fic: imperfect tense (ff8)

[jukeboxhound]

fateofshadow started it, now arin_rowan is bribing me.  I am not ashamed at how easily I can be bought.

Imperfect Tense
Chapter 10
Word Count: 2,700

FF7/8 || R - sexuality, battle violence, language || Squall/Seifer, Sephiroth/Cloud || crossover
Jenova's legacy, living on through the Sorceresses, is forcing Squall to deal with an unstable Seifer, Cloud Strife, and yet

Comments

[askerian]

Woo! I love this fic, so happy you updated. The scene with Seifer and Vincent was neat, especially that flashback to Turk!Vince, and I don't usuallu care much about Irvine or Selphie but I really enjoyed that scene as well. omg dun dun dunnnnn!! D:

[jukeboxhound]

In the original fic I'd been trying not to erase characters just because fewer people cared about them (even me) and focus on the few fandom favorites, so I'm really happy to hear that you at least enjoyed that bit. XD

[kannachan27]

Oh, gosh. My heart. Should I do favorite lines? Maybe just a few.

and suddenly the vampire looked a few years younger, hair cropped short, red cloak replaced with a neat business suit. Valentine raised a handheld device to his mouth and hissed, “Valentine to Turk base, target eliminated - “ and then whatever had cracked was slipped back into place and Seifer was looking at the vampire version again.
dsfjkl; I LOVE SEIFER'S HALLUCINATIONS. not kidding. And that he's totally gobsmacked at sexy!Turk!Vincent makes it even better. <3

It was Rinoa’s voice, if her larynx had been surgically replaced with a broken violin. There was a quality to it that had the potential to be heartbreakingly beautiful but instead grated like a fork scraping a plate, reverberating in their chests, their heads. I love this description so much. I've always gotten the feeling that Jenova has the possibility to be gorgeous, but everything is so wrong about her it's the opposite. (and i love 'heartbreakingly beautiful' as a description. it's my favorite,

[jukeboxhound]

In my head Jenova is one of those things that's pretty to look at but for some reason gives you the creeps, like originally you're all OH HEY YOU'RE AWESOME AND LET'S PARTY and before you know it you're destroying the world because she made it make so much sense. To me it justified how she's able to 'seduce' some people (Hojo, Sephiroth, though the latter's case is more complicated) and utterly horrify others.

Ahaha, I was thinking that Squall and Cloud are both so prickly in their own ways that they can't help but poke at each other just by sharing air. I hope that explains it.

Seriously, I know one of the reasons to make characters young in games and anime and whatnot is to appeal to a younger audience, but Christ, sending kids out to conquer nations or in huge Gundams or training to be assassins or whatever is just. Gah. So yeah. Wtf, ShinRa, Gardens.

Eep, thanks. :')

[kannachan27]

Yeah, I like that a lot more than them just being crazy for the sake of being crazy. ...though, Hojo is a different case than Sephiroth, haha. She gives me the creeps.

I understood what you meant, but just the way that you wrote it was hilarious to me! ...and I might have pictured them like that, too.

asdjfkl they're just KIDS and they're saving the world all over the place! I've never done anything quite so awesome. And it makes me feel strange, having crushes on high school-aged kids in anime/manga/videogames. BUT THEY'RE SO AWESOME... and most of the time end up acting way more adult than the 20+year olds that I hang out with at college, haha.

You're welcome! <3

[razziecat]

YAY, another chapter!! Yessss!

I totally love the way you weave snarky sarcasm, dry humor and soul-rending grief together. This story is so dark, and so intimate. And I love the way you write Vincent.

[jukeboxhound]

Ha, thanks. It's hard to be all THIS IS SERIOUS BUSINESS, GUYS without laughing at it which makes for some interesting times IRL.

[zeffy_amethyst]

Ah, Seifer. Never change. XD I wonder if Cid could have been a great-great-great-great grandfather to Seifer.

And sweet baby Jesus, Jenova. Why Selphie and Irvine? Why? T_T

Cloud! <3 You grumpy, awkward boy how I adore you.

[jukeboxhound]

I bet Shera's genes finally just went, "You know what? Fine," and settled for giving Seifer some awesome practical talent with tools and weapons. Idk.

Pfff, Cloud. And Squall. They're difficult because if they had their way they'd just sit there in stoic silence and the plot would never progress. /oversimplification

[anyssia]

You ass-raping motherfucking dickwad, keep those fucking tentacles to yourself - “
Seifer would’ve done Cid proud.
xD Loved the 'ass-raping...' ! ;p

Shoving a fresh clip into Death Penalty, Vincent slid like a shadow over the wall and came up behind Seifer,
Btw, what's gonna happen when he uses all his ammo? 'coz I'm thinking that his gun is kinda a century outdated...

if Vincent had been any less of a strictly self-controlled and classy person he might have rolled his eyes.
Personally, I call that being a motherfucking ice queen ;D

“I can lift you up if you want,” Irvine volunteered. His magnanimous gesture had nothing to do with her short yellow dress, no sir.
“Down, boy,” she snorted, still balancing on the tips of her toes. “You’d have more luck with Squally.”
That was…not a mental image Irvine was prepared for.
Ooooh, SHINY, WAAAANT!

The description of Jenova!Rinoa is... WOW O.O so beautiful and deadly! (and the combat scene was heartbreaking)

Cloud wished he knew what to say to reassure her. ‘They’re not important

[jukeboxhound]

Now I feel like I need to write more tentacle!sex.

...That's a good question. Weapons synthesis upgrade bullshit is a go~

There's an Irvine/Squall/Selphie fic out there by....Paxnirvana, I think? that I remember really liking some years ago, and this is coming from an otherwise faithful Seifer/Squall shipper. If you're interested.

And I now have the song "Stayin' Alive" stuck in my goddamn head. Also simultaneously Monty Python and the Holy Grail ("I'm not dead yet!") and Princess Bride ("He's only mostly dead"). Because half my conversation IRL tends to be crack movie quotations.

[anyssia]

Oooooh, tentacle!sex, shiny! ♥.♥

Seeing as they found antiques weapons all over the planet during the game and played/battled with them without batting an eye, I don't think it would be such a problem for Vincent, even centuries after the original timeline ^^

I never really thought about this pairing, apart from the automatic 'hum, nice, very nice view', but I think I'm going to check it out, thanks for the rec! :)

Oh the mix! 'He's only mostly dead' Priceless! xD