Mission 6: [Accidental Video]
[The PCD has just been dropped somewhere, but it's somewhere with a pretty good view of the room. Sephiroth doesn't notice the blinking light as he sits in a chair in the Hall of Fire. He is, naturally, back in his usual outfit. His expression is one of deep thought, or possibly brooding, distant and inward-focused. Finally, he stands, pacing
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...S-Sephiroth?
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I don't know the answer to that, Zack.
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Right. Guess I'll be wingin' it.
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And I won't tell him anything about you. That's not my place.
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Men are judged by their actions, Strife. His have been to avoid me. So no, I do not feel particularly protected. Nor am I inclined to discuss the matter with you, no matter how close you and Zack have become.
[The most incredibly formal way of saying 'butt out' ever.]
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He's not the same person you knew. Neither of us are.
[He's silent for a long moment, because there is so much more he could say, but he won't.]
Leave him alone. Or you'll have to deal with me.
[And he ends the feed. Don't bother calling him back, either, because he won't be answering.]
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Look, Sephiroth. There are things I just...can't tell you. 'Cause I've seen what happens when you find out.
[A pause.]
I don't want to see you go down that path again.
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Zack, as far as I've been able to tell, you don't want to see me, period. Keeping secrets does not require a communications blackout. Strife's right about one thing, at least. You're not the same person I knew.
If you want to know about my mother so badly, see what Vincent Valentine will tell you.
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I'm not a kid anymore, Sephiroth.
[He goes quiet again, debating how much he should say next.]
...Vincent already told me the truth. I just...wanna know if you know. Because you deserve to.
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[Gaia, Zack, grow some logical thought, would you?] Then the fact that I told you to ask Vincent should tell you something. If you absolutely must hear it from me in order to grant your peace of mind, my mother's name was Lucrecia. [And there's another small, barely perceptible twitch of pain.]
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Because of Genesis. And Angeal.
[And speaking of his old mentor again, his own friend, causes Zack frown as well, but more out of sadness than frustration. He hates that he had to kill Angeal, hates that he wears the reminder on his face every day.
But hearing Sephiroth say that name instead of the name he feared hearing makes him sigh in relief.]
You don't know how much that means.
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I would if you would tell me. [He shakes his head a little.] I won't press you for your secrets, however.
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No. No, Sephiroth knows who his real mother is. Hearing the idea that Jenova could even be imagined as his mother should be ridiculous, right?
...Right?]
You...there was a time when...when you thought Jenova was your mother.
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