have to explain that sob I couldn't quite choke back, and then the tears and... Wow. It hurts to good.
Deep breaths =P
Sephiroth is scary, but damn good, his dependance on Zack is very sad, almost, and he is most definately at the far endge of sane by the end there. The sickness.... the fear of not being able to face that enemy. What happens when it becomes personal "For taking Zack's smile, he would see the entire Wutain nation burn before he left the filthy dregs of the planet behind him." Zack's anger and protectiveness... Zack's smile and the singing (that was the kick to the gut, but I'm assuming you'd be able to figure that out ^_~). And Zack's going to leave, no matter what he promises...
I think I'm a little bit in shock =P
I need to flail at friends now untill they read this. Share the pain, you know =P
(sweatdrop) I'm gonna be doing a lot of apologizing for this one, aren't I? I'm sorry! I can't say I didn't know what I was doing, but I'm sorry anyhow? (pets you and broken-Zack, and then gets a very very verrrrry long stick to pet broken-Sephiroth with...)
You don't need to be sorry, it's a good hurt =P I suspect that even if you posted warnings going "This fic is like Ikenie, except worse and with extra doom" I wouldn't even hesitate before clicking (though I'd probably be reaching for the kleenex with the other hand =P)
It's just so striking, with the contrast between Sephiroth and the lightness, childlike and innocent associations of the song*. It kinda brings his thought processes into focus. They seem very childlike in how they are so absolute and uncluttered. A kid doesn't care about reasons why his favourite toy is gone, or even if the people around him had anything to do with it, he just knows that he wants it back NOW and he's gonna complain until that happens.
And I think I may have even vaguely managed coherance somewhere in there ^_~
*I grew up being sung things like "With her head Tucked Underneath her Arm" "Grandfather's clock" and Simon and Garfunkle's "The Sun is burning" and have thus developed really strange idea as to what is normal content in children's songs =P
It's weird -- I associate that song with childhood, but I also associate it with gut-wrenching separation trauma, mostly because my grandfather used to sing it to me, while he was dying of cancer. I guess it kinda depends on what scars you and how badly... but that was the 'nooooo don't go don't leave me alone' memory-feeling I always hook into with that song, even before I learned the rest of the lyrics and that it was a pretty creepy monomaniacal-stalker-ish song when you sang the whole version instead of the grandpa-version. ^^;;;;
Trauma and obsession tag-team combo, I guess... which makes it a pretty darn apt Sephiroth-song all around, I think, in a really disturbing way...
('nother sweatdrop) I was thinking he was going to at least marginally freak people out with the whole 'mass genocide is a perfectly rational response to somebody threatening MY favorite soldier!' attitude, but he's just so broken I can see how people can kind of overlook that for the sake of the awwwpettins...
I really should've cut it at the first clip where he was singing, I think, for maximum wtf-he's-round-the-bend factor, except that that would've made the challenge-response too oblique, but... hmm...
But, like. I'm the weird sort of person who nods and smiles and goes "mass genocide? RATIONAL." Also, am sucker for singing and batshit in all forms, so.
The thing about mass genocide as a response to trauma is that, well, human nature is not a very pretty thing. You know all those deeply touching stories about the family that forgave their daughter's killer at the trial, etc?
You know why we all know those stories? It's because they have novelty value that attracts media attention. Most people would gladly shoot the b*stard down right in the courtroom and spit on the body; I'd wager half of them would be willing to shoot any partner/relative/offspring, too, given a chance. So it seems entirely human to me that someone with the ability to wipe out a country would have the urge to do it after they murdered a hundred of his "kin" -- and being Sephiroth, he was raised without the internal stops that most of us have, the voice that says "I could never do that" or "this would feel good but it's wrong
( ... )
You know the funniest thing? I've always thought that song was one of the saddest songs I'd heard growing up. And putting it here, it fits so perfectly it hurts.
Fortunately, I just got back from the drug store with a brand new box of kleenex. *loves you and FFVII so much*
I'm sorry again! Totally didn't mean to run you out of Kleenex. But yeah, that song's just not fit for children's consumption, which is why it's traumatized me since I was about 6 and my grandpa was singing it to me -- and even getting over the OMGwoe in the stanza everybody knows, do you know the REST of the lyrics? I swear this is the original emo love song for wannabe psychopaths in training!
Sephiroth really freaked me out in this one... brr....
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Dammit, I'm still crying.
Thank you for this wonderful treat. Thank you for sharing it with us. *sniffles*
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Deep breaths =P
Sephiroth is scary, but damn good, his dependance on Zack is very sad, almost, and he is most definately at the far endge of sane by the end there. The sickness.... the fear of not being able to face that enemy. What happens when it becomes personal "For taking Zack's smile, he would see the entire Wutain nation burn before he left the filthy dregs of the planet behind him." Zack's anger and protectiveness... Zack's smile and the singing (that was the kick to the gut, but I'm assuming you'd be able to figure that out ^_~). And Zack's going to leave, no matter what he promises...
I think I'm a little bit in shock =P
I need to flail at friends now untill they read this. Share the pain, you know =P
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It's just so striking, with the contrast between Sephiroth and the lightness, childlike and innocent associations of the song*. It kinda brings his thought processes into focus. They seem very childlike in how they are so absolute and uncluttered. A kid doesn't care about reasons why his favourite toy is gone, or even if the people around him had anything to do with it, he just knows that he wants it back NOW and he's gonna complain until that happens.
And I think I may have even vaguely managed coherance somewhere in there ^_~
*I grew up being sung things like "With her head Tucked Underneath her Arm" "Grandfather's clock" and Simon and Garfunkle's "The Sun is burning" and have thus developed really strange idea as to what is normal content in children's songs =P
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Trauma and obsession tag-team combo, I guess... which makes it a pretty darn apt Sephiroth-song all around, I think, in a really disturbing way...
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Oh Sephiroth.
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I really should've cut it at the first clip where he was singing, I think, for maximum wtf-he's-round-the-bend factor, except that that would've made the challenge-response too oblique, but... hmm...
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You know why we all know those stories? It's because they have novelty value that attracts media attention. Most people would gladly shoot the b*stard down right in the courtroom and spit on the body; I'd wager half of them would be willing to shoot any partner/relative/offspring, too, given a chance. So it seems entirely human to me that someone with the ability to wipe out a country would have the urge to do it after they murdered a hundred of his "kin" -- and being Sephiroth, he was raised without the internal stops that most of us have, the voice that says "I could never do that" or "this would feel good but it's wrong ( ... )
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You know the funniest thing? I've always thought that song was one of the saddest songs I'd heard growing up. And putting it here, it fits so perfectly it hurts.
Fortunately, I just got back from the drug store with a brand new box of kleenex. *loves you and FFVII so much*
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Sephiroth really freaked me out in this one... brr....
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