Is it dark? Are you still awake? Where are you? Is this a dream ( Read more... )

[Ah, family. Contrary to popular belief, it's not a foreign concept in the Netherworld. Mao, of all people, knows that very well, even if he doesn't have one right now. It was, after all, because of his love for his family that his father died.

"Love". He still couldn't quite grasp the concept, though it wasn't for lack of trying. It made up at ( Read more... )

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[You're drowning. You must be drowning because you're surrounded by water, falling deeper into this vast sea, or are you going up? Whether you look up or down the sight is the same, darkness spreading while wrapped lovingly in the water's embrace. Is this how are you going to end? Drowning in an unknown sea, for an unknown reason? But that's ( Read more... )

"Moth-her..." Kadaj rasped, sucking in deep breaths of air that seemed devoid of oxygen. The oppressive sun glazed the landscape with dry, shimmering heat, caking the remains of the lifestream to sweaty skin. The young remnant clamped his jaw shut and forced himself to take each new exhausting step over the debris. "Yazoo...Loz..." He cracked out ( Read more... )

Today is the day.

You may have come to the Land of Departure seeking strength, skills or chasing a dream. Or maybe you came because you're trying to escape something: a desolate world, crippling self doubt, or had nowhere else to go. Either way, it's been a long journey with Sora, training and learning and fighting to earn the right to earn the ( Read more... )

The weather report had forecast rain, but they'd been lucky.  The sky had been clear and sunny when they'd picked out and set up their campsite earlier and it had stayed just as balmy on the long hike to the lake.  It was his last chance to be with his baby sister before she went off to college (not such a baby anymore.  Life seemed intent on ( Read more... )

[Reno's sitting in a public park in the middle of Edge, dressed in her uniform, but decidedly off duty. That is, her superiors would probably prefer she be off duty when spending her time this way, as she's sitting sprawled on a park bench, eating french fries. Or fried potato strips, as the case may be in a world with no France ( Read more... )

[She may have been small in her dreams again, but she recognized this place. It was the Forgotten City. The glowing trees, the lake,and even the men within. They looked just like Sephiroth, how could she not know that they resembled him? This time, she had her memories, she just also had the impulsiveness of a child. And sometimes the attention ( Read more... )