*WIBBLE* Oh. my. good. god. That was... that was... I'm speechless, it was that good. Amazing. Completely amazing. Yeah, I lost my ability to form coherent sentences. I'll just be quiet now, and... wibble some more. Maybe say something constructive later. But now... yeah. *WIBBLE*
(more sweatdrops) I'm sorry... really! I need to put bigger blinky things whenever I post nonfluff, don't I? (looking around at the collection of stunned readers making like landed fish gasping for air) I'm sorryyyyy...
Nonononono!!! It was completely amazing, and I'm very happy you posted this! It was just... so intense it almost left me breathless. Not that that's a bad thing, mind you. There are very few fics out there that make me really do a double-take, so... kudos to you! ^^
oh - (whew) okay! Was kinda reflexively apologetic after the OMG WOE AND TRAUMA infliction... I'm torn 'cause I really like getting emotional reactions from readers, because that means I wrote it well, but on the other hand, I feel horrible when I make people cry... ^^;;;
Haha, it's ok. I couldn't manage anything more coherent at the moment.
And I'd always thought of that song as being rather sad as well. In an odd way, this fic kinda hit home, I guess.
I haven't read the rest of the comments, so someone might've mentioned this already. It makes sense that Sephiroth would have no real sense of music or song. Oppressive regimes are often known to remove access to all/certain kinds of music to... I guess depress people into NOT rebelling. Music tends to excite strong emotion, action, purpose... things that could possibly cause Seph to turn on Shinra, which would be bad for business. *snort* I don't know if you considered that angle or not while writing this, but it's an interesting little tidbit.
I hadn't thought of that -- I'd just thought of 'look, he was raised in a mad scientist's lab, chances are pretty darn high nobody was going to be singing on the job where Hojo could hear them.' But that's a depressingly good point too...
Sephiroth not knowing what singing is. Zack -- Zack, of all people! -- without the ability to talk, to touch the way he wants to touch, to defuse the tense moments. The way they're connected to each other, so strong and yet so fragile, and so unhealthy for all that it's the link keeping Sephiroth sane.
Yeah, it's a total mess, what Zack's trying to do for him -- he's holding a certified genocidal barely-human living weapon, and what he did to Wutai for Zack's sake -- he called it for the platoon, but it wasn't personal until it was about Zack -- that's not sane by anyone's definition; but Zack had to keep holding him, carefully, because the alternative of leaving him alone in the world was literally not imaginable. So even if he has to lie about being fine, even if he has to never mention what was wrong with what Sephiroth did for him, Zack's always going to be there because he knows how much he has to be there for the world to survive what Sephiroth would do without him
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;____; ..........oh Sephiroth. *wipes tears* Damn. Damn damn damn. 'her voice changed' *wipes more tears away* Can't really think right now, but, probably part of it is that we all know Seph'd be batshit insane without Zack, or with fear of losing Zack, so not surprised. And owwwwwwww. ;_;
(sweatdrop) I'm sorry! But I'm not totally sorry 'cause I was trying to give it some emotional punch, but on the other hand I'm sorry I made you cry... ^^;;;;
Losing to a souless virus. Even if you didn't foreshadow on purpose, that just hit me right under the ribs.
Seph not knowing what singing was. There have been only three times that I remember crying because of books or movies or anything, but this came extrmemly close.
(evil grin) I TOTALLY meant that soulless virus thing on purpose. I couldn't figure out whether the virus was something the Wutai scientists had developed based on Jenova, or whether it was unmodified Jenova without whatever Hojo did to get even a fraction of a percent of survivors. But even if it was an unmodified nasty something completely unrelated, the reason Sephiroth never VISIBLY came down with symptoms was that when the virus hit him, the Jenova virus was already so deeply woven into his reflexes and his instincts that he started on the 'need to vaporize the vermin as efficiently as possible' track without the catalyst of a specific target, and 'the people who hurt Zack' was the most convenient outlet available.
But with Zack incapacitated and Sephiroth not exactly an impartial witness, there was no way I could get that into the FIC'S perspective...
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And I'd always thought of that song as being rather sad as well. In an odd way, this fic kinda hit home, I guess.
I haven't read the rest of the comments, so someone might've mentioned this already. It makes sense that Sephiroth would have no real sense of music or song. Oppressive regimes are often known to remove access to all/certain kinds of music to... I guess depress people into NOT rebelling. Music tends to excite strong emotion, action, purpose... things that could possibly cause Seph to turn on Shinra, which would be bad for business. *snort* I don't know if you considered that angle or not while writing this, but it's an interesting little tidbit.
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Sephiroth not knowing what singing is. Zack -- Zack, of all people! -- without the ability to talk, to touch the way he wants to touch, to defuse the tense moments. The way they're connected to each other, so strong and yet so fragile, and so unhealthy for all that it's the link keeping Sephiroth sane.
It's beautiful. But ouch.
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Cyborgs. That is all. hearts
Losing to a souless virus. Even if you didn't foreshadow on purpose, that just hit me right under the ribs.
Seph not knowing what singing was. There have been only three times that I remember crying because of books or movies or anything, but this came extrmemly close.
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But with Zack incapacitated and Sephiroth not exactly an impartial witness, there was no way I could get that into the FIC'S perspective...
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