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[velvet_zealot]

[ The sound of breathing rocked by small tremors greets listeners as the Forge begins recording. And although it's quiet at first, it does not take long for the soft gasps to become louder, even more frustrated sobs. ]

I... I'm sorry, Mother... I failed you again. How can I call myself a good son when I can't even...?

[ A low growl, and a

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[yetsleeping]

[Oh, she's hesitating so much here, because she really has enough problems and because this person hasn't spoken to her in a while and she doesn't really mind since she's confused enough as it is.]

[...but.]

[She sighs.]

Yazoo. You seem... upset.

[ Voice ]

[velvet_zealot]

Wouldn't you be... if you were disconnected from the only family you know and love...?

[ Voice ]

[yetsleeping]

Well. Yes.

I am sorry about that. I didn't know you had a brother here.

[ Voice ]

[velvet_zealot]

[ He grunts. ]

A would-be brother... he likes to pretend he's not part of the family.

Voice - I'm sorry someone needs to say this. ._.

[wellsuited]

Don't cry Yazoo.

Voice - ROFL thank you.

[velvet_zealot]

[ He dislikes this role-reversal thing more than he can put into words. He dislikes it almost as much as he dislikes Elena, even! ]

You...

[ A bitter huff. ]

I'm not crying.

[Voice]

[mirageof_deceit]

Yazoo... Are you... going to be alright?

[Voice]

[velvet_zealot]

[ Brother... ]

Why pretend to care, Cloud?

[Voice]

[mirageof_deceit]

[He hesitates, awkward and maybe a little morose]

...I...

I'm not pretending. I just... I don't know.

[Voice]

[velvet_zealot]

You have no idea what it's like.

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[thenobledie]

[she looks sympathetic. Yazoo, come to her bosom. I mean -]

She only cares you do her bidding.

video;

[velvet_zealot]

[ And he is a picture-perfect definition of distress and rancor. ]

You don't know anything.

video;

[thenobledie]

[oh, honey.]

Why else would what you do not be enough? Why else would she not answer? A true mother would forgive her son's failings; she would be here.

video;

[velvet_zealot]

She... can't. Not after what Shin-Ra did to Her!

[ And the knowledge of that leaves him grinding his teeth together, swallowing back another half-angry, half-sorrowful sob. ]

How can Mother be here after what they put Her through? It's my job to help restore Her to Her former glory......

...but I can't. Not.. not on my own. It all just keeps slipping through my fingertips.

[ voice | private ]

[velvet_zealot]

Validation... to despair?

[ voice | private ]

[velvet_zealot]

Mother... no.

[ He shakes his head despite Sephiroth not being able to see the gesture.

And it's strange, too. This voice - the weight of it - he knows it. Without knowing it. And he despises that it belongs to Mother's favorite, and yet...

...he can't help but listen and pay attention. ]

She doesn't want them.