The 67th Floor Chapter 2

[lian_hua]

Iscariot: I think I had an aneurysm reading that. I can't feel the left side of my head anymore.
He moved forward, to get a better look at the display on the monitor. "I don't understand. I thought she had given up prostitution!"

"Oh, you will shortly convince yourself that such is not the case"You've known where she is, haven't you?" His voice was

Comments

[arynia]

So, in Slave's book, Sephiroth losing to Cloud in a fight is a massive rape of his character and a sign that they don't know their own story...but having Sephiroth beg Hojo for help and be utterly dependant on someone plainly unqualified to do the job he wants is perfectly fine?

[lian_hua]

I think the stuff she makes him go through in her stories is much worse than what he went through in canon. Aside submitting like an obedient little lemming to Hojo's torture for practically all his life, after making one stupid, criminally negligent decision after another, Slave also has Jenova rape him and force him to rape a woman. Slave had Sephiroth RAPED for God's sake, and it went beyond characterization.

The fact that she claims to know the story better than the creators just proves once again that she lives in a very compact little bubble.

[little_masaouki]

One of my favorite things about Slave's interpretation of Sephiroth is that she makes him more of a villain than he was in the series. The idea is that Sephiroth was a good man, possessed by Jenova, but her Sephiroth is not a good man. He's violent, he's cruel, he has a sadistic streak in combat, he's apathetic towards anybody who isn't important to him, and snubs everybody who isn't himself or Julia. He toyed with Julia's emotions, and overreacts to any slight or front. While his sins don't quite reach "blow up the world" level, he comes close enough that if he had a reason to end the world, I don't think he'd lose any sleep over the decision.

In other words instead of being a good man who couldn't handle the truth and snapped, he's an asshole, who was forced to do slightly more asshole-ish things than he would have done on his own.

Huge improvement there. /sarcasm

[lian_hua]

The worst part is that due to her...lack of filter, so to say, Slave is unaware that she made him worse than in canon. She claims she wanted to show the characters in a different light, not the typical Cloud=good, Sephiroth=evil angle, but all she did was reinforce this (justified) view by making Sephiroth a monster who had to be stopped even if he had not been involved in the Nibelheim incident.

[little_masaouki]

Exactly. Even if Jenova caused Nibilheim and the attempted destruction of the planet, Sephiroth on his own was responsible for burning a football field full of innocent people, and multiple acts of genocide, and never once even considers that this might be wrong, even as it hurts somebody he allegedly cares about. He still deserves to die.

[arynia]

Oh, I really doubt she considers that she had Sephiroth raped. Given how backward her views are on homosexuals and how Julia is utterly helpless without her man, I wouldn't be surprised if she's one of those people who don't believe that a man can be raped - and certainly, given how self-centered her insert is, it's quite clear that the rape (for the few short chapters of its impact) was all about Julia - Slave didn't see Sephiroth as a victim at all, apart from his stupid little suicide stunt.

[lian_hua]

I am willing to bet real money that she has NO IDEA that she had Sephiroth raped as well. Not just back then, but at this very moment in the present. The rape was indeed all about Julia, which is why I remember being so angry while sporking that segment. Hers is a special brand of ignorance.

[beacon80]

Really, "rape" falls short of what happened to him. Julia had her body violated. Sephiroth had his mind violated. I can't even really fully wrap my head around just how horrible that would be, because it's (thankfully) not something that can happen in the real world.

[arynia]

It's strange, that she can write such horrific, soul-destroying works and yet be so utterly...naive, I suppose is the word for it. She really is the astral Meyer.

[lian_hua]

Chapter 3 of 67th Floor is up, prepare for the worst.